Sri Aurobindo gave varied advice depending on the individual

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The advice Sri Aurobindo gave varied depending on the individual. Generally speaking, those who are over-eager for experiences are asked to ignore them, while those who can get fruitful guidance from them are asked to pay attention

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Evolutionary, Spiritual Conceptions of Life - Sri Aurobindo, ... - Page 33 - Michael Leicht - 2008 - Preview It seems to me that as Nietzsche shifts the stress from Apollonian harmony and reason to Dionysian ecstasy and disorder Aurobindo has made a similar shift by worshipping the destructive Shiva instead of the creative Brahman! Madhusudan ...

Word from the Soul: Time, East/West Spirituality, and ... - Page 146 - Stuart Sovatsky - 1998 - Preview - More editions ... as Aurobindo, Nietzsche, Teilhard, Neumann, Gebser, Wilber, and others described, is far more of a spiritual nature than mere Darwinian adaptive evolutionism (and its widespread metanarratives and the eery eugenic technologies they still ...

Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche: The Politics of Infinity - Page 299 - Laurence D. Cooper - 2008 - Preview - More editions A somewhat more complete summary of this process and its underlying principle is offered by Ken Wilber as part of a ... of these systems cannot be experienced or deduced rationally, and nobody from Plotinus to Aurobindo thinks they can.

Secularism: The Hidden Origins of Disbelief - Page 269 - Mike King - 2007 - Wilber, as a Buddhist, is well aware of the great jnani traditions of meditation which ground and underpin Eastern non-devotional ... Nietzsche contributed with his unfortunate vision of the 'superman', and Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher who ... Wilber's spiritual historicism is deeply entrenched in the New Age, having made its way via Hegel through Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin.

The radiance of being: understanding the grand integral vision : ... - Page 332 - Allan Combs - 2002 - The historical roots of deconstructionism as a kind of textual relativism can be found, in part at least, as early as Nietzsche. 30. In his exceptional ... E.g., Satprem, 1970/1984, Aurobindo, 1972a. 2. Laszlo, 1987a ... Smith, 1982; Wilber, 1983. 5.

A Sociable God - Page viii - Ken Wilber - 2005 - Preview - More editions Ken Wilber. example, posits no supreme being or God and centers around a rigorous program of mental training explicitly aimed ... After all, the great saints and sages, Buddha, Christ, Lao Tzu, Shankara, Aurobindo, and others have been said to represent ... James, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Maslow, among others.

The Essential Ken Wilber - Page 153 - Ken Wilber - 1998 - Preview - More editions McDermott asks if we would ever hear polemic from the great spiritual philosophers, such as Aurobindo or James or Plotinus. ... Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Fichte, Schopenhauer, Schelling, Augustine, Origen, Plotinus, to name a very few. Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations With Leading Transpersonal ... - Page 354 Donald Jay Rothberg, Sean Kelly, Sean M. Kelly - 1998 

Uncreated Timeless Self of Radiant Emptiness - Onliness ... - Page 21 - Martin Treon - 2009 - Preview - More editions Thus, to the extent that Wilber's brilliant insights (as I have more or less adequately interpreted them here) are reflected and ... order), among this total who were certainly influential: Plato, Plotinus, Nagarjuna, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Meister Eckhart, Shankara, ... F. Nietzsche, S. Kierkegaard, Teilhard de Chardin, Alfred Whitehead, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ferdinand de Saussure, ...

Life: Energies, Forces, and the Shaping of Life - Page 154 - Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2002 - Preview - More editions Wilber is aware that referring to higher stages of consciousness may be subject to much controversy, among scientists ... Bergson said exactly that; and so did Toynbee and Tolstoy and James and Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and Maslow. ...Chardin, Jan Smuts, Jean Gebser, Arthur Koestler and Sri Aurobindo as a process unfolding hierarchically ever-higher wholes, inclusive, complex and integrated.

Encyclopaedia of Indian philosophy - Volume 2 - Page 218 - Vraj Kumar Pandey - 2007 - The Mother's preoccupation was with this stage of the supramental evolution of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. ... lived at a very crucial moment in the history of thought when Marxist materialism, Nietzschean individualism and Freudian vitalism were popular and fashionable. ... The American philosopher Ken Wilber, although influenced by Aurobindo, has tried to reduce the reliance on metaphysics in Aurobindo's ...

The Hermetic Deleuze and The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo

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Message From Sri Maa « Sri Aurobindo Patha Mandir Trust Working on the field of education, health, small scale industry, and spiritual growth of the society. (by SAPMT)

Sri Aurobindo Society  Focus Area Integral Education  "Happy is he who can exchange his qualities with the real qualities of the flowers. Try to cultivate in yourself their refined qualities." The Mother

Flower Exhibition in Mumbai based on ‘The spiritual significance of flowers’  Jan 18-20, 2013; 9:00am-6:00pm Bhavan's College, Munshi Nagar, Andheri (West), Mumbai - 400 058. Sri Aurobindo Society, Mumbai Branch, organized a flower exhibition based on ‘The Spiritual Significance of Flowers’ as given by The Mother. This exhibition was part of a much larger nature festival called ‘Prakruti’, which was organized by Bhavan’s Nature and Adventure Centre (an affiliate of Bhavan’s College, Andheri, Mumbai).

