Saturday, May 19, 2012

Sri Aurobindo views the adventure of Consciousness as a threefold movement

Metaphysical Realities in Psychology and Management: A Sacred Path ... - Page 44 Mithila Bihari Sharan - 2011 - 126 pages - This is the reason why Sri Aurobindo says to learn about Know Thyself first before knowing about others. The second important thing is: Do Karmas. For many of the Western researchers, human action is just a behaviour.
Contemporary Indian philosophy - Page 202 Basant Kumar Lal - 2010 - 346 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo goes to the extent of saying that in a sense the stage of overmind is also a stage of Ignorance. Speaking in terms of evolution, this is the last stage in the lower hemisphere that mind can attain before taking ...
Quantum Integral Medicine: Towards a New Science of Healing and ... - Page 128 Michael Wayne - 2005 - 230 pages - Preview Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2000: 79-80. 23. Kimura, Yasuhiko. "A philosopher of change." An interview by Carter Phipps. What is Enlightenment? No. 22 (Fall/Winter 2002): 28. 24. Hamilton, Craig. "Why Sri Aurobindo is cool.
A critical response to Indian English literature - Page 49 N.K. Mishra, Sabita Tripathy - 2002 - 198 pages - Preview ... normally precipitates tragic conflict. It is the playwright's intention to draw the character of these people on a grand scale to suit the poetic mode. This could be a strong reason why Sri Aurobindo chooses to recast Corneille's ...
The Bengalis: the people, their history, and culture. Bengali ... - Page 88 S.N.. Das - 2002 - 319 pages - Preview This is why Sri Aurobindo demanded complete political independence for India. He would not pitch his ideal "one inch lower than absolute Swaraj"5 because he believed that "to strive for anything less than a strong and glorious freedom ...
Perspectives on Sri Aurobindo's poetry, plays, and criticism - Page 4 Amrita Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - 147 pages - Full view That is why Sri Aurobindo says 'the small self is dead' and continues T am immortal'. It is also significant his saying I 'have grown nameless and immeasurable'. When this happens in spiritual sadhana, the mind is transcended and this ...
Life Before Death - Page 158 Lawrence Meredith - 2000 - 272 pages - In one of the longer books ever written to tell us why, Sri Aurobindo articulates a winsome denial.382 It seems that the lust of the embodied self (in every individual creature) seeks to realize itself first by increasing growth and ...
Powers Within - Page 47 Sri Aurobindo, the Mother - 1999 - 196 pages - Preview And that is why Sri Aurobindo says here that the true power for action cannot come until one has gone beyond the stage of willings, that is, until the motive of action is the result not of a mere mental activity but of true knowledge.
Martin Heidegger: Critical Assessments - Page 7 Christopher E. Macann - 1992 - 1472 pages - a specifically spiritual experience recuperated and prompted by way of a specifically spiritual practice. This is why Sri Aurobindo had to write his philosophy twice, the first time as a philosophical theology (The Life Divine), ...
Psychic Being (Soul: Its Nature, Mission, Evolution) - Page ii Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose, Mother - 1990 - 223 pages - The reason why Sri Aurobindo adopted the term "psychic being" has been stated by him as follows: "The word soul is very vaguely used in English — as it often refers to the whole non-physical consciousness including even the vital with ...
Sri Aurobindo and Vedānta philosophy - Page 44 Sheojee Pandey - 1987 - 150 pages - Preview That is why Sri Aurobindo wants to give vision to the masses of the world so that everybody may realise the purpose. The untimate goal of life, mind and body, of all the existent beings and things of the world, is to achieve a cosmic ...
The Yoga of Knowledge - Page 151 M. P. Pandit - 1986 - 280 pages - Preview That is why Sri Aurobindo insists that simultaneously, or perhaps even before this step of extending and widening yourself horizontally is undertaken, you awake to the Divinity in you, link yourself with it, throw a hook to the Divine ...
The Yoga of Works - Page 111 M. P. Pandit - 1985 - 186 pages - Preview It is very easy for the lower elements of the nature to infest this emergent vital being, the true being of life-force, and deflect its purpose. That is why Sri Aurobindo and the Mother insist upon merciless purification of motive — an ...
