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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 ...
In the higher domains she is a power of love which pushes towards progress and transformation; in the vital she is a power of destruction of falsehood, hypocrisy and ill-will. 17. All that is good, truthful and progressive is never destroyed by her. On the contrary, she protects and sustains it. 5 June 1965.
Sri Aurobindo (1872 – 1950) was a key figure in the early movement for Indian Independence. He was arrested by the British on charges of sedition and after a deep spiritual experience in jail, he left politics to pursue a path of spiritual seeking. Sri Aurobindo founded an ashram in Pondicherry, where he became a prominent spiritual ...
Aug 15, 2022 · Sri Aurobindo: Merely a poetic or patriotic sentiment—just as in yourself only your flesh, skin, bones and other things of which the senses give their evidence are real, but what you call your mind and soul do not really exist being merely psychological impressions created by the food you eat and the activity of the glands. Poetry and patriotism have of course the same origin and the things ...
Oct 24, 2023 · PART 1. . . . In the spiritual truth of our being the power which we call Nature is the power of being, consciousness and will and therefore the power of self-expression and self-creation of the self, soul or Purusha. But to our ordinary mind in the ignorance and to its experience of things the force of Prakriti has a different appearance.
Jul 1, 2023 · Aurobindo took his arrest and yearlong incarceration as a God-imposed opportunity to concentrate fully on his inner, spiritual development, or sadhana. While in jail, he showed remarkably little concern about the court-case, but made an in depth study of the Bhagavad Gita and realized the presence of the personal Divine in everything and everybody around him.
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Not only was Sri Aurobindo "the greatest living philosopher on earth" (as Spiegelberg called him in 1949); not only has Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine been described by S.K. Maitra as the last arch in "The bridge of thoughts and sighs which spans the history of Aryan culture"; not only is Sri Aurobindo's Savitri "probably the greatest epic in the English language" (as Raymond F. Piper has ...