She carries crucified God upon her breast from Savitri 

True, here she is a slave to death and ignorance, but there is the constant aspiration driving things to deathlessness, of knowing the Unknowable. She may have fallen asleep but even then she creates a world. In the march of time what is inconscience after all? just a gigantic pause. The Light that had sent her forth might have been denied to her, yet she continues still though she would meet agony and pain; she carries crucified God upon her breast.

The exchange of vital forces during social interactions Integral ... by Sandeep

Sri Aurobindo: It is not only talk that creates a turmoil – disturbing forces can come in by contact also. There may be restlessness or confusion of consciousness in the person who talks with you to which he does not give expression or is not ...

In the Afternoon of Time: An Autobiography - Page 502 - Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Rupert Snell - 2001 - Preview - More editions I could not think why Amit would want to throw up a good job to try his luck in cinema; but I didn't want to discourage Bunty, nor, for that matter, was there anything I could do to stop him anyway. While in Madras I visited the Shree Aurobindo Ashram ...

Books on Hinduism - Concepts of Reason and Intuition With Special Reference to Sri Aurobindo, K.C. Bhattacharyya and S. Radhakrishnan Author Bio: Prof. Ramesh Chandra Sinha (1944 )

The great thinkers are fully aware that unless they interpret and formulate the traditional truths in the modern framework of ideas, they would cease to inspire. There seems to be a distinct change in their views concerning man's existence in the world. The book embodies a fresh approach towards critical evaluation of some theories and gives valuable insights. It attempts to make relevant comparisons of the views of Indian thinkers with those of some of the eminent thinkers of the West. In the detailed study of Sri Aurobindo, K.C. Bhattacharyya and S. Radhakrishnan, the author shows, not only a profound grasp of the concepts of Reason and Intuition, but also the admirable understanding of other important metaphysical and religious problems. This book cannot miss the sight of students of philosophy, researchers and scholars. 

What is the Scope of Doctor of philosophy in Sri Aurobindo ... - ignou IGNOU has started the new program in the Doctor of philosophy in Sri Aurobindo studies which is based on evolutionary philosophy. Sri Aurobindo was a great ...

Private Universities that have shown interest in Odisha by Chitta Baral - Based on a list in February 2013. Amity University Amrita Viswa Vidyapitham University ASBM (Asian School of Business Management) University Birla Global University Chicago University to set up a satellite university within Utkal University Campus C V Raman International University Devine Global University by Devine Education Trust, Delhi DRIEMS University Educity in Rourkela by Knowledge [...]

Conscious Complicity at the Crossroads: A Response to Jacob Sherman’s “What’s at Stake in Hermetic Reterritorialization” from An und für sich by joshua ramey

This is not “a way of reading Deleuze.”  It is the excavation of tendencies in Deleuze’s thought, tendencies that are incompletely realized but that point in certain directions, directions Deleuze himself did not, or could not yet take…  At the level of content, there is almost nothing in Deleuze’s work except exceptional, obscure, bizarre, unusual, paradoxical, uncanny, traumatic, visionary, apocalyptically intense realities.  Not only are the artists and their artworks found only at the outlying edges of sense and sensibility, from Masoch’s ordeals to Proust’s involuntary memories to the impossible temporality of Last Year at Marienbad, but even the scientists, historians, and mathematicians Deleuze is devoted to are undeniably fringe, nomadic, heretical characters.  So I simply can’t recognize the idea that Deleuze’s thought is substantively immanentist.

Rather, I would say, his thought is immanentist precisely at a formal or methodological level, and that is the level at which I find it the most problematic. I have always been convinced, by the likes of John Milbank, Philip Goodchild, and François Laruelle (an unholy trinity, that), that it is symptomatic of any attempt at a perfectly, purely, absolutely immanentist system (such as Spinoza’s explicit thought, and to a certain extent Bergson’s) that at the level of methodology it is inadvertently, performatively dualist.  At the level of conceptual presentation, Deleuze is almost hypnotically “dualizing” (not to be confused with Laruelle’s dualysis)…

Giambattista Vico’s famous formula was verum factum:  the true is the made.  Humans can only know with certainty what they make—only the social world, the cultural world, can be known with certainty.  And metaphysical truth, the language of the philosophers, is somehow paradoxically the “rhetoric” of democracy, because its persuasive power derives from an appeal to the putatively universal ability of all to reason.  And yet the very words with which we reason, for Vico, remain ineluctably empowered by their gigantic, heroic genesis in unique experiences of time and place, geography and climate, bodily morphology and systemic affect peculiar to irreducibly local series of experiences…  For me it is Laruelle who has seen this situation, at least formally, with the most clarity, at least among contemporary philosophers. 

Meeting of the East and the West in Sri Aurobindo, Bergson, Heidegger, and Deleuze

THERE IS NO SHORTCUT TO HAPPINESS times of india - speaking tree By: Ramesh Bijlani on Feb 01, 2013

What it means is that happiness resides not in the car, but in ‘not wanting anything’. ‘Not wanting anything’ is an inner state to be cultivated, not a goal automatically reached by fulfillment of desires. The conclusion is that happiness is within us, not in the object outside. Let us take another example. A person goes and donates a unit of blood. That makes him happy. He has not got anything – in fact, he has given something. The person is happy because while donating blood he thought of another individual in need. In the process, he got so completely absorbed in somebody else’s need that he forgot what he himself wants. In other words, he was once again in a state of ‘not wanting anything’. Thus, to be happy, we need not get anything at all. In fact, the joy of giving is much greater than the joy of getting.

