Deliberations on The Life Divine: Volume XV (Book II Part II: Chapters XXVII & XXVIII)
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— Ananda Reddy
Price: Rs 500
Soft Cover Pages: 417 Dimensions (in cms): 14x22
Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research Trust, Pondicherry ISBN: 978-93-85391-28-6
About Deliberations on The Life Divine: Volume XV (Book II Part II: Chapters XXVII & XXVIII)
The author’s deliberations on The Life Divine conclude with this volume, which looks at the last two chapters of the book. The Mother gave considerable importance to these final chapters because they reveal Sri Aurobindo’s vision of the future. They were not written originally for the Arya, but were added in 1939 and 1940. The author stresses that while previous chapters dealt with philosophic thought as it applies to the past and the present, the “Gnostic Being” and “The Divine Life” give us Sri Aurobindo’s vision for humanity’s future. Sri Aurobindo describes how the race of gnostic spiritual beings will descend as the next step in the evolution, and the infinite diversity inherent in such a manifestation. The first essential condition of a divine life on earth is the spiritual fulfillment of the urge to individual perfection and inner completeness of the being. The evolution in the Ignorance is only the first stage; it must lead inevitably towards an evolution in the Knowledge, a self-revelation of the Divinity in all things.
