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SRI AUROBINDO ON ORIGINAL THINKING

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On Original Thinking   The most striking instance is our continued helplessness in the face of the new conditions and new  knowledge imposed on us by recent European contact. We have tried to assimilate, we have tried to reject, we have tried to select; but we have not been able to do any of these things successfully. Successful assimilation depends on mastery; but we have not mastered European conditions and knowledge, rather we have been seized, subjected and enslaved by them. Successful rejection is possible only if we have intelligent possession of that which we wish to keep . Our rejection too must be an intelligent rejection; we must reject because we have understood, not because we have failed to understand . But our Hinduism, our old culture are precisely the possessions we have cherished with the least intelligence; throughout the whole range of our life we do things without knowing why we do them, we believe things without knowing why we believe them, we assert thi...

Integral Yoga of Supramental Yogi- Sri Aurobindo

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  Yoga of Sri Aurobindo , known as Integral Yoga, is based on the three aspects that" Man is a transitional being, he is not final. He is a middle term of the evolution, not its end, crown or consummating masterpiece   (CWSA Vol12 P221). Sri Aurobindo underlines   " Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges"(CWSA Vol12 P443) Sri Aurobindo explains " Man is a transitional being, he is not final. He is too imperfect for that, too imperfect in capacity for knowledge, too imperfect in will and action, too imperfect in his turn towards joy and beauty, too imperfect in his will for freedom and his instinct for order. Even if he could perfect himself in his own type, his type is too low and small to satisfy the need of the universe. Something larger, higher, more capable of a rich all embracing universality is needed, a greater being, a ...

150 QA श्रीअरविन्द सार्धशती (1872-2022)

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    आजादी का अमृत महोत्सव एवं श्रीअरविन्द सार्धशती (1872-2022) क्र . सं .   प्रश्न उत्तर 1.      श्रीअरविन्द का जन्मदिवस ? 15 अगस्त 1872 2.          15 अगस्त किस महान सन्त का निर्वाण दिवस होता है। रामकृष्ण परमहंस 3.      भारत के स्वतंत्रता दिवस के दिन किन क्रांतिकारी का जन्मदिवस होता है ? श्रीअरविन्द 4.      अरबिन्दो घोष के पिताजी का नाम क्या था ? डॉ . कृष्णधन घोष 5.      अरबिन्दो घोष के पिताजी का क्या व्यवसाय था ? चिकित्सक 6.      अरबिन्दो घोष के पिताजी की मृत्यु किस कारण से हुई थी ? श्रीअरविन्द के इंग्लैण्ड से भारत लौटते समय जहाज के डूबने की झूठी खबर के कारण...