Sri Aurobindo described split brain dichotomy accurately

The Nature of Physical Reality (new edition pdf Download this file) Subhash Kak New York, Bern, Frankfurt/M., 1986. 159 pp. American University Studies: Series 5, Philosophy. Vol. 17

It is noteworthy that, in 1910, the yogic philosopher and seer Sri Aurobindo described split brain dichotomy in terms that would be considered accurate even now, hundred years later:5

A New Way of Living - Page 4 - Roy Posner - Preview 1/6/06 Knowledge + Will that Enables Ultimate Accomplishment in Life The Indian sage and seer Sri Aurobindo described the process by which the universe emerged from a Divine Source. That process is essentially the same process by ...

Essentials - Page 15 - Roy Posner - Preview Mira Alfassa, the individual known to her followers as “The Mother”, and a partner of the Indian sage and seer Sri Aurobindo commented on this web of life in the early 1970s:15 "I have a curious impression of a kind of web Inner-Outer ...

Inspirations - Page 222 - Roy Posner - Preview ... what sage and seer Sri Aurobindo called "Supermind," -- with a vast dynamism and energy, enabling her to become the intellectual, psychological, and spiritual leader of the world, leaving others behind. Intuition and Tomorrow's Success ...

Bulletin - Volume 54 - Page 14 - Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India) - 2002 - To prepare that new birth and new creation for man by his illumination and upward voyaging is the function of Surya, the divine Light and Seer. Sri Aurobindo vision de Sourya.

Problems of the Indian creative writer in English - Page 55 C. Paul Verghese - 1971 - CHAPTER 6 The Poetry of Sri Aurobindo Ghose In Sri Aurobindo Ghose too, like Rabindranath Tagore, we have the combination of a poet and seer. Sri Aurobindo is perhaps a greater seer and prophet than Rabindranath and is better known ...

The Indian journal of political science - Volume 68 - Page 494 - Indian Political Science Association - 2007 - Though as a political philosopher Hegel might have more to offer in way of analysis, but as a visionary and seer Sri Aurobindo provided clue not only to the sufferings of individuals in the state but also to its solution. End Notes 1 . For Hegel ...

The nuclear peril and the Gandhian answer - Page 10 - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1984 - The Law of Karma has worked relentlessly and Truman's atom bomb has grown into the sleepless nightmare that it is now for all the good people of Truman's country" (Satyameva Jayate, Vol. I, p. 334). Again, the Yogi and Seer Sri Aurobindo ...

Dimensions of federal nation building: essays in memory of ... - Page 5 - Abdulrahim P. Vijapur - 1998 - As the great philosopher and seer Sri Aurobindo wrote "The conflict of religions arises because each one claims the exclusive truth and demands complete adherence to it by the method of dogma, belief, ritual, ceremony and prescribed acts.

Hindu Vishva - Volume 15 - Page 7 - 1980 - The great philosopher and seer Sri Aurobindo, proclaimed — "India shall lead the West to spirituality". Indeed, we can if we imbibe values ourselves and understand the brevity of the crisis we face today. It is the youth of India who ought to lead ...

How I became a Hindu: my discovery of Vedic dharma - Page 187 - David Frawley - 2000 - ... struggling to free itself from the aftershocks of a thousand years of foreign rule. Only in the last decade has the country started to awaken to its real purpose as a nation. To echo the great Yogi and Seer, Sri Aurobindo, India's destiny is to take...

As I see it--: the Karan Singh reader - Page 207 - Karan Singh (Sadr-i-Riyasat of Jammu and Kashmir) - 2001 - As the great philosopher and seer Sri Aurobindo wrote, 'The conflict of religions arises because each one claims the exclusive truth and demands complete adherence to it by the method of dogma, belief, ritual, ceremony and prescribed acts.

Public affairs - Volume 27 - Page 41 - Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs - 1984 - Again, the Yogi and Seer Sri Aurobindo who had warned in 1939, when the neutron chain-reaction as it bombarded and split a Uranium atom was discovered — A scientist played with atoms and blew out The Universe before God had time to ...