The Yoga of Self Perfection - Page 71 Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Aurobindo Ghose - 1983 - 308 pages - This is why Sri Aurobindo and Mother vehemently object to gossip. We know how when each item of gossip is taken up for scrutiny and we trace it to its source we find there is a big zero. Things develop, they gather volume from mouth to ...
The Yoga of Love: Volume 3 - Page 43 M. P. Pandit - 1982 - 104 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo observes somewhere else : "Heaven's wiser Love rejects the mortal's prayer..." Prayer is a powerful means of linking the human consciousness with the Divine Consciousness. We have had hundreds of occasions ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture: Volume 59 Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 2006 - So far, we have been discussing the concept of national education and why Sri Aurobindo gave it such importance. Now let us quickly review the observations he made on some of the other aspects of higher education in India.
Ma Anandamayee: embodiment of India's spiritual and cultural heritage Shree Shree Anandamaye Sangha - 2005 - 179 pages - She lived, moved and had Her being in this Sacchidananda alone and that is why Sri Aurobindo on seeing Her photograph had commented: "She lives in the Sacchidananda Consciousness." She wanted everyone to live as such and that is why she ...
Triveni: journal of Indian renaissance: Volume 74 2005 - After the Western impact, the Indians were also infected with this philistinism, and that is why Sri Aurobindo laments, "We in India have become so barbarous that we send our children to school with the grossest utilitarian motive ...
On "Savitri" Nolini Kanta Gupta - 2001 - 38 pages - Comprised of six of the author's essays in English on Sri Aurobindo's epic Savitri, this book introduces the reader to the thematic richness and complexity of the poem.
Vedic symbolism Satya Prakash Singh - 2001 - 614 pages - This is why Sri Aurobindo considers him as symbolic of the Illumined Mind lying intermediate to the Mind and the Supermind. It is in this capacity that he comes in the way of Agastya who is in a hurry to reach the Absolute by ...
Art and aesthetics of Rabindra Nath Tagore Sudhīrakumāra Nandī - 1999 - 151 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo called poetry, "the poetry of the soul". Rabindranath and Sri Aurobindo, both believed in this spiritual goal. Abanindranath and Brajendranath did not lag behind although their kinship in this regard was not ...
Festival 1999 - But if his mind is capable of opening to what exceeds it, then there is no reason why Sri Aurobindo: "There is indeed a future for man" man himself should not arrive at super- mind and supermanhood or at least lend his mentality, ...
Selected writings Nani Ardeshir Palkhivala, Laxmi Mall Singhvi, M. R. Pai - 1999 - 330 pages - When you read Dr Raynor Johnson's The Imprisoned Splendour and Fritjof Capra's The Too of Physics, you understand why Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore were convinced that India is destined to be the teacher of all lands.
Beyond man: life and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Georges van Vrekhem - 1997 - 544 pages - This is why Sri Aurobindo called man 'the mental being', halfway on the ascending ladder of evolution, between the dark abyss of the Inconscient and the radiant summit of the all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful Being.
Bharātīya vidyā: Volume 54 Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan - 1996 - ... and end all of Sadhana and still he has composed several Bhaktistotras13 and has given due concession to Karman and Yoga.14 Perhaps that is the reason why Sri Aurobindo finds trinity of the paths - Jnana, Bhaktiand Karman in Gita15; ...
Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research: Volume 13 Indian Council of Philosophical Research - 1995 - Snippet view This perhaps is the reason why Sri Aurobindo himself gave up the physical sense of dtmahanah in his final commentary on the Isdvdsya Upanisad (written in 1914-15). Two Western Interpretations: P. Thieme P. Thieme has written a ...
Sevartham: Volume 20 St. Albert's College (Rānchī, India). - 1995 - But why, Sri Aurobindo further asks, should there be a repeated birth at the level of human life ? Why this apparent stagnation ? To this the answer is that not all possibilities of humanity are exhausted in its present representatives. lf this is ...
On the Mother: the chronicle of a manifestation and ministry K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India) - 1994 - 924 pages - it has a collective soul which cannot afford to be in some parts either raw or rotten.41 It should be clear from all this why Sri Aurobindo gave primacy to the promulgation of his comprehensive supramental manifesto in the various ...
