... and more fully as it develops its corporate action and mentality and its organic self-expressive life.” (Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 35.) × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 35. × Sri Aurobindo:... universities and scholasticism, was a civilisation that lasted for centuries. Gradually and inevitably, however, the institutions became conventions and the process described by Sri Aurobindo in The Human Cycle 20 set in: the conventions were more and more felt as restrictions by sensitive and intelligent people, and a need for individualisation began to be felt. This need formed the basis of the... Aurobindo’s unfinished epic Ilion and his essay Heraclitus are masterpieces. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 360. × Quoted in William Barrett: Irrational Man , p. 89. ...
... Evening Talks, 120 × 210 The Human Cycle, 133 × 211 The Human Cycle, 131, 136 × 212 The Life... × 395 The Human Cycle, 278 × 396 Thoughts and Aphorisms, 17:82 × 397 The Human Cycle, 329 ... 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 every sign ...
... The Human Cycle Note on the Texts The chapters that make up the principal contents of The Ideal of Human Unity and War and Self-Determination were first published in the monthly review Arya between 1915 and 1920. The three works subsequently were revised by the author and published as books. The Human Cycle . The twenty-four chapters making... only minor changes in the final stage of revision. The book was published in 1949 by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram under the new title The Human Cycle . An American edition was brought out the next year. In 1962 a combined edition of The Human Cycle , The Ideal of Human Unity and War and Self-Determination was published by the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. In 1971 the... ation has appeared in the combined editions mentioned above under The Human Cycle . "1919" was first reproduced in the 1962 edition, where it was placed at the end. In the present edition, "1919" and "After the War"are printed in the order in which they were written. The present edition . This edition of The Human Cycle , The Ideal of Human Unity and War and Self-Determination has been ...
... Earth is the heroic spirit’s battlefield, The forge where the Archmason shapes his works. Thy servitudes on earth are greater, King, Than all the glorious liberties of heaven. 42 The Human Cycle Are the astronomical figures that determine the Yugas in the Hindu mythology to be taken literally? “Too much weight need not be put on the exact figures about the Yugas in the Purana. Here... actual, momentous transition from the Kala to the Satya Yuga. It is the fundamental sense of our lives at present on this planet – the point where the Snake of Time bites its own tail. In The Human Cycle, a sociological work of the first order, Sri Aurobindo proposes another cycle of human evolution from the Satya to the Kala Yuga and beyond. The idea came to him when reading Karl Lamprecht... forms and powers of Life for that which is behind Life and sometimes even lays as yet uncertain hands on the sealed doors of the Spirit.” 52 Sri Aurobindo wrote this in 1927 when revising The Human Cycle. To his inner eye the line of development was distinctly discernible, and his vision would be confirmed by its realisation – as can be read in his and the Mother’s biographies and partly in the ...
... 17 27 . THE HUMAN CYCLE Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1949 Sri Aurobindo Library, New York, 1950 First appeared serially in the Arya under the title The Psychology of Social Development from August 1916 to July 1918. These articles were revised by the author for their publication in book form under the title The Human Cycle . Subsequently published... development. In the Arya 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... 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 Edition (See 27, 30, 100) SABCL: Social and Political Thought, Vol. 15 ...
... Introduction 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... Unity — p. 401. The Human Cycle - pp. 198-9, pp. 209-10, p. 210, p. 232, p. 233, p. 239. Glimpses of the New Social Order The Human Cycle - p. 248, pp. 212-3, p. 213, p. 214, p. 215, pp. 216-7, pp. 240-1, pp. 241-2, pp. 249-50, p. 243, p. 243, p. 244, p. 244, p. 250, pp. 250-1, p. 251. The Life Divine — p. 1062. The Human Cycle — p. 251. ... Reaction to Supremacy of the State The Human Cycle - pp. 199-200, p. 202, p. 203, pp. 204-5, p. 205, pp. 205-6, p. 206, pp. 206-7, p. 207, p. 246. The 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 ...
... Psychology of Social Development was published in book form in 1949, and was given a new title. The Human Cycle. In the third and final sweep of its tremendous argument. The Life Divine is the projection of Sri Aurobindo's theory of the 'spiritual evolution', from the Ignorance to the Knowledge; The Human Cycle is likewise the projection of his theory of 'social evolution', from the 'symbolic' to the... towards variety and freedom of the individual". 37 In The Human Cycle, Sri Aurobindo viewed social development as a movement from the symbolic to the subjective (or spiritual) age: from an age that was governed by the reflected light of an obscurely felt Reality to a future age that would actually live in that Reality, the wheel of the 'human cycle' thereby coming full circle. In the present treatise... Mussolini and Hitler and to Fascism, Nazism and Soviet Communism show that here and there a sentence or a paragraph was added when the Arya sequence of twenty-four chapters was reissued as The Human Cycle. However, anything like a full-scale revision was thought unnecessary, for the illustrations from recent and past events were deemed sufficient in the main for the "working out and elucidation" ...
... × The Human Cycle , 7 × The Human Cycle , 11 × The Human Cycle , 48 ... Manifestation upon Earth , 309 × The Human Cycle , 19 × The Human Cycle , 18 × The Supramental Manifestation... partly subject parts are moving through whatever struggles towards freedom. Only a little has to be done and that will be done today or tomorrow.’ 24 Thirty years before, he had written in The Human Cycle: ‘It is in Europe that the age of individualism has taken birth and exercised its full sway.’ This individualistic period which started with the Renaissance was the necessary reaction against ...
... . × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 239. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 351. × Id., p. 590... historical milestones in the way seers or 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... × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle , p. 127. × Quoted in Steven Best and Douglas Kellner: The Postmodern Turn , p. 4. ...
... all into a greater unity of whole-life.” 45 × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 23. × In: The Fontana Post-Modern Reader , p. 41. ... The Mother: Questions and Answers 1957-58 , p. 101. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle , p. 102. × Id., p. 105. × ... Sri Aurobindo: Letters on Yoga, p. 170. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 121. × The reader familiar with the work of Ken Wilber will recognise here what Wilber calls ...
... November 1922. 80. Translated from the 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... sake of the heifer, even every ox, has possessed for the writer a touch of divinity". (A Heifer of the Dawn.pp.viii.x). 71. A.B. Purani, Savitri: An Approach and a Study p. 3. Sec The Human Cycle, pp 297-9. 72. Tr. by Sri Aurobindo, On the Veda, pp 371-72. 73. ibid. , pp. 373-77. 74. ibid., p. 378. 75. ibid. , p. 378. 76. Kenneth... 8. ibid. ," p. 584." Cf: "To find highest beauty is to find God; to reveal, to embody, to create as we say, highest beauty is to bring out of our souls the living image and power of God (The Human Cycle, p. 160). Also Robert Lynd: "It (poetry) enables him (man) to escape out of the make-believe existence of everyday in which perhaps an employer seems more huge and imminent than God, and to explore ...
... Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 78 (emphasis added). × Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 14 (emphasis added). × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 169. ... × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 120. × Id., p. 551. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 168. ... × L’Express, 24 October 1996, p. 48. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 129. × Cf. Sri Aurobindo’s statement: “We [he and the Mother] do not found ourselves on ...
... 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. 975 Nirodbaran: Talks... April 1983, p. 3. 937 Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 220. 938 Id., p. 259. 939 Sri Aurobindo: The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 604. 940 Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, pp. 242, 665. 941 Id., pp. 242-43. 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... Aurobindo, op. cit., p. 876. 956 Mother India, Jan. 1989, p. 26. For more details about Golconde see Georges Van Vrekhem: Beyond Man, pp. 204 ff. 957 Id., p. 144. 958 Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 266. 959 Peter Heehs: Sri Aurobindo – A Brief Biography, pp. 99-100. 960 Sri Aurobindo: Letters on Yoga, p. 1306. 961 Sri Aurobindo: Collected Poems, p. 120. 962 Nirodbaran: ...
