June 16, 2010

Sri Aurobindo insists on the dangers of desires and lower-passions

Science, Spirituality and the Modernization of India - Page 106 Makarand Paranjape - 2009 - 296 pages
Aurobindo insists that at each stage in evolution the previous stages are not left behind but taken up (Killingley, p.195–6). So there are significant differences in the framework of synthesis undertaken by Sri Aurobindo, ... 
Esalen: America and the religion of no religion - Page 477 Jeffrey John Kripal - 2007 - 575 pages
Like many later Esalen writers, Aurobindo insists that the brain is “only a channel” of consciousness and not its material producer (ibid., 22). 21. Ibid., 13. Although Aurobindo does not mention Myers as the source of this category, ... 
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Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo, Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur ... - 2007 - 317 pages
The Development of the Spiritual The step that an individual has to take to reach the summit is through spiritual education, which has been regarded as another aspect of education. Sri Aurobindo insists on drawing a sharp line of ... 
 
Indian English poetry and fiction: critical elucidations - Page 26, A.N. Prasad Rajiv K.Malik, Amar Nath Prasad - 2007 - 290 pages
mentality landed with the religious imagination approach to the universe, leads man to conceive of the Reality behind his own life and the life of nature. Referring to the well-known Vedic human-the Purush Sukta, Aurobindo insists it is ...
On the edge of the future: Esalen and the evolution of American ... - Page 117  Jeffrey John Kripal, Glenn W. Shuck - 2005 - 323 pages
In another classically Tantric move, Aurobindo insists that desire is not something to be repressed or, worse yet, extinguished (a code word in his text meant to evoke the nirvana of Buddhism), as it is essentially divine: "Desire is ... 
Letting be: Fred Dallmayr's cosmopolitical vision Stephen Frederick Schneck - 2006 - 382 pages
Aurobindo insists that reforms can, at best, be only partially successful because the country is not politically independent. He tells his readers that success requires freedom — both a free mind and a free Indian state (Aurobindo, ...
Ethics in the Mahabharata: a philosophical inquiry for today Sitansu S. Chakravarti - 2006 - 176 pages
... ie, the ritualistic part, embodies them, in its own way, as Sri Aurobindo insists,32 there being a flow of continuity from it to the ...
Philosophy of Education - Page 175  M. L. Dhawan - 2005 - 288 pages
Aurobindo insists that it is not annihilation of the individual but its transformation which is the end of integral education. When man attains such education there is total transformation of matter. He calls it supramental education as ...
Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba: He Man and - Page 129 Abhinav Publications, Vinayak Krishna Gokak - 2003 - 314 pages
Needless to say, there emerges from Baba's teachings a philosophy of education which, like that of Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo, insists on the need for an all-round education of which spiritual education is an ...
Hindu spirituality: Postclassical and modern - Page 373  K. R. Sundararajan, Bithika Mukerji - 2003 - 584 pages
In fact, inspired critics have said that there is no such thing as a Hindu religion, but only a Hindu social system with a metaphysical whitewash. But, as Aurobindo insists, with all its social regulations, "the core of Hinduism is a spiritual, not a social discipline" (14:124-25). Indian culture had tried to make the spiritual ideal, variously realized, "the grand uplifting idea ... 
The conspiracy of life: meditations on Schelling and his time - Page 225 Jason M. Wirth - 2003 - 290 pages
Nor is it a quietistic moral abandonment in which one does whatever strikes one and defends such caprices by claiming the prerogative of svad- harma: Well, I was just following my dharma! As Aurobindo insists, it is expressly not to ...
Knowledge, consciousness and religious conversion in Lonergan and ... - Page 167  Michael T. McLaughlin - 2003 - 318 pages
Aurobindo insists, "If evil and suffering exist, it is He that bears the evil and suffering in the creature in whom he has embodied himself." The Supreme admits into himself that which is not bliss rather than being separate from it. ...
