Never trust a man who dyes his hair

Tweets 21 hrs - Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty [in defending ethical revaluation while ... advocating compassionate giving and the prevention of wrongdoing, Śāntideva remains consistent.] 22 hrs [Latour may be a bit flippant at times, but his point is certainly not to “do everything he can to deny enchantment"] http://footnotes2plato.com/2013/03/10/reflections-on-latour-tarnas-and-the-misenchantment-of-the-world … 22 hrs [By contrast, others’ wrongdoing is beneficial to us, because it can help produce patient endurance.] #Śāntideva http://loveofallwisdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/lele-dissertation.pdf … 22 hrs [Property & personal relationships, things we would normally take as goods, are actually harmful to our flourishing, because of attachment.] 22 hrs [Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva - A dissertation by Amod Jayant Lele] http://loveofallwisdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/lele-dissertation.pdf … (pdf) - http://loveofallwisdom.com/2013/03/why-you-can-read-my-dissertation-on-this-site/ … 23 hrs [Towards a Spiritual Aesthetics of the Environment: Quality, Space, and Being in Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri, ISLE Vol.18, Issue 2, Spring 2011] 24 hrs [Those who are other-focused are happier... Happier people are more successful — and that’s causal, not correlative.] http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2012/09/what-6-steps-should-be-guiding-your-career/ … Mar 11 - doubtinggaurav ‏@doubtinggaurav Never trust a man who dyes his hair.  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party Mar 11 - Harsh Madhok ‏@hmadhok It is our desire to cling to the past while grabbing at the future which has made the present too complicated.  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party  Mar 11 Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty At SELF our slogan is "Be Selfish" ... Judgment failures occur as a result, and our vigil for "Self-interest" skids. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2008/08/one-should-have-nose-for-what-is-good.html … Mar 11 [Smith said humans have the power of reasoning... Self-interest is far more complex than rationality.] -Gavin Kennedy. http://adamsmithslostlegacy.blogspot.com/2013/03/for-new-readers-of-adam-smiths-moral.html … Mar 10 [For Heidegger, by contrast, conscience is not God talking to me, but me talking to myself] Simon Critchley 20 July 2009 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jul/20/heidegger-being-time-critchley … -  View summary Mar 10 Racing round the universe riding on a mouse: The meditative mode of blogging - by Tusar N. Mohapatra http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2009/07/racing-round-universe-riding-on-mouse.html … Om Sri Aurobindo Mar 9 -Vivek Dehejia ‏@vdehejia To label those opposed to Modi's Wharton visit as "Indian sepoys" does no credit to Rajiv Malhotra nor his arguments. http://huff.to/13I9Qdc   Retweeted by Savitri Era Party -  View summary - Mar 10 kittu reddy ‏@kitturd http://wp.me/s3bTx3-182  via @wordpressdotcom Sri Aurobindo on ancient indian polity  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party  View media Mar 10 Sri Aurobindo admits the debt of materialism for making us free from superstitious beliefs http://selforum.blogspot.in/2010/06/sri-aurobindo-admits-debt-of.html … Savitri Era Learning Forum Mar 9 Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty Being pushed, willy-nilly, towards Hindutva camp is another danger @RajivMessage either overlooks or underestimates. http://savitriera.blogspot.com/2013/02/rajiv-malhotra-vis-vis-raja-rammohan-roy.html?showComment=1362841178423#c5506374844487270099 … Mar 9 Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty [we must first become a nation of individual citizens, multi-hyphenated, yes, but also equal in the eyes of the law.] http://www.firstpost.com/politics/the-fake-debate-communal-modi-fanboys-vs-sickular-commies-623991.html … - View summary Mar 9 [Confused liberals in India mix up classical liberalism, secularism and nationalism – and end up practising none of them.] @minhazmerchant Mar 9 [Ananthamurthy imposes a misleading mix of existentialism and the Marxist conception of society] -Sandeep Balakrishna http://themusepaper.blogspot.in/2013/03/ananthamurthy-imposes-misleading-mix-of.html … Mar 9 IIT Delhi workshop on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Prof John Russon and Prof Shannon Hoff (Canada) on 11th March 2013 (10 am: MS 610) Mar 9 santosh krinsky ‏@santoshk1 Karma Is a Law of Spiritual Evolution http://wp.me/pCLXM-1qy  via@wordpressdotcom  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party  View summary Mar 8 [Sri Aurobindo and Tyagaraja attempt to capture the bliss of spiritual experience & unison.] -Murali Sivaramakrishnan http://themusepaper.blogspot.in/2013/03/sri-aurobindo-and-tyagaraja-are.html … Mar 8 db Debashish Bose ‏@db_DelAlpha @kshetragnya They are different persons, Aurobindo is a visionary willing to believe and try, Nirad C is a chronicler and commentator  Retweeted by Savitri Era Party  View conversation Mar 8 Savitri Era Party ‏@SavitriEraParty [a person who is attuned to Sri Aurobindo’s consciousness just falls in love with his writing style.] by Sandeep http://selforum.blogspot.in/2013/03/postmodernism-requires-maturity-and.html … 9 hrs Hostilities between the Israelis and the Palestinians too will be resolved one day through the Savitri Era Religion. http://savitriera.blogspot.in/2008/02/hostilities-between-israelis-and.html … 9 hrs Sri Aurobindo admits the debt of materialism. Postmodernism requires maturity. History-mythology. Auroville to Esalen http://selforum.blogspot.com/ 

