The Hindu : NATIONAL TAMIL NADU : City engagements January
28, 2013
Sri Aurobindo Society: Study circle meeting, 3 Lajapathi Roy Street ,
Chinna Chokkikulam, 10.30 a.m..
They fought the thoughts of materialism and lived a radically simple
life, voluntarily. They had hand pumps, farms and animals that provided them
with food and water. My romantic notions regarding the idea of Auroville were
corrected when I realised that a lot of hard work went into living there.
Anupama, experienced architect and designer, gives an interesting
presentation on Auroville housing issues... Rodogune, dramatic romance - one of the five plays written by Sri Aurobindo,
directed by Aryamani with huge casting crew.
Philosophy climbs up Thought’s cloud-bank
peaks
And Science tears out Nature’s occult powers, [Savitri: 141.56 – 59]
As an adult I have frequently admired the fiercely solitary asceticism
found in Jain ideals, but I saw none of this in the Jains I knew as a child. I
mostly just knew them as Indians who didn’t eat eggs, in the way that I knew
Jews as North Americans who didn’t celebrate Christmas… But it’s important not
to forget that while India ’s
greatest philosophers have typically had an integrity ascent orientation or
something close to it, the mainstream of Indian society has all that time still
looked rather Confucian.
These thoughts have led me to realize a broader point: the majority of
societies in human history have had, by and large, an intimacy descent
orientation… Mencius and Xunzi argue for and defend their claims, whereas
Confucius himself simply presents them, as a collection of wise sayings… The
modern West became the way that it did for a reason. And my previous criticism
still stands: individualist and anti-family orientations do arise,
and get defended, and endure, outside the modern West as well.
Sri Aurobindo recommended cultivation of equanimity through the
practice of Yoga, but that transformation won’t happen in one day. People have
been working on it for centuries and lifetimes
the very first paragraph of Samuel Smiles’ classic instructs readers
that, while self-help “strengthens” its practitioner, “help from without is
enfeebling in its effects.” As students of Economic History ought to know, it
was this Victorian moralists’ bestseller that, in translation, FIRED the
JAPANESE in their “catch-up with the Advanced West” after the Meiji Restoration
of the 1860s.” And the Japanese DID catch-up – but WITHOUT any FOREIGN AID!
What applies to nations and peoples – it BEGINS with Individuals in those
nations and peoples.
As we all know, capitalist accumulation is guided by the “invisible
hand,” which ensures that the selfish and short-sighted choices of individual
capitalists fit together into a beneficial whole that promotes long-term
wealth-creation for all. What’s less well known is that for workers, the
situation is reversed: their self-interested decisions add up to create a
situation that is more and more disadvantageous for workers as a whole.
(title unknown) from enowning In NDPR, Daniel L. Tate reviews Scott M. Campbell's The Early
Heidegger's Philosophy of Life: Facticity, Being, and Language.
“Heidegger was interested in the facticity of life as a dynamic
context of meaningful relationships that admit different levels of intensity…
Philosophizing is an activity that seeks to understand life and language from
the experience of being an active participant in living and speaking… At stake
in this project is not just the return of life to its factical origin, but also
the revitalization of philosophy. Third, Campbell
emphasizes the ambiguity in Heidegger's description of factical life. On the
one hand, the world distracts us with worldly concerns that block us off from
ourselves; on the other hand, it is replete with meaningful contexts that
constitute our openness to the world. Campbell
argues that this ambivalence regarding factical life simply reflects the human
condition in its inherent ambiguity.”
Western esotericism, specifically the lineage of hermetic thought that
extends from Late Antiquity into the Renaissance through the work of figures
such as Iamblichus, Nicholas of Cusa, Pico della Mirandola, and Giordano Bruno.