Gita and Gandhiji Ramesh S. Betai - 1970, 2002 - 307 pages
Sri Aurobindo insists on divine work for divine nature, Gandhiji stresses all works with detachment so that man's personality rises higher to attain to divine nature. Aurobindo adds again: "To attain to the divine birth, ...
Is there a single right interpretation? - Page 72 Michael Krausz - 2002 - 423 pages
Given these two principles, as Sti Aurobindo insists, the Vedic hymns always have at least two meanings: one referring to deities, the Vedic devas, who are symbolized by natural "powers" (sun, cloud, rain, water, air, sky, etc.l; ...
Immortal Paradigms: Sri Aurbindo Home-Coming Centenary Volume - Page 93 Charu Sheel Singh - 2002 - 264 pages
All this is what nature would effect slowly, for the Involuted Spirit forges ahead in its own self-expression. But Sri Aurobindo insists that his Integral Yoga can effect the triple transformation of Matter, Life and Mind in a rapid revolution. As consciousness in Matter ascends, there is a corresponding descent of the Divine, which in turn ... Indian literature
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The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 232 Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - 568 pages
without it there can be no complete realisation in sadhana and in life. It is for this reason that the vital and its life-power must not be rejected and condemned in its very nature. However, Sri Aurobindo insists on the dangers of the unregenerated outer vital which is full of desires and lower-passions, and the necessity of mastery and purification of them. He emphasises the subordination and subjection of the ...
One thousand years of philosophy: from Rāmānuja to Wittgenstein - Page 72 Rom Harré - 2000 - 362 pages
Each form of being is at one with Brahman.5 In the true Indian tradition, Aurobindo insists that human beings can become more than they are. Though they find themselves trapped in materiality, by the practice of meditation, ...
Tradition and the rhetoric of right: popular political argument in ... - Page 117 David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - 339 pages
If we are aspects of a greater, larger being, as Aurobindo insists we are, then our identifications as particular individuals, families, clans, castes, races, cultures, and nations are necessary but radically limited and incomplete ... 
The integral advaitism of Sri Aurobindo - Page 81 Ram Shankar Misra, Rāmacandra Miśra - 1998 - 437 pages
2 Sri Aurobindo insists on a judicious application of the law of contradiction and other logical principles which alone can give us valid knowledge of the phenomena and the supreme Reality. Bradley has also thrown clear light on the ... 
Essays in comparative literature - Page 195 Suresh Chandra - 1998 - 355 pages
68 Sri Aurobindo insists on the descent of the spirit into normal humanity and the transformation of earthly nature, affirming that he who would save the race must share its pain. The great who come to save this suffering world And ... 
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Gariepy - 1996 - 483 pages
Aurobindo insists that evil presents an entirely different problem for his view. He says that his difficulty lies not in what God does but in what God is: noninstrumental evil in the universe would be meaningless evil in God, ...
Selected Works of M.P. Pandit: Sri Aurobindo Rand Hicks - 1998
It is again the psychic being that is most responsive in us to the touches of the Light and Power that operate from regions supramental. In fact, Sri Aurobindo insists upon the awakening and the intermediacy of the psychic being if the ... 
Charles Darwin's the origin of species: new interdisciplinary essays - Page 196 David Amigoni, Jeff Wallace - 1995 - 211 pages
Aurobindo insists that at each stage in evolution the previous stages are not left behind but taken up. Thus a plant, which is the result of the evolution of life from lifeless matter, is not only living but also material; an animal, ...
Myth in Indian drama, R. G. Joshi - 1994 - 170 pages
But it is significant that Sri Aurobindo insists that the 'world-act' must be presented in the life of the human soul. The chief concern of Sri Aurobindo's drama is to establish order in the disorder of this world. ...
Ever to the new and unknown: Sri Aurobindo International Centre of ... Sri Aurobindo International Centre of ... - 1993 - 330 pages
What Sri Aurobindo insists upon is that the seeing must be that of i; the soul and not of the outward senses, not of the mind alone. Although the world is a language mispronounced, misspelt, it is yet true; and in poetry the ii vision ...
