Sri Aurobindo ( 1872-1950 ) opines, " the races of mankind have come too close to each other, are being thrown together in a certain unavoidable life unity " and conceded truth behind the dictum of Professor Lowes Dickinson that " the opposition is not so much between Asia and Europe as between India and the rest of the world."
India, " the heart of Asia " has become the symbolic representation of all the difficulties of modern mankind. India will be the land of its resurrection- the resurrection to a higher and true life.
Pessimism and negative evaluation of the present period is that the appreciation of its values is in most cases the opinion of the mass, of average man. In our time " elitism " is a dirty word. It is an assumption of post-modernism that " high " and " low " have to be mingled, and therefore that mass culture is what suits our era. Our habitual way of seeing the world is truncated. The only difference between the broken stick and our habitual vision of the world is that former is a mere optical illusion, while the later is a serious one. We persist in seeing as a broken stick which is not. This world is perfect.
True knowledge, Sri Aurobindo said, is not attained by thinking. It is what you are ; it is what you become. Sri Aurobindo noted the momentous fact that a linear realization on one point is not enough : a global realization of all points is needed, one that embraces the totality of the individual .
The overmind being a godlike consciousness can broaden the human circle, not change it. It can divinize man, but also colossalise him if man harnesses it to his ego instead of harnessing it to his soul. We need a different consciousness. The overmind would still not change life, for the same reasons that prevented Christ and all the great prophets from changing it. The overmind clearly sees that all is one, but owing to the very structure of its consciousness, in practice it cannot help dividing the oneness : it sees all but sees all from ( its ) own viewpoint whether mental or overmental, the consciousness can experience one and only one truth at a time.
Superamental vision of Sri Aurobindo is a global vision. It sees not only the whole world of things and beings in a single vision, which connects all the beams together without opposing anything, but it also sees the view point of each thing, each being, each force- it is a rounded vision that does not end in a central point, but in myriads of points.
The superamental consciousness captures not only all view points, but also the deeper forces at work behind each thing and the truth in each thing- it is a Truth-consciousness. We need ego-transformation in Indian subcontinent and not western habit of ego-adjustment. Now we should vigorously indoctrinate the vision of Sri Aurobindo for world harmony.
India, " the heart of Asia " has become the symbolic representation of all the difficulties of modern mankind. India will be the land of its resurrection- the resurrection to a higher and true life.
Pessimism and negative evaluation of the present period is that the appreciation of its values is in most cases the opinion of the mass, of average man. In our time " elitism " is a dirty word. It is an assumption of post-modernism that " high " and " low " have to be mingled, and therefore that mass culture is what suits our era. Our habitual way of seeing the world is truncated. The only difference between the broken stick and our habitual vision of the world is that former is a mere optical illusion, while the later is a serious one. We persist in seeing as a broken stick which is not. This world is perfect.
True knowledge, Sri Aurobindo said, is not attained by thinking. It is what you are ; it is what you become. Sri Aurobindo noted the momentous fact that a linear realization on one point is not enough : a global realization of all points is needed, one that embraces the totality of the individual .
The overmind being a godlike consciousness can broaden the human circle, not change it. It can divinize man, but also colossalise him if man harnesses it to his ego instead of harnessing it to his soul. We need a different consciousness. The overmind would still not change life, for the same reasons that prevented Christ and all the great prophets from changing it. The overmind clearly sees that all is one, but owing to the very structure of its consciousness, in practice it cannot help dividing the oneness : it sees all but sees all from ( its ) own viewpoint whether mental or overmental, the consciousness can experience one and only one truth at a time.
Superamental vision of Sri Aurobindo is a global vision. It sees not only the whole world of things and beings in a single vision, which connects all the beams together without opposing anything, but it also sees the view point of each thing, each being, each force- it is a rounded vision that does not end in a central point, but in myriads of points.
The superamental consciousness captures not only all view points, but also the deeper forces at work behind each thing and the truth in each thing- it is a Truth-consciousness. We need ego-transformation in Indian subcontinent and not western habit of ego-adjustment. Now we should vigorously indoctrinate the vision of Sri Aurobindo for world harmony.
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