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The refusal Of The Ascetic

Book One, Chapter Three, The Two Negations
II. THE REFUSAL OF THE ASCETIC

"All this is the Brahman; this Self is the Brahman and the Self is fourfold.
Beyond relation, featureless, unthinkable, in which all is still."
Mandukya Upanishad, Verses 2, 7

And still there is a beyond. For on the other side of the cosmic consciousness there is, attainable to us, a consciousness yet more transcendent, -- transcendent not only of the ego, but of the Cosmos itself, -- against which the universe seems to stand out like a petty picture against an immeasurable background. That supports the universal activity, -- or perhaps only tolerates it; It embraces Life with Its vastness, -- or else rejects it from Its infinitude.
If the materialist is justified from his point of view in insisting on Matter as reality, the relative world as the sole thing of which we can in some sort be sure and the Beyond as wholly unknowable, if not indeed non-existent, a dream of the mind, an abstraction of Thought divorcing itself from reality, so also is the Sannyasin, enamoured of that Beyond, justified from his point of view in insisting on pure Spirit as the reality, the one thing free from change, birth, death, and the relative as a creation of the mind and the senses, a dream, an abstraction in the contrary sense of Mentality withdrawing from the pure and eternal Knowledge...READ MORE

Brahman Is The Supreme Godhead

Brahman,The Truth,The Knowledge,The Infinite

TAIIRIYA UPANISHAD

It is the might of the Godhead in the world that turns the wheel of Brahman.Him one musr know,The Supreme Lord of all the lords,The Supreme Godhead above all godheads.Supreme too is his Shakti and manifold the natural working of her knowledge and her force,the all pervading,absolute without qualities,the overseer of all actions,the witness,the knower.

SWETASWATARA UPANISHAD

(QUOTES FROM SRI AUROBINDO'S LIFE DIVINE,CHAPTER 11,PAGE 322;TOPIC:BRAHMAN,PURUSHA,ISHWARA-MAYA,PRAKITI,SHAKTI)

[Yusufali 2:115] To Allah belong the east and the West: Whithersoever ye turn, there is the presence of Allah. For Allah is all-Pervading, all-Knowing.

[Yusufali 2:147] The Truth is from thy Lord; so be not at all in doubt.

Shankara's Adwaita And Asceticism

307. Three times God laughed at Shankara, first, when he returned to burn the corpse of his mother, again, when he commented on the Isha Upanishad and the third time when he stormed about India preaching inaction.

The Lord laughed when this man, who thought himself so wise, complied with conventions, wrote useless words and gave an example of overactivity in order to preach inaction.

27 January 1970- The Mother

306. Asceticism is no doubt very healing, a cave very peaceful and the hill-tops wonderfully pleasant; nevertheless do thou act in the world as God intended thee.

Sri Aurobindo shows us that one can be an ascetic by preference and not out of abnegation; and so he makes us understand that to be a servant of the Lord and to act only according to His will is a far higher state than any personal choice, no matter how saintly it may seem.
26 January 1970- The Mother

Allah is Brahman;Brahman is Allah part1

Brahman-The Absolute;the spirit;the Supreme Being;the Reailty,the Eternal;the One besides whom there is nothing existent,in realtion to the universe the Supreme is Brahman,the one Reality ehich is not only the spiritual,material and conscious substance of all the ideas and forces and forms of the univers,but their origin,support and possessor,the cosmic and the supracosmic(ef Atman)

(FROM SRI AUROBINDO'S LIFE DIVINE GLOSSARY,PAGE 1075)

[Yusufali 112:1] Say: He is Allah, the One and Only;

[Yusufali 112:2] Allah, the Eternal, Absolute;

[Yusufali 112:3] He begetteth not, nor is He begotten;

[Yusufali 112:4] And there is none like unto Him.

[Yusufali 85:8] And they ill-treated them for no other reason than that they believed in Allah, Exalted in Power, Worthy of all Praise!-

[Yusufali 85:9] Him to Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth! And Allah is Witness to all things.

He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
- Sri Aurobindo

Let's Recall...

There is a constant refrain in the Quran: “All that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth glorifieth Allah, and he is the Mighty, the Wise.” Mahakali-Maheshwari aspects are immediately recognized in this, but the absence of the other two powers brings imbalance in social organization. Which means that in the unregenerate state of society the Mahakali power gets appropriated by the Asuric forces..."

SRI AUROBINDO

"FOR OUR MOTHERLAND A JUNCTION OF THE TWO GREAT SYSTEMS,HINDUISM AND ISLAM-VEDANTA BRAIN AND ISLAM BODY-IS THE ONLY HOPE I SEE IN MY MIND'S EYE THE FUTURE PERFECT INDIA RISING OUT OF THIS CHAOS AND STRIFE,GLORIUS AND INVINCIBLE,WITH VEDANTA BRAIN AND ISLAM BODY."

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Vivekananda On Muhamad And Islam

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON ISLAM: “Principles that we practise in our day-today life constitute the philosophy of nature and are likely to be a more acceptable religious philosophy of the enlightened future generation. Except in the religious ideology brought by Muhammad, I do not see this aspect effectively and practically implemented and well entrenched. It is my humble assertion that, though Hindu Vedic philosophies are immensely beautiful, without the day-today practical applications and approaches of Islam, they (Vedic principles) may not adequately serve the humanity.”

THE INDIAN MINDSCAPE:
Swami Vivekananda And Sri Aurobindo's Contribution Towards Regeneration of India

By JAGMOHAN
Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo were the two towering figures of the Indian renaissance who contributed most to the regeneration of the Indian mindscape and the consequent reflowering of the Indian culture. About the former, whose birth anniversary was observed on 12 January, the latter had recorded: “British rule has been the record success in history in the hypnosis of a nation. It persuaded us to live in a ‘death of the will’, creating in ourselves the condition of morbid weakness the hypnotist desired, until the master of a mightier hypnosis laid his finger on India’s eyes and cried, ‘Awake’. Then only was the spell broken, the slumbering mind realised itself and the dead soul lived again.”
This awakening created a great turning point in Indian history. For about a thousand years after the fall of Harsha’s empire, decay and degeneration had set in, and the Indian mind had suffered a long spell of drought and desertification with a few meadows of green appearing here and there...

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