Heraclitus : (c.535-c.475 B.C), Greek philosopher of Ephesus. Sri Aurobindo: Heraclitus’ account of the cosmos is an evolution & involution out of his one eternal principle of Fire, – at once the one substance & the one force, – which he expresses in his figurative language as the upward & downward road. ‘The road up & down,’ he says, ‘is one & the same.’ Out of Fire, the radiant & energetic principle, air, water & earth proceed, – that is the procession of energy on its downward road; there is equally in the very tension of this process a force of potential return which would lead things backward to their source in the reverse order. In the balance of these two upward & downward forces resides the whole cosmic action; everything is a poise of contrary energies. The movement of life is like the back-returning of the bow, to which he compares it, an energy of traction & tension restraining an energy of release, every force of action compensated by a corresponding force of reaction. By the resistance of one to the other all the harmonies of existence are created. We have the same idea of an evolution of successive conditions of energy out of a primal substance-force in the Indian theory of Sāṅkhya. There indeed the system proposed is more complete & satisfying. It starts with the original or root energy, mūla-prakrti, which as the first substance, pradhāna, evolves by development & change into five successive principles. Ether, not fire, is the first principle, ignored by the Greeks, but rediscovered by modern Science. [SABCL 16:352]
... Heraclitus Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Heraclitus - VII The ideas of Heraclitus on which I have so far laid stress, are general, philosophical, metaphysical; they glance at those first truths of existence, devānāṁ prathamā vratāni , 1 for which philosophy first seeks because they are the key to all other truths. But what is their practical effect... vyaṣṭi , manifested in the collectivity as well as in the individual, and the justice on which Heraclitus insists demands that both should have their effect and their value; they depend Page 245 indeed and draw on each other for the effectuation of their excellences. Other sayings of Heraclitus are interesting enough, as when he affirms the divine element in human laws,—and that is also... destroyed in India the sacrificial system of the Vedic religion,—although Buddha's great impulse of compassion was absent from the mind of Heraclitus: pity could never have become a powerful motive among the old Mediterranean races. But the language of Heraclitus shows us that the ancient system of sacrifice in Greece and in India was not a mere barbaric propitiation of savage deities, as modern inquiry ...
... Heraclitus Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Heraclitus - I The philosophy and thought of the Greeks is perhaps the most intellectually stimulating, the most fruitful of clarities the world has yet had. Indian philosophy was intuitive in its beginnings, stimulative rather to the deeper vision of things,—nothing more exalted and profound, more revelatory of... difficult points I am inclined to differ with the conclusions he adopts. He rejects positively Pfleiderer's view of Heraclitus as a mystic, which is certainly exaggerated and, as stated, a misconception; but it seems to me that there is behind that misconception a certain truth. Heraclitus' abuse of the mysteries of his time is not very conclusive in this respect; for what he reviles is those aspects... fundamental idea of the mystics. Heraclitus, likewise, seems to Page 217 recognise the inextricable unity of the eternal and the transitory, that which is for ever and yet seems to exist only in this strife and change which is a continual dying. The gods manifest themselves as things that continually change and perish; man is in principle an eternal being. Heraclitus does not really deal in barren ...
... to Heraclitus, rather an unusual book; but this little treatise too will be seen to fall into right relation with the rest of the canon, just another chord that contributes to the magnificent Aurobindonian symphony. Heraclitus appeared serially in the Arya during 1916-17; having begun as a Page 511 review of R.D. Ranade's paper on the philosophy of Heraclitus, it presently... strange fascination for posterity. Himself a profound student of Greek literature and thought, Sri Aurobindo is here on ground quite familiar to him, and his reading of Heraclitus has thus a very special value for the modern reader. Heraclitus was evidently teased by the "first and last things" of philosophy, and the lines of his reasoning seem to be reminiscent of some of the boldest adventures and loftiest... and Hindu thought. Sri Aurobindo rightly maintains that Heraclitus was much more than a clever maker of aphorisms or enigmatic epigrams; in his own right he was a mystic as well, though of the Apollonian and not of the Dionysian kind: And though no partaker in or supporter of any kind of rites or mummery, Heraclitus still strikes one as at least an intellectual child of the Mystics ...
