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Posted : Feb 5, 2009 07:22:31
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Quoted from http://www.sriaurobindosociety.org.in
"4 billion years ago
The Earth was only a mass of heat, gasses and fumes, conditions that could never harness life.
The miracle
LIFE did appear on the face of the Earth.
2 million years ago
There was no place for reason, will and intelligence in a world of blind animal instinct.
The miracle
MIND came into being with the appearance of man.
Man survived. He explored. He grew. He thought. He dreamed. He sang. He created and he destroyed. He leaped to the moon, he spanned the outer spaces, he fathomed the oceans and he penetrated the atom. It should have been a perfect world. It is not.
Every political principle man adopted, every national policy he conceived, every religious truth he believed, every moral structure he erected, almost every thing he created since his existence is falling apart with an urgency that was never before.
But the root-cause of this crisis is neither social nor political, neither economic nor religious. This is an "Evolutionary Crisis", says Sri Aurobindo. Man cannot be the end of millions of years of God's labour. The journey that began with inanimate matter and has come so far cannot stop at the imperfection and the mediocrity that is man. It must go on...
Today
We can see no hope for man. We cannot conceive of a species after man. We believe that man, as we know him, is here to stay.
The next miracle
The advent of a new being. The reign of a new consciousness. The establishment of a Divine life upon Earth.
"Man is a transitional being", said Sri Aurobindo, and for the first time in the history of the earth, man has the chance to exceed himself consciously; to make the choice and become part of an accelerated evolution; to aspire and emerge as a New Being.
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Sri Aurobindo is one of those philophers who imho has been able to accurately dissect the mind, body and soul of a being. The way he describes reality and the functioning of the mind and soul is amazing and nothing but the truth.
Such kind of wisdom and the power to write about it and make other people realise the truth is indeed only possible by a personality who himself has experienced nirvana and complete samadhi.
Such people dont die they transcend into the cosmos and live forever!
Anyways, are there more people here who have read aurobindo and would like to have a discussion or share their knowledge about his descriptions of meaning of evolution, mind and matter.
Also, lets keep Auroville and the trippy scenes there out of this discussion and focus on the teachings and enlightenment.
For those who dont know this person check this wiki -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo |
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