... Manifestation upon Earth , 344 × The Human Cycle , 35 × The Human Cycle , 219 × The Mother 130 ... the first World War: Also Sprach Zarathustra and the Gospel of St John. It is difficult to say which of both authors thereby was most misused.’ (Bernal Maguus) Sri Aurobindo writes in The Human Cycle : ‘Nietzsche’s idea that to develop the superman out of our present very unsatisfactory manhood is our real business, is in itself an absolutely sound teaching. His formulation of our aim, “to... Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo (Nirodbaran), 673 × The Human Cycle , 251 × L’Agenda de Mère* II, 168 ...
... about The Human Cycle. The latest news is that the publisher in Paris is quite ready to publish a first text by Sri Aurobindo. But I've started having second thoughts. This Human Cycle was rejected a first time, and by mistake they sent its manuscript back here. I wondered if, after all, that wasn't a sign that the first volume of Sri Aurobindo to be brought out, rather than The Human Cycle, should... should not rather be The Synthesis of Yoga? The thought has come to me. It's very important: what should we begin with? The Human Cycle had seemed to me more exterior and generally accessible. Do you have the translation of The Synthesis ? I would have to revise it a bit, but it's a matter of a month's work. In that case, we could send them the first book, "The Yoga of Divine Works." ... Yes, the Yoga of Works. I think it's better, yes. Page 33 Yes, it's newer, more central. You see, the other [ The Human Cycle ] discusses things that they've already discussed, and it takes a special disposition to understand that the viewpoint is new. While here, it's wholly new. I think so, too. Yes, begin with that. Personally, I remember, in my case, that's what ...
... 14. Sri Aurobindo’s Vision Hitler and his God The Human Cycle Sri Aurobindo’s writings are not only based on a severely tested spiritual experience but also on a vast erudition. He was thoroughly familiar with the tradition and cultures of the East and the West and some of their principal languages, and he had imbibed the literature and the poetry of their... results upon earth” 965, and referred to Nietzsche throughout his oeuvre. It is a sign of his erudition (and excellent memory) that he used an idea of Karl Lamprecht as the starting point of The Human Cycle. Lamprecht (1856-1915) was a famous (Pan-)German historian, professor of history at Bonn and Leipzig, author of a Deutsche Geschichte (history of Germany) in twelve volumes and adviser to Chancellor... order, but to a subjective age which may well be a great and momentous passage to a very different goal. It may be doubted whether we are not already in the morning twilight of a new period of the human cycle.” 968 Sri Aurobindo was convinced of the importance of the change to which humanity was being subjected. Far from considering that the confusion and violence of this change was a negative omen ...
... × The Human Cycle , 172 × Ibidem × The Human Cycle , 252 × ... bringing of all to a head, a throwing together of the elements so that in their fusion they produce a new form and name of things and reveal a new spirit.’ 12 Thus writes Sri Aurobindo in The Human Cycle , where we also find: ‘The principle of such changes in Nature seems to be a long obscure preparation followed by a swift gathering up and precipitation of the elements into the new birth, a rapid... × Jacques Lacarrière, *Les Gnostiques* , 150 × The Human Cycle , 248 × L’Agenda de Mère I, 247 ...
... sound antidote to the pseudoscientific 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... Life Divine and The Synthesis of Yoga the concern is more with the individual - his choice in the evolutionary crisis, his likely curve of development, his summits of possible ascent - in The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity, the concern is more with the human aggregate, its awakening soul, its evolving destiny, its purposive thrust towards the future. As with a human body - which is... of society (or humanity) act and react upon one another, and achieve the periodic lurches towards the future. As Sri Aurobindo wrote towards the end of The Psychology of Social Development ('The Human Cycle') in the Arya of June 1918: The Spirit in humanity discovers, develops, builds into form in the individual man: it is through the progressive and formative individual that it offers ...
... × Ibid., p. 44. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 183. × Sri Aurobindo: Essays Divine and Human , p. 26. ... Sri Aurobindo: Essays in Philosophy and Yoga , p. 151. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 233. × “Occult” is what is invisible, “spiritual” is what belongs to the realms above our... Sri Aurobindo: Essays Divine and Human, p. 223. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 234. × Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 847 (emphasis added). ...
... one to the other and how there can be intermediaries. Exactly, I suddenly remembered in this connection a quotation from Sri Aurobindo that seemed to me interesting. It's in "The Human Cycle," at the end of "The Human Cycle." Here's what he says: "It may well be that, once started, it [the supramental endeavour] may not advance rapidly even to its first decisive stage; it may be that it will take... prolongation of life at will. He wrote it in the articles on The Supramental Manifestation . Page 78 × The Human Cycle , Cent. Ed. XV.252 . ...
... × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, Centenary Edition, Volume 15, pp. 63-4 × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, Centenary Edition, Volume 15, pp.206-7 ... Whitehead and Teillard de Chardin. But the most elaborate and comprehensive study is to be found in the writings of Sri Aurobindo, particularly, in his The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity. In one of the important passages, Sri Aurobindo states: Page 115 The animal is a living laboratory in which Nature has, it is said, worked out ...
... tomorrow casts aside the fame, popularity and pomp of today. The man whose carriage is today dragged through great cities by shouting thousands amid cries of 'Bande Mataram' and 28. The Human Cycle by Sri Aurobindo, Chapter IV. Page 184 showers of garlands, will tomorrow be disregarded, perhaps hissed and forbidden to speak. So it has always been and none can prevent it... acting from economical and political motives, it sought to dynamise them by this subjective conception and to make them instruments of self-expression rather than objects in themselves." — The Human Cycle, Chapter IV 33. "She (India) is rising to shed the eternal light entrusted to her over the world. India has always existed for humanity and not for herself and it is for humanity and... ." 139 From Amraoti Sri Aurobindo went to Nagpur, and delivered three lectures there. The subject of the first lecture, 138. He deals with this subject in his book . The Human Cycle and we have already referred to it before. 139. Speeches of Sri Aurobindo. Page 260 Sri Aurobindo at Amraoti, 1908 delivered on the 30th January ...
... connected to the Work and made itself felt spontaneously. Some of Sri Aurobindo’s major writings had originated in the same way, casually as it were, in reaction to an article or book he had read ( The Human Cycle, The Future Poetry, The Foundations of Indian Culture) or to a text he started commenting upon (The Life Divine, The Secret of the Veda). Sri Aurobindo and the Mother never planned something... × The Synthesis of Yoga , 268-69 × The Human Cycle , 156 × Words of the Mother 15, 197 ... Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo (Nirodbaran), 275 × The Human Cycle , 160 × The Mother 106 × ...
... evaluate today the effect on the imagination of the transmission at a distance of power, light or music by telephone, or of messages by telegraphy.” 6 This is why Sri Aurobindo could write in The Human Cycle : “The Age of Reason is visibly drawing to an end; novel ideas are sweeping over the world and are being accepted with significant rapidity;” and he could point to the “dynamic ideas such as N... Bensaude-Vincent and Christine Blondel: Des savants face à l’occulte , p. 11. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle , p. 23. × Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine , pp. 909 and 900. ...
... × Id., p. 842 (emphasis added.) × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 234. × Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 724. ... The Mother: Notes on the Way , p. 7. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 369. × Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine , p. 96. ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter II The Age of Individualism and Reason An individualistic age of human society comes as a result of the corruption and failure of the conventional, as a revolt against the reign of the petrified typal figure. Before it can be born it is necessary that the old truths shall have been lost in the soul and practice of the race and... order, but to a subjective age which may well be a great and momentous passage to a very different goal. It may be doubted whether we are not already in the morning twilight of a new period of the human cycle. Secondly, the West in its triumphant conquest of the world has awakened the slumbering East and has produced in its midst an increasing struggle between an imported Western individual ism and ...
... 104. Circa 1917-18. 105. Early 1917. Heading: "The Psychology of Social Development / VII"; this is the title under which the book later published as The Human Cycle appeared in the Arya ; the seventh instalment of the work, unrelated to the present piece, was published in the issue of February 1917. 106. 1912-13. ... title. Religion . Circa 1927. Editorial title. Reason and Society . Late 1930s or 1940s. Editorial title. The piece seems to be related to The Human Cycle . Published here for the first time. Justice . Late 1940s. Editorial title. Page 517 P ART F OUR : T HOUGHTS AND ...
