... ally, very nakedly apparent when it is confronted with that great order of psychological truths and experiences which we have hitherto kept in the background—the religious being of man and his religious life. Here is a realm at which the intellectual reason gazes with the bewildered mind of a foreigner who hears a language of which the words and the spirit are unintelligible to him and sees everywhere... them in his own language and according to his own notions end at the worst in a gross misunderstanding and deformation. The attempts of the positive critical reason to dissect the phenomena of the religious life sound to men of spiritual experience like the prattle of a child who is trying to shape into the mould of his own habitual notions the life of adults or the blunders of an ignorant mind which thinks... result of that capital omission even the account of the externals is left without real truth and has only an apparent correctness. The unaided intellectual reason faced with the phenomena of the religious life is naturally apt to adopt one of two attitudes, both of them shallow in the extreme, hastily presumptuous and erroneous. Either it views the whole thing as a mass of superstition, a mystical nonsense ...
... laws of the Ignorance. The religious life is a movement of the same ignorant human consciousness, turning or trying to turn away from the earth towards the Divine but as yet without knowledge and led by the dogmatic tenets and rules of some sect or creed which claims to have found the way out of the bonds of the earth-consciousness into some beatific Beyond. The religious life may be the first approach... and Yoga Letters on Yoga - I Chapter III Morality and Yoga The Spiritual Life and the Ordinary Life The spiritual life ( adhyātma jīvana ), the religious life ( dharma jīvana ) and the ordinary human life of which morality is a part are three quite different things and one must know which one desires and not confuse the three together. The ordinary life... motives which move ordinary men but acts out of the truth of the Spirit and from an inner command of which he knows the source. The kind of worship ( pūjā ) spoken of in the letter belongs to the religious life. It can, if rightly done in the deepest religious spirit, prepare the mind and heart to some extent but no more. But if worship is done as part of meditation or with a true aspiration to the spiritual ...
... to a higher light. This is when ethical life becomes a spring- board for Yogic life. "Religious life derives its rule of life from sets of doctrines or beliefs held to be indisputably true under the authority of revelation or scripture or actions of a religious founder or prophet or avtar. Religious life may allow theological discussions but it remains basically narrowed down to unquestioning ... religion or else with ethics. The Indian terms in this context helped me a great deal; for we have, in India, three different words for three different things. Yogic life is termed adhyatmik jivan; religious life is Page 169 termed dharmic jivan and the ethical life is termed "naitic jivan"." I did not want to interrupt Vishuddha but fearing that he might mistakenly assume that I had... church or priesthood and social structures supposed to have been sanctioned and sanctified by the religious beliefs and customs. Page 170 "The Yogic life may begin with ethical life or religious life or with both but such a starting—point is not indispensable. For it is fundamentally a quest of knowledge, possession and realisation of the spirit by methods of radical transformation of our ...
... of the Ignorance. The religious life is a movement of the same ignorant human consciousness, turning or trying to turn away from the earth towards the Divine, but as yet without knowledge and led by the dogmatic tenets and rules of some sect or creed which claims to have found the way out of the bonds of the earth-consciousness into some beatific Beyond. The religious life may be the first approach... Sri Aurobindo's Message Section III: (On Sociology) Sri Aurobindo on Religion The spiritual life (adhyātma-jīvana) , the religious life {dharma-jīvana) and the ordinary human life of which morality is a part are three quite different things and one must know which one desires and not confuse the three together. The ordinary life is that of the average ...
... least half of it to the service of the Mother. 4) They will observe entire obedience to the Head of the Order and his one or two assistants in all things connected with the work or with their religious life. 5) They will observe strictly the discipline and rules of achar and purity, bodily and mental, prescribed by the Heads of the Order. 6) They will be given periods for rest or for religious... FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS. 10) They will undertake, according as they may be directed, various works of public utility in the big towns and elsewhere connected especially with the education and religious life and instruction of the middle classes, as well as with other public needs. IV. WORK WITH THE WEALTHY CLASSES. 11) They will approach the zamindars, landholders and rich men generally, and ...