Myth in Indian drama R. G. Joshi - 1994 - 170 pages - It is difficult to say why Sri Aurobindo chose to dramatise a Greek myth in this play. It is true that Sri Aurobindo's creative genius, right from the beginning, has been myth-haunted. Not only his creative writings but also his ...
Darshana international: Volume 34 1994 - Ethics in this wider sense does only help us towards godhood, that is why Sri Aurobindo writet "morality is in the ordinary view a well.regulated individual and social conduct which keeps society going and leads toward a better, ...
Literary spectrum: essays in homage to Prof. N. Krishna Rao D. J. P. N. Reddy, Nyapati Krishna Rao - 1994 - 224 pages - As for poetic 'style', when Nirod asks why Sri Aurobindo prefers 'mirroring a strange Beauty' to 'And mirror a strange Beauty', the answer is magnificent: "these are matters of poetic style, to be felt — can't explain them ...
The vision and work of Sri Aurobindo Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1992 - 238 pages - The whole truth is compassed only when we realise why Sri Aurobindo himself, who had a wide Western education in England and wrote creatively in English and could have easily made his mark in Europe in whose culture he had been steeped, ...
The lore of Mahabharata Amaleśa Bhaṭṭācārya - 1992 - 436 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo has said that the poetical genius of Valmiki is that of a painter, in comparison the genius of Veda Vyasa was the skilful and powerful sculpture of a strong chiseller. Veda Vyasa was bringing into focus the ...
Graeco-Indica, India's cultural contects [sic] with the Greek ... Demetrius Galanos, Udai Prakash Arora - 1991 - 295 pages - That is why, Sri Aurobindo, who was a great classical scholar, declared that the predominant mood of the Mahabharata is intellectual. It is given to debating everything.18 Again, although both the Mahabharata and the Iliad are ...
Sri Aurobindo, the poet Radhey L. Varshney, Shashi Prabha - 1991 - 144 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo's poetry required to be read, enjoyed and appreciated not according to the ordinary conventional standards of poetry, but differently— aesthetically, intuitively, spiritually. His poetic style and metrical ...
Contemporary Indian English poetry: a revaluation D. S. Mishra - 1990 - 71 pages - Have we ever questioned why Sri Aurobindo or Tagore wrote in English? True, a large number of Indian English poets do not have adequate knowledge of English. But it is equally true that a dozen Indian poets have emarged successful and ...
In honour of Dr. Annie Besant Annie Wood Besant, Theosophical Society (Madras, India) Indian Section - 1990 - 339 pages - That is the reason why Sri Aurobindo defines yoga as 'a methodized effort towards self-perfection by the expression of potentialities latent in the being and union with the universal and transcendent existence we see partially expressed ...
Talks with Sri Aurobindo: Volume 4 Nirodbaran, Aurobindo Ghose - 1989 - A has told me that he came to realise why Sri Aurobindo did not ask him to do anything. If he had and if A could not have fulfilled it, it would have been a failure to carry out the Guru's adesh which might mean spiritual disaster.
Tributes to Nolini Kanta Gupta: pilgrim of the supermind Nirodbaran, Nolini Kanta Gupta - 1988 - 118 pages - This is why Sri Aurobindo insists that a new level of consciousness must evolve in spiritual seekers which will enable them to have the integral knowledge of the Divine. But before this new level of consciousness can be evolved, ...
Traditions in mysticism Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1987 - 417 pages - Unless there is the sanction of the Grace you never remember God, you never think of God, you never think of taking the path to God. That is why Sri Aurobindo has said that he who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite.
The Yoga of Patanjali and the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo G. M. L. Shrivastava - 1987 - 194 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo writes, "A greater perfection can only be arrived at by a higher power entering in and taking up the whole action of the being. The second stage of this yoga will therefore be a persistent giving up of all the ...
Critical approaches to literature & research methodology: a miscellany Bommatapalli Ramachandra Rao, Rawindara Sighā Rawī, Hukam Chand Rajpal - 1986 - 344 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo demands that art must inseminate us with the vital power of creative beauty. The artist is not just a copier, is just not an impressionist or for that matter an expressionist; he is a creator, not in the sense ...
