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Triveni - Volume 57 - Page 55 - 1988 - He is also the meeting point, the Triveni, of three celestial streams: Sri Aurobindo, who, like the Ganga, unites heaven and earth, quenching the evolutionary aspiration of the latter with the transforming waters from the supreme heights, the Mother ...

The Calcutta review - Page 31 - University of Calcutta, University of Calcutta. Dept. of English - 1934 - ... reduce it to a finished product. Aurobindo believes in dynamic principle. It is cosmic. The whole universe is its play. Bergson conceives life to be a continuous stress; Aurobindo, a constant urge of the dynamic divine. Aurobindo does not draw...

Exiled at home: comprising, At the edge of psychology, The ... - Page 93 - Ashis Nandy - 1998 - It was also a brilliant sociological study of British justice in India under stress. Aurobindo Ghose, 'Karakahini', in Bangla Rachana (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1977), pp. 257-314. The intimate enemy: loss and recovery of self under colonialism - Page 93 - Ashis Nandy – 1983

Widening Horizons: Essays in Honour of Professor Mohit K. Ray - Page 185 - Mohit Kumar Ray, Rama Kundu, Pradip Kumar Dey - 2005 - Full view - More editions It should also be noted that poetic rhythm in Indian languages is based on quantity and not stress. Aurobindo also experimented with hendecasyllabic and alexandrines and was able to produce some grand effects, but the success was bound ...

The poetic genius of Sri Aurobindo - Page 42 - Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1974 - The accentual hexameter takes no stock of the unstressed intrinsic long: it sets out to deal only with stress. Sri Aurobindo builds with two factors: the length of stress and the length of the unstressed natural long. The former must always take ...

Dilip Kumar Roy: a lover of light among luminaries - Page 20 - Amrita Paresh Patel, Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology - 2002 - Sri Aurobindo, Minstrel of Vision and Intuition By employing the word 'minstrel' repeatedly, Dilip Roy seems to stress Sri Aurobindo's extraordinary art of singing mystical and hymn like songs of optimistic future for the whole humanity. Here, he...

Collected works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Volume 7 - Page 88 - Nolini Kanta Gupta - 1978 - The rhythm or music of English verse follows the pattern of stress. Sri Aurobindo wanted to refashion the hexameter in the style of English prosody, and whatever success has been achieved in this field is Sri Aurobindo's gift. For instance, his ...

The language of the gods: Sanskrit keys to India's wisdom - Page 157 - Judith M. Tyberg - 1970 - The Yoga of Tantra is the Yoga of dissolution through Sakti, at least that is the stress. Sri Aurobindo's Yoga is the Yoga of creation through Sakti. The Integral Transformation of all Prakritiis the Supermind's own Dharma (See Advent Magazine...

Mother India - Volume 27 - Page 391 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1975 - It cannot simply be brushed aside and a new creation started as though after a dissolution. Sri Aurobindo says: The leaders of the spiritual march will start from and use the knowledge and the means that past effort has developed in this ...

Swami Dayanand Saraswati: an assessment - Page 1 - Aurobindo Ghose, R. R. Bhardwaj - 1987 - In a masterly manner Aurobindo explodes the myths and misunderstandings in this regard and gives us a balanced view of the subject. In sum, it is a highly useful assessment for understanding Dayanand's outlook and work in the particular ...

Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das memorial volume - Page 1914 - Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das Memorial Committee - 1976 - Representing Aurobindo and interpreting the ideas and thoughts he had conceived and preached, Chittaranjan, addressing the jury as Aurobindo's counsel, said: "If it is suggested that 1 preached the ideal of freedom for my country and that ...

The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Page 3 - Cuttāṉanta Pāratiyār - 1949 - Long before his name came to the lime-light of public recognition, Sri Aurobindo began to practise Yoga. Initially he gathered some hints from the Gita, the Upanish

The vision and work of Sri Aurobindo - Page 162 - Kaikhushru Dḥunjibhoy Sethna - 1968 - the Master of those who know " (to quote a phrase from Dante) and, we may add, the Master of all who love literature. Philosopher and stylist at every instant, Sri Aurobindo. Printed at the Jupiter Press Private Ltd., Madras-18. IP. 312. iPp.

