Sri Aurobindo's view of life is coherent

Integral Advaitism Of Sri Aurobindo - Page 292 - Rāmacandra Miśra - 1998 - Preview It is the principle that makes a synthesis of all experience and makes it a coherent whole. As Sri Aurobindo puts it, "Mind-sense is the basis, memory the thread on which experiences are strung by the self-experiencing mind: but it is the ...

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page x - Peter Heehs - 2008 - Preview - More editions But if they do not form part of a coherent view of life, they remain empty verbiage. Aurobindo's view of life seemed to me to be coherent, though not always easy to grasp. His prose was good, if rather old fashioned, and he had a wry sense of ...

Sri Aurobindo Ghose - Page 478 - Verinder Grover - 1993 - Preview But, actually there is no scepticism in Sri Aurobindo, partial knowledge there is, but it must be seen against the background of his Integral Knowledge. There is no mysticism too in Sri Aurobindo. He offers a coherent intelligible account of the ...

Tradition and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in ... - Page 142 - David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - Preview Aurobindo was able to meet the challenges of such rationalists as Bertrand Russell (an acquaintance and personal favorite ... being no more than a gifted rationalist, can and must be judged for consistency and coherence according to rational, ...

Sri Aurobindo and Vedānta Philosophy - Page 39 - Sheojee Pandey - 1987 - Preview - More editions Sri Aurobindo says, "But the second reason for refusing credit to our sleep experience is that a dream is something evanescent without antecedents and without a sequel; ordinarily, too, it is without any sufficient coherence or any significance ...

The Long Trajectory: The Metaphysics of Reincarnation and Life ... - Page 286 - Eric M. Weiss - 2012 - Preview It is these three terms that describe the metaphysical ultimates in Sri Aurobindo's system. Let us consider them one by one: Sat: Being In the metaphysical cosmology that grows out of transpersonal process metaphysics, “being,” or sat, ...

Hinduism: New Essays in the History of Religions - Page 96 - Bardwell L. Smith - 1976 - Preview - More editions Only in the thought of Sri Aurobindo do we find an open and self-conscious recognition of a tantric world-view as the essential basis for a coherent synthesis of the diverse Hindu traditions. It is significant that Sri Aurobindo's attempt at a ...

Indian English literature: a new perspective - Page 127 - Gajendra Kumar - 2001 - Full view The Poetic Horizon of Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo himself once said that he had been first and foremost a poet and a politician, only later he became a yogi. Like Rabindranath Tagore, we find the organic coherence of a poet and a seer in Sri ...

Indian Literature in English: Critical Views - Page 41 - Satish Barbuddhe - 2007 - Full view He was an intellectual interested in yogic practice. His yoga was based on a firm and coherent theoretic basis. He was a freedom fighter and a political worker with a vision for the future.51 As a matter of fact, Sri Aurobindo is not an armchair ...

Sri Aurobindo: a centenary tribute - Page 61 - Aurobindo Ghose, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1974 - They could not be regarded as a 'mystic' or 'poetic' vision because Sri Aurobindo tries to build a coherent system on their basis and does not merely express them in an aphoristic manner. In the light of these presuppositions an attempt will be ...

Foundations of Indian Psychology Volume 1: Theories and Concepts - Page 336 - Cornelissen R. M. Matthijs - 2011 - Preview Knowledge by identity is for Sri Aurobindo the first and most important of these four types of knowledge. ... to Sri Aurobindo, the information the senses provide is far too incomplete and disjointed to create the wonderfully precise and coherent ...

Reflections From Shillong: Speeches Of M.M. Jacob - Page 81 - David R. Syiemlieh - 2005 - Preview - More editions Among all the Congress leaders Sri Aurobindo was special and singular, because he was the supra-conscient intellectual, the yogi, prophet of defied nationalism. During the five years 1905-1910, he articulated a coherent and powerful theory ...

Vedanta: Heart of Hinduism - Page 188 - Hans Torwestern, Loly Rosset - 1994 - Preview - More editions But what surfaced only sporadically with Vivekananda became with Aurobindo the very heart of an extensive and coherent system. He saw Brahman's manifest Creation not as an illusion or empty play, but as the gradual ascent of the divine ...

Foundations of Indian Psychology Volume 1: Theories and Concepts - Page 336 - Cornelissen R. M. Matthijs - 2011 - Preview According to Sri Aurobindo, the information the senses provide is far too incomplete and disjointed to create the wonderfully precise and coherent image that we make of the world. He holds that there must be some inner knowledge, some ...

Hartshorne, Process Philosophy, and Theology - Page 125 - Robert Kane, Robert Kane Stephen H. Phillips - 1989 - Preview - More editions To have (and one may only think one has) special, mystic reasons for a position does not exempt it from requirements of overall coherence. Aurobindo's theory that God is necessarily, and is necessarily aware of, a power to create, to "loose ...

Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's poetry, plays, and criticism - Page 102 - Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - Full view - More editions All of Sri Aurobindo's plays have five acts and plots that possess organic wholeness. They are complete, complex, coherent and of certain magnitude. They have conflict at the centre of their structural arrangement. Unlike the ancient classical dramas, his plays have sub-plots also.

The Political Thought of Aurobindo (Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers) - Page 98 - K. S. Bharathi - 1998 - Preview A theory of imperialism which does not take into consideration the political aggressions and conquering designs of peoples and empires in ancient and medieval periods cannot be an adequate explanation of the phenomenon. Aurobindo approaches the problem ...

