Friday, June 11, 2010

Sri Aurobindo contends that the poet should aim at uttering the mantra

The feminine mirrored: Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Sandhya Sharma - 2002 - 202 pages
Sri Aurobindo contends: Guru is the inner guide secret within us. To secret within us. To activate this secret, the human guru will lead the disciple through the nature of the disciple. Teaching, example, influence, — these are the ...
The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 508 Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - 568 pages
These formulae of Science may be pragmatically correct and infallible, they may govern the practical how of Nature's processes, but they do not disclose the intrinsic how or why."47 Sri Aurobindo contends that his metaphysical ...
The essential Aurobindo - Page 227 Aurobindo Ghose, Robert A. McDermott - 2001 - 288 pages
Just as Sri Aurobindo contends that the yogas of work, knowledge, and love are equally important ingredients in the integral yoga of self-perfection, the Mother insists on the need to perfect all four levels of the self, ...
The quantum revolution - Page 307 Amit Goswami - 2001 - 343 pages
Sri Aurobindo contends that evolution does not end with humans as we are today; there may be an evolutionary future before us, an astounding future. The philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin calls this future the progression toward the... 
The physicists' view of nature - Page 307 Amit Goswami - 2001 - 343 pages
Sri Aurobindo contends that the poet should aim at uttering the mantra. He may often fail to do so ; but to strive for success should be the highest trend of his poetic expression. Mantra, according to him, is the "poetic expression of ...
Fifty Eastern thinkers - Page 163 Diané Collinson, Kathryn Plant, Robert Wilkinson - 2000 - 425 pages
Though practice may speed up this evolution, Aurobindo contends that none of its steps can be omitted.22 The first stage is the psychic transformation... In common with many eastern thinkers, Aurobindo contends that the ego of ordinary experience is a superficial ...
The integral advaitism of Sri Aurobindo - Page 7 Ram Shankar Misra  - 1998 - 437 pages
of existence and proclaim in the words of the Upanisads that "Matter also is Brahman."2 Sri Aurobindo contends that Matter and Spirit will not appear in a trenchant opposition if we take into account the intervening grades between ... Page 270 to take recourse to the doctrine of Maya. The main purpose of this theory or its main function is to reconcile the two perfectly contradictory experiences of reason and intuition. But Sri Aurobindo contends that though "it opens ...
Transformations in consciousness: the metaphysics and epistemology ... - Page 63, Franklin Merrell-Wolff - 1995 - 326 pages
Aurobindo contends that there is a supreme experience and supreme intuition by which we go back behind our surface self and find that this becoming, change, succession are only a mode of our being and that there is that in us which is ...
Thirty-Five Oriental Philos - Page 96, Diané Collinson - 1994 - 213 pages
Though practice may speed up this evolution, Aurobindo contends that none of its steps can be omitted.22 The first stage ... In common with many eastern thinkers, Aurobindo contends that the ego of ordinary experience is a superficial ...
Facets of Mahatma Gandhi : Non-Violence and Satyagraha1994
should obey the law of the state, it is necessary to take up Gandhi's and Aurobindo's views on law — its origin, utility, sources and types. According to Gandhi, the law is a result of human weakness. Aurobindo contends that law ...
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh and Bal Gangadhar Tilak: the spirit of freedom, Suneera Kapoor - 1991 - 142 pages
In fact, Tilak and Aurobindo move a step further. They stress harmony between individual, society and the universe. Aurobindo contends that individual and the society help in the development of ...
Revisioning environmental ethics - Page 76, Daniel A. Kealey - 1990 - 136 pages
This false assumption, all the more vicious because partially true, is the principal cause of India's social stagnation, Aurobindo contends. It is, however, a conception of Yoga that is based on a false, because partial, ...
Indian national movement: a critical study of five schools, Jayati Chaturvedi - 1990 - 216 pages
Aurobindo contends that the view that ancient
India excelled only in religion and spirituality and neglected material pursuits is wrong. India was considerably great in the varied richness of her life expression. ... 
In search of the absolute: a critical study of the Advaitic ..., Augustine D. Vallooran - 1988 - 385 pages
Sri Aurobindo contends that the principle that the Upanisad follows is "the uncompromising reconciliation of uncompromising extremes".18 Therefore the harmonization that the Advaita-teacher brings about between the two discordant ...
Poet-seer Swami Rama Tirtha: the poetry of spiritual vision, Bansi Lal Zutshi - 1987 - 192 pages
Sri Aurobindo contends, that "our fall does not matter and that the dust in which
India lies is sacred". He further adds : "If the majority of Indians had indeed made the whole of their lives religious in the true sense of the word, ...
Sri Aurobindo and Vedānta philosophy, Sheojee Pandey - 1987 - 150 pages
Sri Aurobindo contends that "The universe and our existence in the universe, becomes to us a constant and real form of the self-aware existence of the Divine." And he adds that "all is then to us a divine Reality manifesting himself in ...
20th century Indian interpretations of Bhagavadgita: Tilak, ..., P. M. Thomas - 1987 - 204 pages
Aurobindo contends, "would be only a dogma, a popular superstition, or an imaginative or mystic deification of historical or legendary supermen."145 He is convinced that the real aim of the Gita's teaching is to transfigure the ...
Political thought in modern India, Thomas Pantham, Kenneth L. Deutsch - 1986 - 362 pages
