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 ...
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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
McDonald, Indian
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 - Puruṣottama Bilimoria, Joseph
Prabhu, Renuka
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
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