In
the prior post, we discussed the difficulty of achieving harmony within a
society due to the conflicting interests, ideas, and motives that are at play.
This difficulty is essentially a projection of the similar conflict that takes
place within each individual. Most individuals do not realise that they are
actually made up of a number of different “parts” of their being.
While
the mental capabilities of man are incapable of understanding and harmonising
the complex interaction of forces, drives, motives, actions and impulsions
within the framework of the varying needs, desires, capacities and purposes of
the body, life and mind, it is nevertheless possible to achieve this harmony
through the spiritual evolution and its development of the gnostic
consciousness. This consciousness, with its inherent experience of Oneness and
Knowledge by Identity, responds automatically to the universal harmony of
action of the universal Being.
This
may bring about a harmony within the gnostic being himself, and even between
gnostic individuals living in a gnostic society, but there still remains the
issue of how the gnostic individual interacts with and survives in a world
dominated by the powers of the physical, vital and mental stages of evolution,
which Sri Aurobindo has termed the evolution in the “Ignorance.”
Affective
Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-De-Siècle ... - Page 118 - Leela
Gandhi, Leela
Gandhi - 2006 - 254 pages - Preview ... spiritual
log books, there is little apparent similarity of circumstance to link Sri Aurobindo, Anglicized Bengali
revolutionary, and Mirra Alfassa, Paris bohemian and sometime confidante of
Auguste Rodin and Henri Matisse.
The
perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 542
- Joseph
Vrinte - 2002 - 568 pages - Preview As long as Aurobindonians remain enclosed in Sri
Aurobindo's revealed teachings, treating them as final truths, and refuse
to link Sri Aurobindo's integral
Yoga with contemporary scientific research and practical concerns, ...
The social philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Ram
Nath Sharma, Ram
Nath Sharma - 1980 - 230 pages - Great men including Gandhi
and Aurobindo have often committed the fallacy of thinking that what
they can achieve can ... It has been contended by many
famous philosophers of history that utopias are born when a nation passes
through a ...
Sri Aurobindo Ghose - Page 425 - Verinder
Grover - 1993 - 606 pages - Preview Moreover, the question may be raised as to why
Aurobindo could not evolve a socio-economic programme like the Marxists or
other revolutionary groups of Europe.26 Aurobindo's education, experience and
personality pointed to the fact that he was eminently suited ... Bengal, past & present: journal of the Calcutta Historical
Society: Volume 98 - Calcutta
Historical Society – 1979
The Indian Imagination: Critical Essays on Indian Writing in
English - Page 58 - K.
D. Verma - 2000 - 268 pages - Preview ... state,
religion and other institutional structures, because of their regressive
conservatism and cryptic inertia, do not remain compatible with man's progress.
That is why Aurobindo stresses
the need for newer forms of social and political structures that will
eliminate the problem of historical obsolescence and
redundancy and help in the fusion of tradition and modernity.
Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy
- Page 27 - Ken
Wilber - 2000 - 303 pages - Preview But it is not just that, which is why Aurobindo also describes the
higher affects, morals, needs, and self identities of these higher levels. But
his general point is quite similar: cognitive development is primary and is
necessary (but ...
The
white woman's other burden: Western women and South Asia ... - Page 214 - Kumari
Jayawardena - 1995 - 310 pages - Preview It is interesting to speculate why Aurobindo took this line. It
could have been because he was not only more "internationalist" than
the Congress leaders, but also because he was not enthusiastic about the
replacement of the British by ... Through a Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination -
Page 219 - John
Charles Hawley - 1996 - 299 pages - Preview
The philosophy of evolution in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin - Jan
Feys - 1973 - 276 pages - This also explains why Aurobindo has no use for an end of the world. For, if
heaven is within the reach of earth, why should one leave the latter to attain
the former? It will descend in our midst. With Teilhard, on the contrary, ...
The journal of Asian studies: Volume 36, Issues 1-2; Volume 36,
Issues 1-2 1976 - In a concluding section, he raises serious
questions as to why Aurobindo did
not incorporate aspects of Buddhist, Jain, and Indian Muslim thought into his
integral vision. Long also raises thought-provoking questions with regard
to ...
Third way - Dattopant
Bapurao Thengadi - 1998 - 283 pages - Our spiritual tradition was
conducive to the growth of such a system of thought and action. That is why Aurobindo could say, "to
break an unjust coercive law is not only justifiable but, under given
circumstances, a duty." Tilak proclaimed that he ...
Beyond Marxism: towards an alternative perspective - Vrajendra
Raj Mehta - 1978 - 147 pages - This is one reason why Aurobindo rejected the
liberal value-system as alien to the very spirit of India . A complete acceptance of it,
according to him, is alien to the development of India as a separate whole. The new
ideals, he felt, would no ...
Historical abstracts: Modern history abstracts, 1775-1914:
Volume 50, Issue 1 - Eric
H. Boehm, American
Bibiliographical Center, EBSCO
Publishing (Firm) - 1999 - ... spirituality, and mysticism link Aurobindo's personal history with that of other geniuses
and madmen. However, Aurobindo never displayed any outward signs of mental
illness, and although his life paralleled to some degree the path ...
The
quest for political and spiritual liberation: a study in the ... - June
O'Connor - 1977 - 153 pages - It is now timely to question Aurobindo with respect
to the sources of his thought. Do his positions, for example, ultimately derive
from his educational influences, his yogic experiences, or from the Hindu
scriptures?
The Journal of transpersonal psychology: Volumes 36-37 - Transpersonal
Institute, American
Transpersonal Association - 2004 - While one may
certainly question Sri Aurobindo's predictions, one has at least to
respect his intellectual integrity in taking a stance on key issues. For
instance, now that we have brain scans of Tibetan monks and Christian nuns
that ...
Politics & society: Ram Mohan Roy to Nehru - Gollapalli
Nagabhushana Sarma, Moin
Shakir - 1983 - 392 pages - 1 With this preface we can
understand why Sri Aurobindo was
an unsparing critic of the time honoured methods of the Indian National
Congress. In his New Lamps for the old he declares, " I say, of the
Congress, then, this-that its aims ...
Understanding
Sarkar: the Indian episteme, macrohistory, and ... - Sohail
Inayatullah - 2002 - 366 pages - This is
Foucault's question. Aurobindo, however, is not interested in this
question. Sarkar is. His history is an answer to the question of how the real
is interpreted and appropriated at the expense of other interpretations
and ...
Sri
Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page 20 - Debi
Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - 336 pages - Preview But whether the ghost is really there in the
machine is of course an open question. Sri Aurobindo would argue that
the apparent machine is itself ghostly. Diverse Concepts of Nature: Divine and
Secular The concepts of Nature and ...
Sociology,
ideology, and utopia: socio-political philosophy of ... - Page 39 - Debi
Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1997 - 236 pages - Preview ... great musicians, Beethoven and
Wagner". A wrong aspect of the German soul and temperament was brought out
by them. I do not question Sri Aurobindo's right to read the intellectual
history of Germany
in the way he did but to claim ...
Indian literature: Volume 15 - Sahitya
Akademi - 1972 - One can question Aurobindo's eloquence
on Bankim; but one should see clearly that Aurobindo found his spiritual
kindred in a Bankim of his imagination. He saw Bankim only as the creator of
Ananda Math and as the - founder of Sanatan ...
Resurgent India - Sisirkumar
Mitra, Aurobindo
Ghose - 1963 - 432 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo called Bankim a Rishi, a Seer. Bankim knew
what a power was hidden in that song, what a miracle it would work. As he
himself gave out to his daughter : 'A day will come, twenty or thirty years
hence, ...
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