Aurobindo: Evolution

Evolution

• Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, poet, philosopher and a spiritual reformer. He founded the Aurobindo Ashram, which is located in Pondicherry.
• Some of his main literary works are; The Divine Life, Synthesis of Yoga, Savitri, The Human Cycle, The Mother, Hymns of Mystic Fire, etc.
• He also wrote commentaries on Bhagavad Gita, Vedas and the Upanishads.

• There is a close similarity between Vedanta՚s description of Creation and Aurobindo՚s descripti…

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Aurobindo: Mind and Super-Mind

Mind and Super-mind

• The realm of Brahman or the realm of reality, according to Aurobindo is divided into two hemispheres; higher and lower. Aurobindo says, the higher realm represents the principle of sat-chit-Ananda; truth, existence, bliss, consciousness, etc. Whereas, the lower sphere deals with matter, life, psyche and mind.
• Aurobindo says, the truth of creation or reality cannot be known to the mind, for that the mind has to rise above its normal activities and try to inculc…

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Descartes Metaphysics: Innate Ideas

Innate Ideas

According to Descartes, no amount of sense experience can give us universal knowledge for necessity the sense-experience is particular. As such the universal principle is supplied by the mind to the sense-data. The doctrine of innate ideas means that the mind is not totally receptive but it is also active in nature. it supplies the active formative principles of knowledge.

Descartes mentions the dual role of Innate Ideas.

• Since the essence of mind so consciousness or thought so there are c…

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