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Sri Aurobindo's Perspective on Reality Publication Details S´raddha• Frequency of publication : Quarterly. Published on 15 August, 24 November, 21 February, A Quarterly devoted to an exposition of the teachings of 24 April. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo Annual Subscription : Rs 150.00 Single copy : Rs. 50.00 Those wishing to have the journal mailed to them may please send an additional Rs. 100.00 Annual Subscription for soft copy of the journal : Rs.150.00 Vol.3 No. 2 For overseas readers : Annual subscription :US$ 45 inclusive of postal and bank charges for hard copy; US$ 20 for soft copy All payments to be made in favour of Sri Aurobindo Centre for Research in Social Sciences All Rights Reserved No matter appearing in this journal or part thereof may be reproduced or translated, in any form, without the written permission of the publishers except for short extracts as quotations. The views expressed by the authors are not necessarily those of the journal. All correspondence may be addressed to S´raddha• 24 November, 2011 Sri Aurobindo Bhavan 8 Shakespeare Sarani Kolkata 700 071 Editor: Arup Basu Phone: 98302 58723 E-mail : [email protected] , [email protected] Published by Sri Aurobindo Centre for Research in Social Sciences Sri Aurobindo Bhavan 8 Shakespeare Sarani Kolkata700071 Phone : 2282 3057, 2282 2162, 2282 1819 Printed by Basab Chattopadhyaya Shilalipi Sri Aurobindo Bhavan 16 A Tamer Lane Kolkata 700 009 8 Shakespeare Sarani • Kolkata 700 071 Phone 22414580 Contents Sri Aurobindo’s Teaching And Method Of Sadhana Sri Aurobindo 7 Two Master-Conceptions Of The Gita: Purushottama And Para Prakriti Kireet Joshi 9 Veda Vyasa’s Mahabharata In Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri Prema Nandakumar 14 êFÊFÙFFcááFÚF¶FW £FFÎFk ´ • • · • · Savitri, Book I, Canto I, S raddha va m l labhate jña nam The Symbol Dawn, Pt.2 Debashish Banerji 23 Who has faith. .........he attains knowledge Sri Aurobindo’s Perspective On Reality Martha SG Orton 40 —Gita IV. 39 Syncretism In Sri Aurobindo’s Thought Sandeep Joshi` 47 Intuition And The Limits To Reason: A Cross-Cultural Study Richard Hartz 61 The Present Situation And The Need To Change The Political System Kittu Reddy 78 Sarasvati And Her Vedic Symbolism Sampada Savardekar 87 Language: A Means Of Spiritual Realisation Ananda Reddy 97 Being Human And The Copernican Principle Georges Van Vrekhem 107 Inayat Khan And The Mystic Nada Nancy A Barta-Norton 124 Notes On Authors 148 Cover : Usha R Patel’s painting Voice Of The Higher Mind Reders of Sraddha will be interested to know that we have started a Facebook page for Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Kolkata. The page can be accessed by all Facebook users, to exchange views and share information. This way we will be able to share news about events, lectures and other programmes that are regularly held on our premises. Members or other interested people who are not on Facebook, can also access our site through the following link : Editorial https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sri- Aurobindo-Bhavan-Kolkata/192973247443055 Sri Aurobindo once said that he had been sent to bring down the Supermind into the earth-consciousness. The Supermind or the Divine Gnosis is the Divine’s own Power, Knowledge, Will, Bliss not only in its supreme status or absolute self-existence but in its dynamis as well; it is the ‘Wisdom-Power-Light-Bliss by which the Divine knows and upholds and governs and enjoys the universe’. No amount of personal effort or tapasya, however hard and long, can help one to attain this Supreme Truth- Consciousness; a descent of the Supreme Divine Nature, Parama Prakriti, alone can effect the divinisation of the human instrument. For this, self-surrender to a ‘supreme transmuting Power’, the Divine Mother, is called for. The key-word – the first word, the middle term and the last word — in the supramental yoga is surrender to the Supreme Divine Mother. Let us then make a firm resolve to keep ourselves completely open at all times on all the planes of our being to the presence and power of the Mother so that the uninterrupted workings of her light and force can transform our half-lit, obscure earth- nature into the undying radiance of her luminous nature. Moving away slightly from the usual nature of articles featured in S´raddha, we take pleasure in including in this issue a paper by Nancy Barta-Norton on music and its centrality in the development of consciousness and sadhana in general. We hope readers will find this a welcome break and take an interest in the new slant given to the publication. We resume our series on Debashish Banerji’s expositions on Savitri which we could not publish in the August number as it was