... SRI AUROBINDO'S PHILOSOPHY OF THE IDEAL OF HUMAN UNITY I Globalisation is an attractive word; for it evokes in us a noble sentiment of "one earth" and of humankind as one race born of one common Mother Earth; it raises in us a dream of the ideal of human unity and of universal fraternity. But when we examine the current phenomenon of globalisation... to think afresh of globality, global consciousness and the ideal of human unity. For globalisation can be turned into a favourable circumstance if we consciously strive at the concrete manifestation of unity of the human race, which has always been latent and secretly operative. It can even be said that the ideal of human unity seems to be making its way to the front of our consciousness because... × Sri Aurobindo: The Ideal of Human Unity, Centenary Edition, Volume 15, pp.556-57. × Sri Aurobindo: The Ideal of Human Unity, Centenary Edition, Volume 15, pp.546-7 ...
... in 1977. Page 687 The Ideal of Human Unity first appeared in the Arya in thirty-five chapters between September 1915 and July 1918. At the time he commenced the series, Sri Aurobindo wrote to the Mother: I have begun in the issue of the Arya which is just out a number of articles on the Ideal of Human Unity. I intend to proceed very cautiously and not go very deep... minor changes throughout The Ideal of Human Unity , his attempt to bring it up to date was largely confined to adding and revising footnotes (see the next paragraph). The only new chapter introduced was a long Postscript Chapter reviewing the book's conclusions in the light of recent international developments. The second edition of The Ideal of Human Unity was published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram... 1962, 1971 and subsequently this work was included in the combined editions mentioned above under The Human Cycle Footnotes to The Ideal of Human Unity . The seventy-eight footnotes in the present edition of The Ideal of Human Unity reflect the complex history of the text. Only three of these can be traced to the Arya (two other footnotes found in the Arya were deleted during revision) ...
... living which will lead to a human unity based on mutual understanding and goodwill." On another piece of paper it's written: "To give a living Page 64 embodiment of a concrete human Unity." So we are going to change it a bit: 4. Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity. There. ... from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realizations. 4.Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity. (Then the radio is turned off... silence) Page 72 So now, we can sit back like princes and kings! (that doesn't happen very often) until 11:30. If you have something... the desires of men." And after, in small letters like this, beneath the photo of Auroville, we're going to put: Page 90 "The Divine Consciousness manifested through human unity." We're going to see! The lady is very good willed, we're going to see the response in her country. (silence) Yesterday they came from the press with the Auroville brochure ...
... their publication in book form under the title The Human Cycle . Subsequently published together with The Ideal of Human Unity and War and Self-Determination ( See 28). SABCL: Social and Political Thought, Vol. 15 28 . THE HUMAN CYCLE—THE IDEAL OF HUMAN UNITY—WAR AND SELF-DETERMINATION Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, 1962, Combined... appeared serially most of Sri Aurobindo's important prose writings: The Life Divine , The Synthesis of Yoga , The Secret of the Veda , Essays on the Gita , The Human Cycle , The Ideal of Human Unity , The Future Poetry (all of which were later published in book form, many in revised editions), as well as other series and separate essays. Page 375 The Standard... some additional material (on two hymns, I.. 74 and IV. 6) was discovered which is reprpduced in Volume 27. SABCL: Hymns to the Mystic Fire, Vol. 11 30. THE IDEAL OF HUMAN UNITY Sons of India Ltd., Madras, 1919 Second Edition, Revised: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1950 Sri Aurobindo Library, Inc., New York, 1950 The First Edition ...
... escaped the public notice. The term " Co-existence " which is now extensively used in international politics was first used by Sri Aurobindo in the postscript chapter to his book " The Ideal of Human Unity. " He wrote : " If much of the unease, the sense of inevitable struggle, the difficulty of mutual toleration and economic accommodation still exists, it is rather because the idea of using the... whole of Northern Asia in a combination between two enormous communist Powers, Russia and China, and would over-shadow with a threat of absorption _____________________ ¹The ideal of Human Unity, P. 387 Page 51 South-Western Asia and Tibet and might be pushed to overrun all up to the whole frontier of India, menacing her security and that of Western Asia with the possibility... ideals of collective life and international unity. What has a Yogi to do with these things ? It is likely that his two books on the subjects of collective life, The Human Cycle and The ideal of Human Unity will appeal more easily to European minds. Sri Aurobindo tackles the problem of man's destiny on earth and the nature of perfection man can attain. He finds that all the problems, difficulties ...
... tific psychology, psychiatry and educational art of the West". Sri Aurobindo's five major works - The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on the Gita, The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity had appeared in a popular American edition in 1950, and interest in his thought and his life-work was being stimulated in circles that counted. Frederic Spiegelberg of Stanford University had felt... IV The next great landmark in the progressive realisation of the world-vision of Sri Aurobindo was the inauguration of the futurist township, 'Auroville', City of Dawn, City of Human Unity, on the outskirts of Pondicherry, on 28 February Page 769 1968.* Seven days earlier, several thousands of the Mother's disciples had congregated in the Ashram to celebrate her... development for man in a world that shall have banished war and fear and want and ignorance. "The general aim to be attained," she wrote, "is the advent of a progressing universal harmony." First, human unity is to be realised by awakening and manifesting the God in one and all. The Kingdom of God is within everybody; one has only to find one's way to it. Man has to grow in consciousness, and link himself ...
... Life Divine, The Psychology of Social Development and The Ideal of Human Unity were Sri Aurobindo's separate utterances of "the eternal word", as applied to the individual, the social or communal group and the global human family respectively. The Life Divine began with the first issue of the Arya in August 1914; Human Unity started more than a year later in September 1915, and Social Development... III The Ideal of Human Unity, First issued as a book-in 1919, was published in a second revised edition in 195O. The main revision had been done before the second world war, but the important Postscript chapter was written shortly before the publication and some of the footnotes too were written after the war. Like The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity also examines the problem of... of Human Unity. Other - mechanistic, vitalistic, intellectual, legal or ethical - solutions can only be palliatives or makeshifts; the spiritual solution alone can really solve the obstreperous problem of freedom, unity and fulfilment, whether in relation to man or collective man or global humanity. Over a decade after Sri Aurobindo had concluded his series of articles on Human Unity in ...
... tightened and draw more and more towards the form of a United States of Europe.” 66 In a “Postscript Chapter” to his Ideal of Human Unity, Sri Aurobindo wrote in April 1950: “One of the possibilities suggested at the time [of writing The Ideal of Human Unity ] was the growth of continental agglomerates, a united Europe, some kind of a combine of the peoples of the American continent under... largest possible human aggregate, the whole of a united humanity.” 71 “Today the ideal of human unity is more or less vaguely making its way to the front of our consciousness … The ideal, having once made its way to the front of thought, must certainly be attempted, and this ideal of human unity is likely to figure largely among the determining forces of the future; for the intellectual and... clairvoyants do: he formulated their rationale and described their probable way of coming about in great detail. His two books dealing with these topics are The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity, but his concern with them is present everywhere in his writings, for the fulfilment of these historic evolutions was (and is) required for the accomplishment of the supramental transformation ...
... the statements made by the Mother, one may conclude that there is something like a minimum goal and a maximum goal. The minimum goal is the realization of human unity. As we have seen above: ‘The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity.’ The Mother also stated: ‘In Auroville simply the goodwill to make a collective experiment for the progress of humanity is sufficient to gain admittance.’ ... wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is human unity.’ 50 From then on things moved quickly, so much so that the inauguration of the City of Dawn 97 could be planned for 28 February 1968. The Mother had to write the city’s charter for... from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realizations. Auroville will be a site of spiritual and material researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity. 52 When she had finished writing the charter, the Mother said descending from the stool: ‘There. It is not I who wrote all this. I have noticed something very interesting: when it comes ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle A Postscript Chapter At the time when this book was being brought to its close, the first attempt at the foundation of some initial hesitating beginning of the new world-order, which both governments and peoples had begun to envisage as a permanent necessity if there was to be any order in the world at all... conditions of the world's life which will in the end have a reasonable chance of establishing permanent peace and well-being. This would for the first time turn into an assured fact the ideal of human unity which, cherished by a few, seemed for so long a noble chimera; then might be created a firm ground of peace and harmony and even a free room for the realisation of the highest human dreams, for the... administrative unity was the nearest approach within the geographical limits reached by this civilisation to something one might regard as a first figure or an incomplete suggestion of a figure of human unity. Other similar attempts have been made though not on so large a scale and with a less consummate ability throughout the course of history, but nothing has endured for more than a small number of ...
... out. The book is unfinished—that is the main obstacle to its publication. However I will look at the copy Nolini has sent up and see. 5 September 1935 The Ideal of Human Unity With regard to The Ideal of Human Unity , the book has to be revised before it is ready for reprinting. Sri Aurobindo will take up the work when he is able to make some time for it. 16 19 April 1949 Translations... possible to publish all my books together; hardly any of them can go out without revision and as I have very little time for this kind of work revision will take time. Page 74 The Ideal of Human Unity . I was revising, but as there seemed to be no progress with the Gita and I had other work to do, I dropped it. I will now complete the revision and I expect it will not take more than another... Bande Mataram and the weekly Karmayogin and have for the most part not been separately published. You can mention however The Ideal of the Karmayogin, The Renaissance in India, The Ideal of Human Unity, War and Self-Determination as books that may be useful for his subject, as the two former are partly concerned with or touch upon Indian politics, and the two latter are written upon international ...
... universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity. 8 September 1965 1) Who has taken the initiative for the construction of Auroville? The Supreme Lord. 2) Who participates in the financing of Auroville? The Supreme Lord... to collaborate in all that furthers future realisations. The material conditions will be worked out as the realisation proceeds. 19 June 1967 The aims of Auroville An effective human unity Peace upon earth Auroville the City at the service of Truth 28 February 1968 Page 192 ( Message for the Inauguration of Auroville ) Greetings from Auroville... from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations. 4) Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity. 28 February 1968 Page 194 At last a place where one will be able to think only of progressing and transcending oneself. Page 195 At last a place where ...
... instrument of the Truth and the Divine Grace, instead of being based on duplicity and falsehood, a big step would be taken towards human unity and harmony. 15 April 1955 About Peace It is only by the growth and establishment of the consciousness of human unity, that a true and lasting peace can be achieved upon earth. All means leading towards this goal are welcome, although the external... × World Union, founded in November 1958, is a charitable society primarily working for human unity and world peace on a spiritual foundation and is inspired in its work by Sri Aurobindo's book The Ideal of Human Unity . ... Wealth and Government Words of the Mother - III Human Unity Message to America Stop thinking that you are of the West and others of the East. All human beings are of the same divine origin and meant to manifest upon earth the unity of this origin. 4 August 1949 The earth will enjoy a lasting and living peace only when men understand that ...
... from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realizations. Auroville will be a site of spiritual and material researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity. These were the words that resounded on 28 February 1968 in her voice, in French and English, over that blazing plain where in the distance some slim solitary palmyra trees seemed to dance... universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity,’ 6 she wrote in September of that year. In May 1966 she wrote to a person who probably had read ‘A Dream’: ‘You say that Auroville is a dream. Yes, it is a “dream” of the Lord and generally... of Auroville. What was the aim of the city and who were expected to become its inhabitants? As is clear from many of the aforementioned quotations, the Mother often stressed the realization of human unity. (Once she called the city ‘the Tower of Babel in reverse … Then they came together but separated during the construction; now they are coming again to unite during the construction.’ 9 She even ...
... world peace, friendship, fraternity, unity. 20.9.1969 Page 2 The aims of Auroville An effective human unity Peace upon earth * Auroville aspires for union. 1970 * Auroville wants to be the first realisation of human unity based on the teaching of Sri Aurobindo, where men of all countries would be at home. Jan. 1972* * AUROVILLE... township where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity. 8.9.1965 * Auroville should be at the service of Truth, beyond all social, political and religious convictions. Auroville is the effort towards peace, in sincerity and Truth... another name. 5.10.1971* * The Matrimandir wants to be the symbol of the Divine's answer to man's aspiration for perfection. Union with the Divine manifesting in a progressive human unity. 14.8.1970 * Laying of the Matrimandir foundation stone Let the Matrimandir be the living symbol of Auroville's aspiration for the Divme 21.2.1971* * Beginning ...
... swept through Europe at the end of the last century and he realized that the Olympic Games, crossing all boundaries of nationality, race, religion, language and colour could reawaken the sense of human unity. On the tomb stone of his grave in Olympia is engraved a message which well expresses his idea. Page 300 THE IMPORTANT THING IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES IS NOT TO WIN, BUT TO TAKE PART; THE... declared, "This is what the Seventh Olympiad has brought us: general comprehension; the certainty of being henceforward under stood by all.... These festivals... are, above all, the festivals of human unity. In an incomparable synthesis, the effort of the muscles and of mind, mutual help and competition, lofty patriotism and intelligent cosmopolitanism, the personal interest in the champion and the... bound in a sheaf for a common task. " Today, these ideas may not seem to us revolutionary in the least. But let us remember that in de Coubertin's time, words like "cosmopolitanism" or even "human unity" were suspicious to most citizens of European countries. Men who uttered them were often considered as traitors to their own motherland. It was a time of aggressive national ism, and anybody presenting ...
... Social Development" we have indicated how these truths affect the evolution of human society. In the "Ideal of Human Unity" we have taken the present trend of mankind towards a closer unification and tried to appreciate its tendencies and show what is wanting to them in order that real human unity may be achieved.' I hope you can now see more clearly the wonderful mosaic that constitutes Sri Aurobindo's... answer given by the Mother: ‘The general aim to be achieved is the advent of a progressive universal harmony. 'In regard to the earth, the means of achieving this aim is the realisation of human unity by the awakening in all and the manifestation by all of the inner Divinity, who is one. ‘In other words: to create unity by establishing the kingdom of God which is in all. ‘Hence, the most... Yoga — August 1914 to January 1921 The Secret of the Veda — August 1914 to July 1916 Isha Upanishad — August 1914 to May 1915 Kena Upanishad — June 1915 to July 1916 The Ideal of Human Unity — September 1915 to July 1918 Essays on the Gita (First Series) — August 1916 to July 1918 The Psychology of Social Development — August 1916 to July 1918 (later published as The Human ...
