Sri Aurobindian Ontology

Reblogged from Sri Aurobindo Studies: When the sages of the Upanishads tried to express the nature of the Infinite and Eternal which they experienced, they eventually concluded with the saying “Neti, Neti” meaning, “Not this, not that”. The implication was made more clear in the Taittirya Upanishad when they described “The delight of the Eternal [...]

Reblogged from Sri Aurobindo Studies: The spiritual force from the heights attempting to transform the lower nature turns out to have a long, arduous and complex work ahead of it. The lower nature is not a blank slate upon which the new understanding, responses, actions & feelings can be written. Rather, all of the accumulated [...]

Reblogged from Sri Aurobindo Studies: Spiritual experiences that are not based on the complete emergence of the soul may be mixed with inner mental, vital or physical movements that can vitiate the purity of the experience and in fact, lead to imperfect or misguided results. “there could be an emergence not only of the subliminal [...]

Reblogged from Footnotes to Plato: “The object of religion is the same as that of philosophy; it is the eternal verity itself in its objective existence; it is God. Nothing but God and the unfolding of God… [P]hilosophy in unfolding religion merely unfolds itself, and in unfolding itself it unfolds religion.” -Hegel “Philosophy is the [...]

Reblogged from Sri Aurobindo Studies: Because we mostly live in the surface consciousness, we are not much familiar with the inner realms of consciousness, the inner mental, inner vital, subtle physical, not to speak of the psychic being in the depths at the center. The surface consciousness represents a compromise or amalgam of the action [...]

Reblogged from An und für sich: It has been much remarked upon that Derrida turned to ethical concerns toward the end of his career. This turn is often invoked to push back against those who would view Derrida as a nihilist, etc. Yet it often escapes notice that Derrida is undertaking a kind of meta-ethics [...]