Sri Aurobindo exhorted to win back inner freedom or moral swaraj

Sri Aurobindo and Vedānta philosophy - Page 26 - Sheojee Pandey - 1987 - Preview - Sri Aurobindo contends to bridge the gulf between the dualism of Nirguna and Saguna, formless and formed, impersonal and personal, indeterminate and determinate. The negative approach of Advaita and positive approach of ...

The Essential Aurobindo - Page 227 - Aurobindo Ghose, Robert A. McDermott - 2001 - Preview - Just as Sri Aurobindo contends that the yogas of work, knowledge, and love are equally important ingredients in the integral yoga of self-perfection, the Mother insists on the need to perfect all four levels of the self, and simultaneously to realize...

Sri Aurobindo Ghosh and Bal Gangadhar Tilak: the spirit of freedom - Page 48 - Suneera Kapoor - 1991 - Preview - In fact, Tilak and Aurobindo move a step further. They stress harmony between individual, society and the universe. Aurobindo contends that individual and the society help in the development of mankind by exploring and developing the secret...

Thirty-Five Oriental Philosophers - Page 96 - Diané Collinson, Robert Wilkinson - 2002 - Preview - Though practice may speed up this evolution, Aurobindo contends that none of its steps can be omitted.22 The first stage is the ... In common with many eastern thinkers, Aurobindo contends that the ego of ordinary experience is a superficial... 50 Eastern Thinkers - Page 163 - Kathryn Plant  - 2000 - Preview

Revisioning Environmental Ethics - Page 76 - Daniel A. Kealey - 1990 - Preview - This false assumption, all the more vicious because partially true, is the principal cause of India's social stagnation, Aurobindo contends. It is, however, a conception of Yoga that is based on a false, because partial, understanding of nature.

The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 508 - Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - Preview These formulae of Science may be pragmatically correct and infallible, they may govern the practical how of Nature's processes, but they do not disclose the intrinsic how or why"47 Sri Aurobindo contends that his metaphysical theory of Matter ...

The Spirit of Modern India - Preview ... historical perspective and spiritual experience, Sri Aurobindo contends that the force of the Supermind is now creating the conditions necessary for the advent of a spiritual age. This possibility, which Sri Aurobindo calls the next evolutionary...

Transformations in Consciousness: The Metaphysics and ... - Page 63 - Franklin Merrell-Wolff - 1995 - Preview - Aurobindo contends that there is a supreme experience" and supreme intuition by which we go back behind our surface self and find that this becoming, change, succession are only a mode of our being and that there is that in us which is not ...

The "psychic entity" in Aurobindo's The life divine - Page 92 - Roque Ferriols - 1966 - Concerning the difficulty that man cannot remember his past existences, Aurobindo contends that there is no need for such a memory though it exists at times in children and in highly evolved individuals. The past existences put a variety of ...

Journal of Indian education - Volume 11 - Page 7 - National Council of Educational Research and Training (India) - 1985 - Through a process known as integral yoga, Aurobindo contends it is possible for humanity to achieve progressively higher levels of consciousness aimed at human perfection. By cultivating knowledge, strength, love, self-discipline, purity of ...

Concepts of reason and intuition: with special reference to Sri ... - Page 19 - Ramesh Chandra Sinha - 1981 - Sri Aurobindo contends, "when we speak of It as unknowable, we mean, really, that It escapes the grasp of our thought and speech, instruments which proceed always by the sense of difference and express by the way of definition; but if not ...

The Modern schoolman - Volume 29 - Page 102 - St. Louis University. College of Philosophy and Letters, St. Louis University. Dept. of Philosophy - 1952 - Aurobindo contends that the true Vedantic notion of Yoga as found in the Gita does not exclude work or sacrifice, but insists on doing everything in a spirit of detachment and of abandonment (bhakti) to the transforming power (shakti) of God.

Philosophy East & West - Volumes 11-12 - Page 138 - Project Muse - 1961 - Another problem in understanding Aurobindo's conception of Brahman arises from the fact that he uses both personal and impersonal terms to designate Brahman. This is not carelessness, for Aurobindo contends, "This Divine Being, ...