... a soft smile, she handed me a copy of The Human Cycle. Then she put her arm around my shoulders and led me into the class. Everyone stood up. Indeed, the room was packed, but she gave me a good seat just in front of her on the second bench. My heart was silently grateful. The Mother sat at her writing table. Before she started to translate The Human Cycle into French, she spread her gaze over ...
... estranged indifference, contempt and scepticism from what claims to determine truths even in Science's own domain by some so- 4.Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, p. 137. 5.Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, p. 165. Page 60 called sacrosanct and infallible divine authority. This explains the historical hostility of Science and Religion, especially in Europe, which has led to the... anti-life mood and world-disgust, active or veiled, is not at all a necessary concomitant of true spirituality nor, for that matter, does it represent the robust catholicity of ancient 6. The Human Cycle, p. 168. Page 61 Indian lore which admitted "both the claim of the pure spirit to manifest in us its absolute freedom and the claim of universal Matter to be the mould and condition ...
... nature of mathematical concepts. Traditional logic has definitely failed before the problems raised by the Cantorian transfinite. "This confusion of reasoning in that 10.Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, p. 111. 11. Ibid., p. 146. 12.Adolphe Buhl, Esth éti nque Scientifique. 13.René Dugas, La Math é matique, Object de Culture. Page 87 very science which... Truth? The next three chapters attempt to give an answer to this question. 56. Savitri, Bk. II, Canto 10 p. 245. 57. Ibid., Bk. II, Canto 6, p. 198. 58.Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, p. 114. 59. Ibid., p. 114. Page 100 ...
... nce is correct, and if the total emergence of Sachchidananda in manifested nature is the ultimate goal of this evolution, then N ā nya ḥ panth ā vidyate 29 & 30. Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, pp. 206-07. Page 217 ayan ā ya." "In any case, if this is not the solution, then there is no solution, if this is not the way, then there is no way for the human kind. Then... he chooses to do so and prepares to pay the necessary price in patience, perseverance, but, above all, in sincerity. 31."There is no other way to the goal". 32.Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, p. 207. Page 218 ...
... without a moment's thinking." 37 And this has been a constant trait with him. For even in his Page 17 most 'serious' books like The Life Divine, Essays on the Gita or The Human Cycle we come to meet at times a deep vein of sublime humour. Here are just three examples. 1.From The Life Divine: "It is so that ascetic philosophy tends to conceive it. But individual... and disinterestedly teach little boys their lessons, or bind down a Vivekananda to support his family and for that to follow dispassionately the law or medicine or journalism." 3 ' 3.From The Human Cycle: "The truth is that upon which we are now insisting, that reason is in its nature an imperfect light... It can in its nature be used and has always been used to justify any idea, theory of ...
... The necessity of spiritual change is imperative, and the future of humanity will depend, according to Sri Aurobindo, upon the response that humanity will give to this necessity. In his book The Human Cycle, Sri Aurobindo has expounded the psychology of social development and shown how human society has not only crossed over the infra-rational age of human development but has also traversed a long... Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, p.891 × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, SABCL, Vol. 15, p.210 × Sri Aurobindo: The Ideal of Human Unity, SABCL/ Vol. 15, pp. 527-28 ...
... 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 the passages in which he describes his vision of the ideal society. They are taken from the last chapters of The Human Cycle. The stage described ...
... written. 1916 The Mother leaves France for Japan. August 15 First instalments of Essays on the Gita and The Psychology of Social Development (later called The Human Cycle) in the Arya. 1917 December 15 First instalment of The Future Poetry in the Arya. 1918 January 15 Works at translations from Kalidasa's Kumarasambhavam... s 75th birthday. A message from Sri Aurobindo is broadcast by the All India Radio. 1948 Publication of The Synthesis of Yoga, Part I. 1949 The Human Cycle published. February 21 First issue of the Bulletin of Physical Education (now called the Bulletin of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education) with Sri Aurobindo's "Message" ...
... dramatic romance, written. 1916 — The Mother leaves France for Japan. August 15 First instalments of Essays on the Gita and The Psychology of Social Development (later called The Human Cycle) in the Arya. 1917 — December 15 First instalment of The Future Poetry in the Arya. 1918 — January 15 Works at translations from Kalidasa's Kumarasambhavam (The Birth... of India on Sri Aurobindo's 75 th birthday. A message from Sri Aurobindo is broadcast by the All India Radio. 1948 — Publication of The Synthesis of Yoga, Part 1. 1949 — The Human Cycle published. February 21 First issue of the Bulletin of Physical Education (now called the Bulletin of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education) with Sri Aurobindo's "Message" ...
... recognises, is only a necessary but not a sufficient condition for overcoming alienation. One of the most balanced appraisals of communism and socialism can be found in Sri Aurobindo's The Human Cycle. The following two quotes from his Thoughts and Aphorisms very neatly summarise his critique of Marxist socialism. 1. "The communistic principle of society is intrinsically as superior... 15. No. 2, 1980. 7. Sydney Hook, Marxism and Beyond, Rowman and Littlefield, 1983. 8. A.T. Ferguson, Revolution or reform, (ed.), New University Press(1956). 9. The Human Cycle. 10. The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts(1932). 11. Marx's concept of Man(1961). Page 272 12. The Future Poetry, Centenary edition ...
... telling example. “Neither the laws or the possibilities of physical Nature can be entirely known unless we know also the laws and possibilities of supraphysical Nature,” wrote Sri Aurobindo in The Human Cycle . 33 And elsewhere: “Having examined and explained Matter by physical methods and in the language of the material Brahman, – it is not really explained, but let that pass, – having failed to... to be, as taught by the great traditions: matter = energy = consciousness. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle , p. 78. × Sri Aurobindo: Essays in Philosophy and Yoga , p. 194. ...
... × Ibid., p. 1012 (emphasis added). × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle , pp. 265-66. × The two authors who have been most aware of the importance of the Mind of Light... Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 727. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 183. × Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 829. ...
... × Id. , p. 10. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle , p. 78. × Sri Aurobindo: Essays in Philosophy and Yoga , p. 195. ... See talk 1: “Adam Kadmon and the Evolution”. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle , pp. 9-10. × Arya , vol. V, p. 506. ...
... way seems to be a series of major miracles. But are the realizations of the soul and of the spirit, preconditions of the transformation, not already in themselves miracles? When examining in The Human Cycle the communal life of the future supramental beings, “a spiritualized society … the kingdom of God upon earth,” Sri Aurobindo wrote: “Certainly, this will not come about easily, or, as men have... Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine , p. 6. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle , p. 183. × Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine , p. 341. ...
... Green Business, New Politics & Higher Consciousness Work Together (2009). × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle , p. 221. × In Russell on Religion , pp. 9 and 38. ... See talk 8: “Sri Aurobindo’s Descent into Death”. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle , p. 66. × See talk 4: “What Arjuna Saw: the Dark Side of the Force”. ...
... inevitable movement … A new spirit of 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... × Formerly published as Social and Political Thought, now in the CWSA vol. 15 under the title The Human Cycle. × It should be recalled in passing that the correct translation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s term ...
... in the framework of a new poetics. 34 The Harmony of Virtue , SABCL, Vol. 3, p. 239. 35 Savitri , p. 592. 36 The Harmony of Virtue , SABCL, Vol. 3, p. 217. 37 See, The Human Cycle , SABCL, Vol. 15, pp. 312-13. 38 The Future Poetry, SABCL, Vol. 9, p. 249. 39 Sri Aurobindo on Himself , SABCL, Vol. 26, p. 255. Page 448 The powers of which... which the Upanishads lived constantly with a more sustained breathing." 120 117 Ibid, pp. 237-38. 118 The Foundations of Indian Culture, SABCL, Vol. 14, p. 259. 119 The Human Cycle , SABCL, Vol. 15, p. 5. Some recent Vedic scholars recognise the poetic-intuitive and revelatory power of the Vedic hymns. "In all times," writes J. Gonda, "and among many peoples there have— ...
