Sri Aurobindo maintains that the Veda has a double aspect

Four Faces of the Universe: An Integrated View of the Cosmos - Page 37 Robert Kleinman - 2007 - 334 pages
Sri Aurobindo maintains that there is a height on which all three modes exist in perfect harmony. The goal of spiritual life would then be to experience this harmony here on earth. Later, in our discussion of evolutionary cosmology, ...

Philosophical Humanism and Contemporary India - Page 48 Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 2006 - 211 pages
But there is greater stress on creativity and activism in Berdyaev than in Aurobindo. Aurobindo maintains that the true spiritual Atman is behind the flux of forces and the personality acting through nature is a formulation and ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo, Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur ... - 2007 - 317 pages
Speaking about this Sri Aurobindo maintains: The Upanisads declare that the mind in us is infinite, it knows not only what has been seen but what has not been seen, not only what has been heard but what has not been heard, not only what ... [Sri Aurobindo and His Contemporary Thinkers, Ethics and Culture: Some Indian Reflections, Modern Indian Philosophers: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Ram Mohan Roy, Swami Vivekananda, Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, Swami Dayananda Saraswati]

Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture Ramakrishna Mission, India. Institute of ... - 2006
It is for this reason that while drawing the line of demarcation between Western culture and Indian culture, Sri Aurobindo maintains that while Western culture emphasizes the material to the utter neglect of spirituality, Indian culture ...

World peace: problems of global understanding and prospect of harmony, Santinath Chattopadhyay - 2005 - 949 pages
As Sri Aurobindo maintains, a separated form of life when emerges, it has to assert itself against a constant pull of inanimate material inertia towards disintegration and a relapse into the original inanimate Inconscience. ...

Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page 293 Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - 336 pages
Talking about the human evolution at the gnostic level and beyond Sri Aurobindo maintains that 'it would be no longer an evolution through strife; it would become a harmonious ...

The Indian imagination: critical essays on Indian writing in English - Page 41 K. D. Verma - 2000 - 268 pages
In The Human Cycle, Aurobindo maintains that, since human beings and nature will continue to evolve, no system can claim to be absolutely perfect and universally valid, and that humanity's journey through various evolutionary stages ... Page 75 Aurobindo seems to argue, will be the tiebreaker in this philosophical debate: the mantra as an art form is the rhythmic expression of the unified vision of consciousness, truth and language.7' VI Aurobindo maintains that "poetry ...

The integral advaitism of Sri Aurobindo - Page 273 Ram Shankar Misra - 1957 , 1998 - 437 pages
The individual self according to Sri Aurobindo maintains its identity even after the realisation of its essential nature. But then though it maintains its individual existence yet it considers itself a portion of the Divine and one with it in its essential ... Page 261 By conceiving Ignorance as a modification of the supreme conscious force of Brahman, Sri Aurobindo maintains the oneness of the Absolute and at the same time is able to explain the world process. Now we proceed to discuss critically ... Page 225 Sri Aurobindo maintains the perfect transcendence of the Absolute as well as its immanence on the basis of the higher logic. But Bradley is not in a position to do so. He does not explain how the Absolute synthesises all the differences ...

Sri Aurobindo and Vedānta philosophy, Sheojee Pandey - 1987 - 150 pages
Further Sri Aurobindo maintains that this world is real in the sense that all which exists is the Reality. But our consciousness is unable to grasp the reality in its totality. The reality of the world cannot come to our mind due to ...

Sri Aurobindo and Iqbal: a comparative study of their philosophy, M. Rafique - 1974 - 213 pages
But Sri Aurobindo maintains that "new steps in evolution are rather effected by rapid and sudden outbursts, outbreaks, as it were, of manifestation from the unmanifest."2 The materialists hold Matter as the sole reality and they say ...

Sanskrit and the evolution of human speech: based on Sri ... Sampadananda Mishra - 2005 - 171 pages
27 Sri Aurobindo maintains that it is the Sanskrit language which can provide sufficient material and the right material based on which a true science of language can be founded and the origin of speech can be traced out. ...

Musings on Indian Writing in English: Poetry - Page x, Natesan Sharda Iyer - 2005 - 286 pages
Sri Aurobindo maintains that the future poetry will acquire a mantric or incantatory quality — will come to us as a dance of creative life and that such poetry will be first manifested in English and perhaps in Indian writing in English ...

