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Excerpted from Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo. (Recorded by A.B.Purani). 3rd Edition. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram; 1982, pp.210-2.
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Moving Forward
By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2011
The Master of Existence, the One Divine and His different powers and aspects — the gods — dwell within the human body, thus declares the seer in a bold affirmative revelation. Yet, for the actualities of life, we still see in the average man the crudeness of a Titan. His thoughts are still bound to petty instincts for self-preservation. His feelings still move inside a narrow fence centred around the ego. His motives are unclean. His body responds much more readily to the lower impulsions of rage and fear, wrath and lust, greed and desire than to the pure touch of delight. Peace turns into inertia and the brain is seldom visited by the lightnings of an intuitive mind.
To cure a disorder
By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2010
Is it an error to make a clean sweep of everything, to make it all empty?
The evolutionary transformation of the body
By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2010
A passive adaptation is the equilibrium that Nature creates between the organism and the world around it, on a horizontal level. This has stability but no evolution. Evolution comes from a sort of temporary dissolution of this equilibrium. So an active adaptation would necessitate the ability of the body to not only survive but also to evolve in collaboration with Nature.
Illness: an evolutionary perspective
By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2010
A new world will be a world free of doctors, lawyers, policemen and priests. This is what I fancy, since though these four professions were originally meant to remove suffering, falsehood, unconsciousness and ignorance upon earth, they have most of the time, perhaps unwittingly, become perpetuators of the very same evil they were meant to uproot.