Author: Sri Aurobindo
Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 519
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788170588917
Description
This book contains short prose pieces written by Sri Aurobindo between 1910 and 1950, but not published during his lifetime. The material consists largely of writings on philosophy, psychology and yoga. There are also some cultural writings and collection of sayings entitled Thoughts and Aphorisms.
“The contributions of evil to the good of the world & the harm sometimes done by the virtuous are distressing to the soul enamored of good. Nevertheless be not distressed nor confounded, but study rather & calmly understand God’s ways with humanity.”
“In God’s providence there is no evil, but only good or its preparation.”
This volume comprises most of the shorter prose written by Sri Aurobindo after coming to Pondicherry in 1910 and not published during his lifetime.
The material has been arranged in four parts:
i) Essays Divine and Human: Complete essays on Yoga and related subjects, arranged in five chronological sections.
Ii) From Man to Superman: Notes and Fragments on Philosophy, Psychology and yoga, arranged in three thematic sections.
Iii) Notes and Fragments on various subjects, arranged in three thematic sections.
Iv) Thoughts and Aphorisms, as arranged by the author in three sections, with a section of additional aphorisms.
Contents
Contents
Part One: Essays Divine and Human
Section One (circa 1911)
Certitudes
Moksha
Man
Philosophy
The Siddhis
The Psychology of Yoga
Section Two (1910 – 1913)
Na Kinchidapi Chintayet
The Sources of Poetry
The Interpretation of Scripture
On Original Thinking
The Balance of Justice
Social Reform
Hinduism and the Mission of India
The Psychology of Yoga
The Claims of Theosophy
Science & Religion in Theosophy
Sat
Sachchidananda
The Silence behind Life
Section Three (circa 1913)
The Psychology of Yoga
Initial Definitions and Descriptions
The Object of Our Yoga
Purna Yoga
I. The Entire Purpose of Yoga
II. Parabrahman, Mukti & Human
Thought-Systems
III. Parabrahman and Parapurusha
Natural and Supernatural Man
The Evolutionary Aim in Yoga
The Fullness of Yoga –In Condition
Nature
Maya
Section Four (1914 – 1919)
The Beginning and the End
The Hour of God
Beyond Good and Evil
The Divine Superman
Section Five (1927 and after)
The Law of the Way
Man and the Supermind
The Involved and Evolving Godhead
The Evolution of Consciousness
The Path
Part Two: From Man to Superman: Notes and Fragments on Philosophy, Psychology and Yoga
Section One. Philosophy: God, Nature and Man
God: The One Reality
Nature: The World-Manifestation
Man and Superman
Section Two. Psychology: The Science of Consciousness
The Problem of Consciousness
Consciousness and the Inconscient
The Science of Consciousness
Section Three. Yoga: Change of Consciousness and Transformation of Nature
The Way of Yoga
Partial Systems of Yoga
Integral Yoga
Part Three: Notes and Fragments on Various Subjects
Section One. The Human Being in Time
The Marbles of Time
A Theory of the Human Being
A Cyclical Theory of Evolution
Section Two. The East and the West
A Misunderstanding of Continents
Towards Unification
China, Japan and India
Section Three. India
Renascent India
Where We Stand in Literature
Section Four. Genius, Poetry, Beauty
The Origin of Genius
Poetic Genius
The Voices of the Poets
Pensees
A Dream
The Beauty of a Crow's Wings
Section Five. Science, Religion, Reason, Justice
Science
Religion
Reason and Society
Justice
Part Four: Thoughts and Aphorisms
Jnana
Karma
Bhakti
Additional Aphorisms