The above discussion exposes the two major flaws in the popular notion that happiness comes from getting things. One, happiness resides not in the things outside but within us; and two, true happiness comes from giving. But what we generally do is to look outside for happiness – in the objects that we want, in the work that we do, in the people to whom we are attached, in being healthy, and so on. All these are entities which are inconstant, unreliable, erratic and unpredictable. The objects that seem to give us happiness are perishable, the happiness they give is short-lasting, and the list of still more objects that we may want is endless. In case of a few fortunate ones, the work that they enjoy doing coincides with the work that they have to do for a living. Even these fortunate ones cannot go on doing the same work for ever: enforced ‘superannuation’ or bodily disability might force them to give up the work. People to whom we are attached do not always behave the way we would like them to. 

Understanding Medical Physiology - Page 876 - Bijlani - 2004 - Preview - More editions The basic text of integral yoga is The Synthesis of Yoga by Sri Aurobindo. CONCLUSION Yoga is an ancient system of Indian philosophy. Although its metaphysical aspects are complex, the fundamentals, as applicable to daily life, are quite ...

The meeting of the East and the West in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy - Page 165 - S.K. Maitra - 1956 - This statement we can look upon as containing the essence of Sri Aurobindo's conception of yoga, as, in fact, the text of integral yoga. The first thing which it asserts is that yoga is a birth. It is not a dissolution, nor an absorption, nor a swooning away into the Divine, but it is a birth. That is to say, the human being retains his character as a human being, which means as a being with a body, life, soul and mind, and having a part to ...

Leather, Fur, & Legendary Joy: A Response from Joshua Ramey to Beatrice Marovich’s “‘We Dance These Beasts’: Capitalism, Animism, Believers of the Future” from An und für sich by Joshua Ramey

As anyone who knows me knows, I spend as much of my time as I can drumming or dancing (when I’m not reading and writing and teaching).  Part of why I was drawn to Deleuze in the first place was that he seemed to be one of the few philosophers willing to lend some language to what was crucial for me about movement and rhythm, conceptually as well as at the affective level, and willing to take the emendation of the affects as far as the emendation of the intellect toward the composition of a philosophical life.  Deleuze was always, in a typically French way, reticent about being anecdotal, and I think he knew how to be revealing enough without anecdotes.  I’m not quite that refined.  Beatrice has moved me to relay, anecdotally, an experience that, for me, forms a kind of legend for the defense of spirituality Beatrice is drawing attention to between the lines of my book…

At any rate, I have often thought to myself that from the 1960’s to 2013 the spiritual stakes of experimentation have changed:  what was an aesthetic choice, then, has become a survival strategy, now.  For those of us with anything left to experiment with, survival itself has become experimental.  In the context of endless and irremediable debts, of a totally debt-leveraged existence, everything is improvisation, everything is experimentation.  Existence itself is spiritual ordeal, for those who manage to survive the imperative to “invest in oneself” at the cost of everything, and at the cost of everything manage to pretend to be an “entrepreneur of the self,” while in fact this means to take on the weight of the world, the burden of the global, ever-imploding debt.

On the Occasion of the Ordeal: A Response from Joshua Ramey to Dan Barber’s “Experimental Life and Ordeal’s Necessity” from An und für sich by Joshua Ramey

I would argue, however—with Laruelle’s theory of the fundamental autonomy of heresy and gnosis—that the reverse is the case, that it is orthodoxy that is more or less parasitic, in the long run, on religious experiences that are too wild, too intense, too idiosyncratic to regulate, order, and habituate.  (It’s true that Bergson’s view of religion is similar, but I don’t hold to Bergson’s ontology of development, which overemphasizes continuity). From that perspective, let me engage in some heretical theology.  The logic of exemplarity in standard Christian philosophy is a logic that attempts to provide limits or conditions for possible spiritual experimentation, in advance of ordeal. 

But from my perspective, and the perspective that I call “the hermetic Deleuze,” since every ordeal potentially is unlimited, any ordeal can exemplify any other, to the degree that it resonates with any other ordeal. This is where Bruno did not so much reject incarnationalism as rather accelerate it into a kind of terracarnationalism or cosmicarnationalism, a becoming-divine or being-divine of everything in relation to everything else.  This has obvious overtones of mystical theophanies such as Eriugena’s, and in alchemical theologies like Boehme’s. The problem with the “standard Christian philosophy,” as Bruno saw it, and as Deleuze put it borrowing a phrase from D.H. Lawrence, is that it is not yet ready “to have done with judgment.” 

(title unknown) from enowning Tomonobu Imamichi says The Book of Tea was there first. 