... the country. The greatest crimes and the greatest betrayals have always been committed in the name of Truth, it goes without saying. In the name of Mother and Sri Aurobindo and the "Ideal of Human Unity," they imprison some Aurovilian brothers and hire dubious lawyers. In the name of this much-vaunted "Unity," they expel Satprem from the Ashram, take away the visas of the dissidents or the rebels... you hastily. Satprem October 7, 1979 (Letter to an Aurovilian) Page 111 I have read that infamous letter of the S.A.S. s kicking out P. in the name of the "Ideal of Human Unity" (with police backing). Is there anyone in Auroville who can still be blind? But I want to tell you one thing: we are now reaching the end of the battle; these are the last days or months. They... of muddy soup where all sorts of people, more or less unconscious and more or less undesirable, were paddling about: mongooses were embracing snakes and were bitten in the name of "human Page 245 unity" — it remains to be seen whether it was the unity of poison or the unity of truth? Then there were a number of slugs who sided with neither one nor the other and simply left their trail ...
... non-violence, and an advocate of civil disobedience. Evidently his son had inherited this passion for human unity, and the First World War had only deepened his convictions. He accordingly went from country to country propagating his ideal with the zeal of a missionary. But his ideas as to how human unity was to be ushered in were rather naive. "Oh! it is very simple - " he told Mina; "if everybody... food) to forge human unity, to devise cast-iron constitutional or economic patterns, to impose a single religion, a single political ideology, a single economic dogma, a single code of behaviour or body of ritual, or to gather everybody into a single vast net of global military hegemony - these be the roads to dead uniformity, cheerless conformity, or naked tyranny. Human unity, certainly; but... tightness of argument and also a tropical richness of elaboration, in the massive sequences entitled The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Psychology of Social Development, The Ideal of Human Unity and The Future Poetry, all their total content is here brought in ever so disarmingly, suggestively, persuasively, and with such crystalline sincerity and candour. There is also the added charm ...
... Present situation and What we should do The Ideal of Human Unity — p. 568, p. 560, p. 561, p. 561, p. 567, p. 558, p. 563, p. 428, p. 437, p. 434, p. 434. The Human Cycle — p. 202. The Ideal of Human Unity - p. 270, pp. 435-6, p. 283. The Life Divine - p. 1050. The Ideal of Human Unity — p. 401. The Human Cycle - pp. 198-9, pp. 209-10,... The Human Cycle - p. 181, p. 201. Reason and Democracy The Human Cycle - p. 183, pp. 183-5, p. 185. The Ideal of Human Unity - p. 450, pp. 450-1. The Human Cycle — pp. 185-6. The Ideal of Human Unity - p. 444, p. 444, p. 448. The Human Cycle — p. 187. Reaction to Capitalism The Human Cycle - p. 188, p. 188, pp. 188-9... Sri Aurobindo and Integral Yoga Sri Aurobindo and the Mother On Materialism (Compilation) Towards Universal Fraternity (Compilation) Let us Dwell on Human Unity (Compilation) Landmarks of Hinduism The Veda and Indian Culture Glimpses of Vedic Literature The Portals of Vedic Knowledge Stories for Youth in search ...
... is an emerging need of unification of regions, continents, and even of establishment of a single World State. It is being increasingly felt that the world can become sage and prosperous only if human unity can come to be built up. The second imperative that seems to have asserted itself is to impress upon human kind that unity, peace and lasting welfare can come about only if human nature can be radically... time we worked for it; what must surely change is certain political attitudes and habits man has."* As a matter of fact, almost from the beginning of our present century, themes of the ideal of human unity and of the necessity of change of human nature, had seized the movements of the resurgence of Asia and intellectual idealism of Europe. Asiatic peoples had begun to make bold and clear claims to... malaise and absence of harmony and smooth working. In critical situations, this defect generates widespread feeling of futility. But apart from this defect, the real danger to the ideal of human unity lay in the division of peoples in two camps which tended to be natural opponents. Survival of these two camps for more than 40 years, and that too, in the condition of a continuous cold war, prevented ...
... Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo Postscript to Sri Aurobindo's revised edition of 'The Ideal of Human Unity' At the time when this book was being brought to its close, the first attempt at the foundation of some initial hesitating beginning of the new world-order, which both governments and peoples had begun to envisage as a permanent necessity if there... conditions of the world's life which will in the end have a reasonable chance of establishing permanent peace and well-being. This would for the first time turn into an assured fact the ideal of human unity which, cherished by a few, seemed for so long a noble chimera; then might be created a firm ground of peace and harmony and even a free room for the realisation of the highest human dreams, for the... administrative unity was the nearest approach within the geographical limits reached by this civilisation to something one might regard as a first figure or an incomplete suggestion of a figure of human unity. Other similar attempts have been made though not on so large a scale and with a less consummate ability throughout the course of history, but nothing has endured for more than a small number of ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter I The Turn towards Unity: Its Necessity and Dangers The surfaces of life are easy to understand; their laws, characteristic movements, practical utilities are ready to our hand and we can seize on them and turn them to account with a sufficient facility and rapidity. But they do not carry us very far... the vanity of human life, of its ardours and enthusiasms and of the ideals it pursues, but the necessity of a wiser, larger, more patient search after its true law and aim. Today the ideal of human unity is more or less vaguely making its way to the front of our consciousness. The emergence of an ideal in human thought is always the sign of an intention in Nature, but not always of an intention to... incites man to attempt and fail, so that he may learn and succeed better another time. Still the ideal, having once made its way to the front of thought, must certainly be attempted, and this ideal of human unity is likely to figure largely among the determining forces of the future; for the intellectual and material circumstances of the age have prepared and almost impose it, especially the scientific d ...
... 27 (p. 463 to 499). Other references are: Page 260 17. On Himself, 26.27 , 37· 38 56 . 16.392·3 94 18. A. & R., April 1981 , p . 1-6 57 . Th e Ideal of Human Unity,15.492-493 19. A. & R., April 1983 , p.47 58 . Th e Hour of God ( 1991), p. 3-4 20 . A. & R., December 1980, p. 187 -194 59 . A. & R., December 1984 , p. 190 ... 194-196 46 . 16.317-319 85 . The Foundations o f Indian Culture, 14.363-38 1 47. Thoughts and Glimpses , 16.39 1 86 . On Himself, 26 .437 48. Th e Ideal o f Human Unity, 15.340 87 . Ibid., 26 .438-439 49. The Human Cycle, 15.3-8 50. The Secret o f th e Veda, 10.439 51. Hymns to th e Mystic Fire, 11.9-18 52 . Essays... 136 . Ibid ., 26 .22 124 . Ibid . 137. Ibid., 26 .171 -172 125. Ibid ., 26 .399 138. Ibid., 26 .407-4 13 126. Ibid ., 26 .396- 398 139. The Ideal of Human Unity, 15.563-565 127. Ibid., 26 .129- 130 140. Ibid ., 15.567 128. Ibid., 26. 167 -168 141. Partially in On Himself, 26. 172 129. Ibid., 26 .168- 169 142. ...
... come first. This is something that we know very well in Auroville. When The Mother founded Auroville, she gave us the loftiest ideal of creating a society which would be manifesting a concrete human unity, where people of all races and nations would live together harmoniously. In order to achieve this, The Mother expected each resident of Auroville to become aware of his or her inner self, so that... visitors, when told about Mother's vision, wonder as to how all this can be realized. And yet, let me tell you that Mother's solution is the only realist solution to the riddle of achieving true human unity. Nothing short of the inner discovery will ever be able to foster true and lasting harmony. It is our hope—I should rather say our faith—that a growing number of Aurovillians will indeed make that... research being conducted in Auroville. l) We have researchers from different backgrounds. As you may know, people living in Auroville, the city named after Sri Aurobindo and dedicated to human unity, are from many different nationalities. In consequence it is obvious that on many subjects, like history for instance or social sciences, we have to go beyond the angle adopted by a particular country ...
... effort towards concord or mutual adjustment at all, but rather towards a mutual devouring." 5 3.Sri Aurobindo, The Ideal of Human Unity (1950 ed.), pp. 8-9. 4.Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, p. 1047. 5.Sri Aurobindo, The Ideal of Human Unity (1950 ed.), p. 14. Page 203 But somehow or other we have to find a perfect reconciliation between freedom and harmony... the material in this section, the writer is indebted to Professor Paul Halmos' works, especially to the very interesting book, Towards a Measure of Man. 8.Sri Aurobindo, The Ideal of Human Unity (1950 ed.), p. 296. Page 205 growth and collective cohesion at the basis of all manifestations of life on all its levels of simple or complex organisation. On one side there ...
... neither a statesman nor a general nor even a celebrity, had such an influence on the course of international events. He did not know Sri Aurobindo, yet his whole life was dedicated to the ideal of human unity. What interested him, and even obsessed him, was not the ideal per se, but the construction, stone after stone, of this edifice. He rarely spoke in abstract terms. He spoke little of things that... sense. He was a very extraordinary man, and, in my view, there was something religious about his approach. I never knew what was Jean Monnet's philosophy but it was clear for me that his project of human unity, for which Europe after all was only a stepping stone, was quite similar to Christianity." 30 Of course this way of functioning implied that Monnet at a given time could have access to the... is a word often used by Monnet. Indeed it is the obstinacy of an idealist combined with the suppleness of a man tuned into the reality that makes Monnet so fascinating as a person. For Monnet, human unity was something one had to build with the help of ships and goods, with coal and steel, with francs and marks, through many drafts ceaselessly worked upon, and after a lot of effort put into discovering ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter XVI The Problem of Uniformity and Liberty The question with which we started has reached some kind of answer. After sounding as thoroughly as our lights permit the possibility of a political and administrative unification of mankind by political and economic motives and through purely political and... order will attempt a mechanical organisation; the principle of liberty will resist and claim a more flexible, free and spacious system. The two ancient enemies will struggle for the control of the human unity as they did in the past for the control of the growing form of the nation. In the process, the circumstances being favourable to the narrower power, both national and individual liberty are likely... aggressiveness of powerful and prosperous nations. This, however, does not secure the nation-unit from eventual dissolution in a larger principle of aggregation. Group-units there must always be in any human unity, even the most entire, intolerant and uniform, for that is the very principle not only of human nature, but of life and of every aggregation; we strike here on a fundamental law of universal existence ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XXXIII Internationalism and Human Unity The great necessity, then, and the great difficulty is to help this idea of humanity which is already at work upon our minds and has even begun in a very slight degree to influence from above our actions, and turn it into something more than an idea, however... the psychological instinct of national unity and the need of its satisfaction, so a collective human ego will develop in the international body and will evolve in it the psychological instinct of human unity and the need of its satisfaction. That will be the guarantee of duration. And that possibly is how the thing will happen, man being what he is; indeed if we cannot do better, it will so happen, since... necessary to restore humanity to life. Again, while the Roman Empire appealed only to the idea of Roman unity, an artificial and accidental principle, this WorldState would appeal to the idea of human unity, a real and vital principle. But if the idea of unity can appeal to the human mind, so too can the idea of separative life, for both address themselves to vital instincts of his nature. What guarantee ...
... Himself , 424 × The Ideal of Human Unity , 406 × The Ideal of Human Unity , 556 × Letters on Yoga , 456... principle of co-operation or mutual adjustment or at least of competition regulated by law and equity and just interchange’ 38 was extensively treated by Sri Aurobindo in his book The Ideal of Human Unity. This would be a good manual for all who want to contribute to the unification of mankind. It first appeared in the Arya from September 1915 to July 1918 and is an astonishing document from the... the group around them, their interest and constant concern encompassed the whole of humanity in all its elements, races and cultures. The Human Cycle, originally written along with The Ideal of Human Unity, presents, as few other works do, a norm for the appreciation of the historical, modern and contemporary evolution of humankind, and merits a prominent place amongst the writings on sociology and ...
... 942 Id., p. 11. 943 Id., pp. 919-20. 944 Id., p. 965. 945 Sri Aurobindo: On the Mother, p. 40. 946 Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 59. 947 Sri Aurobindo: The Ideal of Human Unity, p. 315. 948 A.B. Purani: Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, p. 378. 949 Peter Heehs: Sri Aurobindo – A Brief Biography, p. 15. 950 Id., p. 14. 951 Georges Van Vrekhem: The Mother... Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 29. 966 Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, pp. 11, 12. 967 Id., pp. 17, 14. 968 Id., pp. 22-23. 969 Id., p. 29. 970 Sri Aurobindo: The Ideal of Human Unity, pp. 209, 219. 971 Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, pp. 50-51. 972 Id., p. 246. 973 Sri Aurobindo: On Himself, p. 396. 974 Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, pp. 40 ff. passim. ... Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo, pp. 543-44. 1033 In K.R. Srinivasan Iyengar: Sri Aurobindo, p. 636. 1034 Sri Aurobindo: Collected Poems, p. 110. 1035 Sri Aurobindo: The Ideal of Human Unity, p. 288. 1036 Id., p. 99, emphasis added. 1037 Hermann Rauschning, op. cit., p. 114. 1038 Ralf Reuth: Hitler , p. 479 1039 John Lukacs: The Hitler of History, pp. 243-44. 1040 ...
