Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
The purpose of the present thesis is a critical evaluation of Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy, with special reference to the main problems of metaphysics and religion. Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy includes all the aspects of human life, social, political, moral, religious and spiritual, etc. It is difficult to deal with all of these within a single work. Hence, I had to leave social, political and moral Philosophy, of which I have given only a brief reference. If time permits, I, however, wish to take up this remaining portion for yet another research work.
In the completion of the present work I always got encouragement from my guide and teacher Professor R. N. Kaul, Head of the Department of Philosophy, Allahabad University, whose kind affection and timely suggestions have led me to keep steadily on my path. In the understanding of my subject, I was much inspired by the scholarly expositions of Dr. S. K. Maitra, Ex-Professor and Head of Department of Philosophy, Banaras Hindu University, who has very kindly allowed me time to discuss and get suggestions from him. Besides, there are many others who have been directly or indirectly responsible for the successful completion of the present work in minimum time. The noticeable among them are Dr. S. Datta, Reader, Department of Philosophy, Allahabad University; Dr. Indra Sen and Dr. J. Smith of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry and Sri N. Basu, Local Secretary, Sri Aurobindo Path Chakra. I thank them all for their interest in my work.
Ram Nath Sharma
August 1, 1957.
https://incarnateword.in/other-authors/ram-nath-sharma/the-philosophy-of-sri-aurobindo/preface
Dr. Sharma seems to have responded to Sri Aurobindo's thought with such deep sympathy that he tends to reflect the original thinking even unconsciously. Some of his short apparently incidental sentences, to be found all over, strike one as the profoundest in philosophical content. Here are a few of the kind. 'The widest and the most comprehensive seeing is the wisest one', 'The philosopher is a lover of knowledge and never a sole possessor of it', 'Knowledge is not a jump from ignorance but a gradual unveiling' and 'The more comprehensive is the more wise'. They give one a thrill as one comes across them. They brighten up the text a great deal, which is otherwise too easy and fluent.
The spirit of the entire writing is happily reminiscent of the original. It is catholic, wide, comprehensive, the one right for a monistic philosophy.
It is a pleasure to offer a Foreword to such a work.
Indra Sen
Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Pondicherry
April 10, 1958.
https://incarnateword.in/other-authors/ram-nath-sharma/the-philosophy-of-sri-aurobindo/foreword
I've already explained (tried to explain) in previous posts that Mr. Sagan's viewpoint is limiting and childish... To overcome this fundamentally flawed and failing view, I always recommend reading the writings of the great philosopher-yogi Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950).
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"Marble temples have become the vocabulary of Sanatana Dharma, or Neo-Hinduism. Wherever these temples appear, a particular form of Hinduism follows. One that equates vegetarian food with purity and meat-eating with pollution. One that presents itself as the correction of historical wrongs. The marble temple encodes a doctrine, and a politics. The question worth asking is what they are saying, and to whom".
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