[Ito Kichinosuke, one of my teachers at university, studied in Germany in 1918 immediately after the First World War and hired Heidegger as a private tutor. Before moving back to Japan at the end of his studies, Professor Ito handed Heidegger a copy of Das Buch vom Tee, the German translation of Okakura Kkuzo's The Book of Tea, as a token of his appreciation. That was in 1919. Sein und Zeit was published in 1927, and made Heidegger famous. Mr. Ito was surprised and indignant that Heidegger used Zhuangzi's concept without giving him credit. Years later in 1945, Professor Ito reminisced with me and, speaking in his Shonai dialect, said, "Heidegger did a lot for me, but I should've laid into him for stealing." There are other indications that Heidegger was inspired by Eastern writings, but let's leave this topic here. I have heard many stories of this kind from Professor Ito and checked their veracity.] [The meaningfulness of the tea cup, in 1919. P. 83]

Bergson, Teilhard, & Sri Aurobindo are foremost rhapsodists of the glory of evolution

Sri Aurobindo and Vedānta Philosophy - Page 86

Sheojee Pandey - 1987 - Preview - More editions For Bergson, the Elan vital is the creative principle of becoming but for Sri Aurobindo, the supermind is the unity of both Being and Becoming. Elan Vital is the only principle of becoming and change in the philosophy of Bergson whereas Sri...

The Indian Imagination: Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English - Page 42

K. D. Verma - 2000 - Preview - More editions Both Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin recognize the existence of a psychic force — Aurobindo calls it "Sakti" and de ... special sense is similar to Bergson's elan vital or life-force, but Aurobindo in his concerted analysis of the philosophy of...

The Essential Aurobindo - Page 26

Aurobindo Ghose, Robert A. McDermott - 2001 - Preview - More editions By Sri Aurobindo's own insistence, it is impossible to follow his yoga except through the Mother: The Mother's ... In philosophical terms, shakti is the conscious force — rather like a Bergsonian elan vital — that carries the world process to ever...

Hindu spirituality: Postclassical and modern - Page 383

K. R. Sundararajan, Bithika Mukerji - 2003 - Preview - More editions In The Life Divine he gives to the Vedantic values a vast, evolving elan vital. Aurobindo's metapsychology, with a dash of evolution in a new key, finally goes beyond spirituality to the Supramental. Here is a discovery or recovery worthy of a rsi.

The Spirituality of the Future: A Search Apropos of R. C. ... - Page 30

K. D. Sethna - 1981 - Preview - More editions And much later, in answer to a disciple's queries, Sri Aurobindo wrote briefly of Bergson's "intuition" as well as of his "elan vital," but in doing so he said: "I have not read him sufficiently to pronounce."1 Bergson's having been a seminal factor in... 

Indian Literature in English: Critical Assessments - Volume 1 - Page 52

Amar Nath Prasad, Ajay Kumar Srivastava - 2007 - Full view For all the sovereign dramatic art of Shakespeare, it cannot be denied that the 'elan vital' of the drama is in the poetry. Aurobindo also was primarily a poet, although his gifts as a dramatist were not inconsiderable either. But his poetry is a ...

Critical Response To Indian English Literature - Page 27

N. K. Mishra, Sabita Tripathy - 2002 - Preview In Sri Aurobindo's view, one aspect of feminine consciousness manifests itself as shakti of man, his elan vital. As the shakti of man, she enlivens and invigorates the life of her husband. She rescues him from frustration, despondency and ...

Russian Intellectual Antisemitism in the Post-Comunist Era - Page 69

Vadim Joseph Rossman - 2002 - Preview - More editions Auroville is a large religious city in India designed according to the teachings of Sri Aurobindo. Henri Bergson is mentioned in this context because his theory of spiritual evolution; his concept of elan vital greatly influenced many occultist ...

Political Thinkers of Modern India: Sri Aurobindo Ghose - Volume 11 - Page 385

Verinder Grover - 1993 - Preview Sri Aurobindo acknowledges this primacy and sovereignty of the apta-vacana or Veda. ... Even as the elan or survival through adaptation to the challenging environment has produced the evolutionary process upto man, it is possible to urge...

Contemporary relevance of Sri Aurobindo - Page 280

Kishor Gandhi - 1973 - elan vital in inverse direction. That the Reality which is essentially creative is also regressive in inverse direction is reflected in Sri Aurobindo's doctrine of matter as 'secret God' or veiled divinity, in contradiction of the mayic view of the world.

The Human Cycle: The Psychology of Social Development - Page 250

Sri Aurobindo - 1999 - Preview The Psychology of Social Development Sri Aurobindo ... The vital elan has brought us no deliverance, but only used the machinery already created with a more feverish insistence, a vehement attempt to live more rapidly, more intensely, ...

Between Jerusalem and Benares: Comparative Studies in Judaism and ... - Page 243

Hananya Goodman - 1994 - Preview - More editions Aurobindo: Towards a Comparison. Margaret Chatterjee There is a passage in Rabbi Kook's Lights of Holiness which ... He was familiar with Bergson's thought but disagreed with the notion of an undirected elan vital, believing as he did that ...

Encyclopedia of American Religious History - Volume 1 - Page 474

Edward L. Queen, Stephen R. Prothero, Gardiner H. Shattuck - 2009 - Preview -More editions ... Maharaj-ji came to America in 1970 and brought his “lovers of God” into the Divine Light Mission (later, Elan Vital) ... with the Indian-based Sri Aurobindo Society spread the yogic techniques of the poet-philosopher Sri Aurobindo Ghose.

Sri Aurobindo and the theories of evolution: a critical and ... - Page 298

Rama Shanker Srivastava - 1968 - Snippet view - More editions The elan' vital has neither vacuity in it nor does it fill the contents which are not present in it. The idea of the nothing in ... But the inert cannot check the mighty current of the...