... spiritual issue. II We are living today at once in the best of times and in the worst of times. Ours is the best time because at no time in the world history, men and women have aspired for human unity as ardently and as comprehensively as today. The fact that the combined will of the people of the world has produced the agency of United Nations to prevent war, to maintain peace and to subserve... world, it is the soul of the world, it is the inner breath of the world. This is the reason why when we are considering the question of the solution of the problem of the universal solidarity or of human unity, we have suggested that if unity must not degenerate into uniformity, the only way is to emphasise the need for a spiritual change, a change which does not run away from the world, but a change that... context, what vision shall we put before ourselves in regard to the activities of life and their organisation if we are to prepare ourselves to make our own contribution to the aim of actualisation of human unity which, as we have argued here, can be truly salutary for the human race, only if dynamic spirituality is applied? As Sri Aurobindo has pointed out, even in the early stages of spiritualisation, the ...
... a brave and bold leader of her country, with great potentialities to grow into a world-leader, a leading stateswoman of our planet. She believed in the concept of Family of Man, of one world of human unity, of planetary civilisation. She was, at that time of our first meeting, only thirty four years old, but she had the wisdom of ripe age. She had read volumes of World History and she had expertise... action. This responsibility cannot be Page 25 discharged without deep commitment to higher ends of our life on the planet. They must first of all work for the fulfillment of the ideal of human unity which respects diversity and freedom of nationalities in which all subjection or forced inequality and subordination of one to another would have disappeared. Secondly, this unity to be real and... asked me to prepare a note for you, and I leave that note with you." She smiled and while thanking me, she said, "I have prepared the agenda of my immediate work. This agenda has two goals: human unity and change of human nature,—those two goals of which U Thant has spoken and on which you have commented. My fortune is that my father is a Prime Minister and I have ready access to a number of countries ...
... all the past and present yogic disciplines; the Essays on the Gita , which expounds his philosophy of action; The Secret of the Veda , with a study of the origins of language; and The Ideal of Human Unity and The Human Cycle , which approach evolution from its sociological and psychological standpoints and examine the future possibilities of human societies. He had found The single sign interpreting... Earth .- 1st ed. 1952.- 'Bulletin' 1949-1950.- The Problem of Rebirth .- 1st ed. 1952.- 'Arya' Nov. 1915-Jan. 1921 The Human Cycle, 'Arya' Aug. 1916-July 1918.- 1st ed. 1949 The Ideal of Human Unity .- 1st ed. 1919.- 'Arya' Sept. 1915-July 1918.- Revised 1950 On the War, 1940-1943.- 1st ed. 1944 War and Self Determination, 1916-1920.- 1st ed. 1920 Man-Slave or Free? 'Karmayogin'... × 109 Essays on the Gita, 55 × 110 Ideal of Human Unity, 15:320 × 111 At the risk of incurring the censure of his compatriots (it must be remembered ...
... your ignorance. I met in Japan one of the sons of Tolstoy; he was going round the world preaching human unity. He had caught this from his father and was going everywhere in the world preaching human unity. I met him at some friends' place and asked him, "How are you going to realise this human unity?" Do you know what reply he gave me? "Oh! It is very simple if everybody spoke the same language, if ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XXVIII Diversity in Oneness It is essential to keep constantly in view the fundamental powers and realities of life if we are not to be betrayed by the arbitrary rule of the logical reason and its attachment to the rigorous and limiting idea into experiments which, however convenient in practice and... that diversity life cannot have full play; for in its absence there is a danger, almost an inevitability of decline and stagnation. The disappearance of national variation into a single uniform human unity, of which the systematic thinker dreams as an ideal and which we have seen to be a substantial possibility and even a likelihood if a certain tendency becomes dominant, might lead to political peace... necessary variations and indispensable liberties, a vigorous diversity and strong group-individualism may lead to an incurable persistence or constant return of the old separatism which will prevent human unity from reaching completeness or even will not allow it to take firm root. For it will not be enough for the constituent groups or divisions to have a certain formal administrative and legislative ...
... Social Development" we have indicated how these truths affect the evolution of human society. In the "Ideal of Human Unity" we have taken the present trend of mankind towards a closer unification and tried to appreciate its tendencies and show what is wanting to them in order that real human unity may be achieved. Our plan has compelled us to deal mainly with first principles and work them out in their... The "Arya's" Fourth Year We close this month the fourth year of the "Arya", and bring to a conclusion at the same time the "Psychology of Social Development", the "Ideal of Human Unity" and the first series of the "Essays on the Gita". A few more chapters will complete the "Life Divine". We are therefore well in view of the completion of the first part of the work which we had ...
... knowledge and means of existence leading to a human unity based on mutual understanding and goodwill." On another piece of paper, we have, "To give a living body to an actual human Unity." So we'll alter a little. Page 52 4) Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity. There. ( Mother steps down from her stool ...
... 461ff; Essays on the Gita, 463ff; the eternal Word, synthesis of knowledge, 470; a theorem 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;... "action", 781, 784; on the spiritual revolution, 784; admonition, 785; prayer and prophecy, 785-7 Auroville, 770ff; the Mother's dream of a typic society, 770,772-4; Sri Aurobindo's vision of human unity, 770ff; as universal town, 773-4; UNESCO'S approval, 774; Charter and Inauguration, 775; role of children,775-6, press tributes, 775-6; advanced colony, 776; Adiseshiah on, 777, 778; role of TV in... Huxley, Aldous, 417, 423, 694 Hydari,SirAkbar,579,730 Hymn to Durga' (Durga Stotra), 298, 786 Hymns to the Mystic Fire, 455ff Ibsen, Henrik, 79 Ideal of Human Unity, The, 404, 470ff; the problem of 'collective man', 481; beyond group, community, nation to the human totality, 481; freedom and security, role of little nations, 481; mutuality and interdependence ...
... all circumstances and in all the active life. ”² This constant dynamic union is the sole basis of a perfect individual synthesis. The Supreme Person—the Centre of Human Unity "The realisation of human unity through the awakening in all and the manifestation by all of the inner Divinity which is One. ”³ The unity and harmony of mankind is one of the goals modern man has been... into relation with them. There is no other way to a real and abiding unity. The modern man, led by his reason or vital instincts, will no doubt try, as he has indeed been trying, all avenues of human unity, but a day will surely arrive when, wearied and foiled, he will turn to the Life of his life and receive his first initiation into the mystery of universal unity and harmony, which is the bed-rock ...
... cheated. It is cheating oneself." "Mother, on the one hand we are talking of the Supermind and human unity, on the other hand, among people who go outside..." "Where?" "To Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, etc... there are not even four who can work together." "Yes, they talk of human unity and act like this. It is grotesque." "People outside are intelligent, and they laugh at us." ... yesterday about the importance of work. * * * 28.3.73 Mother signed papers. * * * 29.3.73 Offered seven copies of the brochure ' Auroville, Model of Human Unity', prepared by Vijay. Mother turned it page by page and asked, "Good?" "Yes, Mother." * * * 30.3.73 Rs 50000 are received from a friend of Palkhivala. The amount ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XXIV The Need of Military Unification In the process of centralisation by which all the powers of an organised community come to be centred in one sovereign governing body,—the process which has been the most prominent characteristic of national formations,—military necessity has played at the beginning... ed. A means of keeping international peace and of creating an authority which shall have the power to dispose of dangerous international questions and prevent what from the new point of view of human unity we may call civil war between the peoples of mankind, had somehow or other to be found or created. Page 476 Various ideas were put forward with more or less authority as to the necessary ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XXXV Summary and Conclusion In other words,—and this is the conclusion at which we arrive,—while it is possible to construct a precarious and quite mechanical unity by political and administrative means, the unity of the human race, even if achieved, can only be secured and can only be made real if... the way of all ideas. But if it is at all a truth of our being, then it must be the truth to which all is moving and in it must be found the means of a fundamental, an inner, a complete, a real human unity which would be the one secure base of a unification of human life. A spiritual oneness which would create a psychological oneness not dependent upon any intellectual or outward uniformity and compel ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter II The Imperfection of Past Aggregates The whole process of Nature depends on a balancing and a constant tendency to harmony between two poles of life, the individual whom the whole or aggregate nourishes and the whole or aggregate which the individual helps to constitute. Human life forms no exception... And the phenomenon leads us to another rule of this gradual development of Nature in human life which we shall find of very considerable importance when we come to the question of a realisable human unity. The perfection of the individual in a perfected society or eventually in a perfected humanity—understanding perfection always in a relative and progressive sense—is the inevitable aim of Nature ...
... for the perfection of the second, towards the third we are reaching out our hands and the pioneer work is already attempted. 336—With the present morality of the human race a sound and durable human unity is not yet possible; but there is no reason why a temporary approximation to it should Page 307 not be the reward of strenuous aspiration and untiring effort. By constant approximations... Nature advances. As Sri Aurobindo has predicted, things are moving fast, and the situation of humanity has changed much since Sri Aurobindo began to work in the subtle physical: the idea of human unity has made great headway and is more widely understood. 12 February 1970 ...
... . But I know. So you see, we are working for "human unity", and the workers don't understand or agree with each other! And I see, I see very well with each of them something like that (gesture of twisting). It's not that I am shocked, but... My logic is as follows: "Yes, it's very fine, you are very nice, you are working towards human unity - at least stand united!..." You understand? ...
... unity to the world - it would be only decent to do it ourselves! Instead, we are the example of exactly the opposite. To visitors we say, "Here we seek human unity." But WE constantly quarrel among ourselves, and we preach human unity! That's absurd. Totally absurd! We can't even be ONE in our own work. I keep telling them, but they don't understand. Do you want to help me ...
... X is asking if The Psychology of Social Development and The Ideal of Human Unity couldn't be published in England—at least one of them—by his publishers there. SRI AUROBINDO: Will they take them? NIRODBARAN: He can write and find out. Alien and Unwin have already included one chapter from The Ideal of Human Unity in one of their books. SRI AUROBINDO: It doesn't follow that they will ...
... immediately after the first arrival of The Mother from France to Pondicherry. Some of the most important of these and other writings are: The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Ideal of Human Unity, The Human Cycle, The Foundations of Indian Culture, Essays on the Gita, On the Veda, The Upanishads, The Future Poetry, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, and the epic Savitri. ... the physical consciousness at the cellular level. In 1968, Mother founded Auroville, an International city as a collective field for the material and spiritual researches required for realising human unity as a part of the supramental action on the earth. Mother's exploration into the body-consciousness and her discovery of a 'cellular mind' capable of restructuring the nature of the body is ...
... designing and actualising these possibilities. As never before, humanity is Page 75 convinced that the most desirable course for the human race is to strive with fixed determination for human unity, global peace and for the advancing of the three great ideals of progress, namely, liberty, equality and fraternity. As never before, there has. been an increasing perception that the most effective... with other sets of values. • In the process of exploration, it is certainly salutary to emphasise those values, which foster unity and harmony, integration and integrity of the nation and human unity and peace. Inevitably, those values, which have been laid down as binding under constitutional law as rights or duties will also come to be emphasised and cultivated as a part of citizenship. ...
... stirred by aspirations born of these ideas. Sri Aurobindo concludes that if this condition is fulfilled then there is hope of some advance in the not distant future. In his book The Ideal of Human Unity, Sri Aurobindo refers to two important developments which indicate a prospect of the coming change in humanity. The first of these is internationalism, the idea of humanity as a single race of beings... Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, SABCL, Vol. 15, p.210 × Sri Aurobindo: The Ideal of Human Unity, SABCL/ Vol. 15, pp. 527-28 × Sri Aurobindo: Letters on Yoga, SABCL, Vol.22/ pp.13,14,15. ...
... selecting, planning, designing and actualising these possibilities. As never before, humanity is convinced that the most desirable course for the human race is to strive with fixed determination for human unity, global peace and for the advancing of the three great ideals of progress, namely, liberty, equality and fraternity. As never before, there has been an increasing perception that the most effective... with other sets of values. In the process of exploration, it is certainly salutary to emphasise those values, which foster unity and harmony, integration and integrity of the nation and human unity and peace. Inevitably, those values, which have been laid down as binding under constitutional law as rights or duties will also come to be emphasised and cultivated as a part of citizenship. Also ...
... 1914, immediately after the first arrival of the Mother from France to Pondicherry. Some of the most important of these and other writings are: The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Ideal of Human Unity, The Human Cycle, The Foundations of Indian Culture, Essays on the Gita, On the Veda, The Upanishads, The Future Poetry, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, and the epic Savitri. Sri... the physical consciousness at the cellular level. In 1968, Mother founded Auroville, an international city as a collective field for the material and spiritual researches required for realising human unity as a part of the supramental action on the earth. Mother's exploration into the body-consciousness and her discovery of a 'cellular mind' capable of restructuring the nature of the body is contained ...
... 1914, immediately after the first arrival of The Mother from France to Pondicherry. Some of the most important of these and other writings are: The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Ideal of Human Unity, The Human Cycle, The Foundations of Indian Culture, Essays on the Gita, On the Veda, The Upanishads, The Future Poetry, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, and the epic Savitri. When... the physical consciousness at the cellular level. In 1968, Mother founded Auroville, an International city as a collective field for the material and spiritual researches required for realising human unity as a part of the supramental action on the earth. Mother's exploration into the body-consciousness and her discovery of a 'cellular mind' capable of restructuring the nature of the body is contained ...
... wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries will be able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities, straining to realise human unity." ٭ 13 August 1966 You know that scores of people have come for Auroville.... Instead of working, they spend their time talking and chatting! And they send me letters. Their whole... and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realizations. 4. Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity. ٭ Page 21 3 August 1968 (Mother remains very tired. She nevertheless listens to a long paper on Auroville, which she rejects, and prepares with the disciple a note summing ...