India's True Voice - Page 95 Alvin Boyd Kuhn - 1992 - 320 pages
Aurobindo insists on this, positively asserting the validity of our experience with world objectivity in the formation of our value judgments. The more surely is this to be taken as irrefutable in view of the fact that, ...
Revisioning environmental ethics - Page 81 Daniel A. Kealey - 1990 - 136 pages
... the soul's individuality is phenomenal, but Aurobindo insists that this individuality is neither illusory nor ephemeral: if it were ...
The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 301, V. P. Varma - 1990 - 494 pages
But while in Tolstoy the predominant emphasis is on a moral and religious renaissance, Aurobindo insists upon a discovery of the subliminal and cosmic powers of the human soul. If Tolstoy the great litterateur and crusader was satisfied...
Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page 18 Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - 336 pages
To achieve harmony in different social aggregates, Sri Aurobindo insists, we must follow the law of unity and reject that of uniformity which curbs liberty and leads to regimentation. The law of uniformity is the work of Reason which is ...
Teilhard and Aurobindo: a study in religious complementarity, David M. Brookman - 1988 - 145 pages
... he took the Puranic scheme of the Ten Avatars to be a spiritual analog to modern evolutionary theory.18 Man's tragedy, Aurobindo insists, is that he directs his knowing largely to externals and consequently does not find his real ...
Tributes to Nolini Kanta Gupta: pilgrim of the supermind Nirodbaran, Nolini Kanta Gupta - 1988 - 118 pages
This is why Sri Aurobindo insists that a new level of consciousness must evolve in spiritual seekers which will enable them to have the integral knowledge of the Divine. But before this new level of consciousness can be evolved, ...
Collected Works: On thoughts and aphorisms La Mère - 1987
... as an absolute by the majority of human beings, otherwise they will not be able to bring it about. But Sri Aurobindo insists that we should not forget that this absolute is still relative and that any manifestation must always be ...
The Yoga of Knowledge - Page 151 M. P. Pandit - 1986 - 280 pages
That is why Sri Aurobindo insists that simultaneously, or perhaps even before this step of extending and widening yourself horizontally is undertaken, you awake to the Divinity in you, link yourself with it, throw a hook to the ...
Aurobindo's philosophy of Brahman - Page 143 Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - 200 pages
Aurobindo insists that evil presents an entirely different problem for his view.63 He says that his difficulty lies not in what God does but in what God is: non-instrumental evil in the universe would be meaningless evil in God, ...
Clare Cameron: a human and spiritual journey Brian Graham - 1984 - 175 pages
Again and again Sri Aurobindo insists that 'good works' as such are not only sterile but very degrading (as well we know from observation and experience) when produced from ignorance, (in order to give the ego self-expression and ...
Commentaries on the Mother's ministry Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1983
There is another dimension in which our sincerity is to be built up. Sri Aurobindo insists that the seeker must lift up all the movements of his nature to the highest level of consciousness that he has attained. ...
Essays in celebration of the CISRS silver jubilee Saral Kumar Chatterji, Christian Institute for ... - 1983 - 262 pages
... it.22 The highest levels of Mind are a 'vaulting board'23 to reach the integral supramental conscious, ness of the undivided One becoming the manifold. SriAurobindo insists that the supramental status of the Divine Being must be ...
The Indian way John M. Koller - 1982 - 406 pages
Aurobindo insists that, although the institutions of society must provide for the satisfaction of the biological and economic needs of humanity, they must do so in a way that is conducive to higher, spiritual needs. ...
The spirituality of the future: a search apropos of R. C. ... - Page 245 Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1981 - 314 pages
The individual's evolution beyond thought is a possibility and an obligation on which Sri Aurobindo insists in season and out. And by his evolution within a cooperative assemblage of individuals and not cut off from them as in the old ...
Sri Aurobindo's integral approach to political thought Shiva Kumar Mital - 1981 - 268 pages
Hence, Sri Aurobindo insists that the true nature of the state or society is to be sought in the true nature of man, which is essentially divine, The ancient sages of
India have detected three forces operating in the Universe ...
