... The Human Cycle Chapter XXIV The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age If a subjective age, the last sector of a social cycle, is to find its outlet and fruition in a spiritualised society and the emergence of mankind on a higher evolutionary level, it is not enough that certain ideas favourable to that turn of human life should take hold of the general... society that lives not by its men but by its institutions, is not a collective soul, but a machine; its life becomes a mechanical product and ceases to be a living growth. Therefore the coming of a spiritual age must be preceded by the appearance of an increasing number of individuals who are no longer satisfied with the normal intellectual, vital and physical existence of man, but perceive that a greater... upon mankind as a new universal order. This, however, was always not only a premature but a wrong crystallisation which prevented rather than helped any deep and serious achievement. The aim of a spiritual age of mankind must indeed be one with the essential aim of subjective religions, a new birth, a new consciousness, an upward evolution of the human being, a descent of the spirit into our members, ...
... arrival of a spiritual age in which the ideal of brotherhood can come to be practised and it is only in that condition that a new form of human unity can be forged in which the individual and the collectivity, even on a global scale or organisation, can come to be harmonised. In the meantime, however, the transition from the end of the curve of Reason to the advent and progress of the spiritual age is a stage... age through which humankind is at present passing, and which has now reached a kind of an end and which has the possibility of opening the gates of a beginning of a new age, which he calls the Spiritual Age. It is when Reason explores its possibilities and brings into operation its capabilities that the human race can arrive at a critical point of its self-realisation and self-perfection. For it is ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter XXIII Conditions for the Coming of a Spiritual Age A change of this kind, the change from the mental and vital to the spiritual order of life, must necessarily be accomplished in the individual and in a great number of individuals before it can lay any effective hold upon the community. The Spirit in humanity discovers, develops... Then only will the real, the decisive endeavour begin and life and the world be studied, known, dealt with in all directions as the self-finding and self-expression of the Spirit. Then only will a spiritual age of mankind be possible. To attempt any adequate discussion of what that would mean, and in an inadequate discussion there is no fruit, is beyond our present scope; for we should have to examine... heart of his creatures. It is this kingdom of God within, the result of the finding of God not in a distant heaven but within ourselves, of which the state of society in an age of the Truth, a spiritual age, would be the result and the external figure. Therefore a society which was even initially spiritualised would make the revealing and finding of the divine Self in man the supreme, even the guiding ...
... march. But although these first few may by their own exertions have won the leadership of the spiritual age, it will not be for themselves alone, but for all; they will take all human life for their province and strive to regenerate the life of humanity as a whole to fit the conditions of the spiritual age. If the number of these spiritual men - these samurai in the service of the Divine, these Rishis... expressed himself otherwise in the material and the supraphysical universe. Man and the cosmos are both of them symbols and expressions of the same hidden Reality. 8 It was predominantly a spiritual age, and the religious forms and observances were subordinate to the imperatives of the Spirit. The Vedic description of the Purusha was meant to convey directly through symbol - for the symbol was... but in our own highest nature which will be the nature of that Reality fulfilled in the conditions - not necessarily the same as now - of terrestrial existence. 31 The coming of such a spiritual age cannot, of course, be taken for granted, or prepared for institutionally. Much would depend upon those - not just an isolated Gnostic Being or Mahatma or Mahayogi, but a number of them - who by ...
... that is in the end to be, and the heart of man has begun to be stirred by aspirations born of these ideas, then there is a hope of some advance in the not distant future." Then only will a spiritual age of mankind be possible "The true secret can only be discovered if... the idea Page 38 becomes strong of the mind itself as no more than a secondary power of the Spirit's working... Then only will the real, the decisive endeavour begin and life and the world be studied, known, dealt with in all directions as the self-finding and self-expression of the Spirit. Then only will a spiritual age of mankind be possible." Page 39 ...
