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February 04, 2013

Futuristic chiliasm makes Sri Aurobindo a teleologist

Symbolism In The Poetry Of Sri Aurobindo - Page 19 - Syamala Kallury - 1989 - Preview - More editions Dawn is the predominant symbol in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo. Dawn for him stands for the reawakening of knowledge in man and it also stands for incessant human desire for spiritual awakening. It signifies the craving of man for an Eternal ...
The Dialogue With Death (Sri Aurobindo`S Savitri, A Mystical Approach) - Page 3 - Rohit Mehta - 2003 - Preview - More editions It speaks of man's journey through the Night and of the promise concerning the arrival of the New Dawn. The subject of Dawn is indeed the under-current of the whole epic poem of Sri Aurobindo. He begins it with a reference to the Dawn, ...
Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's Poetry, Plays, and Criticism - Page 44 - Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - Full view - More editions The night of inconscience precedes the dawn of illumination which gives a message that the invisible sun of knowledge ... eye They shone like images thrown from a far scene Too 44 Perspectives on Sri Anrobindo's Poetry, Plays and Criticism.
Pandit N.R. Bhatt: Felicitation Volume - Page 45 - Pierre Sylvain FilliozatSatya Pal NarangC. Panduranga Bhatta - 1994 - Preview -More editions Ratri in Veda and the Concept of Night in Sri Aurobindo - P.K. Mishra
Very objectively Sri Aurobindo draws the symbol of dawn and dusk with the revelation of light and darkness of human heart. Along with this, cosmic light is also drawn to the picture where night and dawn are concerned. The Night that wombs ...
The Secret Of The Veda - Page 131 - Sri Aurobindo - 1998 - Preview - More editions Chapter XIII. Dawn and the Truth. USHA IS described repeatedly as the Mother of the Cows. If then the cow is a Vedic symbol for the physical light or for spiritual illumination the phrase must either bear this sense that she is the ...
Poetic Plays of Sri Aurobindo - Page 23 - Bimal Narayan Thakur - 2004 - Preview - More editions The description of Dawn with which the poem opens is among the finest things in Sri Aurobindo, surpassed only by the evocation of 'The symbol Dawn' in Savitri. To read the poem at a stretch is to participate in the movement and majesty of an ...
Sri Aurobindo And The Poets Of The Dawn - D. Venkateswara Rao - 1996 - "Attempt to substantiate Sri Aurobindo's views on the Romantic poets, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley and Keats."--Preface. Dawn to greater dawn: six lectures on Sri Aurobindo's Savitri - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1975
An Integral View Of Poetry: An India Perspective - Page 212 - Vinayak Krishna Gokak - 1975 - Preview - More editions Usha, the Goddess of Dawn, is a form of the Supreme Light. ... Sri Aurobindo who, in his The Secret of the Veda, has spoken of these six goddesses as the rays of the inner sun, Surya Savitri, also refers to the five suns of poetry in his The ...
Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre (Ambikatanayadatta) - Page 29 - G. S. Amur - 1995 - Preview - More editions 'Belagu' (Dawn), published in 1926 but written as early as 1919, occupies a special position not only among Bendre's poetic creations but in the ... The second was a statement from Sri Aurobindo's Future Poetry, The Dawn: Early Poems 29.
Selected Works of M.P. Pandit: Sri Aurobindo - Page 393 - Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Rand Hicks - 1993 - Snippet view - More editions DAWN. (Canto. I). Before we commence our study of Savitri, let us be clear to ourselves that we are not reading it as a poem, even as a literary masterpiece, noting the diction, the similies and metaphors and other details. Our purpose in ...
Towards eternity; Sri Aurobindo birth centenary volume, 15th ... - Page 487 - Aurobindo GhoseV. Madhusudan Reddy - 1973 - Aurobindo Ghose, V. Madhusudan Reddy. This divine and blissful Dawn is the leader of endless felicity and mistress of plenty leading to a succession of dawns. To rise into the Light of this supreme Dawn brought ahout by the human and ...
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: Glimpses of Their Experiments, ... - Page 201 - Kireet Joshi - 1989 - Preview - More editions ... ugly — so low — and that there would be a dawn . . . isn't it, something which rises at the horizon: a new Consciousness. Something truer and more luminous. What Sri Aurobindo says here, — regarding illnesses, — is exactly that: the power ...
Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader Sachidananda Mohanty - 2012 - Preview - More editions The problem arises, according to Sri Aurobindo, because of our limited understanding of the notion of the 'self'. ... unknown to fame ... face beaming with the lights of the new dawn and his voice vibrating with the message of new life, and I felt ...
Sri Aurobindo - Page 135 - Jesse Roarke - 1973 - The opening lines of the poem sufficiently demonstrate that Sri Aurobindo has mastered the hexameter, and succeeded in adapting it to English. Thus: Dawn in her journey eternal compelling the labour of mortals, Dawn the beginner of things ...
Sri Aurobindo - Page 70 - Purnima Majumdar - 2005 - Preview This was made possible with the help of Sri Naidu and he met him for 2-3 hrs. for two days. Later, probably in 1918, he wrote a book entitled “The Dawn Over Asia", in which he called Aurobindo the future leader of Asia. After reaching ...
The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 132 - V.P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions Aurobindo's philosophy of history has a note of chiliasm and futurism in it. The profundity of his faith and conviction in the inevitable dawn of the spiritualized society is demonstrated in the exalted passion and enthusiasm revealed in his writings... This chiliasm puts Aurobindo's philosophy of history in line with the Biblical philosophy of history with its faith in the coming of David or Christ and the inevitable ...
Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: Integral Sociology and Dialectical ... - Page 148 -Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - Preview Beyond it, however, the dawn of a new great Ideational culture is probably waiting to greet the men of the future.25 Sorokin's description of the ... He refers approvingly to Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo in his book Reconstruction of Man.
The Integral Advaitism of Sri Aurobindo - Page 254 - Rāmacandra Miśra - 1998 - Preview The dawn of knowledge will mean the complete cancellation of ignorance along with its products. ... 57) AK» two principles, that is, knowledge and ignorance cannot be reconciled
Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of Social Development - Page 89 - Preview The Value of the Individual This higher principle will dawn on human life only through the individuals. The individual, in the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, is continuous with the community and humanity and yet he transcends these also, as he ...
Indian Political Thought - Page 233 - Urmila SharmaS.K. Sharma - 2001 - Preview This is the dawn of what Sri Aurobindo calls the 'Subjective Age' which opens a new chapter in man's history. After the discovery of the physical, economic and the sociological laws, it becomes clear to man that this knowledge is a mere part of ...
Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind - Page 194 - Christopher Martin Bache - 2000 - Preview - More editions He later continues this line of thought: Sri Aurobindo verified, not individually this time but collectively, that pulling down too strong a light causes all the darkness below to groan and to feel violated. It should be noted that each time Sri ...
Inspiration Divine: Your Purpose and Path to Health, Happiness and ... - Page 317 - Darwin Stephenson - 2009 - Full view This message has been broadcast since the dawn of time for all life forms to hear.... Sri Aurobindo. After the editing was nearly complete, I began searching for related bodies of work that proposed the same conclusions as the message that I...
Sri Aurobindo and the new thought in Indian politics: Being a ... - Page xxi - Aurobindo Ghose, Haridāsa Mukhopādhyāa, Uma Mukherjee - 1964 - A sedate scholar like Satis Chandra Mukherjee of the Dawn and the Dawn Society observed in 1905 : "Bande Mataram, Hail, Mother ! — What ... Sri Aurobindo also may be cited as another corroborative authority on the point. A devoted ... 
Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 14 - Page 44 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1962 - These technical faults are the only flaws in an immensely valuable introduction to Sri Aurobindo's writings. ... He seems to unite in his poetry something of the legacy of French Unanimism with the recent trend towards Chiliastic subjectivism.
The Journal of the Bihar Research Society - Volume 42 - Page 230 - Bihar Research Society - 1956 - It is the firm faith of Aurobindo that divinely appointed strength in the individual and nations grows by suffering. Without suffering and without the ... The concept of suffering contains a millenialistic and a chiliastic element. The rigor of present ...
