Sri Aurobindo is a gradualist, an evolutionist

A greater psychology: an introduction to Sri Aurobindo's ... - Aurobindo Ghose, A. S. Dalal - 2001 - Provides an overview of the psychological thought of the Indian philospher which includes body, mind, soul, and spirit… "When it comes to a 'greater psychology'-one which includes body, mind, soul, and spirit- Aurobindo has much to teach us, as is clearly and beautifully ...

Indian Philosophy Since Independence - Volume 1 - Page 114 - Dale Maurice Riepe - 1979 - Preview - More editions ... an attempt in particular to possess and organise the mysterious occult, outwardly still undeveloped direct power of Mind upon Life and both Mind and Life over Matter. Lest anyone think that Aurobindo has much use for matter or secular ...

Sri Aurobindo and his contemporary thinkers - Page 8 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University - 2007 - Sanyal observes that the idea of universal history as understood by Pramath Nath or Sri Aurobindo has much wider connotation than what is ordinarily conveyed by this expression. Sanyal attempts to elaborate the standpoint of Pramath Nath ...

Annual - Page 106 - Sri Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta - 1995 - Snippet view - More editions This is a very sad state of affairs, because Sri Aurobindo has much to offer to this country: he has brought to us a new model of spirituality which can not only make our terrestrial lives rich and fulfilling, but which can also make us the leaders of ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 21 - Page 321 - Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna, Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1969 - We wish to consider some fundamental principles of Sri Aurobindo's world- vision and God-vision. For we are all seeking to deepen our consciousness of Truth, the truth of the Self, and the World, and God — and Sri Aurobindo has much to tell...

International Encyclopaedia of Yoga & Occultism (In Vols. 3) - Page 453 - Prof. Ramesh Gupta - 2008 - As philosopher Ken Wilber comments: "When it comes to a 'greater psychology' — one which includes body, mind, soul, and spirit, in both ascending evolutionary and descending/involutionary currents—(Sri) Aurobindo has much to teach us.

Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader Sachidananda Mohanty - 2012 - Preview - More editions The organized Hindi group is fighting against the international numeral on the ground of Aryan Culture. Sri Aurobindo has no decided opinion on the question. But if the South Indians and other non-Hindi Provinces insist on this arrangement, ...

Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page 90 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - Preview Then he refers to the deliberations of the Stuttgart Socialistic Conference which considered the question whether socialism is consistent with or excludes patriotism. As for himself Sri Aurobindo has no doubt in his mind that socialism, which ...

Aurobindo's Philosophy of Brahman - Page 83 - Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - Preview - More editions

But Bolle tries to make far too much out of the point, claiming that Aurobindo has no concern for "epistemology" or for the "foundations" of his positions (see p. 88). 89. Agehananda Bharati in 77ic Tantric Tradition (1970) writes: "Tantrism has ...

The Indian Imagination: Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English - Page 221 - K. D. Verma - 2000 - Preview - More editions In Worthy is the World: The Hindu Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo (Rutherford: Far- leigh Dickinson UP, 1971), Beatrice Bruteau notes "Aurobindo's thesis of the three poises of Brahman," and observes: "He [Aurobindo] has no difficulty in admitting...

Spiritual Titanism: Indian, Chinese, and Western Perspectives - Page 150 - Nicholas F. Gier - 2000 - Preview - More editions Aurobindo has no sympathy for those who describe the Superman as the "deification of the rare or solitary ego," which, says Aurobindo, is unfortunately one valid interpretation of Nietzsche's "Overman." Accepting the cooriginality of Devas ...

Sociology, Ideology and Utopia: Socio-Political Philosophy of East ... - Page 39 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1997 - Preview - More editions The label "false subjectivism" appears no more meaningful than the labels of "oriental despotism" and "oriental substantiality". Sri Aurobindo has no hesitation to recognise the philosophers, poets, and musicians of Germany as "great" but to...

Knowledge Consciousness and Religious Co - Page 269 - Michael T. McLaughlin - 2003 - Preview Recall, however, that Aurobindo has no belief in an incarnation in the Christian sense. For Lonergan and for the Christian theologian in general, the incarnation means that the God-Man, Jesus Christ, is the object of CONVERSION IN ...

