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 Siṅghā 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.
