Sri Aurobindo has no use for an end of the world

Harmonizing the Conflicting Forces Within the Individual - Reblogged from Sri Aurobindo Studies:

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.

Harmonising Gnostic Life With the Wider World Existence from Sri Aurobindo Studies 

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, ...