In this book, Joshua Ramey examines the extent to which Deleuze's ethics,
metaphysics, and politics were informed by, and can only be fully understood
through, this hermetic tradition… Ramey offers both a new interpretation of
Deleuze, particularly his insistence that the development of thought demands a spiritual
ordeal, and a framework for retrieving the pre-Kantian paradigm of philosophy
as spiritual practice. 10:22 pm
I suppose it's no coincidence that my favorite Christian theologians
(e.g., Dionysius, Eckhart, Nicholas of Cusa, John Scottus Eriugena) often sound
like vedic seers. For example, I might well have cited Nicholas to support the
Cosmogenesis section of my book: This is Not a Post About Vedanta and Christianity from One Cosmos by Gagdad Bob 7:11 am, 10:22 pm
Science, Culture and Integral Yoga :: 100 Years of Sri
Aurobindo on Evolution: Why Sri Aurobindo would not believe in Intilligent
Design (part 1 or 6) - by Debashish on
Sun 22 Mar 2009 02:33 PM PDT Permanent
Link - In The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo often directs or
turns an argument based on natural or phenomenological intuitions. The kinds of
intuitions used by artists or poets in making judgements may seem impossibly
subjective to arriving at universal truths, particularly of the material world,
but poets and philosophers like Goethe and Giordano Bruno developed a
cross-disciplinary view of knowledge, which gave them access also to a new
material science. 3:41 pm, 10:22 pm
The
Long Trajectory: The Metaphysics of Reincarnation and Life ... - Page 283 -
Eric
M. Weiss - 2012 - Preview
Sri Aurobindo's position
is not “consciousness only” but rather a panpsychic position in which the
potential for finitude, and
even materiality, is built right into the ultimate ground of being. This
move—starting with the full and the actual—is ...
The
radical thinkers: Heidegger and Sri Aurobindo - Page 88 - Rhoda
Priscella Le Cocq - 1972 - develop the finitude in Dasein even as a problem, without 'presupposing
an infinitude?' At the end of his study of Kant, Heidegger recommends, as he
does throughout all his works, ...
Nature
Of God - Page 80 - Satya
Prakash Singh - Preview
According to him, changes take place in some or the other "piece of finitude" and by no means in the
Absolute. ... Bergson
is nearest to Whitehead and Sri Aurobindo inasmuch
as his view of process is concerned but falls wholly apart from ...
Sri Aurobindo and Bergson: a
synthetic study - Page 193 - Abhoy Chandra Bhattacharya - 1972 - Sri Aurobindo tells us that pain and
misery are only temporary growth in the process of evolution. There is nothing
as absolute pain or evil. Limitation and 1. The
Life Divine, I, 170. finitude bring
about dissatisfaction and painfulness.
The
future of man according to Teilhard de Chardin and Aurobindo Ghose
- Page 294 J. Chetany - 1978 - which speaks of Brahman as the immortal,
immanent, soul and controller of all that exists. God is immanent in the
world and yet is transcendent to its changes and finitude. He is the Supreme moral governor and the world redeemer.
New
essays in the Bhagavadgītā: philosophical, methodological, and ... - Page 27 - Arvind
Sharma - 1987 - At the root of this perpetual struggle is the finitude of human life.
Kuruksetra represents for Aurobindo those
moments of everyday struggle when human limits are exceeded and a crisis is
reached: "Life (is) a battle and a field of death, this is...
Neo-Hegelian
and neo-Advaitic monism: a study in converging ... - Page 111 - Lakshmī
Saksenā - 1980 - The Religious Synthesis of The Age: In Aurobindo we have the profoundest
expression of the religious ... 'The
life Divine' appears to us primarily an attempt at justification of the ways of
God to man in his present state of finitude.
History,
culture and truth: essays presented to D.P. Chattopadhyaya - Page 378 - Daya
Krishna, K. Satchidananda Murty - 1999 - Fallibility of human knowledge is
further buttressed by the finitude of
the human being. In other words ... This
thesis may be substantiated by following the lines of arguments, among others,
of Yaekara, Sri Aurobindo and
K.C. Bhattacharyya… From my post-graduate days, when I developed my first
familiarity with the works of Yaekara,
Sri Aurobindo, Kant, Hegel...
Towards
eternity; Sri Aurobindo birth
centenary volume, 15th ... - Page 375 - Aurobindo
Ghose, V.