... Civilisation des loisirs, and the article of Bertrand de Jouvenel in Diogène. No. 33, jan-mars 1961. 8. Billy Graham, Life Magezine, 15 August 1960 9. See Sri Aurobindo, The Ideal of Human unity, Ch, XXXIV. "The Religion of humanity. 10.the Bible says "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." Compare this with "The greatest prospect that we face - indeed what must now be counted... Aurobindo's major works, published serially in the Arya between 1914-21, include The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Human Cycle (The Psychology of Social Development) and The Ideal of Human Unity. They were later revised by Sri Aurobindo and published as books. 17. From the Bhagavad Gita. 18. From the Bhagavad Gita: sarvathā vartamāno'pi sa yogi mayi vartate. 19. ...
... had forgotten why he had asked me to come! We had a hearty laugh. Once Nolinida came to the Last School at Auroville to speak on Human Unity. The organiser of the meeting, on the spur of the moment, asked me to speak first. I just said one sentence that human unity was to be achieved not by any outer means but by inner process. Nolinida then began his talk prefacing it with the humorous remark that ...
... thought that the earth wasn't ready yet to realise that ideal, she rightly claimed that the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo was the basic movement in that direction. At the time of the World Conference on Human Unity convened by Sri Aurobindo Society in August 1964, several delegates had expressed the desire to come to Pondicherry and live in the light of the ideals of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The Mother... universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities.. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity. 17 It was intended that Auroville should come up in the vicinity of Pondicherry on a site of the area of fifteen square miles fringed by three lakes on one side and the Bay of Bengal on the ...
... hastening that destiny: The general aim to be attained is the advent of a progressing universal harmony. The means for attaining this aim, in regard to the earth, is the realisation of human unity through the awakening in all and the manifestation by all of the inner Divinity which is One. In other words, - to create unity by founding the Kingdom of God which is within us all, 14 ... and the general environment. Perfect thy human might, Perfect the race. If, then, the goal be a "progressing universal harmony", the means for achieving it on earth is the realisation of human unity through awakening and manifesting "the inner Divinity which is One" in individual and collectivity alike. More specifically, the task before us is fourfold: firstly, for each individual to realise ...
... with ominous possibilities. The collapse of the Axis Powers was a good thing no doubt, but the new alignment of forces boded ill for the future. Taking advantage of a reissue of The Ideal of Human Unity, Sri Aurobindo wrote a new chapter in 1949, and this appeared as a seventeen page 'Introduction' in the American edition of the book (1950) and as 'Postscript Chapter' in the Advent of February... the evening Meditation, one tried to lose oneself in "her finite's multitude in an infinite space". 56 Or one tried to take in the argument of books like The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity and wondered whether the Possibility outlined therein was not being actually put into practice - though only on the scale of a miniature - in the rhythm of daily life in the Yoga-Ashram. The ...
... 30 volumes (the Centenary Edition) and are indicated by the volume number followed by the page. Reference is made in particular to the following volumes: 5-Collected Poems 15-The Ideal of Human Unity 17-The Hour of God 20-The Synthesis of Yoga 26-On Himself 28-Savitri 29-Savitri ... 25 Sri Aurobindo, “The Life Heavens,â€� 5:575. × 26 Sri Aurobindo, The Ideal of Human Unity, 15:558. × 27 Nirodbaran, Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo, II.112. ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter XV Some Lines of Fulfilment What favoured form, force, system among the many that are possible now or likely to emerge hereafter will be entrusted by the secret Will in things with the external unification of mankind, is an interesting and to those who can look beyond the narrow horizon of passing... ideal basis. For it would take as its founding motive power a harmony of the two great principles actually in presence, nationalism and internationalism. Its adoption would mean that the problem of human unity would be approached at once on a rational and a sound moral basis, a recognition, on one side, of the right of all large natural groupings of men to live and to be themselves and the enthronement ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XVIII The Ideal Solution - A Free Grouping of Mankind These principles founded on the essential and constant tendencies of Nature in the development of human life ought clearly to be the governing ideas in any intelligent attempt at the unification of the human race. And it might so be done if that... great change of world conditions impossible to achieve unless the race is prepared to break hundreds of traditions and unsettle the great majority of accomplished facts. The first principle of human unity, groupings being necessary, should be a system of free and natural groupings which would leave no room for internal discords, mutual incompatibilities and repression and revolt as between race and ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XIX The Drive towards Centralisation and Uniformity - Administration and Control of Foreign Affairs Supposing the free grouping of the nations according to their natural affinities, sentiments, sense of economic and other convenience to be the final basis of a stable worldunion, the next question... nominal separateness and become parts of a machine or retain a real and living individuality and an effective freedom and organic life? Practically, this comes to the question whether the ideal of human unity points to the forcible or at least forceful fusing and welding of mankind into a single vast nation and centralised world-state with many provinces or to its aggregation under a more complex, loose ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter V Nation and Empire: Real and Political Unities The problem of the unification of mankind resolves itself into two distinct difficulties. There is the doubt whether the collective egoisms already created in the natural evolution of humanity can at this time be sufficiently modified or abolished and... she has long been gradually and tentatively preparing. This then is the possibility we have next to consider before we examine the established phenomenon of nationhood in relation to the ideal of human unity. Two different ideals and therefore two different possibilities were precipitated much nearer to realisation by the European conflict,—a federation of free nations and, on the other hand, the di ...
... the principle of individual and group freedom within the human unity, and the insufficiency of formal unity without a growth of the religion of humanity which can alone make it a great psychological advance in the spiritual evolution of the race. 1919 Page 274 Publisher’s Note to the Second Edition The Ideal of Human Unity first appeared in the "Arya" Vol. II, No. 2 - Vol. IV, ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XXVII The Peril of the World-State This then is the extreme possible form of a WorldState, the form dreamed of by the socialistic, scientific, humanitarian thinkers who represent the modern mind at its highest point of self-consciousness and are therefore able to detect the trend of its tendencies... nothing of the kind; in their essence, not necessarily in their form, they are, as we have seen, not only the logical outcome, but the inevitable practical last end of the incipient urge towards human unity, if it is pursued by a principle of mechanical unification,—that is to say, by the principle of the State. It is for this reason that we have found it necessary to show the operative principles and ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XXX The Principle of Free Confederation The issues of the original Russian idea of a confederation of free self-determining nationalities were greatly complicated by the transitory phenomenon of a revolution which has sought, like the French Revolution before it, to transform immediately and without... enormous reserves and qualifications; but it would be there working as a power to make the world ready for itself and, when it is ready, would play a large determining part in the final arrangement of human unity. But even if it fails entirely in its present push for realisation, it will still have its part to play in a better prepared future. Page 539 ...
... because I said it to you.... But I know. So, you understand, we work for "human unity," and the workers don't get along! And I clearly see, I clearly see in each one what's like this ( twisted gesture ). It's not that I am surprised, but... My logic is this: "Yes, it's very good, you are all very nice, you work for human unity—at least be united!..." Do you understand? But I am sure that Paolo ...
... conveying a message from my publisher B.C. (you know, the one who published "The Adventure of Consciousness"). B.C. wrote a letter [Satprem reads it to Mother] saying he's reading "The Ideal of Human Unity," but would like to publish "The Synthesis of Yoga."So A. replied to him [Satprem reads the reply to Mother] that he is sending his letter to Pondicherry "for instructions," but that in his opinion... to publish "The Synthesis of Yoga" than "The Ideal." "The Synthesis" first? Yes. There's a difference of level between the two. Yes, of course. But what A. means is that "The Ideal of Human Unity" is a theme with a universal appeal. Yes, but that's just the point, it doesn't take them out of what they know! While " The Synthesis " (they won't understand much of it, but...) may pull them ...
... preaching unity to the world—it would be only decent to do it ourselves! Instead, we are the example of exactly the opposite. To visitors we say, "Here we seek human unity." But WE constantly quarrel among ourselves, and we preach human unity! Page 86 That's absurd. Totally absurd! We can't even be ONE in our own work. I keep telling them, but they don't understand. Do you want to ...
... of a fortuitously self-organizing Chance, which it must be in a purely materialistic view of the nature of the world.” Thus wrote Sri Aurobindo in 1949, in a postscript chapter to his Ideal of Human Unity . The Iron Age is ended. Only now The last fierce spasm of the dying past Shall shake the nations, and when that has passed, Earth washed of ills shall raise a fairer brow. It comes... See talk 4: “What Arjuna Saw: the Dark Side of the Force”. × Sri Aurobindo: The Ideal of Human Unity , p. 311. × Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine , p. 932. ...
... this dynamic world-play of Sachchidananda, 1 Savitri, Book II, Canto IV, pp. 139-40. 2 Ibid., p. 144. 3 The Life Divine, p. 192. 4 Sri Aurobindo, The Ideal of Human Unity, p. 296. Page 254 is to arrive at a supremely harmonious equation of Unity and Diversity, Freedom and Order, individual Growth and collective Cohesion. Thus, unity... that struggles to expand, to conquer and to possess and, if need be, 'to swallow up entirely the egoism of the other in its own egoism': these then are 1 2 Sri Aurobindo, The Ideal of Human Unity, p. 296. 3 4 5 Expressions from Sri Aurobindo's Epic Poem Savitri. 6 Sri Aurobindo, On the Veda, p. 443. Page 255 the traits of this second status of Life ...
... So, wake up and collaborate! The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Human Unity Here the Mother's words are quite apt: A change in human consciousness will make possible the manifestation upon earth of a higher Force, a purer Light, a more total Truth. The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Human Unity The project of the International Township was approved by the Government ...
... If diplomacy could become the instrument of the Truth and Divine Grace, instead of being based on duplicity and falsehood, a big step would be taken towards human unity and harmony . The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Human Unity ...
... out, and He adds: “Wait for the last act; undoubtedly you will change your mind.” 23.7.58" } ] }, { t: "About Peace It is only by the growth and establishment of the consciousness of human unity that a true and lasting peace can be realised upon earth. All means are welcome although the exterior ones have a very limited effect. But the most important, urgent and indispensable of all is a... for all those who are working for the organisation and immediate future of human life upon earth, and who see that the only solution of this problem is the concrete and effective realisation of Human Unity. At the moment, in the physical consciousness, the heart is with X, the lover, and the spiritual confidence with Y, the Guru. I do not see very well what I have to do in this tableau if it ...
... selecting, planning, designing and actualizing these possibilities. As never before, humanity is convinced that the most desirable course for the human race is to strive with fixed determination for human unity, global peace and for the advancing of the three great ideals of progress, namely, liberty, equality, and fraternity. As never before, there has been an increasing perception that the most effective... realms with other sets of values. d.In the process of exploration, it is certainly salutary to emphasise those values, which foster unity and harmony, integration and integrity of the nation and human unity and peace. Inevitably, those values, which have been laid down as binding under constitutional law as rights or duties will also come to be emphasised and cultivated as a part of citizenship. Also ...
... 1914, immediately after the first arrival of the Mother from France to Pondicherry. Some of the most important of these and other writings are: The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Ideal of Human Unity, The Human Cycle, The Foundations of Indian Culture, Essays on the Gita, On the Veda, The Upanishads, The Future Poetry, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, and the epic Savitri. When... physical consciousness at the cellular level. In 1968, the Mother founded Auroville, and International city as a collective field for the material and spiritual researches required for realizing human unity as a part of the supramental action on the earth. The Mother's exploration into the body-consciousness and her discovery of a 'cellular mind' capable of restructuring the nature of the body ...
... by values, can be dangerous and can injure the future of humanity. It is greatly concerned with humanism, it is international in its sweep, and it has given a decisive turn to the realisation of human unity. The birth of the United Nations Organisation and its international agencies owes much to the endeavours of this uplifting force. It feels greatly committed to the human destiny, and endeavours to... interrelationship of subjects, interrelationship of faculties, and interrelationship of disciplines of body, life, mind, and spirit. The suggested subjects are those of evolution, environment and human unity. Study of languages and study of history will be so designed that students will learn with ease and interest several languages and their comparative vocabularies. In linguistic study, stress ...
... and psychology are properly synthesized. Another council of research and applications could be centered on study of children's rights, human rights, women's rights, fundamental duties and human unity, - since all these subjects relate the child to the future in a very meaningful manner. 46 This council could aim at underlining the development... That is the reason why we need to emphasize children's rights, women's rights, fundamental duties, which are all related to individual freedom and individual growth towards perfection. Human unity has been growing, but we are not sure as to what will be the place of Nationalism in the new international order. This futuristic study may be included as an important area, and it could study the ...
... and international agencies their origin, their significance and their role; (h) Commercial Geography and ICT; (i) Contemporary International Relationship; (k) Problems of Human Unity; (1) Frontiers of Physics and Biotechnology; (m) Theories of Justice; (n) Problems of Energy; (o) Philosophy of Science: Induction, Critical Rationality, March of... emphasised that we need to promote: • Multilingualism • Issue of Cultural History and the Future • Interdisiciplinarity of the themes such as the following: a) Ideal of Human Unity b) Evolution and Future of Human Species c) History of Religions d) Classics e) Philosophy, Astronomy and Classical Languages, etc. IV Some thought needs to be ...
... HC: Sri Aurobindo. The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity, War and Self-Determination (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1985). 17. HH: Stephen Leacock, Humour and Humanity. 18. HL: Joseph Gerard Brennan, A Handbook of Logic (Harper & Row, New York, 1960). 19. IHU: Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity, War and Self-Determination (Sri Aurobindo Ashram ...
... universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity.' -Sep 16 Declares, during the Indo-Pakistan war, 'It is for the sake and the triumph of Truth that India is fighting and must fight until India and Pakistan have once more become One because... the Inconscient that It had to work Itself through. That is why things take so much time here.' 1968 Feb 28 Inaugurates Auroville, 'The City of Dawn', dedicated to Sri Aurobindo's ideal of human unity. - Nov 21/22 Experiences the divine Presence filling her room, touching, pervading everything: 'a dazzling Light, a Peace... a Power, and then a Sweetness... one had the feeling that it could ...
