July 26, 2010

Sri Aurobindo puts the relations of the individual, the community and humanity with great clarity

Calcutta review University of Calcutta, University of Calcutta ... - 1940
Consciousness- Will is, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, is the ultimate reality. The old idea of force or energy as material is being discarded by science an! philosophy. The ultimate reality is Siva-Sakti. Being and becoming, rest and ...
Annual Sri Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta - 1942
... becomings of one Self and are therefore to be known in their true nature through perfect oneness of being. The Supermind knows, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, “by a pure awareness of the self-truth of things in the self and by the self, ...
Annual Sri Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta - 1946
As Sri Aurobindo puts it, "For a total gnostic or divine living would include not only the individual life of the being but the life of others made one with the individual in a common uniting consciousness. Such a life must have for its ...
Calcutta review 1948
... the "pure ideative mind" that fives disinterestedly in the truth of its ideas apart from any necessary dependence on its value for action and experience.1 Season and Intuition As Aurobindo puts it, "Intuition is our first teacher. ...
Calcutta review 1949
... some universal consciousness, of which the cosmic energy is the outflow and manifestation. All energy or power is ultimately the energy or activity of some conscious being. As Sri Aurobindo puts the matter in his own way : " The ...
Annual Sri Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta - 1950
All times and spaces are, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, "renderings of a fundamental spiritual reality of Time-Space."1 Those who have any acquaintance with direct spiritual experience bear witness to what they call ...
Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1953
The mystical aspiration must be not towards a heaven beyond but, as Sri Aurobindo puts it in an early poem, The body with increasing soul to fill, Extend heaven's claim upon the toiling earth And climb from death to a diviner birth ...
Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1954
Sri Aurobindo puts this note in words thus, "I who am within thee, I who am here in this human body, I for whom all exists, acts, strives, am at once the secret of the self-existent spirit and of the cosmic action. ...
Philosophy East and West Project Muse - 1954
Sri Aurobindo puts the position even more strongly. "For the liberated Yogin there is no other law, rule, dharma than simply this, to live in the Divine and love the Divine and be one with all beings; his freedom is . . . not ...
Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture - 1954
As Sri Aurobindo puts it, 'Nietzsche's idea that to develop the superman out of our present very unsatisfactory manhood is our real business, is itself an absolutely sound teaching. His formulation of our aim, " to become ourselves " ...
Awakened India Advaita Ashrama - 1955
... used as a blanket term to cover both intellectual comprehension as well as intuitive perception. Philosophy in
India has not simply been 'a thinking consideration of things' but it has essentially been, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, ...
Calcutta review University of Calcutta - 1955
As he puts it, "Philosophy in
India has not simply been "a thinking consideration of things" but it has essentially been, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, "the intellectual canaliser of spiritual knowledge and experience"." Prof. ...
Annual Sri Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta - 1956
As Sri Aurobindo puts it, "One in self with all, the supramental being will seek the delight of self-manifestation of the Spirit in himself but equally the delight of the Divine in all: he will have the cosmic joy and will be a ...
The Indian journal of political science Indian Political Science Association - 1956
Thus while Bhattacharya emphasises de-individualisation Aurobindo puts the central insistence on a surrender to the divine power. This stress on God ward surrender as the inevitable means to the realization of spiritual freedom shows ...
Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1956
Still, now and then, there emerges, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, "a certain effort to recapture the Shakespearian potency and intensity accompanied by a new and higher element in the workings of the inspiration. ...
Mother India Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna, Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1956
As Sri Aurobindo puts it, "the words get, one might say, into the entrails of vision and do not stop short at the clear measure of the things seen, but evoke their very quality and give us immediately the inmost vital fibre and thrill" ...
Mankind Rammanohar Lohia - 1957
Simonc de Beauvoir puts it, Kant and Hegel never wanted to create any such school of philosophy connected with their names, and, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda were unable to be pundits in schools or take to ...
Journal of Sri Aurobindo Study Society Aurobindo Ghose - 1957
As Sri Aurobindo puts it : "The Spirit in humanity discovers, develops, builds into form in the individual man : it is through the progressive and formative individual that it offers the discovery and the chance of a new self-creation ...
Mother India Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna, Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1957
As Sri Aurobindo puts it, there is conversion before the Supermind and progression after it. Until the supramental change has occurred, something of the phenomenal and the created remains imperfect and needs to be converted. ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1959
But the soul-quality ensures, as Sri Aurobindo puts it in The Future Poetry? that the genuine poetic expression is not merely a pastime, not even a godlike one: "it is a great formative and illuminative power. ...
Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1960
The second line is what is called a conceit — something which, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, does not convery any true vision or emotion but is meant to strike and startle the intellectual imagination. Shakespeare, we said in an earlier ...
Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1961
... Aurobindo puts it, a spiritual religion of humanity is the hope of the future. The religion of humanity does not mean a universal religion or a new creed; it means the full realisation of "a secret spirit, a Divine reality, ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna, Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1962
After marking the frequent poetic perfection not only of the great Elizabethans but also of Indian poets of a similar inspiration of the Life-spirit, like Kalidasa, Sri Aurobindo puts his finger on the weak spot in the new ...
Journal of the Oriental Institute Oriental Institute (Vadodara, India) - 1962
The Yoga of the Gita is, as Shri Aurobindo puts it, " a large, flexible and many-sided system with various elements, which are all successfully harmonised by a sort of natural and living assimilation, and of these elements ...
Bhāratī: bulletin of the College of Indology 1962
... and posit an ultimately real principle, namely Sat or Brahman, as the ground or substratum of the world-existence and its ultimate cause. "Sad Brahman, Existence pure, indefinable, infinite, absolute, "as Sri Aurobindo puts it, ...
Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1962
... as Sri Aurobindo puts it, "the discovery of the divine Idea, Power and living norm of Beauty which by its breath of delight has created the universe, supports it and moves towards a greater perfection, inspires the harmonies of ...
Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1963
... a passion for knowledge, a passion for finding, an eye of intelligence awakened to all the multiform possibilities of new truth and discovery", as Sri Aurobindo puts it. Its distortions and perversions are to be guarded against, ...
Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1965
In fact, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, "Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude." So, if we ponder over the fact deeply, we come to realise that the difficulties and ...
Transactions Indian Institute of Advanced Study - 1965
The yantras and mantras of the Hindus, the ritual of the Christian Church and of the Masonic Craft have the same purpose in view . As Sri Aurobindo puts it: "This distinction amounts to a gradation of three stages in the growing human consciousness. One crude, ill-informed, still outward, still vitally and physically minded can be led only by devices suited to its ...
Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1965
As Sri Aurobindo puts it: "Sincerity means to lift all the movements of the being to the level of the highest consciousness and realisation already attained. "Sincerity exacts the unification and harmonisation of the whole being in all ...
New race Institute of Human Study, Hyderabad, India - 1965
As Sri Aurobindo puts it: "If it be true that Spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation of the divine in himself and the realisation of God within and without are the highest and most ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna, Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1966
In his physical death one can well read the victory of his soul's faith. And was it death ? What we call death is a term of our ignorance. For, as an early poem of Sri Aurobindo puts it, Life only is, or death is life disguised, ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture 1966
The outcome of this issue depends practically on how the present man avails himself of the choice that is offered to him by evolutionary Nature. As Sri Aurobindo puts it: "At present mankind is undergoing an evolutionary crisis in ...
The Aryan path Indian Institute of World Culture - 1966
Not all perhaps can enter, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, at once into the spirit of this masterpiece; but those who have once done so will never admit any poem in the world to be its superior. ...
Bulletin Sri Aurobindo International Centre of ... - 1967
The Mother's own answer, which was read at the Seminar, is as follows: "Because we are at one of the 'hours of God' as Sri Aurobindo puts it — and the transforming evolution of the world has taken a hastened and intensified movement. ...
Indian philosophy & culture Institute of Oriental Philosophy (Vrindāvan ... - 1967
Sri Aurobindo puts the relations of the individual, the community and humanity with great clarity in just a few sentences. He says, "The law for the individual is to perfect his individuality by free development from within, ...
Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture 1967
As one of the modern mystics, Sri Aurobindo, puts it: 'We speak of the evolution of life in matter, the evolution of mind in matter, but evolution is a word which merely states the phenomenon without explaining it. ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture 1967
... condition a condition of infatuation. Ancient Sanskrit literature may term it a condition of love- sickness. But, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, it is neither this nor that but a condition brought forth from the estrangement of ...
Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1967
Her answer to the question : Why is the choice imperative? is : "Because we are at one of the 'hours of God' as Sri Aurobindo puts it — and the transforming evolution of the world has taken a hastened and intensified movement. ...