Madhusudan Reddy - 1973 - the Samkhya man is a product of the same
modes of ... Perhaps
it was an expression of man's feelings of finitude, dependence and impotence. Imperfection required
perfection; finite demanded ...
The
philosophy of Sri Aurobindo -
Page 84 - Ram
Nath Sharma - 1963 - finitude.
He shrinks to call the individual a member in the Absolute simply because, such
an expression might imply that it is separately and ... Pattison equally emphasise
the fact that the existence of finite.
The
Integral Advaitism of Sri Aurobindo -
Page x Rāmacandra Miśra - 1998 - Preview
that Sri Aurobindo has
developed his system of the Vedanta on the solid foundations of logic and
epistemology. ... But
it will be realised by him, when in the course of cosmic evolution, man
transcends his finitude in
an absolute way and rises ...
The
philosophy of integralism, or, The metaphysical synthesis ... - Page 345 - Haridas
Chaudhuri - 1954 - Having found all current solutions unsatisfactory
he considers it prudent not to strain human ingenuity beyond the utmost limit.
Neither the finitude of the created universe, nor the reign of Law in
Nature, appears to him to contain any rational ...
Emotions
in Asian Thought: A Dialogue in Comparative Philosophy - Page 101 - Joel
Marks, Roger
T. Ames, Robert C. Solomon - 1995 - Preview - More
editions A contemporary of Tillich's in this tradition, Sri Aurobindo, proposed a philosophy... So the soul strives to
overcome the ambivalence of finitude,
and yearns for an existence that has recovered its essence, knowing that one
must forever be a ...
Main
currents in modern thought - Volumes 19-20 - Page 94 - Center
for Integrative Education, Foundation
for Integrated Education - 1962 - The New Being will realize
his finitude, his conditionedness, and the finitude of all of
his creations in relation to the ultimate Unconditioned source of all being,
God. Unlike Teilhard de Chardin and Aurobindo, Tillich does not think of
the New ...
Encyclopedia
of Asian Philosophy - Page 57 - Oliver
Leaman - 2001 - Preview - More
editions Aurobindo's realist
metaphysics was polarized in terms of an ultimately unknowable and ineffable
God or Brahman and a ... Brahman,
understood as Perfect Being, Conscious-Will and Bliss evolves itself into a
realm of finitude terminating
in ...
Thinkers
Of Indian Renaissance - Page 207 - S
A Abbasi - 1998 - Preview
The finitude of the
world will affect the infinitude of Brahman and introduce spatio-temporal
limitations into it, which will be ... This
conception of Samkara and his defenders is challenged by Sri Aurobindo, who holds that one can
establish ...
Karma
and Rebirth: Post Classical Developments - Page 19 - Ronald
Wesley Neufeldt - 1986 - Preview - More
editions for Aurobindo,
given the absolute nature of the phenomenal process, evolution is inevitable
and freedom must be seen in an integral light. The free human being cooperates
with the process, ... It
therefore has a significance beyond finitude.
The
integral philosophy of Sri Aurobindo:
a commemorative symposium - Page 145 - Haridas
Chaudhuri, Frederic
Spiegelberg - 1960 - ... 'deficiency'
and, as such, arises from limitation and finitude, and the 'desire' which arises out of the fullness of
being. ... This
question cannot be answered if the 'why' seeks to discover a 'purpose' in or
behind creation. In Sri Aurobindo's ...
Sri Aurobindo and the theories of
evolution: a critical and ... - Page 357 - Rama Shanker Srivastava - 1968 -
Firstly, it is erroneous to ignore the finitude and imperfection of parts as pantheism does. ... the Absolute is pure Being,
the One and the All. "The Supermind is synthetic," observes Sri Aurobindo, "only on the lowest
spaces of itself; where it has ...
Sri Aurobindo and the future of
mankind - Page 112 - Adhar
Chandra Das - 1934 - ... master
principle which is the ground as well as the goal of evolution, and it is half-revealed
in man who in his finitude is
confronted by the Infinite. ... In
Aurobindo's words, "
The world has three layers, infra-ethical, ethical
An
introduction to the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 18 – S.K.