... gloom in human affairs. At the intellectual level, the climax of the schedule of centenary celebrations was the international seminar on Human Unity held at New Delhi from 5 to 7 December 1972, with a final session devoted to the Auroville Experiment in Human Unity. Distinguished participants were drawn from all over the world, and Professor Oliver Lacombe posed these alternative future possibilities: ...
... greater Truth behind mind and life and for the bringing of its power into our human existence." 82 When small collectivities thus organise themselves, it should not be difficult for the ideal of human unity also to be realised on truly spiritual foundations, instead of being sought to be realised (as they now are) through mechanical or semi-legalistic organisations like the old League of Nations or... with his fellow-man, the spontaneous law of his society exists only as the outward mould of his self-governed inner liberty." 84 Sri Aurobindo therefore concludes his treatise on The Ideal of Human Unity with the affirmation that, while the mechanical means now being adopted to forge world unity will have to be pursued for the time being, a lasting solution can come only when the supramental tr ...
... from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations. (4) Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity. 10 Throughout the ceremony, which took about seventy-five minutes, the words of the charter rumbled in the rhythms of one language or another along the unseen corridors of the collective c... sovereign lord". How Auroville would grow - how this dream-city would shape itself Page 762 into concrete reality and solve the central human problem of reconciling the need for human unity and harmony with the claims of human variety and teeming multiplicity, the need for order and the need for freedom, the need for Power with the need for Grace, and the need for a solid material base ...
... Yoga, Essays on the Gita, The Ideal of Human Unity, The Psychology of Social Development, The Future Poetry, A Defence of Indian Culture - and, all by himself, publishing them serially, and more or less simultaneously, in the pages of the Arya . When the War came to an end at last, his apocalyptical "Uttarpara Speech" of 1909 and The Ideal of Human Unity were issued as books in 1919. Sri Aurobindo ...
... Sri Aurobindo had busied himself, along with other activities, with the revision of his book. The Ideal of Human Unity, and dictated a postscript chapter bringing the discussion to the post-1945 era of Big Power rivalry and the cold war. This addition appeared as "The Ideal of Human Unity" in The Advent of February 1950. The War had no doubt ended in total victory for the Allies, but the new 'cold ...
... Richard recorded: The general aim to be attained is the advent of a progressing universal harmony. The means for attaining this aim, in regard to the earth, is the realisation of human unity through the awakening in all and the manifestation by all of the inner Divinity which is One. In other words, - to create unity by founding the Kingdom of God which is within us all. 3 ... to be translated into present and future reality. Essays on the Gita, another series like The Secret of the Veda, was started in August 1916; and the complementary sequences - The Ideal of Human Unity and The Psychology of Social Development (now known as 'The Human Cycle') - began appearing from September 1915 and August 1916 respectively. Even what first commenced as a mere book-review ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 17 January 1938 Mother, The Ideal of Human Unity is out of print — perhaps luckily, since it was printed in a very shabby way in Madras. If you like, I’ll send to Lord Nuffield Ideal and Progress, The National Value of Art, Superman, Evolution , and whatever else I can ...
... judge on the last day], the entire human trajectory is outlined. There is nothing apocalyptic about the birth of Jesus, which does not refer to the notion of the End of Time, but to the idea of human unity and divine unicity. The Nazarene embodies, in our eyes, above all love. And if it is true that, as thaumaturgy, he performed numerous miracles in order to open spirits to the possibility of the ...
... possible to give succour to the disadvantaged, it must be clearly understood that a sentimental humanism or a naive humani-tarianism are no answers to human problems of inequality. A spiritual sense of human unity is a necessary part of a profound conservatism. (e) Society is the secular or temporal manifestation of God's purpose. It is organised subtly and everyone has a place and a purpose in God's ...
... Aurobindo until he has learnt to take full account of his appreciation of the glorious divine potentiality lying latent in what he terms "the earth-consciousness." This we find in his Ideal of Human Unity, in his The Life Divine and lastly, in the constant emphasis in his The Synthesis of Yoga on the nature of the Divine that is sought, who is "not a remote extra-cosmic reality, but a half-veiled ...
... for all those who are working for the organisation and immediate future of human life upon earth, and who see that the only solution of this problem is the concrete and effective realisation of Human Unity. At the moment, in the physical consciousness, the heart is with X, the lover, and the spiritual confidence with Y, the Guru. I do not see very well what I have to do in this tableau if it ...
... familiar with its culture and civilisation, read and wrote classical Greek fluently, and produced brilliant pages of poetry and prose dedicated to it. 6 He wrote, for instance, in The Ideal of Human Unity : “The cultural and civic life of the Greek city, of which Athens was the supreme achievement, a life in which living itself was an education, where the poorest as well as the richest sat together ...
... conversation with Ron Rosenbaum: “The fact is he nearly won the war. It was by a whisker he didn’t.” 1146 We find this opinion similarly worded in Sri Aurobindo’s “postscript chapter” to his Ideal of Human Unity: “[The Germans] came for a time within a hair’s breadth of success”. 1147 A disciple said to Sri Aurobindo: “Gandhi writes that the non-violence tried by some people in Germany has failed because ...
... It was in this magazine that Sri Aurobindo published his major works from 1914 to 1921. Month after month he wrote simultaneously chapters of The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Ideal of Human Unity, The Human Cycle , The Secret of the Veda, and other works, each time managing to have his texts ready for the printer just ahead of the deadline. In some cases it took more than twenty years before ...
... Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine , p. 102. × Sri Aurobindo: The Ideal of Human Unity , p. 99 (emphasis added). × Id. , p. 347. ...
... a youth that never ages”; that it “wants to be the bridge between the past and the future”; and that it “will be a site of spiritual and material researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity”. However, the key to the whole charter and therefore to Auroville was contained in its first paragraph: “To live in Auroville one must be the willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness”. The ...
... ought to be quoted in extenso. ‘The general aim to be attained is the advent of a progressive universal harmony. The means for attaining this aim, in regard to the Earth, is the realization of human unity through the awakening in all and the manifestation by all of the inner Divinity, which is One. In other words: to create unity by founding the Kingdom of God which is within us all. ‘The following ...
... She gave them to me. In the evening I went to the French-translation class at the Playground. I sat there and meditated while the Mother went on translating Sri Aurobindo's Ideal of Human Unity. I noticed that no Easter Egg could be more perfect than the Mother's own head. It had the most attractive oval shape possible. Page 31 Later, at 7.15 there was the distribution ...
... and the Supreme Mother. Huta You can be absolutely sure that the Lord is always doing the very best for the Truth. Auroville wants to be the first realisation of human unity based on the teaching of Sri Aurobindo. Where men of all countries would be at home. blessings The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Aims and Principles Sri Aurobindo came to ...
... universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity. The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Aims and Principles ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter XIV The Possibility of a First Step towards International Unity - Its Enormous Difficulties The study of the growth of the nation-unit under the pressure indeed of a growing inner need and idea but by the agency of political, economic and social forces, forms and instruments shows us a progress that ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter X The United States of Europe We have had to dwell so long upon the possibilities of the Empire-group because the evolution of the imperial State is a dominating phenomenon of the modern world; it governs the political tendencies of the later part of the nineteenth and earlier part of the twentieth ...
... for the perfection of the second, towards the third we are reaching out our hands and the pioneer work is already attempted. 335) With the present morality of the human race a sound and durable human unity is not yet possible; but there is no reason why a temporary approximation to it should not be the reward of strenuous aspiration and untiring effort. By constant approximations and by partial re ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XVII Nature's Law in Our Progress - Unity in Diversity, Law and Liberty For man alone of terrestrial creatures to live rightly involves the necessity of knowing rightly, whether, as rationalism pretends, by the sole or dominant instrumentation of his reason or, more largely and complexly, by the sum ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XXV War and the Need of Economic Unity The military necessity, the pressure of war between nations and the need for prevention of war by the assumption of force and authority in the hands of an international body, World-State or Federation or League of Peace, is that which will most directly drive ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter VII The Creation of the Heterogeneous Nation The problem of a federal empire founded on the sole foundation that is firm and secure, the creation of a true psychological unity,—an empire that has to combine heterogeneous elements,—resolves itself into two different factors, the question of the form ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter IX The Possibility of a World-Empire The progress of the imperial idea from the artificial and constructive stage to the position of a realised psychological truth controlling the human mind with the same force and vitality which now distinguish the national idea above all other group motives, is only ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XXXII Internationalism The idea of humanity as a single race of beings with a common life and a common general interest is among the most characteristic and significant products of modern thought. It is an outcome of the European mind which proceeds characteristically from life-experience to the idea ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XX The Drive towards Economic Centralisation The objective organisation of a national unity is not yet complete when it has arrived at the possession of a single central authority and the unity and uniformity of its political, military and strictly administrative functions. There is another side of ...
... which is the high fate of this race that thinks and wills and labours towards its own perfection. This is a strain that we shall hear more and more, the song of the growing godhead of the kind, of human unity, of spiritual freedom, of the coming supermanhood of man, of the divine ideal seeking to actualise itself in the life of the earth, of the call to the individual to rise to his godlike possibility ...
... I have sent the M.S. to the A.P.H and I hope that it will be out in two or three months at the outside, when it will be sent to you. At present I am preparing a revised edition of the "Ideal of Human Unity", already published in Madras but now out of print, and the "Psychology of Social Development", not yet published in book form, which I propose to bring out under another title, "The Human Cycle" ...
... liberation and change, a vast inner and outer progress is needed if we are to fulfil India's true destiny. 138 Page 250 April, 1950 (From a Postcript Chapter to The Ideal of Human Unity. The indwelling deity who presides over the destiny of the race has raised in man's mind and heart the idea, the hope of a new order which will replace the old unsatisfactory order, and substitute ...
... (1914-1920), that Sri Aurobindo published most of his major works: The Life Divine , The Synthesis of Yoga , The Human Cycle (originally The Psychology of Social Development ), The Ideal of Human Unity , Essays on the Gita , The Secret of the Veda , The Future Poetry , The Foundations of Indian Culture (originally a number of series under other titles). ...
... achieved". The aim to be achieved? What have I said? It is the harmonisation of the earth, I think, isn't it? "In regard to the earth, the means of achieving this aim is the realisation of human unity by the awakening in all and the manifestation by all of the inner Divinity who is one. "In other words: to create unity by establishing the kingdom of God which is in all. "Hence, the most ...
... s honesty lies not only in saying what they are doing but also in doing what they say. ABOUT PEACE It is only by the growth and establishment of the consciousness of human unity, that a true and lasting peace can be achieved upon earth. All means leading towards this goal are welcome, although the external ones have a very limited effect; however, the most important, urgent ...
... from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations. 4)Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity. 28.2.1968* * Greetings from Auroville to all men of good will. Are invited to Auroville all those who thirst for progress and aspire to a higher and truer life. 28.2.1968* ...
... usly in the various parts of the world, crystallising in the different races. And little by little. Nature will fuse these races too in her endeavour to build a real and material foundation for human unity. In the consciousness of most men, all this is the outcome of chance; they are not aware of the existence of a global plan and take circumstances as they come, for better or for worse according ...
... event, whatever our reaction to that thing or event may be, whether it appears good or bad, catastrophic or beneficial. And if Sir Philip had been a Yogi, he would have had the experience of human unity and he would have felt concretely that it was himself or a part of himself which was being led to Page 50 the gallows and he would have known at the same time that everything that happens ...
... Matrimandir The Matrimandir wants to be the symbol of the Divine's answer to man's aspiration for perfection. Union with the Divine manifesting in a progressive human unity. 14 August 1970 The Matrimandir wants to be the symbol of the Universal Mother according to Sri Aurobindo's teaching. The Matrimandir will be the soul of Auroville. The sooner the ...
... Sri Aurobindo's Message Key to Human Unity Two great words of the divine Truth have forced themselves insistently on our minds through the crash of the ruin and the breath of the tempest and are now the leading words of the hoped-for reconstruction, - freedom and unity. But everything depends, first, upon the truth of our vision of them, secondly, upon ...
... × Ahimsa : nonviolence. × The Ideal of Human Unity , Cent. Ed., XV. 320 . ...
... anything of the kind—it was a strictly practical organization. It was not the same thing as World Union. Page 183 World Union wanted to do 'a spiritual work on earth' and to create 'human unity.' I told them, 'You are taking something of an inward nature and you want to externalize it, so naturally it immediately goes rotten.'(But it's almost over now, I've pulled the rug out from under ...
... international: universal. ...where men and women of all countries will be able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creed, all politics and all nationalities, straining to realize human unity. × It was only three years later, in February, 1968, that Auroville would be founded. ...
... troublesome. When A. was here, he worked out a program with them, and he saw it was... It's gone. I have, fully ready at the Press , The Bases of Yoga, Lights on Yoga, The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity, and your Questions and Answers of 1958 [all in French]. I have those five volumes ready and waiting. Put that down on a piece of paper for me. The next time I see Z [the manager], I'll tell ...
... from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations. 4) Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity. ( then the microphone is switched off... silence ) So now, till 11:30 we have a nice quiet time like princes and kings! It doesn't often happen. If you have something to tell me, I am listening ...
... There's no one who can write in French. What do you want me to write? I don't remember now what they asked. The radio station wants someone to speak on "Sri Aurobindo and brotherhood or human unity." Yes, that's what they said. Is that what you want? Yes.... It's not for Pondicherry. They're going to send it to Delhi, and Delhi is going to send it to all the French-speaking countries ...
... culture) - The Human Cycle, originally titled The Psychology of Social Development (about which the famous Dr. Schweitzer wrote to the Ashram that he found it extremely important) - The Ideal of Human Unity - The Synthesis of Yoga (which expounds all the past Yogas and goes on to the Yoga of Self-Perfection) -Commentaries on the Isha Upanishad and the Kena Upanishad - The Future Poetry & Letters on ...
