Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
https://selforum.blogspot.com/2025/12/kafkas-absolute-sincerity-of-search.html
https://auroramirabilis.blogspot.com/2025/12/sri-aurobindo-and-mother-integrated.html
https://marketime.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-unintended-social-order-that.html
In 2025, we conclude this unwritten book of hidden connections by using The Mother’s Twelve Qualities as the definitive keys to unlock the Kafkaesque Castle of the Inconscient. - GoogleAI
https://feelphilosophy.blogspot.com/2025/12/from-suspicion-to-vedic-suns.html
https://becausethouart.blogspot.com/2025/12/feuerbach-nietzsche-and-freud.html
https://evergreenessays.blogspot.com/2025/12/great-man-and-superman.html
To complete the evolutionary story of the "Superman," two pivotal intellectual transmissions—from German Idealism to Carlyle and from Emerson to Nietzsche—must be integrated. These links bridge the gap between historical "Greatness" and the eventual "Gnostic Being."
https://orchidrose.blogspot.com/2025/12/fichte-carlyle-emerson-nietzsche-and.html
To conclude, the synthesis of Emerson’s Self-Reliance and Aurobindo’s Self-Surrender provides a definitive spiritual rebuttal to the "banishment" of God enacted by Feuerbach and Marx.
While Feuerbach and Marx were "necessary" iconoclasts who cleared away the ruins of an external, oppressive deity, Aurobindo uses the Emersonian bridge to restore the "formula of Wisdom" as an internal, evolutionary reality.
1. Reversing Feuerbach’s Projection
- Feuerbach's Claim: God is a projection of human perfections (Love, Light, Power) that humans must "reclaim" to become truly human.
- The Synthesis Response: Aurobindo agrees that these perfections belong to the human essence, but argues that Feuerbach’s "human" is too small. Through Self-Reliance, we discover these perfections within; through Self-Surrender, we realize they are not "projections" of a finite mind but the "involved" powers of an infinite Spirit. God is not a projection of what man is, but a manifestation of what man is becoming.
2. Overcoming Marx’s Materialism
- Marx's Claim: Religion is the "opium of the people," a byproduct of economic alienation. Once the material world is fixed, the "formula of Wisdom" (God) will vanish forever.
- The Synthesis Response: Aurobindo views Marx’s "Social Man" as merely a stage in the "Life" principle’s development. Self-Reliance gives the individual the power to stand against economic determinism, while Self-Surrender provides the "Light" to see that matter itself is "spirit densified." The "return of the formula" happens because the hunger for Immortality and Freedom is a biological necessity of the soul, not an economic delusion.
3. The Restoration of the Formula (2025 Perspective)
In 2025, we see this synthesis as the final resolution to the 19th-century "death of God":
| The "Banished" Element | The "Atheist" Critique (Feuerbach/Marx) | The Gnostic Restoration (Aurobindo/Emerson) |
|---|---|---|
| God | An alienated "other" or "opium." | The "Indwelling Divine" discovered through Surrender. |
| Light | Intellectual Reason alone. | Supramental Gnosis (Direct Truth-Vision). |
| Freedom | Political/Economic liberation. | Spiritual Liberation from the ego and the laws of Matter. |
| Immortality | A "pie-in-the-sky" fantasy. | The transformation of the physical body and vital life. |
Summary: The Ultimate Return
Sri Aurobindo surmised that the "earliest formula" returns after every banishment because it is the Secret Plan of Nature. Feuerbach and Marx did not kill God; they killed a mental image of God that was blocking the path to the Divine Reality.
By moving from Emersonian independence to Aurobindonian identity, the modern individual completes the "return." The "Formula" (Life-Light-Love) is no longer a distant wisdom found in ancient texts, but the living atmosphere of a new stage of human evolution.
For a deeper dive into how this "Supramental" change is manifesting in the 21st century, you may consult the Sri Aurobindo Ashram's archives on The Life Divine.
Would you like to examine any other specific "formula" or triad from this lineage?
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In Sri Aurobindo’s
Integral Yoga
, the integration of Truth, Good, and Beauty (the classical Satyam-Shivam-Sundaram) serves as the psychological and aesthetic counterpart to the metaphysical "formula of Wisdom."This triad represents the three primary ways the human soul approaches the Divine through its mental, ethical, and aesthetic faculties.
