Sri Aurobindo's Integral View of Other Religions

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1469-901x|15|3|365-377

ISSN: 0034-4125

Source: Religious Studies, Vol.15, Iss.3, 1979-09, pp. : 365-377

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Abstract

Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1872–1950), the Indian Nationalist and yogi, developed in the period of his life at Pondicherry in Southeast India a system of thought, practice and experience which he called ‘Integral Yoga’. The title indicated, he said, that ‘it takes up the essence and many processes of the old Yogas — its newness is in its aim, standpoint and the totality of its method’. In the development of Integral Yoga Aurobindo believed he was speaking and acting as a ‘realized yogi’ or, better still, a yogi who was in the process of realization. He had not attained a final experience of jñāna, but he believed he had experienced levels of supra-mental consciousness which would lead to the higher level of Supermind itself.