Sri Aurobindo derived his inspiration in criticizing Sankara from Vivekananda

The Yoga Party: Philosophical Writings - Page 167 Douglas E. Frame - 2009 - 206 pages
When we talk about spirit we are not talking about the disembodied as an assortment of demons and hobgoblins as Sri Aurobindo claims at one point. According to Hinduism all is Brahman. The inner Brahman is Atman but that too is Brahman. ...

Newer Paths in Muslim-Christian Understanding - Page 279 Ron George - 2007 - 380 pages
To take only one example: Aurobindo claims it as one of the glories of Hinduism that it has the 'courage' (which Christianity lacks) to worship the evil principle of the universe - represented by ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur ... - 2007 - 317 pages
To come back to our discussion on psychology, though Sri Aurobindo claims that "psychology is a science of consciousness" he does not intend to take the expression "consciousness" in the sense of only that consciousness which is ...

Esalen: America and the religion of no religion - Page 478 Jeffrey John Kripal - 2007 - 575 pages
... physiology of the physical body to the more and more subtle dimensions of occult, visionary, and spiritual experience. It is thus not always entirely clear what “body” Aurobindo claims is mutating. 36. LD, 266, 269. 37. LD, 241. ...

Eastern Lights - Page 300 Mahendrnath Sircar - 2007 - 328 pages
It is this element of power which Aurobindo claims especially for the Superman. In other words, Aurobindo's superman absorbs more and more the Divine nature and aspires after being more and more divine. ...

The Kundalini Book of Living & Dying : Gateways to Higher ... - Page 110 Ravindra Kumar, Jytte Kumar Larsen - 2007
Finally, Jung considers the psychic force to be emerging from the tension between the instinctive and the archetypal parts of the psyche, while Sri Aurobindo claims it is the pull of the Self on the psychic being that results in the ...

Letting be: Fred Dallmayr's cosmopolitical vision Stephen Frederick Schneck - 2006 - 382 pages
Not learning from the fall of "earlier despotisms," Aurobindo claims the British believe they are different: they see themselves as "stronger, more moral and virtuous, better organized." But British self-confidence makes them all ...

Philosophical Humanism and Contemporary India - Page 11 Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 2006 - 211 pages
Leibniz and Newton were the founders of integral and differential calculus.2 Spencer formulated the twin methods of evolutionary progression in the shape of differentiation and integration.3 Aurobindo claims to have advocated a ...

Contemporary philosophy and Jaysankar Lal Shaw, Jaysankar Lal Shaw, Purusottama Bilimoria - 2006 - 239 pages
Sri Aurobindo claims: The Vedas were the beginning of our spiritual knowledge; the Vedas will remain its end. These compositions of an unknown antiquity are as many breasts of the eternal mother of knowledge from which our succeeding ...

Guru English: South Asian religion in a cosmopolitan language - Page 102 Srinivas Aravamudan - 2006 - 330 pages
The future poetry, Aurobindo claims, will focus on "Truth," "Life," "Beauty," "Delight," and "Spirit," in equal measure. The new poetry of the future is ushered in as a concrete reality, even as it is claimed that it will be more ...

Understanding philosophy, Eastern and Western perspectives: ... Manjulika Ghosh - 2005 - 428 pages
Sri Aurobindo claims to have synthesized different Indian systems of yoga in his system of Integral Yoga ...

Frontiers in dalit hermeneutics 2005 - 298 pages
The theory of involution and evolution proposed by Aurobindo is comparable to Hegelian system of Absolute idealism, by which Aurobindo claims that The Absolute Spirit self actualizes itself (evolutes) and involutes to itself. ... 

Consciousness, Indian Psychology, and Yoga Kireet Joshi, Matthijs Cornelissen, Project of ... - 2004 - 495 pages

In fact the entire manifested reality is often held to be the result of a distorting, illusion-creating Maya. Sri Aurobindo claims that it is because the later Indian systems did not distinguish clearly enough between the ...

Knowledge, consciousness and religious conversion in Lonergan and ... - Page 250, Michael T. McLaughlin - 2003 - 318 pages
Aurobindo claims to both have had the experiences and to be able to make them intelligible philosophically. So also, Lonergan claims to have experienced religious conversion and that this experi- 80 SY, p.833. ...

