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Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Nolini Kanta Gupta/English/The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo Part - 2/An Aspect of Emergent Evolution.htm
AN ASPECT OF EMERGENT EVOLUTION
The theory of Emergent Evolution should be considered no longer as a theory, but as a statement of fact. The fact, at its barest, stripped of all assumptions and even generalisations, is the fact observed and implicit in all evolution, which can be denied only by the perverse and purblind. It is this, that at each crucial step Nature undergoes a sudden and total change, brings forth a new element which was not there before and which could not be foreseen or foretold by any process of deduction from the actual factors in play.
At the very outset of the evolutionary march, when material Nature meant only a mass or masses of
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Nolini Kanta Gupta/English/The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo Part - 2/Our Ideal.htm
OUR IDEAL
OUR ideal—the ideal of Sri Aurobindo —we may say without much ado, is to divinise the human, immortalise the mortal, spiritualise the material. Is the ideal possible? Is it practicable? Our task will be precisely, first of all, to show that it is possible, next that it is probable and finally that it is inevitable.
Now to the first question. It is usually contended that the ideal is an
impossibility, a chimera, since it involves on the face of it a
self-contradiction. For, is not divinity the very opposite of humanity,
immortality that of mortality and Matter that of the Spirit? These pairs, all of
them, are formed of two mutually exclusive terms. This is wha
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Nolini Kanta Gupta/English/The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo Part - 2/Lines of the Descent of Consciousness.htm
LINES OF THE DESCENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS
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THE world has been created by a descent
of consciousness; it maintains itself, it proceeds and develops through a series of descent. In fact, creation itself is a descent, the first and original one, the descent of the supreme Reality into Matter and as Matter. The supreme Reality—the fount and origin of things and even that which is beyond— although essentially something absolute, indescribable, ineffable, indeterminable, has been, for purposes of the human understanding, signalised as a triune entity of Existence, Consciousness and Bliss. That is to say, first of all, it is, it exists always and for e
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THE YOGA
OF
SRI AUROBINDO
THE YOGA OF SRI
AUROBINDO
Part Two
NOLINI KANTA GUPTA
Sri Aurobindo Library Madras
Publishers:
Sri Aurobindo Library
369 Esplanade, George Town
Madras
All Rights Reserved
First Edition1943
Second Edition .. 1950
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press
Pondicherry
Printed in India
PUBLISHERS' NOTE
The present volume is the second of a series in which it is proposed to deal with various aspects of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga in their simple and broad outlines.
The first two
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