Study Notes PARAGRAPH 5 In itself and by itself the vital being’s aversion, the life-mind’s recoil from life cannot be taken as valid or conclusive. Its strongest motive…
Study Notes PARAGRAPH 4 At a certain point of this constant unrest and travail even the physical mind loses its conviction of objective certitude and enters into an…
Study Notes PARAGRAPH 2 At the outset man lives in his physical mind which perceives the actual, the physical, the objective and accepts it as fact and this…
Study Notes INTRODUCTORY NOTE: This chapter presents the essential arguments that counteract Adi Shakara’s philosophy. In the earlier chapters Sri Aurobindo agreed with the fact that on the…
Study Notes PARAGRAPH 22 In that case, the only reasonable explanation of such a paradoxical manifestation or creation is that it is a cosmic game, a Lila, a…
Study Notes PARAGRAPH 21 But if, accepting this side of Nature, we say that all things are fixed in their statutory and stationary law of being, and man…
Study Notes PARAGRAPH 19 (Continued) All this imperfection is to us evil, but all evil is in travail of the eternal good; for all is an imperfection which is the…
Study Notes PARAGRAPH 18 As to suffering, which is so great a stumbling-block to our understanding of the universe, it is evidently a consequence of the limitation of…
Study Notes PARAGRAPH 17 As with the cause,—the Ignorance,—so is it with the consequences of the Ignorance. All this that seems to us incapacity, weakness, impotence, limitation of…
Study Notes PARAGRAPH 15 There is then no real division or limitation of being, no fundamental contradiction of the omnipresent Reality; but there does seem to be a…