The Essential Aurobindo

The Essential Aurobindo
Author: Aurobindo Ghose
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780970109729

Sri Aurobindo stands out as one of the most profound and profoundly relevant of contemporary Asian spiritual masters speaking to the West. His vision transcends the distinctive strengths and weaknesses of India and the West, and his discipline brings the yogas of the Gita to the task of world transformation.Professor Robert McDermott's afterword recounts the increased significance of Aurobindo's message for the West in modern times.

The Essential Aurobindo

The Essential Aurobindo
Author: Sri Aurobindo
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1584202025

Who wrote the Gospel of John? The author identifies himself only as "the disciple whom Jesus loved," and Christian tradition tells us that this disciple was the apostle John. However, during the past century, scholars have increasingly come to doubt that attribution. In 1902, Rudolf Steiner wrote that the author of the Gospel of John was in fact Lazarus. Steiner's position stemmed from his insight that Lazarus's encounter with death involved far more than people realized--an initiation into higher spiritual realities that uniquely qualified him to write this gospel. Edward Smith takes up this argument and shows that subsequent research has tended to favor Lazarus for reasons grounded in John's Gospel itself. More important, Smith shows that subsequent discoveries at Nag Hammadi and Mar Saba corroborate Steiner's reasoning about the nature of the raising of Lazarus, pointing to Lazarus as "the rich young ruler" of Mark's Gospel.

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo
Author: Peter Heehs
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0231140983

Since his death in 1950, Sri Aurobindo Ghose has been known primarily as a yogi and a philosopher of spiritual evolution who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in peace and literature. But the years Aurobindo spent in yogic retirement were preceded by nearly four decades of rich public and intellectual work. Biographers usually focus solely on Aurobindo's life as a politician or sage, but he was also a scholar, a revolutionary, a poet, a philosopher, a social and cultural theorist, and the inspiration for an experiment in communal living. Peter Heehs, one of the founders of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives, is the first to relate all the aspects of Aurobindo's life in its entirety. Consulting rare primary sources, Heehs describes the leader's role in the freedom movement and in the framing of modern Indian spirituality. He examines the thinker's literary, cultural, and sociological writings and the Sanskrit, Bengali, English, and French literature that influenced them, and he finds the foundations of Aurobindo's yoga practice in his diaries and unpublished letters. Heehs's biography is a sensitive, honest portrait of a life that also provides surprising insights into twentieth-century Indian history.

The Essential Writings of Sri Aurobindo

The Essential Writings of Sri Aurobindo
Author: Aurobindo Ghose
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1999
Genre: Hindu philosophy
ISBN: 9780195649765

This volume includes writings covering more than fifty years (1893-1950) of Aurobindo's life that suggest the diversity of Aurobindo's thought and are arranged in six sections according to his main areas of interest: politics, the Indian traditions, social and political theory, philosophy, yoga, poetry and poetics

The Essential Aurobindo: Writings Of Sri Aurobindo

The Essential Aurobindo: Writings Of Sri Aurobindo
Author: Edited With An Introduction And An Afterword By Robert Mcdermott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9788179924204

Sri Aurobindo stands out as one of the most profound and profoundly relevant of contemporary Asian spiritual masters speaking to the West. His vision transcends the distinctive strengths and weaknesses of India and the West, and his discipline brings the

Bhagavad Gita and Its Message

Bhagavad Gita and Its Message
Author: Sri Aurobindo
Publisher: Lotus Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1996-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780941524780

The Bhagavad Gita, literally "The Song of God," is one of the most important spiritual and religious texts of the world, and is to Hindus what the Torah is to Jews, the Bible to Christians, and the Quran to Muslems. With text, translation, and Sri Aurobindo's commentary, this is probably the finest translation and commentary on the Bhagavad Gita that we have seen.

Sri Aurobindo Or the Adventure of Consciousness

Sri Aurobindo Or the Adventure of Consciousness
Author: Satprem
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2018-07-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9789888412938

This now classic introduction to Sri Aurobindo not only tells us the story of his life-in itself a remarkable adventure-but Satprem also takes us along in a methodical exploration of Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga, showing how it leads to a divine rehabilitation of Matter and gives our painful evolution its meaning and hope.

The Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo

The Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo
Author: Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2020-05-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1350124885

Indian philosopher, poet, mystic and Yogi, Sri Aurobindo, argued that human society has evolved throughout history and is destined to move towards better organization of life. Applying his ideas to problems confronting the world today, this collection presents an in-depth exploration of Aurobindo's evolutionary philosophy and Integral Yoga. Written by an international team of scholars and practitioners, each chapter takes a theoretical aspect of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy, positions it alongside policy debates on the individual and the state and explains its practical and educational benefits. Contributors discuss his vision of unity in diversity, shed light on his poetry and offer a comprehensive view of his concept of ethics as well as his metaphysics of consciousness. They examine his contribution to the Indian response to post-Enlightenment modernity and reveal how his philosophy illuminates some of the fundamental problems of our times, offering possible solutions. By presenting the first sustained discourse between Sri Aurobindo and the contemporary world, this collection addresses the relevance of his philosophy for everyday life and highlights the lasting work of this important 20th-century Indian thinker.

The Psychic Being

The Psychic Being
Author: Sri Aurobindo
Publisher: Lotus Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1990
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780941524568

The present compilation is an attempt to bring together in one volume the manifold teaching pertaining to the psychic being which are to be found in the numerous works of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. The selections deal with the nature of the psychic being, shedding the light of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother on the inner constitution of the human being and on various related questions such as the process of inner growth, the afterlife, and rebirth.