Consciousness, Bioenergy and Healing: Self-Healing and Energy ... - Page 505 Daniel J. Benor - 2004 - 701 pages
sensations could be explained by stimulation of nerve plexes corresponding to the chakras, and that visions could be explained by stimulation of the optic centers in the brain: "...The Indian sage Sri Aurobindo maintains that ...

Indian literary criticism in English: critics, texts, issues, P. K. Rajan - 2004 - 363 pages
Interestingly, Aurobindo maintains that if the volume of learning, the sheer amount of erudition in plain and simple terms, were a criterion for determining the greatness of a poet, surely Browning will be a greater poet than ...

Principles Of Education - Page 238 S.S. Chandra, Rajendra Kumar Sharma - 2004 - 582 pages
Sri Aurobindo maintains that the three aspects of reality, viz., individuality, commonality and essentiality are in fact one. Disciplinary Measures The best way to impose discipline, according to Sri Aurobindo is the atmosphere and the ... [Philosophy of Education]

Tagores Chitra And Aurobindos Savitri : A Comparative Study - Page 139 Ketki N. Pandya - 2004 - 176 pages
Aurobindo adds, It is no part of this Yoga to suppress taste, rasa, altogether. What is to be got rid of is vital desire and attachment, [...] Aurobindo maintains that the body is not to be ...

CIT consciousness Bina Gupta - 2003 - 203 pages
There are other phenomena such as what he called the phenomenon of genius, the phenomenon of inspiration, of revelatory vision, not to speak of the vast field of mystic and spiritual experiences.15 Intuition, Aurobindo maintains, ...

The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 384 Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - 568 pages
A solution lies in the marriages of tomorrow, not in the syncretism (attempt to reconcile different systems of belief) of yesterday, and Ken Wilber, like Sri Aurobindo, maintains that man's greatness is not what one is at present, ... Page 413 This cosmic action needs the play of the infinite Force of Existence, which produces and regulates all these forms and movements. Sri Aurobindo maintains that the infinite Consciousness, as a vast universal self-delight, is the cause, ...

The quest for the inner man: transpersonal psychotherapy and ... - Page 269, Joseph Vrinte - 1996 - 282 pages
or towards a greater and higher existence". Sri Aurobindo maintains that the ideal of a divine humanity cannot be brought to function by religious or moral sentiments but by transcending the furthest outskirts of the mental realm. ...

Immortal Paradigms: Sri Aurbindo Home-Coming Centenary Volume - Page 196, Charu Sheel Singh - 2002 - 264 pages
That is why the Integral Non-dualism of Sri Aurobindo maintains that Supra-cosmic transcendence, cosmic universality and unique individuality are three equally real non-temporal poises of being of the same Supreme Spirit. ...

Studies in Indian poetry in English - Page 229, U. S. Rukhaiyar, Amar Nath Prasad - 2002 - 251 pages
flow and force which is in no way inferior to the poems by any of the English poets of the past or the present. Sri Aurobindo maintains that 'it is not true in all cases that one can't write first class things in a learned language. ...

Traditions of Mysticism in Bengal - Page 109, Sadhu Santideva - 2000 - 292 pages
Aurobindo maintains that God has yet to descend on earth as the supramental Avatara (Kalki) in order to bring down the supermind and make it a permanent ingredient of the earth-consciousness. Dr. Radhakrishnan is inclined to think that ...

Spiritual Titanism: Indian, Chinese, and Western perspectives - Page 155 Nicholas F. Gier - 2000 - 302 pages
Furthermore, Aurobindo maintains that the goal of evolution is already prefigured in its beginning: "This teleology does not bring in any factor which does not belong to the totality; it proposes only the realisation of the totality ...

Indian English poetry: critical perspectives - Page 26, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2000 - 302 pages

Sri Aurobindo maintains that 'it is not true in all cases that one can't write first class things in a learned language... . If first- class excludes everything inferior to Shakespeare and Milton, that is another matter'.10 The modern ...

Indian psychological review 2000
When Sri Aurobindo maintains that every-thing in the wond is divinely ordained, or determined by the universal spirit, it does not mean the negation of the individuality but rather an affirmation of it, since that universal spirit is ...

Education: challenges of the twenty-first century : the global context, Kishor Gandhi - 1999 - 397 pages
With Teilhard de Chardin, it culminates in consciousness of Christ which transforms man, while Sri Aurobindo maintains that human unity being the next stage of man's evolution, according to nature's plans. Humanity must transform and...

