ESSAYS DIVINE AND HUMAN

CONTENTS

	Part One Essays Divine and Human Section One (circa 1911) Certitudes Moksha Man Philosophy The Siddhis The Psychology of Yoga
	Section Two (1910 1913) Na Kinchidapi Chintayet The Sources of Poetry The Interpretation of Scripture On Original Thinking The Balance of Justice Social Reform Hinduism and the Mission of India The Psychology of Yoga The Claims of Theosophy Science and Religion in Theosophy Sat Sachchidananda The Silence behind Life
	Section Three (circa 1913) The Psychology of Yoga Initial Definitions and Descriptions The Object of Our Yoga Purna Yoga I. The Entire Purpose of Yoga II. Parabrahman, Mukti and Human Thought-Systems III. Parabrahman and Parapurusha Natural and Supernatural Man The Evolutionary Aim in Yoga The Fullness of Yoga—In Condition Nature Maya
	Section Four (1914 1919) The Beginning and the End The Hour of God Beyond Good and Evil The Divine Superman
	Section Five (1927 and after) The Law of the Way Man and the Supermind The Involved and Evolving Godhead The Evolution of Consciousness The Path

	Part Two From Man to Superman: Notes and Fragments on Philosophy, Psychology and Yoga
	Section One. Philosophy: God, Nature and Man God: The One Reality Nature: The World-Manifestation Man and Superman
	Section Two. Psychology: The Science of Consciousness The Problem of Consciousness Consciousness and the Inconscient The Science of Consciousness
	Section Three. Yoga: Change of Consciousness and Transformation of Nature The Way of Yoga Partial Systems of Yoga Integral Yoga

	Part Three Notes and Fragments on Various Subjects Section One. The Human Being in Time The Marbles of Time A Theory of the Human Being A Cyclical Theory of Evolution
	Section Two. The East and the West A Misunderstanding of Continents Towards Unification China, Japan and India
	Section Three. India Renascent India Where We Stand in Literature
	Section Four. Genius, Poetry, Beauty The Origin of Genius Poetic Genius The Voices of the Poets Pensées A Dream The Beauty of a Crow's Wings
	Section Five. Science, Religion, Reason, Justice Science Religion Reason and Society Justice

Part Four

Thoughts and Aphorisms

Part One Essays

Divine and Human

The essays in this part have been arranged chronologically in five sections. The contents of several of the sections or subsections seem to have been intended by Sri Aurobindo to be published as series or collections of essays.

Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry

A page of a draft of "Man and the Supermind"

Section One

Circa 1911

Certitudes

In the deep there is a greater deep, in the heights a greater height. Sooner shall man arrive at the borders of infinity than at the fullness of his own being. For that being is infinity, is God

I aspire to infinite force, infinite knowledge, infinite bliss. Can I attain it? Yes, but the nature of infinity is that it has no end. Say not therefore that I attain it. I become it. Only so can man attain God by becoming God.

But before attaining he can enter into relations with him. To enter into relations with God is Yoga, the highest rapture & the noblest utility. There are relations within the compass of the humanity we have developed. These are called prayer, worship, adoration, sacrifice, thought, faith, science, philosophy. There are other relations beyond our developed capacity, but within the compass of the humanity we have yet to develop. Those are the relations that are attained by the various practices we usually call Yoga.

We may not know him as God, we may know him as Nature, our Higher Self, Infinity, some ineffable goal. It was so that Buddha approached Him; so approaches him the rigid Adwaitin. He is accessible even to the Atheist. To the materialist He disguises Himself in matter. For the Nihilist he waits ambushed in the bosom of Annihilation.

ये यथा मां प्रपद्यन्ते तांस्तथैव भजाम्यहम् |

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