Gandhi's Emissary - Page 326 - Sudhir Ghosh - 1967 - On 15th March 1965 I made a brief speech on the Vietnam crisis and the power and the intentions of Communist China, in our Parliament, in the course of which I quoted the following prophetic words of the saint and seer, Sri Aurobindo, ...

Yoga and the Sacred Fire: Self-Realization and Planetary ... - Page 7 - David Frawley - 2006 - Preview - More editions The work of the great modern Indian seer and yogi, Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), opened the door to the Vedic world for me in 1971 when I first came upon his Vedic writings. Reading his translations of Vedic hymns to the Dawn, I experienced a ...

Globalization and Culture: Global Mélange - Page 29 - Jan Nederveen Pieterse - 2009 - Preview - More editions Under what circumstances do cultures flourish? In one view, cultural efflorescence requires or is more common in local, small-scale social units. Thus, according to the Indian philosopher and yogi Sri Aurobindo, “Collective life diffusing itself in ... 

The Will To Mastery Over Physical Nature from Sri Aurobindo Studies 

Physical Nature is non-moral in its response to the efforts of humanity. This means that it will provide a commensurate energy response to the effort made to utilize or harness its forces, based solely on the energy and not on some concept of moral or ethical right or wrong. The law of Karma on the physical plane is essentially a law of “cause and effect.” …

We can witness this process at work in the events of the last 200 years. An increasing concentration and focus on the elemental powers of physical Nature has led to discoveries that could only seem miraculous to human beings of earlier centuries. Today we take it for granted that we can observe actions in distant parts of the globe through satellite, television and internet; communicate with virtually any part of the world via wireless cell phones; fly through the air at supersonic speeds; travel into outer space; unlock enormous energies through splitting of the atom; harness the power of the sun through solar energy; transplant organs from one human being to another; and modify the very genetic structure of living beings. Each of these developments, representative of the type of will to mastery over physical Nature that we have seen develop during this time, has dramatically increased the power of action and base of knowledge of humanity, but none of them has been without their down-side consequences, some of which threaten the continued existence of all life on the planet, such as destructive nuclear weapons; global climate change, world-wide chemical contamination of the air, soil and water; and unforeseen consequences of genetic tampering. Sri Aurobindo anticipated this type of much wider responsiveness of Nature to human development of knowledge and will: Physical Nature Is Non-Moral and Non-Ethical In Its Results from Sri Aurobindo Studies 

As we have been examining physical Nature and its forces, it has become obvious that the return or response of the energy, the essence of the law of “cause and effect” which underlies or notion of Karma, is strictly in line with our adherence to the principles and laws of the physical universe and does not include any moral or ethical component. Physical Nature will put into our hands the power to split the atom if we focus intensely enough, regardless of whether we will use it benignly or malignantly.

We try to impugn an ethical motive in the results of physical energy, but in the purest sense, physical energy simply does not have this impulsion. The concept of Karma that includes a “payback” in terms of morality or ethics is actually something that arises with the development of higher forms of consciousness… Sri Aurobindo points out that with the entry of the life energy into physical Nature, we begin to see the first inklings of some kind of energetic response that begins to take into account the effect on life, with the possibility of a response that goes beyond the strictly physical energies to balance excesses, but even here, it is not a moral or ethical principle, but some other life-basis that determines the actual reaction.

Vivekananda’s doctored picture of Ramakrishna

Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo Spiritual Events Info ... Spiritual Event on Speaking Tree By: Ramesh Bijlani on Jan 13, 2013

A talk highlighting the landmark role Swami Vivekananda played in creating a receptivity for ancient Indian wisdom in the West, and how other spiritual masters have continued the work. Ramesh Bijlani Date: Jan 13, 2013 Time:10:00 am to 11:30 am Venue: Meditation Hall, SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM -- DELHI BRANCH, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi 110 016. Entry through Gate No. 6. Phone: 011-2656-7863, E-mail: aurobindo@vsnl.com

Harisharan Walia 09:02 am Swami Vivekanada believed in vedantic philosophy of Brahma satyam jagat mithya, where as Shri Aurbindo saw the gross Sagun changing world and the subtle unchangig Nirguna Brahma as two layers/aspects of God. Both believed in service of the universe. Please elaborate what are their views on Gyan, Karma and Bhakti, Karma-Akarma- Vikarma.