Gandhi marg - Volume 26 - Page 428 - Gandhi Peace Foundation (New Delhi, India)Gandhi Smarak Nidhi - 2004 - It makes sense to see Gandhi as himself in a line of great Hindu religious reformers from Vivekananda to Aurobindo. ... have found equally distasteful all those trappings of modernity that have led fundamentalism towards chiliastic violence.
Aurobindo « The Gandhi Foundation on the will—Nietzche a critical influence here—the essential character of these modern chiliastic movements.
Georges Van Vrekhem. Hitler and his God SITE OF SRI AUROBINDO'S & MOTHER'S YOGA ...... for the failure of the recent past [the defeat in 1918], van den Bruck declared, was a chiliastic ideal.
Theories of nationalism: Anthony D. Smith - Page 295Anthony D. Smith - 1983 - ... the exploitation of chiliastic hopes generated by the impact of a levelling European administration and market economy. ... Aflaq and Zurayk see in Islam merely a buttress for Arabism; and Tilak and Aurobindo were using elements of ...
South Asia bulletin - Volumes 12-13 - Page 20 - South Asia Association (University of California, Los Angeles)State University of New York - 1992 - It is dangerous to see the Hindu fundamentalist movement as the chiliasm of despair from among those battered by an ... Not to be left behind, the CPM in Bengal is incorporating Sri Aurobindo and Vivekananda into their curriculum and is ...
In order to get rid of the torpor and inertia that one associates with the guna of tamas, political hatred must be brought into the fore as a necessary form of vitalist rajas. It is a deeply awe-inspiring trope in the revolutionary armory that justifies an actual, physical, political action. Aurobindo Ghose was not exempt from joyously celebrating such a moment… It is worth noting that, as befits a chiliast, Ghose never denies action. Indeed, a political Vedantist, much like the godly Puritan, detests a fugitive and cloistered virtue…
Among the foreign influences both historical and philosophical ones stand out. The secret societies are modeled on the Carbonari and Mazzini’s Young Italy Society. Indeed the Risorgimento and Irish Home Rule prove to be important social models for tackling the British actively in India. But philosophically, social Darwinism, Bergsonian vitalism, Nietzsche’s will-to-power and eternal return, Russian nihilism and varieties of anarchism prove to be remarkably influential, even if sometimes the ideas do not fully trickle down to individual nationalists.

January 19, 2013

Importance of English in rekindling India

Tweets 13h - Rajarshi @TheRajarshi Till date, the only one who has mentioned these sub-layers of the Vigyanmaya kosha in writing, in details, is Sri Aurobindo.
53s - Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty [Sri Aurobindo’s own concept of spiritual evolution, a central part of his philosophy, cannot be traced to any Indian source.] –Peter Heehs
21s - Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty [Shankara’s views on dreams resemble ideas popular in modern Western psychology but they differ greatly from that of Sri Aurobindo] –Sandeep

Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India’s Geography › Sanjeev Sanyal
The history of any country begins with its geography. With sparkling wit and intelligence, Sanjeev Sanyal sets off to explore India and look at how the country's history was shaped by, among other things, its rivers, mountains and cities. Traversing remote mountain passes, visiting ancient archaeological sites, crossing rivers in shaky boats and immersing himself in old records and manuscripts, he considers questions about Indian history that we rarely ask: His last book was The Indian Rennaissance: India's Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline published by Penguin in 2008.

The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise AF - Page 29 - Sanjeev Sanyal - 2008 - Preview introducing India to modern institutions, science and the English language. Most importantly ... By this time, the glories of ancient India were mostly forgotten. ... The importance of the English language in rekindling India cannot be understated.
Vande Mataram And Islam - Page 3 - Aurobindo Mazumdar - 2007 - Preview - More editions Bankim Chandra had rekindled the dormant spirit of love for the motherland through his epic — making song. The history of the Vande Mataram is the history of the life of the nation during the freedom movement and even after. lt is the history ...
Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism - Page 61 - Jyotirmaya Sharma - 2011 - Preview - More editions All that happens in the world, holds Aurobindo, is the work of the Divine through his Shakti, who is the Divine Mother. ... To appropriate the Shakti of Science was to rekindle in ourselves the Arya Shaktis that were in our blood and were part of ...
