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  Wikinfo | Aurobindo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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.
www.tamilnation.org /aurobindo.htm   (8736 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 was born in Calcutta on August 15,1872.
Sri Aurobindo was a voracious reader and ventured, unaided, into the treasure-house of Sanskrit Literature and into Bengali, Marathi and Gujarati.
Sri Aurobindo believed that British rule in India was an alien imposition, that India was a living entity with its law of becoming founded in the Spirit, that this law had an inherent right to freedom and that it was possible for the dormant mass to awaken to this truth and overthrow the British.
www.sriaurobindocenter-la.org /AuroBio.htm   (1498 words)

  
 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)

  
 Physical (Sri Aurobindo) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Physical faculty or part of the being, in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy, refers not just to the physical body, but the body's consciousness as well.
As with the other faculties or principles of the being, in Sri Aurobindo's integral psychology the Physical can be subdivided into finer sub-grades, some of which are only described briefly in letters or occasional references elsewhere.
And like all the faculties of the being, the Physical in all its aspects has to be transformed and spiritualised through the practice of Integral Yoga.
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 Aurobindo Evening Talks - Purani
Sri Aurobindo was never a social man in the current sense of the term and definitely he was not a man of the crowd.
Sri Aurobindo: There was a famous Yogi in the South who while dying said to his disciples that a Purna Yogi from the North would come down to the South and he would be known by his three sayings.
Sri Aurobindo: Yes, it was when Sadhana was going on in the vital and when it is that, everything is joy, peace, etc. and if I had stopped there, we could have started a big religion, or something like 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: 2007-10-09)
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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 Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education
Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, an integral part of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, serves as a field of experiment and research in education.
For years Sri Aurobindo considered the formation of an Education Centre as one of the best means of preparing the future humanity to manifest upon earth a divine consciousness and a divine life.
Accordingly the Sri Aurobindo International University Centre was inaugurated by the Mother on January 6, 1952.
www.sriaurobindoashram.org /ashram/saice/index.php   (336 words)

  
 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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 Sri Aurobindo's Cosmology - The Seven Planes
Aurobindo's writing style, like that of other esotericists like Blavatsky and Steiner, is heavy and repetitious.
The lower three - the physical, vital, and mental - are the planes of finite existence.
The Supermind is Sachchidananda in manifestation; the transitional stage between the unchanging planes of Sat, Chit-Tapas and Ananda and the finite lower ones.
www.kheper.net /topics/Aurobindo/Aurobindo_cosmology.htm   (378 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on the 15 August 1872.
Sri Aurobindo died on 5 december 1950 in Pondicherry after having broken all direct contact with his disciples and appeared to the public only 3 or 4 times a year.
Retiring in 1926, Sri Aurobindo gave the responsability of the ashram to the "Mother", a french lady Mirra Alfassa born in Paris the 21 February 1878 and who arrived at Pondicherry in march 1914.
www.pondichery.com /english/sri.htm   (782 words)

  
 Darshan Day 5 December 2001
Sri Aurobindo has given up his body in an act of supreme unselfishness, renouncing the realisation in his body to hasten the hour of the collective realisation.
Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material.
Sri Aurobindo is here, as living and as present as ever and it is left to us to realise his work with all the sincerity, eagerness and concentration necessary.
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Again, it was here, that She foresaw the extent and formulated the scope of her future work, which was identical with Sri Aurobindo's - the bridging of the poles of Spirit and Matter and the establishment of a Divine Life on earth.
In 1910, a series of inner and outer coincidences led her into contact with Sri Aurobindo, and in 1914 she came to India to meet him.During the sea voyage, from about ten nautical miles from the shore of Pondicherry, she experienced the pervasion of Sri Aurobindo's presence.
after Sri Aurobindo's passing, The Mother carried on his Work of trying to bring down into her body a principle of consciousness, which would be the foundation of a New Species and a New Life on earth, the consciousness which has been called the Supramental by Sri Aurobindo.
www.sriaurobindocenter-la.org /MotherBio.htm   (1709 words)

  
 Life of Sri Aurobindo
But Sri Aurobindo was not meant to be an ICS officer, serving Her Majesty's Government as one more cog in a giant bureaucratic machine.
Sri Aurobindo also felt that a period of great upheaval for his motherland was coming in which he was destined to play a leading role.
Sri Aurobindo was greatly impressed and this also proved to be his conscious entry into the field of Yoga.
www.sriaurobindosociety.org.in /sriauro/aurolife.htm   (2811 words)

  
 Vision and Teachings: Sri Aurobindo
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.
In his physical nature he is yet almost wholly an animal, a thinking and speaking animal, but still animal in his material habits and instincts.
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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 Sri Aurobindo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sri Aurobindo (Bangla: শ্রী অরবিন্দ Sri Ôrobindo, Sanskrit: श्री अरविन्द Srī Aravinda) (August 15, 1872–December 5, 1950) was an Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru
Aurobindo felt that this was due to the biased view of Westerners who had some preconceived views on Hindu culture.
Chattopadhyaya wrote a seminal treatise juxtaposing Sri Aurobindo and Marx to examine their utopian prophecies.
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 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.
www.yogamatters.com /acatalog/Sri_Aurobindo.html   (391 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo: A journey into his life divine (Part 2)
Aurobindo recalled of their meeting, "That was the first time I knew that
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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 IndiaDivine.org Sri Aurobindo
The view you take of his conception of Nirvana seems to concur with the Mahayanist interpretation and its conception of the Permanent, dhruvam, which could be objected to as a later development like the opposite Nihilistic conception of the Shunyam.
It is this that we see at the basis of the material world and speak of nowadays as the Inconscient—the Inconscient Ocean of the Rigveda in which the One was hidden and arose in the form of this universe —or, as it is sometimes called, the non-being, Asat.
All the phases of human history may be regarded as a working out of the earth-consciousness in which each phase has its place and significance, so this materialistic intellectual phase had to come and has had, no doubt, its purpose and significance.
www.indiadivine.org /hinduism/authors/53/Sri-Aurobindo   (682 words)

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