Sri Aurobindo's masterful integration of evolution and spirituality in The Life Divine

The Way of Christ: The Gospel of John Through the Unitive Lens Albert LaChance - 2009 - 320 pages
The Hindu genius, Sri Aurobindo, in his The Life Divine, described Christ as “the consciousness out of which the universe emerges.” “No one can see the Kingdom... The Life Divine. Pondicherry, India: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, 2006. ...

Ninian Smart on World Religions: Traditions and the Challenges of ... - Page 65 Ninian Smart, John J. Shepherd - 2009 - 406 pages
Aurobindo, The Life Divine, p. 13: 'Rather we shall observe with respect and wonder the work that Atheism has done for the Divine and admire the services that Agnosticism has rendered in preparing the illimitable increase of knowledge. ...

To claim there is one revelation, and to back the claim by appeal » For the use of this term see The Life Divine, ... 1 Aurobindo, The Life Divine, p. 59. 3 Ibid., p. 64: 'Intuition brings to man those brilliant messages from the ...

Yoga, karma, and rebirth: a brief history and philosophy Stephen H. Phillips - 2009 - 358 pages
Aurobindo, The Life Divine (1973), 671-78. 45. This is an old epithet used by Vedantins of all stripes that derives from several Upanishads. Aurobindo's notion of Sachchidananda departs from the Ad- vaita understanding in a theistic and ...

The sacred universe: earth, spirituality, and religion in the ... - Page 15 Thomas Berry, Mary Evelyn Tucker - 2009 - 181 pages
In his work The Life Divine, he brings the historical aspect of Indian tradition into the modern world's sense of developmental time. He decisively answers those who say that Indian spirituality has nothing to contribute to modern ...

Faith & philosophy of Hinduism - Page 89 Rajeev Verma - 2009 - 333 pages
The major writings of Sri Aurobindo contain poetry, his epic poem Savitri, and the Collected Poems and, in prose, in a number of highly acclaimed books such as The Life Divine, Synthesis of Yoga, Secret of Veda, Essays on the Gita, ...

Integral consciousness and the future of evolution: how the ... Steve McIntosh - 2007 - 371 pages
In his masterpiece, The Life Divine, Aurobindo undertook the task of combining premodern Hinduism with the scientific ... In my opinion, his masterful integration of evolution and spirituality in The Life Divine represents one of the ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur ... - 2007 - 317 pages
He holds that in his major work, The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo has built an edifice of philosophical thought, which has provided a rational assurance of the inevitability of the divine life on earth. In The Synthesis of Yoga he has ...

Indian Ethics: Classical traditions and contemporary challenges - Page 414 Puruṣottama Bilimoria, Joseph Prabhu, Renuka M ... - 2007 - 431 pages
These natures, we learn in The Life Divine, the metaphysical treatise, are not predetermined: souls make themselves in part, says Aurobindo, echoing both Romantics and existentialists. ...

Esalen: America and the religion of no religion - Page 56 Jeffrey John Kripal - 2007 - 575 pages
Looking back on the experience, Murphy has no doubt that the course was designed to be crowned by Aurobindo and what Spiegelberg considered to be one of the greatest works of twentieth- century philosophy, Aurobindo's The Life Divine. ...

101 Mystics of India - Page 201 V K Subramanian - 2007 - 219 pages
Sri Aurobindo's most famous works are: The Life Divine (his materpiece), Savitri, The Ideal of Human Unity, and Integral Yoga. The essence of his teachings is: God must be realised not beyond the universe but in the universe, ...

Discreteness, continuity & consciousness: an epistemological ... - Page 309 Alan M. Laibelman - 2007 - 365 pages
The Life Divine, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1982, p. 144. 56. Bernard McGinn, "Ibn Gabirol: The Sage Among the Schoolmen," from Lenn E. Goodman (ed.), Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought, Albany: State University of New York Press, ...

Leading Lights, The - Page 106 Dr. George Kaitholil - 2007 - 203 pages
These have been described at length in Sri Aurobindo's books The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, ... For example see this sentence from Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine: "A complete self-knowledge in all things and at all moments is ...

Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 90 Hugh B. Urban - 2007 - 372 pages
Frontispiece to Haridas Choudhuri, Sri Aurobindo and the Life Divine (San Francisco: Cultural Integration Fellowship, 1973). Bengal nationalist movement lie in the more moderate ideals of the Indian ...