... the lion's share of the force and wealth of life, the people too lived and until much later times intensely though on a lesser scale and with a more diffused and less concentrated force. Their religious life was more intense than that of any other country; they drank in with remarkable facility the thoughts of the philosophers and the influence of the saints; they heard and followed Buddha and the... only founded a kingdom but organised a nation, inferior to Cromwell, or Shankara whose great spirit in the few years of its mortal life swept triumphant through India and reconstituted the whole religious life of her peoples, inferior as a personality to Luther? Why are Chanakya and Chandragupta who laid down the form of empire-building in India and whose great administrative system survived with changes ...
... merely religious orientation. It is intrinsically connected with the mind of the modern world. It is fundamental to his Christianity because he is an embodiment of that mind at every moment of his religious life. A progressive self-exceeding of man by a collective unanimity which will constitute a super-consciousness within a sort of super-organism: such is the direction of his modernist spiri- ... without them. They do not belong to the fundamentals of his faith. All that is fundamental, the sole thing that he is sure of and regards as indispensable - the one and only essential for him in his religious life from birth to death - is his world-mysticism. If this essential carries him towards faith in spirit, personal God and Christ, he is prepared to embrace that faith. But even if it does not, he is ...
... editors Foreword Veda & Vedanta are the inexhaustible fountains of Indian spirituality. With knowledge or without knowledge, every creed in India, sect, school of philosophy, outburst of religious life, great or petty, brilliant or obscure, draws its springs of life from these ancient and ever flowing waters. Conscious or unwitting each Indian religionist stirs to a vibration that reaches him... against the consequences of inaction, "utsideyur ime lokah .. sarirayatrapi akarmanah .. sankarasya cha karta syam upahanyam imah prajah .. buddhibhedam janayed ajnanam karmasanginam" etc. The religious life of this country has divided itself into two distinct & powerful tendencies, the Hinduism of the withdrawal from life which has organised itself in the monastery & the hermitage and the Hinduism ...
... Kant's declaration reinforced the parting of ways between religion and philosophy. Sri Aurobindo's reaction to such an attitude is typical. The realm of religious being of man and the religious life is one, at which, "the intellectual reason gazes with the bewildered mind 1. Essay , Bk. IV. c.xvii. 4. Page 378 of a foreigner who hears a language of which the words... in his own language and accord-ing to his own notions end at the worst in a gross misunderstanding and deformation. The attempts of the positive critical reason to dissect the phenomena of the religious life sound to men of spiritual experience like the prattle of a child who is trying to shape into the mould of his own habitual notions the life of adults or the blunders of an ignorant mind which thinks ...
... y. “The religious life is a movement of the same ignorant human consciousness, turning or trying to turn away from the earth towards the Divine, but as yet without knowledge and led by the dogmatic tenets and rules of some sect or creed which claims to have found the way out of the bounds of the earth-consciousness into some beatific Beyond,” wrote Sri Aurobindo. “The religious life may be the first ...
... along the hard and fast paths of action. The danger of false pantheisms has been removed, and yet we retain the irreplaceable strength of the religious life that the pantheists unjustly claim as their own." "The irreplaceable strength of the religious life", to which Teilhard refers, is, of course, the pantheists' passion for the divine All and their seeing of the divine All in each part of the ...
... am is always due to him, whatever in me and in my words is good and true and eternal came to me through his mouth, his heart, his soul. Sri Ramakrishna is the spring of this phase of the earth's religious life, of its impulses and its activities. If I can show the world one glimpse of my Master, I shall not live in vain... His thoughts and his message were known to very few capable of giving them out... which has become its own through the transmission of centuries, that nation dies... In one nation political power is its vitality, as in England. Artistic life in another, and so on. In India religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of the national life. And, therefore, if you succeed Page 243 in the attempt to throw off your religion and take up either politics ...
... deepest depression, been lost."6 We have now seen enough of this cosmic or mystic consciousness, as it comes sporadically. We must next pass o its methodical cultivation as an element of the religious life. Hindus, Buddhists, Mohammedans, and Christians all lave cultivated it methodically. In India training in mystical insight has been known from time immemorial under the name of yoga. Yoga... Apart from what prayer may lead to Protestant mystical experience appears to have been almost exclusively sporadic. It has been left to our mind-curers to reintroduce methodical meditation into our religious life. The first thing to be aimed at in orison is the mind's detachment from outer sensations, for these interfere with its concentration upon ideal things. Such manuals as Saint Ignatius's Spiritual ...
