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  Wikinfo | Aurobindo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sri Aurobindo's basic tenet is that mankind is not the last rung in the evolutionary scale—that mankind too will evolve beyond its current capacities, ushering in a new man, or species, guided by and filled with the knowledge, truth, substance, and energy of the new spiritual consciousness.
According to Sri Aurobindo, each level of the ascent is followed by the descent of forces of that level, which integrates the experience of the sadhak i.e., fully illumines all parts of his being, viz.
Sri Aurobindo describes how the purpose and destiny of the evolution of the universe is to overcome the inherent division and duality that emerged in creation, and to rediscover through our individual, social, and universal growth, development, evolution, and transformation the hidden Spirit that was lost in the creation.
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 Sri Aurobindo - Political Life and Teachings - Integral Yoga [OrObin´dO gOsh]
Chattopadhyaya, D.P. Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx : Integral Sociology and Dialectical Sociology, 1988
Aurobindo had sought to appeal to the 'reviving sense of manhood' of the Indian people and it was perhaps, not surprising that he found it difficult to identify himself with a path which he continued to perceive as 'passive'.
Sri Aurobindo's relatively short political life and his brilliant political writings exemplify a stage in the Indian freedom struggle - a stage that is common to many struggles of an oppressed people who seek to break the oppressive structures of their society.
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 Biography - Sri Aurobindo —
Sri Aurobindo wished to bring the Divine into all aspects of life. For the last 40 years of his life he worked tirelessly for this goal of bringing down a new spiritual consciousness.
Sri Aurobindo followed his instructions to the letter and within 3 days he succeeded in completely emptying the mind and entered into a state of nirvana.
In turn Sri Aurobindo entrusted the organisation of the ashram to the Mother and under her guidance, which continued for nearly fifty years, the Ashram grew into a dynamic spiritual community.
www.writespirit.net /authors/sri_aurobindo/biography-sri-aurobindo   (2111 words)

  
 United Earth - Sri Aurobindo Quotes, Biography & Chronology
Sri Aurobindo spent his life — through his vast writings and through his own development — working for the freedom of India, the path to the further evolution of life on earth, and to bring down what he called the Supermind to enable such progress.
The task for Sri Aurobindo was the renewal of “sanatana dharma, the eternal religion.” To pursue this spiritual task it was necessary for Sri Aurobindo to leave the political arena.
However although Sri Aurobindo was a prolific writer he felt his main task was to bring down a new consciousness, which would usher in a new era where spirituality and truth were given a higher profile.
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 Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
Sri Aurobindo was a genius in history and poetry, a scholar in English and Latin.
Sri Aurobindo, the prophet of Indian nationalism, was one of the pioneers of political awakening in India.
Aurobindo bore the rigours of the imprisonment, the bad food, the inadequate clothes, the lack of light and free air, the strain of boredom and the creeping solitariness of the gloomy cell.
www.dlshq.org /saints/aurobindo.htm   (1608 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sri Aurobindo described the Ashram in one of his letters (Letters on Yoga, p.856) as a laboratory in which the inner and the outer nature of man is sought to be brought under the influence of a higher consciousness, leading ultimately to a supramental transformation of human nature.
Sri Aurobindo made an indepth study of the different approaches to yoga developed in India and came to the conclusion that essentially, “yoga is nothing but practical psychology”.
Sri Aurobindo Ashram came to be recognised as a scientific research body by the Indian Council of Medical Research for its work in the field of Yoga and Consciousness development in 1973.
www.sriaurobindoashram.org /research/research.php   (1406 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo -- Overview, Biography,Life, teachings, philosophy, Summary,The Mother, supermind, integral yoga, psychic ...
Sri Aurobindo believed that there is a future before us so utterly different than what we might expect, that there are forces and possibilities so staggering, that we must reevaluate our entire belief system, dismantle much of our intellectual underpinnings, and relearn a new vocabulary of life so we can understand this new future.
Sri Aurobindo called WWII "Mother's War" in that the Asuric [dark] forces working though the Nazis were trying to block the further progress of the spiritual Force on earth, which the Mother was the instrument of.
