I assure you there is nothing under the blue sky to compare with
Savitri. It is the mystery of mysteries. It is the super-epic, it is
super-literature, super-poetry, super-vision, it is a super-work even if one
considers the number of lines he has written. No, these human words are not
adequate to describe Savitri. Yes, one needs superlatives, hyperbolas to
describe it. It is a hyper-epic. No, words express nothing of what Savitri is;
at least I do not find them. It is of immense value—spiritual value and all
other values; it is eternal in the subject, and infinite in its appeal,
miraculous in its mode and power of execution; it is a unique thing, the more
you come in contact with this, the higher will you be uplifted. Ah, truly it is
something! It is most beautiful thing he has left for man, the highest
possible. What is it? When will man know it? When is he going to lead a life of
truth? When is he going to accept this in his life? This yet remains to be
known.
Mother's Agenda - Sri
Aurobindo Ashram Home E-Library Works Of The Mother Agenda Volume-05
1964-03-11
Sri Aurobindo has told us (c'est lui-même qui l'a dit) and we are
convinced by experience that above the mind there is a consciousness much wiser
than the mental wisdom, and in the depths of things there is a will much more
powerful than the human will.
All our endeavour is to make this consciousness and this will govern
our lives and action and organise all our activities. It is the way in which
the Ashram has been created. Since 1926 when Sri Aurobindo retired and gave me
full charge of it (at that time there were only two rented houses and a handful
of disciples) all has grown up and developed like the growth of a forest, and
each service was created not by any artificial planning but by a living and
dynamic need. This is the secret of constant growth and endless progress. The
present difficulties come chiefly from psychological resistances in the
disciples who have not been able to follow the rather rapid pace of the sadhana
and the yielding to the intrusion of mental methods which have corrupted the
initial working.
A growth and purification of the consciousness is the only remedy. Page
85
Latour’s _Reassembling the Social_ is indispensable reading on this.
His thesis is that these big terms do more to *obscure* than explain... As
Laruelle might argue, the problem with these big master-signifiers (society,
patriarchy, capitalism, racism, environment) is that they seem to
be saying something without really saying anything… “Society”
explains nothing, but is what we’re supposed to explain. Of course, much
of this goes unexplored in the humanities and social sciences because the
concept of entropy is completely absent from their thought and there is almost
no concept of work or energy at work in these theoretical frameworks.
There are either concepts or brute material things, but no work to
maintain them. No, the only agency is ideas. This is why Marx had
to turn Hegel on his head– he understood fatigue –but us
academics all forgot that. We forgot that everything is perpetually
disintegrating, subject to entropy, precisely because things require energy and
work. Who among us has written about fatigue save some spare pages in
Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition that no one ever notices? …
Yet if we bothered to actually trace networks and get out of our
master-signifiers, we would discover that there are sites of resistance that we
never before imagined because we bothered to trace the network.
The Steubenville rape case along with
the horrific gang rape in India
has brought sexual violence to the media’s attention… I suspect that the
astonishing behavior of these men is indicative of a culture that normalizes
sexual violence… What I also find is disgusting is how quick the media is to
pathologize all of Indian culture after that horrible gang-rape while failing
to raise fundamental questions about misogyny, childhood abuse, domestic
violence and sexual violence that continues to terrorize women in this country.
In Mother's Int'l, no seat if you don't own a house in city
Hindustan Times Mallica
Joshi, New Delhi, January 10, 2013
Among the most sought-after schools in Delhi , The Mother's International School
The Mother had once called the Sri Aurobindo Ashram at
Pondicherry a veritable ... About Sri Aurobindo Among the leading
lights of India's resurgence the ...
Sri Aurobindo Reader - Page 113
- Makarand
Paranjape - Preview
It is this energy of the individual which is the really effective agent
of collective progress. The
State sometimes comes in to aid it and then, if its aid does not mean undue
control, it serves a positively useful end. As often it stands in the way
and ...
Philosophy
Of Education - Page 222 - S.S.
Chandra, S.S.
Chandra & Rajendra Kumar Sharma - 2006 - Preview - Compatibility
and not uniformity is the law of collective harmony.
The roles of the male and female, the different types of individuals in a
community are not identical but diverse and therefore complementary. Thus Sri Aurobindo proposes an ...
The
Aims Of Education - Page 248 - Promila
Sharma - Preview - One
seeks a collective reorganization,
something that would lead towards an effective unity of mankind: the other
declares ... It is in
answer to this pressing need that Sri
Aurobindo conceived the scheme of his International Center of
Education,...
Education
In Emerging Indian Society - Page 340 - Y.K.
Singh - Preview - Explaining this ideal of Sri
Aurobindo's scheme, The Mother said, "For all world
organisation, to be real and to be able to live, must ... It is only in me collective order and organisation, in a
collaboration based upon mutual goodwill that lays the...
Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx:
Integral Sociology and Dialectical ... - Page 101 - Debi
Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - Preview
The main point of Sri Aurobindo's argument
seems to me very important. And it is this. We cannot decide a priori the ideal
type of the collective life,
unless we are clear about the true character and purpose of the individual
human life. Man is ...