Tradition and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in ... - Page 143 - David J. Lorenzo - 1999 - Preview ... a priori idea out of his own mind and plastering it as a label on the unexplained phenomena. Rather than an unexplainable phenomenon, Aurobindo claimed that "inner sight" was explicable as part of the unseen universe illuminated by his ...

The philosophy of evolution in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin - Page 222 Jan Feys - 1973 - When confining the evolutionary significance of the 'struggle for life' to a transitional phenomenon Aurobindo finds himself in perfect agreement with Teilhard, who admits that: " 'Survival of the fittest by natural selection' is not a meaningless ...

The Advent - Volumes 15-16 - Page 70 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1958 - On a central religious field he breaks the spiritual limits of 'medieval5 India more radically than anyone before him. Therefore the traditional piety of India stands frightened and confused before the phenomenon — Aurobindo." World affirmation...

Yoga, mathematics, and computer sciences: in change confronting ... - Page 94 1997 - The 'synthesis or integrality' of the consequent processes of movement in any dimensional direction, is a continuous phenomenon. Aurobindo, in Chapter V, pp. 36-37, of The Synthesis of Yoga clearly points out that an undiscriminating ...

Secularisation of Indian mind: a study of political ideas in India ... - Page 83 - V. Indira Devi - 2002 - ... phenomenon, Aurobindo opined: "...our ideal... is an Indian nationalism, largely Hindu in its spirit and traditions because the Hindu made the land and the people and priests, by the greatness of his past, his civilisation and his culture and his ...

Sri Aurobindo's treatment of Hindu myth - Page 39 - Jan Feys - 1983 - Further indications regarding the method are found in chapter 4 oc The Secret, The Foundations of the Psychological Theory'. Sri Aurobindo wants his system of interpretation to rest on the solid basis of linguistics. Do:s the Vedic language ...

Quality Management Practices - Page 315 - R P Mohanty - 2009 - Preview Taiteriya Upanishad contains the Panchakosha (Five sheath) theory. Sri Aurobindo and most of the exponents of Indian wisdom have recommended it in their thought on education and training. The five sheaths are : Physical : Anna Vital...

Sri Aurobindo critical considerations - Page 70 - Dr. O. P. Mathur - 1997 - True to his belief and theory, Sri Aurobindo as a poet gets poetic inspiration mainly from above his head. He would make himself receptive and would submit himself completely to the Divine power. This does not mean that poetry is merely a...

The search of the cradle of civilization: new light on ancient India - Page 216 - Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, David Frawley - 2005 - Preview - More editions Writing two decades before this discovery, purely on the basis of yogic experience and theory, Sri Aurobindo made this pertinent observation: The intellect is an organ composed of several groups of functions, divisible into two important ...

Sanskrit and the evolution of human speech: based on Sri ... - Page 68 - Sampadananda Mishra - 2005 - As a last step of his theory Sri Aurobindo states that "there are families of words, families of root-sounds, families of simple sounds, so also are there families of seed sounds. These families are known to all grammarians and in Sanskrit they ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 31 - Page 209 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1979 - Of course he takes the psychic in another sense than ours as he speaks of world-psyche. P: He takes his stand on the Buddhistic karma theory. Sri Aurobindo: Yes. His contention that everything is fixed reduces this world to Maya. Even the...

The Advent - Volume 57 - Page 40 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2000 - Of course like the seventeenth and eighteenth century social thinkers of Europe Sri Aurobindo does not hold that people have brutish ends, will, power for all time and age as in social contract theory. Sri Aurobindo has vision for the future and ...

The Hindu personality in education: Tagore, Gandhi, Aurobindo - Page 161 William Cenkner - 1976 - Tagore, Gandhi, Aurobindo William Cenkner. CHAPTER ELEVEN Educational Theory Sri Aurobindo articulated his basic educational ideas in the early part of the century when he addressed himself to the problem of national education.

Nirodbaran, divinity's comrade - Page 610 Hemant Kapoor - 2003 - And as contrasted with Darwin's theory, Sri Aurobindo's theory of evolution is based on the Vedantic theory of involution. The nature is evolving from matter to life and from life to mind. The upward spiral of Nature has reached till this day the ...

Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture - Volume 52 - Page 318 - Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture - 2001 - He did the same thing in his spiritual theory. Sri Aurobindo basically was not a theorist, he was a yogi, he was a person whom I call the pioneer of the supramental. In the first part of his life he was a prophet of Indian nationalism, and in the ...

The Vedanta kesari - Volume 84 - Page 138 - Sri Ramakrishna Math (Madras, India) - 1997 - ... for one year— May 1908 to May 1909. Already advanced in yoga and committed to the evolutionary theory, Sri Aurobindo utilized his imprisonment to get at a clue to the next step in evolution. Sri Aurobindo says that it was a series of 138.

Indian literature - Volume 32 - Page 159 - Sāhitya Akademi - 1989 - ing to Tyagi, has a significant place in Sri Aurobindo's poetic theory: Sri Aurobindo has isolated the poet's function from that of the philosopher and the scientist. His function is primarily neither to think out the reality of things nor to dissect ...

Pragna - Volume 8 2006 - Disciple: There is also the question of Hindu-Muslim unity which the non-violence school is trying to solve on the basis of their theory. Sri Aurobindo: You can live amicably with a religion whose principle is toleration. But how is it possible to ...

Muslim separatism: causes and consequences - Page 107 - Sita Ram Goel - 1995 -  A few months later, on 13 July 1923, a disciple had observed that "There is also the question of Hindu-Muslim unity which the non-violence school is trying to solve on the basis of their theory". Sri Aurobindo had replied: "You ...