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 39 - Page 92 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1986 - He says that we are free even at this present instant. Sri Aurobindo says something very different. He talks of Descent of Consciousness only after liberation. Up to liberation, man is busy with his own emancipation. He carries on the sadhana ...

Sri Aurobindo and his contemporary thinkers - Page 104 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University - 2007 - No wonder that Cousins' subsequent book, The Renaissance in India immediately caught Sri Aurobindo's attention. Sri Aurobindo's book of the same title was written in appreciation of Cousins. In the opening of his book Sri Aurobindo thus ...

The ascent of sight in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri - Page 1 - Jugal Kishore Mukherjee - 2001 - Part One Prolegomenon Section I: Introduction While studying with attention Sri Aurobindo's epic poem Savitri we come across two highly striking verses occurring at two different places almost a hundred pages apart. The first one is: "Out of ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 31 - Page 752 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1979 - The attention Sri Aurobindo paid to the Chakras in his last writings is related to the transformation of the gross body with the aid of the potentialities of the Chakras in the subtle-physical sheath: it does not imply any lack of attention to the ...

The Illustrated weekly of India - Volume 109, Issues 1-13 - Page 44 - 1988 - The brothers, though temperamentally different, were close. Aurobindo was vice-president of the Gaekwad College at Baroda. For some time Barindra lived with him. In 1902 Barindra went to Calcutta to organise a revolutionary movement.

Religions in four dimensions: existential and aesthetic, ... - Page 17 - Walter Arnold Kaufmann - 1976 - But note how close Aurobindo comes to Paul Elmer More, who suggested a generation earlier that the Buddha was a stuttering Christ who said badly what only Christ could say well, and to European scholars who have claimed that the ...

Sri Aurobindo circle - Issues 5-8 - Page 149 - Aurobindo Ghose - 1949 - However when we turn to " The Life Divine " for assistance we see at once how close Sri Aurobindo is in some respects to Christian thinking on this complex issue: "To overpass differences is quite possible, but that is most easily done in pure ...

On the Mother: the chronicle of a manifestation and ministry - Page 201 - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India) - 1994 - The major sequences had been concluded, and one or two were well on their way to a rounded close, Sri Aurobindo's Yoga had won phenomenal victories during the decade then ending, and the uplifting message of the Life Divine had been ...

The Advent - Volume 61 - Page 14 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2004 - ... from above that answers." So we have now the critical line in Aswapati's yoga: The Presence he yearned for suddenly drew close. Sri Aurobindo delicately limns the revelation which is quite, quite different from the traditional accounts we ...

The Visva-bharati quarterly - Volumes 22-23 - Page 346 - Visva-Bharati, Visvabharati, Santiniketan, India - 1956 - It is also the most misunderstood. And yet the main motive or motives of her inner history are to be found there. "The earliest formula of wisdom promises to be its last." In the beginning is prepared the close. Sri Aurobindo's commentary ...

Savitri’s place vis-à-vis the pantheon of English poetry

The Vision of Sri Aurobindo - AurovilleTV Created by: Amitanga 10 December 2012 Integral Yoga Excerpt from a lecture by Ashesh Joshi, Auroville, 12th August 2009 on the Sri Aurobindo Vision.