Soul And Structure Of Governance In India - Page 307 - Jagmohan - 2005 - Preview - More editions What did Sri Aurobindo mean when he talked of India's destiny and India's religion?. He himself provided ... humanising society. His basic ideas of truth, non-violence and welfare of the deprived and Rekindling the Power of the Indian Mind.
The Essential Frithjof Schuon - Page 50 - Frithjof SchuonDr Seyyed Hossein Nasr - 2005 - Preview ... into the domain of religion itself in the writings of such figures as Sri Aurobindo and especially Teilhard de Chardin. ... and religious ground clean and to break the idols of modernism in order to present that teaching which can rekindle the ...
Sri Aurobindo, his life unique - Page 123 - Rishabhchand - 1981 - But Sri Aurobindo knew well enough that that was the price the nation had to pay for wresting freedom from unwilling hands, for rekindling the Kshatriya spirit in itself, and for rising from the tamasic numbness into the swirl of rajasic passions on...
The New Educational Phiosophy - Page 214 - Bhagirathi Sahu - 2004 - Full view Conclusion Thus, Sri Aurobindo's integral education aims at harmonious or integral development of the learner. ... Guru Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, revived the study of Vedanta, rekindled the pride and redeemed the self-esteem of India, ...
Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history - Page 93 - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - O fairest, Thy face, suffused with crimson from this gem Above thee pouring wide its fire and splendour, Has all the beauty of a lotus reddening In early sunlight. At Sri Aurobindo's magic touch, Kalidasa's superb figures are rekindled into a ...
Sri Aurobindo - Page 40 -Sisirkumar Mitra - 1972 - In Sri Aurobindo's translation of Kalidasa's Vikramorvasie as 'The Hero and the Nymph,' the superb figures of the original are by the translator's 'magic touch rekindled into a flame of beauty and in consequence the immortal play has acquired ...
Sri Aurobindo: Letters on yoga - Page 1512 - Aurobindo Ghose - 1970 - This process continues until even the subconscient can no longer rouse it up in dream and no further movement comes from the outer Nature-force to rekindle this lower fire. This is the course when the sex-propensity sticks obstinately; but ...
Sri Aurobindo and his contemporary thinkers - Page 13 - Indrani SanyalKrishna RoyJadavpur University - 2007 - We hope this would once again rekindle interest among us for newer analyses, interpretations, debates and discussions centring around Sri Aurobindo, his contemporary thinkers and renaissance in India. This academic pursuit surely would...
2012: Crossing the Bridge to the Future - Page 50 - Mark Borax - 2008 - Preview - More editions fronted oak cabinet showcasing hardcover classics of metaphysics: Rudolf Steiner, Yogananda, Ouspensky, Krishnamurti, Sri Aurobindo, Madame ... It looked as if this offhand gesture might just as well extinguish the flame as rekindle it.
The Martyr: Bhagat Singh Experiments in Revolution - Page 49 - Kuldip Nayar - 2000 - Preview - More editions Despite the immense popularity of revolutionaries like Aurobindo (Ghosh and Barindra Kumar, the Bengali youth had ... the Bengal revolutionaries, when he met them, thought that the youthful Bhagat Singh was the person who could rekindle tlu ...
Raj to Swaraj: A Textbook on Colonialism and Nationalism in India - Page 318 - Rāmacandra Pradhāna - 2008 - Preview But revolutionary fire persisted in Maharashtra and was rekindled by the Chapekar brothers - Damodar and Balkrishna. In 1898 they ... He was inspired by Aurobindo and at his behest, joined the Baroda army under a disguised name. But his ...
The Bengalis: The People, Their History, and Culture. Introduction ... - Page 282 S. N. Das - 2002 - Preview - More editions ... Sri Aurobindo, is inherently spiritual, intuitive and psychic. ... and their stress on the Indian mind turned its look towrd the country's past and made it seek to interpret its truths by the test of reason a love of which was rekindled by the West.
Reflections and Mobilizations: Dialogues With Movements and ... - Page 300 - Ananta Kumar Giri - 2005 - Preview - More editions But when she was observing the students and teachers of the school, her desire for learning got rekindled. ... I first met Malati Apa when we had assembled for the first summer camp of interested readers of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother in ...