The
Lives of Sri Aurobindo - Page 289 - Peter
Heehs - 2008 - Preview - The problem with this is that “it is this
energy ofthe individual which is the really effective agent
of collective progress.” If the individual is suppressed, society
suffers. Therefore, Aurobindo concluded, the “healthy unity of
mankind” cannot be...
Inspiration
Divine: Your Purpose and Path to Health, Happiness and ... - Page 147 - Darwin
Stephenson - 2009 - Full
view Sri Aurobindo described collective consciousness (he
called it Infinite Consciousness) as creating the Universe to extend its own
static delight into the dynamic delight experienced by "forms of
force" (e.g. human beings). Sri
Aurobindo ...
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother:
Glimpses of Their Experiments, ... - Page 77 - Kireet
Joshi - 1989 - Preview - One
of the first questions that was raised when Mother met Sri Aurobindo was whether they
should do the yoga and go right to the end without involving ... But the aim of yoga was not
individual salvation; the aim was collective,
even cosmic.
Perspectives
On Sri Aurobindos
Poetry Plays & Crit. - Page 107 - Amrita
Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - Full
view - Meenakshi Bana, in her recently published book, Symbolism
in Sri Aurobindo'splays,
hopes : " Perhaps, his plays will receive ... Sri Aurobindo's life-long
aspiration to realise consciously evolving collective human existence on earth is found ...
Foundations
of Indian Psychology Volume 1: Theories and Concepts - Page 197 - Cornelissen
R. M. Matthijs - 2011 - Preview
But most important in the present context are the insights provided by the
Mother and Sri Aurobindo,
for attaining individual and collective transformation,
leading to a lasting human unity and global peace. Guided by their vision, I
continue to ...
Sri Aurobindo's ideal of human life -
Page 113 - M.
Rafique - 1987 - The development of this collective being and the individual is very closely related
with each other. The more conscious the individual is, the more conscious is
the collective being. The
growth of the individual, according to Sri Aurobindo, is very...
Sri
Aurobindo and Iqbal: a comparative study of their philosophy - Page 182
- M.
Rafique - 1974 - There is yet another view-point from which Sri Aurobindo justifies
the need of the society. During the course of evolution, according to him, as
there come into existence different individualised beings, so also there are
also born "Collective ...
Understanding
Med. Physiology - Page 876 - Bijlani -
2004 - Preview - ... with asceticism. Swami
Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo have
made powerful pleas in the recent past for correcting ... The collective effort would
facilitate the elevation of the level of consciousness of the human race. This
point would ...
Critical
Companion to George Orwell - Page 55 - Edward
Quinn - 2009 - Preview - ... their highest spiritual
development, while they worked toward collective “unification.” When in 1956 the Mother finally
experienced the “Supramental manifestation on earth,” which Sri Aurobindo and she had
anticipated, she understood that ...
Encyclopedia
of Hinduism - Page 55 - Constance
Jones, James
D. Ryan - 2007 - Preview
Wisdom,
Consciousness, and the Future: Collected Essays - Thomas
Lombardo - 2011 - Preview - The
ideas of evolution and progress can even take a spiritual form, such as in the
writings of the Hindu philosopher and Yoga master, Sri Aurobindo.
Aurobindo weaves together evolution with Hinduism in a holistic system,
rejecting both the ...
The
Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of ... - Page 372 - Pitirim
A. Sorokin - 2002 - Preview - Its
objective is not only and not so much a transcendental liberation of the
individual, as it is the divinization of the whole embodied life and
the collective liberation of mankind. The Purna Yoga
strives ... called metaphorically by Sri Aurobindo.
Neoplatonism
& Indian Philosophy - Page 157 - Paulos
Mar Grēgorios - 2002 - Preview - Sri
Aurobindo on the contrary is intensely interested in the future society as
is evident from his book The Human Cycle. He has ... His idea of the
plan of the Divine in the collective, i.e. in society and in humanity is
expounded in the two works ...
Indian
Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation - Page xv - G.
N. Devy - 2002 - Preview - Sri
Aurobindo represents the most idealistic in Indian Romanticism. Tagore
stands as a colossus among modern Indian writers. ... in however
modest a measure, to curing our collective cultural amnesia. June
1993 G.N. Devy When I typed the ...
Philosophy
of Religion: An Anthology - Page 546 - The
Louis P Pojman, Michael
Cannon Rea - 2008 - Preview - Zaehner
looks to the integration of the personal and collective; Kant holds that
true religiosity is identical ... Sri Aurobindo sees the world
religious process converging on Mother India rather than the Cosmic Christ, and
Sir Muhammad Iqbal ...
Tantra:
Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 188 - Hugh
B. Urban - 2003 - Preview - ... developed
a highly original interpretation of Tantric yoga that aimed at collective liberation
for all humankind. Born to a Brahman ... Gopinath was a regular
reader of Sri Aurobindo's Vande Mataram and engaged in political
discussions.