1. The Psychic "Magnetic Pull"
Sri Aurobindo suggests that while the "formula of Wisdom" returns to humanity through intellectual or evolutionary cycles, it specifically manifests in the individual through the Psychic Being (the soul).
- The Mechanism: Presenting Truth, Goodness, and Beauty to the mind, heart, and senses creates a "magnetic pull" on the soul.
- The Result: This pull thins the "veil" between our outer personality and our inner divinity, making the consciousness more transparent to the spiritual light.
2. Mapping the Triad to the "Formula"
The integration of these three values corresponds to the four aspects of the Divine as they manifest in human nature:
| Divine Principle | Human Faculty | Expression in the World |
|---|---|---|
| Light / Knowledge | Mental Plane | Truth (Satyam): The discovery of the reality behind appearances. |
| Love / Bliss | Psychic Plane | Beauty (Sundaram): The experience of Ananda (divine bliss) taking form. |
| Power / Will | Vital/Physical Plane | Goodness (Shivam): The divine harmony expressed in right action and ethical purity. |
3. Beauty as the "Divine Signature"
For Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, Beauty is perhaps the most potent element for 2025's material world.
- Aesthetic Identity: "To find highest beauty is to find God".
- The Law of Harmony: In the world of forms, a violation of Beauty is considered as great a "fault" as a violation of Truth is in the world of ideas.
- Evolutionary Role: Beauty is the way the Physical expresses the Divine, acting as a bridge that allows the "inconscient" matter to start reflecting the "supramental" light.
4. Integration in the Gnostic Being
In the Gnostic Being, these three are no longer separate or potentially conflicting (where a "truth" might be "ugly," or a "beauty" might be "evil").
- On the higher Supramental plane, Truth, Good, and Beauty coalesce into a single, inseparable movement of consciousness.
- The Gnostic individual lives in a "divine spontaneity" where every act is simultaneously true to the spirit, good for the collective, and beautiful in its manifestation.
This integration effectively completes the reversal of the "banishment" discussed earlier. If Feuerbach saw God as a projection of human perfections, the Gnostic realization reveals that these perfections—Truth, Goodness, and Beauty—are the very substance of the universe waiting to be unveiled through evolution.
Would you like to see a comparative study of how "Beauty" specifically acts as a "Power" in the transformation of the physical body, according to The Mother’s later occult work?
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In Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy, the Western triad of Truth, Good, and Beauty (often referred to in Indian thought as Satyam-Shivam-Sundaram) serves as the objective manifestation of the essential spiritual reality known as Satchidananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss).
While Satchidananda represents the Divine in its subjective essence, the triad of Truth, Good, and Beauty represents how those same qualities are expressed and experienced in the world of form and action.
Mapping the Correspondence
According to Sri Aurobindo's systematic mapping, each element of the spiritual essence has a corresponding objective reflection:
- Sat (Existence) corresponds to Satyam (Truth):
- Sat is the subjective spirit; its objective reflection is Satyam. That which truly exists is the ultimate Truth.
- Chit (Consciousness-Force) corresponds to Shivam (Goodness):
- Chit manifests as both Knowledge and Will. When this consciousness-force acts in the world, its objective reflection is Shivam—divine Goodness or Auspiciousness—which is the "Truth of Will".
- Ananda (Bliss) corresponds to Sundaram (Beauty):
- Ananda is the subjective delight of existence; its objective reflection is Sundaram. Beauty is the form that Bliss takes in the material world, and the mind experiences divine delight primarily as Beauty.
The Integral Unity
In Sri Aurobindo's view, these are not separate attributes but an inseparable unity. Just as Sat, Chit, and Ananda are one reality, so too are Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. In the "Supramental" consciousness, they coalesce: a thing is not fully True unless it is also Good and Beautiful.
| Subjective Aspect (Satchidananda) | Objective Reflection (Satyam-Shivam-Sundaram) | Psychological Domain |
|---|---|---|
| Sat (Existence/Being) | Truth (Satyam) | Mental/Intellectual |
| Chit (Consciousness-Force) | Goodness (Shivam) | Ethical/Vital (Will) |
| Ananda (Bliss/Delight) | Beauty (Sundaram) | Aesthetic/Psychic |
This mapping explains why the "formula of Wisdom" returns: it is the externalized pressure of the internal Satchidananda seeking to manifest its perfect image on Earth.
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