Sri Aurobindo, the divine master - Page 27 - Shuddhananda Bharati - 1948 - That wonderful booklet, "The Ideal of the Karma login", was the veritable Gospel of Sri Aurobindo's Nationalism. And that was delivered through the ... self-help, and self-reliance. He rekindled the Nationalist zeal in the THE KARMAYOGIN 27.
The political philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 149 - Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1960 - He had hoped that contact with the West would rekindle the decaying lamp of Indian knowledge but later on he was ... But while Gandhi was primarily critical of the industrialism and imperialism of the West, Aurobindo refers more to the ...
Sri Aurobindo and Indian freedom - Page 27 - Sisirkumar Mitra - 1948 - In India their impact created conditions that helped to rekindle the lamp of her soul, to resuscitate the collective fife of her people. The inward bent of their mind opened the eyes of the inaugurators of this movement not only to the puissance ...
Seven studies in Sri Aurobindo - Page 81 - V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1989 - There is an epic purpose behind the immortal classic; it is to rekindle the flame of aspiration in the heart of humanity, to nourish and strengthen it, to arm and protect it against the enemies of Life and ... Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book I, Canto 1.
Sri Aurobindo and the new millennium: reflections and reviews - Page 37 - R. Y. Deshpande - 1999 - Now the hour of God has come again and in it the spiritual soul must get rekindled. It is in that hour that special beings ... "Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind," wrote Sri Aurobindo long ago. "The sense of the infinite is native ...
The Educational doctrines of Plato and Sri Aurobindo: a ... - Page 96 - Satya Prakash Singh - 1992 - It is used for the ultimate principle the good "to purge and rekindle the mental vision" of the persons. Since reasoning is not enough, ... (b) imitation, (c) practice. At first the guidance...
Bulletin - Volume 23 - Page 8 - Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India) - 1971 - ... can only have it b] refraining from all action ; even, if allowed to persist, it will rekindle the pranic or other desires or at least throw a reminiscent shadow of them or the being. 
Rekindling the spirit in work: how to be your self on the job - Page 26 - Howard Schechter - 1995 - Integralism is a term borrowed from the work of Sri Aurobindo, an Indian Teacher, whose approach was termed Integral Yoga. ... Integral Model Body, of course, represents the physical component of...
On women: compiled from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - Page 69 - Aurobindo GhoseMother - 1978 - compiled from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Aurobindo Ghose, Mother ... until even the subconscient can no longer rouse it up in dream and no further movement comes from the outer Nature-force to rekindle this lower fire.
The heritage - Volume 1 - Page 133 1985 - Now, released from prison, Aurobindo Ghose found his party discouraged and downcast. With a mere handful of supporters — Nivedita among them — he launched an appeal and tried to rekindle the patriotic spark in a weakening society.
Memorable contacts with the Mother - Page 49 - Nirodbaran - 1991 - It was long afterwards and in a different situation that the flame was rekindled and I obtained the Mother's permission. The story will be told in its proper place. I had also written a long article in French on Sri Aurobindo as Guru, at the request of ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 43 - Page 25 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1990 - ... were like a slap for R. Here kindled his faith and the disease vanished, never to recur. In 1952 R told the Mother that he wanted to live in the Ashram and educate his children in the Ashram...
The spirit of Indian and western philosophy: science, society, and ... - Page 140 - Indian Philosophical CongressR. Murali - 2006 - In view of this situation it may not be out of place to rekindle the thoughts of Sri Aurobindo, that he wrote on individual and community. In his magnum opus The Life Divine and other writings like The Foundation of Indian Culture, The Ideal of ...
India: vision and fulfilment - Page 207 - Sisirkumar Mitra - 1972 - But they must not rule out any attempt to find out the methods by which to rekindle the soul of India so that a resurgence of her civilisation may be possible out of all the achievements of her great past. Sri Aurobindo's message has a significant ...
India's evolution, its meaning - Page 128 - Sisirkumar Mitra - 1968 - ... the marntra of whose worship was given by Bankim. and rekindled into a divine dynamism by the fiery words of Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo. In 1901 the lion-hearted Vedantin uttered the very keyword of Indian Nationalism when he said ...