Indian philosophical annual University of Madras. Centre of Advanced Study ... - 1967
Even this becomes ineffective at a certain stage. As Sri, Aurobindo puts it: “Men believe in Heaven and Hell but go on sinning merrily", 'A papal indulgence or the final priestly absolution or as death-bed repentance or a bath ...
The Theosophist Theosophical Society (Madras, India) - 1968
... themselves as material as is the level on which they are organized, but, being truly manifest, they convey truth, or in other words are a symbol or reflection of it, a "seeing of the Infinite in the finite," as Aurobindo puts it. ...
The Vedanta kesari Sri Ramakrishna Math (Madras, India) - 1968
Sri Aurobindo puts it truthfully when he says, " Not all perhaps can enter at once into the spirit of this masterpiece, but those who have once done so will never admit any other poem in the world as its superior? ...
The Theosophist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Theosophical Society - 1969
In this way one can see all the three-dimensional formulations which we exemplify and live amongst, as definitions of an entirely invisible purpose formulated in the condition of space we conceive as substance, or, as Aurobindo puts it, ...
Journal of Sri Aurobindo Study Society Aurobindo Ghose - 1970
The human body, life and mind have been evolved by a long process so that the Universal Conscious Force may fully come to the front and consciously carry the evolution to its goal. As Sri Aurobindo puts it: "The apparent inconscience of ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna, Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1970
Many people have tried to give an idea of what the soul or, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, the psychic being, is like. He has himself quoted Matthew Arnold's words — "sweetness and light" — to convey the characteristics of the psychic being. ...
Indian railways India. Railway Board - 1970
As Sri Aurobindo puts it in his Savitri: "None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell . " This stage is represented in Shiva's drinking the world- destroying poison: the forces of destruction are harnessed, but they are also ...
Darshana international 1970
As Sri Aurobindo puts it, "if we accept the current interpretations the whole of this sublime and sacred refutation is a colossal fiction. The hymns are,on the contrary, nothing more than the naive superstitious fancies of untaught and ...
Visvabharati quarterly Visva-Bharati - 1971
Art-activity is distinguished from other human acts by its integration of, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, work and knowledge. He writes "every well-made and significant poem, picture, statue or building is an act of creative knowledge, ...
And this will be, as Teilhard said, "an auto-evolution" when, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, "evolution would itself evolve". The mystics alone have learnt to love God in the world, even though it has not been always possible, ...
Mother India Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1971
... "The Son of David" (Christ) had perforce to be entirely different from his illustrious ancestor, who was the leader of a national religion "crude, conventional and barbarous enough in the Mosaic law," as Sri Aurobindo puts it. ...
Darshana international 1971
As Sri Aurobindo puts it, "if we accept the current interpretations the whole of this sublime and sacred refutation is a colossal fiction. The hymns are.on the contrary, nothing more than the naive superstitious fancies of untaught and ...
Bhāratī: bulletin of the College of Indology Banaras Hindu University. College of Indology ... - 1971
They involved not logical or dialectical reasoning but, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, 'a comparison of intuitions and experiences in which the less luminous gives place to the more luminous, the narrower, faultier or less essential to the ...
Transactions Indian Institute of Advanced Study - 1972
As Sri Aurobindo puts it: "It began by a quite external, a clear and superficial substance and utterance. It proceeded to a deeper vital poetry, a poetry of power and beauty and wonder and spontaneous thought, the joy and passion and ...
Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture - 1972
Since, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, man 'is an abnormal who has not found his own normality', Christ, the God- man, both by his teaching and by his life, restores human normality by denouncing all the egoisms, both individual and ...

Journal of religious studies Punjabi University. Dept. of Religious Studies - 1972
He has, also, it is clear, not given much thought to Sri Aurobindo's suggestion that spirituality may be the future or essence of religion. As Sri Aurobindo puts it, religion is beginning to realize, a little dimly and ineffectively as yet, that spirituality is after all its chief business and true aim and that it is also the common element and the common bond between ...
The Aryan path Indian Institute of World Culture - 1972
Evidently, then, we have in this chapter, "this important and decisive seventh chapter," as Aurobindo puts it, an epitome of the cardinal principles of the ...
Annual Sri Aurobindo Mandir, Calcutta - 1972
"The bud of the third (vital sub-plane) is Love", as Sri Aurobindo puts it. It is in and by love that life goes beyond itself, gets in communion with other forms of life and thus becomes more adequately conscious of itself. ...
Indian and foreign review India. Ministry of Information and ... - 1972
Sri Aurobindo puts forward at least four reasons for it: 1. The expression of spirituality in the English tongue is needed and no one can give the real stuff like Easterners especially Indians; 2. We are entering an age when the stiff ...