Coming Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of ... - Page 186 - William Irwin Thompson - 1998 - Preview - More editions So it is small wonder that Aurobindo has no use for sexual love or the affectionate touching of the human body. But the Rig Veda is fascinating precisely because it gives us a way of getting into a mind that is older even perhaps than the texts ...

Against Empire: Feminisms, Racism and 'the' - Page 109 - Zillah Eisenstein - 2004 - Preview - More editions Sri Aurobindo has no patience with "enforced dogma, cults, and moral codes". One's spiritual evolution develops as one finds oneself "more and more united with the collectivity and the AH". This is a fluid religiosity which encompasses a ...

Studies in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy - Page 125 – S.K. Maitra - 1945 - The chief complaint of this writer is that, unlike Sankara, Sri Aurobindo has no faith in intuition, and he has paid me a great compliment by quoting from my book An Introduction to the Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo to show that Sri Aurobindo has...

A New Way of Living - Page 257 - Roy Posner - Preview The spiritual view of time described by Sri Aurobindo has no precedence in human history. It is where all understanding of time and beyond should begin to understand its ultimate frontiers. Ordinary vs. Spiritual View of Time -- The normal ...

The Calcutta review - Page 168 - University of Calcutta, University of Calcutta. Dept. of English - 1934 - Aurobindo has no liking for a negative attitude in life; hence though he sees the dignity of the Nirvana calm, he leaves it aside as not yielding the full fruition of life. Aurobindo is always alive to the intrepid and incessant activity of life in which he ...

The yogi and the mystic: a study in the spirituality of Sri ... - Page 122 - Jan Feys - 1977 - Sri Aurobindo has no use for the traditional 'light and dark courses' the deceased soul is supposed to follow. Instead we have the 'supracosmic' and 'cosmic' states of the soul. These are made to correspond to the double 'Unmanifest' of the ...

Sri Aurobindo's theses on biology, psychology, and sociology

India's True Voice - Page 67 - Alvin Boyd Kuhn - 1992 - Preview - More editions So it must study the cosmos that is, observe its modes, habits, laws, catch its spirit and thus reproduce itself in its likeness. In somewhat more technical language Aurobindo asserts this same positive fact. If, he says, we strive to lift ourselves out ...

Derrida and Ind Philosop - Page 112 - Harold G. Coward - 1990 - Preview - More editions This clue, with its emphasis on the double sense of poetic words, also provided the basis for Aurobindo's analysis of language. Aurobindo maintained that the ancient mystics discovered the true knowledge and sacredness of life. This wisdom ...

Aurobindo's philosophy of Brahman - Page 29 - Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - Preview - More editions As for mystics' paradoxical language, Aurobindo suggests that it is often resolvable by better articulation and perspicuity. He claims that Brahman is "infinite" such that some predicates which would be contradictory when attributed to finite ...

The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 217 - Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - Preview It is not possible for the untransformed mind to translate the radically different height of the supramental Consciousness-Force into human language. Sri Aurobindo does not ask everybody to become supramental; in the first step of ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo - Page 145 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University. Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies - 2007 - In his study of the Vedic language, Sri Aurobindo has dwelt at length on this issue. Studied intellectually, we may not find any natural or inherent equivalent between any sound and its sense. There must have been an indefinable quality in the ...

Knowledge, freedom, and language: an interwoven fabrics of man, ... - Page 189 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1989 - While Wittgenstein was deeply persuaded of the necessity of picturesqueness and the clarity of logical language, Aurobindo takes these traits as indicative of the poverty of the same. Secondly, the former's mysticism is primarily an admission ...

Environment Evolution & Values - Page 71 - D.P. Chattopadhyaya - 2007 - Preview - More editions Sri Aurobindo's theses on biology, psychology and sociology are all integrally related by his main evolutionary metaphysical theory. Compared to Pierre Teilhard's language, Sri Aurobindo sounds more metaphysical. But in fairness to both it ...

Report, with accompanying papers - Issue 120 - Page 88 - Dante Society of America - 2004 - ... Aurobindo shares with Dante the same philosophical/theological quest expressed in symbolic and metaphoric language. Aurobindo and Savitri The child of a Bengali Anglophile, Aurobindo had been raised speaking English and educated ...