... Heraclitus Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Heraclitus - II What precisely is the key-note of Heraclitus' thinking, where has he found his starting-point, or what are the grand lines of his philosophy? For if his thought is not developed in the severe systematic method of later thinkers, if it does not come down to us in large streams of subtle reasoning... much as stable substance or essence as active Force, a sort of substantial Will-to-become, is the foundation of Heraclitus' philosophy. Nietzsche, whom Mr. Ranade rightly affiliates to Heraclitus, Nietzsche, the most vivid, concrete and suggestive of modern thinkers, as is Heraclitus among the early Greeks, founded his whole philosophical thought on this conception of existence as a vast Will-to-become... practical and sensational man would have us contemptuously believe; for on our answer to them depends our conception of God, of existence, of the world and of human life and destiny. Page 221 Heraclitus, differing in this, as Mr. Ranade reminds us, from Anaximander who like our Mayavadins denied true reality to the Many and from Empedocles who thought the All to be alternately one and many, believed ...
... Heraclitus Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Heraclitus - III Two apophthegms of Heraclitus give us the starting-point of his whole thinking. They are his saying that it is wisdom to admit that all things are one and his other saying "One out of all and all out of One." How are we to understand these two pregnant utterances? Must we read them into each other... other and conclude that for Heraclitus the One only exists as resultant of the many even as the many only exist as a becoming of the One? Mr. Ranade seems to think so; he tells us that this philosophy denies Being and affirms only Becoming,—like Nietzsche, like the Buddhists. But surely this is to read a little too much into Heraclitus' theory of perpetual change, to take it too much by itself. If that... account for his theory of the upward and downward way, difficult to concede what Mr. Ranade contends, that Heraclitus did hold the theory of a cosmic conflagration or to imagine what could be the result of such a cosmic catastrophe. To reduce all becoming into Nothing? Surely not; Heraclitus' thought is at the very antipodes from speculative Nihilism. Into another kind of becoming? Obviously not, since ...
... Heraclitus Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Heraclitus - IV Heraclitus' account of the cosmos is an evolution and involution out of his one eternal principle of Fire,—at once the one substance and the one force,—which he expresses in his figurative language as the upward and downward road. "The road up and down" he says "is one and the same." Out of Fire... substance, and it thus differs from the order of Page 233 Heraclitus. But it gives to the principle of fire the function of creating all forms,—as Agni in the Veda is the great builder of the worlds,—and here at least it meets his thought; for it is as the energetic principle behind all formation and mutation that Heraclitus must have chosen Fire as his symbol and material representative of... of the One. We may remember in this connection how far modern Science has gone to justify these old thinkers by the importance it gives to electricity and radio-active forces—Heraclitus' fire and thunderbolt, the Indian triple Agni—in the formation of atoms and in the transmutation of energy. But the Greeks failed to go forward to that final discrimination which India attributed to Kapila, the supreme ...
... Heraclitus Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Heraclitus - VI Heraclitus is the first and the most consistent teacher of the law of relativity; it is the logical result of his primary philosophical concepts. Since all is one in its being and many in its becoming, it follows that everything must be one in its essence. Night and day, life and death, good and... day to us, is to others night. Because of this insistence on the relativity of good and evil, Page 241 Heraclitus is thought to have enunciated some kind of supermoralism; but it is well to see carefully to what this supermoralism of Heraclitus really amounts. Heraclitus does not deny the existence of an absolute; but for him the absolute is to be found in the One, in the Divine,—not the... contrary, it must be the expression, proper to each mentality according to the necessity of its nature and standpoint, of the divine Law. Heraclitus says that plainly; "Fed are all human laws by one, the divine." That sentence ought to be quite sufficient to protect Heraclitus against the charge of antinomianism. True, no human law is the absolute expression of the divine justice, but it draws its validity ...