SAS UPCOMING EVENTS Dec 28-30, 2012 Workshop: Sensory Writing & Self Awareness An exploration of writing creatively from sensory experience, where each step leads us to deeper self awareness. Society House, Sri Aurobindo Society, Puducherry Integral Education - ICIE

Jan 3-11, 2013 Apply for the National Youth Camp–QUEST 2013 A camp that will help one to look at the world and at oneself, in a deeper and more meaningful way. Sri Aurobindo Society, Society House, No.11, St Martin Street, Puducherry Youth - AuroYouth

Jan 27 - Feb 2, 2013 Spandana: Feeling the Pulsation of a Divine Language The aim of this week long intensive course is to introduce Sanskrit to those who are genuinely interested learning this language, both in its spoken and written forms. Sri Aurobindo Society, Society House, No.11, St Martin Street, Puducherry Indian Culture – SAFIC

Integral Education – ICIE: EIFI Grant Winners Announced View Info Nov 27, 2012

HP has announced the grant winners of the EIFI, a collaborative project between the HP and the India Council for Integral Education (ICIE), an initiative of the Sri Aurobindo Society… The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM, A) was awarded the top grant of Rs.1 crore. 

A Plea Let us find a solution to the turmoil created by the book ‘The Lives of Sri Aurobindo’

‘The Lives of Sri Aurobindo’, by Peter Heehs, at many places, presents facts and information based on unreliable sources and contains misrepresentations and distortions of the life, work and yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The book also puts down other biographies written by scholars and devotees, which are certainly not hagiographies and have inspired a large number of devotees, seekers and scholars.  

Exhibition - Meditations on Savitri at Savitri Bhavan EXHIBITION Meditations on Savitri Books 4 – 7 125 paintings by Huta, made under the guidance of the Mother will be on display in the Picture Gallery from December 4th onwards. At Savitri Bhavan Everyone is welcome

Class Savitri Bhavan 03:00 PM Cultivating Concentration at Savitri Bhavan Cultivating Concentration led by Dr. Jai Singh Tuesdays 3-4 pm at Savitri Bhavan Everyone is welcome Auronet 

On Sri Aurobindo's Savitri (Part Two: Collected Comments) — Writings by Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) ISBN: 978-81-87916-11-6 Publisher: Clear Ray Trust, Pondicherry Binding: Soft Cover Pages: 335 Price: Rs 380

This is the second volume of a two-part compilation of Amal's Kiran's writings on Savitri and consists of passages relating to Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem that have been extracted from books, articles, or letters by Amal. Arranged thematically, the contents include passages on how to read Savitri, brief discussions on particular passages, lines, or words of the poem, extracts from talks and letters on poetry, and miscellaneous musings and letters in which a few lines from Savitri serve to illustrate or emphasise the author’s meaning. Whether writing of his own relation with the poem, which goes back to the days when Sri Aurobindo sent him selected lines and passages from the unpublished work, or discussing Savitri’s place vis-à-vis the pantheon of English poetry, Amal’s collected comments reflect his very personal and lifelong preoccupation with Sri Aurobindo’s epic masterpiece.

The Need For a Moral and Spiritual Law of Being « Sri Aurobindo ... Scientists have gained an increasing level of understanding of the laws of Matter. The development of Quantum Mechanics has led to a much more subtle view ...

Quality of our current life would be better

Joy of being: The Integral Yoga The Hindu LIFE & STYLE » SOCIETY MADURAI, November 1, 2012 R. DINESH
What is the Integral Yoga? Before understanding this, we need to go back to the basic starting point. Unless one defines a goal there is no need to change ...

Therefore, Life is all about oneself and what one can control. In all my earlier articles the central point has been the cause is by oneself and not others. For want of something better to do, we blame others but the root cause is our action or reaction. The real cause is that a choice to truly pursue one’s goal single mindedly has not been made. The faculties are happy giving reasons as to why one has to be unhappy (!) rather than doing something to rectify the situation. Therefore this solution of depending on third party(s) is at best temporary and not a solution. Then what does one do?

This is the path of Integration or looking at the whole rather than the parts. The ‘Integral Yoga’ will then have to start with a clearly defined goal of Happiness which is longest lasting (at least more than 90% say) if not permanent. The next step is to align the goals of each of our faculties. What does this mean? A rational analysis of the capabilities of our Body, Prana or Mind and even the knowledge part of ourselves which can be called ‘Intuition’’ has to be attempted through observation (not mental analysis) and once the goal is clear, effort would be made to ensure the capabilities of the faculties are built up to ensure success. For those who believe in rebirth, this process may require a few births but still one is steadfast to one’s goal of Happiness. Even if there is no rebirth at least the quality of our current life would be better.