The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 470 Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - 568 pages
Sri Aurobindo claims that the seeker cannot be guided in the process of one's self-exploration by "a scientific psychology with a materialistic basis which assumes that the body and the biological and the physiological factors of our ...

Sri Aurobindo claims to possess significant extraordinary powers, and the facts of these supramental powers prove the evidence and reveal the essential nature of the Divine. He tries to incorporate scientific findings, but they get only ...

Philosophical foundations of Hinduism: the Vedas, the Upanishads, ... Dr. R. S. Misra - 2002 - 637 pages
Sri Aurobindo claims to have established a prima facie case for the idea "that the Vedic hymns are the symbolic gospel of the ancient Indian mystics and their sense spiritual and psychological.43 Sri Aurobindo admits that "the Vedic ...

Decolonizing the Hindu mind: ideological development of Hindu ... Koenraad Elst - 2001 - 657 pages
The quintessential claim of the Hindu Renaissance was that Hinduism consists of scientific methods applied to areas not yet covered by Western science, viz. spirituality and the art of living.88 So, Aurobindo claims: "That which we call ...

One thousand years of philosophy: from Rāmānuja to Wittgenstein - Page 71 Rom Harré - 2000 - 362 pages
Aurobindo claims that the individual is not transcended in coming to have right knowledge. Individuality of self is necessitated by the whole system. ...

Spiritual Titanism: Indian, Chinese, and Western perspectives - Page 148 Nicholas F. Gier - 2000 - 302 pages
Aurobindo claims a status higher than earlier saints and yogis, who were only ..

The waffle of the toffs: a sociocultural critique of Indian ..., M. Prabha - 2000 - 271 pages
The mystical experience Sri Aurobindo claims to have during his one-year confinement in Alipore Jail, which ostensibly transformed him from a seditionist to a poet-seer has been questioned by Peter ...

The role of Swami Chinmayananda in revitalization of Hinduism and ..., Jagdhari Masih - 2000 - 326 pages
Though Aurobindo claims to be an Advaitin (non- dualist) he does not rely on Sankara's commentary for gaining the knowledge of the Vedanta, since, for him Upanisads alone contain the ancient wisdom of the seers and the sages. ...

Varṇadharma, niṣkāma karma, and practical morality: a critical ..., Rajendra Prasad, Utkal University. Department ... - 1999 - 291 pages
When Aurobindo claims that something is the case on the ground of its being revealed in his mystic or spiritual experience, his pattern of thinking can be presented as follows: Since in my experience D seems to be the ultimate value ...

A companion to world philosophies - Page 328 Eliot Deutsch, Ronald Bontekoe - 1999 - 587 pages
The universe has a purpose, mystical discovery of Brahman, Aurobindo claims; at least one side of it is that. The other is soul-making, the forging of a world-oriented self, a process for which God and the evolving individual soul share ...

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Index - Page 568 Edward Craig - 1998 - 455 pages
The material universe does not exhaust the manifestation of Brahman, but it is, Aurobindo claims, the only evolutionary world. The others are 'typal', with no evolutionary emergence. In this world, the soul, profiting from all its ...

Thinkers Of Indian Renaissance - Page 220, S A Abbasi - 1998 - 476 pages
Aurobindo claims that his yoga is integral because it is a synthesis of all other yogas. Different kinds of yogas emphasize only one discipline. For example, hatha-yoga emphasizes various disciplines of the body. ...

Encyclopaedia of Hinduism, Nagendra Kr Singh - 1997
and a new purpose. . .31 In another context he declares, without hiding his feelings, that to kill national enemies in a dharma yudha is also part of one's dharma.32 In all these utterances Aurobindo claims the support of the Glta. ...

Political thinkers of modern India - Page 96, Adi Hormusji Doctor - 1997 - 141 pages
In keeping with this spiritual view of the Indian nation, Aurobindo claims that the nationalist movement, sparked off by ...

The sacred thread: Hinduism in its continuity and diversity, J.L. Brockington - 1996 - 222 pages
Aurobindo claims that his philosophy stems from the Rg-veda, the Upanisads and the Bhagavadgita and actually wrote two substantial works of Vedic interpretation. He shares a return to the Vedic hymns with Dayananda ...