... Sri Aurobindo tells us: "Plato who was influenced by Heraclitus, tried to do this...; his thought sought after God, tried to seize the ideal, had the hope of a perfect human society. We know how the Neo-Platonists developed his ideas...and how they affected Christianity. The Stoics, still more directly the intellectual descendants of Heraclitus, arrived at very remarkable and fruitful ideas of human... Art (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1972), p. 546. 3. Heraclitus (Calcutta, 1947), pp. 8-9. 4. The Future Poetry, p. 547. 5. On Yoga, II, Tome One (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1958), p. 201. 6. Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1953), p. 339. 7. Heraclitus, p. 10. 8. The Life Divine (Sri Aurobindo Library, Greystone... 679. 9. On Yoga II, Tome One, p. 463. 10. Heraclitus, p. 36. 11. The Life Divine, p. 110. 12. Ibid. 13. Ibid., pp. 256-7. 14. Ibid., p. 261. 15.Sri Aurobindo Circle Annual, 1963 (Pondicherry), p. 1. 16. The Foundations of Indian Culture (The Sri Aurobindo Library, New York, 1953), p. 306. 17. Heraclitus, p. 52. 18. Ibid. 19. Sri Aurobindo Circle ...
... Heraclitus Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Heraclitus - V If it is the law of Change that determines the evolution and involution of the one downward and upward road, the same law prevails all along the path, through all its steps and returns, in all the million transactions of the wayside. There is everywhere the law of exchange and interchange, amoibē... with a more accurate knowledge of what actually happens in this change, yet confirms Heraclitus' conclusion. It is the law of the conservation of energy. Practically, the active secret of life is there; all life physical or mental or merely dynamic maintains itself by constant change and interchange. Still, Heraclitus' account is so far not altogether satisfactory. The measure, the value of the energy... Why in this constant cosmic flux should everything after all remain the same? Why should the sun, though always new, be yet for all practical purposes the same sun? Why should the stream be, as Heraclitus himself admits, the same stream although it is ever other and other waters that are flowing? It was in this connection that Plato brought in his eternal, ideal plane of fixed ideas, by which he seems ...
... thinker Heraclitus. Sri Aurobindo 1 Dictionary of World Literature, edited by Joseph T. Shipley (New York, 1942), p. 40, col. 2. 2 Op. cit., p. xix. Page 316 puts a stress on a period of Mystics preceding that of the philosophers and takes up the issue often discussed: Was Heraclitus a mystic or a rationalist? Sri Aurobindo agrees that Pfleiderer's view of Heraclitus as a... a pure mystic is exaggerated, but he discerns a certain truth behind this misconception. He 1 opines: "Heraclitus' abuse of the Mysteries of his time is not very conclusive in this respect; for what he reviles is those aspects of obscure magic, physical ecstasy, sensual excitement which the Mysteries had put on in some at least of their final developments as the process of degeneration increased which... as well as an obscure and sometimes dangerous Dionysian mysticism, a Dakshina as well as a Varna Marga of the mystic Tantra. And though no partaker in or supporter of any kind of rites or mummery, Heraclitus still strikes one as at least an intellectual child of the Mystics and of mysticism, although perhaps a rebel son in the house of his mother. He has something of the mystic style, something of the ...
... title of your article couples with the Kingdom of God. I shall draw upon the last passage of Sri Aurobindo's booklet on Heraclitus. The passage tries to sum up the drift of the Heraclitean vision, one expression of which is caught in that saying of his, "the profoundest of all Heraclitus' utterances, 'the kingdom is of the child.'" Sri Aurobindo's passage runs: "... Force by itself can only produce a balance... the second effort of man, of which Heraclitus did not clearly see the possibility. From exchange we can rise to the highest possible idea of interchange, a mutual dependency of self-giving as the hidden secret of life; from that can grow the power of Love replacing strife and exceeding the cold balance of reason. There is the gate of the divine ecstasy. Heraclitus could not see it, and yet his one saying... Page 72 6. Chhandogya Upanishad, 8.1.5. 7. Zaehner, c p. cit., p. 93. 8. Proverbs, 2.3-5. 9. Luke, 17. 21. 10. Luke, 9. 25. 11. Sri Aurobindo, Heraclitus (Calcutta: 1947), pp. 60-61. 12. Mother India, August 15, 1971, "Sri Aurobindo at Evening Talk", compiled by V. Chidanandam, p. 452. Page 73 ...