On the Generality of Exchange Behaviours from Adam Smith's Lost Legacy by Gavin Kennedy

Humans are not isolated in their self alone.  They act in social settings with other people and also have memories.  They live today in settings where the majority of people nearby are anonymous, not relatives or friends. (The ‘company of strangers’ was a great title recently).  In a small hunter/scavenger and gathering band they knew everybody intimately… We share by giving in order to legitimise our expectation of getting at some time in the future… The share motive (so-called altruism) was accompanied by the expectation of reciprocation in due course, and punished by exclusion from sharing in future (witnessed by Dunbar and observed by people today in work situations and, indeed in families). This simple facet of exchange by reciprocation is experienced today in inter-personal relations in the workplace, including university faculties (!) and is an element of behaviour relevant in developing influence among fellow employees. 

Questions that are rarely asked from Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen

“So, my libertarian devotees of evolutionary psychology, you can’t have it both ways.  If feminism is wrong to think we can and/or should resist the dispositions that evolution has given us, then why is it wrong for defenders of the classical liberal order to think we can and/or should resist those dispositions when it comes to our evolved instincts toward the morality of socialism?  Or put the other way around:  if resisting our evolved moral instincts and obeying the rules of just conduct work to generate a civilized, cooperative economic order, why should gender issues be any different?” That is from Steve Horwitz.

Quotation of the Day…  from Cafe Hayek by Don Boudreaux … is from page 190 of Richard Posner’s 1995 volume, Overcoming Law:

“We all have the weaknesses of our strengths.  It is hardly a surprise that people who have powerful intellects tend to have an exaggerated faith in the power of intellect to solve social problems.  It is the same perspectival deformity that leads intellectuals to model democracy as a form of intellectual discussion or to set freedom of thought and debate far above economic freedom.”

(title unknown) from Routledge India Originals's Facebook Wall ~ The Democratic Predicament: Cultural Diversity in Europe and India Edited by: Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Sudarsan Padmanabhan, Rs 895, Pages: 366. Both India and Europe have been undergoing a difficult process of negotiating cultural, religious and ethnic diversity within their democratic frameworks....

The Highest Law of Our Nature from Sri Aurobindo Studies 

It is a quite natural tendency of human nature to fixate on one issue to the exclusion of others. The mind, as a dividing and analyzing instrument, tends toward exclusive concentration. So it is easy to understand that when we once focus on the ethical principle, that it may be viewed as the “categorical imperative” of our human nature.

Sri Aurobindo acknowledges the role of the ethical principle, but he also puts it in context with other aspects of our nature that equally call for fulfillment. There are the seeking for knowledge, the seeking for beauty and harmony, the seeking for Oneness which also represent aspects of our nature.

Spiritual practice contains its fair share of relaxation and hedonic moments

Should India be Secular or Hindu? Hindu Human Rights Online ... Ranbir Singh February 17, 2013

Cromwell’s Puritan dictatorship even banned Christmas. Protestantism emphasised the centrality of text and text alone as the word of god and the basis of religion. Enlightenment thinkers applied this to all religions. So when the Orientalists came to India and tried to categorise the culture, they ignored much of the customs and traditions in favour of what could specifically be found in texts. This was the only paradigm that they could use when confronted with a bewildering array of what became known as Hinduism. So anything in religious text such as Vedas formed the canon of Hinduism. All else was custom, tradition, tribalism or culture. It is that thinking which has lasted until today in defining secularism in India. The Enlightenment differentiated between sacred and profane, between religion and culture.

