ESSAYS DIVINE AND HUMAN

 

 

 

CONTENTS  

 

Pre-content

 

 

 

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

 

Jnana

Karma

Bhakti

Additional Aphorisms

 

 

 

NOTE ON THE TEXTS

 

 

Man

 

The Shastras use the same word for man and the one divine and universal Being—Purusha—as if to lay stress upon the oneness of humanity with God. Nara and Narayana are the eternal couple, who, though they are two, are one, eternally different, eternally the same. Narayana, say the scholiasts, is he who dwells in the waters, but I rather think it means he who is the essence and sum of all humanity. Wherever there is a man, there there is Narayana; for the two cannot be separated. I think sometimes that when Christ spoke of himself as the Son of Man, he really meant the son of the Purusha, and almost find myself imagining that anthropos is only the clumsy Greek equivalent, the literal and ignorant translation of some Syrian word which corresponded to our Purusha.

Be that as it may, there can be no doubt that man is full of divine possibilities—he is not merely a term in physical evolution, but himself the field of a spiritual evolution which with him began and in him will end. It was only when man was made, that the gods were satisfied—they who had rejected the animal forms,—and cried सुकृतमेव, "Man indeed is well and wonderfully made; the higher evolution can now begin." He is like God, the sum of all other types and creatures from the animal to the god, infinitely variable where they are fixed, dynamic where they, even the highest, are static, and, therefore, although in the present and in his attainment a little lower than the angels, yet in the eventuality and in his culmination considerably higher than the gods. The other or fixed types, animals, gods, giants, Titans, demigods, can rise to a higher development than their own, but they must use the human body and the terrestrial birth to effect the transition.  

 

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