Realization of God according to Sri Aurobindo: a study of a ... George Nedumpalakunnel - 1979 - 308 pages
Aurobindo insists on the idea that this passivity is neither an incapacity nor a weakness, but quite the contrary. It is the profound and pregnant stillness which helps to make the understanding intuitive. It is upon the motionless and ...
 
The future of man according to Teilhard de Chardin and Aurobindo Ghose J. Chetany - 1978 - 500 pages
It is the very creative dimension of the Absolute. Hence their relationship is that of identity. For Aurobindo insists upon the fact again and again that the Supermind is "the ...
Nonetheless, Aurobindo insists that the individual Yoga is necessarv as a preparation for the final descent of the Supermind upon the Earth-Consciousness. Individual Yoga is, thus, an important prelude to the cosmic Yoga, ...
Hindu patterns of liberation, Open University. AD 208 Course Team - 1978 - 137 pages
Thus, in opposition to the Gita and to Gandhi, and to his own former position, the mature Aurobindo insists that karma-yoga must assume a changing rather than a fixed conception of dharma (social and religious obligations). ... 
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The quest for political and spiritual liberation: a study in the ... June O'Connor - 1977 - 153 pages
Aurobindo insists that the transformation must include: a psychic change in which the whole person is converted into a "soul-instrumentation"; a spiritual change in which ...
An introduction to Sri Aurobindo's philosophy Joan Price Ockham - 1977 - 185 pages
This union can be achieved when we overcome the separative sense of ourselves, especially ego-identification with mind, life and body. Sri Aurobindo insists that the gulf between mind and Supermind has to be bridged, and this can be ...
The yogi and the mystic: a study in the spirituality of Sri ... Jan Feys - 1977 - 371 pages
With the Gita Sri Aurobindo insists on giving a positive meaning to action : "But the Gita insists that the nature of action does matter and that there is a positive sanction for continuance in works, not only that one quite negative ...
Sri Aurobindo insists on the symbolic meaning of 'sacrifice'. True, the Veda does speak of "ceremonial sacrifice" and this is the prima facie meaning of the sacred text. But the letter always hid a deeper "philosophical symbolism" (EG p ...
History, society, and polity: integral sociology of Sri Aurobindo Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya - 1976 - 281 pages
To achieve harmony in different social aggregates, Sri Aurobindo insists, we must follow the law of unity and reject that of uniformity which curbs liberty and leads to regimentation. The law of uniformity is the work of Reason which is ...
Education for a new life Narayan Prasad - 1976 - 179 pages
Sri Aurobindo is concerned not so much with what we have inherited, not even with what we are, but with what we are yet to become."1 What is Sri Aurobindo's solution to break the educational deadlock? Sri Aurobindo insists that ...
Indian philosophical annual University of Madras. Centre of Advanced Study ... - 1976
Aurobindo insists on the true emergence of individuality first. He is critical of outside force being resorted to to develop unity : " There has been a rude set-back to this development in totalitarian states whose theory is that the ...
The religious roots of Indian nationalism: Aurobindo's early ... David L. Johnson - 1974 - 128 pages
But Aurobindo insists it is not merely a political necessity ; it is an ontological necessity. Again he revalues the particular into a universal. It is for Aurobindo self-evident that the aim and purpose of human existence is realized ...
Ānanda: the concept of bliss in the Upaniads, Nalini Devdas - 1974 - 63 pages
Sri Aurobindo insists that, though the whole cosmos progresses in that direction, the movement from mind to knowledge (gnosis, vijnana) can be realized only when individual persons are willing to enter into a complete training of yoga. ...
Revival of Upaniadic thought in contemporary Indian philosophy Sankatha Prasad Singh - 1974 - 324 pages
Here Sri Aurobindo's view is directly opposed to that of Lord Russell according to whom all definite knowledge belongs to science.1 Sri Aurobindo insists that science can express only a limited truth and leaves man in ignorance of that ...
The philosophy of evolution in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin Jan Feys - 1973 - 276 pages
While Teilhard expressly denies a mere difference in degree between thought and life, Aurobindo insists on their essential identity. Before investigating the exact import of their respective terminology, we must show how both are in ...
