Sunday, May 02, 2010

The highest state as per Patanjali, Plotinus, & Sri Aurobindo

The meeting of the East and the West in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy Sisir Kumar Maitra - 1956 - 451 pages PHILOSOPHY AND MYSTICISM I start then with the relation between philosophy and mysticism, as viewed respectively by Plotinus and Sri Aurobindo. Here, however, there is an initial difficulty, for the term mysticism has been defined by ...
The mysticism of Plotinus for instance holds that action ... For both of them, Patanjali and Plotinus, transcending the human consciousness is the highest state; but for Sri Aurobindo remaining in the world and not cutting oneself away ...
I have already dealt with the question whether Sri Aurobindo can be regarded as a mystic in my article Sri Aurobindo and Plotinus … Sri Aurobindo cannot be called a ...
Sri Aurobindo and Jung: a comparative study in Yoga and depth ... Satya Prakash Singh - 1986 - 239 pages
For, disciplines akin to yoga were followed by Plotinus and European mystics even in the beginning of the Christian ... an unbridgeable gulf between the Eastern and the Western spiritual practices, Sri Aurobindo is not convinced by it. ...
Sri Aurobindo's philosophy of evolution V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1966 - 385 pages
Aurobindo avoids Plato's tragedy not by lowering the intuitions, nor by raising the logic, as Aristotle does but by still ... In fact, Dean Inge emphatically declares the mysticism of Plotinus and his Christian imitators to be ' false ...
The search for beauty: a comparative study of Sri Aurobindo's ... Hariram Jasta - 1988 - 120 pages
Sri Aurobindo is a mystic par excellence, a mystic who goes beyond Plotinus and Longinus in attributing a numinosity to art; yet through art he wants to bring about union of the spirit and matter as he believes that the immaculate ...
Mother India: monthly review of culture Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna, Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1994
Furthermore, I begin to doubt not only whether Nair has read Sri Aurobindo enough but also whether he has even dived sufficiently into Boethius and Plotinus. Boethius expounds the "blessedness" of a good life according to God's ...
Perspectives on Vedānta: essays in honor of Professor P.T. Raju - Page 64 Poolla Tirupati Raju, S. S. Rama Rao Pappu - 1988 - 206 pages
Part of the problem Aurobindo faced in trying to explain what he meant by intuition was that he had to use reason to explain ... In addition he was a prophet of cosmic evolution, and only time will tell whether he, Plotinus, Hegel, ...
Neoplatonism and Indian Philosophy - Page 153 Paulos Gregorios, International Society for ... - 2002 - 275 pages
For Plotinus philosophy is a way of life, what in
India is called sadhana, a way leading the philosopher to a vision of, and union with, what he calls The One. SriAurobindo takes philosophy as what it means in the modern world. ...
Philosophy, religion, and the coming world civilization: Essays in ... Leroy S. Rouner, William Ernest Hocking ... - 1966 - 506 pages
fully aware of the One in the upper levels of consciousness as Plotinus was. But I think this is most unlikely. ... For instance, Sri Aurobindo, a Hindu mystic who died only a few years ago, writes that "the mind when it passes those ...
Early Buddhism and its origins Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1973 - 505 pages
From the Rgvedic seers to Bergson and Aurobindo,1 and from Buddha and Plato to Nagarjuna, ... Plotinus also used to experience hypnosis or ekstasis. Hegel was a determined opponent of mysticism but there is a passage in the The ...
The marriage of sense and soul: integrating science and religion Ken Wilber - 1998 - 225 pages
Indeed, Plotinus — arguably the greatest philosopher- mystic the world has ever known — usually gave the Great Chain twelve ... Table 2-1 shows the typical Great Nest as presented by Plotinus and Sri Aurobindo, two of its greatest ...
The Literary criterion                     2002 Interestingly it was followed by yet another paper on Aurobindo but in juxtaposition with Plotinus by Dr. AP Dani. As both were mystics engaged in a quest for the Self, the accent was understandably on the transcendental nature of ...
The radical thinkers: Heidegger and Sri Aurobindo Rhoda Priscella Le Cocq - 1972 - 214 pages
As a philosopher, Sri Aurobindo's "retirement", therefore, was more in the manner of Plotinus, not in the manner of Heidegger. ... On the second floor of a two-storey grey stucco building, Sri Aurobindo lived and wrote. ...
In our time a few individuals have taken up this problem, and amongst them are Alexis Carrel and Sri Aurobindo Ghose.... the Greek philosopher Plotinus in the En- neads : " All things aspire towards self-expression, life and activity. ...

On the edge of the future: Esalen and the evolution of American ... - Page 101 Jeffrey John Kripal, Glenn W. Shuck - 2005 - 323 pages
Murphy has noted that although Spiegelberg was never as influenced by Aurobindo as he was and in fact could be quite ... Saint Paul, and Plotinus; and ended with the Hindu mystic Sri Ramakrishna as the exemplar of the unity of world
The spiritual monarchies of Asian gurus, as we have repeatedly learned over the last forty years, do not always do well with democratic values such as radical individualism, human equality, gender justice, and the freedom of critical expression.

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