devoted predominantly to the social and political writings of The Master. We are grateful to the Sri Aurobindo Trust, Pondicherry, for its permission to reproduce the extract on ‘Sri Aurobindo’s Teaching and Method of Sadhana’ from SABCL, vol.26, pp.95-97, the selections of writings by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo on music, the photograph of Sri Aurobindo taken from the Ashram catalogue of photos and the painting Voice Of The Higher Mind by Usha R Patel on the cover of the journal. We specially thank Ms Anjali Jaipuria, Manging Trustee, Mother’s Institute of Research, New Delhi for her kind permission to reproduce the selected extract from Dr. Kireet Joshi’s book ‘The Gita and its Synthesis of Yoga’, published by the Institute in 2009. Our usual words of thanks and gratitude to Samata in the Studio for once again helping us to choose the right painting for the cover of our journal and to Chaitanya in the Archives for providing its high resolution image. Finally, a word of apology to our long-time friend and regular contributor, Georges van Vrekhem, for omitting to mention in his last two essays in the Feb and Apr ’11 issues that these were based on talks given earlier at Auroville. Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations are reproduced here with acknowledgements and thanks to the Trustees of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. This, however, cannot be done at once or in a short time or by any rapid or miraculous transformation. Many steps have to be taken by the seeker before the supramental descent is possible. Man lives mostly in his surface mind, life and body, but there is an inner being within him with greater possibilities to which he has to awake—for it is only a very restricted influence from it that he receives now and that pushes him to a constant pursuit of a greater Sri Aurobimdo’s Teaching And beauty, harmony, power and knowledge. The first process of Yoga is therefore to open the ranges of this inner being and to live from there outward, governing his outward life by an Method Of Sadhana inner light and force. In doing so he discovers in himself his true soul which is not this outer mixture of mental, vital and physical elements but something of the Reality behind them, a spark from the one Divine Fire. He has to learn to live in his soul and purify and orientate by Sri Aurobindo its drive towards the Truth the rest of the nature. There can follow afterwards an opening upward and descent of a higher principle of the Being. But even then it is not at once the The teaching of Sri Aurobindo starts from that of the ancient sages of India that full supramental Light and Force. For there are several ranges of consciousness between behind the appearances of the universe there is the Reality of a Being and the ordinary human mind and the supramental Truth-Consciousness. These intervening Consciousness, a Self of all things, one and eternal. All beings are united in that One ranges have to be opened up and their power brought down into the mind, life and body. Self and Spirit but divided by a certain separativity of consciousness, an ignorance Only afterwards can the full power of the Truth-Consciousness work in the nature. The of their true Self and Reality in the mind, life and body. It is possible by a certain process of this self-discipline or Sadhana is therefore long and difficult, but even a little of psychological discipline to remove this veil of separative consciousness and become it is so much gained because it makes the ultimate release and perfection more possible. aware of the true Self, the Divinity within us and all. Sri Aurobindo’s teaching states that this One Being and Consciousness is involved There are many things belonging to older systems that are necessary on the way — an here in Matter. Evolution is the method by which it liberates itself; consciousness opening of the mind to a greater wideness and to the sense of the Self and the Infinite, an appears in what seems to be inconscient, and once having appeared is self-impelled to emergence into what has been called the cosmic consciousness, mastery over the desires grow higher and higher and at the same time to enlarge and develop towards a greater and passions; an outward asceticism is not essential, but the conquest of desire and and greater perfection. Life is the first step of this release of consciousness; mind is attachment, and a control over the body and its needs, greeds and instincts are indispensable. the second; but the evolution does not finish with mind, it awaits a release into There is a combination of the principles of the old systems, the way of knowledge through something greater, a consciousness which is spiritual and supramental.
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