... least half of it to the service of the Mother. 4. They will observe entire obedience to the Head of the Order and his one or two assistants in all things connected with the work or with their religious life. 5. They will observe strictly the discipline and rules of Achar and purity, bodily and mental, prescribed by the Heads of the Order. 6. They will be given periods for rest or for religious... for the Middle Class 10. They will undertake, according as they may be directed, various works of public utility in the big towns and elsewhere connected especially with the education and religious life and instruction of the middle classes, as well as with other public needs. IV. Work with the Wealthy Classes 11. They will approach the zamindars, landholders and rich men generally ...
... discovery to which life must lead and the result of that discovery: the consecration of the individual to his eternal principle, This discovery very generally is associated with a mystic feeling, a religious life, because it is religions particularly that have been occupied with this aspect of life. But it need not be necessarily so: the mystic notion of God may be replaced by the more philosophical notion ...
... appearance and disappearance of all conditioned things, he enjoys the happiness and the delight of those who have attained immortality. These things are for the wise Bhikkhu the very basis of the religious life: mastery of the senses, contentment, conduct according to the code of discipline, association with noble friends who lead a life of constant purity. The Bhikkhu should be cordial, kind and ...
... ignoring the terrible burden that was crushing us to death, of turning away from politics and educating our strength in the village and township, developing our resources, our social, economic, religious life regardless of the intrusive alien; it thought of inaugurating a new revolution such as the world had never yet seen, a moral, peaceful revolution, actively developing ourselves but only passively ...
... Religion and the Bureaucracy 01-April-1908 The measure of the panic into which the new movement has thrown the bureaucracy can be taken from its interference with the religious life of the people. Time was when the rulers shrank from any interference with religion lest it should arouse what they were pleased to call the fanaticism of the people. But one ghost drives out another ...
... to lead us,—sometimes it thinks, to a quite tolerable human life on earth, the norm of which it can never successfully fix, and sometimes it imagines our journey is to another world whither by a religious life or else an edifying death it will escape out of all this pother and trouble of mortal being. Therefore these two elements live together in a continual, a mutual perplexity, made perpetually uneasy ...
... living. He cannot determine the economic life, that too is much too large for him; he can only watch over it and help it in this or that direction where help is needed. He cannot determine the religious life, though that attempt has been made; it is too deep for him; for religion is the spiritual and ethical life of the individual, the relations of his soul with God and the intimate dealings of his ...
... the call to come to me and cleave to it and in no others. I am not asking you and the Mother is not asking you to accept us. You can go any day to Hyderabad and live either the worldly life or a religious life according to your own preference. But as you are free so also are others free to stay here and follow their own way. You are not entitled to try to make yourself a centre of disturbance and an ...
... of spiritual life that the religious emotions alone should be cultivated and all worldly feelings and passions must be rejected and fall away from our existence. This in practice would mean the religious life of the saint or devotee, alone within with the Divine or linked only to others in a common God-love or at the most pouring out the fountains of a sacred, religious or pietistic love on the world ...
... themselves feel the call to come to me and cleave to it and in no others. I am not asking you and the Mother is not asking you to accept us. You can go any day and live either the worldly life or a religious life according to your own preference. But as you are free, so also are others free to stay here and follow their own way...." 23 October 1929 Sri Aurobindo On Himself , XXVI.482 ( ...
... the antipathy to everything associated with them engendered a powerful stream of tendency turning away from the immediate Anglicised past, and the spirit which had already declared itself in our religious life entered in by this broad doorway into politics, and substituted a positive powerful yearning towards the national past, a still more mighty and dynamic yearning towards a truly national future ...
... Our minds may always remain, to some extent, undiscovered.” (pp. 3 and 10) Let us return now to Sri Aurobindo: “The attempts of the positive critical reason to dissect the phenomena of the religious life sound to men of spiritual experience like the prattle of a child who is trying to shape into the mould of his own habitual notions the life of adults or the blunders of an ignorant mind which thinks ...