... you will complete it. SATYENDRA: Its completion should logically follow that of The Life Divine. SRI AUROBINDO: I have to finish The Psychology of Social Development and The Ideal of Human Unity . Herbert showed the former to his friends. They said it would have a very good sale in Europe if translated. But the danger is that it might be translated in a rather rigid style. NIRODBARAN: ...
... PURANI : The Psychology of Social Development won't take much time. SRI AUROBINDO: No. NIRODBARAN: Is that the next book? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. (Then looking at Purani) The Ideal of Human Unity will have to be rewritten perhaps. Things have changed and Hitler is mainly responsible. × Yoga of continuous practice ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1 The Ideals of Human Unity THE unification of humanity is also a thing decreed. For it is the goal towards which Nature is proceeding slowly but inevitably, bringing into play factors and forces that work out that consummation. Man is a gregarious animal, a social being. He forms groups and collectivities ...
... not and could not stop at another momentous cultural fusion brought about by the European impact. She aimed at something more. Nature demanded of her that she should discover a greater secret of human unity and through progressive experiments apply and establish it in fact. Christianity did" not raise this problem of the greater synthesis, for the Christian peoples were more culture-minded than rel ...
... nations too who are struggling to be free will be allowed to work out their freedom and independence, on condition that the same is worked out in furtherance and in collaboration with the ideal of human unity. That ideal has become dynamic and insistent – the more man refuses to accept it, the more he will make confusion worse confounded. Page 81 ...
... establish a superhuman race is a conscious and deliberate process and the attempt can be successful only through such an willed discipline, s ā dhan ā . In the same way, a supranational human unity will be possible as a parallel eventuality to the same process of individual discipline. Humanity is evolving and developing the various groupings to manifest fundamental aspects of its cosmic ...
... named idea). She tried to communicate to these groups her first vision of the future. She said that die general goal to be attained was the advent of universal harmony, the realisation of human unity, and the establishment of an ideal society in a place propitious for the flowering of the new race, putting the earth into contact with one or several sources of universal force that are still sealed ...
... 7 long years in inspired and luminous language such spiritual solutions to social and political problems of our times as are now to be found in various book forms, The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity, War and Self-determination etc. His other major works on philosophy, yoga, culture, art and literature such as the Life Divine, Essays on the Gita, Synthesis of Yoga, Foundations of Indian Culture ...
... conceive by our intelligence. The Master of our work and our Yoga knows the thing to be done, and we must allow him to do it in us by his own means and in his own manner." 5 3.From The Ideal of Human Unity: "And all repressive or preventive law is only a makeshift, a substitute for the true law which must develop from within and be not a check on liberty, but its outward image and visible expression ...
... to multiply human beings of this kind is evidently one of the most important objectives that the contemporary teacher is called upon to promote. We may even go farther. Today the ideal of human unity is more or less vaguely making its way to the front of our consciousness, and the increasing advocacy of the world peace is preparing a firm foundation for the realization of this ideal. The intellectual ...
... account of the heritage to which they have a natural right. The question of the study of history is further complicated by the fact that, in order to keep abreast with the increasing drift towards human unity, which is spreading all over the world, we have to teach our students the entire history of the world in a meaningful manner. This subject is very vast, but at this stage, we need not enter into ...
... (a) The greatness of India and continuity of Indian culture (b) A diagnosis of the weakness of contemporary India (c) How to build new India (d) India and the ideal of human unity Part III An in-depth study of the one of the following themes: (a) Tolerance and synthesis in Indian culture (b) Unity and diversity of India (c) ...
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... Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Compiled by Kireet Joshi On Materialism Towards Universal Fraternity Let us Dwell on Human Unity Page 127 × One of the most important elements of knowledge relating to the objects and ...
... Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Compiled by Kireet Joshi On Materialism Towards Universal Fraternity Let us Dwell on Human Unity s ...
... Poetry 3 Page 103 God 89 (The) Godhead 3, 25, 31 HathaYoga 26,73,91,95 higher consciousness 99 (The) Human Cycle 3 idea-will 71 (The) Ideal a/Human Unity 3 ignorance 42, 63,64,69,71,96 immortality, the Vedic4'7; the Vedic and Upanishadic concept of 46 inconscience 59, 61, 63, 64, 94 infinite energy, the development of 71 ...
... evolutionary crisis of humanity. This theme was developed by him in four of his books that he wrote during 1914 and 1921, namely, The Life Divine, The Foundations of Indian Culture, The Ideal of Human Unity and The Human Cycle. In these books, we find illuminating analysis and exposition incomparable in depth and context with any other analysis and exposition of what may be called the philosophical ...
... and leaders of law must take full advantage of them and utilise them for creating the alchemy that humanity needs today Page 124 at this critical hour. These ideals are: the ideal of human unity, the ideal of harmony of liberty, equality and fraternity, and the ideal of self-determination. We do not have much time to dilate upon this great theme. But let me say that if these ideals can ...
... The Renaissance in India 21 The Life Divine -1 11 The Life Divine -11 23 The Synthesis of Yoga -1 24 The Synthesis of Yoga - II 25 The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity, War and Self-Determination 26 The Future Poetry Page 156 27 Letters on Poetry and Art 28 Letters on Yoga -1 29 Letters on Yoga - II 30 Letters on Yoga ...
... One incident is worth recording as an illustration of the Divine’s way of action. Arabinda Basu (alias Arindam) had gone to Delhi as the Director of an international Seminar on Sri Aurobindo and Human Unity. It was being sponsored by the National Committee for Sri Aurobindo’s Birth Centenary which was set up by the Government of India with the then President as its President and the then Prime Minister ...
... not and could not stop at another momentous cultural fusion brought about by the European impact. She aimed at something more. Nature demanded of her that she should discover a greater secret of human unity and through progressive experiments apply and establish it in fact. Christianity did not raise this problem of the greater synthesis, for the Christian peoples were more culture-minded than reli ...
... light that Buddha carried to suffering humanity, the love and sacrifice of Christ showing and embleming the way of redemption, the saints and sages in our own epoch who have visioned the ideal of human unity in a divine humanity, even secular leaders who labour for "one world", "a brave new world"-all point to the other line of growth and development that man can follow and must and shall follow. The ...
... guided by values, can be dangerous and can injure the future of humanity. It is greatly concerned with humanism, it is international in its sweep, and it has given a decisive turn to the ideal of human unity. (2) Psychological studies have begun to reveal to us the strangeness and complexity of the components and powers of human personality. It has now become clear that the human being ...
... Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Compiled by Kireet Joshi On Materialism Towards Universal Fraternity Let us Dwell on Human Unity Page Back ...
... Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Compiled by Kireet Joshi On Materialism Towards Universal Fraternity Let us Dwell on Human Unity Page 90 × Ibid., The Synthesis of Yoga, Vol. 21, p. 774. ...
... Nachiketas Sri Rama Philosophy of Supermind and Contemporary Crisis Compiled by Kireet Joshi On Materialism Towards Universal Fraternity Let us Dwell on Human Unity ...
... humanity is one united family, vasudhaiva kutumbakam, and in spite of various Page 212 divisions or differentiations, rigorous efforts should be made to ensure the realisation of actual human unity. A second message imparted to us by the Indian ethos is that it is through the unity of humankind that economic problems will ultimately come to be resolved; for so long as there are national ...
... Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Compiled by Kireet Joshi On Materialism Towards Universal Fraternity Let us Dwell on Human Unity Page 112 ...
... Towards A New Society PART II TOWARDS A NEW SOCIETY The Ideals Of Human Unity The unification of humanity is also a thing decreed. For it is the goal towards which Nature is proceeding slowly but inevitably, bringing into play factors and forces that work out that consummation. Man is a gregarious animal, a social being. He forms groups ...
... replace the necessary and Page 35 inevitable spiritual transformation. In his major works. The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity ³ , Sri Aurobindo has studied at length the nature of the Supermind and the various aspects and stages of the transformation he foresees for humanity. I have to limit myself to quoting and summarizing ...
... She declared, "There is a Supreme Divine Consciousness. We want to manifest this Consciousness in the physical life." In furtherance of the realisation of Sri Aurobindo's ideal of human unity, the Mother inaugurated 'Auroville' on 28 February, 1968, "which is meant to be an International City, a living embodiment of that unity built upon the Divine Consciousness. It will be the effective ...
... possible consciousness. All spiritual experience, including that of Sri Aurobindo, always speaks of the ultimate Reality not as _________________ ¹ Sri Aurobindo in his two books - The idea! of human unity and Human Cycle - points out that a slow growth of the dynamic collective consciousness is taking place in humanity. It began with the family, developed through the clan and the tribe and has ...
... (Ashram 1955). On Yoga II: Tomes One and Two (Ashram 1958). The Human Cycle (Sri Aurobindo Library Inc., New York, 1950). Page 485 The Ideal of Human Unity (Sri Aurobindo Library Inc., New York, 1950). Letters, First Series (Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1947). Letters, Second Series (Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1949). ...
... Hugo, Victor 377 Human Cycle, The 38,56,293,359,459 Huxley, Julian 37 Page 494 Ideal of Human Unity, The 38,293,359,459 Ilion 53-55,318,319,364,446,458 Indu Prakash 27 Inge.W.R. 331,434 IshaUpanishad 25,26,241 Iyengar, K.R. Srinivasa 29,46 ...
... published. February 21 First celebration of the Mother's birthday at Pondicherry. February 22 The Mother departs for France. September 15 First instalment of The Ideal of Human Unity in the Arya. October Vasavadutta, a dramatic romance, written. 1916 The Mother leaves France for Japan. August 15 First instalments of Essays on the Gita ...
... original German by Medhananda {The Advent, April 1958, pp. 68,71). 81. See A.B. Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo, p. 167. 82. The Human Cycle, p. 273. 83. The Ideal of Human Unity, p. 167. 84. ibid., p. 323. 85. K.D. Sethna, The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo, p. 1. 86. Collected Poems and Plays, Vol. I, p. 36. 87. ibid. , p ...
... the ancient corroborations (or, rather, seminal anticipations) of this Supramental Manifesto. Other sequences - notably Essays on the Gita, The Psychology of Social Development, The Ideal of Human Unity, A Defence of Indian Culture and The Future Poetry - were started later, and usually four or five or six books were thus being written (or were writing themselves out!) serially at one time. As ...
... 21 First celebration of the Mother's birthday at Pondicherry. February 22 The Mother departs for France. Page 816 September 15 First instalment of The Ideal of Human Unity in the Arya. October Vasavadutta, a dramatic romance, written. 1916 — The Mother leaves France for Japan. August 15 First instalments of Essays on the Gita and The ...
... quarry of an increasing number of thinkers and sadhaks. While the many pored over books like The Mother, The Riddle of this World, Lights on Yoga, Bases of Yoga, Essays on the Gita, The Ideal of Human Unity, or read copies of Sri Aurobindo's innumerable letters to his disciples or the Mother's Conversations, life in the Ashram was marked calm, orderliness, efficiency and an inner richness of ardour ...
... in an earlier chapter. Between June 1951 and March 1953, there were no such sessions, but instead the Mother gave renderings in French from some of Sri Aurobindo's writings like The Ideal of Human Unity, The Human Cycle, the last six chapters of The Life Divine and parts of The Synthesis of Yoga. There was of course some conversational give-and-take with the children, but that went unrecorded ...
... fullness of time mankind would want to shed its divers divisive nationalist labels and seek a 'world citizenship' in a world polity as visualised in Sri Aurobindo's seminal treatise. The Ideal of Human Unity. With this very end in view, the 'World Union' movement was to be launched by A. B. Patel, with its headquarters in the Ashram and the Mother as President. V The merger of Pondicherry ...
... 468, 548, 650, 653-4, 656, 664ff, 667, 672, 680, 682, 793, 830 Kena Upanishad 101 Isha Upanishad 101, 110 The Secret of the Veda 101, 110, 119 The Human Cycle 182, 198, 548 The Ideal of Human Unity 182, 198, 385, 487, 548, 573, 685 The Future Poetry 182, 198, 203, 491 Uttarpara Speech 198 A Defence of Indian Culture 198, 203 Essays on the Gita 197-8, 324, 326, 385, 398, 589 Bhavani Mandir ...
... significant statement about Auroville: The Matrimandir wants to be the symbol of the Divine's answer to man's aspiration for perfection. Union with the Divine manifesting in a progressive human unity. Yet another had come in November 1970: The Matrimandir will be the soul of Auroville. The sooner the soul is there, the better it will be for everybody and especially for the Aurovilians ...
... two Ashram-based movements, "World Union" and "Sri Aurobindo Society", with the Mother as President of both and as the main inspiration behind them. In one of his Arya sequences, The Ideal of Human Unity, published during 1915-18, Sri Aurobindo had considered the problem in its historical, ideological and practical aspects; and in his Independence Day message on 15 August 1947, he had referred to ...
... live. The first war in Israel had just ended, the war in Biafra was beginning. There was the inauguration of Auroville, the city of Sri Aurobindo, a few miles from Pondicherry, a symbol of actual human Unity. It took place on February 28. Some future buildings of concrete perhaps, but above all, a few men, a handful of men and women on a plateau of red earth, who accepted to make the experiment of the ...
... from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations. 4. Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity. Page 368 times the whole place was flourishing both spiritually and materially, and was considered an important centre of learning and commerce in South India. "The origins ...
... into an organic unity round the psychic or soul centre, lifts them all into the embrace of the Divine. It is a life-transforming yoga, purporting to fulfil the Time-Spirit by realising the ideal of human unity and the divine perfection of human life. Mankind is passing through perhaps the greatest crisis of its cultural life. It is living in one of those epochs in which there takes place what the ...