... underworld and Tartarus with the sentiment of life and love and death which hangs about them has got into the legendary framework of the Indian Patala and hells. 26 Vedic Symbolism and The Human Cycle A fundamental difference between the Savitri that began to take shape in 1916 and any version Sri Aurobindo might have written in Baroda would have been due to his study of the Veda... own Yoga. The August 1916 issue of the Arya also contained the first instalment of a series called The Psychology of Social Development. In this book, later revised and published as The Human Cycle, Sri Aurobindo put forward ideas that shed light on the evolution of the Savitri-tale from its Vedic origins to the poem he was then beginning to write. From this point Of view, the legend can ...
... Page 439 16. 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 ...
... āhara-parityāgo, yūka-bhayād vā prāvaraṇa-pari-tyāgaḥ . " 2 "Yāvaj jīvet sukhaṁ jīvet, ṛnaṁ kṛtvā ghṛtam pivet. Bhasmībhūtasya dehasya punarāgamanaṁ kutaḥ?" 3 Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle (1962), p. 115. 4 5 Ibid., p. 114. Page 34 (b) The Scientific Physical Culture and the Perfection of the Body The call for a well-planned... Zero" 3 out of which everything else has to evolve. When this inevitable evolution — this evolutionary emergence 1 The Life Divine, p. 679. 2 Ibid., p. 853. 3 The Human Cycle, p. 208. Page 46 of the involved Being and Consciousness — begins its course of ascent, it first develops, as it is bound to develop in the inverse order, Matter and ...
... individual sadhaks and sadhikas; for the command of the Spirit is unity. The genuine spiritual life should be, according to Sri Aurobindo, "the flower of a ... conscious and diversified oneness." (The Human Cycle, p. 243) Each individual has, no doubt, to grow into the Divine within himself; but also, the Divine whom he thus discovers in himself, he has to see equally in all others and as the same Spirit... perfection, but the perfection of all. He will not feel his individuality perfect except in the largest universality, nor his own life to be a full life except as it is one with the universal life." (The Human Cycle, p. 24) Thus, for the sadhaks of Sri Aurobindo's Path, although individual spiritual realisation remains always the first necessity, it cannot be deemed complete unless and until it is ...
... , 450ff; Isha Upanishad, 459ff; Kena, 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... 120, 152,154-55 Prince of Mathura, The, 119 Pringle-Kennedy, Mrs. and Miss, 305, 365 Prothero, G. W., 33, 37 Psychology of Social Development, The, See The Human Cycle Punjabee, The, 234, 246 Pujalal, 579 Purani, A. B., 21, 34, 276, 411, 459, 536ff, 694 Purani, Chhotalal B., 276, 536, 537 Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli, 187 ...
... (Religion and Spirituality, 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;... Yoga, The Mother and Bases of Yoga. Volume 7 — Questions and Answers 1955. Oral answers to questions about Page 821 Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga, a chapter from his The Human Cycle, two chapters from his The Synthesis of Yoga, and the Mother's drama. The Great Secret. Volume 8 — Questions and Answers 1956. Oral answers to questions about Part One of Sri ...
... 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 these works ...
... therefore for none of these things or the activities that spring from them will they have contempt or aversion, however they may insist on a change of the spirit and a transmutation of the form.” ( The Human Cycle 958 ) “Sri Aurobindo once wrote to a disciple: ‘I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years’ his spiritual knowledge and experience ‘more scrupulously than any ...
... See in L’Agenda de Mère the conversation of 7 November 1961. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, pp. 9-10. The references to the works of Sri Aurobindo follow the online edition by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram for the volumes of the Complete Works published there until February 2011. ...
... × On Himself , 467 × The Human Cycle , 5 × Collected Poems (Sri Aurobindo), 120 ...
... the Alipore Jail he left for Pondicherry where he lived for the next 40 years until he passed away in 1950. During those 40 years he produced his great classics including The Life Divine, The Human Cycle, The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on the Gita and the extraordinary epic poem Savitri. The Mother joined him as his spiritual collaborator in 1920 and the number of disciples grew ...
... × Id., pp. 135, 137-38. × Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle , in Social and Political Thought , SABCL 15 p. 251. × Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, SABCL ...
... × L’Agenda de Mère XIII, 355 × The Human Cycle , 161 × Satprem, Mère III, 171 ...
... Divine and Human , Complete Works, 1997 — Essays in Philosophy and Yoga , Complete Works, 1999 — Letters on Yoga , Birth Centenary Library, 1970 — Savitri , 4th edition, 1993 — The Human Cycle , 3rd edition, 1998 — The Life Divine , Birth Centenary Library, 1972 — The Synthesis of Yoga , 6th edition 2nd impression, 1980. Stannard, Russell: Science and Wonders , Faber and ...
... The Human Cycle The Unseen Power A war has ended, a world has perished in the realm of thought and begun to disappear in the order of outward Nature. The war that has ended, was fought in physical trenches, with shell and shot, with machine-gun and tank and aeroplane, with mangling of limbs and crash of physical edifices and rude uptearing of the bosom ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter X Aesthetic and Ethical Culture The idea of culture begins to define itself for us a little more clearly, or at least it has put away from it in a clear contrast its natural opposites. The unmental, the purely physical life is very obviously its opposite, it is barbarism; the unintellectualised vital, the crude economic or the ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter VII The Ideal Law of Social Development The true law of our development and the entire object of our social existence can only become clear to us when we have discovered not only, like modern Science, what man has been in his past physical and vital evolution, but his future mental and spiritual destiny and his place in the cycles ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter VIII Civilisation and Barbarism Once we have determined that this rule of perfect individuality and perfect reciprocity is the ideal law for the individual, the community and the race and that a perfect union and even oneness in a free diversity is its goal, we have to try to see more clearly what we mean when we say that sel ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter XX The End of the Curve of Reason The rational collectivist idea of society has at first sight a powerful attraction. There is behind it a great truth, that every society represents a collective being and in it and by it the individual lives and he owes to it all that he can give it. More, it is only by a certain relation to the ...
... 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 ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter XXI The Spiritual Aim and Life A society founded upon spirituality will differ in two essential points from the normal human society which begins from and ends with the lower nature. The normal human society starts from the gregarious instinct modified by a diversity and possible antagonism of interests, from an association and ...
... of the intellect and the logical reason. But these are only speculations and inferences. Certain it is that the old tradition of a progressive obscuration and loss of the Veda as the law of the human cycle has been fully justified Page 12 by the event. The obscuration had already proceeded far before the opening of the next great age of Indian spirituality, the Vedantic, which struggled ...
... The Human Cycle A League of Nations Ancient tradition believed in a golden age of mankind which lay in the splendid infancy of a primeval past; it looked back to some type or symbol of original perfection, Saturnian epoch, Satya Yuga, an age of sincere being and free unity when the sons of heaven were leaders of the human life and mind and the law of God ...
... The Human Cycle Self-Determination A new phrase has recently been cast out from the bloodstained yeast of war into the shifty language of politics,—that strange language full of Maya and falsities, of self-illusion and deliberate delusion of others, which almost immediately turns all true and vivid phrases into a jargon, so that men may fight in a cloud ...
... 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 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 ...
... 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 ...
... The Human Cycle 1919 The year 1919 comes to us with the appearance of one of the most pregnant and historic dates of the modern world. It has ended the greatest war in history, begotten a new thing in the history of mankind, a League of Nations which claims to be the foundation-stone for the future united life of the human race, and cleared the stage for ...
... The Human Cycle Appendix II The war is over, though peace still lingers, her way sadly embarrassed by blockades, armistices, secret negotiations, conferences where armed and victorious national egoisms dispute the bloodstained spoils of the conflict, political and other advantages, captured navies, indemnities, colonies, protectorates, torn fragments of ...
... 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 - 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 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 Human Cycle Foreword to the First Edition The four essays published in this volume 1 were not written at one time or conceived with any intentional connection between them in idea or purpose. The first was written in the early months of the war, two others when it was closing, the last recently during the formation and first operations of that ...
... 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 ...