... strong personality dominated the mentally weaker king completely. As his queen, she decided about the broad outlines within the structure of his policy and played an important role in the Egyptian religious life. Amenhotep III already felt the power of the sun god Aton, and it is in no way improbable that Tiy took the initiative to stimulate his dormant sympathy for this god.’ 22 The sun god Aton, ...
... recognized as holy or admitted by religious tradition were accepted—the sanctity of marriage, for example, and things like that.... But a free life? Not a chance! It was wholly incompatible with religious life. Well, all that has been completely swept away, once and for all. This doesn't mean that what's being asked of us is easier! It's probably far more difficult. I mentioned the principal ...
... he could be considered as much an incarnation of Shiva as of Vishnu. If you can very quietly open your wife's eyes to this vision, much if not all of the division she feels between her religious life and your Yogic practice will vanish. I would wish your wife and you to live in as much harmony as possible. Neither you nor she should think that the inner paths which both of you are ...
... Teilhard's "cosmic consciousness " - the World that was the 9. Ibid., p. 102. 10. Ibid. 11. Science and Christ, pp. 43-44. Page 38 foundation of his religious life - and the Christianity under whose aspect he came to view the World, we have a very revealing phrase which puts his Omega-concept in its proper perspective within the context of these two faiths ...
... sanction. Of course, merely to be religious does not guarantee that one is ethical: religiousness often has a self-righteous fanaticism as its bedfellow. What is needed is a genuine religious Page 175 life - or, rather, a life of inward-plunging and outward-radiating spirituality. But, philosophically, we may aver that if religion means a feeling of divine operation, it is the sole reliable ...
... His father Vitthalpant himself was a man of deep learning and must have seen that his children were taught scriptural and yogic literature in its proper context necessary for a truer wholesome religious life. The Brahminical rituals and their strict observations must have moulded his outlook, coming as these did from the seats of learning at Paithan and Kashi. Apart from adherence to routinised customs ...
... very heart of the seeker is touched by the experience leads to conversion, and it is then that the conversion ends to become permanent and to ripen itself into mature fruits of the spirituality of religious life or of yogic life. One of these fruits is that of saintliness. Page 3 Saintliness William James has analysed the state of saintliness and pointed out that there are four main ...
... as yet without knowledge and led by the dogmatic tenets and rules of sect or creed which claims to have found the way out of the bounds of the earth-consciousness into some beatific Beyond. The religious life may be a first approach to yoga, but it is not indispensable. Religion is very often only a revolving about in a round of rites, ceremonies and practices or set ideas and forms without any issue ...
... thought that he was only tapping a new source of semi-magical power, but he surely did not think that he was gaining thousands of Christian recruits for his army. The decisive moment in Constantine's religious life came when he was about to meet his strongest opponent for the imperial title at the battle of the Milvian Bridge (near Rome) in 312. Just before the battle Constantine is said to have had a vision ...
... which leads into a state of union with Brahma." But neither was able to convince the other. Then Vasettha said to his friend, "There is a sage named Gotama of the Sakya clan who is now living a religious life. He is staying in the mango grove nearby. He is of high reputation, he is even said to be a 'fully Enlightened One', full of wisdom and goodness, happiness and knowledge of the world, unsurpassed ...
... being the Paschal Lamb will be made very clear. The Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 CE, so that its function as a place for ritual and ritual sacrifice was also eliminated from Jewish religious life. Therefore, the commandment to commemorate the coming out of bondage, Passover, is presently kept at the synagogue and, most importantly, at the home of every observing Jew around the world, which ...
... 1927), pp. 371-401 . Notes and References 1.Pfleiderer's Gifford Lectures on The Philosophy and Development of Religion, vol. i. p. 196. 2.G. S. Stratton, Psychology of the Religious Life, 1911, p. 367. 3. Op. cit, vol. i. p. 137. 4. Monadology, sec. 44, Latta's translation. 5. Transcendental Dialectic, Prof. Watson's translation, pp. 208-209. 6. Logic of Hegel ...
... representation is always a selection more or less arbitrary; nowhere will we find a simple religion reducible to elementary hierophanies.6 Everywhere even in the most primitive and ancient cult, religious life is always much more complex. ” It is certainly not for us in such a small format to study such rich and enormous material. Many books have been published on this fascinating subject and a few ...