The self in Indian philosophy - Page 146 - Troy Wilson Organ - 1964 - Another problem in understanding Aurobindo's conception of the Brahman arises from the fact that he uses both personal and impersonal terms to designate the Brahman. This is not carelessness, for Aurobindo contends, "This Divine Being,...

Darshana international - Volume 12 - Page 29 1972 - Sri Aurobindo contends that the real nature of all cognitive experience is knowledge by identity but due to the exclusive demand of the ego we indulge in what is fractionated limited and transitory and take the real nature of things as external ...

In search of the absolute: a critical study of the Advaitic ... - Page 111 - Augustine D. Vallooran - 1988 - Sri Aurobindo contends that the principle that the Upanisad follows is "the uncompromising reconciliation of uncompromising extremes".18 Therefore the harmonization that the Advaita-teacher brings about between the two discordant ...

Revival of Upaniṣadic thought in contemporary Indian philosophy - Page 104 - Sankatha Prasad Singh - 1974 - 8 As to the analogy of the mental illusion the best example of which is given by the advaitins in the classical instance of a rope taken for a snake, Sri Aurobindo contends, it is not at all helpful. According to him the illusory actually exists ...

Indian national movement: a critical study of five schools - Page 94 - Jayati Chaturvedi - 1990 - This process has been called 'Sanskritization.'37 Then, we have the Hindu nationalist point of view advocated by Aurobindo Ghosh and the Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. Aurobindo contends that the view that ancient India excelled only ...

Bhāratī: bulletin of the College of Indology - Volumes 1-4 - Page 136 - Banaras Hindu University. College of Indology, Dept. of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology - 1957 - Now as regards the third alternative that life is a descent from some plane above the material universe, Sri Aurobindo contends that it is quite conceivable that a pressure from some plane of life above the material plane might have helped the ...

Synthesis: The realization of the self - Volume 2 - Page 42 - 1978 - Aurobindo contends that such a view looks at only one small area of existence and leaves all the rest unexplained. He adds: If pushed to its extreme, it would give to a stone or a plum-pudding a greater reality and to thought, love, courage, ...

Studies in philosophy and religion - Page 102 - Ram Shankar Misra - 1971 - Now as regards the third alternative that life is a descent from some plane above the material universe, Sri Aurobindo contends that it is quite conceivable that a pressure from some plane of life above the material plane might have helped the ...

Twentieth century Indian philosophy: nature and destiny of man - Page 176 - Nilima Sharma - 1972 - By discarding this popular belief of retrogression, Aurobindo contends that "whether the animal reversion is possible or not, the normal law must be the recurrence of birth in new human forms for a soul that has once become capable of...

The spirit of modern India: writings in philosophy, religion & culture - Page 37 - Robert A. McDermott, Vishwanath S. Naravane - 1974 - On the basis of his historical perspective and spiritual experience, Sri Aurobindo contends that the force of the Supermind is now creating the conditions necessary for the advent of a spiritual age. This possibility, which Sri Aurobindo calls the ...

Sri Venkateswara University oriental journal - Volume 35 - Page 36 - Sri Venkatesvara University. Oriental Research Institute - 1992 - Aurobindo contends that the perfect human order can be realized only by the collective efforts of individuals who have realized inner freedom or moral swaraj. As a prophet of Nationalism, he exhorted his countrymen to win back their inner ...

Bulletin - Page 6 - Institute of Traditional Cultures - 1982 - Totalitarianism, Aurobindo contends, seems to be the natural and inevitable destiny of the fullest outcome of socialism or, more generally, of the collectivist idea and impulse. But if a non-democratic polity and machinery are found to serve the ...

Calcutta review - Page 61 - University of Calcutta, University of Calcutta. Dept. of English - 1948 - It is difficult, as Aurobindo contends, for a human being to harmonize all these different activities of reason, mixed and pure. Aurobindo, however does not go into detail regarding the manifold phases of reason. None the less it is clear what ...

A critical study of Aurobindo: with special reference to his ... - Page 15 - Laxman Ganpatrao Chincholkar - 1966 - By denying any reality to the existence, this theory, Aurobindo, contends, creates more difficulties and renders it insoluble. For, whatever be the nature of Maya cither as unreal reality or unreality itself, the " ultimate effects of the theory carry in ...