... sharp division between philosophy and science on one side and religion on the other which has been so peculiar a characteristic of the European mind”, wrote Sri Aurobindo in his essay on Heraclitus. 13 “… Heraclitus prepares the way for the destruction of the old religion [by the sophists], the reign of pure philosophy and reason and the void which was filled up by Christianity; for man cannot live... × See K.D. Sethna: Sri Aurobindo and Greece . Sri Aurobindo’s unfinished epic Ilion and his essay Heraclitus are masterpieces. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 360. ... conduite par Alison Browning pour le Centre Européen de la Culture , passim. × Sri Aurobindo: Heraclitus , in Essays in Philosophy and Yoga , p. 247. × Id. pp. 247-48 (emphasis added). ...
... 194 Hegel, 418,441 Heidegger, Martin, 416, 442,750 Heraclitus, 404, 51 1ff; review of R. D. Ranade's paper, 512; an Apollonian mystic and seer, 512; Being and Becoming, 512; Heraclitean and Hindu thought, 512; relative standards and divine standard, 513; Fire as force and intelligence, 513; Heraclitus and divine Ananda, 514 Herbert, Jean, 760 Hero and the Nymph... with 2 corollaries, 471; Man, Collective Man, Mankind, 471; The Human Cycle, 472ff; The Ideal of Human Unity, 480ff; War & Self-Determination, 487ff; Foundations of Indian Culture, 490ff; Heraclitus, 511; "global*' prose style, 514; Mistral and Piper on the style, 514-5; structural quality, 515; the prose of The Life Divine, 516ff; flashes of p. etry in the prose, 517ff; offer of editorship ...
... is that lack of knowing which my body was guarding itself against with an utter ease born of commingling with the tranquil majesty of the flowing Immense into which I had been taken up. Heraclitus meant by his panta rhei — everything flows, that there is constant change, nothing stays the same. You can't step into the same river twice. What I sensed was a never-stopping fluency... d Whole. Page 203 If you are carried on the flow of the river, one with the flow, it is the same river always in relation to you. Of course this reference to Heraclitus is an after-thought in the terms of philosophy of what happened from 5.15 to 5.30. When it was time for me to go home there was no concern with any philosophy during the rapt ineffable ...
... himself in a vast creation and a vast destruction. Life a battle and a field of death, this is Kurukshetra; God the Terrible, this is the vision that Arjuna sees on that field of massacre. War, said Heraclitus, is the father of all things, War is the king of all; and the saying, like most of the apophthegms of the Greek thinker, suggests a profound truth. From a clash of material or other forces everything... life is the law of evolutionary existence. Modern science has only rephrased the old truths that had already been expressed in much more forcible, wide and accurate formulas by the apophthegm of Heraclitus and the figures employed by the Upanishads. Nietzsche's insistence upon war as an aspect of life and the ideal man as a warrior,—the camel-man he may be to begin with and the child-man hereafter ...
... Neoplatonism and Gnosticism with all their considerable consequences to the philosophical thinking of the West.” In his remarkable series of articles on the pre-Socratic sage Heraclitus, he writes for instance that in one of Heraclitus’ sayings “we are reminded of the Vedic Fire which is hymned as the upbuilder of the worlds, the secret Immortal in men and things, the periphery of the gods. … We are reminded ...
... published in 1923 (lightly revised), 1932, 1941, 1944, 1950 and subsequently. Heraclitus The chapters of this work first appeared in the Arya between December 1916 and June 1917. It began as an examination of Herakleitos by R D Ranade (Poona: Aryabhushana Press, 1916). Sri Aurobindo's Heraclitus was published as a book in 1941 (lightly revised), 1947 and subsequently. ...
... express ourselves. And here the brink is made the bank of a brook: the brook is a symbol of something which is flowing, it is a symbol of the flux of existence. As old Heraclitus said: Panta rhei, "Everything flows", and Heraclitus is supposed to have added to the flow of things by being, as we are told, "the weeping philosopher", just as Democritus is called "the laughing philosopher". But the f ...