Pondicherry: A corner of India that is forever France - The Independent

Auroville is an experimental city, located a few miles out of town, that grew out of the Sri Aurobindo ashram that dominates social and educational life in Pondi.

Swami Vivekananda's connection to Puducherry The Hindu KAVITA KISHORE PUDUCHERRY, January 12, 2013 With the 150th birth anniversary of the philosopher providing a fitting backdrop, Kavita Kishore explores the threads that link him to Puducherry

When Swami Vivekananda travelled from Kanyakumari to Chennai, it is said that he stopped in Puducherry for a few days. According to popular belief, he is said to have stayed in the house on Vysial Street that Sri Aurobindo and Subramania Bharathiyar occupied when they first came to the town…

According to Aurobindonian Scholar, Prema Nandakumar, since Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo were born only nine years apart, they were almost contemporaries. Swami Vivekananda was the inspiration for the Vande Mataram movement that a young Sri Aurobindo and several of his contemporaries participated in. When Sri Aurobindo was imprisoned in Alipore Jail from 1908 to 1909 in the Alipur Bomb Case, he read the Bhagavat Gita and other spiritual books to gain higher consciousness. It was then that Swami Vivekananda played a role in his achievement of spirituality, she said… Vivekananda’s influence was felt all over India at the time, especially in Bengal. So, it is not surprising that he played a role in Sri Aurobindo’s rise to spirituality as well…

Although the route that Swami Vivekananda’s spirituality took was different from that of Sri Aurobindo, there are some similarities between their philosophies, including the importance given to Indian culture, the dedication to social service and education and tolerance of all religions, said Ms. Nandakumar.

Jyotirmaya Sharma busts many myths around Swami Vivekananda From: Outlook Magazine, 21 January 2013 Interview ‘His Inclusiveness Is A Powerful Myth’ Vivekananda comes across as a Hindu supremacist, and not so much a social reformist - Satish Padmanabhan Interviews Jyotirmaya Sharma
In his third book in the quartet on Hindu identity and self-images, academic-author Jyotirmaya Sharma busts many myths around Swami Vivekananda. He comes across as a Hindu supremacist, and not so much a social reformist. Excerpts from an interview with Satish Padmanabhan: …

This book, like the previous two (Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism and Terrifying Vision: M.S. Golwalkar, the RSS and India), is an attempt to delineate a genealogy of Hindu identity. In this context, Vivekananda provides the most influential restatement of Hinduism. His religious nationalism is the decisive influence behind Hindu nationalism. Also, unlike many writers, I do not distinguish between Hinduism and Hindutva. For me, Hindutva is merely the politically dominant face of Hinduism today…

This idea of his inclusiveness and liberality is a powerful shared myth in our country but entirely based on a limited, partial reading of his works. Forget Islam and Christianity, Vivekananda wasn't particularly generous towards many sects and schools of thought within Hinduism.

Book Excerpt: Cosmic Love and Human Empathy: Swami Vivekananda's Restatement of Religion (Jyotirmaya Sharma) from Communalism Watch by c-info

Vivekananda, more than anyone else, helped construct the elements that constituted this carefully edited, censored and wilfully misleading version of his master’s ‘catholicity’. He used it to mean what he thought was Ramakrishna’s tolerance, generosity and inclusiveness in relation to other faiths while carefully glossing over the sources and influences that produced this ‘catholicity’. The continued use of the term has had a longevity independent of Vivekananda’s remoulding of Ramakrishna from a “religious ecstatic to a religious eclectic”, and continues to be used even to this day by perceptive and critical readers of the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda story…

Vivekananda’s interpretation of Ramakrishna is a simultaneous act of fidelity and distortion… In 1896, Vivekananda gave two lectures in America and England on Ramakrishna. At the outset, he confesses that he speaks on behalf of his Master, but the errors in interpreting the message are entirely his own. The bare bones of Ramakrishna’s message are all there, beginning with renunciation, devotion, love, and ending with Ramakrishna’s love of all sects and religions. But the moment one unravels the details, a very carefully doctored picture emerges.  