... The Human Cycle The Passing of War? The progress of humanity proceeds by a series of imaginations which the will in the race turns into accomplished facts and a train of illusions which contain each of them an inevitable truth. The truth is there in the secret Will and Knowledge that are conducting our affairs for us and it reflects itself in the soul ...
... 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 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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". The "Synthesis of Yoga" is too large a work to be included in a single book; I propose to publish it in India in four parts, each devoted to one Page 386 of the four Yogas,—Works ...
... depends on the person to whom you put the question. The explanation will be different accordingly. From the point of view of evolution, I think Sri Aurobindo has explained this very clearly in The Human Cycle. Evolution, that is to say, culture Page 309 and civilisation, describes a more or less regular spiral movement around the earth, and the results of one civilisation, it may be said ...
... mistake it for the real is the one general error, root of all others and cause of all our stumbling and suffering, to which man is exposed by the nature of his mentality. Sri Aurobindo The Human Cycle: True and False Subjectivism The ordinary human being is conscious only in his physical being, and only in relatively rare moments is he conscious of his mind, just a little more frequently ...
... 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 o n the Gita, 13.37-42 53. Ibid., 13.44-45 ...
... It was in the review Arya , within a period of six years (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 ...
... individuals, it will always be an amorphous mass, all intermingled, like that ( gesture ). To become an individual is what Sri Aurobindo calls becoming truly a mental man. Well, if you have read The Human Cycle , you will see that already it is not so easy to become a truly mental man who thinks by himself, is free from all outer influences, who has an individuality, who exists, has his reality; even ...
... Questions and Answers (1955) 25 May 1955 Mother reads from Sri Aurobindo's The Human Cycle , Chapter 14, " The Suprarational Beauty ". I can see that you haven't understood three-fourths of the thing. Now we shall go slowly, step by step. ( To a child ) Ask a question just from where it begins; simply say, "Here, what does this mean?" ...
... Questions and Answers (1955) 1 June 1955 Mother reads from The Human Cycle , Chapter 14, " The Suprarational Beauty ", second paragraph. What do you want to ask about this? Sweet Mother, what is an aesthetic conscience? It is the consciousness of beauty. Aesthetic means that which concerns beauty, art. There are people, for example, ...
... his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material."(Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle) Published June 1954 * 1. These comments were written by the Mother after she was shown the questionnaire submitted to the Centre of Education ...
... history of civilisation for one of her students, a young Indian teacher, and submitted the project to Mother. ) Yes, this work would be of interest, but only if it is based on Sri Aurobindo's The Human Cycle (it has been published in the Bulletin ). For in this book, not only are all the problems of human evolution posed, they are also solved. Each time that Sri Aurobindo mentions a civilisation ...
... not there, it would all be so absurd. I've booked my ticket to Rameswaram for the evening of the 13th, so I will probably reach there on the 15th. I brought some work with me (revision of The Human Cycle ), and that helps me to live. I still don't clearly see the meaning of this trip. Just before I left, I received word from the publisher in Paris that 'my' book will come out in September. There ...
... might help me make it to the next stage and consolidate my inner life. And if you wish, I would return in a year or two. I shall soon have completed the revision 1 of The Life Divine and The Human Cycle , so I believe I shall have done the best I could, at present, to serve you. October 30th is my birthday. Could I leave immediately thereafter? It is not because I am unhappy with the Ashram ...
... lesser meanings given to the word are inadequate fumblings or impostures. 1 × This text by Sri Aurobindo ( The Human Cycle , Cent. Ed. Vol. XV p. 247 ) was translated into French by Mother on the occasion of writing to Satprem. ...
... the consciousness off. So now it's difficult. The consciousness has come back, but... And you, any news? If you could send a little force on my publisher over there: the manuscript of the "Human Cycle" is stranded there. Where? With my publisher, in Paris. 1 ( Mother concentrates, then goes into a long contemplation ) When you have enough of staying quiet, tell me! As for ...
... them. Oh, that's 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 ...
... your pujas? No, nothing. He understood it was over. ( silence ) And then... You know that from every side I've been trying to get Sri Aurobindo published [in France], in particular The Human Cycle. At last I got a letter from a certain J. B., who writes: "For a long time now, a publisher (F.) has been asking me to create a collection in his publishing house. I thought of a few books, mostly ...
... can't do anything. We can be witnesses, but without any active manifestation. We can't do anything. It's the same thing with Sri Aurobindo in France. I told you I had sent the translation of The Human Cycle; the publisher has finally answered me that it was "good for publishing houses specialized in this sort of subject." A second publisher told me the same thing. And I am waiting for a reply from ...
... which Sri Aurobindo brings a solution at once dynamic and illuminating. Hence, I am taking the liberty of sending by surface mail one of Sri Aurobindo's books in the original English entitled The Human Cycle . I hope it will interest you. I call on you rather than any other contemporary writer because I think your works embody the very anguish of the West, an anguish I have bitterly experienced ...
... the same time that it is charged with an ever progressive spirituality: The Foundations of Indian Culture (your friend Raja Rao considers Sri Aurobindo the best expositor of Indian 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 ...
... create a new type of State. And then he pays high tributes to Chamberlain. PURANI: Yes, he makes him out a saint. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, saint, apostle, everything. 5 Now published as The Human Cycle. × A vital, not an intellectual, demon. ...
... 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 Sri Aurobindo ...
... which continued to pour out for 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 ...
... knowledge. Reason only comes in afterwards to see what profit it can have of the shining harvest." 30 This preconises the path we should follow if we would seek after 28.Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, pp. 111-12. 29. Savitri, Book II, Canto X, p. 252. 30. The Life Divine, p. 67. Page 136 true knowledge: we must step back from the arena of conceptual thought ...
... no way for the human kind. Then the terrestrial evolution must pass beyond man as it has passed beyond the animal and a greater race must come that will be capable of the spiritual change..." (The Human Cycle, p. 207) Sri Aurobindo has elaborated this point in The Life Divine. A portion of what he has said there is worth quoting here: "At first sight this insistence on a radical change ...
... since spiritual freedom is not the egoistic assertion of our separate mind and life but obedience Page 65 to the Divine truth in ourself and our members and in all around us." (The Human Cycle, p. 242) ...
... opening to an unprecedented largeness of vision of the greatness of the worlds, the wonder of life, the self of man, the mystery of the spirit in him and the universe." 10 6. A passage from The Human Cycle: "The reason can govern, but only as a minister, imperfectly, or as a general arbiter and giver of suggestions which are not really supreme commands, or as one channel of the sovereign authority ...
... 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 Aurobindo was a ...
... be explained only if we undertake a study from the point of view of the psychological development of the human race, a study that has been initiated by Sri Aurobindo in his illuminative work, The Human Cycle. Ill The story of Iliad, which is centered on the siege of Troy, had its beginning, according to the Greek mythology, at a feast of the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Peleus ...
... Foundations of Indian Culture 3 (The) Future 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 ...
... 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 foundations of n ...
... Essays on the Gita 20 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 ...
... 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 Cycle ) The Future Poetry — December 1917 to July 1920 Essays on the Gita (Second Series) — August 1918 to July 1920 The Renaissance in India — August 1918 to November 1918 Is India ...
... nisus and such is the truth and fact man is being driven to face in his inner individual consciousness as well as outer collective life. We can thus note, broadly speaking, three stages in the human cycle of Nature's evolution. The first was the period of emergence of self-consciousness and the trials and experiments it went through to establish and confirm itself. The ancient Page 138 ...
... and such is the truth and fact man is being driven to face in his inner individual consciousness as well as outer collective life. We can thus note, broadly speaking, three stages in the human cycle of Nature's evolution. The first was the period of emergence of self-consciousness and the trials and experiments it went through to establish and confirm itself. Page 28 The ...
... Yoga and welded them into his all embracing "Integral Yoga". Both are thus complementary: Yoga is the individual, evolution the collective, aspect.16 In the last chapter of Sri Aurobindo's The Human Cycle we find a description of a transitional period - what he calls a "spiritualised society". It is a stage when mankind, having accepted the ideal, will be engaged in the process of giving it a shape ...
... Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness. 16. Sri 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 ...