The very young Marx from Love of All Wisdom by Amod Lele

Hegel also considered himself to be an orthodox Christian. The greatest minds of the following generations – Ludwig Feuerbach, David Strauss, Marx – did not. They considered themselves Hegelian, yet they were against the gods… That atheism is at the heart of Marx’s dissertation… Marx turns his focus to two lesser-known figures, Epicurus and Democritus… The topic of his dissertation is Epicurus; Democritus’s role is merely to illustrate why Epicurus is so great…  The gods are just as distant in Epicurus’s explanations; he can look like a precursor of Darwin. And so it was to Epicurus that Marx turned as an inspiration for his still-developing atheist Hegelianism.

(title unknown) from enowning Robert Mugerauer on tenderness. 

“Tenderness, according to Heidegger, is used by Hölderlin to indicate the native essence of the Greek: their art of showing, letting appear what shows itself purely and thereby presences.  For the Greeks, what brings the splendour of the presencing to appearance is the athletic warlike struggle of heroes (also consider Heraclìtus and Pìndar) and the power of reflection (die Reflexionskraft) (HEH 166).” P. 414 HEH: Hölderlin's Erde und Himmel.

The Being behind Hitler Science Of Spirituality Blog on ... By: Martin Sobieroj on Feb 18, 2013 Source : Mother's Agenda, 12 January 1965

(Regarding an old "Playground Talk" of March 8, 1951, in which Mother spoke of the being that possessed and "guided" Hitler: … As for Sri Aurobindo ... (you know that there is a place in Russia where they were defeated [ii]), Sri Aurobindo had foreseen the defeat and had worked the night...

JOSHUA RAMEY’S ACADEMIC GNOSIS: Non-philosophy is the yoga of philosophy Posted on February 16, 2013 - Terence Blake ‏@TPBlake

“Spiritual ordeal” is too one-sided a vision of spiritual practice, which includes ordeals, but contains also its fair share of relaxation and hedonic moments. I “see” it as a process psychic and collective individuation, as Simondon and Stiegler call it. There is no necessary dualism between philosophy and individuation, and Deleuze is a shining (in the sense of Dreyfus and Kelly’s ALL THINGS SHINING) example of their co-existence and superposition.

Gilles Quispel once declared that “Alchemy is the yoga of Gnosticism”, that is to say the actual experiential and transformative practice that subtends and is subtended by Gnostic theoretical creation. One could reformulate this as “Non-philosophy is the yoga of philosophy”. 

Against Holism: The Argument from Entropy from Larval Subjects

Order never comes for free, but always requires operations, energy, and work precisely because it’s more probable for anything to be related to anything else, than for anything to maintain improbable and selective relations to a delimited range of elements in the order of being. “Onto-cartography” would be the investigation of the mechanisms by which improbable orders are maintained; and would therefore include investigations of discursive mechanisms (not surprisingly, the favorite of the humanities), chronopolotical mechanisms, geographical mechanisms (geopolitics), and thermopolitical mechanisms.  Whenever encountering an order in the social and political world we should be surprised and ask ourselves how it maintains itself.  In understanding how it maintains itself, we can begin to devise strategies undermine it where those negentropic mechanisms are oppressive.

All of this aside, we now see a third argument against holism.  A world in which everything is related to everything else is identical to the definition of a highly entropic system.  It is a world where no inferences can be made to other elements precisely because there’s an equal probability of anything being related to anything else.  Such a world would be a world of Brownian motion, where there was no language, mathematics, ecologies, or social orders, precisely because all of these orders are orders in which relations between elements are selective or improbable.  As Deleuze said of Hegel’s categories, the world proposed by holists is a world that is too baggy, too ill fitted, to get at the real of the world that we, in fact, encounter.

The Multiple Strands of the Mental Being « Sri Aurobindo Studies

There is the practical mind that involves itself with the physical and vital levels of existence and works to manage and utilize them to best advantage; there is also a higher mind of thought and concept, as well as an aesthetic and an emotional aspect that weave the complex fabric that we consider to be mental functioning. Sri Aurobindo explains: “The mental energy divides itself and runs in many directions, has an ascending scale of the levels of its action, a great variety and ...”

It is not simply the complexity of these different energies and levels of action that we have to contend with; we also have to take into account the varying concentration and intensity of the energy put forth within each of these lines. A weak force will soon be deflected, drowned out or watered down by the myriad other active forces around it and with which it needs to contend.

