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Apr 21, 2023 · The spiritual essence of religion is alone the one thing supremely needful, the thing to which we have always to hold and subordinate to it every other element or motive. This selection from Sri Aurobindo's book 'The Human Cycle' explores why in human history religion has not been a sufficient guide for conducting individual and collective life.
Sri Aurobindo(born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist.[3] He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as Bande Mataram.[4] He joined the Indian movement for independencefrom British colonial rule, until 1910 was one of its influential leaders, and ...
Sri Aurobindo’s metaphysics views God, nature and man, and man’s social duties as a synthetic whole. His Essays on the Gītā, and The Life Divine discuss these aspects. For Sri Aurobindo, philosophy is to discover that being by knowing which everything else is known. The supreme reality of Sri Aurobindo is sat-cit ānanda. But this ...
Aug 31, 2022 · This paper will bring out Sri Aurobindo’s pluralistic and cosmopolitan understanding of the concept of nation. Aurobindo’s notion of nationalism was influenced by his understanding of religion, spirituality, humanity and morality, and hence, sometimes the...
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Patrick M Beldio. Sri Aurobindo (nèe Aurobindo Ghose, 1872-1950), a native of India, spent his youth studying poetry and the classics in England. Upon his return to colonial India, he became influential in Indian revolutionary politics. Inspired by his own spiritual experience, Śaktism, Vedānta, Tantra, and the Bhagavad Gītā, he later ...
Sri Aurobindo's teaching states that this One Being and Consciousness is involved here in Matter. Evolution is the method by which it liberates itself; consciousness appears in what seems to be inconscient, and once having appeared is self-impelled to grow higher and higher and at the same time to enlarge and develop towards a greater and greater perfection.
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Apr 22, 2024 · In the framework of Sri Aurobindo’s understanding, Jamison and Brereton’s translation is simply an epistemic act of violence against Indian culture, heritage, and texts. In The Secret of the Veda , Sri Aurobindo trashes the idea of an Aryan invasion and the separate racial identity of the so-called Dravidians.