The religious roots of Indian nationalism: Aurobindo's early ... - Page 38 - David L. Johnson - 1974 - It is revalued as an essentially spiritual movement, with spiritual goals as its goals. It carries a message for the world. "It is a great religious movement disguised for the moment in political and western garb . . ."42 Aurobindo contends that the ...

Contemporary Indian idealism (with special reference to Swami ... - Page 100 - Ripusudan Prasad Srivastava - 1973 - 36 But Sri Aurobindo contends, as we have already seen, that this ignorance is never a negation of knowledge. He holds very optimistically that "Our self-ignorance and our world-ignorance can only grow towards integral self-knowledge and ...

The feminine mirrored: Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Bhabani Bhattacharya - Page 96 - Sandhya Sharma - 2002 - To be in his company is spiritual education. To obey and serve him, to listen to his words, and even to his silence— is to be initiated. Sri Aurobindo contends: Guru is the inner guide secret within us. To secret within us. To activate this secret, ...

Essays on Indian art & culture: Prof. R. Das Gupta felicitation volume - Page 51 - Premaśaṅkara Dvivedī, Rajatananda Das Gupta, Bindu Dubey - 1992 - Sri Aurobindo contends that the reason must make scrutiny of intuitions. Intuition springs out from higher as well as lower level. It originates from subconscient as well as conscient sources. Reason is perfectly justified in discriminating properly...

Proceedings of the ... International Symposium on Asian Studies - Page 300 - Asian Research Service - 1983 - Aurobindo contends : 18 An integration of this kind would not be possible if a spiritual evolution were not the sense of our birth and terrestrial existence; the evolution of mind, life and spirit in Matter is the sign that this integration, this completed ... Prajña - Volume 18 - Page 73 - Aurobindo contends ...

Indian philosophical annual - Volume 8 - Page 152 - University of Madras. Centre of Advanced Study in Philosophy - 1976 - Sri Aurobindo contends that because there has already taken place a descent or involution of Brahman in matter, so the latter can rise to the status of Brahman in the course of evolution. This double process of descent or involution and ascent ...

The Hindu quest for the perfection of man - Page 317 - Troy Wilson Organ - 1970 - Aurobindo contends that the reversal is part of the evolution which is the entire meaning of life: "A change into a higher consciousness or state of being is not only the whole aim and process of religion, of all higher askesis, of Yoga ...

Hindu patterns of liberation - Page 38 - Open University. AD 208 Course Team - 1978 - Aurobindo contends that Spirit and Matter are equally essential: The affirmation of a divine life upon earth and an immortal sense in mortal existence can have no base unless we recognize not only eternal spirit as the inhabitant of this bodily ...

Poet-seer Swami Rama Tirtha: the poetry of spiritual vision - Page 184 - Bansi Lal Zutshi - 1987 - Sri Aurobindo contends, that "our fall does not matter and that the dust in which India lies is sacred". He further adds : "If the majority of Indians had indeed made the whole of their lives religious in the true sense of the word, we should not be ...

Annual - Page 94 - Sri Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta - 1995 - 7 Thus Sri Aurobindo contends that the historical theory of criticism serves no real purpose for our poetic appreciation; but at the same time he openly admits that the said theory would be helpful towards grasping something important and ...

Gandhi marg - Page 574 - Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, Gandhi Peace Foundation (New Delhi, India) - 1992 - According to Gandhi, the law is a result of human weakness. Aurobindo contends that law came into being because of imperfection and ignorance of mind. He says: "Because of our present imperfection and the ignorance of our mind and will, ...

The Advent - Volumes 23-24 - Page 24 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1966 - Sri Aurobindo contends that the evolution need not stop at man; man, it is true, is the present highest term of evolution, but he is not the final term. Man can evolve — is sure to evolve in time — new faculties and powers which will manifest ...

Ephemerides Carmeliticae - Volume 29 - Page 44 - Discalced Carmelites, Pontificia Facultas Theologica SS. Teresiae a Iesu et Ioannis a Cruce in Urbe - 1978 - If philosophy is an investigation into the reality, Aurobindo contends that it should take into account the entire domain of the reality. A true philosophy cannot afford to ignore either matter or spirit. A spiritualistic philosophy which denies matter is ...