Organiser - Volume 43 - 1991 - 'Sanatana Dharma is Indian Nationalism,' cried out the prophet of patriotism, Mahayogi Sri Aurobindo, in the modern period ... especially the adoration of the Motherland as the Divine Mother, to rekindle the spirit of patriotism and nationalism ...

December 27, 2012

Augment Whitehead with Sri Aurobindo

RESEARCH IN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION-ABSTRACTS DEVI, S., A Critical Study of the Concept of Creativity in Philosophy with special reference to Bergson, Whitehead and Sri Aurobindo, Ph. D. Phil., Kur. U., 1976
The objectives of the study were (i) to find out if creativity was the general scheme of reality, (ii) to find out if creativity was linked with different concepts of this universe, that is, with becoming, cosmic evolution, consciousness, organic evolution and teleology, (iii) to trace the historical background of creativity both in Indian and in Western thought, with special reference to the Vedas, Upanishads, Plato and Plotinus, (iv) to locate the concept of creativity in Bergson's ideas, (v) to investigate how Whitehead contributed to the concept of creativity, (vi) to identify the concept of creativity in the ideas of Sri Aurobindo, and (vii) to analyse various theories of creative evolution developed by S. Alexander, L. Morgan and James Ward.
The methodology adopted was philosophical, historical and comparative. The study was philosophical in the sense that ideas of various personalities were organized, critically analysed and evaluated. It was historical because the development of the concept of creativity from various sources had been traced. Further, it was comparative as commonness between the ideas and theories of various persons on the concept of creativity had been identified and critically evaluated. Content analysis was used both as a tool and technique to analyse the educational ideas of Tagore and Whitehead. Content analysis consisted of documentary analysis and thematic analysis. For content analysis, primary as well as secondary sources were used. The material was also examined to find out its suitability for the proposed research by way of internal and external criticism.
Some of the findings of the study were:
1. Creativity constitutes the very basis of reality.
2. Creativity has been conceived by various thinkers as an exercise of nonfigurative powers of the whole psyche involving all its substance, the play of its entire energy. The creative action is more than cerebral, more than visceral, involving more than mind and heart, intellect and emotions. It augments the structure of human vision by introducing some new, vital configuration of ideas or from among those available to organize experience.
3. Creativity was the power to evolve a pattern that remained omnipotent insofar as it touched the details of actualization. Creativity was a widely recognized ideal for every human being.
4. Both east and west emphasized that what was creative about spiritual experience was not its psychological accompaniments but the inward change which manifested itself in the fruits of the spirit-peace, JOY and loving suffering. A new type of life emerged with a higher correspondence between one's self and the ultimate sources of reality. New qualities of mind and character were called forth out of ordinary men and women, qualities which manifested the Divine in them.
5. Bergson's concepts elan-vital had led to a revolutionary syndical that would restore a purified social life by insisting that social change in any class of people could be achieved only by the force of their own associations, through means that would evolve so as to suit their particular needs. In the theory of science, he had inspired a new `positivism' that criticized scientific data in a vigorous and original way and showed how much arbitrariness there was in our methods of measurement of magnitudes.
6. Whitehead introduced an omnibus principle called creativity, which was a sort of universal blanket to cover all logical branches that his philosophy had created. Whitehead's emphasis on the organic character of natural systems and his attempt to bring physics and biology closer together had a good deal in common with the Gestalt approach to mind and nature.
7. Some emergentists advocated the theory of levels according to which evolution proceeded by the method of creative synthesis and life and mind came of a certain kind of organization of non-living elements. These new qualities could not be inferred by merely adding together the qualities of elements taking part in the organization. At each new level of reality, new powers, new capacities and new qualities emerged. Life appeared at one of these levels. Along with it emerged a series of new qualities such as growth, assimilation, irritability, adaptability and reproduction. Mind was the result of still more highly complex organizations. This was called creative evolution or emergent evolution whose pioneers were Bergson, Alexander, Morgan and Ward.
8. Sri Aurobindo's evolution admitted both mechanism and emergence, determinism and freedom. The creator was the supermind and it was a power of Sachchidananda. Hence the process of evolution was free, self-imposed and self-determined by Sachchidananda. The world was not the result of blind chance but a self-manifestation of the ultimate. Nature's processes appeared to us to be mechanical merely because the purpose was under disguise. Nothing was created from outside.