... December 1917 and July 1920. Practically a reprint of the text of the Arya, although a few new paragraphs were added by the author . SABCL: The Future Poetry, Vol. 9 25 . HERACLITUS Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1941 First published serially in the Arya, December 1916 to June 1917. SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation, Vol. 16 26... Volume 16 The Supramental Manifestation AND OTHER WRITINGS: The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth; The Problem of Rebirth; Evolution; The Superman; Ideals and Progress; Heraclitus; Thoughts nand Glimpses; Question of the Month from the Arya; The Yoga and Its Objects. Page 414 Volume 17 The Hour of God AND OTHER WRITINGS: ...
... existence and consciousness which is ours and in which we have to piece things together to arrive at a whole. In that slow and difficult emergence a certain semblance of truth is given to the dictum of Heraclitus that War is the father of all things; for each idea, force, separate consciousness, living being by the very necessity of its ignorance enters into collision with others and tries to live and grow ...
... of the Lord and his Spouse, Ishwara and Shakti, the right half male, the left half female. × So Heraclitus, "The kingdom is of the child." × cidghana. ...
... epics and lyrics, Homer and Shelley as well as Vyasa and Kalidasa. He admired Plato greatly and classical Greek culture as a whole – “where living itself was an education” – witness his essay on Heraclitus and the four thousand hexameters of his unfinished epic Ilion. He had the highest appreciation of the Buddha, “in his action the most powerful personality that we know of as having lived and produced ...
... what is commonly understood as “fire,” it is Agni, the mystic fire of the Vedas “which is hymned as the upbuilder of the worlds, the secret Immortal in men and things.” It is the central Fire of Heraclitus, Pythagoras and the Stoics, “the heart of Zeus.” “In the Pythagorean cosmology the centre of the world is occupied by a fire (different from the Sun) around which orbit all the heavenly bodies (including ...
... Mediterranean. Christianity played an important role in this cycle, as did the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Then – “war being the father of all things” according to Heraclitus – the great War of the Twentieth Century, in its three parts of World War One and Two, and the Cold War, was the dramatic upheaval that led directly to the unification of the world. Evolutionary ...
... vivid detail!’ 6 Sri Aurobindo’s unfinished epic, Ilion, about the last day of the siege of Troy, is a monument of classical knowledge. There is his drama, Perseus the Deliverer. There is Heraclitus , an essay on the pre-Socratic philosopher, which reads fluently even after seventy years and would still be accorded a place of honour in any philosophical publication. There is his essay on qu ...
... development, friendliness, comradeship and brotherhood. It is true that there is a view that tensions and wars are necessary for development and progress. We are familiar with the declaration of Heraclitus that war is the father of all things. And it is not difficult to show how in the past wars have contributed to multi-faceted progress of mankind. The question, however, is normative, and we must ...
... all oriental religions, stands beyond all attributes, and gathers all contraries. "God is day and night, winter and summer; war and peace, hunger and satiety: all opposites are in him,” would say Heraclitus, ² a Greek philosopher of the 5th century BC. The questions myths address have produced a body of stories from diverse cultures that often closely resemble each other in subject, although the treatment ...
... 1920 Thoughts and Glimpses, 'Arya', 1915 -1917 1920 Thoughts and Aphorisms 1958 The Hour of God 1959 Evolution, 'Arya', 1915 -1918 1921 Heraclitus, 'Arya', December 1916 -June 1917 1941 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, (Bulletin 1949) 1952 The Problem of Rebirth, 'Arya', November 1915 - January 1921 1952 ...
... than an eidolon. The search for a universal principle of Nature is a meta-physical as well as a scientific preoccupation. In ancient days, fo example, we had the Water of Thales or the Fire of Heraclitus as the one original unifying principle of this kind. With the coming of the Renascence and the New Illumination we laughed them out and installed instead the mysterious Ether. For a long time this ...
... or even imagined. They all move along lines that shift and change continually. This is the status of becoming – sambhuti, as designated by the Upanishad and described by the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, in the words, panta reei, everything flows on. Here, often a certain disposition that seems quite stable or predictable is upset all of a sudden by the irruption of a new and novel factor from ...
