Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Salvation for Sri Aurobindo doesn't have a religious meaning

Humanity has tried to improve or perfect itself through the modalities of physical organisation, vital enhancement and mental systems or rules. None of these has the capability of transforming human life or ushering in a divine life on earth. Each of them suffers from limitations that lead to various forms of systemisation or legislating behavior which fail by either a too restrictive regimentation or by an over-emphasis on one aspect or another at the expense of the rest of human development. Many past attempts to define a higher formation of life on earth have failed due to reliance on external methodologies.
  • We have witnessed, just in the last centuries a number of such attempts, such as the Third Reich which attempted through strict regimentation and exercise of vital power to cull out humanity and create a master race.
  • We saw the attempt in the People’s Republic of China to massively re-educate citizens to fit into a pre-determined regimented formulation by restricting individual initiative and creative thought.
  • We have seen in the West an attempt to enhance humanity through “free enterprise” and through the increasing understanding and control of our environment through application of science and technology.
  • And we have seen any number of religions attempt to unify and create harmony through bringing about adherence to a particular belief set, even if it required coercion and rigid fundamentalism to create that adherence.
Clearly none of these approaches has proven itself capable of leading humanity to a true spiritual future based on Oneness while supporting the diversity and multiplicity of approaches that are modeled for us in Nature.
Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of Social Development - Page 182  - Preview No Miracles: The follower of the integral method of yoga does not believe in miracles. It’s a slow and gradual process, … Sri Aurobindo's Social Philosophy is based on hard facts. Every game has its rules. One who wants to play must follow the rules or ... It may be questioned whether such a mass progress or conversion is possible; but if it is not, ...
“Yoga”, asserts Aurobindo, “is the exchange of an egoistic for a universal or cosmic consciousness lifted towards or informed by the super-cosmic, transcendent ...
According to Aurobindo, the progress of the civilization depended on its advance towards human unity. “The perfect society”, affirmed Aurobindo, “ will be that which most entirely favors the perfection of the individual; the perfection of the individual will be incomplete if it does not help him towards the perfect state of the social aggregate to which he belongs and eventually to that of the largest possible human aggregate, the whole of a united humanity.” Aurobindo saw the perfection of the individual as a widening and a heightening in human and cosmic development. This heightening results in the integration of all levels of life and the achievement of unicity by the mind. As such salvation for Aurobindo does not have a religious meaning. It is a rebirth of Man as a supramental being.
The Indian Imagination: Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English - Google Books Result - K. D. Verma - 2000 - Fiction - 268 pages - Preview But it is the "prophetic mind" of Whitman, asserts Aurobindo, that "consciously and largely foresaw and prepared the paths" to future poetry: He [Whitman] belongs to the largest mind of the nineteenth century by the stress and energy of...
Sri Aurobindo and Whitehead on the nature of God - Satya Prakash Singh - 1972 - 196 pages - "A nothing which is full of all potentialities," asserts Aurobindo, "is the complete opposition of terms and things possible".4 Just as the mathematical zero, which, although apparently standing for nothing, really constitutes the ...
The future of man according to Teilhard de Chardin and Aurobindo Ghose J. Chetany - 1978 - 500 pages - And the purpose of the evolutionary process is the "finding of his own individuality and its perfect disengagement," asserts Aurobindo, "from the lower subsconscient in which the individual is overpowered by the mass-consciousness of ...

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