It is the voice of the State Department in Washington it is the voice of Wall Street it is the voice of Churchill and of the most war-mongers of Europe and America.” I wish you had not stooped to this level of suspicion and calumny. [...] Likewise Donne sees the Cross everywhere and Wordsworth reads the hand of God in all the nooks of multifoliate Nature: all sights and sounds all gestures and vestiges are to him like the workings of one mind the features Of the same face blossoms upon one tree; Characters of the great Apocalypse The types and symbols of Eternity Of first and last and midst and without end. [...] The consciousness of the average individual is poised on the lowest sub-plane of his mentality— the physical-mental; he depends upon the physical brain the physical sense-mind and the physical sense organs for the knowledge of the world. [...] It attempts the discovery of the secret laws of mind and mental energy the secret laws of life and life-energy the secret laws of the subtle-physical and its energies —all that Nature has not put into visible operations on the suface; it pursues also the application of these hidden truths and powers of Nature so as to extend the mastery of the human spirit beyond the ordnary operations of [...] The knowledge however of both the infinite and the finite puts us in a very peculiar position for the acquisition and the maintenance of our knowledge of the finite is bound to certain categories which are entirely different from that of the infinite and the sum of our knowledge of the finite is and always will be limited; thus we are confronted with an "antinomy".
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- 18
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- India
- SARF Document ID
- sarf.120134
Segment | Pages | Author | Actions |
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Sri Aurobindo and the Korean War
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1-2 | K. D. Sethna | view |
India’s Delusions About Red China
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3-i | M. N. Roy | view |
Lyra Mystica Some Notes on English Mystical Poetry
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4-i | K. R. Iyengar | view |
Sri Aurobindo the Leader of the Evolution Part II of “the World Crisis and India”
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5-i | “Synergist” | view |
In the Mother’s Light Asceticism
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6-7 | Rishabhchand | view |
The Musings of a Doctor a Comment on Kenneth Walker
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8-i | Nathaniel Pearson | view |
Sri Aurobindo and Man’s Socio-Political Development
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9-9 | C. C. Dutt | view |
The Infinite and the Finite
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10-11 | Rajanikant Mody | view |
Lights on Life Problems
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12-i | K. G. | view |