Spiritual communion: based upon the Mother's prayers and meditations Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Mother - 1986 - 455 pages - That is why, Sri Aurobindo says in Savitri : Pain is the hammer of the gods to break A dead resistence in the mortal's heart. (VI. 2) June 27, 1913 Thy voice is so modest, impartial, so sublime in its patience and mercy that it does not ...
The Literary criterion: Volume 20 1985 - This, one fears, is the bane of the historical method, the reason why Sri Aurobindo decried its use in matters of literary assessment. When all is said and done, here is a curious book which evokes a mixed reaction : Admiration on the ...
Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - 812 pages - This is why Sri Aurobindo views the adventure of Consciousness as a threefold movement: an upward movement - the evolution or the ascent or the emergence; a downward movement - the involution or the descent or the immersion; ...
The heritage: Volume 1 - 1985 - Spirituality in the right spirit does not mean withdrawal from life, rejection of life and going to the forest or hermitages. True yoga, true spirituality, is in the midst of life. That is why Sri Aurobindo says, 'All life is yoga'.
Modern Indian thought: (Rammohun Roy to Jayaprakash Narayan) Dev Raj Bali - 1984 - 262 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo said that the real business of man in the wold and the justification of his existence was in taking of the journey of ascent towards divine life. Without such attempt man would be no better than an insect ...
On thoughts and aphorisms Aurobindo Ghose, Mother - 1984 - 394 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo tells us in his aphorism that logic is the worst enemy of Truth, just as the feeling of virtuous superiority is the worst enemy of virtue. 24 August 1960 46 — When I was asleep in the Ignorance, ...
The Advent: Volume 41, Issues 1-4 Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1984 - Why Sri Aurobindo Lived in Retirement? One of his very first queries was to know why Sri Aurobindo lived in retirement? Why did he not see people? Could greater good not have been done if he had talked to people and explained his high ...
Yeats and Eliot: perspectives on India Ramesh Chandra Shah - 1983 - 174 pages - This is not entirely unjustified, because Samkaric monism does tend to world-negation in a way that the original Vedanta doesn't. That is why Sri Aurobindo ...
Commentaries on the Mother's ministry: Volume 1 Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1983 - That is why Sri Aurobindo asks us to leave visions and sounds to themselves and to concentrate more on experiences of quietude, calm, peace, cheerfulness. For they lay the necessary foundations of spiritual life and for change in ...
The rounding off Dilip Kumar Roy - 1983 - 136 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo gave unstinted praise to Krishnaprem's genius of self-giving. I find the same astonishing power in the gifted youth, Ekanta of whose capacity we have a very high opinion indeed, the more so as he could accept ...
Art and aesthetics of Abanindranath Tagore Sudhīrakumāra Nandī - 1983 - 207 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo called poetry, "the poetry of the soul". Rabindra- nath and Sri Aurobindo, both believed in this spiritual goal. Abanindranath and Brajendranath did not lag behind although their kinship in this regard, ...
Indian poetry in English Hari Mohan Prasad - 1983 - 254 pages - And this no doubt is the reason why Sri Aurobindo is first and foremast a poet. Thanks to poets like him we see the secret face that is our own, know man for the first time. If Existence-clarification is the mark of the poet, ...
Politics & society: Ram Mohan Roy to Nehru Gollapalli Nagabhushana Sarma, Moin Shakir - 1983 - 392 pages - With this preface we can understand why Sri Aurobindo was an unsparing critic of the time honoured methods of the Indian National Congress. In his New Lamps for the old he declares, " I say, of the Congress, then, this-that its aims ...
Modern Indian mysticism Kamakhya Prasad Singh Choudhary - 1981 - 302 pages - Another reason why Sri Aurobindo's mysticism is regarded as integral is that the practical aspect of his teaching finds its fulfilment in what he calls integral yoga, which has been left for later discussion.
Sri Aurobindo's integral approach to political thought Shiva Kumar Mital - 1981 - 268 pages - It is why, Sri Aurobindo emphasises that the attempts of the reason to account for and regulate its principle and phenomena are equally false and impracticable. Both the hedonistic theory which refers all virtue to pleasure and ...
