About the Author
Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15 August 1872. At the age of seven he was taken to England for his education. He studied at St. Paul's School, London, and at King's College, Cambridge. Returning to India in 1893, he worked for the next thirteen years in the Princely State of Baroda in the service of the Maharaja and as a professor in the state's college.
In 1906 Sri Aurobindo quit his post in Baroda and went to Calcutta, where he became one of the leaders of the Indian nationalist movement. As editor of the newspaper Bande Mataram, he put forward the idea of complete independence from Britain. Arrested three times for sedition or treason, he was released each time for lack of evidence.
Sri Aurobindo began the practice of Yoga in 1905. Within a few years he achieved several fundamental spiritual realisations. In 1910 he withdrew from politics and went to Pondicherry in French India in order to concentrate on his inner life and work. Over the next forty years, he developed a new spiritual path, the Integral Yoga, whose ultimate aim is the transformation of life by the power of a supramental consciousness. In 1926, with the help of his spiritual collaborator the Mother, he founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. His vision of life is presented in numerous works of prose and poetry, among the best known of which are The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on the Gita and Savitri. Sri Aurobindo passed away on 5 December 1950.
Contents
Book One
Omnipresent Reality and the Universe
Chapter I
The Human Aspiration
3
Chapter II
The Two Negations
8
1. The Materialist Denial
Chapter III
2. The Refusal of the Ascetic
20
Chapter IV
Reality Omnipresent
29
Chapter V
The Destiny of the Individual
38
Chapter VI
Man in the Universe
47
Chapter VII
The Ego and the Dualities
56
Chapter VIII
The Methods of Vedantic Knowledge
66
Chapter IX
The Pure Existent
78
Chapter X
Conscious Force
87
Chapter XI
Delight of Existence: The Problem
98
Chapter XII
Delight of Existence: The Solution
108
Chapter XIII
The Divine Maya
120
Chapter XIV
The Supermind as Creator
130
Chapter XV
The Supreme Truth-Consciousness
141
Chapter XVI
The Triple Status of Supermind
152
Chapter XVII
The Divine Soul
161
Chapter XVIII
Mind and Supermind
170
Chapter XIX
Life
185
Chapter XX
Death, Desire and Incapacity
200
Chapter XXI
The Ascent of Life
210
Chapter XXII
The Problem of Life
220
Chapter XXIII
The Double Soul in Man
231
Chapter XXIV
Matter
245
Chapter XXV
The Knot of Matter
254
Chapter XXVI
The Ascending Series of Substance
266
Chapter XXVII
The Sevenfold Chord of Being
276
Chapter XXVIII
Supermind, Mind and the Overmind Maya
285
Book Two
The Knowledge and the Ignorance - The Spiritual Evolution
Part I
The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance
Indeterminates, Cosmic Determinations and the Indeterminable
309
Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti
336
The Eternal and the Individual
380
11
The Divine and the Undivine
403
The Cosmic Illusion; Mind, Dream and Hallucination
428
Reality and the Cosmic Illusion
455
The Knowledge and the Ignorance
499
Memory, Self-Consciousness and the Ignorance
519
Memory, Ego and Self-Experience
529
Knowledge by Identity and Separative Knowledge
543
The Boundaries of the Ignorance
573
The Origin of the Ignorance
586
Exclusive Concentration of Consciousness-Force and the Ignorance
602
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