Indian English poetry and fiction: critical elucidations - Page 39 A.N. Prasad Rajiv K.Malik, Amar Nath Prasad - 2007 - 290 pages
Human life will be transformed into the Life Divine. (4) This simultaneous upward-downward movement will be facilitated ... Savitri is the poetical version of The Life Divine. He has been faithful to the original story in every detail. ...

Science and the Indian tradition: when Einstein met Tagore - Page 171 David L. Gosling - 2007 - 186 pages
34 Vivekananda, Complete Works, Vol. II, p. 440. 35 Ibid., p. 225. 36 GH Langley, Sri Aurobindo, Royal India and Pakistan Society, nd 37 Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Book 1, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1970, p. 45. ...

The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English - Page 21 Ed. Mohit K. Ray - 2007 - 604 pages
He produced many books including classics of spirituality such as Savitri, The Life Divine, Synthesis of Yoga and Essays on ... Most of his important works like The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on Gita, The Isha Upanishad, ...

PSICOLOGIA INTEGRAL: CONSCIENCIA, ESPIRITO, PSICOLOGIA, TERAPIA - Page 268 Ken Wilber - 2007 - 312 pages
Archetypal Processes in Psychotherapy; Aurobindo, The Life Divine; Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature; John Rowan, The Transpersonal (como o próprio Rowan esclareceu nos seus escritos subsequentes, esse livro tende a confundir ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2007
The philosophy of The Life Divine is such a realistic Adwaita. The world is a manifestation of the Real and therefore is itself real. ... That is the central idea in the explanation of the universe put forward in The Life Divine. ...

Indian Writers in Council - Page 185 K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 2006 - 316 pages
... he was also a lyrical poet ; if Sri Aurobindo was at one time the flaming apostle of nationalism, he is now also a poet, a mystic, a prophet of the Life Divine ; Muhammad Iqbal was a poet and philosopher more than a politician; ...

Deeksha: The Fire from Heaven - Page 247 Kiara Windrider, Grace Sears - 2006 - 269 pages
Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Future Evolution of Man Timms, Moira. Beyond Prophecies and Predictions, hoep.org Tolle, Eckhart. The Power of Now Twyman, James. Emissary of Light, Secret of the Beloved Disciple. emissaryoflight.com ...

Optimal Parenting: Using Natural Learning Rhythms to Nurture the ... - Page 412 Ba Luvmour - 2006 - 432 pages
Aurobindo, S. (1960) The Life Divine (second edition, volume III). Pondicherry, India: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press. Aurobindo, S. (1962) The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity, War and Self Determination (volume IX). ...

Jouissance as Ananda: Indian Philosophy, Feminist Theory, and ... - Page 164 Ashmita Khasnabish - 2006 - 239 pages
Purusha is thus defined by Sri Aurobindo, "The Conscious being, Purusha, is the self as originator, witness, support and lord and enjoy er of the forms and works of Nature" (The Life Divine 348). Now, it remains to be seen whether Purusha, ...

Hinduism, a Gandhian perspective Mangesh Venktesh Nadkarni - 2006 - 510 pages

His The Life Divine, first published in 1939-40, gives a full exposition of his philosophy of spiritual destiny of humanity. His epic poem Savitri is a metaphorical and poetic counterpart of The Life Divine. Another prominent mystic of ...

Philosophic Classics: Asian Philosophy Forrest E. Baird, Raeburne S. Heimbeck, Walter ... - 2006
A synopsis of The Life Divine provides a digest of Sri Aurobindo's integral philosophy. ... Book Two of The Life Divine, triple the length of the first, contains a detailed analysis of the future and final phase of cosmic evolution ...

Four Faces of the Universe: An Integrated View of the Cosmos - Page 236 Robert Kleinman - 2006 - 334 pages
He was not a philosopher, yet in The Life Divine he wrote an elaborate philosophical treatise on evolution. Not a scientist, his approach to the yogic life was nonetheless scientific in spirit. He was, though, a poet of extraordinary ...

Philosophic classics Forrest E. Baird, Walter Arnold Kaufmann - 2006
The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth is the work by Sri Aurobindo chosen for inclusion in this volume. It is his final prose writing, penned during the last year of his life, and it conveniently recapitulates The Life Divine. ... 

The Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature (Volume One (A To Devo) - Page 272 Amaresh Datta - 2006 - 988 pages

It was in the Arya that his major works in prose first appeared: The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Secret of the Veda. ... Whether in The Life Divine, a synthesis of all knowledge in symphonic prose, or in Savitri, ...