... 'God' is the unquestioned and unquestionable presupposition of metaphysical thought, but this is not the ontological or any other argument, for I have said that Page 142 God is the presupposition, not of thought as such, but of metaphysical thought, and it is only possible to explain metaphysical thought as thought which operates with the notion of God as its basic ...
... difficult mountain reaches and we only have it for our use at favourable points where the forest thins or the mountain opens. It is there that men have built their little artificial cities of metaphysical thought and spiritual practice, in each of which the inhabitants pretend to control the whole river. They call their dwelling places Vedanta or Sankhya, Adwaita or Dwaita, Shaivism or Vaishnavism, with ...
... vehicle of a close, suggestive and vivid indication,—a language such as we find hammered out into a subtle and pregnant massiveness in the Veda and the Upanishads. In the ordinary tongue of metaphysical thought we have to be content with a distant indication, an approximation by abstractions, which may still be of some service to our intellect, for it is this kind of speech which suits our method of ...
... matters which escape its jurisdiction, especially in spiritual realisation and in matters of yoga which belong to a different order of knowledge. Letters on Yoga, p. 1620 European metaphysical thought — even in those thinkers who try to prove or explain the existence and nature of God or of the Absolute — does not in its method and result go beyond the intellect. But the intellect is incapable ...
... with all the facts of existence”. 5 They wanted an integral knowledge to be the basis of an integral method (yoga) to transform human life into a divine life on earth. “As in Science, so in metaphysical thought, that general and ultimate solution is likely to be the best which includes and accounts for all so that each truth of experience takes its place in the whole: that knowledge is likely to be ...
... Philosophy, Science and Yoga Letters on Yoga - I Chapter III Philosophical Thought and Yoga Metaphysical Thinkers, East and West European metaphysical thought—even in those thinkers who try to prove or explain the existence and nature of God or of the Absolute—does not in its method and result go beyond the intellect. But the intellect is incapable ...
... outcome satisfies only one element, sublimates only one impulse of our being; it leaves the rest out in the cold to perish in the twilight of the unreal reality of Maya. As in Science, so in metaphysical thought, that general and ultimate solution is likely to be the best which includes and accounts for all so that each truth of experience takes its place in the whole: that knowledge is likely to be ...
... or high-pinnacled and exclusive he must seek. He must soar to the utmost height, but also circle and spread to the most all-embracing wideness, not binding himself to any rigid structure of metaphysical thought, but free to admit and combine all the soul's highest and greatest and fullest and most numerous experiences. If the highest height of spiritual experience, the sheer summit of all realisation ...
... baffling appeal to Whitham's History of Science. What has Whitham or Science to do with spiritual truth or spiritual experience? I can only suppose that he condemns all intrusion of anything like metaphysical thought into the spiritual field—a position excessive but not altogether untenable—and even perhaps proposes to bring the scientific method and the scientific mentality into spiritual experience as ...
... should FEEL here ( gesture to the heart ), be convinced that "it" [Mother's presence] is really active, that it's something real, that it really does protect. Not a thought "just like that," a metaphysical thought: a feeling. He didn't have that. If he had remained in the group, he would have shared in the protection over the group. Once he had a separate individual action, everything depended on his ...
... aspect by the Sons of Darkness and Division, enemies of the divine endeavour in man, the assailants, robbers, coverers of his light of knowledge... .This idea of the Vedic mystics can in a more metaphysical thought and language be translated into the conception that the Ignorance is in its origin a dividing mental knowledge which does not grasp the unity, essence, self-law of things in their one origin ...
... brood over them quietly and leisurely. Do not be in a hurry to arrive at any conclusion. Be very patient and cultivate the attitude of endless patience. One of the greatest enemies of impartial metaphysical thought is the ambition to arrive at quick conclusions and to expound them before people victoriously." As I heard these words, my mind felt a great relief, and a good deal of tension of the mind ...
... insisted on one old established code of morals being universally observed as the only basis of ethical stability, avoided Page 158 casuistic developments and distasted innovators in metaphysical thought as by their persistent and searching questions dangerous to the established bases of morality, especially to its wholesome ordinariness and everydayness. Valmiki, therefore, the father of our ...
... bewilderest my understanding with a mingled Page 26 word: speak one thing decisively by which I can attain to what is the best." It is always the pragmatic man who has no value for metaphysical thought or for the inner life except when they help him to his one demand, a dharma , a law of life in the world or, if need be, of leaving the world; for that too is a decisive action which he can ...
... The Riddle of This World Western Metaphysics And Yoga European metaphysical thought - even in those thinkers who try to prove or explain the existence and nature of God or of the Absolute-does not in its method and result go beyond the intellect. But the intellect is incapable of knowing the supreme Truth; it can only range about seeking ...
... which the gods possess and on which they found their own eternal action and creation 8 and their building of their powers in the human being. This idea of the Vedic mystics can in a more metaphysical thought and language be translated into the conception that the Ignorance is in its origin a dividing mental knowledge which does not grasp the unity, essence, self-law of things in their one origin ...
... tend to overlook because of his achievements as a yogi and mystic. To give only two examples, it can be said without being guilty of exaggeration or partisanship that nobody has built a metaphysical thought-structure as grand as the one in Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine, or sounded the depths of the soul-culture of India as he has in his The Secret of the Veda and The Foundations of Indian ...
... always kept ‘a healthy grip on the facts’ and favoured a ‘spiritual positivism’. His aim was ‘the widest, the most flexible, the most catholic affirmation possible.’ 31 ‘As in science, so in metaphysical thought, that general and ultimate solution is likely to be the best which includes and accounts for all so that each truth of experience takes its place in the whole.’ 32 ‘The touch of Earth ...
... vehicle of a close, suggestive and vivid indication, - a language such as we find hammered out into a subtle and pregnant massiveness in the Veda and the Upanishads. In the ordinary tongue of metaphysical thought we have to be content with a distant indication, an approximation by abstractions.... The intellect must consent to pass out of the bounds of a finite logic and accustom itself to the logic ...
... its nature? Thou bewilderest my understanding with a mingled word: speak one thing decisively by which I can attain to what is the best." It is always the pragmatic man who has no value for metaphysical thought or for the inner life except when they help him to his one demand, a dharma, a law of life in the world or, if need be, of leaving the world; for that too is a decisive action which he can ...
... d'ordre in old-world poetry was "fancy", imagination—remember the famous lines of Shakespeare characterising a poet; in modern times it is Thought, even or perhaps particularly abstract metaphysical thought. Perceptions, experiences, realisations—of whatever order or world they may be—expressed in sensitive and aesthetic terms and figures, that is poetry known and appreciated familiarly. But ...
... mot d'ordre in old-world poetry was "fancy", imagination-remember the famous lines of Shakespeare characterising a poet; in modern times it is Thought, even or perhaps particularly abstract metaphysical thought. Perceptions, experiences, realisations-of whatever order or world they may be-expressed in sensitive and aesthetic terms and figures, that is poetry known and appreciated familiarly. But a ...
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