December 24, 2012

Sri Aurobindo echoes Pragmatic, Humanist and Romantic ideals coupled with empiricist motive

Aurobindo's Philosophy of Brahman - Page 132 - Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - Preview - interpret Aurobindo as spurred by an allegiance to a kind of humanism to attempt to alter previous conceptions of brahman: thus Brahman would be, as we shall examine, truly and valuably expressed as our world of developing finite ... I think that the case for the interpretation that his overriding motive is empiricist is a good one. My chief reason for identifying this additional affinity is, as before, to try to comprehend his positions as fully as possible, although I also do not want ... While mystic experience does stand out not only justificationally but in his idea of the nature of divine life, Aurobindo's stress is on a continuity, mutual value, and mutual reality obtaining between the mystical and and our more ordinary ...
Page 133 (… But note that it is the Romantic poet John Keats who puts forth the idea of the world as "the vale of soul-making.") Furthermore, these ideas connect with his yogic teaching that a worldly (as opposed to an ascetic) life is indispensable to ... ... world-affirming alteration of earlier concepts of brahman. Aurobindo's world-affirmativism may be seen as his giving an evolutionary and millennial turn to the conception of Brahman's relation to the world, which suggests the Romantic notion of a resolution of evil ... ... and speaks of their successes and failures like one of the family. Fervent individualism and nationalism are key elements in his character as they are typically with Romantics. For these many reasons, his world-affirmativism should be considered to be born out of an allegiance to a Western ideal more than to any that is Indian, although it is predominantly expressed through the Indian concepts of Vedanta and Tantra.
Environment Evolution & Values - Page 75 - D.P. Chattopadhyaya - 2007 - Preview - More editions The concepts of ultra-hominization, hyper-personalization, megasynthesis and similar others are certainly very insightful and new in formulation; I say "in formulation" because from Nietzsche to Sri Aurobindo several other philosophers,...
Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page 31 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - Preview Secondly, selection by greater capacity of adaptation to altered circumstances may well mark a sort of regress or degeneration of the survivors in some respects. At times we survive by downgrading ourselves. Sri Aurobindo rejects the materialist accounts of the evolution of Man ...
Quest for truth: a felicitation volume in honour of Prof. S. P. Kanal - Page 451 - Satewan Parsram Kanal, Kewal Krishan Mittal - 1976 - The distinction finally begins to disappear when we turn to Sri Aurobindo. Normally political involvement and spiritual realisation are seen to correspond to opposite poles. But for Aurobindo they represented the two sides of the same coin.
The Bhagavad Gita - Page 265 - Penguin Books - 2005 - Preview Third, there are two in the list (Ashok Malhotra and P. Lal) that explicitly describe themselves as trans-creations. Nor should the Sri Aurobindo version be described as a translation. Indeed, Sri Aurobindo was careful to describe his essays as ...
Sri Aurobindo, the hope of man - Page 118 - Keshavmurti - 1969 - This paper became a source of constant headache to the government. In his editorials Sri Aurobindo was careful not to give any handle to the authorities to come up with their heavy hand of suppression or prosecution.9 In fact, so forthright,... Life and Works of Sri Aurobindo - Page 74 - S.R. Sharma - 2003
History of India: a new approach - Page 317 - Kittu Reddy - 2003 - While advocating non-cooperation, Sri Aurobindo was careful to define its limits. Here is a quotation from Sri Aurobindo: "There is a limit however to passive resistance. So long as the action of the executive is peaceful and within rules of the...
The potential contribution of Indian spiritual psychology to the ... - Page 86 - Ross McDonaldIndian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Management Centre for Human Values - 2002 - We advance towards realising our evolutionary potential through a series of temporary advances but as we shall see, Aurobindo was careful to insist that we not see this as being a faultless and perfect advance. Humanity's progress is not ...
Indian Ethics: Classical traditions and contemporary challenges - Page 412 - Puruottama BilimoriaJoseph PrabhuRenuka M. Sharma - 2007 - Preview - More editions Note that these include ethical virtues, extraordinary degrees of compassion, fair- mindedness, and so on, traits that are endorsed by Aurobindo along with special abilities. Spirituality would normally include, according to him, such ...
The women revolutionaries of Bengal, 1905-1939 - Page 11 - Tirtha Mandal - 1991 - Pramatha Mitra became the President of the Anusilan Samiti while Aurobindo along with Chittaranjan Das its Vice-President. In initial years' of the Samiti, Aurobindo preferred to work for the organisation from behind. Hence he continued his...
The Routledge International Handbook of Learning - Page 491 - Peter Jarvis, Mary Watts - 2012 - Preview - More editions (Raina, 2000: 3) Sri Aurobindo, along with his partner The Mother, developed comprehensive theories and practices in integral education, in areas such as strengthening the body and mind through the study of science and technology; the five ...
Nationalism, terrorism, communalism: essays in modern Indian history - Page 54 - Peter Heehs - 1998 - Snippet view - More editions Moreover it was never Aurobindo's habit to interfere in what others were doing. This was as true of his life as a guru as it was of his revolutionary life. During his imprisonment in Alipore someone acting on Barin's behalf came to Aurobindo to ...
The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page 72 - Peter Heehs - 2008 - Preview - More editions The Gaekwar busied Aurobindo with writing letter after letter about administrative matters, questions of social reform, a new house in Bombay, a new house in Ooty, alterations to Luxmivilas Palace, buying three elephants, Prince Jaisinghrao's ...

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