Adi Sankara and Aurobindo - Page 70

Vedre Narayan Karan Reddy - 1992 - In Bergsan's philosophy the elan vital is the primary source of evolution. Elan vital is the immortal consciousness in man. In Sri Aurobindo we discover that Individual who is the medium of immortal consciousness undergoes a relentless ...

The Yoga of Self-perfection: Based on Sri Aurobindo's Synthesis of ... - Page 23

Sri M P Pandit - 1983 - Preview - More editions Based on Sri Aurobindo's Synthesis of Yoga Sri M P Pandit. whole reality of the world is in life. You are familiar with the philosophy of Bergson, — Elan vital. For him it was an unchallenged experience. The soul in him poised itself in the ...

Philosophical Humanism And Contemporary India - Page 36

Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 2006 - Preview - More editions Bergson stressed the dynamism of the creative Elan in the evolutionary progression. Alexander ... Matter, Life, and Mind are three such dominant emergents and, further, there would be the emergence of the Deity. Aurobindo Contrast Sri ...

The vision and work of Sri Aurobindo - Page 14

Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1992 - Snippet view - More editions ... experience that has created the tremendous obstacle to a keen and clear recognition of the elan towards harmony. Yet the ... If you hold naked before you this secret and contemplate Sri Aurobindo's teaching in its light, you will perceive how ...

Sri Aurobindo: addresses on his life and teachings - Page 48

Ambalal Balkrishna Purani - 1955 - But the intuitive consciousness of which Sri Aurobindo speaks is much more than 'Elan Vital' — the vital Spirit. It is an independent and an altogether new level of consciousness above the mind. It is capable of an independent action of its own.

An Introduction to Hinduism - Page 271

Gavin D. Flood - 1996 - Preview - More editions Of the same generation as Aurobindo, but with a much lower profile, was the Tamil mystic Ramana Maharshi... the Divine Light Mission (since renamed Elan Vital); Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada, who brought the Hare Krsna movement ...

The future of man according to Teilhard de Chardin and Aurobindo Ghose - Page 79

J. Chetany - 1978 - Snippet view - More editions Bergson also had admitted an energy behind the evolution— the 'elan vital' — from the beginning to the end of evolution. But his elan vital was 'chance-directed' rather than 'finality-directed.' Bergson could not accept any finality in evolution.

If a Child, Why Not a Cosmos?: Lovesongs to Earth and Evolution - Page 123

Charles C. Finn - 2006 - Preview Teilhard and Aurobindo are among the foremost rhapsodists of the glory and greatness of evolution... The creative elan of evolution sooner or later was bound to redirect our minds from the tedious, repetitive, deterministic, and mechanistic ...

Sri Aurobindo circle - Issues 46-47 - Page 85

Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Sri Aurobindo Society - 1990 - ... purely sexual drive, but a general "psychic energy" or "life-instinct" (somewhat similar to Bergson's elan vital) which expresses itself in diverse forms, including the sexual urge.

India's True Voice[: A Critique of Oriental Philosophy - Page 87

Alvin Boyd Kuhn - 1992 - Preview - More editions And Aurobindo depicts vividly the illogicality and final futility of the maya philosophy when he summons our thought to the inescapable fact that "even ... In a world wherein the elan vital is manifesting positive values this code of ideas asks ...

Studies In Commonwealth Literature - Page 86

Mohit Kumar Ray - 2003 - Preview - More editions So Sri Aurobindo's vision of love has greater credibility and mobility. In this context... In 'elan vital,' Bergson defined it as Life Force. ... But in Sri Aurobindo, the force seems to be enormously powerful and works to the dictates of the Omniscient.

Nature Of God - Page 114

Satya Prakash Singh - Preview According to him the Elan Vital is homogeneous; for, life, which is its product, is found in homogeneous unity in its impetus. But farther the ... Thus Bergson agrees with Whitehead and Sri Aurobindo only in regards to primordial harmony.

Sri Aurobindo: The hour of God, and other writings - Page 388

Aurobindo Ghose - 1970 - "Physics and logic are appropriate to the study of the inverse movement, matter, which is life or elan vital pulverised and its method is intellect and logic." "Philosophy is the study of becoming in general and its method is intuition." "Scrap the ... The vital elan brought us no deliverance, but only used the machinery already created with a more feverish insistence, a vehement attempt to live more rapidly, ...

Politics In India : Ancient India, Politics Of Change, Modern India - Page 65

M. M. Sankhdher, Gurdeep Kaur - 2005 - Preview So far as democratic traditions are concerned, several scholars of a nationalist persuasion, such as, Aurobindo, Jayaswal, Radha ... Historically considered, this approach is significant in that it gave a sense of elan to the nationalist movement.

Political Science Annual 1998-99 - Page 13

S. Jain M.M. Sankhdher S. Ramaswamy S. Mukherjee, S. Mukherjee, S. Ramaswamy - 2000 - Preview - More editions ... by the Upanishads, the Manusmriti and Sukraniti, we have, for example, the nationalist doctrines of Tilak, Aurobindo and ... Incompatible as they are with the national elan, Marxism and Socialism, rooted in materialism, have failed to evoke a...

