Evolving Consciousness and Dynamics of Religion An Inquiry into the Thought of A.N. Whitehead and Sri Aurobindo
- Bangalore Dharmaram Publications 2017
- 509p
includes index and biblioraphy
Part I. Whitehead`s Notion of reality and religion 1.Whilehead`s Vision of Reality.............5 Metaphisics as Speculative philosophy................23 Process philosophy of ORganism......................39 2.Whitehead`s Vision of Religioun..............59 whitehead`s Attitudes twards religion..............59 Defining Religion............70 3. Solitariness and dynamics of Religion........105 Religion and solitariness..........106 Essential characteristics of Solitariness.....108 The matrix of Religious Experience....133 The notion of Process : God and world..............144 Significance of process thought.........170 Part II. Aurobindo`s Vision of Reality and Religion 4. Aurobindo`s Vision of Reality.............187 Stages of Development........188 Aurobindo`s Reading of Vedanta.........201 The integral Advaita...........226 The Teleology of Evolution .............258 5. Aurobindo`s Vision of Religion..................269 Aurobindo`s Spiritual Adventures..............270 Aurobindo`s Understanding of Religion..................283 The dynamics of Spiritual Rreligions..........291 The essentials of Spiritual religioun....................302 Spirituality.............302 Freedom of the Soul....302 Perfecting reason...........305 The subjective ideal of life.........311 New Religion of Humanity......317 6. Integral yoga and the dynamics of Religion..........323 Nature and difinition of Yoga.......324 Traditional Schools of Yoga.........324 Aurobindo`s Integral Yoga..........349 Distinctive features of Integral Yoga...............352 Basic Requisites of Integral Yoga ............367 Part III. The in-Between of East and west 7.Solitariness and integral Yoga : Convergence and Divergence in Whitehead and aurobindo.............382 Points of Convergence.................384 Points of divergence...........421 Au