Sri Aurobindo's spiritual partner was Mira Alfassa, also known to her followers as “The Mother.” She was said to have been an incarnation of the Divine Mother, which in Indian metaphysics is essentially the intermediary being between the descending Spiritual Force and the earthly plane.
www.gurusoftware.com /GuruNet/AurobindoMother/Aurobindo.htm   (7258 words)

  
 MA on Sri Aurobindo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It was neither a mental knowledge nor even a mental creation which he transcribed: he silenced his mind and sat at the typewriter, and from above, from the higher planes, all that had to be written came down, all ready, and he had only to move his fingers on the typewriter and it was transcribed.
Sri Aurobindo has come on earth not to bring a teaching or a creed in competition with previous creeds or teachings, but to show the way to overpass the past and to open concretely the route towards an imminent and inevitable future.
Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world and not merely did he announce this manifestation but embodied also in part the supramental force and showed by example what one must do to prepare oneself for manifesting it.
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 Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) was born in Calcutta on 15 August, and educated at a christian convent in Darjeeling.
Sri Aurobindo's teachings are interesting, indeed unique for a major Indian philosopher, in that he presents a very theosophical-anthroposophical cosmology, involving specific planes of existence, subtle psychic faculties, spiritual entities, and long processes of evolution.
The Intermediate Zone - from a letter by Sri Aurobindo to a disciple - in my humble opinion this is one of the most (if not the most) most profound and insightful descriptions of the occult realities and the dangers on the spiritual path ever written.
www.kheper.net /topics/Aurobindo/SriAurobindo.htm   (672 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo - Integral Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sri Aurobindo spent his life—through his vast writings and through his own development—working for the freedom of India, the path to the further evolution of life on earth, and to bring down what he called the Supramental Truth Consciousness Force to enable such progress.
Sri Aurobindo was born Aurobindo Akroyd Ghose (usually pronounced and often written as Ghosh) in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, in 1872.
It was there Sri Aurobindo saw the convicts, jailers, policemen, the prison bars, the trees, the judge, the lawyer etc., in the experience and realization of Narayana, a form of Vishnu.
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 Aurobindo Ghose Biography | eorl_02_package.xml
Born in Calcutta (August 15, 1872), Aurobindo Ghose was educated in England from the age of seven to age twenty-one at the insistence of his father, Dr. Krishnadhan Ghose, who had been one of the first Indians educated in England.
Aurobindo's Integral Yoga is so named because it seeks to incorporate the essence and processes of the old yogas, blending their methods and fruits into one system.
Sri Aurobindo Ghose: The Dweller in the Lands of Silence.
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 Mental (Sri Aurobindo) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mental faculty or part of the being, in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy, is the conceptual and cognitive mind.
Sri Aurobindo in part bases his concept of the Mental on his reading of the Taittiriya Upanishad, the mental being (or perhaps just the Mental Purusha) is the mano-maya-atma - the self made of mind (manas).
In Sri Aurobindo's psychology and ontology, Mind or the Mental being is not simple and uniform, but consists itself of various strata and subdivisions, the whole contributing to an elaborate integral theory of psychology.
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 THE MOTHER ON SRI AUROBINDO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
You spoke of Sri Aurobindo's birth as 'eternal' in the history of the universe.
What Sri Aurobindo represents in the world's history is not a teaching, not even a revelation; it is a decisive action direct from the Supreme.
He was putting into the mental consciousness (the mental consciousness that governs all material movements) a supramental formation or power or force which immediately changed the organisation.
www.sriaurobindocenter-la.org /Newsltr3/MOSA.htm   (681 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sri Aurobindo was born Aurobindo Akroyd Ghose (pronounced and often written as Ghosh) in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, on 15th August, 1872.
After November 24, 1926, when Sri Aurobindo retired into seclusion, she supervised the organization of the ashram, the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (which, with its pilot experiments in the field of education, very much impressed observers like Jawaharlal Nehru), and later institutes like Auroville, the international township near the town of Pondicherry.
Sri Aurobindo provides the seeker with a road map to discover the truth of his theory and their true Nature.
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 Sri Aurobindo's Teachings —
The teaching of Sri Aurobindo starts from that of the ancient sages of India that behind the appearances of the universe there is the Reality of a Being and Consciousness, a Self of all things, one and eternal.
Sri Aurobindo's teaching states that this One Being and Consciousness is involved here in Matter.
It is not, however, by the mental will in man that this can be wholly done, for the mind goes only to a certain point and after that can only move in a circle.
www.writespirit.net /authors/sri_aurobindo/sri-aurobindo-s-teachings   (879 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo's Doctrine of Minds
Sri Aurobindo developed an elaborate "strata psychology", in which the various levels of mind or consciousness are not only described in some detail, but are also equated with the chakras of Tantrism.
