Download or read book The Lives of Sri Aurobindo written by Peter Heehs and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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French literature that influenced them, and he finds the foundations of Aurobindo's yoga practice in his diaries and unpublished letters.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.
Download or read book The Life and Times of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh written by Kaushal Kishore and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aurobindo’s ideology and principles embody divinity; ethics; spontaneity and knowledge. He was an accomplished teacher; a profound scholar; writer and a spiritual Guru. For him nationalism was a holy offering to the motherland when viewed from the divine perspective. Aurobindo also played a very prominent role as a revolutionary. His contribution to politics cannot be ignored. Although his writings are philosophical in nature they also provide valuable social and cultural analysis. He was the one who suggested that ‘Poorna Swaraj’; should the main aim behind the revolutionary movement against the British. Nationalists were aroused with the inspiration to seize power from the foreign masters. Aurobindo was an eminent educationist also. He valued greatly the inherent qualities and talents in each child. He felt that the role of education should be to nurture and enhance these God-given qualities. This book throws light on Sri Aurobindo Ghosh Life. This is a biographical sketch for readers.
Download or read book Beyond the Human Species written by Georges van Vrekhem and published by Paragon House. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book begins with Sri Aurobindo's youth in England and his years in India as a freedom fighter against British colonial rule. This is followed by a description of the youth of Mirra Alfassa (The Mother) among the painters and artists in Paris and of her evolution into an all accomplished occultist in Algeria. Around them disciples gathered into what would evolve into the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. There they worked together towards the realization of their integral yoga and their lives' mission: the establishment of the supramental consciousness upon Earth, the spiritual transformation of the world and the coming of a new species - beyond present humanity. After Sri Aurobindo's Mahasamadhi in 1950, The Mother continued the work. In November 1973, having realized a supramental embodiment, she too left her physical body. But before that, in 1968, she had founded Auroville, an international township created for those who want to participate in an accelerated evolution. Today, over 1,200 people from all over the world reside permanently in Auroville. This book is based on documents which have never been presented before as a whole by other authors. It gives a surprising look behind the scenes of the history of this century. It presents a positive evaluation of the crisis our Earth is subject to at this very moment and it opens a vertiginous but hopeful perspective on the coming of a superhuman species and a divine life upon Earth.
Download or read book Sri Aurobindo written by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar and published by Pondicherry : Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. This book was released on 1972 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Sri Aurobindo written by Ambalal Balkrishna Purani and published by Lotus Press (WI). This book was released on 1978 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A combination of authentic material from Sri Aurobindo s own letters and other writings, research materials, correspondence, and personal reminiscences, this early biography of Sri Aurobindo was originally undertaken as a correction to various unauthorised books on his life and work. Revised three times, this edition includes seventy-eight pages of appendices and an extensive bibliography, in addition to the glossary and index, and traces the significant events in Sri Aurobindo s life as well as the evolution of his spiritual thought. The author s own involvement in the freedom movement brought him into contact with Sri Aurobindo, and especially the accounts of his early meetings with Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry add a vibrant intimacy to this biography.
Download or read book Sri Aurobindo written by Peter Heehs and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, an Indian philosopher and freedom fighter.
Download or read book The Life Divine written by Aurobindo Ghose and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sri Aurobindo Or the Adventure of Consciousness written by Satprem and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Life Divine written by Sri Aurobindo and published by editionNEXT.com. This book was released on 2016-05-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘‘The Life Divine’’ by Sri Aurobindo. It's a major philosophical work of Sri Aurobindo.Sri Aurobindo presents a theory of evolution,which will culminate in the transformation of the human being and the advent of a divine life upon earth.
Download or read book Sri Aurobindo written by Promode Kumar Sen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri Aurobindo was a scholar, a literary critic, a philosopher, a revolutionary, a poet and a yogi. He became a leader of India's fight for independence and later a well-known spiritual guru. The original version of this book was written at a time when any writing on Sri Aurobindo was frowned upon by the British government. It is not only a biography of the spiritual leader but also an analysis of the Congress party during the Independence movement, the split in Surat Congress, as well as the spiritual practice developed by Sri Aurobindo known as Spiritual Yoga.
Download or read book The Essential Aurobindo written by Sri Aurobindo and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who wrote the Gospel of John? The author identifies himself only as "the disciple whom Jesus loved," and Christian tradition tells us that this disciple was the apostle John. However, during the past century, scholars have increasingly come to doubt that attribution. In 1902, Rudolf Steiner wrote that the author of the Gospel of John was in fact Lazarus. Steiner's position stemmed from his insight that Lazarus's encounter with death involved far more than people realized--an initiation into higher spiritual realities that uniquely qualified him to write this gospel. Edward Smith takes up this argument and shows that subsequent research has tended to favor Lazarus for reasons grounded in John's Gospel itself. More important, Smith shows that subsequent discoveries at Nag Hammadi and Mar Saba corroborate Steiner's reasoning about the nature of the raising of Lazarus, pointing to Lazarus as "the rich young ruler" of Mark's Gospel.
Download or read book Sri Aurobindo on the Tantra written by Sri Aurobindo and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri Aurobindo writes "The Tantric system is in its aspiration one of the greatest attempts yet made to embrace the whole of God manifested & unmanifested in the adoration, self-discipline & knowledge of a single human soul". This compilation from Sri Aurobindo's writings focuses on a remarkable though grossly misunderstood Yogic system, the Tantra.
Download or read book The Integral Yoga written by Sri Aurobindo and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1927 and 1950, Sri Aurobindo--one of the foremost Indian philosophersof the 20th century--perfected a new kind of spiritual practice he called the"Integral Yoga." This volume brings together a comprehensive selection of SriAurobindo's letters pertaining to the practice of this discipline.
Download or read book The Hour Of God written by Sri Aurobindo and published by editionNEXT.com. This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘‘The Hour Of God’ by Sri Aurobindo. A collection of short stories pieces on some of the principal concepts of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy and yoga.
Download or read book The Future Evolution of Man written by Sri Aurobindo and published by editionNEXT.com. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern world's structures are changing rapidly as new problems arise from advances in science and technology. Man's mind is unable to keep pace with the movement he has himself set in motion and the unsolvable problems that confront him, yet he aspires to self-mastery, perfection, peace, beauty, and love. What is the meaning of terrestrial life and the present evolutionary crisis? This anthology compiled from Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, and The Human Cycle deals with this crucial question, tracing the past and pointing to the future of human evolution, both individual and social.
Download or read book Sri Aurobindo in Baroda written by Roshan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles an early period of Sri Aurobindo's life, a period of service, & a preparation for the later phases in Calcutta & Pondicherry.
Download or read book Sri Aurobindo and India s Rebirth written by Aurobindo Ghose and published by Rupa Publication. This book was released on 2018 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
