Readings
in Sri Aurobindo's the Life
Divine: Covering Book Two, ... - Page 290 - Santosh
Krinsky - 2012 - Preview - More
editions Sri Aurobindo uses
the example of electricity in the form of lightning to illustrate this
point. ... and factor.
evolution is an inverse action of the involution: what is an ultimate and last derivation in the involution is the first to appear
in the evolution; ...
Evolutionary,
Spiritual Conceptions of Life - Sri Aurobindo, ... - Page 35 - Michael
Leicht - 2008 - Preview
According to Aurobindo the
Super-Mind plays a vital role in linking the physical with the spiritual
(transmitted by the overmind). Aurobindo in
dealing with the ascent of matter and the descent of god (as evolution and involution) dwells upon...
The
Essential Aurobindo - Preview
For Aurobindo, a proper
understanding of evolution—i.e., that space and time, the universe, is possible
because of a prior involution (involvement)
of Spirit—is the foundation stone of his entire teaching. He also emphasizes, however, ...
The
Integral Advaitism of Sri Aurobindo -
Page 285 Rāmacandra Miśra - 1998 - Preview
Mind is the manifestation or the result of the self-concentration or the self-modification
of the ... There are,
according to Sri Aurobindo, four
ways in which man becomes aware of his own existence as well as that of
the ...
Neoplatonism
and Indian Thought - Page 265 - R.
Baine Harris - 1982 - Preview - More
editions Thus what Plotinus calls emanation has some resemblance with
Sri Aurobindo's concept
of involution. But
emanation is directly involved in creation, while involution is a pre-condition of evolution which is involved
in creation. Both Plotinus and ...
Penguin
Sri Aurobindo Reader -
Page 260 - Paranjape, Makarand - Preview - More
editions ... story of
each evolutionary emergence: the principle of its highest perfection lies
concealed in the involution which
precedes and ... Each
gradation contains the possibility and the certainty of
The
philosophy of Sri Aurobindo:
his idea of evolution - Page 21 - Joseph
Veliyathil - 1972 - has the involution resulted in this universe and
not in another one? Is there any element determining the process of involution? Aurobindo was quite aware of these
possible questions. He says that the delight in the Absolute is the answer to...
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother:
Glimpses of Their Experiments, ... - Page 265 - Kireet
Joshi - 1989 - Preview - More
editions For behind our conscious physical, vital and mental operations
there is, according to Sri Aurobindo,
a deeper and ... of
communication with the worlds of being which the descent towards involution created in its passage
and
Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader Sachidananda
Mohanty - 2012 - Preview - More
editions Sri Aurobindo expounds
his philosophy of Creative Evolution in a number of texts, primarily in his
magnum opus—The Life Divine. He suggests that Evolution as a concept cannot be
understood without the parallel theory of Involution.
The
philosophy of evolution in Sri Aurobindo and
Teilhard de Chardin - Page 108 Jan
Feys - 1973 - We can now dispel the ambiguity: the fundamental law of evolution
is summed up in one word, both by Aurobindo and
Teilhard: 'involution'. But
with totally different meanings. What Aurobindo means by involution is that the Absolute, before ...
Understanding
Medical Physiology - Page 876 - Bijlani -
2004 - Preview - More
editions Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo have made powerful pleas in the recent past for
correcting this ... The
Supreme Consciousness underwent an enormous involution when it manifested as inconscient matter. In the
course of time, matter...
Handbook
of Religion and the Authority of Science - Page 335 Jim R. Lewis, Olav
Hammer - 2010 - Preview
This brings us to the second assumption that underlies Vivekananda's
evolutionism, namely, involution. Vivekananda uses the word
involution exactly how it appears in Theosophy: the descent, or the
involvement, of divine consciousness into ...
Encyclopaedia
of Literature in English - Page 1146 - M
K Bhatnagar - 2001 - Preview - More
editions From the assumption that every evolution presupposes involution, Vivekananda suggested that the Cosmic
Intelligence or the Lord of Creation, involves itself in the process of
evolution, manifests and evolves itself until it becomes a perfect ...
Selected
Doctrines from Indian Philosophy - Page 48 - V.
Ramakrishna Rao, Vet
Ury Ramakrishna Rao - 1987 - Preview
The Panchakosa represent the involution of
Brahman while Alexander's scheme represents the evolution of space, time and
matter. Swami Vivekananda says
: "Every evolution is preceeded by an involution... The whole series of evolution ...
Sri Aurobindo and the theories of
evolution: a critical and ... - Page 71 Rama
Shanker Srivastava - 1968 - Involution is
a process of creation of the cosmos and evolution is its successive 1. The Life Divine.
Book.II, Pt. II. pp. 628-29. Reprinted 1949, New York , The Sri Aurobindo Library Inc. 2. Ibid pp. 734-35. process of
Divinisation. Here it is important ...