... 1920 Thoughts and Glimpses, 'Arya' 1915-1917.- 1st ed. 1920 Thoughts and Aphorisms .- 1st ed. 1958 The Hour of God .- 1st ed. 1959 Evolution, 'Arya' 1915-1918.- 1st ed. 1920 Heraclitus, 'Arya' Dec. 1916-June 1917.- 1st ed. 1941 Page 321 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth .- 1st ed. 1952.- 'Bulletin' 1949-1950.- The Problem of Rebirth .- 1st ed. 1952.- 'Arya' ...
... Self-Determination. Volume 16 — The Supramental Manifestation AND OTHER WRITINGS: The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth; The Problem of Rebirth; Evolution; The Superman; Ideals and Progress; Heraclitus; Thoughts and Glimpses; Questions of the Month from the Arya; The Yoga and Its Objects. Volume 17 — The Hour of God AND OTHER WRITINGS: The Hour of God; Evolution — Psychology ...
... and contradictions. If it accepts the impersonal aspect of Reality, it rejects the personal; if it regards Reality as static and inactive, it dubs all creation and action as illusion; or if, like Heraclitus and Bergson, it perceives ¹"It is not in the mental consciousness that things can be harmonised and synthesised". The Mother Page 212 the exclusive reality ...
... difficulty and death Man shall attain his godhead. 6 According to Sri Aurobindo, the Heraclitean maxim - "all is flux, nothing is stationary" - is by itself not very helpful or consoling; what Heraclitus, on the contrary, really tells us is just this: "all indeed comes into being according to strife, but also all things come into being according to Reason, kat erin but also kata ton logon" ...
... from September 1915 and August 1916 respectively. Even what first commenced as a mere book-review sometimes spanned out into a treatise on the instalment plan: for example. The Future Poetry, Heraclitus and A Defence of Indian Culture. Among the shorter works that first appeared in the journal were Ideals and Progress, The Superman, Evolution, The Renaissance in India, War and Self-Determination ...
... Contradiction may be chosen. Aristotle's defence of the Law of Contradiction as descriptive of "being as such" includes implicitly a defence of the metaphysical principle of identity against Heraclitus, who held it possible for the same thing to be and not to be and who explained the concept of becoming as implying the falsehood of the principle that everything is what it is. Before Aristotle ...
... Lucretius demolishes the other theories of matter. Those who hold fire to be the matter of things and the sun to be formed out of fire alone have strayed most widely from reason. To claim like Heraclitus that no real thing except fire exists appears to be sheer dotage. The pluralistic theories of Empedocles and others are also equally wrong. The four elements—earth, water, air and fire without ...
... which means ordinarily food and they said, we call it food because it is devoured and devours creatures. The eater eating is eaten, this is the formula of the material world.” 4 “War, said Heraclitus, is the father of all things, war is the king of all; and the saying, like most of the apophthegms of the Greek thinker, suggests a profound truth. From a clash of material or other forces everything ...
... Dyson as having said: “God learns and grows as the universe unfolds,” which is close to Sri Aurobindo’s “progressively manifesting god.” This idea Sri Aurobindo quotes also in the original Greek of Heraclitus, “ ho theos ouk estin alla gignetai ”: God is not but he is becoming, which here means developing, increasing or growing in the evolution on Earth, as born out by the increasing level of consciousness ...
... "yesterday", Why fret about them if today be sweet? Here is the "new value-system" you have to recognise and establish in the strange philosophising mixture of laughing Democritus and weeping Heraclitus which names itself You. Let this letter be the "blessing" you desire from your less mixed-up friend. (13.6.87) Apropos of the small sample you have put before me of your way of translating ...
... of mens sana (a sound mind). The light that was Greece was at its zenith a power of the higher mind and intelligence, intuitively dynamic in one – the earlier –phase through Plato, Pythagoras, Heraclitus and the mystic philosophers, and discursively and scientifically rational through the Aristotelian tradition. The practical and robust Roman did not indulge in the loftier and subtler activities ...