... Mother (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 3" 1 Impression, 1940). The Synthesis of Yoga (On Yoga I), (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 ...
... what I did not know either at the time, is that the formidable white horse, in Indian tradition, is the mount of Kalki, the last “avatar” (for us, Sri Aurobindo) the one who comes at the end of the human cycle to “change the Law” of reigning Death and Falsehood, in order to establish the reign of Divine Life and of True Man. 1956 Mother’s Island or The Three Boatmen of My Life ...
... 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. The Mother ...
... 8 5. Savitri, XXVIII. 168 6. The Secret of the Veda, X.34 7. Ibid., X.38 8. Ibid., X.37 9. On Himself 10. The Secret of the Veda, X.25 11. Hymns to the Mystic Fire, XI. 11 12. The Human Cycle, XV.5 13. The Secret of the Veda, X.236 14. The Synthesis of Yoga, XX.42 15. The Secret of the Veda, X.235 16. Thoughts and Aphorisms, No.84, XVII.88 17. The Synthesis of Yoga, XXI.572 ...
... 152,182,198, 214, 324, 370, 389, 408-9, 417, 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 ...
... Aurobindo's Elements of Yoga, The Mother and Bases of Yoga. Vol.7 Questions and Answers 1955. Oral answers to questions about Sri Aurobindo's Bases of Yoga, a chapter from his The Human Cycle, two chapters from his The Synthesis of Yoga, and the Mother's drama. The Great Secret. Vol.8 Questions and Answers 1956. Oral answers to questions about Part One of Sri Aurobindo's ...
... Prayers and Meditations, one joined 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 ...
... 16 West Europeans "But these early dawns cannot endure in their purity, so long as the race is not ready," wrote Sri Aurobindo in The Human Cycle. Because, after a time, the force dies down; then comes a static condition of the human mind and human life, entailing stagnation, decay, disintegration. The reason? "The multitude remains in ...
... this real man within is the right object of education and indeed of all human life if it would find and live according to the hidden Truth and deepest law of its own being. Sri Aurobindo The Human Cycle: The Coming of the Subjective Age The psychic being is formed by the inner Truth and organised around it. The Mother Words of the Mother - III: 18 January 1951 Does the psychic ...
... × 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 . × ...
... own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material." (Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle ) Published in June 1954 Never forget that to be a good teacher one has to abolish in oneself all egoism. 2 10 December 1959 Page 167 And to be worthy of teaching ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter XVI The Suprarational Ultimate of Life In all the higher powers of his life man may be said to be seeking, blindly enough, for God. To get at the Divine and Eternal in himself and the world and to harmonise them, to put his being and his life in tune with the Infinite reveals itself in these parts of his nature as his concealed ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter XXII The Necessity of the Spiritual Transformation Our normal conduct of life, whether the individual or the social, is actually governed by the balance between two complementary powers,—first, an implicit will central to the life and inherent in the main power of its action and, secondly, whatever modifying will can come in from ...
... 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 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 ...
... 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 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 - 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 ...
... 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 Human Cycle Chapter XIII Reason and Religion It would seem then that reason is an insufficient, often an inefficient, even a stumbling and at its best a very partially enlightened guide for humanity in that great endeavour which is the real heart of human progress and the inner justification of our existence as souls, minds and bodies upon the earth ...
... 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 Human Cycle Chapter XI The Reason as Governor of Life Reason using the intelligent will for the ordering of the inner and the outer life is undoubtedly the highest developed faculty of man at his present point of evolution; it is the sovereign, because the governing and self-governing faculty in the complexities of our human existence. Man is di ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter V True and False Subjectivism The subjective stage of human development is that critical juncture in which, having gone forward from symbols, types, conventions, having turned its gaze superficially on the individual being to discover his truth and right law of action and its relation to the superficial and external truth and ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter I The Cycle of Society Modern Science, obsessed with the greatness of its physical discoveries and the idea of the sole existence of Matter, has long attempted to base upon physical data even its study of Soul and Mind and of those workings of Nature in man and animal in which a knowledge of psychology is as important as any of ...
... 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 ...
... 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 Human Cycle Preface to the First Edition The chapters of this book were written in a serial form in the pages of the monthly review, Arya, and from the necessity of speedy publication have been reprinted as they stood without the alterations which would have been necessary to give them a greater unity of treatment. They reflect the rapidly changing ...
... 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 ...
... 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 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 ...
... 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 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 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 ...
... 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 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 ...
... 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 Human Cycle Chapter IX Civilisation and Culture Nature starts from Matter, develops out of it its hidden Life, releases out of involution in life all the crude material of Mind and, when she is ready, turns Mind upon itself and upon Life and Matter in a great mental effort to understand all three in their phenomena, their obvious action, their secret ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter XII The Office and Limitations of the Reason If the reason is not the sovereign master of our being nor even intended to be more than an intermediary or minister, it cannot succeed in giving a perfect law to the other estates of the realm, although it may impose on them a temporary and imperfect order as a passage to a higher ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter XVIII The Infrarational Age of the Cycle In spirituality then would lie our ultimate, our only hope for the perfection whether of the individual or of the communal man; not the spirit which for its separate satisfaction turns away from the earth and her works, but that greater spirit which surpasses and yet accepts and fulfils ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter XIV The Suprarational Beauty Religion is the seeking after the spiritual, the suprarational and therefore in this sphere the intellectual reason may well be an insufficient help and find itself, not only at the end but from the beginning, out of its province and condemned to tread either diffidently or else with a stumbling p ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter XVII Religion as the Law of Life Since the infinite, the absolute and transcendent, the universal, the One is the secret summit of existence and to reach the spiritual consciousness and the Divine the ultimate goal and aim of our being and therefore of the whole development of the individual and the collectivity in all its parts ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter XV The Suprarational Good We begin to see, through the principle and law of our religious being, through the principle and law of our aesthetic being, the universality of a principle and law which is that of all being and which we must therefore hold steadily in view in regard to all human activities. It rests on a truth on which ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter III The Coming of the Subjective Age The inherent aim and effort and justification, the psychological seed-cause, the whole tendency of development of an individualistic age of mankind, all go back to the one dominant need of rediscovering the substantial truths of life, thought and action which have been overlaid by the falsehood ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter IV The Discovery of the Nation-Soul The primal law and purpose of the individual life is to seek its own self-development. Consciously or half consciously or with an obscure unconscious groping it strives always and rightly strives at self-formulation,—to find itself, to discover within itself the law and power of its own being ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter VI The Objective and Subjective Views of Life The principle of individualism is the liberty of the human being regarded as a separate existence to develop himself and fulfil his life, satisfy his mental tendencies, emotional and vital needs and physical being according to his own desire governed by his reason; it admits no other ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter XIX The Curve of the Rational Age The present age of mankind may be characterised from this point of view of a graded psychological evolution of the race as a more and more rapidly accelerated attempt to discover and work out the right principle and secure foundations of a rational system of society. It has been an age of progress; ...
... The Human Cycle After the War The great war has for some time been over: it is already receding into the near distances of the past. Around us is a black mist and welter of the present, before us the face of a dim and ambiguous future. It is just possible, however, to take some stock of the immediate results of the war, although by no stretch of language ...
... 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 Human Cycle Appendix I We seem at the present moment to be very far away from such a rational solution 1 and indeed at the opposite pole of human possibility; we have swung back to an extreme of international disorder and to an entire application of the vital and animal principle of the struggle for survival, not of the humanly fittest, but of the ...
... year or two. 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" ...
... classes, of the Master's own books like The Life Divine (the metaphysical structure of that vision). The 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 ...
... in Shakespeare does the poetry of the age display a consummate versatility and attain its perfect rondure. References 1. The Making of Literature (London), 1946, p. 167. 2. The Human Cycle (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry ), 1949, p. 171. 3. Ibid, p. 172. 4. Ibid., p. 171. 5. Ibid., pp. 171-172. 6.Lucas, op. cit., p. 135; pp. 73-84. 7. Ibid, p. 85 ...