Selections from Vinoba - Vinobā - 1981 - 356 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo spoke of the supramental state. He thinks of the mind as rising above itself to taste the immortal bliss of the vision and touch of God, and then returning to the earthly plane as what he calls an avatar.
Nolini: Arjuna of our age Nolini Kanta Gupta, V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1979 - 239 pages - That was the main reason, Nolinida says, why Sri Aurobindo started Bandemataram, " which was the first to declare in clear language that what we wanted was the freedom of India, a total freedom, a freedom untrammelled by any kind ...
The concept of Indian literature Vinayak Krishna Gokak - 1979 - 275 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo specially complimented English literature for having preserved in the course of its evolution, the general steps in the evolution of the human consciousness itself, with remarkable fidelity.
Yoga and depth psychology: with special reference to the ... I. P. Sachdeva - 1978 - 271 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo asserts : •'Whatever you do, whatever your occupation and activity, the will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must be living, always present, behind all that you do, all that you experience, ...
Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta: Sweet mother Nolini Kanta Gupta - 1978 - That is why Sri Aurobindo started his daily newspaper, Bandemataram, which was the first to declare in clear language that what we wanted was the freedom of India, a total freedom, a freedom untrammelled by any kind of domination by the ...
The yogi and the mystic: a study in the spirituality of Sri ... Jan Feys - 1977 - 371 pages - But even this provisional teaching cannot be understood properly without taking the Gita's over-all view into account, and this is why Sri Aurobindo feels compelled to anticipate more than once. This is particularly true with regard to ...
Indo-English literature: a collection of critical essays Kaushal Kishore Sharma - 1977 - 273 pages - And this no doubt is the reason why Sri Aurobindo is first and foremost a poet. Thanks to poets like him we see the secret face that is our own, know man for the first time. If Existence-clarification is the mark of the poet, ...
The life of a yogi Jan Feys - 1976 - 54 pages - 79-80) explain why Sri Aurobindo should question that the experience was gained 'by the grace of a Guru', and is forced to ascribe it to the Divine himself. Hence his theorising on the function of the guru in general : "The Guru is the ...
Education for a new life Narayan Prasad - 1976 - 179 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have dealt with the subject in great detail and in a methodical and scientific way. The experiences of those who are trying to build their future on higher principles have an educational value.
The Modern review: Volume 139 Ramananda Chatterjee - 1976 - That is why Sri Aurobindo's course of Sadhana is also a vary typical one. The Sadhana of this yoga does not proceed through any set mental teaching or prescribed forms of meditation, mantras or others, but aspiration by a ...
Dawn to greater dawn: six lectures on Sri Aurobindo's Savitri K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1975 - 126 pages - The Savitri Legend I devoted part of my first lecture to probe the ambiguous realm of causation as to why Sri Aurobindo, with apparently so much on hand — the Ashram and the disciples and the Yoga — nevertheless thought it necessary, ...
Champaklal speaks Champaklal - 1975 - 274 pages - At that time it intrigued me why Sri Aurobindo had to come to take that cup of soup for Mother, particularly when she was to pass in my direction immediately afterwards. Later I realised the deeper significance.
Studies in modern Indian aesthetics S. K. Nandi - 1975 - 307 pages - That is why Sri Aurobindo called poetry, "the poetry of the soul". Rabindranath and Sri Aurobindo, both believed in this spiritual goal. Abanindranath and Brajendranath did not lag behind although their kinship in this regard, ...
All India Conference on the Relevance of Sri Aurobindo Today, ... Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo Samiti - 1975 - 106 pages - This is why Sri Aurobindo demanded complete political independence for India. He would not pitch his ideal "one inch lower than absolute Swaraj"5 because he believed that "to strive for anything less than a strong and glorious freedom ...
Dialogues and perspectives Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1975 - 219 pages - just yesterday I received a letter from a correspondent asking why Sri Aurobindo had chosen the Savitri story from the Epic and not Draupadi's or Damayanti's, and wanting me to tell him everything about Savitri in a few words.