The
Spectrum Of Consciousness - Page xix - Ken
Wilber - 2002 - Preview - More
editions In subsequent writings, I reverted to the other usage,
following Aurobindo: involution is the move away from
Spirit, getting lost and involved in maya, and evolution is the growth back to
Spirit as Spirit, whereupon it is seen that all of maya is ...
A
critical study of Aurobindo:
with special reference to his ... - Page 94 - Laxman
Ganpatrao Chincholkar - 1966 - That which evolves must be implicitly
involved. Thus observed, involution and
evolution constitute two terms of material existence. 2 The order of the ... 73. are, as Aurobindo remarks, the double
terms of our existence. 2. L. D. pp. 811, 812. 3.
Columbia
companion to 20th-century philosophies - Page 651 - Constantin
V. Boundas - 2007 - Preview - More
editions Like Vivekananda, Aurobindo accepts
the monistic premise: evolution which leads to an eventual development beyond
the Mind can occur because the 'infinite Spirit' lies hidden - 'involuted' in material nature. In
fact Aurobindo describes ...
The
integral philosophy of Sri Aurobindo:
a commemorative symposium - Page 136 - Haridas
Chaudhuri, Frederic
Spiegelberg - 1960 - Involution of
Saccidananda precedes Its manifestation. The act of involution is graded descent from
Saccidananda to supermind, overmind, intuition, illumined mind, higher mind,
mind, soul, life and finally to matter. As Sri Aurobindo remarks:...
The
meeting of the East and the West in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy - Page 98 – S.K.
Maitra - 1956 - Just as in involution the Spirit projects itself out of itself, so in
evolution it comes back to itself. It comes back to itself in the reverse way
to that in which it went out of itself in involution. The former process Sri Aurobindo also calls Ascent and the... Studies
in Sri Aurobindo's
philosophy - Page 29 – S.K.
Maitra - 1945
Pschology
of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research - Page 282 - Stanislav
Grof - 2000 - Preview - More
editions In the East, similar concepts found their most articulate
expression in the writings of the Indian mystic and philosopher Sri Aurobindo under the names of involution and evolution of
consciousness (Aurobindo 1965).
Modern discussion of the ...
Towards
eternity; Sri Aurobindo birth
centenary volume, 15th ... - Page 228 - Aurobindo
Ghose, V.
Madhusudan Reddy - 1973 - Evolution reproduces in the reverse order
the process of the descent of the spirit in involution. The order of involution is sketched thus by Sri Aurobindo. "Existence, Consciousness-
Force, Bliss, Super- mind, Mind, Psyche (or Soul), Life, ...
Karma
and Rebirth: Post Classical Developments - Page 30 - Ronald
Wesley Neufeldt - 1986 - Preview - More
editions Aurobindo's letters
to his disciples discuss some other possibiliites, though this is the normal
course. ... Since the
whole of evolution is the Spirit's free becoming, experiencing freely the involution and evolution of the
many possibilities of the ...
Psychotherapy
and Spirit: Theory and Practice in Transpersonal ... - Page 71 - Brant
Cortright - 1997 - Preview - More
editions Overview of the Spectrum Model Wilber's model began with Sri Aurobindo's idea, first
articulated in 1915, that cosmic evolution began first with an involution by the Divine into the
creation of matter and then proceeded to unfold along an ...
Contemporary
Indian idealism (with special reference to Swami ... - Page 179 - Ripusudan
Prasad Srivastava - 1973 - He does not. however, work out the details
of involution. In Radhakrishnan
also we find a reference to this involution,
biut there, too, a full account of it is wanting. It is in the philolosophy of
Sri Aurobindo that one
gets a full-length treatment of ...
Foundations
of Indian Psychology Volume 1: Theories and Concepts - Page 184 - Cornelissen
R. M. Matthijs - 2011 - Preview
... As noted above, the
story of existence began with the involution of
the supreme superconscience in and as gross matter. ... repeated or disguised in
strange forms can surge up into dream or into the waking nature' (Sri Aurobindo, 1970a, p.
Realization
of God according to Sri Aurobindo:
a study of a ... - Page 39 - George
Nedumpalakunnel - 1979 - INVOLUTION OR
DESCENT OF THE DIVINE Basing himself on the theory of emanation explained as
self-extension or self-diffusion of the Divine, Aurobindo maintains that the creative self-diffusion of
Saccidananda down the scale of ...
Sri Aurobindo and Vedānta philosophy
- Page 81 - Sheojee
Pandey - 1987 - Aurobindo.
In the process of creation everywhere involution conditions evolution. The evolution of matter
takes place owing to the fact that the spirit involves into matter. Matter
possessed of spirit emerges into the higher grade of reality.