... carried—and everything is light. I have really to be done with this 'me'. It will be a joy to be with you again and resume the work. Here, I am sparing as many hours as I can to correcting The Human Cycle ... I follow X perfectly in his inner life, unreservedly, but I have to force myself to follow him in his outer life. Mother, I am at your feet, with my love and my gratitude. Your child ...
... Sri Aurobindo’s works will be referred to in the text by the following abbreviations: EDH: Essays Divine and Human; EPY: Essays in Philosophy and Yoga; HC: The Human Cycle; LD: The Life Divine; LY: Letters on Yoga; Sav: Savitri; SY: The Synthesis of Yoga. × ...
... Sri Aurobindo: Letters on Yoga , pp. 402-403. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle , pp. 661-662. × In persons knowledgeable about Christianity, this image will bring to mind the ...
... × L’Agenda de Mère II, 140, footnote × The Human Cycle , 59 × Letters on Yoga , 385. ...
... on the Gita (Sri Aurobindo) ET Evening Talks (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 ...
... some kind of World-State, unitary or federal, or a confederacy or a coalition he must arrive at in the end; no smaller or looser expedient would adequately serve the purpose. Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle: A Postscript Chapter All those who make an effort to overcome their ordinary nature, all those who try to realise materially the profound experience that has brought them into contact with ...
... of Sri Aurobindo” belong: Essays Divine and Human (vol. 12) Essays in Philosophy and Yoga (vol. 13) Essays on the Gita (vol. 19) The Synthesis of Yoga (vol. 23 and 24) The Human Cycle (vol. 25) Savitri (vol. 33 and 34). All quoted works of the Mother belong to the centenary edition of the “Collected Works of the Mother” (CWM), and have been checked against the original ...
... that, in spite of the dualities 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 ...
... die Deutschen – Karriere eines Kults Sri 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: ...
... interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita 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 ...
... march a far greater consciousness than what we call Mind, a supreme Truth-consciousness — or what Sri Aurobindo 25.Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, p. 853. 26.Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, p. 158. Page 198 calls Supermind — that by its manifestation will liberate not partially, not imperfectly as at present, but radically and wholly the imprisoned Divine. 27 ...
... with Gautam Chawalla) Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother 15 November 1966 After what You write and what Sri Aurobindo has written in The Human Cycle , it is evident that the solution lies in Truth. Then why the delay? Because Truth is supremely destructive of falsehood and ill will. If it were to act immediately on the world as it is, not ...
... aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the Spirit . Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle: The Spiritual Aim and Life ...
... Do you have some news? There's a question I'd like to tell you about. It's about the publication of Sri Aurobindo's books in France. You know that we sent The Synthesis of Yoga and The Human Cycle. 1 The woman who looks after those publications hasn't reacted very well. And not because of the translation (which she finds good), but because of Sri Aurobindo and the text itself She rather ...
... great plans—and will realize them. I thought I was 'old,' but P.L. has revealed to me that 'you become old when you stop progressing.'" It's good. Do you have news of your publisher for The Human Cycle ? Page 222 No, nothing at all. Bah! ( Mother goes into a long contemplation ) What happened is this: the body suddenly (yes, it came over it one day like that) got a sort ...
... consciousness, which is also a discipline for self-knowledge and self-transformation, awaits discovery by those who are turning towards the new horizons in psychology. REFERENCES 1. The Human Cycle, Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1970-73), Vol. 15, p. 1. 2. Letters on Yoga (SABCL, Vol. 22), pp. 321-22. 3. Letters on Yoga (SABCL, Vol ...
... like to take this opportunity to clear up an unfortunate slander that has been circulating about Aurobindo, namely, that some of his writings have a racist overtone. In particular, sections from The Human Cycle have been quoted to allegedly show that Aurobindo was advocating the superiority of certain races. In fact, as those passages make quite clear, Aurobindo was ridiculing and condemning those who ...
... and his insatiable desire to possess and control everything within his reach. There is for him no meaning to anything beyond its economic 27 Ibid.p. 140. 28 Ibid., p. 153. 29 The Human Cycle, SABCL, Vol. 15, p. 72. Page 282 value. Those who have this view of life may be able to enjoy life for a time but their attempt to build security by the accumulation of wealth ...
... C., while Prof. Weber places it any time between 12 th and 15 th Century B.C. Prof. Max Muller believes that the Veda was composed during the 13 th Century B.C. Vide., Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, Vol. 15, Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL), 1972. Page 74 5 Vide., Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, Vol. 10, SABCL, 1972. 6 RV.,lV.3.l6. 7 W., V ...
... collapses towards the life of instincts, impulses, and desires with the reason degraded into a servant of the lower life. The typal order is the appropriate principle of the intermediate ages of the human cycle in which attempts are made to maintain some imperfect form of the true law, of dharma, by will-power and the force of Page 200 character in the treta, and by law, arrangement ...
... 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. It is well known ...
... 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 Sri Aurobindo ...
... the ideal of "lokasangraha", — 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 ...
... dissolution in-built into its soil. Sri Aurobindo has analysed the problem and offered its right solution at many places of his writings, especially in The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga and The Human Cycle. Here are two relevant excerpts from his writings: Page 50 (1)"These attempts have always been overcome by the persistent inconscience and ignorance of our human vital nature; for ...
... The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, (Bulletin 1949) 1952 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 ...
... 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 ; Words of the ...
... 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 dynamism ...
... (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 lines", and they demand from the reader both intellectual alertness and ...
... and Answers on Savitri" 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 ...
... nisus and such is the truth and fact man is being driven to face in his inner individual consciousness as well as outer collective life. We can thus note, broadly speaking, three stages in the human cycle of Nature's evolution. The first was the period of emergence of self-consciousness and the trials and experiments it went through to establish and confirm itself. The ancient Page 87 ...
... the means to the teachers Sri Aurobindo centre Of Education on September 24 and October 22, 1961. Page 83 I How the Child Educates Himself In Sri Aurobindo's The Human Cycle we find an explicit and luminous passage, already quoted but which we repeat here because it reveals the secret of true education. Apropos of the new trends evidenced by the experiments in ...
... couldn't therefore have been any 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 ...
... 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.' ...
... Not satisfied with so comprehensive a statement of his philosophy, Sri Aurobindo turned to some of its applications in the fields of social and political organisation, and of art and poetry. The Human Cycle is thus a notable little treatise on the psychology of social development. Man's primary urge should be to open to the higher light of the overhead planes of consciousness: to turn to the Divine ...
... also an enveloping cosmic background. Its very composition is largely the result (so it is confidently claimed) of a new aesthesis with its source of origin located in the overhead planes. In The Human Cycle, Sri Aurobindo had written: A time comes when the creator of beauty revolts and declares the charter of his own freedom, generally in the shape of a new law or principle of ...
... d by Indians in regard to his 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 ...
... to Agni, translated in their 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 ...
... × Prieres et Meditations, 2.9.1914 × The Human Cycle, 15: 250 × Entretiens, 5.14.1958 ...
... Kiran. Bharati-di and Krishnakumari-di 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 ...
... 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 sometimes spanned out into a treatise on the instalment plan: for example ...
... slays the morrow of creatures and diminishes the life-span of aging mortals. (11) Widely disclosing the ends of heaven She awakes and sends her sister far away from her. She shortens the human cycles - woman-like she shines wide with the eye of her Beloved. (12) Lo! The luminous Goddess of Delight spreading out like a herd of kine! Like a river She extends herself wide over low lands ...
... 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 Life ...
... included in the present text. A greater portion of the talk was published as "Talk to the Women of Japan" in 1967. The last part of "To the Women of Japan" incorporated passages from Sri Aurobindo’s Human Cycle , Synthesis of Yoga , etc. The pieces in this part were published together in English in 1978 as Part 6 of Words of Long Ago . The same pieces were brought out in French in 1983 as Part 6 of Paroles ...