Tweets 16h - Prasanna Viswanathan ‏@prasannavishy To be fair to Jyotirmaya Sharma, he has always held that Rishi Aurobindo & Swami Vivekananda as spiritual progenitors of Hindutva project

23h - Pritish Nandy ‏@PritishNandy Nice to see Swami Vivekananda back in the news. Time to rediscover Sri Aurobindo.

21h - Anil Kumar Gupta ‏@anilguptarsd @PritishNandy Sri Aurobindo's 150th birth anniversary will fall in 2022. Enough time to make grand preparations for rediscover him. Start now.

23h - Pacifist ‏@iHindu - @PritishNandy sir, request you to share your thoughts on Sri Aurobindo. Please.  View conversation

23h - jagdish sharma ‏@ivorysharma - @PritishNandy You are a master communicator. Please start with yourself writing about the philosophy and thoughts of Sri Aurobindo & Sri Ma

11 Jan - Gautam Chikermane ‏@gchikermane And Peter Heehs on 'Roots, trunk, branches & seeds: Similarities and differences in SV's and Sri Aurobindo's approach to Vedanta and Yoga.'

‘The Mother: The Birth and Growth of a Flame’: A Review by Surendra Singh Chouhan from Overman Foundation

Having penned all this appreciative remarks, one has to admit and point out the presence of  a just  few  flaws  in the book. We feel as if we are reading just a recorded history—the evocative fire of aspirational afflatus is missing at some points. The author seems to get lost in the quagmire of facts and figures in his enthusiasm to offer information and more informations. However,  dedication and devotion of the author overrule all these  minor errors and  we have the privilege and joy to read through the book—The Book of The Divine Mother. 

Comment on Predictions of Sri Aurobindo by nizken More cents from me then…. Start in this order: 1. The Mother 2. Synthesis of Yoga 3. Letters on Yoga (vol. 2) 4. The Agenda

You don’t have to finish everything in them nor does it have to be in a linear cover-to-cover fashion. Just my recommendations although many other books like Essays on Gita are also quite fascinating.

Comment on Predictions of Sri Aurobindo by Sandeep

“Jason: a book that tells most about the particular changes he and the Mother aimed at inaugurating in the mind and body of humanity?”

Are you referring to the supramental consciousness ? If not, then Nizken’s recommendations are fine. Otherwise, check out the Life Divine and the Mother’s Agenda.

Sri Aurobindo added 12 new chapters to the Life Divine in the 1940s and these represent his final detailed notes on the subject. A discussion of the changes he made can be read at the end of the book in the section entitled “Note on the Text” (CWSA vol 21-22, pages 1109-1117). The last two chapters “Gnostic Being” and “Divine Life” are especially relevant. On page 1004, he says power of intuition will increase in the immediate future : “A freer play of intuition and sympathy and understanding would enter into human life, a clearer sense of the truth of self and things and a more enlightened dealing with the opportunities and difficulties of existence”.

There are also some conversations with disciples, where he cautioned against over-interpreting the consequences of the supramental change. Cats and dogs won’t change, for instance… Georges van Vrekhem, who passed away recently, has aggregated a lot of this material in his books. See his website http://www.beyondman.org

Comment on Predictions of Sri Aurobindo by mike

l think satprems books cover it a lot, especially ‘On The Way To Suparmanhood’ which is meantioned in the Agenda, l believe a Power was given to this book by the Mother and SA [as said in Agenda] and SA seemed to be writing it through Satprem.