Sri Aurobindo: or, The adventure of
consciousness - Page 301 - Satprem -
1968 - This is what Sri Aurobindo calls
"the involution":
The nescience of Matter is a veiled, an involved or somnambulist consciousness
which contains all the latent powers of the Spirit. In every particle, atom,
molecule, cell of Matter there lives ...
Science,
Spirituality And The Modernization Of India - Page 106 -Makarand
Paranjape - 2008 - Preview
But, in the terminology introduced by Vivekananda and developed by Aurobindo, this is a process of
'involution'. Aurobindo insists
that at each stage in evolution the previous stages are not left behind but
taken up (Killingley, p.195–6).
Page
122 In his magnum opus, The Life
Divine (Aurobindo,
1990), Aurobindo presents
descriptions of cosmic involution and
evolution, combining Eastern and Western elements with his own experience and
insights. In the Involution–Creation,
the ...
The
Yoga of Patanjali and the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Page 79 - G.
M. L. Shrivastava - 1987 - Sri Aurobindo writes, "The manifestation of the Being in our
universe takes the shape of an involution which
is the starting-point of evolution, Matter the neither- most stage, Spirit the
summit. In the descent into involution there
can be ...
Knowledge,
Consciousness and Religious Conversion in Lonergan and ... - Page 260 - Michael
T. McLaughlin - 2003 - Preview
CONVERSION IN LONERGAN AND AUROBINDO On
the other hand, because our actions are actions of a being already in union
with the divine, anything we do can only be a movement within the greater
evolution and involution of
the Divine ...
Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: Integral
Sociology and Dialectical ... - Page 32 - Debi
Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - Preview
The scientific account of evolution is discounted by Sri Aurobindo mainly on two scores.
First, it fails to explain how evolution is different from involution; and, secondly, how
specific (or in species) variation leads to the emergence of a superior...
Sri Aurobindo and Iqbal: a
comparative study of their philosophy - Page 112 - M.
Rafique - 1974 - To sum up in Sri Aurobindo's own words : "Involution of a superconscient spirit in inconscient Matter
is the secret of this visible ... Sri Aurobindo's contention
is that without the prior fact of involution,
we cannot, consistently, justify the fact of...
The
Lives of Sri Aurobindo -
Page 274 - Peter
Heehs - 2008 - Preview - More
editions In answering, Aurobindo reminds
us that it is brahman itself that has become each individual being. ... he turns to its psychological
conditions. He has traced the origin of the cosmic ignorance (avidya) to
the involution of the
divine in matter.
Perspectives
on Sri Aurobindo's Poetry,
Plays, and Criticism - Page 130 - Amrita
Paresh Patel, Jaydipsinh Dodiya - 2002 - Full
view - More
editions The mind is thus the concentrated form of 'chit' in the process
of involution. It is the
mind which aspires for the "adventures of consciousness". In
conclusion, it is safe to say that Sri Aurobindo has formulated Poetics in the light of Sanskrit
poetry ...
Encyclopaedia
of Eminent Thinkers: The political thought of Aurobindo - Page 54 - K.
S. Bharathi - 1998 - Preview
... but believes in the
teleological involution and
evolution in the world of the transcendent-universal spiritual absolute. Aurobindo says that absolute
freedom, even when within the bounds of the mortal frame, can be won if one
makes a ...
An
introduction to Sri Aurobindo's
philosophy - Page 88 - Joan
Price Ockham - 1977 - Chapter Five INVOLUTION AND IGNORANCE Throughout his philosophical magnum
opus, The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo argues for the
necessity of the involution of
the higher principles of unity to account for the evolution of the lower
world ...
Sri Aurobindo and Jung: a comparative
study in Yoga and depth ... - Page 63 - Satya
Prakash Singh - 1986 - ... the
supreme creative power of Saccidananda. It is that power which is responsible
for the whole process of involution of
Saccidananda and evolution of the world. ... Sri Aurobindo,
Centenary Edition Vol. XXV. pp. 94— 5. Mother is capable of ... Nature
Of God - Satya
Prakash Singh - Preview
Integral
Education: thought & Practical - Page 133 - R.N.
Pani - Preview - More
editions Evolution is the reverse movement of involution. Sri Aurobindo writes
: "Evolution is an inverse action of the involution : what is an ultimate and last derivation in theinvolution is the first to appear
in the evolution, what was original and primal in ...
Integral
psychology: the psychological system of Sri Aurobindo (in ... - Indra
Sen - 1986 - A
greater psychology: an introduction to Sri Aurobindo's ... - Aurobindo
Ghose, A.
S. Dalal - 2001 - Provides an overview of the psychological thought of
the Indian philospher which includes body, mind, soul, and spirit. The
Hidden Heart of the Cosmos: Humanity and the New Story - Brian
Swimme - 1999 - Opens up not only the exhilarating truths that science
reveals of the birth of the universe, but how these truths can transform our
lives.