Indian renaissance and Indian English poetry, Subhas Chandra Saha - 1998 - 120 pages
Sri Aurobindo maintains the continuity of the narrative, but interpolates Renaissance ideas in the fabric of the narrative. Thus the poem presents the ideas of the Bengal Renaissance in an artistic manner. ... 

Hindu nationalism in India: Ideological corollaries, D. D. Pattanaik - 1998 - 196 pages

HV Seshadri, following Aurobindo, maintains that nationalism is thus a stage of human evolution. He elucidates, "Nationalism in our view, is a stage for self-expression of the human spirit. It is not self-aggrandisement. ...

T.M.P. Mahadevan, R. Balasubramanian - 1998 - 251 pages
Sri Aurobindo maintains that only the Vedanta gives a satisfactory explanation of the evolution of life from matter and of mind from life because matter is a form of veiled life and life is a form of veiled consciousness. ...

Sociology, ideology, and utopia: socio-political philosophy of ... - Page 41 Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1997 - 236 pages
The Indian approach, Sri Aurobindo maintains, has been different right from the beginning. In Asia, in general, and in India, in particular, the primary human activities are "social" while the same in Europe "political". ...

Sri Aurobindo critical considerations Dr. O. P. Mathur - 1997 - 247 pages
Sri Aurobindo maintains that man is an intermediate creature, based firmly in the material consciousness and has infinite capacity of co-operating with the evolutionary thrust and thus accelerating the pace of evolution. ...

The Bhagavadgītā and St. John of the Cross: a comparative study of ..., Rudolf V. D'Souza - 1997 - 460 pages
uprightness, purity, steadfastness, self-restraint"46. Aurobindo maintains that the teacher who imparts wisdom in the BG is Krsna who is not only the God in man who unveils Himself in the world of knowledge, but the God in ...

Spectrum history of Indian literature in English - Page 235, Ram Sewak Singh, Charu Sheel Singh - 1997 - 273 pages
At the same time, Aurobindo maintains a world beyond circle or circumference — a progressive teleology that would liberate the individual human being by merging him into God who is the source of all. The individual is a point of ...

The ethical philosophy of the Gita: a comparative and critical ..., Madan Prasad Singh - 1996 - 263 pages
Although Sri Aurobindo maintains that reality is one, he neither holds to the doctrine of maya in the sense that it is illusory and can be dispelled by knowledge nor does he maintain that there are distinctions of degrees in the ...

Through a glass darkly: essays in the religious imagination - Page 215 John Charles Hawley - 1996 - 299 pages
(BCL 15: 609-10) If man's salvation, as Aurobindo maintains, lies in "a religious or spiritual idealization of a possible future humanity" (BCL 15:609), man must continue to evolve, by means of the synthetic discipline of yoga, ...

Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research Indian Council of Philosophical Research - 1996
Sri Aurobindo maintains that direct and non-sensuous ideas about the ultimate reality formed by pure reason are not fully accepted without some non-sensuous experience about reality which is not only possible, but is actually present in ...

The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1996
5 Sri Aurobindo maintains that the Veda has a double aspect, internal and external. The same deities are both internal and external powers of Nature. But more than that is the psychological sense that pervades the whole of the Veda. ...

The Advent Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1995
However, Sri Aurobindo maintains that they are yet under the shadow of ignorance. In this context it is most enlightening to learn that the Mother has declared that Supermind has manifested upon earth. This happened on 29th February, ...

Integral non-dualism: a critical exposition of Vijñānabhikṣu's ..., Kanshi Ram - 1995 - 189 pages
of Sri Aurobindo maintains that Brahman by 'involution' manifests itself as matter and then progressively brings about an unfolding of its powers through 'evolution'. (with slight alteration) — The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Vol. ... Page vii Adjunct of the Absolute in order to lay down that it is only the Absolute Which is ultimately real. Reality according to him consists in the incidence of Sri Aurobindo maintains that Brahman by 'involution' manifests itself as ...

Sri Aurobindo on Vedic deities, Ramaranjan Mukherji - 1995 - 149 pages ... Aurobindo maintains ...

World union World Union (Organization) - 1994
"Fraternity is not even claimed to be a practicable principle".2 Sri Aurobindo maintains that these three "are three godheads of the soul; they cannot be really achieved through the external machinery of society or by man so long as he ...