Her hooded eagles of significance from Savitri

It is here she loses herself into Infinity the way the crested eagles of thought fly into the sky of the Unknowable… Wherever he looked, he saw the veiled and seeking Force, she an exiled goddess building mimic heavens, a Sphinx gazing at the Sun.

Why do some people get angry and mad when you mention alternative medicine, the mind and the soul? Here's one person that explains it. ... if that force can be made to work freely, drugs are at once superfluous. Sri Aurobindo 

What Nandy considers as being lost, Mehta considers adventuring to the Other

Contemporary Indian thinkers not in varsity curriculum - The Times of India Jan 31, 2013 CHENNAI:

The study of contemporary Indian philosophers like K Satchidananda Murthy, Daya Krishna and K C Bhattacharyya needs to be incorporated in the curriculum of universities in the country, scholars said here on Wednesday. 

While classical western philosophers like Kant, Hegel and Wittgenstein and Indian thinkers like Sri Aurobindo, Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Nehru and Radhakrishnan need to be studied, importance also has to be given to contemporary philosophers, they said. The scholars were speaking at a seminar on the 'Philosophy of Professor K Satchidananda Murthy' organised by a Delhi-based NGO Centre for Studies in Civilizations (CSC) and the Madras University's department of philosophy. 

Member secretary of CSC Bhuvan Chandel said Delhi and Punjab universities had "old syllabi anchored more to western thinkers". However, she said wisdom is now dawning with the Jawaharlal Nehru University recently revising its syllabus to take on board contemporary Indian philosophers. Till four years ago, JNU did not have a philosophy section. She lamented that contemporary Indian philosophers were not given their due and there was no sincere effort to study them. 

R C Pradhan, professor of philosophy from the central university of Hyderabad, noted that only since the 1990s have some universities included K C Bhattacharyya in the curriculum, while Daya Krishna and Murthy are yet to be incorporated in the programme of studies.  Prof Satchidananda Murthy, who passed away last year, is regarded as one among the outstanding philosophers of the younger generation.

Ashis Nandy on Aurobindo – A Tale of Inauthentic Modernity: Savita Singh January 30, 2013 by Pratilipi Blog

Nandy concludes Aurobindo’s story rather somberly, as in his reading after so much pain,  Aurobindo’s bid for self-recovery still remains an unconsummated gain; in place of authenticity he  seems to have attained a compromise between the East and the indispensable West… For Aurobindo, discovering the East-in-the West became a transcendent goal and a practical possibility… Nandy does not end his story of Aurobindo’s encounter with modernity and its intervention in his life here. He still has a far more depressing ending, which he simply adds to the story as a closing note… Most certainly, there is another way of reading Aurobindo’s life. It could be quite enlightening to bring in another reading here offered by another significant hermeneutical thinker of India, Prof. J.L Mehta, who takes Aurobindo’s own statements about his life as an authentic rendering of its truth. He treats them as more meaningful beginning of his life’s story…

On this reading, what Nandy considers as being lost, that is, Aurobindo having lost to the West, Mehta considers it as a mere adventuring of the self to the Other, experiencing it in all its otherness as its own part. For indeed, Mehta works with a hermeneutical insight as far as human understanding is concerned. He writes, ‘so long as we live encapsulated within one tradition, our own, and in the language that embodies it, we can think and move and have our being only within the horizon of reality opened by it. We are free within it, for it is of essence of tradition…. But we are also limited by it, prevented from seeing what other tracks of vision may have brought to life. We are hence unfree” and that, even ones own must be learned after voyaging far into what is the other”.

Depicting the complexity of a hermeneutical life as that of Sri Aurobindo, in which he arrives at an understanding of himself and that of the West as part of each other, Mehta locates this understanding emanating from the Vedantic as much as from a Heideggerian sources. He brings in Heidegger to illustrate the interesting relationship the self has with its other, a position which Aurobindo spawned by living out the kind of existence he did. Aurobindo’s life came with a certain kind of depth where any stark differences between the self and the other simply got dissolved.

[Prof Savita Singh is Professor and Director of the School of Gender and Development Studies, IGNOU. She wrote her Ph.D. thesis on 'Discourse of Modernity in India: A Hermeneutical Study', and earned her degree from Delhi University. Fathoming the Depths of Reality: Savita Singh in Conversation with - Roy Bhaskar, Savita Singh - 2003 - This book presents the main features of Roy Bhaskar's philosophy in a readily comprehensive form. The result is probably the simplest and clearest statement of the themes and development of his philosophy ever published.] 6:48 pm

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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 ...