Maitra - 1945 - Aurobindo says,
"World-existence is the ecstatic dance of Shiva ... its sole absolute
object is the joy of the dancing. ... Even
the relative and the finite can rise above their relativity and finitude in proportion as they
share this eternal bliss. Bliss...
The
concept of māyā from the Vedas to the 20th century - Page 27 - Ruth
Reyna - 1962 - So, too, there is an element of negation in Aurobindo's teaching
which he does not deny; but what he terms the negative ... Self-expression
in the sphere of relativity, the Infinite power of self-manifestation under the
aspect of finitude, is maya.
The
Vedic epiphany, an exposition and celebration of the inaugural ... - Volume 1 -
Page 123 - V.
Madhusudan Reddy, Aurobindo
Ghose, Institute
of Human Study - 1994 - As regards the functions of the gods Sri Aurobindo is
very clear. ... This is possible if man moves from Falsehood to Truth
and from finitude to infinitude and integrality.
Sri Aurobindo's philosophy of evolution -
Page xv - V.
Madhusudan Reddy - 1966 - PREFACE Sri Aurobindo's philosophy is a new and creative synthesis which
holds together and reconciles many contradictions. The logic of the Infinite
and the logic of finitude appear
in it side by side. It is difficult to write about a philosophy of ...
Philosophy
of evolution: Western and Indian - Page 101 - Jaideva
Singh - 1970 - ... how does Reality which is spaceless manifest
itself in space; how does the Infinite assume finitude? Aurobindo's solution
of the problem is that it is the Supermind, a wonderful power of the Absolute
that brings about the manifestation of the ...
The
philosophy of Advaita: a transition from Śaṅkara
to Śrī Aurobindo - Page 403 - Priti
Sinha - 1986 - But this involvement in finitude is the
temporary phase. Atman is finally to be withdrawn from this structure.
Ultimately it is possible only through knowledge. Sri Aurobindo too
realises fully that Atman is to be conceived as different from the body ...
Philosophy
and religion: essays in interpretation - Page 183 - Jarava
Lal Mehta - 2004 - ... way of the Rishis. Regarded as an
independent means of transcending human finitude through total
self-transformation, it ran a parallel course, outside the central Vedic
stream, but often with close interaction between the two. In Aurobindo ...
Sri Aurobindo Ghose: the dweller in
the lands of silence - Page 10 - William
Kluback, Michael
Finkenthal - 2001 - We would read other texts of Sri Aurobindo. We would read his poetry.
We yearned to embrace what was not embraceable. We longed to define what was
not definable. In finitude we
discovered inadequacies; in mortality the ambiguity of the...
The
splendour of Sri Aurobindo's muse - Page 177 - Jagdish
Saran Agarwal - 1983 - They are described as having grown in some
strange land or some garden of Eden, on some sward untrod by Time. "White
as moon upon the desert sand, Petal-pure from taint of finitude, On sward
untrod by Time strange lilies stand, Lift gars ...
Sri Aurobindo's
integral approach to political thought - Page 45 - Shiva
Kumar Mital - 1981 - They owe their existence to the finitude of
the human mind, to the discriminating activity of human thought. Thus,
according to idealism, then, change is unreal in some sense or other. Time is a
prisoner in the house of the spirit. Reality in its ...
Annual
- Issues 15-19 - Page 112 - Sri
Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta - 1956 - arrived at on the question of the
existence or non-existence of the soul after death, the finitude or
infinitude of the world, etc. Edmund Holmes' remarks on this story are also
very significant. He says,(4) "When we ...
Proceedings
- Page 237 - International
Association for the History of Religions, Nihon
Gakujutsu Kaigi - 1960 - For the real man is nothing but God in the
conditions of finitude and wearing a material vesture and limited in
vital power and mental abilities. Sri Aurobindomaintains that all Yogas,
indeed all religions for that matter, are essentially ...
Mainstream
- Volume 34, Issues 1-26 - Page 51 - 1995 - One problem man has always
tried to resolve is the problem relating to the finitude of existence. ... To quote Sri Aurobindo:
Our spiritual evolution ascends therefore through the relative to the absolute,
through the finite to the infinite, through all ...