... society that lives not by its men but by its institutions, is not a collective soul, but a machine; its life becomes a mechanical product and ceases to be a living growth. Therefore the coming of a spiritual age must be preceded by the appearance of an increasing number of individuals who are no longer satisfied with the normal intellectual, vital and physical existence of man, but perceive that a greater... of mankind becomes more Page 44 and more feeble. Therefore while many new spiritual waves with their strong special motives and disciplines must necessarily be the forerunners of a spiritual age, yet their claims must be subordinated in the general mind of the race and of its spiritual leaders to the recognition that all motives and disciplines are valid and yet none entirely valid since... either for himself or for the State and society, for the individual ego or the collective ego, but for something much greater, for God in himself and for the Divine in the universe." "The spiritual age will be ready to set in when the common mind of man begins to be alive to these truths and to be moved or desire to be moved by this triple or triune Spirit (God, freedom, unity)." Page 46 ...
... destroyer and re-creator of his leading ideas, aims and intuitions. Finally, if our analysis and forecast are correct, the human evolution must move through a subjective towards a suprarational or spiritual age in which he will develop progressively a greater spiritual, supra-intellectual and intuitive, perhaps in the end a more than intuitive, a gnostic consciousness. He will be able to perceive a higher... forward slowly on her various lines of active mind and life towards a greater application of reason and spirituality which shall at last bring near the possibility of a rational and, eventually, a spiritual age of mankind. Her difficulties proceed from two sides. First, while she originally developed thought and reason and spirituality by exceptional individuals, now she develops them in the mass by e ...
... his leading ideas, aims Page 262 and intuitions. Finally, if our analysis and forecast are correct, the human evolution must move through a subjective towards a suprarational or spiritual age in which he will develop progressively a greater spiritual, supra-intellectual and intuitive, perhaps in the end a more than intuitive, a gnostic consciousness. He will be able to perceive a... forward slowly on her various lines of active mind and life towards a greater application of reason and spirituality which shall at last bring near the possibility of a rational and, eventually, a spiritual age of mankind. Social and Political Thought, pp. 173-78 Human society has in its growth to pass through three stages of evolution before it can arrive at the completeness of its pos ...
... 470ff; revised version of 'The psychology of Social Development', 472; Lamprecht's psychological cycle, 472; theories of Frazer, Spengler, Toynbee, 472; Vedic or 'Symbolic' Age, 473; a predominantly spiritual age, 473; 'symbol' to 'type', 473; 'typal' to 'conventional', a dead end, 474; individualist revolt, 474; collectivist backlash, rise of the god-state, 474; rise of 'subjectivism, 475; subjectivism... communism, 478; socialism and human egoism, 479; beyond Marx, Lenin and Mao, 479; need for a subjective or spiritual turn in individual and social life, 479; the Kingdom of God, 480; the coming spiritual age,480, 490, 658, 751 Huta, 684H, 690, 753 Huxley, Aldous, 417, 423, 694 Hydari,SirAkbar,579,730 Hymn to Durga' (Durga Stotra), 298, 786 Hymns to the Mystic ...
... as it is intense in its highest pitches. The note of spirituality is dominant, initial, constant, always recurrent; it is the support of all the rest. The first age of India's greatness was a spiritual age when she sought passionately for the truth of existence through the intuitive mind and through an inner experience and interpretation both of the psychic and the physical existence. The stamp put ...
... Allahabad, Bombay, 1969, p.1. (Author's translation). 26 Questions and Answers, CWM, Vol. 3, p. 105. 27 Ibid., Vol. 6, p. 83. Page 251 representation in the new spiritual Age that is seeking for manifestation, is Sri Aurobindo's invitation. 28 Moreover, the conditions of yogic representation, in Sri Aurobindo's view, need now be extended beyond wall or canvas to the ...
... support, falling as it does at the beginning of what we now call the Harappan Civilization. The Kali Age – especially its harbinger, the Mahabharata War – may be seen as marking the end of the spiritual age of the Vedas to be replaced by the materialistic age in which we live. Its origins go back some 5 000 years. The Mahabharata War stands at the threshold of this transition.” The historic s ...
... bound to be all smooth, but no passage of time throughout history has ever been such What we have to cling to and what should give us an optimistic vision is the Mother's assurance that a luminous spiritual age awaits us and all that happens before it will be turned in the best way possible towards its arrival. Now that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are not in their physical forms, the age spoken of may ...