... s, G.M. 75,98,314,368,455 Horu Thakur 45 Housman, A.H. 56 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... original legend,257-264; his ideas on the symbolic content of Savitri, 264-265; Sri Aurobindo on the Vedic myths, 269-271; on the symbol of'Savitri' in the Veda, 275-279; on the divinisation of human nature, 281-283; on the overhead planes of consciousness, 295-299; Sri Aurobindo's overhead aesthesis, 299-303; Sri Aurobindo on mantric poetry, 303-304; on overhead poetry, 309-310;... design of, 427-431; the Commedia's cosmos and the cosmos of Savitri compared, 432; symbolic action in, 432-440; Sri Aurobindo's Sonnets and, 440; views on the length of, 445-447; views on the human interest of, 448-449; views on the philosophic content of, 450-451; word-combinations in, 455-456; Savitri as the fulfilment of Sri Aurobindo's life's work, 457-458; Savitri as a new revelation ...
... totality of the social existence. A people, a great human collectivity, is in fact an organic living being with a collective or rather—for the word collective is too mechanical to be true to the inner reality—a common or communal soul, mind and body. The life of the society like the physical life of the individual human being passes through a cycle of birth, growth, youth, ripeness and decline, and... through many such cycles before it comes to a final exhaustion. Moreover, the idea is itself only the principle of soul manifestation of the communal being and each communal soul again a manifestation and vehicle of the greater eternal spirit that expresses itself in Time and on earth is seeking, as it were, its own fullness in humanity through the vicissitudes of the human cycles. A people then which... perish,—even so all the older peoples and nations except India and China perished,—as a man dies of old age. But the collective being has too the capacity of renewing itself, of a recovery and a new cycle. For in each people there is a soul idea or life idea at work, less mortal than its body, and if this idea is itself sufficiently powerful, large and force-giving and the people sufficiently strong ...
... capacity and principle upon earth is marked by the appearance of a new species. In the same way, the progressive forms of the life of races, of peoples, of individuals, follow each other through the human cycles, ceaselessly inspired, fecundated, renewed by the efforts of the guides of humanity. And all these forms aim at the same goal, the mysterious, the glorious goal of Nature. 1 It is to this... them possible, bears witness to her untiring perseverance, is a proof of her solemn vow; in each one is a little more matter transfigured, announcing future dawns of intelligence. Through innumerable cycles how many paths has she had to follow in order to reach at last the cave of the anthropoid, the primitive man? It is before him that will open the royal avenue leading to the palace of spirit. But... dramatic way was based on the power of mind, mind dealing with matter and life. What it has been to the world, we have not to discuss here. But a new reign is coming, that of the Spirit: after the human, the divine. Yet, if we have been fortunate enough to live on earth at such a stupendous, a unique time as this one, is it sufficient to stand and watch the unfolding events? All those who feel that ...
... to his divine consummation. To find highest beauty is to find God; to reveal, to embody, to create as we say, highest beauty is to bring out of our souls the Jiving image and power of God. ( Human Cycle, p. 178). Page 98 DIFFERENT LEVELS OF PERCEPTION OF BEAUTY Even though beauty is everywhere there is room for a hierarchy in it. Sri Aurobindo says: "All is from... worship which the human heart offers to the Divine and which the Supreme does not reject. There is a thirst in the human heart for perfection unattained. Not only is it present in the human heart but even in the insignificant moth there is an attraction for the light of the stars and even the dark night holds in her heart the immortal hope for the Dawn; from the world of sorrows the human being feels devotion... children of the Tagore-family. Among the subjects taught anatomy was also included. One day, the teacher of anatomy brought the bone of a human hand isolated from the human skeleton for the lesson. Tagore felt terribly shocked at the sight of the bone unrelated to human body : he could not see it except as an organic part. Isolated from its natural place and function it appeared meaningless and was ugly ...
... examples at random. Byron writes : "Who can view the ripened rose nor seek to wear it? " In this line we find the irresistible attraction which beauty exerts on the human heart. But it also ___________________ 8 Human Cycle, P. 178 , Page 82 expresses the most common reaction of the desire-sou1,-the Kamanamaya purusha-to the experience of beauty... children of the Tagore-family. Among the subjects taught anatomy was also included. One day, the teacher of anatomy brought the bone of a human hand isolated from the human skeleton for the lesson. Tagore felt terribly shocked at the sight of the bone unrelated to a human body: He could not see it except as an organic part. Isolated from its natural place and function it appeared meaningless and was ugly... call love"; there is an implied fling on that love; but he offers instead a far greater thing, the worship which the human heart offers to the Divine and which the supreme does not reject. There is a thirst in the human heart for perfection unattained. Not only is it present in the human heart but even in the insignificant moth there is an attraction for the light of the stars and even the dark night ...
... 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 now reached... Perhaps, while trying to make an inquiry into the nature of the world, man might have discovered that the first problem is himself. Thus he became the problem of problems. Human inquiry becomes a subjective problem, a problem of human psychology par excellence. This seems to have taken place both in the East as well as the West. " Know thyself" was the command formulated by one of the oldest Greek ph... supra-physical there are regular branches of human culture which require the use of and depend upon the exercise of faculties that indicate the existence of the supra-rational. Religion, astrology, poetry and plastic arts very often depend upon the action of some supra-rational faculty in man for their highest creations. The undying aspiration of the whole human race for a divine Perfection or fulfilment ...
... Grof, Stanislav, 322, 391 Gunas, 108-18 transcendence of, 115-16 transformation of, 117-18 Higher Mind, see under Mind Horace, 39 Human development, 390-401 Human evolution cycles of, 250, 255 three successive elements, 255-61 Hypnosis (hypnotism), 53, 82, 246-47 Ignorance (the), 24, 49, 61, 88, 106, 143, 355 and... 240, 242 and visions, 242 symbolic, 235-36 Ego (self), 21, 25, 100, 120, 124-36 passim, 305, 361, 365-67, 374, 380-84, 386-87 in cosmic consciousness, 371-72 and free will, 104 and human development, 398-401 and individuality, 135-36, 348-49, 398-99 liberation from, 366-67, 370-74 passim, 383-84 in ordinary consciousness, 370-71 and the Overmind, 154 and self, 370-71, 372 ...
... Mother India, 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... Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born 17 Nirodbaran, Talks with Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 118 (1986). Page 285 to save; Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her human father... infinities and cosmic significances notwithstanding, the splendour of the eternal feminine that is Savitri is not ignored either. She is divine, she is human; and she is all the more divine because she is human too, and she is the more adorably human because she is also radiantly divine: Near to earth's wideness intimate with heaven, Exalted and swift her young large-visioned spirit ...
... new consciousness that suddenly appeared in the year of grace 1969 of our evolution? (There may have been many other years of grace before, now buried under the rubble of the earth, and other human cycles that reached the point we have now reached and were destroyed perhaps for the very same reasons that threaten us today. Are we the topmost crest of the great evolutionary wave or simply the nth... this thinking and speculating and suffering and struggling first person. We thus raise a strange new antenna, quite meaningless and seemingly pointing at nothing, yet it holds the secret of the next cycle, and marvels next to which the splendid twentieth-century rockets are like clumsy children's toys. We are engaged in the introspection of the second kind; we are knocking at the door of the unknown... existing world or discovering new procedures: it is a change of consciousness and vision. But at least we have progressed in one direction, which is not the one we think. We have completed the cycle of the ape; we have pushed to its ultimate consequence the simple little gesture that tied a vine to a branch to make a bow; we have inflated and overinflated the mental balloon to its breaking point ...
... honest West was only able to invent monsters who can only live by becoming more and more monstrous. We are at the end of an evolutionary cycle and the Force is with those who will seize hold of the secret of the Transition to the next species, the true human species, for we are still but intelligent and evil-minded gnomes. We are not yet men . The next species is not an improvement upon the old... here, gritting our teeth, counting blows and being constantly pulled into those phantom stories and all those old stories (however generous and "serious" they may be) why, at the end of this human cycle, could not a few join together in a concentrated, accelerated effort, to call "the other thing" — like a last cry of men on this boat in distress? An island ... I don't know where, in the Pacific... story of primitive ages, and religions will vanish because there will be this living Sweetness everywhere. At bottom, we are "baby men," not complete men yet. We are now living the end of the dark Cycle, the old falsehood struggles, but a new light already filters through the bursting of the old world — we are with this Future, we are helping to create it. That is why you put me on earth. Like you ...
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