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Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Nolini Kanta Gupta/English/Evolution and the Earthly Destiny/Publishers Note.htm
Publishers' Note
This selection of essays, drawn from the
manifold writings of Nolini Kanta Gupta, is
dedicated to the youth of India, to those
among her children who cherish in some
part of their being an aspiration, a living
flame of light that yearns towards an ever-growing perfection, a truth of being and
becoming as yet vaguely surmised or only
partially revealed.
Throughout the many and varied domains
of the human adventure, seen here in the
light of Sri Aurobindo's vision of the future,
there emerges the one eternal question and
dominant theme of our seeking: man past
and present, man individual and collective,
but always and above all, the ultimate
flowering of hi
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Nolini Kanta Gupta/English/Evolution and the Earthly Destiny/The World is One.htm
The World is One
WE say not only that India is one and indivisible (and for that
matter, Bengal too is one and indivisible, since we have to
repeat axiomatic truths that have fallen on evil days and on
evil tongues) but that also the whole world is one and indivisible. They who seek to drive in a wedge anywhere, who are
busy laying some kind of cordon sanitaire across countries and
nations or cultures and civilisations, in the name of a bigoted
ideology, are, to say the least, doing a disservice to humanity,
indeed they are inviting a disaster and catastrophe to the world
and equally to themselves. For that is an attempt to stem the
high tide of Nature's swell towards a globa
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Nolini Kanta Gupta/English/Evolution and the Earthly Destiny/The Observer and the Observed.htm
The Observer and the Observed
SCIENCE means objectivity, that is to say, elimination of the
personal element—truth as pure fact without being distorted
or coloured by the feelings and impressions and notions of the
observer. It is the very opposite of the philosopher's standpoint
who says that a thing exists because (and so long. as) it is
perceived. The scientist swears that a thing exists whether you
perceive it or not, perception is possible because it exists, not
the other way. And yet Descartes is considered not only as the
father of modern philosophy, but also as the founder of modern
mathematical science. But more of that anon. The scientific
observer obs
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Rabindranath and Sri Aurobindo
"TAGORE has been a wayfarer towards the same goal as ours
in his own way." Sri Aurobindo wrote these words in the
thirties and their full significance can be grasped only when it
is understood that the two master-souls were at one in the
central purpose of their lives. Also there is a further bond of
natural affinity between them centring round the fact that
both were poets, in a deeper sense, seer poets—Rabindranath
the Poet of the Dawn, Sri Aurobindo the Poet and Prophet of
the Eternal Day, a new Dawn and Day for the human race.
And both had the vision of a greater Tomorrow for their
Motherland and that was why both regar
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Nolini Kanta Gupta/English/Evolution and the Earthly Destiny/The Eternal East and West.htm
The Eternal East and West
THE East and the West are two recognised wings of humanity.
Only the relation between them is somewhat in dispute.
According to one view the two are quite separate and irreconcilable entities, because they .embody two outlooks that
are contradictory to each other. The other view is that they
are not contradictory, however distinct they may be; they are
complementary or supplementary to each other. The interaction between the two across the centuries recorded in history
has been admitted and studied; it considerably influenced the
growth and development of each in its line. Only the influence
exerted some view with favour, others with disfavou
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Nolini Kanta Gupta/English/Evolution and the Earthly Destiny/The Intuition of the Age.htm
The Intuition of the Age
ALL movements—whether of thought or of life, whether in the
individual or in the mass—proceed from a fundamental intuition which lies in the background as the logical presupposition,
the psychological motive and the spiritual force. A certain
attitude of the soul, a certain angle of vision is what is posited
first; all other things—all thoughts and feelings and activities
are but necessary attempts to express, to demonstrate, to realise
on the conscious and dynamic levels, in the outer world, the
truth which has thus already been seized in some secret core
of our being. The intuition may not, of course, be present to
the conscious mind, it
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Darshana and Philosophy
THERE is a mental approach to spiritual truths and there is a
direct and immediate approach or rather contact. The mind sees as though through a mist, a darkling glass, a more or less
opaque veil, and the thing envisaged presents a blurred and
not unoften a deformed appearance. The mind has its own predispositions—its own categories and terms, its own forms and
figures—which it has to use when it seeks to express that which
is beyond it. Naturally the object, the truth as it is, it cannot
apprehend or represent; it gives as it were the reverse side of
an embroidery work. It goes round about the thing, has to take
recourse to all kinds of contor
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Nolini Kanta Gupta/English/Evolution and the Earthly Destiny/The Creative Soul .htm
The Creative Soul
THE difference between living organism and dead matter is
that while the former is endowed, with creative activity the
latter has only passive receptivity. Life adds, synthetises, new-
creates—gives more than what it receives; matter only sums up,
gathers, reflects, gives just what it receives. Life is living, glad
and green through its creative genius. Creation in some form or
other must be the core of everything that seeks vitality and
growth, vigour and delight. Not only so, but a thing in order to
be real must possess a creative function. We consider a shadow
or an echo unreal precisely because they do not create but
merely image or repeat, they do n
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A Vedic Story
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THE gods are in a great fix. Where is Agni ? How is it that the
comrade has disappeared all on a sudden ? The Sacrifice—the
great work has to be undertaken. And he is to be the leader, for he
alone can take up the burden. There is no time to be lost, everything is ready for the ceremony to start and just at the moment
the one needed most is nowhere. So the gods organise a search
party to find out the whereabouts of the runaway god.
The search party consists of Varuna, Mitra and Yama. We
shall presently understand the sense of the selection. They look
about here and there—in ten directions, it is mentioned—and
at last spot the defaul
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Consciousness as Energy
A LIVE wire—through which an electric current, say of several
thousand volts, is passing—looks quite innocent, motionless,
inactive, almost inert. The appearance, needless to say, is
deceptive. Even so the still life of a Yogin. Action does not
consist merely in mechanical motion visible to the eye: intra-atomic movements that are subtle, invisible, hard to detect
even by the most sensitive instruments, possess a tremendous potency, even to unimaginable degrees. Likewise in
man, the extent of muscular flexions does not give the measure
or potential of his activity. One cannot say that the first-line
infantryman who rushes and charges, shoots, b