The Way to Human Perfection - Sri Aurobindo observes: “His way to perfection is not to involve himself in the outward or superficial existence, nor is it to place himself in the soul of..."
For the seeker of the integral Yoga, while abandonment of the terrestrial life is clearly not the end and goal, it still remains necessary to achieve a shift or reversal of consciousness away from the bondage of the lower instrument consisting of mind, life and body, so that the view and the action that flows from it, are based on the spiritual reality that stands behind and above and deep within, and which is free from the limitations of the outer forms of the human existence.
One of the first steps in the spiritual path is the effort to separate the awareness from the outer mind, life and body. In so doing, we gain a distance or separation from the outer instruments and feel ourselves to be a soul that uses mind, life and body, rather than being totally limited and defined by them. For most people living the ordinary life, this separation of the awareness is not active and they identify themselves with the body, the life or the mind. At best they believe themselves to be mentally aware but subjected to the life in the body. Sri Aurobindo describes the process of distancing the awareness from the outer being:
Indian Psychology as I see it - Psychology as a discipline is now more than 100 years old in India, still the term ‘Indian Psychology’ is new to us and is interpreted differently by diffe...
Indian psychology tools like self-inquiry and self-observation help in looking beyond behaviour to understand the source of who we are and what we do. It is worthwhile to spend some time on self-inquiry to try and understand ourselves based on not only our thoughts, but explore and unravel various other motivations that guide and direct our actions. We feel we know ourselves the best, but in actuality we are often not aware of the real and often hidden sources of our actions. So, the more we work on our self and unravel the hidden layers of our personality, the more we will be able to help the world. To understand the importance of this self-work, one must realize that the more efficient our tool, the better will be the results that will accrue, and in the end, our own human nature is our most important tool.
As I was revisiting Graham Harman’s early Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects it struck me ...
Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom as it was then and shall be in the future. And wisdom is an illusive enterprise, indeed; yet, one at least, I believe, is still worth pursuing if only because it helps me get on with my life, gives me that quality of thought I need to sustain my existence against the forces that would seek to command and control my mind and life. Philosophy still holds out that life of the independent and free thinker, which is part of the human heritage I hope we never lose sight of.
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Sri Aurobindo unfolded the idea of a higher evolution of consciousness in humanity and produced Savitri, the longest blank verse poem in the English language, revealing transformative yogic secrets that the West had yet to conceive. Yet, many of these great Indic thinkers wrote in Sanskrit or regional languages of India and have not been properly noted, much less studied.
Professor Ronnie Lessem, Dr Ibrahim Abouleish, Mr Marko Pogačnik - 2015 - Preview - More editions
Introduction. 8.1.1. auRobInDo. to. LaubsCheRVIa. gRaVes,. beCk. anD. wILbeR. Interestingly enough, as we have seen, Sri Aurobindo (late 1800s and early 1900s) was a political activist for the first part of his adult life, and then a spiritual leader in the second half, well into midlife and maturity. Seemingly, for this marriage of ...
Preface. This work attempts to bring together the developmental insights contained within the works ofSri Aurobindo and The Mother. I have made a conscious attempt in my work to present Sri Aurobindoand The Mother's ideas in their own terms and to avoid unnecessary generalisations. The main aim is to identify key ...
Makarand R. Paranjape - 2014 - Preview - More editions
Chapter 9 Sri Aurobindo's Concept of Evolution of Consciousness: Exploration through the Paradigm of Health and Disease Rajni Vyas This paper examines how Sri Aurobindo extended the concept of evolution as enunciated by Charles Darwin to consciousness and being (personality). The genius of Charles Darwin ...
—Sri Aurobindo, The Hour of God and Other Writings (1972, 326) The Adventure and Invitation of Knowledge In the Bible we read about a woman who is wailing in the streets and her name is Wisdom.1 She is weeping because despite her knocking we are not opening our doors. But in the human journey as well as in our ...
... egoistic capacity (Sri Aurobindo 1986, p. 25). Cosmic consciousness is thus all-inclusive, which ''can be attained only if the finite self transcends its narrow individuality and identifies itself with the whole'' ( Radhakrishnan 1929, p. 209), which then enlightens not only the person who is spiritually realized but also others, and ...
Antonella Corradini, Uwe Meixner - 2014 - Preview - More editions
Aurobindo's description of the process by which that which is now evolving cameto be involvedinan apparent multitude of formless entities. One last remark. Ourtheoretical dealings with the world are conditioned by themanner inwhich we experience the world—by what it isliketo bea 21st-century human. We tend toignore ...
Sri Aurobindo and his partner, known as "the Mother,” apparently claimed to have decided the outcome of World War II with their psychic powers.” (In that case, one wonders why they weren't held morally responsible for not having ended it sooner.) Yet another reason to ignore Aurobindo's long, unreadable books. Generally ...
This pleased Polak, as did a 'most refreshing dip' the next day in the river Ganges, a rite of passage for a Hindu, but purely optional for this mostly lapsed Jew.51 Polak's talks and writings were noticed by, among other people, the brilliant Bengali radical Aurobindo Ghose (later known as Sri Aurobindo). In April 1907, Ghose ... Aurobindo Ghose was in political terms an 'extremist', indeed, an extreme Extremist. He had close contacts with terrorist groups in Bengal, and in May 1908 he and his brother Barindranath were arrested in what became known as the Alipore Bomb Case. Barin was sentenced to life imprisonment;Aurobindo, however, was ...
Swarajya-01-Oct-2016
Sri Aurobindo 'supported the Cripps' offer because by its acceptance India and Britain could stand united against the Asuric forces [of Nazism] and the solution ...
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