MEETING BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: THE VISION OF SRI AUROBINDO : .
Person and perspective Sri Aurobindo, philosopher and mystic, poet and critic, was one of the most outstanding Indian thinkers of the twentieth century. A manysided genius of extensive knowledge and intense mystical experience, Aurobindo was greeted already in 1928 by his fellow Indian Nobel Prize w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2002
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Journal of Dharma
Year: 2002, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 169-177 |
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Aurobindo
B WEST B East |
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| Summary: | Person and perspective Sri Aurobindo, philosopher and mystic, poet and critic, was one of the most outstanding Indian thinkers of the twentieth century. A manysided genius of extensive knowledge and intense mystical experience, Aurobindo was greeted already in 1928 by his fellow Indian Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore with the words: 'India will speak through your voice to the world.' And indeed he did speak, offered a magnificent message and proposed an integrated synthesis of the Eastern and the Western world. Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), born Indian, brought up British, had throughout his life taught man's spiritual growth and eventual transformation leading to the emergence of a Supermind, a thought surprisingly similar to that proposed by the French scientist-mystic, Teilhard de Chardin. By training they were a classicist and a paleontologist respectively, but their thoughts met and merged to a great extent in their emergent mysticism |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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