... us that you have written to him "Go Ahead." He further says that he is doing all this work under command of "The Master" Sri Aurobindo who has said in the postscript chapter of "The Ideal of Human Unity" that his work must be carried on by us to save the world from the crisis and fulfil the Master's desire. Mother, as J is living in the Delhi Ashram he is always anxious to put his viewpoint ...
... ...where men and women of all countries will be able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creed, all politics and all nationalities, straining to realize human unity. Page 26 ...
... done at the present moment? The general aim to be attained is the advent of a progressing universal harmony. The means for attaining this aim, in regard to the earth, is the realisation of human unity through the awakening in all and the manifestation by all of the inner Divinity which is One. In other words,—to create unity by founding the Kingdom of God which is within us all. This, therefore ...
... of knowledge looks beyond and sees that it is only a protracted episode. 28 July 1915 [4] I have begun in the issue of the Arya which is just out a number of articles on the Ideal of Human Unity. I intend to proceed very cautiously and not go very deep at first, but as if I were leading the intelligence of the reader gradually towards the deeper meaning of unity,—especially to discourage ...
... it has crystallised in the formation of Page 154 the different races. Even these races Nature will by degrees fuse together in her endeavour to build a material and real basis for human unity. To the consciousness of the majority of men all this appears to be a play of chance in life: they do not observe the existence of a global plan, they take circumstances as they come, well ...
... g. For these causes are always on both sides and before demanding anything from others, each one should first strive to eliminate them from himself. 4.7.1969 Peace through human unity : Unity through uniformity is an absurdity. Unity must be realised through the union of the many. Each one is part of the unity; each one is indispensable to the whole. Oct, 1969 ...
... conscious Infinite in man upon earth. The possible godhead of man because he is inwardly of one being with God will be its one solitary creed and dogma. Sri Aurobindo Key to Human Unity Two great words of the divine Truth have forced themselves insistently on our minds through the crash of the ruin and the breath of the tempest and are now the leading words of the hoped-for ...
... × Until 1958, three times a week, in another class, Mother used to translate into French certain books of Sri Aurobindo: The Ideal of Human Unity, The Human Cycle , the last six chapters of The Life Divine and the first part of The Synthesis of Yoga . × ...
... tribe must weaken or perish before a nation can be born. Thus Sri Aurobindo reveals to us the great political secret whose realisation can lead us to the union of all nations and finally to human unity. 11 February 1970 ...
... His world, and man and mankind too move towards conquest of their world, their environment. And again the Divine in Page 166 fulfilment here is and must be oneness, and the ideal of human unity however dim and far off is coming slowly into sight. The competitive nation-units are feeling, at times, however feebly as yet, the call to cast themselves into a greater unified cooperative life ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XXI The Drive towards Legislative and Social Centralisation and Uniformity The gathering of the essential powers of administration into the hands of the sovereign is completed when there is unity and uniformity of judicial administration,—especially of the criminal side; for this is intimately connected ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter XIII The Formation of the Nation-Unit - The Three Stages The three stages of development which have marked the mediaeval and modern evolution of the nation-type may be regarded as the natural process where a new form of unity has to be created out of complex conditions and heterogeneous materials by ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter XII The Ancient Cycle of Prenational Empire-Building - The Modern Cycle of Nation-Building We have seen that the building of the true national unit was a problem of human aggregation left over by the ancient world to the mediaeval. The ancient world started from the tribe, the city state, the clan ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter XI The Small Free Unit and the Larger Concentrated Unity If we consider the possibilities of a unification of the human race on political, administrative and economic lines, we see that a certain sort of unity or first step towards it appears not only to be possible, but to be more or less urgently ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter VIII The Problem of a Federated Heterogeneous Empire If the building up of a composite nation in the British Isles was from the beginning a foregone conclusion, a geographical and economic necessity only prevented in its entire completion by the most violent and perverse errors of statesmanship, the ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter VI Ancient and Modern Methods of Empire A clear distinction must be made between two political aggregates which go equally in current language by the name of empire. For there is the homogeneous national and there is the heterogeneous composite empire. In a sense, all empires are composites, at any ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter IV The Inadequacy of the State Idea What, after all, is this State idea, this idea of the organised community to which the individual has to be immolated? Theoretically, it is the subordination of the individual to the good of all that is demanded; practically, it is his subordination to a collective ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - I The Human Cycle Chapter III The Group and the Individual It is a constant method of Nature, when she has two elements of a harmony to reconcile, to proceed at first by a long continued balancing in which she sometimes seems to lean entirely on one side, sometimes entirely to the other, at others to correct both excesses by ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XXVI The Need of Administrative Unity In almost all current ideas of the first step towards international organisation, it is taken for granted that the nations will continue to enjoy their separate existence and liberties and will only leave to international action the prevention of war, the regulation ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XXIX The Idea of a League of Nations The only means that readily suggests itself by which a necessary group-freedom can be preserved and yet the unification of the human race achieved, is to strive not towards a closely organised World-State, but towards a free, elastic and progressive world-union ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XXIII Forms of Government The idea of a world-union of free nations and empires, loose at first, but growing closer-knit with time and experience, seems at first sight the most practicable form of political unity; it is the only form indeed which would be immediately practicable, supposing the will ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XXXI The Conditions of a Free World-Union A free world-union must in its very nature be a complex unity based on a diversity and that diversity must be based on free self-determination. A mechanical unitarian system would regard in its idea the geographical groupings of men as so many conveniences ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XXII World-Union or World-State This, then, in principle is the history of the growth of the State. It is a history of strict unification by the development of a central authority and of a growing uniformity in administration, legislation, social and economic life and culture and the chief means of ...
... The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XXXIV The Religion of Humanity A religion of humanity may be either an intellectual and sentimental ideal, a living dogma with intellectual, psychological and practical effects, or else a spiritual aspiration and rule of living, partly the sign, partly the cause of a change of soul in humanity. The ...
... The "rational solution" referred to was a proposal for solving international problems along the lines sketched by Sri Aurobindo in chapter 18 of The Ideal of Human Unity , "The Ideal Solution—A Free Grouping of Mankind". ...
... the offing are a federation of all the states of India, and another one in the offing is the conversion of the United States. A federation of the states of India along the lines of The Ideal of Human Unity, as conceived and explained by Sri Aurobindo. And the conversion of the United States is in the same idea, just according to Sri Aurobindo's revelation. But that will take time. It came in an ...
... Oh, as much as that! No, pardon me! They calculated it will last until 1975. '75!... ( Mother laughs. ) What shall we take up next? What have we published? "The Human Cycle," "Human Unity," a few chapters of "The Life Divine."... Well, we should finish the book. Finish it!... (laughter) It's a lot of work. Yes, enough for 30 years of the "Bulletin"! ( Mother laughs ...
... called by him the greatest book of our times), The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on the Gita, The Secret of the Veda, A Defence of Indian Culture, The Psychology of Social Development, The Ideal of Human Unity, The Future Poetry. Page 75 And the vast mental range here disclosed bore upon it the play of a vitalizing sunshine that fused logical acumen with supra-intellectual insight ...
... Synthesis of Yoga (the exposé of an integral technique of spiritual progression), The Human Cycle (studies in the psychology of social development and the search for values). The Ideal of Human Unity (an analysis of man's political aspirations and of present-day social, political and economic history), The Future ². SABCL vol. 26, pp. 468-69. Page 9 ...
... " 6 Page 290 ( silence ) Unfortunately, the new invader would be China, and that... that would be frightful. ( silence ) Anyway... But you know that in "The Ideal of Human Unity," Sri Aurobindo says in black and white that the next battlefield would be India? Yes, yes. That the conflict would take place in Asia, with India as the first battlefield. 7 Yes ...
... poised for a breakthrough but the present 1700-odd Aurovilians (which includes children) as well as those likely to join in the future, have to be true to the ideals and work consciously for a true human unity. Would you give advice to new spiritual aspirants that would help in their development and help them to integrate their lives in the world with its focus on materialism and the vital life, or ...
... does the work produce among the individuals concerned, expressing itself in a purer and profounder relationship, an efflorescence of harmonious living, an advance towards achieving the ideal of human unity? Thus the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, in which the Integral Yoga is practised, is different from other Ashrams in India. Unquestionably, they have their merits but theirs is ultimately a refinement ...
... highest Truth coming down.’ We know that technology is indispensable in the present stage of planetary development. If technology in this world would fall away, the realization of the necessary human unity would become a practical impossibility, for the different parts of the planet would lose the necessary exchange with one another and be enclosed in their separate existences again. We may therefore ...
... be attained is the advent of a progressive universal harmony [this is what Sri Aurobindo will call ‘Supermind’]: The means for attaining this aim, with regard to the earth, is the realisation of human unity through the awakening in all and the manifestation by all of the inner Divinity which is One. In other words: to create unity by founding the Kingdom of God which is within us all. “This therefore ...
... (recorded by A.B. Purani) FIC The Foundation of Indian Culture (Sri Aurobindo) Glimpses Glimpses of the Mother (compilation) HC The Human Cycle (Sri Aurobindo) IHU The Ideal of Human Unity (Sri Aurobindo) LD The Life Divine (Sri Aurobindo) LY Letters on Yoga (Sri Aurobindo) M The Mother (Sri Aurobindo) MI Mother India (periodical) NC Notes sur le chemin (the ...
... ” That program reads as follows: “The general aim to be attained is the advent of a progressive universal harmony. The means for attaining this aim, in regard to the Earth, is the realization of human unity through the awakening in all and the manifestation by all of the inner Divinity, which is One. In other words: to create unity by founding the Kingdom of God which is within us all. “The following ...
... for the working out of the Divine self-manifestation, the Spirit and its Shakti are inherently one and the same. She is He; He is She; both are the One. In The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity, his two books most relevant to our story, Sri Aurobindo often uses the word “Nature” for what in this poem he calls “Maya”. He writes for instance: “There is nothing that can be set down as impossible ...
... Aurobindo: Collected Poems Sri Aurobindo: Letters on Yoga Sri Aurobindo: On Himself Sri Aurobindo: On the Mother Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle Sri Aurobindo: The Ideal of Human Unity Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine Sri Aurobindo: The Synthesis of Yoga Sri Aurobindo: Thoughts and Aphorisms Bärsch, Claus Ekkehard: Der junge Goebbels Bärsch, Claus-Ekkehard: ...
... publication for the presentation to the world of Sri Aurobindo's vision of the future. Thus came into being Sri Aurobindo's great writings on the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gita, Social Progress, Human Unity, Future Poetry, a New Philosophy of life and existence and a new Yogic Path for the realization of the new personality needed for a new world. This literature has recreated Indian culture for the ...
... which, at one time, was one of the principal sources of his inspiration. And there are perhaps the least understood or appreciated political and social writings, The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity, which contain the key to the destiny of man as a social being and the conditions which may lead to a world of general development, harmony and unity. All this was composed in the organ mode ...
... widespread devastations. You cannot deny that the last two World Wars have to a certain extent helped in the raising of our limited human egoistic and separative consciousness to the necessity of human unity at political and economic levels. This is only a beginning on the mental level and cannot be realised in practice till the selfishness, inherent in ordinary human viral being is not eradicated by ...
... oneness will take hold of the human race.’ For a fuller insight into the need and the problems of world-unity, the reader may be referred to Sri Aurobindo’s The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity , 94 two books still as fresh and relevant to the subject as at the time they were written almost a century ago, and now better understandable because so much in them of what then seemed only ...
... Banyan Tree. The Mother's message was: The Matrimandir wants to be the symbol of the Divine answer to men's aspiration for perfection. Union with the Divine manifesting in a progressive human Unity . The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Matrimandir ...
... facilities from the kindergarten to post-graduate research is the ostensible result. 10) The International township of `Auroville' was the last thing to be undertaken. The aim was to concretise human unity beyond ordinary barriers of nationality, race, language, religion etc. on a true spiritual basis. And in this too a promising good start has been made. 11) The Ashram life and its promotion has ...
... from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations. 4) Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity . I heard from some people a vivid description of the event. The world assembled at the centre of Auroville. The weather was bright and pleasant. The colourful flags of various countries like ...
... Sri Aurobindo is always present. Be sincere and faithful. This is the first condition. Blessings. 29 September 1971 ( Message for an international seminar on "Sri Aurobindo and Human Unity", held in New Delhi from 5 to 9 December 1972 ) The best homage we can pay to Sri Aurobindo is to prepare for the advent of the Supramental race. November 1972 Sri Aurobindo came to ...
... speech (it must have been extraordinary, because I have been receiving letters from everywhere, including America, asking for the text of this sensational speech in which he apparently spoke of 'human unity'). So Z returned with the idea of forming a 'World Union,' and J. and Z met. Furthermore, they were encouraged by S.M. 7 and even by the Prime Minister, 8 who probably had a special liking ...
... reads ): "The Divine Consciousness crucified by man's desires." Then, in very small letters, like this, we'll put under the photo of Auroville: "The Divine Consciousness manifested through human unity." We'll see! The lady has a lot of goodwill, we'll see the response in her country. ( silence ) Yesterday, they came from the press with the brochure on Auroville and said, "Oh, there's ...
... charity—a Christian charity, of course. People of that sort generally understand a charity better than ideas. Auroville? Auroville, as Sri Aurobindo said, is a practical means to create a human unity that would be strong enough to fight against war. It's to be seen. We may try. We'll see. There is another fact regarding this Msgr. R., whose huge holdings were managed by P.L. There was ...
... LIFE in Auroville were not arbitrarily fixed in advance. This is what I wrote: "From the psychological point of view, the essential conditions are: "1) Being convinced of the essential human unity and having the will to collaborate in the advent of this unity. "2) The will to collaborate in all that furthers future realizations." That's all, it's not complicated. Then, from the ...