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Gariepy - 1996 - 483 pages
The issue of whether mystical experience could provide empirical support for the objective reality of Brahman (or whatever) will not be taken up here, though it is important to keep in mind that Aurobindo claims that his concept of ...

Religion and creation - Page 103 Keith Ward - 1996 - 351 pages
The meaning of historical existence is, as Aurobindo claims, the progressive realization of the divine life in and through individual personal lives. But that requires a real individuality and a real emergence, through growing response ...

The calf became an orphan: a study in contemporary Kannada fiction, Robert J. Zydenbos -  Institut français de ... - 1996 - 301 pages
Sri Aurobindo claims that the modern preoccupation with ...

Śrī Aurobindo and Vedic interpretations, Kala Acharya, Shubhada A. Joshi, K. J. Somaiya ... - 1996 - 121 pages
it only if one has faith in the revelation that Sri Aurobindo claims to have. We are here concerned with the future of evolution and the future of man. The first view, since it does not accept evolutionary process, has nothing to ...

Mysticism and the mystical experience: East and West, Donald H. Bishop - 1995 - 350 pages
In a lyrical passage anticipating the hope of today's so-called New Age visionaries in the West, Aurobindo claims all signs point to the emergence of a new spirituality out of the ashes of an age of arid intellectuality ...

Selected Works of M.P. Pandit: Yoga Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1995 - 640 pages
And of the systems that have been evolved to this end, the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo claims prime attention. II Consciousness is the primary and all-pervading fact in man. All limbs move, all faculties function because of the ...

Swami Vivekananda, a hundred years since Chicago: a commemorative ... Vivekananda (Swami), Ramakrishna Math ... - 1994 - 955 pages
It is highly interesting, in this connection, to note how Sri Aurobindo claims to have derived his inspiration in criticizing Sankara from none other than Vivekananda himself, which alone has emboldened him to differ from Sankara and ...

Revisioning environmental ethics - Page 121, Daniel A. Kealey - 1990 - 136 pages
Aurobindo claims to have been able to scrutinize Brahman at least enough to be able to delineate the essential structure or nature of its Ilia. "The Absolute Reality is indefinable and ineffable by mental thought and mental language; ...

The Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo - Page 428, V. P. Varma - 1990 - 494 pages
Aurobindo claims that he has worked for the descent of the supramental consciousness on earth and make it a permanent part of the earth-nature.5 6. CONCLUSION The picture of the ideal supramental gnostic community and the techniques of ...

Hartshorne, process philosophy, and theology - Page 120, Robert Kane, Stephen H. Phillips - 1989 - 198 pages
Further, Aurobindo claims that what he calls "pure reason" is able to arrive at (many of) the "spiritual" truths he feels he has mystically discovered (though personally I am dubious about this, so far as I understand it). ...

Religion in modern India, Robert D. Baird - 1989 - 501 pages
On that day Aurobindo believed he directly experienced the descent of the Overmind, which is said to have assured him of the certainty of the coming descent of the Supermind to this plane.9i Aurobindo claims to have seen the levels of ...

Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page 100 Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - 336 pages
Sri Aurobindo claims that every society has its soul, working continuously underneath its different institutions and organisations holding them together and lending them a definite character. When man grows to full manhood and develops...

Teilhard and Aurobindo: a study in religious complementarity, David M. Brookman - 1988 - 145 pages
reality which is by nature unitary and , which Aurobindo designated as Supermind. Descent of the Supermind did not occur on the "day of siddhi" thoughAurobindo claims to have experienced the descent of the Overmind, a precursor of...

Journal of South Asian literature Michigan State University. Asian Studies Center - 1988
Aurobindo claims that his verses capture in a uniquely precise way spiritual realities as they are presented to the human mystic. He writes in a 1936 letter: Do not forget that Savitri is an experiment in mystic poetry, spiritual poetry ...

