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XXIII. The Apocalypse of Aspiration
Is this world an unchanging succession of the same phenomena always or is there in it an evolutionary urge, an evolutionary fact, a ladder of ascension somewhere from an original apparent Inconscience to a more and more developed consciousness, from each development still ascending, emerging on highest heights not yet within our normal reach? If so, what is the sense, the fundamental principle, the logical issue of that progression? According to Sri Aurobindo everything seems to point to such a progression as a fact, to a spiritual and not merely a physical
evolution the Inconscient from which all starts is apparent only," S
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XIX. Supermind and the Integra I Know ledge
The face of Truth is hidden by a golden lid; that re-
move, O Fostering Sun, for the Law of the Truth, for
sight. O Sun, O sole Seer, marshal thy rays, gather
them together, — let me see of thee thy happiest form
of all; that Conscious Being everywhere, He am I.
Isha Upanishad, 15, 16.
Mind is not in its very nature an inventor of errors, a father of lies bound down to a capacity of falsehood... "it is in its origin a principle of light, an instrument put forth from the Supermind and, though set to work within limits and even set to create limits, yet the limits are luminous b
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XXVIII. The
Flaming Vision
Beholding the higher Light beyond the darkness we
came to the divine Sun in
the Godhead, to the highest
Light of all.
Rig Veda1
O Immortal, thou art bom in mortals in the law of the
Truth, of Immortality,
of Beauty... Bom from the Truth,
he grows by the Truth, — a King, a Godhead, the
Truth,
the Vast.
Rig Veda2
The perfection of psychic and spiritual
transformations would be "the perfection, wholeness, consummated unity of a
knowledge and experience which is already part of things realised, though only
by a small number of human beings. But the supramental change in its process
carrie
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III. The Evolution of Evolution
Perhaps the greatest and the most universal of the problems which have intrigued the mind of man are those which deal with his own place in the world in which he lives. But before he can even formulate these problems, before he can set himself out as something apart from the rest of the world and inquire about his relations to it, he must construct some picture or model or theory of the universe as a whole. He must, in the learned jargon which he has invented to help keep his thoughts in order, develop a cosmology. He may wish, however, at times to go beyond a mere description of his universe and speculate on its inner nature, or
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XV. The Logic of Solids
He discovered that Mind was the Brahman.
Taittiriya Upanishad'
Indivisible, but as if divided in beings.
Gita2
Mind cannot possess the infinite, it can only suf-
fer it or be possessed by it; it can only lie bliss-
fully helpless under the luminous shadow of the
Real cast down on it from planes of existence be-
yond its reach.
The Life Divine3
Here, in this section, we shall have a searching analysis of the scope and limitations of 'reason', and discuss the concept of the Infinite along with the question whether our logical postulates and categories require to be modified or re-interpreted in de
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REFERENCES
REFERENCES
CHAPTER I
1.Taittiriya Upanishad,
Brahmananda Valli, 7.
2.Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,
SABCL Vol. 18, p. 78.
3.Rig Veda, Hymns of Bharadwaja,
Mandala VI, S. VII.
4.Nolirti Kanta
Gupta, The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, Part VI, p. 19.
5.Ibid., p.
20.
6.Ibid.,
pp.
31-32.
7.Dr. Macdonell,
Vedic Mythology, p. 11.
8.Bloomfield,
Religion of the Veda, pp. 242-43.
9.S. Radhakrishnan,
Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1, p 101.
10.Max Muller, Six
Systems of Indian Philosophy, pp. 65-66.
11.Sat. Brah., ii,
5.1. p. 1-3.
12.S.
Radhakrishnan, Op. Cit, Vol. I, p. 181.
13.Encyclopaedia
of R
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XXVI. The Purpose and Process of Rebirth
Finite bodies have an end, but that which possesses
and uses the body, is infinite, illimitable, eternal, inde-
structible. Therefore, fight, O Bharata.
Gita1
There is a birth and growth of the self. According to
his actions the embodied being assumes forms succes-
sively in many places; many forms gross and subtle he
assumes by force of his own qualities of nature.
Swetaswatara Upanishad2
The embodied soul casts away old and takes up new
bodies as a man changes worn-out raiment for new.
Gita3
Sri Aurobindo prefers "rebirth" to reincarnati
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MOVEMENT FOUR
HUMAN DESTINY
XXIX. The
Spiritual Aim
He who knows that as both in one, the Knowledge and
the Ignorance, by the
Ignorance crosses beyond death
and by the Knowledge enjoys Immortality.
Isha Upanishad1
To fulfil God in life is man's manhood. He starts from
the animal vitality
and its activities, but a divine ex-
istence is his objective.
The Life Divine2
He who knows That as both in one, the Birth and the
dissolution of Birth, by
the dissolution crosses beyond
death and by the Birth enjoys Immortality.
Isha Upanishad3
O Nightingale, thou surely art
A creature of a fi
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MOVEMENT THREE
THE SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION
XXV. Man and the Evolution
The one Godhead secret in all beings, all-pervading,
the inner Self of all, presiding over all action, witness,
conscious knower and absolute ... the One in control
over the many who are passive to Nature, fashions one
seed in many ways.
Swetaswatara Upanishad1
He fashions one form of things in many ways.
Katha Upanishad2
From the non-being to true being, from the darkness
to the Light, from death to Immortality.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad13
As men approach Me, so I accept them to my love
(bhajāmi); men follow in every way
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Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of Evolution
Content
Pre-Content
To The Mother
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Preface
FIRST THOUGHTS
I.
Vedic and Puranic Cosmogony
II
Avatarhood: The Parable of Evolution
III.
The Evolution of Evolution
IV.
Man Must Needs Have a Cosmology
V.
The Mysticism of Matter
VI.
Evolution of Homo Sapiens
VII.
A Critical Retrospect
VIII.
Will to Reason