9. Creativity constitutes the very basis or foundation of reality. It was the creative purpose which steered and guided cosmic evolution and natural evolution. Creativity in human civilization was the expression of creation, which was at the root of nature and reality.
10. Man's future is in the hands of two creative agencies, his biological evolution and his psychological evolution. Genetic and natural environmental forces continued to influence the development of man. Psychological control dominates the direction of human evolution. Man's personal potential is biological, but he is freely And creatively designed. His future depended upon his understanding and attitudes towards reality. Man would be creative and free in projecting his future only if he could at one and the same time realistically immerse himself in the history of his age and culture, discover trans-historical meaning and affirm divine communication. 
11. Bergson, Sri Aurobindo and Whitehead are quite close to each other as far as the process of creativity is concerned.

Now that I've completed preparatory research essays on Schelling (The Re-Emergence of Schelling: Philosophy in a Time of Emergency) and Whitehead (Physics of the World-Soul: The Relevance of A.N. Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism to Contemporary Scientific Cosmology), it’s finally time to start zeroing in on my dissertation thesis. The title I’m proposing for now is Imagination Between...

Sri Aurobindo, the hope of man - Page 309 - Keshavmurti - 1969 - In the beginning Sri Aurobindo did not concern himself much with the war though he knew that poor leadership in England and France was at least partly responsible for Hitler's truculent and bellicose ...
Collected Works: Words of the mother - Page 127 - Mother - 1980 - 1 April 1946 A Declaration Sri Aurobindo withdrew from politics; and, in his Ashram, a most important rule is that one must abstain from all politics — not because Sri Aurobindo did not concern himself with the happenings of the world, but because politics, as it is practised, is a low and ugly thing, wholly dominated by falsehood, deceit, injustice, misuse of power and violence; ...
The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page xv - V. P. Varma - 1990 - Preview - More editions Possibly such reconstruction of the political philosophy of Aurobindo might not appeal to some sections in our country who would regard it as an enterprise in the profanization of a sacred personality. But we must not forget that Aurobindo was ...
Quest - Volumes 93-98 - Page 16 - Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom - 1975 - Aurobindo might not have had the time or the inclination to enter into a proper study of the scientific picture of the world. Also, some of the great discoveries took place after his self-imposed seclusion. However, the theories of relativity and ... Sri Aurobindo Ghose - Page 581 - Verinder Grover - 1993
Sri Aurobindo's treatment of Hindu myth - Page 32 - Jan Feys - 1983 - But for these queries Aurobindo might not have spoken of it at all. His general approach to myth also holds good here. Thus, e.g., Radha under the spell of Krishna symbolises "the soul, the psychic, hearing the call of the Divine". Aurobindo's ...
Sri Aurobindo--the poet - Volume 2, Part 4 - Page 162 - Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1999 - Just as the merits of Savitri were appreciated to the utmost, whatever seemed a shortcoming no matter how slight and negligible in the midst of the abundant excellence was pointedly remarked upon so that Sri Aurobindo might not overlook... Sri Aurobindo: Savitri; a legend and a symbol - Page 733 - Aurobindo Ghose - 1970
The philosophy of Sri Aurobindo: his idea of evolution - Page 58 - Joseph Veliyathil - 1972 - So Aurobindo might not have felt the necessity of attributing immediacy to the acquisition of knowledge by the intellectual faculty. This made him limit the intellectual operation to discursive level only. Now if a comparison may be made ...
Sri Aurobindo--secularist? or nationalist? - Page 37 - Ke. Es Nārāyaācārya - 2006 - ... a detail Sri Aurobindo might not have known, as most savants of 'unity' took it for granted that Islam too was a 'religion' like any other, without realising its diabolic, predatory nature. Only recent researches are waking us up all over the world.
Letters on Savitri - Page 10 - Aurobindo GhoseSri AurobindoKaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 2000 - Just as the merits of Savitri were appreciated to the utmost, whatever seemed a shortcoming no matter how slight and negligible in the midst of the abundant excellence was pointedly remarked upon so that Sri Aurobindo might not overlook...