... three letters of the Holy Koran are A,L,M. According to philological laws, U is used for L; ergo, Hindus and Musulmans have the same mantra or sacred syllables.... To be truthful is part of the religious life. The Sahibs say Aurobindo Ghose is the leader of the terrorist party, this is a matter of such shame and sorrow for India. But by keeping to the path of rectitude the situation could yet be saved ...
... to re-explain the whole Vedanta and Veda in such a way that it will be seen how all religion arises out of it and is one everywhere. In this way it will be proved that India is the centre of the religious life of the world and its destined saviour through the Sanatana Dharma. On the basis of Vedic knowledge, to establish a Yogic Sadhana which will not only liberate the soul, but prepare a perfect ...
... also how it developed in India. But, as a matter of fact, this popular approach to self-control is not India's speciality alone. Europe has given it a recognised place, not only in the Christian religious life but in her worldly life too. But it will not do to forget that the untrammelled freedom of the senses and their unbridled license have been accepted as an ideal specially in modern times, and it ...
... many have continued so long and passed through. This is really something creditable. I will tell you a story in this connection. A young man who was an aspirant, a seeker of spiritual or religious life, once upon a time went to Gandhiji. He wanted to remain there. He said, "I am a seeker of spiritual life. I want to remain with you." Gandhiji saw the person and accepted him. "It is all right ...
... discovery to which life must lead and the result of that discovery, the consecration of the individual to his eternal principle. This discovery very generally is associated with mystic feeling, a religious life, because it is religions particularly Page 70 that have been occupied with this aspect of life. But it need not be necessarily so: the mystic notion of God may be replaced ...
... dogmatism... A : Not only dogmatism. When religion becomes a social function or a social institution it is always two portions that come into existence. One, the kernel, the eternal portion of religious life; and second, the outer forms. And it is the outer forms that win ultimately and the inner spirit generally evaporates in the outer religious forms. It happens to all religions, including Hinduism ...
... be found in many professions, even as lawyers and judges.... The Romans looked upon women as bearers of children and objects of pleasure, while the Druids included women in their political and religious life." 1 Druidesses played a co-equal role in the activities of the Druids. There was no such practice in the Indian society, although there was no official bar. In the Egyptian society woman had a ...
... to re-explain the whole Vedanta and Veda in such a way that it will be seen how all religion arises out of it and is one everywhere. In this way it will be proved that India is the centre of the religious life of the world and its destined saviour through the Sanatana Dharma. "2. On the basis of Vedic knowledge, to establish a Yogic Sadhana which will not only liberate the soul, but prepare a perfect ...
... of the spirit of the age, the Yugadharma. A door of liberty was opened to the community by the provision of an automatic permission to change custom and to the individual in the adoption of the religious life with its own higher discipline or freedom outside the ordinary social weft of binding rule and injunction. A rigid observation and discipline of the social law, a larger nobler discipline and freer ...
... images of the gods." There we have the characteristic iconism of the Harappa Culture thrown into relief as never before in Indian literature. Surely, parallel contemporary developments of the Indian religious life confront us. (KPI: 50) Thus the Sutras and the Indus Valley Civilisation stand face to face, products of a single Zeitgeist for all their differences as between Aryan and semi-Aryan ...
... the Hungarian and Czech revolutions against Soviet rule. I remember weeping when the Hungarian revolution was crushed so mercilessly. I was only thirteen years old at the time. What was the religious life of your family? My family was Buddhist, my grandfather Zen (meditation and knowledge) and the others Jodo Shinshu, the Pure Land sect (devotional). After being allowed to return home from our ...
... has been going on in a very regular way, very persistently, very assiduously and, in a certain measure, very efficaciously,’ she said in July 1957. 3 The film gave a vivid picture of the religious life, perhaps as lived by Ramakrishna Paramhamsa at the highest and purest level. But even to him, one of the precursors of the New Age, religion, even in its most unselfish and ecstatic devotion, could ...
... incompatibilities or any kind of individual frustration; it leaves little room for initiative or free movement or any individual ism. The only outlet for the individual is his inner spiritual or religious life and the recognised escape is the abandonment of the saṁsāra , the family life, by some kind of Sannyasa. The Sannyasi, the Vaishnava Vairagi or the Brahmachari are free; they are dead to the family ...