... its champions and adorers – the torch-bearers of the New Enlightenment; no, its direct descendants were to be found among the builders of the Christian civilization. Plato and Pythagoras and Heraclitus and the initiates to the Orphic and the Eleusinian mysteries continued to live in and through Plotinus and Anselm and Paracelsus and the long line 'Of Christian savants and sages. The Middle Age ...
... PROF., 302 Haeckel, 140 Hamlet, 186-90 Harappa,238,243 Heard, Gerald, 260 Hegel, 318 Heine, 88 Henry, the Great, 90 Hera, 220 Heraclitus, 150,211,329 Hennes, 220 Hibbert Journal, the, 251 Himalayas, the, 54, 100 Hinduism, 54, 110, 166 Hider. 70, 87-8, 106, 386 -Mein Kampf, 70 ...
... of the body's know-how, which scientists freely acknowledge, a minute amount of time and money is spent trying to grasp the living body as a whole, and for very good reason. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus made the famous remark, "You cannot step into a river in the same place twice," because the river is constantly being changed by new water rushing in. The same holds true for the body. All of us ...
... creatures and people live and act in ignorance. The law of action in ignorance includes the play of strife, conflict and battle. At that level, one would find the justification of the famous maxim of Heraclitus who declared that war is the father of all things. History of mankind is largely a record of wars because it is largely a record of the history of creatures and people living in ignorance. At that ...
... aegis of mens sana (a sound mind). The light that was Greece was at its zenith / a power of the higher mind and intelligence, intuitively dynamic in one—the earlier—phase through Plato, Pythagoras, Heraclitus and the mystic philosophers, and discursively and scientifically rational through the Aristotelian tradition. The practical and robust Roman did not indulge in the loftier and subtler activities ...
... Germany, 133, 199 Gita, the, 6n., 9, 21-2, 58, 76-7, 83, 93, 105, 108, 112n., 125n., 143, 157,160-1 Great War, the, 323, 355 Greece, 199,214,419,421 HAMLET, 79 Heard, Gerald, 135 Heraclitus, 305 Homer, 209 Horace, 210 Huxley, Aldous, 136 INDIA, 3, 17,21,96,118,137,141,191-2, 199,209,285-6,419-20 Indo-China, 324 Indra, 208, 253 Indus Valley, 133 Ingres, 429 ...
... deep spiritual culture, and what they used to call the Mysteries were only mysteries of spiritual yogic discipline. We fail to understand that the water-worship of Thales and the fire-worship of Heraclitus were not merely different aspects of Nature-worship. We do not like to believe that these terms "water" and "fire" can ever be the symbols of spiritual truths. We study the philosophies of Pythagoras ...
... Vyasa and Valmiki (Ashram, 1956). Kalidasa (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1929). Bankim-Tilak-Dayananda (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1940). Heraclitus (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1941). Hymns to the Mystic Fire (Ashram, 2nd Edition, 1952). On the Veda (Ashram, 1956). Eight Upanishads (Ashram, 1953). ...
... supposed that Aurobindo studied Greek philosophy while he was in England. This is not true. He read Plato's Republic and Symposium , but he did not study Greek Philosophy. He had heard of Heraclitus while in England, but ¹Ibid pp. 1 - 4. ² Ibid. p. 4. Page 31 read his work after coming to India. He did not read the German philosophers. The fact ...
... under "The Song of Wisdom" and "Wisdom and the Religions" - a veritable universal congress of the world's seers, saints and savants like Asoka, Carlyle, Porphyry, Seneca, Emerson, Socrates, Plato, Heraclitus, Voltaire, Tseu-Tse, Confucius, Minamoto Sanetomo, St. Paul, St. Augustine, Epictetus, Lao-Tse, Leibnitz, Hermes, Schopenhauer, Sadi, Asvaghosha, Rumi, Spinoza, Bahaaullah, Omar Khayyam, Pythagoras ...
... haven't seen anything simpler than these words by the Vedic rishis. They say: "The well of honey covered by the rock." Towarnicki: This is still the "withdrawal" envisioned by the Greeks, by Heraclitus and Parmenides, whom we talked about earlier.... That's what is not covered up. And that well of honey is there in the depths of everything. Actually, it is everything. But we are not ...
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