Sri Aurobindo Or the Adventure of Consciousness

Sri Aurobindo Or the Adventure of Consciousness PDF Author: Satprem
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781508991960
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Languages : en
Pages : 340

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In this century, so hurried, incoherent, full of riches which dominate us more than they serve, we have need of a true mastery and of the joy that comes of it. But our psychology knows yet only the surfaces of being, and our imported orientalism illumines some obscure depths which may perhaps be adequate for the cross-legged sage, but not for the beleaguered men we are. This now classic introduction to Sri Aurobindo not only tells us the story of his life-in itself a remarkable adventure-but Satprem also takes us along in a methodical exploration of Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga, showing how it leads to a divine rehabilitation of Matter and gives our painful evolution its meaning and hope. Now the time may have come at last to unveil the Mysteries and to recover the complete truth of the two poles within a third position, which is neither that of the materialists nor that of the spiritualists. Sri Aurobindo, or The Adventure of Consciousness has been written from a Western point of view and for those who yearn for a truth of Life and not only a truth with eyes closed. It presents just one aspect of Sri Aurobindo, the most practical one. We only hope it will lead the reader to explore for himself Sri Aurobindo, and perhaps, with him, find the perfect harmony of East and West, of inner freedom and outer mastery. One volume: 340 pages.

Sri Aurobindo Or the Adventure of Consciousness

Sri Aurobindo Or the Adventure of Consciousness PDF Author: Satprem
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781508991960
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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In this century, so hurried, incoherent, full of riches which dominate us more than they serve, we have need of a true mastery and of the joy that comes of it. But our psychology knows yet only the surfaces of being, and our imported orientalism illumines some obscure depths which may perhaps be adequate for the cross-legged sage, but not for the beleaguered men we are. This now classic introduction to Sri Aurobindo not only tells us the story of his life-in itself a remarkable adventure-but Satprem also takes us along in a methodical exploration of Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga, showing how it leads to a divine rehabilitation of Matter and gives our painful evolution its meaning and hope. Now the time may have come at last to unveil the Mysteries and to recover the complete truth of the two poles within a third position, which is neither that of the materialists nor that of the spiritualists. Sri Aurobindo, or The Adventure of Consciousness has been written from a Western point of view and for those who yearn for a truth of Life and not only a truth with eyes closed. It presents just one aspect of Sri Aurobindo, the most practical one. We only hope it will lead the reader to explore for himself Sri Aurobindo, and perhaps, with him, find the perfect harmony of East and West, of inner freedom and outer mastery. One volume: 340 pages.

Sri Aurobindo or The adventure of consciousness

Sri Aurobindo or The adventure of consciousness PDF Author: Satprem
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Languages : en
Pages : 381

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Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo PDF Author: Satprem
Publisher: Harper & Row Barnes & Noble Import Division
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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"A Lindisfarne book." Bibliography: p. 377-381.

Sri Aurobindo and India's Rebirth

Sri Aurobindo and India's Rebirth PDF Author: Aurobindo Ghose
Publisher: Rupa Publication
ISBN: 9789353040567
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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Revolutionary, philosopher, litterateur, and seer, Sri Aurobindo remains one of the brightest minds India has ever had. This book captures the evolution of his thought through excerpts from his political articles and speeches, essays, talks with and letters to disciples, and public messages-presented chronologically. It includes his views on Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose; his doubts about Gandhi's method to attain freedom and insistence on Ahimsa; and his very distinctive contribution to the nascent Nationalist Movement. Both prophetic of the challenges to come India's way post-Independence, and persuaded of her potential to overcome them, Sri Aurobindo's vision of a new India melds the spiritual with the political. More than sixty years after his passing, Sri Aurobindo's penetrating insights on issues such as building on India's cultural and spiritual foundations, a national agenda for education, Hindu-Muslim coexistence and the need to distinguish reason from a blind imitation of the West, continue to resonate.

Powers Within

Powers Within PDF Author: Sri Aurobindo
Publisher: Lotus Press
ISBN: 9780941524964
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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The book throws light on the nature of various inner powers which we already possess and use more or less unconsciously, as well as with latent powers within, which are as yet undeveloped. The book is of interest to the general reader as well as to the spiritual seeker.

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo PDF Author: Peter Heehs
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, an Indian philosopher and freedom fighter.

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother PDF Author: Kireet Joshi
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120806559
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Aryadeva's Catuhsataka, along with the work of Nagarjuna, provided the philosophical basis for much of subsequent Mahayana Buddhism. Like Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarikas, it too was commented upon by Vijnanavada, or Idealist, thinkers as well as by those of the Madhyamaka, or Middle Way school. Thus the Catuhsataka was interpreted in very different, and yet philoslophically rich, fashioned by its sixth century commentators, Dharmapala and Candrakirti: the former saw it as only refuting ascriptions of imagined natures (parikalpitasvabhava) to phenomena while leaving real natures untouched; the latter interpreted Aryadeva's work as a thorough going rejection of all real intrinsic natures (svabhava) whatsoever. Tom Tillemans, in this reprint of his 1990 doctoral thesis, takes up the key themes in Dharmapala's and Candrakirti's philosophies and translates two chapters from their respective works on Catuhsataka. Both commentaries had a strong influence on subsequent Buddhism: Candrakirti's was important for Tibetan developments; Dharmapala's played a formative role in the increasingly marked differentiation between Vijnanavada and Madhyamaka philosophies.

The Mind of the Cells

The Mind of the Cells PDF Author: Satprem
Publisher: Inst for Evolutionary Research
ISBN: 9780938710066
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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The Lives of Sri Aurobindo

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo PDF Author: Peter Heehs
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231140983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Since his death in 1950, Sri Aurobindo Ghose has been known primarily as a yogi and a philosopher of spiritual evolution who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in peace and literature. But the years Aurobindo spent in yogic retirement were preceded by nearly four decades of rich public and intellectual work. Biographers usually focus solely on Aurobindo's life as a politician or sage, but he was also a scholar, a revolutionary, a poet, a philosopher, a social and cultural theorist, and the inspiration for an experiment in communal living. Peter Heehs, one of the founders of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives, is the first to relate all the aspects of Aurobindo's life in its entirety. Consulting rare primary sources, Heehs describes the leader's role in the freedom movement and in the framing of modern Indian spirituality. He examines the thinker's literary, cultural, and sociological writings and the Sanskrit, Bengali, English, and French literature that influenced them, and he finds the foundations of Aurobindo's yoga practice in his diaries and unpublished letters. Heehs's biography is a sensitive, honest portrait of a life that also provides surprising insights into twentieth-century Indian history.

Sri Aurobindo Or The Adventure of Consciousness

Sri Aurobindo Or The Adventure of Consciousness PDF Author: Satprem
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782902776467
Category : Hindus
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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