... it, to catch the human soul and bind it on the wheels of a socio-religious machinery, to impose on it in the place of spiritual freedom an imperious yoke and an iron prison. It saddled upon the religious life of man a Church, a priesthood and a mass of ceremonies and set over it a pack of watchdogs under the name of creeds and dogmas, dogmas which one had to accept and obey under pain of condemnation ...
... Indian temperament or any vitality of survival in our Indian surroundings has been in its secret nature, if not in its open features, a child of the eternal Vedic inspiration. All the outbursts of religious life that have helped to maintain or renew through the course of several millenniums the vitality of our race, the eternal richness and fruitfulness of our ancient culture, the fineness and profound ...
... little independent centres acting intimately upon each other but not fused into a single unity. Modern Europe owes two-thirds of its civilisation to three such supreme moments of human history, the religious life of the congeries of tribes which called itself Israel and, subsequently, of the little nation of the Jews, the many-sided life of the small Greek city states, the similar, though more restricted ...
... the forehead and eyes ] is the power of the Yoga—Yogashakti. That kind of pull [ towards the Divine ] is not the same thing as the lighting of Agni. Agni meets men who are not leading the religious life at all but who have Agni burning in them and are Page 372 intent to keep the fire ablaze—scientists, artists etc. who have the intense will of perfecting what they do and all their ...
... therefore to reexplain the whole Vedanta & Veda in such a way that it will be seen how all religion arises out of it & is one everywhere. In this way it will be proved that India is the centre of the religious life of the world & its destined saviour through the Sanatana Dharma. 2) On the basis of Vedic knowledge to establish a Yogic sadhana which will not only liberate the soul, but prepare a perfect ...
... incompatibilities or any kind of individual frustration; it leaves little room for initiative or free movement or any individualism. The only outlet for the individual is his inner spiritual or religious life and the recognised escape is the abandonment of the saṁsāra , the family life, by some kind of Sannyasa. The Sannyasi, the Vaishnava Vairagi or the Brahmachari are free; they are dead to the family ...
... festivals, in the adoration of the Divine. In some countries it reached a very high degree of beauty and an extraordinary perfection. In Japan they kept up the tradition of the dance as a part of the religious life and, because the strict sense of beauty and art is a natural possession of the Page 111 Japanese, they did not allow it to degenerate into something of lesser significance and smaller ...
... festivals, in the adoration of the Divine. In some countries it reached a very high degree of beauty and an extraordinary perfection. In Japan they kept up the tradition of the dance as a part of the religious life and, because the strict sense of beauty and art is a natural possession of the Japanese, they did not allow it to degenerate into something of lesser significance and smaller purpose. It was the ...
... the road is easier until one no longer falls back. Sweet Mother, I don't understand this: "Normally this discovery [of the eternal principle in oneself] is associated with a mystic feeling, a religious life, because it is mainly the religions that have concerned themselves with this aspect of life. But it need not necessarily be so: the mystic notion of God may be replaced by the more philosophical ...
... discovery to which this life must lead and the result of that discovery: the consecration of the individual to his eternal principle. Normally this discovery is associated with a mystic feeling, a religious life, because it is mainly the religions that have concerned themselves with this aspect of life. But it need not necessarily be so: the mystic notion of God may be replaced by the more philosophical ...
... classically recognised as sacred or permitted by religious tradition, as for example, the sanctity of marriage and things like that, were accepted, but to live freely—oh! that was incompatible with any religious life. So all that was completely swept away once and for all. Which is not to say, however, that what is required is any easier. It is probably much more difficult. First of all, from the ...
... to surrender in amorous love. The vibration of Your flute, accompanied by your glance, which pierces us forcibly with the arrows of lust, induces us to ignore the regulative principles of religious life. Thus we become excited and come to you, giving up all shame and fear. But now you are angry with us. You are finding fault with our violating religious principles and leaving our homes and husbands ...
... mainly by villagers, who are so notoriously conservative that the idea that they may have been taught a foreign fighting system seems ludicrous. Kalaripayit is deeply embedded in the social and religious life of the peasants over a huge area of South India, and so it must have been for thousands of years. Page 648 The masters of kalaripayit The lives of the masters in their ...
