Download or read book The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo written by Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo written by Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri Aurobindo stands for no narrow cult: he kindles a vision and initiates a work that bear on the whole human situation, meeting its most central and recurrent as well as its most external and diverse issues. Man in every mode and field – the thinker and the scientist no less than the artist and the mystic – man individual and man collective – the modern breaker of new ground side by side with the heir of the ages – is Sri Aurobindo's material for probing and guidance. Especially he is concerned with man the conscious evolving agent and with the powers within, around and beyond him that help or hinder steps towards true Supermanhood, a transformative evolution of the entire nature rather than a glorified extension of this or that group of qualities. The selections of the author's writings on the vision and work of Sri Aurobindo which have been put between the covers of this book were written with an eye to the wide world of inquiring minds and questioning hearts much in harmony with Sri Aurobindo's own global vision. Five new pieces have been added to this revised and enlarged edition; one of them is a short poem to whose opening lines the Mother paid highest possible compliment from a spiritual point of view. Many of the essays have been seen and approved for publication by Sri Aurobindo himself.
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 110 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 181 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 Elements Of Yoga written by Sri Aurobindo and published by editionNEXT.com. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elements of Yoga" by Sri Aurobindo is a compilation of Sri Aurobindo’s replies to elementary questions about Yoga raised by a disciple during the years 1933 to 1936.
Download or read book Lights on Yoga written by Sri Aurobindo and published by editionNEXT.com. This book was released on 2016-05-29 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains extracts from letters written by Sri Aurobindo to his disciples in answer to their queries. In the letters he explains his teaching and method of spiritual practice and addresses some of the difficulties and problems that the disciples were encountering.
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 1256 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 The Synthesis of Yoga written by Sri Aurobindo and published by editionNEXT.com. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘‘The Synthesis Of Yoga’’ by Sri Aurobindo. In this book Sri Aurobindo analyzes the various systems of Yoga and synthesizes them into his conception of Integral Yoga. He points out, every system of Yoga stresses some part of the psychological division of human consciousness as the basis for realization and union with the Divine.
Download or read book Bases of Yoga written by Sri Aurobindo and published by editionNEXT.com. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘‘Bases Of Yoga’’ by Sri Aurobindo. Excellent introduction to the practice of Integral Yoga. In this collection of 156 extracts from letters to disciples, Sri Aurobindo explains the central principles and practices of his integral Yoga and sheds light on problems that confront the spiritual seeker. The extracts are organised under headings such as calm, peace, and equality; faith, aspiration, and surrender; desire, food, and sex; and the physical consciousness, the subconscient, sleep and dreams, and illness.
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 Karmayogin written by Sri Aurobindo and published by editionNEXT.com. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists primarily of articles originally published in the nationalist newspaper Karmayogin between June 1909 and February 1910. It also includes speeches delivered by Sri Auro bindo in 1909. The aim of the newspaper was to encourage a spirit of nationalism, to help India recover her true heritage and remould it for her future. Its view was that the freedom and greatness of India were essential to fulfilling her destiny, to lead the spiritual evolution of humanity.
Download or read book The Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo written by Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian philosopher, poet, mystic and Yogi, Sri Aurobindo, argued that human society has evolved throughout history and is destined to move towards better organization of life. Applying his ideas to problems confronting the world today, this collection presents an in-depth exploration of Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy and Integral Yoga. Written by an international team of scholars and practitioners, each chapter takes a theoretical aspect of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy, positions it alongside policy debates on the individual and the state and explains its practical and educational benefits. Contributors discuss his vision of unity in diversity, shed light on his poetry and offer a comprehensive view of his concept of ethics as well as his metaphysics of consciousness. They examine his contribution to the Indian response to post-Enlightenment modernity and reveal how his philosophy illuminates some of the fundamental problems of our times, offering possible solutions. By presenting the first sustained discourse between Sri Aurobindo and the contemporary world, this collection addresses the relevance of his philosophy for everyday life and highlights the lasting work of this important 20th-century Indian thinker.
