Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness

by Satprem

Overview

In this century, so hurried, incoherent, full of riches which dominate us more than they serve, we have need of a true mastery and of the joy that comes of it. But our psychology knows yet only the surfaces of being, and our imported orientalism illumines some obscure depths which may perhaps be adequate for the cross-legged sage, but not for the beleaguered men we are.

This now classic introduction to Sri Aurobindo not only tells us the story of his life-in itself a remarkable adventure-but Satprem also takes us along in a methodical exploration of Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga, showing how it leads to a divine rehabilitation of Matter and gives our painful evolution its meaning and hope. Now the time may have come at last to unveil the Mysteries and to recover the complete truth of the two poles within a third position, which is neither that of the materialists nor that of the spiritualists.

Sri Aurobindo or The Adventure of Consciousness has been written from a Western point of view and for those who yearn for a truth of Life and not only a truth with eyes closed. It presents just one aspect of Sri Aurobindo, the most practical one. We only hope it will lead the reader to explore for himself Sri Aurobindo, and perhaps, with him, find the perfect harmony of East and West, of inner freedom and outer mastery.

One volume: 340 pages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781508991960
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/01/2015
Pages:	310
Sales rank:	761,169
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

A Word about Aurobindo

A Life Sketch

Sri Aurobindo on Himself

The Mother on Sri Aurobindo

A Word about Satprem

Sri Aurobindo, or the Adventure of Consciousness

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 : An Accomplished Westerner

Chapter 2 : The Eternal Law

Chapter 3 : The End of the Intellect

Chapter 4 : The Silent Mind

Chapter 5 : Consciousness

Chapter 6 : Quieting the Vital

Chapter 7 : The Psychic Center

Chapter 8 : Independence from the Physical

Chapter 9 : Sleep and Death

Chapter 10 : The Revolutionary Yogi

Chapter 11 : Oneness

Chapter 12 : The Superconscient

Chapter 13 : Under the Auspices of the Gods

Chapter 14 : The Secret

Chapter 15 : The Supramental Consciousness

Chapter 16 : Man, A Transitional Being

Chapter 17 : The Transformation

Future Prospects

The Work (First Phase)

The Iron Age Is Ended

Conclusion : The End which Ever Begins Again

Quotations

References