... The Mother could be very patient and tolerant and understanding: she knew that Yoga could not be perfected soon and that several aspirants have necessarily to go slow, she was aware also that human unity is a gradual growth, but the Ideal, whatever it be, should be kept constantly in sight. While the multi-faceted being of man should not be compressed or coerced, impoverished or rendered lopsided ...
... all art, of poetry; the creative and expressive nature of the free self is in them. Indeed, in the poetry of a large spiritual inspiration we shall hear "the song of the growing godhead... of human unity, of spiritual freedom, of the coming supermanhood of man, of the divine idea seeking to actualise itself in the life of the earth, of the call to the individual to rise to his godlike possibility ...
... November 1958. Page 277 the embarkation on the Savitri adventure. In The Life Divine he had structured his Supramental Manifesto; in 77ie Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity he had indicated the contours of the future society and the future humanity; and in The Synthesis of Yoga he had set forth the dynamics of the Integral Yoga that were to be the means of se ...
... experiments are brought together under the canopy of a township, where all activities of human life are represented. He said that the main aim of this township is to foster the actualization of human unity. On the model of this idea, he said, innovative education can come to be developed by the voluntary effort. This voluntary effort, he explained, needs to Page 125 be supplemented by working ...
... intellectual honesty. We thus see that the central issue of our age is the growth of love, of compassion, of fraternity. This is the conclusion that is reinforced when we consider the issues of human unity and those of development. Global unity is necessitated by a number of factors, — the growth of science which is universal in character, Page 108 powerful means of communication and ...
... level, if we take the problem of poverty at the global level, do we not see that this problem becomes more easily soluble if there grows in the world a greater and greater sense and action towards human unity? It requires no acrobatics of mental thought to see that if the amount of money that is being spent today in building up the piles of ornament are spent on production and creative activities, and ...
... Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Compiled by Kireet Joshi On Materialism Towards Universal Fraternity Let us Dwell on Human Unity Page 60 ...
... humanity is one united family, vasudhaiva kutumbakam, and in spite of various Page 56 divisions or differentiations, rigorous efforts should be made to ensure the realisation of actual human unity. A second message imparted to us by the Indian ethos is that it is through the unity of humankind that economic problems will ultimately come to be resolved; for so long as there are national ...
... 1914, immediately after the first arrival of The Mother from France to Pondicherry. Some of the most important of these and other writings are: The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Ideal of Human Unity, The Human Cycle, The Foundations of Indian Culture, Essays on the Gita, On the Veda, The Upanishads, The Future Poetry, The Supramental Manifestation on the Earth, and the epic Savitri. ...
... the progressive and painless development of human solidarity and unity. This is a subject on which Sri Aurobindo has written extensively in "The Life Divine", "The Human Cycle", "The Ideal of Human Unity", "The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth". It is because humanity's highest welfare is dependent on the development of theme of synthesis of yoga and the research work that is page - 128 ...
... Sri Aurobindo and the Mother On Materialism (Compilation) Towards Universal Fraternity (Compilation) Towards a New Social Order (Compilation) Let us Dwell on Human Unity (Compilation) Landmarks of Hinduism The Veda and Indian Culture Glimpses of Vedic Literature The Portals of Vedic Knowledge Stories for Youth in search ...
... Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Compiled by Kireet Joshi On Materialism Towards Universal Fraternity Let us Dwell on Human Unity ...
... demand both would have made it impossible to spread Jesus's truth to all of humanity. Jesus asked us to love each other as God loves us. Here was a great step in the evolution of humanity towards human unity. * * * Page 9 ...
... its will on the life and thought and conscience of the people so as to make it one single, undivided, perfectly efficient and perfectly directed mind and body. Sri Aurobindo — The Ideal of Human Unity Catherine was born in 1729, as Princess Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst, the elder daughter of an obscure, noble German family. She died in 1796 as Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. At ...
... (Psychological and Cultural); (3)Children's Philosophy, Children's Psychology, Children's Science, Children's Technology; (4)Children's rights, human rights, fundamental duties, ideal of human unity and futuristic visions; (5)Gifted children; physically and mentally challenged children; (6)National and international education; (7)Multi-linguistic abilities in respect of Indian and ...
... The Problem of Rebirth, 'Arya', November 1915 - January 1921 1952 Page 273 The Human Cycle, 'Arya', August 1916 -July 1918 1949 The Ideal of Human Unity, 'Arya', September 1915 -July 1918 1950 On the War, 1914 - 1918 1944 War and Self-Determination, 1916 - 1920 1920 Man-Slave or Free? 'Karmayogin', 1909 - 1910 1966 ...
... both as regards the originality of their thought-points as their wonderful literary and artistic excellence. Each one of his major works, such as The Foundations of Indian Culture, The Ideal of Human Unity, Human Cycle and The Future Poetry is a marvel of its kind. To delineate the value of his philosophical writings as embodied in his Essays on the Gita, The Synthesis of Yoga and his magnum opus the ...
... race, evolving through mind and life but with a high and ultimate spiritual aim. There is a spirit, a soul of humanity which is advancing through whatever struggle and concord towards an ultimate human unity, a unity which will at the same time preserve a needed Page 10 diversity through the varied culture and life-motives of different peoples: a perfectibility in the life of the ...
... entrusted to us as parents and teachers, grow up in knowledge, in courage, in caring for each other and in the abilities to work hard and to work meaningfully in the service of genuine culture of human unity and universal peace. A striking contribution of the Report of Jacques Delors is its statement of the four pillars of education, namely, learning to know, learning to do, learning to live ...
... 2, pp. 270-1. ² Ibid, p. 272. Page 177 The Model of Auroville 4. Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity. In the first few years, Auroville grew rapidly under Mother's guidance, and its significance came to be recognized not only by India but also by UNESCO and various countries of the world. ...
... largeness of comprehensiveness and unity. (d)For the study of World History, a subject which can be suitably named, could include the following topics: "Evolution, Humanity and the Future", "Human Unity", "National Integration", "Humanity and Environment", and "Civilization and Culture." A further suggestion in this context would be that these topics, when properly developed pedagogically, may help ...
... Sri Aurobindo and the Mother On Materialism (Compilation) Towards Universal Fraternity (Compilation) Towards A New Social Order (Compilation) Let us Dwell on Human Unity (Compilation) Landmarks of Hinduism The Veda and Indian Culture Glimpses of Vedic Literature The Portals of Vedic Knowledge Stories for Youth in search ...
... 1920 (From a letter to Joseph Baptista, a co-worker of Tilak.) 2 Archives & Research, December 1977, p. 84. 3 From Thoughts and Aphorisms. 4 The Ideal of Human Unity, 15.434. Page 221 Dear Baptista, I do not at all look down on politics or political action or consider I have got above them. I have always laid a dominant stress and ...
... these groups? Should we present them with books by Sri Aurobindo and you on a large scale? Which books would you recommend for foreign readers? Books recommended: Sri Aurobindo: The Ideal of Human Unity ; The Human Cycle ; The Life Divine ; Essays on the Gita ; Thoughts and Glimpses ; The Superman ; The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth . The Mother: On Education ; Words of Long Ago ...
... philosophical worldview as well: the ground-plan in The Life Divine; the speculations about the future world polity, the future human society and the future poetry as elaborated in The Ideal of Human Unity, The Human Cycle and The Future Poetry: these also find their reflection or fulfilment or promise of ultimate realisation in the vast spaces of Savitri. Youth and age, wise passivity and creative ...
... on ourselves, we are obliged to impose also on our readers. 201 (italics mine) The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on the Gita, The Secret of the Veda, The Ideal of Human Unity, The Psychology of Social Development (now known as The Human Cycle) and The Future Poetry were the major products of such "continuous...high and subtle and difficult thinking on several ...
... in Aspects of Sri Aurobindo, The Integral Life Foundation, USA 1995.) In fact, to enter the portals of any of Sri Aurobindo's major works such as The Life Divine, The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity, The Synthesis of Yoga, Savitri, The Essays on the Gita, The Foundations of Indian Culture, On the Veda or The Future Poetry, one needs to be equipped with much more than a well-trained, logical ...
... distinction, a distinction that belongs to her soul. The true function of India consists in preserving, cherishing and keeping it up for the entire world. And this lies at the root of the message of human unity and of synthesis of religions that Vivekananda carried over the world. The ceremonials, the outer forms of religions vary in different climes and different ages. The repose in the Brahman with all ...
... nations too who are struggling to be free will be allowed to work out their freedom and independence, on condition that the same is worked out in furtherance and in collaboration with the ideal of human unity. That ideal has become dynamic and insistent—the more man refuses to accept it, the more he will make confusion worse confounded. Page 26 ...
... individual - the emergence of the Gnostic being - will necessarily inspire his immediate environment leading to a better social order and also accelerate the urge towards the realisation of global human unity. But the new Man would also evolve his own theory of poetry and of art in general, and the poetry and art of the Gnostic Age must have their own distinguishing vitality and significance. Here, again ...
... can love all one's life and in whom one can lose oneself." She willingly made typed copies of The Life Divine when the revised book was being got ready for the press. When she read The Ideal of Human Unity (she made a typed draft of this book as well), she wondered how it was that people like her father and herself hadn't seen things so clearly as Sri Aurobindo had from a comer of India. 11 Her sadhana ...
... desire for fresh poetic laurels that led to the embarkation on the Savitri adventure. In The Life Divine he had structured his Supramental Manifesto; in The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity he had indicated the contours of the future society and the future humanity; and in The Synthesis of Yoga he had set forth the dynamics of the integral Yoga that were to be the means of self ...
... Indian Art, Indian Literature, Indian Polity); Indian Culture and External Influence; The Renaissance in India. Volume 15 — Social and Political Thought: The Human Cycle; The Ideal of Human Unity; War and Self-Determination. Volume 16 — The Supramental Manifestation AND OTHER WRITINGS: The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth; The Problem of Rebirth; Evolution; The Superman; Ideals ...
... questions were posed, to which the Mother gave her own answers: (1) How can humanity become one? By becoming conscious of its origin. (2) What is the way of making the consciousness of human unity grow in man? Spiritual education... which gives more importance to the growth of the spirit than to any religious or moral teaching or to the material so-called knowledge. (3) What is ...
... Messages of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Second Series), PP. 19-23 . 1950 Publication of the American editions of The Life Divine, Essays on the Gita, The Ideal of Human Unity, The Human Cycle, The Synthesis of Yoga, Part I. April 14: Granted interview to Sri K. M. Munshi who saw in Sri Aurobindo 'a Presence radiant with the light of Consciousness ...
... proper environment is maintained, it will continue to be so for several years. 7 * After a quick survey of the past - the triumphs of civilisation and the tragic failure to solve the problem of human unity, harmony and peace - the memorandum maintained, after Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, that * Something akin to the Free Progress is being attempted in Countesthrope College, Leicestershire, U.K ...
... and elaborated in the Arya, so far as I can see. In the Arya he started with the Life Divine, the Synthesis of Yoga, and the Secret of the Veda. Then he added The hymns to the Atris, the Ideal of Human unity etc. The Essays on the Gita was added much later in the Arya. Once in reply to Dilip's question whether the descent of the Supermind was his main work, he said, "Yes, I have come for that" ...
... the whole humanity. The car, the aeroplane, the steamer and factories are—apart from commercialising him—tending to unite man physically. On whether man will use these opportunities for increasing human unity or disrupting nations will depend the future of mankind. Q. These are all instruments that may be used either for good or for evil —I do not see how they— Page 21 A ...
... esoteric, psychological sense, was published as Hymns to the Mystic Fire. In 1949 and 1950 revised editions of Sri Aurobindo's major social and political works, The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity were brought out after revision. Sri Aurobindo's letters on yoga, some of which had first been printed in the thirties in small guidebooks such as Lights on Yoga and Bases of Yoga, were collected ...
... stammerings and a kind of first vision of the future: The general goal to be attained is the advent of universal Harmony (that is, the "Supramental"), She said as early as 1912, the realization of human unity (already, before Sri Aurobindo) ... the establishment of an ideal society in a place propitious for the birth of the new race (in anticipation of the future Pondicherry Ashram, and Auroville) ...
... taught me French. For Indian philosophy, I was with Prapatti-da, for Western philosophy, with Kireet-bhai. Tehmi-ben took my Savitri classes, Kishore-bhai The Human Cycle , Sanat-da The Ideal of Human Unity and history was taught by Sisir-da. I started with these subjects. Apart from Kireet-bhai, all my other teachers were old sadhaks who had lived in the Ashram for a long time. My classmates were ...
... refreshingly original as well as stimulating and enlightening. Coming after The Life Divine, The Secret of the Veda, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Psychology of Social Development and The Ideal of Human Unity (only the Synthesis not yet concluded), these new series of essays that appeared during the last two and a half years of the Arya were more directly concerned with India; and although not at ...
... transport by land. Boats 3 plying on the rivers were another means of transport of men and material. Marine navigation served the external trade. Old inscriptions 1 The Ideal of Human Unity, Sri Aurobindo. 2 A History of South India (1997). ' Different types of boats were used for shorter or longer voyages. Page 103 record the execution of works of ...
... love for the Supreme." Then he relaxed and left. It struck me. These things are very objective. But these are the little turns of the nature. Otherwise, his dream is to be the potentate of human spiritual unity. ... ns, as examples of what would be and as a promise—a promise and examples: "This is what will be." I've had some very precise memories—lived memories—of a human life on earth, quite primitive (I mean outside any mental civilization), a human life on earth that wasn't an evolutionary life, but the manifestation of beings from another world. I lived in that way for a time—a lived memory. I still see... for fun. It must have been before the first man born of Nature—not after: before. They were human forms, but I can't say I remember: if, for instance, I were asked whether they had nails on their fingers, that I wouldn't know! It was very supple and luminous. But anyway, they were like humans. ( silence ) The Pope announced he was going to publish a message for non-Christians; I have asked ...
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