Sri Aurobindo sumamrises the characteristics of the various levels of Mind in a couple of letters answering questions from disciples.
The mechanical mind is a much lower action of the mental physical which, left to itself, would only repeat customary ideas and record the natural reflexes of the physical consciousness to the contacts of outward life and things.
www.kheper.net /topics/Aurobindo/Mental.htm   (496 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo :: Indian Leader
Sri Aurobindo was born of 15th August 1872 in Calcutta.
Sri Aurobindo’s spiritual collaborator known as Mother joined him in 1920.
Sri Aurobindo and Mother founded the Ashram in 1926 to accommodate the growing number of people who became interested in the Internal Yoga.
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 Vision and Teachings: Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo has said that mind is not an instrument of knowledge.
Sri Aurobindo not only saw these possibilities in his yogic vision but also found them corroborated by reason.
Sri Aurobindo predicted that such a state of affair could come about in the near future and it would be the clear symptoms of the birth-pang of the new creation.
www.sriaurobindosociety.org.in /sriauro/aurovsn.htm   (3319 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo
SRI AUROBINDO was born on August 15,1872, in Calcutta, India.
For 13 years Sri Aurobindo would be immersed in Western culture - which would eventually reward his academic prowess with abundant laurels.
This was the century of "positivism"; her father and mother were "all-out materialists," he a banker and a first-rate mathematician, she a disciple of Marx until the age of eighty-eight.
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 The Mother on Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to teach this truth to men.
I have seen Sri Aurobindo doing this in somebody's head, somebody who used to complain of being troubled by thoughts.
Sri Aurobindo is constantly in the subtle physical, very active there.
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 Amazon.com: Bhagavad Gita and Its Message: Books: Sri Aurobindo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
With text, translation, and Sri Aurobindo's commentary, this is probably the finest translation and commentary on the Bhagavad Gita that we have seen.
Aurobindo understood this and so gave the translation in its proper form and than pontificated on its meaning based on his understand which is seperated from the original text.
Aurobindo's translation are free from these and he just accentuates the beauty of the Gita in its own respective context.
www.amazon.com /Bhagavad-Gita-Its-Message-Aurobindo/dp/0941524787   (1776 words)

  
 Yogamatters Aurobindo & The Mother
Sri Pandit gives us an overview of Sri Aurobindo's life, his writings and his Integral Yoga.; In doing so, he takes time to introduce the major principles of yoga and relates in a simple yet dynamic form the path open to the seekers of spiritual perfection.
Based on Sri Aurobindo's letters on the subject, this book presents a detailed description of three broad movements of transformation - the psychic,; the spiritual and the supramental. The steps on the way, the practical difficulties and their resolution are elucidated in a simple and direct manner so characteristic of the author.
The Yoga of Self-Perfection brings to completion Panditji's systematic series of talks on Sri Aurobindo's The Synthesis of Yoga.; The Yoga of Self-Perfection recognizes a Divine purpose in life and starts from the premise that the ultimate aim of life is not simply escape, but rather, to work out the divine perfection in manifestation.
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 Sri Aurobindo - On Himself
From Volume 26 of the Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, 1972 published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry.
The contents of this document are copyright 1976, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry, India.
Common sense by the way is not logic (which is the least commonsense-like thing in the world), it is simply looking at things as they are without inflation or deflation -- not imagining wild imaginations -- or for that matter despairing "I know not why" despairs.
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 Sri Aurobindo: A journey into his life divine (Part 2)
Sri Aurobindo: A journey into his life divine (part 2)
Sri Aurobindo withdrew into deeper seclusion in 1926, and in November of
Vishnu Eschner is a resident of Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Peetham in Lodi,
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 Sri Aurobindo - The Mother on Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo - The Mother on Sri Aurobindo
It was a physical experience and I guarantee that whoever has a sufficiently awakened consciousness can feel the same thing.
You are in the impersonal state, that is to say, a state in which you are unconscious; and that is why, naturally, you remember nothing, because you were not conscious of anything." So he reassured me and I said, "Well, this has never happened to me." He replied, "Nor to me!"
www.sriaurobindoashram.org /ashram/sriauro/mother_on.php   (1373 words)

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