... and the Ramayana... These remarkable poems contain almost all the history of ancient India, so far as it can be recovered, together with such inexhaustible details of its political, social and religious life, that the antique Hindu world really stands epitomized in them." Arnold translated portions of the Mahabharata, and in particular the story of Nala and Page 84 Damayanti, attempting ...
... suppose they have got the idea from the fact that a family follows one religion. If all follow it, the atmosphere becomes harmonious. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, but such harmony is suitable only for the religious life. As for the family, even if there are religious differences, they don't matter, as D. L. Roy shows in his song, "Buro, budi doojanate".6 Then there are people like X who, when the Mother refuses ...
... almost a similar effect: at least in the case of the former, it was like a flood throwing down many local boundaries, over-flooding distant countries, and peoples, giving them all one unified religious life and culture. But here too we meet the same objectionable feature as there is in the attempt at unity through the racial principle. For religious imperialism cannot succeed in unifying humanity ...
... in the Divine Consciousness. Spirituality represents thus an essentially catholic mood, a programme of inner regeneration and finally a realised goal. The spiritual life, as distinguished from a religious life, "proceeds directly by a change of consciousness, a change from the ordinary consciousness, ignorant and separated from its true self and from God, to a greater consciousness in which one finds ...
... single unity. Sri Aurobindo marks out particularly three such moments in human history to which modern Europe owes two-third of its civilisation. The first of these moments is to be found in the religious life of tribes in Israel; the second moment was that of the many-sided life of the small Greek city states; and the third was the smaller, though more restricted artistic and intellectual life of medieval ...
... heart of the seeker is touched by the experience that leads to conversion, and it is then that the conversion tends to become permanent and to ripen itself into mature fruits of the spirituality of religious life or of yogic life. One of these fruits is that of saintliness. William James has analysed the state of saintliness and pointed out that there are four main features: 1. A feeling of being in ...
... detective Maulvi Sams-ul-Alam and had the pleasure of entering into a cordial relation with him.... The Maulvi made me listen to a most entertaining sermon on religion: "To be truthful is part of the religious life. The Sahibs say Aurobindo Ghose is the leader of the terrorist party; this is a matter of shame and sorrow for India. But by keeping to the path of rectitude the situation can yet be saved." The ...
... discovery to which life must lead and the result of that discovery: the consecration of the individual to his eternal principle. This discovery very generally is associated with a mystic feeling, a religious life, because it is religions particularly that have been occupied with this aspect of life. But it need not be necessarily so: the mystic notion of God may be replaced by the more philosophical notion ...
... to confine himself within the boundary of a particular way of the use of the senses. The artist wants to feel the Transcendent in the plenitude of wealth of the senses. The sadhu wants to form a religious life through canon and conduct. The artist does not subscribe to any hard and fast rule. He considers himself free from the very beginning. If he can hold on to this principle for all time then he can ...
... so many have continued so long and passed through. This is really something creditable. I will tell you a story in this connection. A young man who was an aspirant, a seeker of spiritual or religious life, once upon a time went to Gandhiji. He wanted to remain there. He said, "I am a seeker of spiritual life. I want to remain with you." Gandhiji saw the person and accepted him. "It is all right ...
... had almost a similar effect : at least in the case of the former, it was like a flood throwing down many local boundaries, overflooding distant countries, and peoples, giving them all one unified religious life and culture. But here too we meet the same objectionable feature as there is in the attempt at unity through the racial principle. For religious imperialism cannot succeed in unifying humanity ...
... country within measurable distance of a second revolutionary outbreak. The East India Company had been content with its plunder and pillage, and did not care much to interfere with the social and religious life of the people; but since the Mutiny of 1857, the attitude of the British Raj, which took over the administration of India from the East India Company, was characterised by racial arrogance, distrust ...
... man is like a wall, a mass of inertia, tamas, and he has perforce to pass through a stormy period of desires and passions, get many a staggering jolt and knock before he is fit for a sattwic or religious life." This tamas, of which the young man was a living embodiment, is a legacy of the Inconscient. It is more or less in all men, confined not only to their physical parts, but attacking also ...