New essays in the Bhagavadgītā: philosophical, methodological, and ..., Arvind Sharma - 1987 - 204 pages
The progress of the moral reductivism inherent in the literary approach may be traced in Aurobindo's remarks. There is, to being with, his relatively benign view of war. Aurobindo claims that the kind of war, the Gita has in view is restricted and regulated for the moral improvement of mankind.15 That he holds this opinion in spite of the fact that almost everyone who participated in the ...

20th century Indian interpretations of Bhagavadgita: Tilak, ..., P. M. Thomas - 1987 - 204 pages
TM In all these utterances Aurobindo claims the support of the Gita. Quoting the Gita, he states emphatically, "Better the law of one's being, though it be badly done, than an alien dharma well followed."33 Several years before ...

Mystical experiences and scientific method: a study of the ..., Christer Norrman - 1987 - 201 pages
... that Aurobindo claims that man may participate in what he calls "the divine life". But, unlike earlier Indian philosophers, the goal for Aurobindo is not to break the bonds of reincarnation and to achieve personal immortality. ...

The Yoga of Patanjali and the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo G. M. L. Shrivastava - 1987 - 194 pages
Patanjali stops at Samadhi and Nirvana or Mukti, but Sri Aurobindo picks up the Samadhi and uses it for the still higher realisations. He wants the yogi to be conscious at the state of Samadhi. Sri Aurobindo claims to have had the ...
Aurobindo's philosophy of Brahman, Stephen H. Phillips - 1986 - 200 pages
If sense experience reveals reality, however limitedly, powers such as the ones thatAurobindo claims he himself had should be able to be exercised such that they would have sense-discoverable effects. Further, the nature of these ...

Aurobindo claims that there is a mystic experience that reveals the world not to be unreal but to be dependent in its reality upon that which he takes to be revealed in the sublation of ordinary experience. ...

Political thought in modern India, Thomas Pantham, Kenneth L. Deutsch - 1986 - 362 pages
Since political liberty is the very life-breath of the nation, Aurobindo claims that any means must be taken to secure that life against those who wish to destroy or suppress it. Whether resistance be passive or aggressive is a question ...

Indian philosophy: an analytical study, Bijayananda Kar - 1985 - 148 pages
What seems to be illogical from the finite perspective can thus be shown to be perfectly logical when viewed from the point of view of Absolute. In this way, SriAurobindo claims that his philosophy of Integralism is not devoid of ...

This logic of the Infinite, Sri Aurobindo claims, is far more subtle and complex in its operations. It comprehends everything at one glance and the basic role it plays is to unify and integrate all sorts of diversities and ...

The Hindu religious thought, 3000 B.C. to 200 A.D., Yakub Masih - 1983 - 509 pages
Even now Yoga has been a popular feature of Indian life, and, Aurobindo claims to have further perfected the life and technique of Yoga. Hence, Yoga now appears to be the common basis of all syatems of Indian thought. Rev. ...

Sri Aurobindo's integral approach to political thought, Shiva Kumar Mital - 1981 - 268 pages
Sri Aurobindo claims to have attained not only to the supermind but to have made it a constant force inhabiting the earth-consciousness and working out a transmutation of humanity. Till his time different types and notions of socialism ...

Neo-Hegelian and neo-Advaitic monism: a study in converging ..., Lakshmī Saksenā - 1980 - 198 pages
All the same the one fact that Stands out very clearly out of this confusion is that on the plane of intellect no theory of the genesis of the world can justify itself with the air of certitude which Aurobindo claims for his own theory, ...

Realization of God according to Sri Aurobindo: a study of a ..., George Nedumpalakunnel - 1979 - 308 pages
This seems to be the reason why Aurobindo claims that all the essentials of the Glta are present in integral yoga but its scope is beyond that of the Glta.46 As far as the method of the triple path is concerned, each i of the way takes ...

Philosophical humanism and contemporary India Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 1979 - 203 pages

Leibniz and Newton were the founders of integral and differential calculus.2 Spencer formulated the twin methods of evolutionary progression in the shape of differentiation and integration.3 Aurobindo claims to have advocated a ...

An introduction to Sri Aurobindo's philosophy, Joan Price Ockham - 1977 - 185 pages
All of this, Sri Aurobindo claims, is a preparation for the evolution of an even more conscious human intelligence. As the human being emerges there is the first sign of a conscious will and choice, but, on the whole, ...