... and harmonious relation with one another. The scope of the inquiry and the method to be followed in the two arguments may here be briefly indicated. In the first Page 43 or metaphysical inquiry, we set out from the world regarded as a system of experienced objects and experient subjects. From this common basis of facts every philosophy must set out, however it may finally interpret... possible which is implied in the degree of consistency with which a speculative theory can be applied to concrete experience, and in the coherency of the world-view it unfolds. This, then, is a metaphysical inquiry carried out from the standpoint of the metaphysician, and in the nature of the case it cannot give us a philosophy of religion. But it will at least show us how far metaphysical thinking can ...
... say the trend is towards Buddhism, for Buddhism is more prone than any other religion to be interpreted, in spite of its founder's aim and teaching, as a secular system. It does away with all metaphysical inquiry and discourages every metaphysical statement. It is a spiritual version of what has become known in the present-day West as Operationalism. According to the Operationalist canon, we stick only ...
... inexplicable in its nature, anirvacanīya . But the difficulties are so great that it can be accepted only if it imposes itself irresistibly as the inevitable ultimate, the end and summit of metaphysical inquiry and spiritual experience. For even if all things are illusory creations, they must have at least a subjective existence and they can exist nowhere except in the consciousness of the Sole Existence; ...
... towards supermind. The indications must necessarily be very imperfect, for it is only some initial representations of an abstract and general character that can be arrived at by the method of metaphysical inquiry: the true knowledge and description must be left to the language of the mystic and the figures, at once more vivid and more recondite, of a direct and concrete experience. The transition ...
... analogy fails us altogether and is better put out of the way; it can always be used as a vivid metaphor of a certain attitude our mind can take towards its experiences, but it has no value for a metaphysical inquiry into the reality and fundamental significances or the origin of existence. If we take up the analogy of hallucination, we find it hardly more helpful for a true understanding of the theory ...
... devoured, broken up, destroyed or forced away' is too real and painfully sharp to be abrogated or even mitigated by the implied assurance of these mythical sagas. Thus arises for man the metaphysical inquiry, also his spiritual urge to effectuate an intrinsic escape from the hold of suffering and the poignant sense of death. Page 7 ...
... which we are asked in sadhana to merge our personal will? The sole answer to all these questions is an emphatic No. But as this book deals with practical aspects of sadhana and not with metaphysical inquiry, we need not spend much rime and space here on this discussion. We content ourselves with quoting here just a single meaningful sentence from the Mother and a few lines from Sri Aurobindo' ...
... inexplicable in its nature, anirvacanīya. But the difficulties are so great that it can be accepted only if it imposes itself irresistibly as the inevitable ultimate, the end and summit of metaphysical inquiry and spiritual experience. For even if all things are illusory creations, they must have at least a subjective existence and they can exist nowhere except in the consciousness of the Sole Existence; ...
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