Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence

Sri Aurobindo (Bangla: শ্রী অরবিন্দ) (August 15, 1872–December 5, 1950) was an Indian nationalist, scholar, poet, Hindu mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. His followers further believe that he was an avatar, an incarnation of the supreme being. 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 Forc ...

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• Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences
• Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion
• Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings
• Sri Aurobindo - The Mother
• Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy
• Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy
• Sri Aurobindo - Involution
• Sri Aurobindo - Evolution
• Sri Aurobindo - Other points
• Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga
• Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth
• Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence
• Sri Aurobindo - Quotation
• Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography
• Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia - Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo comes at a very crucial moment in the history of thought when Marxist materialism, Nietzschean nihilism and Freudian vitalism were popular and fashionable. Besides, phenomenology and existentialism had their run along-side him. On the whole, along with the new-fangled science and Theosophy, these new philosophical formulations fermented enough confusion among the elite. In a way, the disparate positions arrived at in Western thought find their synthesis in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy. By aligning them with the ancient Indian wisdom, he comes up with an integral visio ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Controvery over Supramental Lineage, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence

Sri Aurobindo comes at a very crucial moment in the history of thought when Marxist materialism, Nietzschean nihilism and Freudian vitalism were popular and fashionable. Besides, phenomenology and existentialism had their run along-side him. On the whole, along with the new-fangled science and Theosophy, these new philosophical formulations fermented enough confusion among the elite. In a way, the disparate positions arrived at in Western thought find their synthesis in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy. By aligning them with the ancient Indian wisdom, he comes up with an integral visio ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence

These philosophical and cosmological themes are applied to Sri Aurobindo's vision of cosmic and human evolution. He argues that mankind as an entity is not the last rung in the evolutionary scale, but can evolve spiritually beyond its current limitations, moving out of an essential Ignorance born of creation, to a future state of Supramental existence. This would be a Divine Life on Earth characterised by knowledge, truth, substance and ene ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Controvery over Supramental Lineage, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy

These philosophical and cosmological themes are applied to Sri Aurobindo's vision of cosmic and human evolution. He argues that mankind as an entity is not the last rung in the evolutionary scale, but can evolve spiritually beyond its current limitations, moving out of an essential Ignorance born of creation, to a future state of Supramental existence. This would be a Divine Life on Earth characterised by knowledge, truth, substance and ene ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy

One of Aurobindo's main philosophical achievements was to introduce the concept of evolution into Vedantic thought. Samkhya philosophy had already proposed such a notion centuries earlier, but Aurobindo rejected the materialistic tendencies of both Darwinism and Samkhya, and proposed an evolution of spirit rather than matter. He rejects the Mayavada of Advaita Vedanta, and solves the problem of the linkage between the ineffable Brahman or Absolute and the world of multiplicity by positing a transitional hypostasis between the two, whi ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Controvery over Supramental Lineage, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy

His closest collaborator in his yoga, Mirra Richard, was known as The Mother. She was born in Paris to Turkish and Egyptian parents and came to Pondicherry on March 29, 1914, finally settling there in 1920. Sri Aurobindo considered her his equal and because of her astuteness as an organiser, left it to her to plan, run and build the growing ashram. After November 24, 1926, when Sri Aurobindo retired into seclusion, she supervised the organization of the ashram and later institutes like Auroville, the international township near the to ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Controvery over Supramental Lineage, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - The Mother

The metaphysical teaching is balanced by a practical method, called Integral Yoga. Integral Yoga is so-called because it involves the synthesis of the three yogas - bhakti, karma, and jnana - of the Bhagavad Gita. It is also called "Integral" because it embodies and integrates all aspects of life. Of these three, bhakti is central, and in keeping with the Hindu tradition of the Divine Mother, Sri Aurobindo teaches devotion to the Mother (see his short devotional book The Mother), personified in his co-worker Mirra Ric ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Controvery over Supramental Lineage, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga

Books: Life Divine, Synthesis of Yoga, Savitri, The Mother, Letters, Agenda Teachings: Involution, Evolution Integral yoga, Triple transformation Physical, Vital, Mental, Psychic, Spirit Overmind, Supermind Sacred Structures: Matrimandir Communities: < ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences

Sri Aurobindo's view of society and the emergence of a spirit-oriented future existence can be explained as follows: Beyond the physical-based social life of early man (marked by survival, fear, subservience, etc.), the vital-based social life of the past five hundred years (emerging through trade, travel, discovery, adventure, and the fulfillment of the individual needs, wants, and desires), and the currently emerging mental-based age (indicated by freedom, individuality, democracy, education, rationality, technology, and the common man) is the possibility of the eme ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Controvery over Supramental Lineage, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth

Integral organizations: Integral Institute Cal. Inst. of Integral Studies Integral University In 1914 after four years of concentrated yoga at Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo launched Arya, a 64 page monthly review. For the next six and a half years this became the vehicle for most of his most important writings, which appeared in serialised form. These included The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on The Gita, The Secret of The Veda, Hymns to the Mystic Fire, The Upan ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Controvery over Supramental Lineage, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings

Books: Life Divine, Synthesis of Yoga, Savitri, The Mother, Letters, Agenda Teachings: Involution, Evolution Integral yoga, Triple transformation Physical, Vital, Mental, Psychic, Spirit Overmind, Supermind Sacred Structures: Matrimandir Communities:< ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Controvery over Supramental Lineage, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences

One of Aurobindo's main philosophical achievements was to introduce the concept of evolution into Vedantic thought. Samkhya philosophy had already proposed such a notion centuries earlier, but Aurobindo rejected the materialistic tendencies of both Darwinism and Samkhya, and proposed an evolution of spirit rather than matter. He rejects the Mayavada of Advaita Vedanta, and solves the problem of the linkage between the ineffable Brahman or Absolute and the world of multiplicity by positing a transitional hypostasis between the two, whi ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy

His closest collaborator in his yoga, Mirra Richard, was known as The Mother. She was born in Paris to Turkish and Egyptian parents and came to Pondicherry on March 29, 1914, finally settling there in 1920. Sri Aurobindo considered her his equal and because of her astuteness as an organiser, left it to her to plan, run and build the growing ashram. After November 24, 1926, when Sri Aurobindo retired into seclusion, she supervised the organization of the ashram and later institutes like Auroville, the international township near the to ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - The Mother

The metaphysical teaching is balanced by a practical method, called Integral Yoga. Integral Yoga is so-called because it involves the synthesis of the three yogas - bhakti, karma, and jnana - of the Bhagavad Gita. It is also called "Integral" because it embodies and integrates all aspects of life. Of these three, bhakti is central, and in keeping with the Hindu tradition of the Divine Mother, Sri Aurobindo teaches devotion to the Mother (see his short devotional book The Mother), personified in his co-worker Mirra Ric ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga

Sri Aurobindo's view of society and the emergence of a spirit-oriented future existence can be explained as follows: Beyond the physical-based social life of early man (marked by survival, fear, subservience, etc.), the vital-based social life of the past five hundred years (emerging through trade, travel, discovery, adventure, and the fulfillment of the individual needs, wants, and desires), and the currently emerging mental-based age (indicated by freedom, individuality, democracy, education, rationality, technology, and the common man) is the possibility of the eme ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth

Integral organizations: Integral Institute Cal. Inst. of Integral Studies Integral University In 1914 after four years of concentrated yoga at Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo launched Arya, a 64 page monthly review. For the next six and a half years this became the vehicle for most of his most important writings, which appeared in serialised form. These included The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on The Gita, The Secret of The Veda, Hymns to the Mystic Fire, The Upan ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings

His final conversion from an active nationalist into a profound Hindu sage and seer occurred while incarcerated for a year in the Alipur jail in Kolkata in the province of Bengal. While incarcerated he was inspired by his meditating on the famed Hindu scripture of the Bhagavad Gita. While in Alipore Jail, Sri Aurobindo claimed to be visited by the renowned Swami Vivekananda, a Hindu philosopher of great importance to neo-Advaita Vedanta, in his meditation. The swami guided Sri Aurobindo's yoga and helped him to scale great heights. It ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion

His final conversion from an active nationalist into a profound Hindu sage and seer occurred while incarcerated for a year in the Alipur jail in Kolkata in the province of Bengal. While incarcerated he was inspired by his meditating on the famed Hindu scripture of the Bhagavad Gita. While in Alipore Jail, Sri Aurobindo claimed to be visited by the renowned Swami Vivekananda, a Hindu philosopher of great importance to neo-Advaita Vedanta, in his meditation. The swami guided Sri Aurobindo's yoga and helped him to scale great heights. It ...

See also:

Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo - Early experiences, Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion, Sri Aurobindo - Philosophical and spiritual writings, Sri Aurobindo - The Mother, Sri Aurobindo - Contribution to Hindu philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy, Sri Aurobindo - Involution, Sri Aurobindo - Evolution, Sri Aurobindo - Other points, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's integral yoga, Sri Aurobindo - Divine Life on Earth, Sri Aurobindo - Aurobindo's influence, Sri Aurobindo - Controvery over Supramental Lineage, Sri Aurobindo - Quotation, Sri Aurobindo - Partial bibliography, Sri Aurobindo - Related links

Read more here: » Sri Aurobindo: Encyclopedia II - Sri Aurobindo - Final conversion