Comment on Predictions of Sri Aurobindo by nizken

Science advances and works within a “paradigm” as written by Thomas Kuhn. The materialistic clockwork mechanistic paradigm that Don Salmon talks about has been overthrown by the work in quantum mechanics by Einstein/de Broglie etc but yes it does persist to a large degree in the public mind. I think Thomas Kuhn’s book (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) would be the best way to visualize and understand these scientific paradigms and how they are overthrown by scientific ‘revolutions.’ Another great book which I found very helpful and short was What is this thing called Science written by A.F. Chalmers. Thomas Kuhn after Karl Popper probably gave us the basic framework in which to understand the history and progress of science of past 300 years.

The Individual and the Universal from Sri Aurobindo Studies 

Sri Aurobindo’s view of rebirth takes issue with the near-exclusive concentration laid upon the concept in the traditional viewpoint. This traditional viewpoint looks upon life on the earth as some kind of short-term interlude, with the goal being to return to the original source and therein to dissolve ourselves. The entire focus then revolves around individual salvation. It is, however, impossible to understand the larger significance of the manifestation and evolution of the world and all the other beings in the world from a viewpoint that starts with this level of fragmentation. This has led many to consider the world to be an illusion. Sri Aurobindo integrates the evolutionary development of the individual with the universal manifestation.

Hymns to the Mystic Fire_Volume-11 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram Home E-Library  Works Of Sri Aurobindo English Sabcl 

The integral Advaitism of Sri Aurobindo - Page 342 Ram Shankar Misra - 1957 - It is true that Sri Aurobindo's integral view of Reality cannot be said to be perfectly original. The transcendence and immanence of the Absolute or Brahman has been advocated in the Upanisads and the different systems of the Vedanta.

Political Thinkers of Modern India: Sri Aurobindo Ghose - Volume 11 - Page 336 - Verinder Grover - 1993 - Preview Unlike Christianity, Hinduism did not find it difficult to assimilate Darwinian ideas, because from the beginning Vedanta viewed God as both transcendent and immanent in nature. Aurobindo could easily spiritualise the concept of evolution and ...

Sri Aurobindo's life and work is wider than the universe

Forward with nature: an integrated approach to world problems of ... - Jatindra Nath Mukherjee - 1979 - 188 pages - For all this, I am gratefully indebted to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. I owe an apology to the readers and to the authors of different schools of economic and sociological thoughts for having treated these subjects far too briefly or ...

Ethics in the Mahabharata: a philosophical inquiry for today - Sitansu S. Chakravarti - 2006 - 176 pages - Certainly I am indebted to Sri Aurobindo for inciting the spirit of academic quest in me in the area of spirituality through his writings. I remember I would find solace in his books during my days at Presidency College when I would use ...

Being Consciousness Bliss: A Seeker's Guide - Page 59 -  Astrid Fitzgerald - 2001 - 384 pages - Preview Here again, we are greatly indebted to Sri Aurobindo and his insight into the nature of the divine and Man and to his revelatory interpretation of the great Eastern wisdom tradition. Fig. 4 is a simplified rendering based on his ...

Remembering Heraclitus - Page 107 - Richard G. Geldard - 2000 - 163 pages - Preview We are indebted to Sri Aurobindo for his sense of daimon as "divine force." Fragment 54 reads, then, For human beings, character is the divine force. Enough mystery remains to entice us to fur- 49. Aurobindo, p.

Studies in the renaissance of Hinduism in the nineteenth and ... - Dittakavi Subrahmanya Sarma - 1944 - 686 pages - At the same time, we are greatly indebted to Sri Aurobindo for his powerful re-statement of the integral spiritual ideal taught in our best scriptures and for the new emphasis he has laid on the personality of the ideal Yogin of the ...

Changing India - Raja Rao, Iqbal Singh - 1939 - 263 pages - We are personally indebted to Sri Aurobindo Ghose and Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy for permission to use extracts from their writings. Further, our thanks are due to the Hon. C. Rajagopalachari for extracts from his Jail Diary.