Trends In Contemporary Indian Philosophy Of Education A Critical ... - Page 180

G.R. Sharma - 2003 - Preview - More editions He is the elan Vital or Soul of all. He is Truth ... The eminent Indian thinkers Vivekananda, M.K. Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, Rabindranath Tagore and Dr Radhakrishnan all have more or less dilated upon the themes found in Upanisads.

Indian Narratology - Page 152

K. Ayyappapanicker - 2003 - Preview - More editions with elan and vigour. Maithili, Oriya and Manipuri too have similar unique items. ...In Indian English writing, Sri Aurobindo's Savitrl perhaps may be the solitary attempt at writing a modern epic. There are however several other shorter and less...

World Government and Thakur Sen Negi - Page 200

M. G. Chitkara - 1999 - Preview - More editions In Aurobindo's eclectic explanation, I.H. builds on the "knowledge of the truth of all sides of existence (integration of ... needs a set of philosophical assumptions which, like the roots of a tree, provide the society with nourishment and elan.

Sociophysics: Cosmos And Chaos In Nature And Culture - Page 126

Paris Arnopoulos - 2005 - Preview - More editions In the twentieth Century alone, the most famous ones include Bergson's elan vital, Driesch's entelechy, Grasse's idiomorphy, ... This thesis, along with Aurobindo's Supermind, Russell's Gaiafield and Devereux's Earthmind, take Lovejoy's Gaia ...

Modern Indian Political System: Problems and Prospects - Page 3

B. K. Verma - 2006 - Preview - More editions The creative elan of the old Indian civilisation had become moribund. Hence ... To the study of the relation of the eastern and western civilisation, some thinkers like Tagore, Vivekananda, Gandhi and Aurobindo brought a great fund of personal ...

Democratic Politics and Governance in India - Page 14

M. M. Sankhder - 2003 - Preview - More editions Manusmriti and Sukraniti, we have, for example, the nationalist doctrines of Tilak, Aurobindo and Gandhi. ... Incompatible as they are with the national elan, Marxism and Socialism, rooted in materialism, have failed to evoke a favourable ...

The Indian Scriptures And The Life Divine - Page 43

Binita Pani - 1993 - Preview The vitalistic view of evolution comes from Bergson who upholds that not matter but life or Elan vital is the ultimate Reality and the eternal creative principle from which matter and mind emerge. Berkley and Hegel are ... Sri Aurobindo has ...

Creative Evolution

Henri Bergson, Arther Mitchell - 2010 - Preview - More editions The book provides an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by an elan vital, a "vital impetus" that can also be understood as humanity's natural creative impulse.

Creative Evolution: A Physicist's Resolution Between Darwinism and ...

Amit Goswami - 2008 - Preview Presents arguments for bridging the disparities between evolutionary science and intelligent design, building on the author's theory about how consciousness, rather than matter, is a primary force in the universe and that biology must come ...

Sri Aurobindo, Teilhard, Bergson and Gebser

The Vedic Colloquy of Indra and Agastya from Savitri Jan 11, 2013

The question that is raised here is: can the sheer force of Thought reach the source of all things? It cannot, and there is a struggle when attempt is so made. Gods oppose it. Agastya is at such a moment and confronts in his inner experience Indra, Lord of the realm of pure Intelligence. He is told that that Source is not to be found in Time. It does not exist in the actualities of the present, nor in the eventualities of the future. In this search, in this terrible struggle, Agastya should effect perfection and should not slay his friend. Indra assures that Agastya is his friend and brother.

Indra and Agastya together, the universal Power and the human soul, will extend in harmony the effective inner action on the plane of the pure Intelligence, so that it may enrich itself there and attain beyond. For, it is precisely by the progressive surrender of the lower being to the divine activities that the limited and egoistic consciousness of the mortal awakens to the infinite and immortal state which is its goal. Agastya accepts the will of the God and submits. Agastya gives up all that is realised in him into the hands of Indra, as offerings of the sacrifice, to be held by him in the fixed parts of Agastya's consciousness and directed in the motional towards fresh formations.

J.L. Mehta on Heidegger, Hermeneutics, and Indian Tradition - Page 165 - Jarava Lal Mehta, William Joseph Jackson - 1992 - Preview  

Aurobindo is, of course, nowhere mentioned in Luders' outstanding two-volume ... In my own humble judgment, however, Aurobindo's Vedic studies constitute the one single, central pillar which carries the burden of Aurobindo's creative thought, the one stalk on which the thousand-petalled lotus of his thinking blossomed, to adapt Aurobindo's own beautiful image. Philosophy and religion: essays in interpretation - Page 170 - Jarava Lal Mehta - 2004

Political Thinkers of Modern India: Sri Aurobindo Ghose - Volume 11 - Page 175 - Verinder Grover - 1993 - Preview That is the idea of Kala or the Zeitgeist working, and, put religiously, it means that God being Supreme Wisdom uses everything for His Supreme purposes and out of evil cometh good. This is ... Political Thinkers of Modern India: Sri Aurobindo Ghose - Volume 11 - Page 175 - Verinder Grover - 1993 - Preview This he says, is fatalism, and by flinging the world fatalism at Sri Aurobindo, he thinks he has damned his position. The word ... That is the idea of Kala or the Zeitgeist working, and, put religiously, it means that God being Supreme Wisdom uses ...