Papers in language and linguistics - Volume 3 - Page 72 - Ujjal Singh Bahri - 1997 - Poetic language, Aurobindo feels, ought to mediate between God and man. The instinct to create language lies in the creative intensity of the poet : "Something of the language may be supplied by the mind or vital something may break ...

Dynamic Facets of Indian Thought: Western impact on Indian thought - Page 107 - Anil Kumar Sarkar - 1988 - Savitri was written in blank verse to catch something of the Upanisadic and Kalidasian movement, so far as that is a possibility in English language. Aurobindo used Savitri as a means of ascension, from a certain mental level to reach a higher ...

Selected Works of M.P. Pandit: Sri Aurobindo - Page 380  - Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Rand Hicks - 1993 - Someone had commented that nobody would understand Savitri with all its mystical turns and abstruse language. Sri Aurobindo replied that he had not written Savitri for anybody but for himself. That is the perspective in which you have to ...

Sri Aurobindo's prose style (with a foreword by V.K. Gokak) - Page 82 - Goutam Ghosal - 1991 - Here again in this casual narrative exercises, we stand before a lord of language. Sri Aurobindo knows how to combine poetry and irony in his narrative. "Who the devil are you?" cried the young man again, marvelling. As if to answer the moon ...

World Religions: India's religious quest - Page 68 - Young Oon Kim - 1976 - Using familiar Christian language, Aurobindo calls for "a new kind of theocracy, the kingdom of God upon earth, a theocracy which shall be the government of mankind by the Divine in the hearts and minds of men. " 16 For such a new age the...

Knowledge, Consciousness and Religious Conversion in Lonergan and ... - Page 14 - Michael T. McLaughlin - 2003 - Preview Aurobindo lacks Lonergan's complex theory of meaning and value and the role of language. Aurobindo's strength is his phenomenology of meditation practice. This final chapter will try to show the strength and weaknesses of each approach...

Papers On Indian Writing In English : Poetry - Page 5 - A.N. Dwivedi - 2001 - Preview - More editions ... "Thought the Paraclete" and "The Rose of God" are among the finest mystical poems in the English language. Sri Aurobindo has also successfully employed classical quantitative meters to his own purpose and accomplished new harmonies...

Homer and the Iliad, Sri Aurobindo and the Ilion: illumination, ... - Page 53 - Kireet Joshi, Indian Council of Philosophical Research - 2004 - Let us also mention here that this great poem comes to us in the royal garment of hexameter in the contemporary English language. Sri Aurobindo had suggested in his essay On Quantitative Metre that "The Hexameter, half a dozen of the ...

Between Jerusalem and Benares: Comparative Studies in Judaism and ... - Page 256 Hananya Goodman - 1994 - Preview - More editions The style of the two poets is very different, even allowing for the difference in language. Sri Aurobindo, as was seen earlier, owes a lot to Vedic hymns and to Romantic poetry. At times he seeks to attain the conciseness of mantra. But, on the ...

Sri Aurobindo Ghose: the dweller in the lands of silence - Page 114 - William Kluback, Michael Finkenthal - 2001 - This divine yearning belonged to an age when man believed himself to be close to divinity, when the separations were not abysmal and unbridgeable. Today, we mock language. Sri Aurobindo observed that "no thinking age has been so far ...

Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history - Page 348 - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - Behind the guarded language, Sri Aurobindo had made his second open letter both an ultimatum to the Government and a mobilisation order to the Nationalist party. Ill It was perhaps expected that, as after the publication of the first letter in ...

Education In Emerging Indian Society - Page 357 - Y.K. Singh - Preview - More editions Training of Language Explaining his principle for training of language, Sri Aurobindo finds out that first the child should know the things and then the ideas. He laments that most of the dealings with language show an absence of fine sense of ...

Gandhi-Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan on Bhagavadgita - Page 46 - Susmit Prasad Pani, Geeta Satpathy - 2009 - They had the natural barrier of language. Sri Aurobindo couldn't communicate fluently in Bengali and Mrinalini in English. They seemed to have drifted apart gradually and the marriage was not a landmark in the life of Sri Auronindo.