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\nAppendixes<\/span> <\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\nAppendix 1 <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSri Aurobindo’s Notes on Certain English Terms
\nOccurring in his Works<\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\ndynamis<\/i>\u2014"Dynamis" is a Greek word, not current, so far as I know, in English; but the verb
\ndunamai<\/i>, I can, am able, from which it derives, has given a number of
\nverbs to the English language including dynamise, dynamics, dynamic, dyne (a unit of
\nforce), so that the word can be at once understood by all English readers. It means
\npower, especially energetic power for energetic action. It is equivalent to the Sanskrit
\nword, Shakti. Philosophically it can stand as the opposite word to status, Divine
\nStatus, Divine Dynamis.<\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nineffugable <\/i>\u2014 "Ineffugible" is the correct formation, but it has no force or power of
\nsuggestive sound in it. The "a" in "ineffugable" has been brought in by illegitimate
\nanalogy from words like "fugacious", Latin fugare<\/i>, because it sounds better and is
\nforcible.\u00b9<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nsublate <\/i>\u2014 "Sublate" means originally to remove; it means denial and
\nremoval (throwing off) of something posited. What appeared to be true, can be sublated by a greater
\ntruth contradicting it. The experience of the world can be sublated by a greater truth
\ncontradicting it. The experience of the world can be sublated by the experience of
\nSelf, it is denied and removed; so the experience of Self can be sublated by the experience of Shunya; it is denied and removed.<\/p>\n

\nHegel could not have used the word "sublate" as he wrote in German. I do not
\nknow what word\u00b2<\/font> he used which is here translated by "sublate", but certainly it does
\nnot mean both destroy and preserve, nor in fact does it mean either. Being passes over
\ninto Non-being, so it sublates itself, changes and eliminates itself as it were from the
\nview, becomes Non-being instead of being; but so also does Non-being, what was
\nNon-Being passes over into Being; where there was nothing, there is being; nothing
\nhas eliminated itself from the view. This, says Hegel, is not a mutual destruction by the
\ncontraries each of which was outside the other. Being inside itself becomes nothing
\nor Non-Being; Non-Being or Nothing equally inside itself passes into being. They do
\nnot really sublate or drive out each other, but each sublates itself into the other. In other
\nwords, it is the same Reality that presents itself now as one and now as the other.<\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n\u00b9<\/font>Sri Aurobindo made this comment when the following note apropos of "ineffugable" was
\nsubmitted to him: <\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt is a new word, like "dynamis", introduced into the English language by Sri Aurobindo. It means
\ninescapable, inevitable, not to be avoided. A similar word was used by Blount in 1856 with slight
\nchange of form \u2014 "ineffugible". Etymologically it is an adaptation of the Latin
\nineffugibilis<\/i>, from effugere<\/i>, to flee from, avoid. (Vide<\/i> Oxford English Dictionary)
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\u00b2<\/font> Aufheben<\/i>, if that is the German word, must mean "to send" as the Latin word
\nsubtollere<\/i> (past participle: sublatus<\/i>) "to heave up and off, to throw", from which "sublate" is taken.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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Appendixes Appendix 1   Sri Aurobindo’s Notes on Certain English Terms Occurring in his Works   dynamis\u2014"Dynamis" is a Greek word, not current, so far…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30-index-and-glossary-volume-30","wpcat-28-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}