See how the above is an exact reflection of how we can and must live our practical life. If one is clear what one wants and aligns all one’s efforts to achieve that, there is the best chance of success. Also see what happens when one is not aligned with one’s near and dear ones – fights, disappointments, disagreements etc. How can one hope to align with another when our faculties are fighting amongst themselves to show their superiority rather than aim for a common and overarching goal. (This is the second article of a four-part series on ‘The Integral Yoga’.) Feedback and questions may be emailed to joyofbeingrd@gmail.com (The writer is the Joint Managing Director of TVS & Sons Ltd., and MD, TVS Logistics.)

Seeking the Meaning of Human Life from Sri Aurobindo Studies Nov 2, 2012

Philosophy, religion and science all seek, in their own ways, for the meaning and purpose of our life on earth. The questions “why”, “what” and “how” are the basis of this existential questioning of our existence. Where do we come from? Is there life before birth? Is there any existence after death, and if so, what is it?

Even if we try to avoid these questions and live a practical life of survival, or hedonistic enjoyment, they continue to impress themselves on thinking humanity. In mamy cases, those who have spent a lifetime denying this search for meaning, come in the end, on their death-beds, to the ultimate question with fear, trepidation, hope and prayer.

Sri Aurobindo provides an answer which addresses the various issues that arise: “In the idea of evolutionary rebirth, if we can once find it to be a truth and recognise its antecedents and consequences, we have a very sufficient clue for an answer to all these connected sides of the one perpetual question. A spiritual evolution of which our universe is the scene and earth its ground and stage, though its plan is still kept back above from our yet limited knowledge,–this way of seeing existence is a luminous key which we can fit into many doors of obscurity.”

Sri Aurobindo places weight on the spiritual significance rather than the mechanical process. “The failure to do that rightly will involve us in much philosophical finessing, drive on this side or the other to exaggerated negations and leave our statement of it, however perfect may be its logic, yet unsatisfying and unconvincing to the total intelligence and the complex soul of humanity.”

The Foundations of Psychological Theory in the Veda, Contd from Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore - C. Krishnamurthy (chamathu2003@yahoo.co.uk)

Rig Vedic mystics realised that a human being performs an effective action only through the assistance he gets from the devas, where as his own contribution is nominal. In fact, even the greatest Vedic poets obtained inspiration from superior planes and their contribution was restricted only to transcribe the revealed verses. With this it is very clear that yajña is an activity recognising the collaboration between the deva and the human. The much later scripture ‘Bhagavad Gita’ specifically mentions the different yajnãs by name such as yajña of obtaining material objects, obtaining knowledge, involving self-study etc., 

The Varieties of Naturalistic Philosophy from Footnotes to Plato by Matthew David Segall

If a pushy philosopher were to back me into a corner and force me to choose one or the other, naturalism or supernaturalism, I would choose naturalism. But I’d find myself wanting to ask, as Socrates might, what is meant by “nature”? Physics becomes metaphysics as soon as the word–”nature”–is pronounced. The logos of language … Read More

A Response to an Anti-Naturalist from Larval Subjects

Over at An und Fur Sich, Adam Kotsko has written a response to my defense of naturalism and materialism (here and here), accusing me of everything from believing that science gives us unmediated access to reality, is capable of explaining everything, and seeks to reduce everything, to advocating totalitarianism.  Anyone familiar with what I argue in my ontology and epistemology will find this to be a peculiar set of charges, but so it goes… but I feel compelled to say something as I have difficulty recognizing myself in what is described in this post… In fact, the ontology and epistemology I propose, the opposite is entailed…  My central argument for the independence of objects– drawn from philosopher of science Roy Bhaskar –revolves around the experimental setting and how knowing requires us to carefully construct closed systems in which we perturb objects in a variety of ways to determine how they respond under these conditions.