World union World Union (Organization) - 1988
But this will not happen unless one meditates as Sri Aurobindo puts it. Meditation alone will strengthen equanimity, will dissolva all attachments (remember when there is attachment, there will be suffering when separation takes place), ...
Journal of South Asian literature Michigan State University. Asian Studies Center - 1989
As Aurobindo puts it, "the Rig-veda is itself the one considerable document that remains to us from the early period of human thought of which the historic Eleusinian and Orphic mysteries were the failing remnants, when the spiritual ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1989
And this elimination of the ego can only be achieved if our present imperfect nature develops beyond itself by an evolutionary mutation because, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, "we can construct nothing which goes beyond our nature; ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1990
Imagine a person who has spent many sleepless nights, jumping from programme to programme on his remote control, always ending up "satiated but not satisfied", as Sri Aurobindo puts it in the first chapter of The Life Divine. ...
Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research  Indian Council of Philosophical Research - 1991
... many others hold this view. They also hold that classical Indian philosophy satisfies this criterion. Rather, many times they seem to locate its distinctiveness or individuality in its being imbued with, or as Aurobindo puts it, ...
Annual  Sri Aurobindo mandir, Calcutta - 1991
... becomings of one Self and are therefore to be known in their true nature through perfect oneness of being. The Supermind knows, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, "by a pure awareness of the self-truth of things in the self and by the self, ...
Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research  Indian Council of Philosophical Research - 1991
... many others hold this view. They also hold that classical Indian philosophy satisfies this criterion. Rather, many times they seem to locate its distinctiveness or individuality in its being imbued with, or as Aurobindo puts it, ...
The Advent  Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1992
Higher mind: As Sri Aurobindo puts it, "It is a luminous thought- mind, a mind of spirit-born conceptual knowledge."21 Higher mind does not depend on the limited sources of knowledge like sense-experience, inference, etc. ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture  Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1993
Sri Aurobindo puts it thus: "If we refuse to supply our needs from foreign sources, we must obviously supply them ourselves; we cannot have the industrial boycott without swadeshi and the expansion of indigenous industries. ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1993
Sri Aurobindo puts a stress on this part of our psychology when he wants us to practise "equality" and avoid the inner disturbance that stems from "desire". He says that people think we shall be inert if desire is lacking. ...
Journal of South Asian literature Michigan State University. Asian Studies Center - 1993
Poetry, however, escapes logical and grammatical constructs; it draws, as Octavio Paz notes, from "the unfathomable abyss out of which measure is born." Or, as Aurobindo puts it, "poetry is a question of the right concentrated silence ...
Indian journal of social research Baraut, India. Jat Vedic College. Dept. of ... - 1994
As Sri Aurobindo puts it: "If it be true that Spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret. God, then the manifestation of the divine in himself and the realization of God within and without are the highest and most ...
The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1994
The function of Mind is, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, to measure, limit, cut out forms of things from the indivisible whole and contain them as if each were a separate integer.1 Mind is divided and finite consciousness. ...
Indian journal of social research 1994
As Sri Aurobindo puts it : "If it be true that Spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret. God, then the manifestation of the divine in himself and the realization of God within and without are the highest and most ...
Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research Indian Council of Philosophical Research - 1996
As Sri Aurobindo puts it: Our world-knowledge is therefore a difficult structure made up of the imperfect documentation of the sense-image, an intuitional interpretation of it by the perceptive-mind, ...
The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1997
The problem, in fact, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, is this: "How could this manifold ignorance or this narrowly self-limiting and separative knowledge arise and come into action or maintain itself in action in an absolute Being who must be ...
Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture - 1997
As Sri Aurobindo puts it, nobody can say that mind is the last item of evolution. After mind we may have supermind, nostic being and all that. Swamiji points out that what
Darwin tells us is valid only for the animal kingdom and what ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1997
We see, for instance, how in the Alipore Jail Sri Aurobindo puts his adversity to advantage. He recalls: One plate and bowl used to adorn the courtyard. Properly washed and cleaned, my self-sufficing plate and bowl shone like silver; ...
Sri Aurobindo circle Aurobindo Ghose - 1998
Thus, it is clear that Sri Aurobindo puts above all the freedom of the individual - freedom both in its instrumental as well as intrinsic sense. The basic rationale for this is that, according to him, all experience shows that man ...

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