to respect, aid and be aided by the free growth and activity of its individuals and constituent aggregates.20 In an explicit political application of his vision, Aurobindo contends that there is an inherent relationship between ...
Concepts of reason and intuition: with special reference to Sri ..., Ramesh Chandra Sinha - 1981 - 234 pages
Sri Aurobindo contends, "when we speak of It as unknowable, we mean, really, that It escapes the grasp of our thought and speech, instruments which proceed always by the sense of difference and express by the way of definition; ...
The future of man according to Teilhard de Chardin and Aurobindo Ghose, J. Chetany - 1978 - 500 pages
Even on the social level there is a conflict between the individual and the collectivity.123 (i) The Dilemma: Even from the current sociological theories Aurobindo contends that "in recent times the whole stress has passed to the life of the race, to a search for the perfect society, and laterally to a concentration on the ...
Synthesis: The realization of the self 1978 - 164 pages
Aurobindo contends that such a view looks at only one small area of existence and leaves all the rest unexplained. He adds: If pushed to its extreme, it would give to a stone or a plum-pudding a greater reality and to thought, love, ...
Hindu patterns of liberation, Ninian Smart - 1978 - 137 pages
Aurobindo contends that Spirit and Matter are equally essential: The affirmation of a divine life upon earth and an immortal sense in mortal existence can have no base unless we recognize not only eternal spirit as the inhabitant of ...
The spirit of modern India: writings in philosophy, religion & culture, Robert A. McDermott, Vishwanath S. Naravane - 1974 - 313 pages
On the basis of his historical perspective and spiritual experience, Sri Aurobindo contends that the force of the Supermind is now creating the conditions necessary for the advent of a spiritual age. This possibility, which Sri ...
The religious roots of Indian nationalism: Aurobindo's early ..., David L. Johnson - 1974 - 128 pages
But Aurobindo contends that talk of moksha is premature for men who are in political bondage. A better word for man's immediate need is the experience of swaraj. Swaraj is a word with both political and spiritual implications- It is ...
Revival of Upaniadic thought in contemporary Indian philosophy Sankatha Prasad Singh - 1974 - 324 pages
in the classical instance of a rope taken for a snake, Sri Aurobindo contends, it is not at all helpful. According to him the illusory actually exists somewhere. Only it does not exist in the place where it is seen. ...
Sri Aurobindo contends, seek through knowledge of the self, the knowledge of the universe. Mental experience and the concepts of the reason, even at their highest, are held to be insufficient for this purpose. ...
Contemporary Indian idealism (with special reference to Swami ..., Ripusudan Prasad Srivastava - 1973 - 212 pages
But Sri Aurobindo contends, as we have already seen, that this ignorance is never a negation of knowledge. He holds veiy optimistically that "Our self-ignorance and our world-ignorance- can only grow towards integral self-knowledge ... 
Twentieth century Indian philosophy: nature and destiny of man, Nilima Sharma - 1972 - 292 pages
By discarding this popular belief of retrogression, Aurobindo contends that "whether the animal reversion is possible or not, the normal law must be the recurrence of birth in new human forms for a soul that has once become capable of...
Worthy is the world: the Hindu philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, Beatrice Bruteau - 1972 - 288 pages
It is not clear, Aurobindo contends, that it is impossible for man to attain his goal in this world, if this world is sufficiently transformed. It is not inconsistent, for instance, that he be united with the Infinite and still be ...
Studies in philosophy and religion, Ram Shankar Misra - 1971 - 240 pages
Now as regards the third alternative that life is a descent from some plane above the material universe, Sri Aurobindo contends that it is quite conceivable that a pressure from some plane of life above the material plane might have ...
The Hindu quest for the perfection of man Troy Wilson Organ - 1970 - 439 pages
Aurobindo contends that the reversal is part of the evolution which is the entire meaning of life: "A change into a higher consciousness or state of being is not only the whole aim and process of religion, of all higher askesis, ...
The self in Indian philosophy, Troy Wilson Organ - 1964 - 184 pages
Another problem in understanding Aurobindo's conception of the Brahman arises from the fact that he uses both personal and impersonal terms to designate the Brahman. This is not carelessness, for Aurobindo contends, "This Divine Being,
A critical study of Aurobindo: with special reference to his ..., Laxman Ganpatrao Chincholkar - 1966 - 216 pages
By denying any reality to the existence, this theory, Aurobindo, contends, creates more difficulties and renders it insoluble. For, whatever be the nature of Maya cither as unreal reality or unreality itself, the “ultimate effects of ...
The "psychic entity" in Aurobindo's The life divine, Roque Ferriols - 1966 - 157 pages
Concerning the difficulty that man cannot remember his past existences, Aurobindo contends that there is no need for such a memory though it exists at times in children and in highly evolved individuals. The past existences put a ...
Educational ideas and ideals of eminent Indians, Rā. Su Maṇi - 1965 - 407 pages
The frequent change of subject dissipates their attention. This discourages prolonged concentration. Sri Aurobindo contends that a child of seven or eight is capable of a good deal of concentration, if he is interested. ...
The integral Advaitism of Sri Aurobindo, Ram Shankar Misra - 1957 - 410 pages
Whereas materialism holds that consciousness is the product of material energy, Sri Aurobindo contends that matter itself is the product of Conscious Force. The Upanisads hold that cit as energy creates the world. ...

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