... devout Christian and she wished to convert the Ghose children to Christianity, in order to save their souls. But Mr. Drewett never consented to her wish. Once, when he asked Dr. Ghose about the religious life of the children, his reply was to wait till the boys attained the age of discretion, when they could choose their own religion. A rumour was once current that Aurobindo was converted to Christianity ...
... Disciple : They want to go to heaven with their family like Yudhishthira. Sri Aurobindo : Going to heaven with the family may be possible but not into yoga. In the pursuit of a religious life you can have “Budo, Budi” – man and old dame”, as D. L. Rai says. Page 163 Disciple : Yes. Then the atmosphere becomes harmonious at . Sri Aurobindo : Then there ...
... thinkers who regard moral reformation or rearmament as the best remedy for the present state of affairs. They seem to be ignorant of the fact that only that morality which is derived from spiritual or religious life has an ennobling and elevating power; the morality that has no spiritual or religious basis, but is a hot-house product of the eclectic and utilitarian intellect, is powerless to control and purify ...
... a complacency in the mind with its thoughts and ideas and principles, and a contented confidence in the will to realise them, there can be no aspiration for Yoga; and all one's spiritual or religious life may consist only in ethical efforts or ceremonial observances to purify and refine some surface strands of one's nature. Yoga—all true Yoga of whatever denomination—is revolutionary spirituality ...
... of others for it makes either you or them more fit or more unfit for Sadhana." When Dr. Ghose left his three young sons in the care of Rev. Drewett, the clergyman asked him, "What about the religious life of the boys?" Replied the father, "Wait till the boys attain the age of discretion; then they could choose their own religion." Over half a century later, Sri Aurobindo adopted the same attitude ...
... Hinduism we can recover our spiritual health, energy and greatness. The world moves through an indispensable interregnum of free thought and materialism to a new synthesis of religious thought and experience, a new religious world-life free from intolerance, yet full of faith and fervour, accepting all forms of religion because it has an unshakable faith in the One. The religion which embraces Science and... Parliament. Machinery is of great importance, but only as a working means for the spirit within, the force behind. The nineteenth century in India aspired to political emancipation, social renovation, religious vision and rebirth, but it failed because it adopted Western motives and methods, ignored the spirit, history and destiny of our race and thought that by taking over Page 4 European education... It has to be applied not only to life, but to the whole of life; its spirit has to enter into and mould our society, our politics, our literature, our science, our individual character, affections and aspirations. To understand the heart of this dharma , to experience it as a truth, to feel the high emotions to which it rises and to express and execute it in life is what we understand by Karmayoga ...
... Hinduism we can recover our spiritual health, energy and greatness. The world moves through an indispensable interregnum of free thought and materialism to a new synthesis of religious thought and experience, a new religious world-life free from intolerance, yet full of faith and fervour, accepting all forms of religion because it has an unshakable faith in the One. The religion which embraces Science and... Parliament. Machinery is of great importance, but only as a working means for the spirit within, the force behind. The nineteenth century in India aspired to political emancipation, social renovation, religious vision and rebirth, but it failed because it adopted Western motives and methods, ignored the spirit, history and destiny of our race and thought that by taking over Page 24 European education... It has to be applied not only to life, but to the whole of life; its spirit has to enter into and mould our society, our politics, our literature, our science, our individual character, affections and aspirations. To understand the heart of this dharma , to experience it as a truth, to feel the high emotions to which it rises and to express and execute it in life is what we understand by Karmayoga ...
... and character trained? Not through classes in moral or religious education. Life itself is the great teacher - we all learn our moral lessons best from the living examples of people real to us and our natures are trained through our daily interactions and collective work. Keeping this in mind, the teacher uses each opportunity that the school life offers to put before the children a high ideal which... when we take a look at the educational changes across the world, we see a curious mix of education based on ancient cultures and folk traditions, on colonial legacies, on educational theories, on religious and spiritual philosophies, and on government policies of economic growth. Yet, all share a common concern - the growth of the individual and society. Add to this the growing endeavour to make education... Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, and The Gnostic Centre, New Delhi. The Ashram school (SAICE) has taken up the integral training of mind, life and body. This is apparent in the way the student life is organised and the manner in which subject teaching is carried out. A daily programme of one to two hours of physical education is a must for each student -even on Sundays ...
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