Swami Vivekananda and Indian Nationalism - Page 91 - Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta - 1984 - Although Aurobindo might not have known the 'tens of thousands of young men' beaming with patriotic fervour, he should not have failed to see that most of them could not have much to do with P. Mitra's Samiti, some associates and members ...
The Light at the Center: Context and Pretext of Modern Mysticism - Page 104 - Agehananda Bharati - 1976 - His writings are different indeed from those of the older Vivekananda and the younger Sivananda. Aurobindo might not have been a good poet, but he was a poet; he might not have been a thinker in any professional sense, but he expressed ...
The oneness/otherness mystery: the synthesis of science and mysticism - Page 508 - Sutapas Bhattacharya - 1999 - Preview ... of the material order is held by Aurobindo, Whitehead and others to be Nature's development of habits (stable patterns of behaviour emerging from repetition) rather than laws obeyed by Nature. Reality is fundamentally creative but patterns ...
Sri Aurobindo and Vedānta Philosophy - Page 71 - Sheojee Pandey - 1987 - Preview - More editions Here we have to say that Whitehead's Philosophy of evolution is more close and more similar to that of Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of evolution. Like Whitehead Sri Aurobindo also believes that God is the ultimate principle and the evolution ...
Evolutionary, Spiritual Conceptions of Life - Sri Aurobindo, ... - Page 35 - Michael Leicht - 2008 - Preview Here Aurobindo gets quiet sociological. In the following I want to correct one misunderstanding of Madhusudan Reddy of Whitehead's theory: He assumes that Whitehead's philosophy has no final goal of evolution (Reddy, 2004: 156).
Aurobindo's Philosophy of Brahman - Page 3 - Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - Preview - More editions I doubt that one could overstate the importance of Aurobindo's mysticism for his philosophy. How then is he a metaphysician? A.N. Whitehead gives a just characterization of the trade: "Speculative Philosophy," he says, "is the endeavor to...
The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad - Page 356 - Ken Wilber - 2001 - Preview - More editions Notice that Shankara, Nagarjuna, Aurobindo, Plotinus (and Alexander and Wilber) can pass this test; Whitehead does not. This is not a secondary issue; it is at the precise heart of the matter, a heart that Whitehead lacks. Thus, the notion of ...
Cognitive models and spiritual maps: interdisciplinary ... - Volume 7, Issues 11-12 - Page 202 - Jensine AndresenRobert K. C. Forman - 2001 - Preview What Whitehead doesn't have, something essential to Wilber, is the Great Nest or Chain of Being in addition to the Great Network of Being. For that, we would need to augment Whitehead with Aurobindo. I agree with Wilber that Whitehead's ...
The Essential Aurobindo: Writings of Sri Aurobindo - Page 23 - Aurobindo GhoseRobert A. McDermott - 2001 - Preview - More editions In its philosophic comprehensiveness, Sri Aurobindo's philosophy finds its contemporary Western analogue among the systematic thinkers — Royce, Bergson, Whitehead, and Heidegger; in its spiritual and autobiographic quality, it more closely resembles Kierkegaard and Buber, and perhaps Heidegger and Wittgenstein.
Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of Social Development - Page 40 - Preview This is what Sri Aurobindo has attempted in his metaphysics of evolution. And it is here that the theories of Darwin, Lamarck, Herbert Spencer, S. Alexander, Whitehead, Lloyd Morgan, Bergson, Hegel and Croce have stopped short of the ...
Integral Psychology - Page 84 - Ken Wilber - 2000 - Preview Maslow. Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) is well known enough that I will only make a few passing comments. Like all truly great integral thinkers— from Aurobindo to Gebser to Whitehead to Baldwin to Habermas—he was a developmentalist.
Faith possesses understanding: a suggestion for a new direction in ... - Page 220 - Jehangir Nasserwanji Chubb - 1983 - Preview - More editions It can be said of Sri Aurobindo what Eckhart said of God : 'In him there is no denial except the denial of all denials.' Upanishadic paradox, 216 Whitehead, A.N., 182 Upanishads, 16, 60, 210. See my article The Logic of the Infinite in the ...