Unholy Madness: The Church's Surrender to Psychiatry - Page 9 - Seth Farber - 1999 - 162 pages - Preview ... George Ebert, Rita Di Carlo, Frank Schaeffer, Laura Woodruff, Jerry Foley, Evelyn Woodsom, Harold Channer and Monty Weinstein. In addition to the intellectual influences cited in these pages, I am indebted to Sri Aurobindo.

Gandhian Theory of Social Reconstruction - Page xxix - Parmeshwari Dayal - 2006 - 414 pages - Preview I had very fruitful discussion with him on the subject matter. I am deeply indebted to Sri Aurobindo, Vinobaji and Pitirim Sorokin whose works I have referred to for developing my theme. My thanks are also due to several authors whose ...

The literary criticism of Sri Aurobindo, with special reference to ... - Shree Krishna Prasad, Aurobindo Ghose - 1974 - 487 pages - —here, I am entirely indebted to Sri Aurobindo himself. My first acknowledgment of boundless gratitude is, therefore, to him, and also, of course, to his life-long collaboratrix, Madame M. Alfasa or the Mother, as she is popularly ...

Globalization, pre modern India - Page 19 -  Nagendra Rao - 2005 - 200 pages - Preview Not fearing to acknowledge his debt to Sri Aurobindo and the Indic traditions, Wilber has generally been quite up front with regard to his use and remodeling of the insights of the Indic traditions. Hopefully, Wilber and many others like him will ...

Let's write a paper on Blake, shall we integral-review by DG Anderson - 2010 - 32) and as “an integral worldview that understands the universe as a revelation or manifestation of consciousness, Spirit, or intelligence” (p. 33)—a position explicitly indebted to Aurobindo and Wilber, and an expression of Wilber's specific ...

The Indian journal of international law: official organ of the ...: Volume 5 - Indian Society of International Law - 1965 - Let us build together the common law of mankind as an essential element in the institutional embodiment and foundation of the ideal of human unity, an ideal one of the most memorable expositions of which we owe to Sri Aurobindo.

Journal of South Asian literature: Volumes 24-25 - Michigan State University. Asian Studies Center - 1989 - In his illuminating essay "Sri Aurobindo the Critic of Art," Mulk Raj Anand maintains that we no doubt "owe [to Sri Aurobindo] the boldest exposition of the development from manas or thought-sensations through attaSuddhi or ...

Mother India - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1964 - Did Bharati owe to Sri Aurobindo his Shakti cult? A good number of writers on Bharati opine that the poet owed his beautiful lyrics on Parasakti to Sri Aurobindo. The author of this book too says: "no doubt Bharati's fruitful ...

Creating Harmony: Conflict Resolution in Community - Page 113 Hildur Jackson - 2000 - 269 pages - Preview In this evolutionary vision, which we owe to Sri Aurobindo and his spiritual collaborator, the Mother, what we now know as 'human nature' is only a transitory phase towards a higher and truer consciousness. According to Sri Aurobindo, ...

The marriage of East and West - Bede Griffiths - 1982 - 224 pages - They are deeply rooted in the world of myth, but the rational mind has already begun to draw out all the complex meanings of words and to integrate them in a Cosmic vision. We owe to Sri Aurobindo, the sage of Pondicherry, ...

The ten commandments of Hinduism - Visvanatha Krishnamurthy - 1994 - 344 pages - Here the Samskrit text allows a deeper perception which we owe to Sri Aurobindo. Gender discrimination in Spirituality - indiadivine - 11 May 1999 different expressions of Your Light. All women in the universe are also so. Here the text allows a deeper perception which we owe to Aurobindo. 

Contemporary relevance of Sri Aurobindo - Kishor Gandhi - 1973 - 343 pages - In considering Sri Aurobindo's achievement one is again and again struck by the amazing versatility of his genius. It is difficult to assess his life and work that is wider than the universe. He was a writer par excellence and perhaps ...