Sri Aurobindo's comprehensive vision does not enjoin non-violence

[I will admit that at any stage we are constrained by our Ignorance and our primary endeavor is to push unceasingly towards the psychological sources of clear sight (dristi). Re: Religious Nationalism and Transnationalism in a Global World by Mark Juergensmeyer by Debashish on Sun 25 Jan 2009 04:17 PM PST Profile Permanent Link at 11:33 AM]

["Inadequacies and flaws" are a given in what is known as "the human condition" and I cannot claim any other kind of condition for myself. by Debashish on Sun 30 Nov 2008 03:42 AM PST Profile Permanent Link Science, Culture and Integral Yoga]

[Our growth from "inadequacies and flaws" are not the better achieved on the mountaintop; it is through action that we must grow. by Debashish on Sun 30 Nov 2008 03:42 AM PST Profile Permanent Link Science, Culture and Integral Yoga]

[Krishna is at no place saying to Arjuna, wait till you become enlightened and then only enter the battle. He is saying make the battle an occasion for your enlightenment. Re: Orissa court stays release of book on Sri Aurobindo (the next Satanic Verses) by Debashish on Sun 16 Nov 2008 07:09 AM PST Profile Permanent Link Science, Culture and Integral Yoga 11:33 AM]

[The complexity of Sri Aurobindo's comprehensive vision, which does not enjoin any reductionist principle, such for example as non-violence, makes things even more difficult. It is easy to justify any kind of action on the basis of this vast field of possibilities, while personally encompassing hardly a sliver of that consciousness. Re: Savitra: Reflections of an Evolutionary Activist: The Shadow of Fundamentalism in the Integral Yoga Debashish Fri 06 Mar 2009 01:33 AM PST]

[Moreover, whatever spiritual case can be made for an atemporal "nation-soul," as Sri Aurobindo brings out in The Ideal of Human Unity, its emergence in any recognizable form is only within history, through events which often seem accidental. Re: Sri Aurobindo's Integral Education in Contemporary Higher Education Debashish Science, Culture and Integral Yoga Tue 21 Jul 2009 02:45 PM PDT 2:14 PM]

[I believe it is the disappearance from view of this social dimension and its replacement with an exclusively psychological dimension which has something to do with the lack of contemporary relevance of the ashram implementation of the Integral Yoga. Re: Sri Aurobindo's Integral Education in Contemporary Higher Education by Debashish on Thu 30 Jul 2009 01:38 AM PDT Profile Permanent Link]

[I do not read The Human Cycle (as any of Sri Aurobindo or the Mother's writings) as determinisms... Many of these utterances are, moreover, more ambiguous about the future of humankind than about the coming of a supramental race. Re: Religious Nationalism and Transnationalism in a Global World by Mark Juergensmeyerby Debashish on Sun 25 Jan 2009 04:17 PM PST Profile Permanent Link 11:33 AM]

[Moreover, much in The Life Divine remains enigmatic and open to interpretation, while he himself makes a case for the evolution of language use based on the consciousness of its users. Re: The Melodrama of Difference Debashish Thu 16 Jul 2009 09:03 AM PDT]

Keeping history, social dimension, and "the human condition" always in view is critical to all theorizing pertaining to dawning of a life divine. [TNM]