It's a matter of great significance that coinciding with the month of the birth of Sri Aurobindo, Frank Visser has put up an AI-aided appraisal of The Life Divine for the wide readership of the Integral World. While not being miserly in showering praise on the book, he doesn't mince words in pointing out its shortcomings.
It is interesting to remember at this point the kind of enthusiasm the Integral movement had generateed two decades ago. Alan Kazlev was a leading voice in explaining the intricacies of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo's philosophy and yoga from a comparative perspective. I had also launched the Savitri Era Religion in 2006, what I had called, On Alan's anvil.
Visser has aptly observed, "From the standpoint of philosophy and science, the book raises profound problems that remain largely unresolved." This can be said to be the biggest accolade for something written more than a century back. Savitri, similarly, has been described by many as something the full significance of which cannot be grasped with all intellectual application. https://x.com/SavitriEra - https://bsky.app/profile/savitriera.bsky.social
Misc. References:
FLAVORS OF ADVAITA IN VIVEKANANDA, RABINDRANATH, AND SRI AUROBINDO
connected to the Brahmo Samaj, though he did not think of himself as a Brahmo—his
mother was a daughter of Rajnarain Bose, one of the important stalwarts of the …
The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga by Patrick Beldio
readers … and Mirra as they developed the Integral Yoga tradition and Aurobindo
Ashram. This is not a … constant references to how Integral Yoga fits into the larger …
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