... Civilisation and Culture 247 Limitations of the Reason as the Governor of Life 258 Religion as the Law of Life 266 The End of the Curve of Reason 276 The Advent and Progress of the Spiritual Age 292 A Vision of Spiritual Society 301 Part V The Turn Towards Unity 310 Unity in Diversity, Law and Liberty 317 The Peril of the World-State 325 The Conditions ...
... and much more would be the significance of the results of the Yoga of Transformation for humanity. It is in this context that Sri Aurobindo has previsaged the coming of world unity and of the spiritual age for mankind. The advent of the supramental at the present critical hour is for Sri Aurobindo the key to the gates of the New Future. And the present hour is for him the Hour of God, the hour of ...
... for themselves, carried in a circle, but a means for the discovery of a greater Truth behind mind and life and for the bringing of its power into our human existence. 63 June, 1918 A spiritual age of mankind ... will not try to make man perfect by machinery or keep him straight by tying up all his limbs. It will not present to the member of the society his higher self in the person of the ...
... highest pitches. The note of spirituality is dominant, initial, constant, always recurrent; it is the support of all the rest. The Page 41 first age of India's greatness was a spiritual age when she sought passionately for the truth of existence through the intuitive mind and through an inner experience and interpretation both of the psychic and the physical existence. The stamp put ...
... things,—unless indeed it sinks back into a sleep of tradition and convention or else goes forward by a great awakening to the reign of a higher spirit than its own and opens into a suprarational or spiritual age of mankind. If we may judge from the modern movement, the progress of the reason as a social renovator and creator, if not interrupted in its course, would be destined to pass through three successive ...
... as to break down the new barriers which unceasingly rise up around us or within ourselves, in order to go through them, like through death, with the eyes wide open.’ 40 ‘The coming of a spiritual age must be preceded by the appearance of an increasing number of individuals who are no longer satisfied with the normal intellectual, vital and physical existence of man,’ 41 Sri Aurobindo wrote ...
... (Kalidasa) and spirit the highest heights that the Vedic and Upanishadic poets have reached. Poetry of the Overmind aesthesis has "occasionally and inadequately" been written but the poet of the spiritual age will write "adequately and constantly." 145 This is the kind of poetry Sri Aurobindo had in mind when he wrote and rewrote Savitri , seizing an ever higher inspiration to make it the first ...
... 23, 75 Sleep-State (su ṣ upti), 213, 206-09, 215,216 Soul-personality, see Psychic being Social evolution, psychological stages of, 250-55 subjective (spiritual) age, 285-87 three stages of, 262-270 Sorley, Professor, 185, 186 Soul, 14, 20, 85-95, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 119, 379 See also Psychic entity cf. Psychic being ...
... its hopes and lines for fulfillment, particularly in the context of the growth of United Nations Organization and its Agencies as also the growth of inter-culturalism or multi-culturalism. Anew spiritual age is dawning, and our children need to be prepared to receive and foster spiritual knowledge that transcends narrow barriers of exclusivism. A fifth council could be envisaged for research and ...
... thought. It is global in the sense of not being the view from a single angle or from a few closely related angles. The mental standpoint aspects only one side of the object in view, and to our anti-spiritual age this one-track mentality itself seems to be its greatest virtue. The global view which is the hallmark of a mind illumined by spiritual consciousness transcends this one-trackedness of the intellect ...
... of modern technology but only try to bend them to the service of the Divine. Like Netter, there are others too engaged in the problem of rethinking the ends and means of human life in the coming Spiritual Age that will assimilate and carry forward the achievements of modern science and technology; and the speculations and first findings of this thinking have been appearing in Equals One ( = 1), the ...
... there were three great ages of India's greatness: the spiritual, the intellectual and the classical. Page 29 In Sri Aurobindo's words: "The first age of India's greatness was a spiritual age when she sought passionately for the truth of existence through the intuitive mind and through an inner experience and interpretation both of the psychic and the physical existence." The age of ...
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