Aurobino's religious thoughts

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Vanakkam!

 

Sri Aurobindo was a multi-faceted genius. He was a

political revolutionary, social critic, poet and above

all, a great yogi and spiritual teacher.He was also

one of the foremost interpreters of the Vedas,

Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita.According to him, the

human being is not the end of the evolutionary

process; our destiny is to grow to a higher state of

consciousness which will fundamentally alter life as

we know it....

 

According to him, Buddha and Shankaracharya supposed

the world to be radically false and miserable;

therefore escape from the world was to them the only

wisdom...BUT he also said this world is BRAHMAN, the

world is GOD, the world is SATYAM, the world is

ANANDA. it is our misreading of the world through

mental egoism that is a falsehood and our wrong

relation with GOD in the world that is a misery. there

is no other falsity and no other sorrow...

 

GOD is EVERYTHING and EVERYTHING is GOD....

 

 

--- Harsha wrote:

> *Aurbindo is an important figure in spiritual Indian

> literature and his

> works reflect depth as a thinker and other eminent

> thinkers recognize

> him. For attaining Self-Realization, it is the

> attachment to thinking

> itself where the difficulty lies. Ascent and

> descent of forces, etc.,

> while important from a relative perspective are

> experiences like

> anything else and therefore unreal. **The Heart, the

> Self, does not

> admit of any such experiences at all.**

>

> Hershji or someone quoted Aurbindo as saying,

>

> "**The psychic is realized as the pursha behind the

> heart. It is not

> universalized like the Jivatman, but is the

> individual soul supporting

> from its place behind the heart-center the mental,

> vital, physical,

> psychic evolution of the being in Nature. Its

> realisation brings bhakti,

> self-giving, surrender, turning of all the movements

> (Godward,

> discrimination and choice of all that belongs to the

> Divine Truth, Good,

> Beauty, rejection of all that is false, evil, ugly,

> discordant, union

> through love and sympathy with all existence,

> openness to the Truth of

> the Self and the Divine."

>

> It does not seem like Sri Aurbindo knows what he is

> talking about when

> it comes to the Heart at all. He appears to be

> mixing up the heart

> center of Kundalini Yoga with the Spiritual Heart

> that scriptures refer

> to as Hridaya Gufa or "cave of the Heart".

>

> The Heart Sri Ramana refers to cannot be the same as

> the heart-center of

> Aurbindo. If Shakti enters the Heart, it becomes the

> Heart, and the Self

> rests in its own nature of pure wholeness and

> consciousness. There can

> absolutely be no question of Ascent or Descent of

> Supramental forces at

> this point. That is all preliminary experience.

> That which is One

> without a second, does not seek anything, there

> being nothing else for

> it to seek. These Ascents and descents are movement

> of Shakti and the

> vital forces and because of it many super conscious

> experiences and

> things are possible. But Sri Ramana will say, "So

> What?" It is all

> consumption of experience. It all boils down to the

> innate hunger for

> experience, whether the experiences are mundane or

> supernatural is

> immaterial. The desire for experience is vasana,

> that is karma, and that

> is OK. Sri Ramana's teaching is to look at source of

> all this and ask

> "who am I" that wants this ascent or descent of

> supramental forces to

> come down, etc. So self-inquiry is the root method.

> It simply involves

> being aware of the inherent quality of self-

> existence, self awareness,

> which announces itself continuously to itself

> through its own presence.

> The Self, that Ramana referred to is complete and

> whole. All forces and

> perceptions, all experiences are fully resolved in

> it. The Pure Being is

> the Heart. One's own Heart is the Pure Being.

>

> Harsha

>

> *

>

 

 

REALIZATION is SEEING and NOT KNOWING .....

 

 

 

 

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