Download or read book Savitri written by Sri Aurobindo and published by editionNEXT.com. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Six Pillars written by Robert McDermott and published by Lindisfarne Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) was one of the great twentieth-century figures of India. Over the course of his lifetime, he helped India's struggle for freedom and became a leading yogi, philosopher, and poet of his time and culture. In his teaching, Sri Aurobindo went well beyond Eastern philosophy and religion, synthesizing it with Western traditions, even spending two years of his youth at Loreto Convent in Darjeeling, West Bengal. In 1879, Aurobindo and his two elder brothers were taken to Manchester, England for a European education and placed in the care of Rev. Drewett, an Anglican clergy, and his wife. In 1884, Aurobindo joined St. Paul's School, where he learned Greek and Latin and spent three years studying literature, especially English poetry. By 1910, Sri Aurobindo's focus was directed entirely toward spirituality, and he settled in Pondicherry, India, where he taught, wrote, and published his greatest works. His spiritual vision extended beyond the perfection and transformation of the individual to include the evolution and transformation of human society. According to his teaching, a true solution to humanity's problems arises from a radical transformation of human life into a form of divine existence. "The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature." --Sri Aurobindo For everyone interested in the philosophical and spiritual vision of the great Indian thinker Sri Aurobindo, the revolutionary turned yogi, this outstanding collection of masterly introductions, first published in 1974, offers original reflections and interpretations of Sri Aurobindo's six major works, all written by distinguished scholars of religion and philosophy rather than devotees. Long out of print and difficult to find, Six Pillars is again available for contemporary readers. Contents: Foreword by Ursula King John Collins: "Savitri: Poetic Expression of Spiritual Experience" Thomas Berry: "The Foundations of Indian Culture: its Contemporary Significance" Thomas J. Hopkins: "The Vision of the Purushottama in Essays on the Gita" J. Bruce Long: "A New Yoga for a New Age: A Critical Introduction to The Synthesis of Yoga" Eugene Fontinell: "A Pragmatic Approach to the Human Cycle" Robert McDermott: "The Life Divine: Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of Evolution and Transformation" Introductions to the Major Works of Sri Aurobindo provides readers with a portal into the thinking of one of India's greatest figures of past century. "Aurobindo, the revolutionary turned yogi, was a puzzle to his contemporaries and remained one to later generations. This is probably still true today. But puzzles are there to be solved. These essays can help to do that. They dissolve some of the enigmas that surround Sri Aurobindo, even though not answering all our questions. They provide much substance for thought and further discussion, and invite us to gain a deeper familiarity with one of the great minds of modern India, whose inspiring spiritual message can transform one's life and help to change the world." --Ursula King (from the foreword)
Download or read book Sri Aurobindo and the Freedom of India written by Chanda Poddar and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of this book is a compilation from Sri Aurobindo s writings and speeches that show his contribution to the Indian freedom movement. It covers such topics as Sri Aurobindo s vision of India as the Motherland, his concept of a new Nationalism , his strategy for freeing the country from foreign rule, his experiences as an undertrial prisoner in Alipore jail, and his reasons for leaving politics in 1910. The second part contains comments by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on the young revolutionaries associated with Sri Aurobindo, or inspired by him. It also includes profiles of seventeen revolutionaries, with reminiscences of some of them. Old photographs and supplementary notes and text add historical interest.
Download or read book The Secret of The Veda written by Sri Aurobindo and published by editionNEXT.com. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Secret of The Veda" by Sri Aurobindo. This book is collection of Sri Aurobindo’s various writings on the Veda and his translations of some of the hymns, originally published in the monthly review 'Arya' between August 1914 and 1920. This book contains few scripts in Sanskrit language. If you are unable to read Sanskrit script don't worry all scripts are translated in English and with proper Sanskrit pronunciation in Roman character.
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.