A value orientation to our system of education Vinayak Krishna Gokak, Sri Sathya Sai Trust - 1973 - 396 pages
Needless to say, there emerges from Baba's teachings a philosophy of education which, like that of Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo, insists on the need for an all-round education of which spiritual education is an essential part. We will ignore these arguments of the great only at our own peril. ...
Early Buddhism and its origins Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1973 - 505 pages
Sri Aurobindo insists on the attainment of an integral consciousness or a supramental vision through which alone the omni-present supreme spirit can be realized. But in the line of Indian mystics like Yajnavalkya and ...
The radical thinkers: Heidegger and Sri Aurobindo, Rhoda Priscella Le Cocq - 1972 - 214 pages
In this connection, Sri Aurobindo insists that the intelligence of man is not composed "entirely and exclusively of the rational intellect and the rational will." In the human being is a less clear and developed, more intuitive faculty, ...
human soul from a state of death to a state of immortality by the exchange of Falsehood for the Truth, of divided and limited being for integrality and infinity.1 In this reinterpretation, Sri Aurobindo insists that the "true method ...
Sri Aurobindo, the hope of man Keshavmurti - 1969 - 485 pages
Sri Aurobindo insists that " we recognise not only the eternal Spirit as the inhabitant of the bodily mansion, wearer of this mutable robe, but accept Matter of which it is made as a fit and noble material out of ...
A critical study of Aurobindo: with special reference to his ... Laxman Ganpatrao Chincholkar - 1966 - 216 pages
5 Aurobindo insists that mere attainment of supermind is not enough for the divine life, It must be made a part of earthly existence. He says that harmony in the earthly existence can be possible only if the descent of the supermind ...
The "psychic entity" in Aurobindo's The life divine Roque Ferriols - 1966 - 157 pages
Aurobindo insists that, though these individuals are identical with the One, their true destiny is not absorption in the One. This position requires that there be some sort of differentiation between the individual and the Absolute. ...
World religions: meeting points and major issues Hywel David Lewis, Robert Henry Lawson Slater - 1966 - 207 pages
By way of correcting the prevailing tendency in Hindu religion Aurobindo insiststhat his own religion of Hinduism ought to become more dynamic, there should be felt within it more of what is sometimes described today by western ...
Modern Indian thought: a philosophical survey Vishwanath S. Naravane, Indian Council for ... - 1964 - 310 pages
... vedic hymn — the Purusha-sukta —Aurobindo insists that it is not just a poetic image but an attempt to describe Man and the entire Cosmos as symbols of the hidden Divine Reality.47 The symbolic stage is followed by the typal. ...
Indian philosophy of education Humayun Kabir - 1961 - 256 pages
Aurobindo insists that it is not annihilation of the individual but its transformation which is the end of integral education. When man attains such education, there is total transfiguration of matter. He calls it supra-mental education ...
The political philosophy of Sri Aurobindo Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1960 - 471 pages
But while in Tolstoy the predominant emphasis is on a moral and religious renaissance, Aurobindo insists upon a discovery of the subliminal and cosmic powers of the human soul. If Tolstoy the great litterateur and crusader was satisfied...
The philosophy of Sri Aurobindo in the light of the Gospel Eva Olsson - 1959 - 73 pages
One might remark that Hegel like Sri Aurobindo insists on a spiritual evolution. Both look at evolution from the standpoint of the end. But Hegel identifies Spirit with Reason, which standpoint Sri Aurobindo must of course ...
Sri Aurobindo, Indian poet, philosopher and mystic George Harry Langley - 1949 - 134 pages
"Divine force", Aurobindo insists, " must descend into the heart, as well as the will, and liberate fully the psychic and emotional being. It must pervade the whole nature, part by part." The more love (Bhakti} and surrender grow in the ... Secondly, the greatest poetry, Aurobindo insists, gives expression to the realisation of the Divine in the world and in man; and he explains that by this he means that the great poet discloses something of the 

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