Political Philosophy Of Sri Aurobindo - Page 51 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions (But) the Zeitgeist proclaims the utter helplessness of the mightiest and the sure fulfilment of God's decree." This immanent ... 60-1. Sri Aurobindo, The Ideal of Human Unity (Sri Aurobindo Ashrama, Pondichery, 1950. Second edition), p. 83. Political Philosophy Of Sri Aurobindo - Page 51 - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions In spite of his absence the revolution marched on because "the Revolution was the manifestation of the Zeitgeist, the Revolution was the will of God". Aurobindo substantiates his views about the revolution being in the divine plan by ... Modern Indian political thought - Page 191 - Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1971 - But still on the plane of thought, there were subtle differences between the ideas of Tilak and Aurobindo. In Aurobindo we find the concept of Kali as the Zeitgeist (spirit of time). He refers to God as the captain of the nationalist movement.

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 60 - Page 682 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2007 - Was it perhaps the Hegelian Zeitgeist, Time-Spirit, the Heideggerean disclosure of Being in the horizon of modern Time, the Foucauldian inexplicable epistemic change? And what does it...

Gaveshaṇā - Volumes 1989-2000 - Page 42 - Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India) - 1995 - Planning on the basis of One World as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo has become imperative to solve world problems, because nothing short of the world integration can satisfy the demand of the Time Spirit, the Zeitgeist. An integral human unity ...

M. P. Pandit 50th birthday commemoration volume - Page 6 - Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Agali Venkappa Sastri - 1968 - That introduces us to the vastly wider contemporary tradition of Supramental Yoga initiated by Sri Aurobindo and the ... He is heir to a double tradition — the sanatoria infused with the modern Zeitgeist on the one hand, and the reigning ...

Wisdom of the Gita: Second Series - Page 197 - Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose, Sri M P Pandit - 1992 - Preview Zeitgeist It did not mean that any kind of skill in works was Yoga, but by Yoga it signified a spiritual condition of universal equality and God-union and by the skill of the Yogic ... Wisdom of the Gita: Second Series - Page 198 - Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose, Sri M P Pandit - 1992 - Preview Zeitgeist may resist, but the Zeitgeist works, shapes, overbears, insists. The great and memorable vision of Kurukshetra when Sri Krishna manifesting His world-form declared ...

The Spirituality of the Future: A Search Apropos of R. C. ... - Page 270 - K. D. Sethna - 1981 - Preview - R. C. Zaehner's Study in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard De Chardin - That light is the center of the Zeitgeist — nay, it is itself the Zeitgeist with a central focus and a various radiation all around — weak in one place, a little stronger in another, suggesting this or that aspect of the revelation for which Sri Aurobindo ...

The Theatre of the Mind: Evolution in the Sensitive Cosmos - Page 70 - Henryk Skolimowski - 1984 - Preview Sri Aurobindo's view of evolution as perfecting itself through the human species is so close, at times, to that of Teilhard that one simply is astonished. The two men never ... Others who have studied both Aurobindo and Bergson have confirmed my conjecture of the profound but concealed influence of Bergson on Aurobindo. The idea of the Zeitgeist is not a fiction after all. Perhaps at a certain stage of its own ...

Sri Aurobindo and his contemporary thinkers - Page 143 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University - 2007 - As Sri Aurobindo says, "we do not belong to the past dawns but to the noons of the future." Sri Aurobindo's ideas on national ... let us not lose sight of the Zeitgeist, i.e. the spirit of the age. As Sri Aurobindo says, The living spirit of the demand ...

Philosophical Found. of Edu. - Page 85 - Y.k Singh - Preview ... temper and is not in accordance with the Zeitgeist, the spirit of the time. In modern times such an aim of life would be considered to be selfish and escapist. This is the reason why Sri Aurobindo has given the conception of universal Moksha.

Hindu spirituality: Postclassical and modern - Page 383 - K. R. Sundararajan, Bithika Mukerji - 2003 - Preview - The utopian thought is linked with the Zeitgeist, what the age demands. Cutting across the East-West conflict, and avoiding "the materialist denial" of the modern West and the "refusal of the ascetic" of the ancient East, Aurobindo points ...

The Perennial Quest for a Psychology with a Soul: An Inquiry Into ... - Page 5 - Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - Preview An Inquiry Into the Relevance of Sri Aurobindo's Metaphysical Yoga Psychology in the Context of Ken Wilber's ... ethical and evaluative presuppositions, but are also based upon the Zeitgeist in which the therapist and his adherents live.

Sri Aurobindo, the perfect and the good - Page 82 - Robert Neil Minor - 1978 - ... evolution of that manifestation, and, thus, there is a hidden mover in the movement of the world toward its goal, a Zeitgeist? ... Man, as everything else, is a part of the process, and Aurobindo calls man to take part in this process by the ...

Modern Indian Interpreters of the Bhagavad Gita - Page 74 - Robert Neil Minor - 1986 - Preview - "This is the Zeitgeist, this is the purpose that runs through the process of the centuries, the changes of the suns, this is that which makes evolution possible and... In Aurobindo's speech at Khulna the "Yoga of the Gita" is further elucidated.

The Fuzzy Logic of Encounter: New Perspectives on Cultural Contact - Page 155 Sünne Juterczenka, Gesa Mackenthun - 2009 - Preview Itself a monument of universal truth for Aurobindo, the Gītā is seen by him as a document that shows the way of the evolution of all beings as the “Becoming of the Absolute”: “This is the Zeitgeist, this is the purpose that runs through the process...

Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history - Page 254 - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - Revolutionists; and again like Sri Aurobindo, he tried to keep civil agitation separate from revolutionary activity. ... a great personality readily the representative man of his people".39 It was inevitable that the Zeitgeist should throw up such a ...

Sri Aurobindo came to me: reminiscences - Page 7 - Dilip Kumar Roy - 1964 - That is, as I wrote to him once, the main reason why the Zeitgeist of today is definitely ranged against the traditional type of ... Barindra Kumar, the famous revolutionary, who told me that Sri Aurobindo was wont to say, whenever reminded of a ...

Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920:Resistance ... - Page 104 - Elleke Boehmer - 2005 - Preview - In July 1909, not long after his acquittal, Nivedita tipped off Aurobindo about a rumour of his possible deportation, ... he was coming close to stepping out of the historical vanguard, which he called kala or Zeitgeist, altogether, in order to hand ...

The Deeper Dimension of Yoga: Theory and Practice - Page 183 - Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D. - 2003 - Preview - One of the more sober efforts to articulate the Zeitgeist is found in the monumental study by the Swiss cultural philosopher Jean Gebser (1905 – 1973). ... in 1932, has independently been voiced by at least two other intellectual giants—the Hindu philosopher-sage Sri Aurobindo and ...

The religious roots of Indian nationalism: Aurobindo's early ... - Page 59 - David L. Johnson - 1974 -  political thought. as a manifestation of the "Time- Spirit" in history: In all movements, in every great mass of human action it is the Spirit of the Time, that which Europe calls the Zeitgeist and India kala, who ...

Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture - Volume 55 - Page 371 2004 - If, after going through all these, we still hold that Sri Aurobindo was in no way touched by the influence of Swamiji, then it ... he who is perfect, he who brought into being the Zeitgeist, he who represents the sum-total of the past incarnations, has ...

History of philosophy: eastern and western - Volume 1 - Page 544 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - 1952 - Evolutionism seems to be the "Zeitgeist," the spirit of the times. Iqbal's great contemporary mystic and thinker Sri Aurobindo has transformed the entire Hindu spiritual heritage into a doctrine of dynamic spiritual evolution. Aurobindo takes in his ...

Integral Economics: Releasing the Economic Genius of Your Society - Ronnie Lessem, Alexander Schieffer - 2010 - Preview - Aurobindo Ghose, like Gandhi a political and moral leader in India in the first part of last century, build, as a Hindu sage, ... At the same time he felt India and Bengal had a mission to perform in the community of nations: The ZeitGeist is at work ...

Indian idea of political resistance: Aurobindo, Tilak, Gandhi, and Ambedkar - Page 25 - Ashok S. Chousalkar - 1990 - by adoring her, Indians would get the ... behind India's independence. He wrote, "we believe that divine power is behind the movement, that Zeitgeist the time spirit is at work ...

Gandhi-Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan on Bhagavadgita - Page 69 - Susmit Prasad Pani, Geeta Satpathy - 2009 - During freedom struggle, Sri Aurobindo in his speeches, time and again spoke of God intervening in the movement. Hegel's concept of Zeitgeist or spirit of time was in popular currency in the first half of the twentieth century. To Sri Aurobindo ...

Poetry Of Nissim Ezekiel - Page 72 - A. Raghu - 2002 - Preview It could be postulated that this is related to the Zeitgeist of colonial India. An awareness of India's existence as a colonized nation was very ... in the case of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan has this to say of the youth of India

Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and ... - Page 260 - C. Christopher Alan Bayly, C. A. Bayly - 2011 - Preview -  ... school associated with Aurobindo Ghose and Bipin Chandra Pal exposed significant differences between liberal and ... The radicals agreed with the liberals that God was at work in history as 'kala or Zeitgeist'. But they also argued that...

Shadow, Self, Spirit: Essays in Transpersonal Psychology - Michael Daniels - 2005 - Preview Table 5 Transpersonal disciplines and parapsychology in the quadrant model 60 Table 6 Zeitgeist and shadow in ... of Sri Aurobindo 194 Figure 7 Washburn's model of psychological development 206 About the Author Michael Daniels, ...

Critical approaches to literature & research methodology: a miscellany - Page 13 - Bommatapalli Ramachandra Rao, Rawindara Siṅghā Rawī, Hukam Chand Rajpal - 1986 - It may content itself to accepting the Zeitgeist. It is interesting to note that the reservations that Sri Aurobindo has in regard to mental consciousness are shared by psychologists also because the conscious mental personality can sever itself ...

Annual - Page 21 - Sri Aurobindo Mandir, Calcutta, Aurobindo Ghose - 1951 - Day is the greatness that appears in his front, Night in his rear, — whatever this Time- Spirit, this Zeitgeist or the greatness that appears, turns his face towards or arrives at, as he gallops ...

Equals one - Issues 31-34 - Page 1923 - Sri Aurobindo Society, World Union, World Goodwill - 1972 - Sri Aurobindo Society, World Union, World Goodwill ... On the 20th August they walked to Thirlmere. August 21, 1893 Sri Aurobindo in the 'lndu Prakash' of Bombay: "Our actual enemy is not any ... pursuit of the spirit of the times, the zeitgeist.