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2 Integral Yoga
2 Satprem
2 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
1.06_-_Quieting_the_Vital, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
The Riddle of this World, 79
Thoughts and Aphorisms, 17:146
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1.17_-_The_Transformation, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Letters, 2 volumes (On Yoga I & II) 1st ed. 1958
The Riddle of this World 1st ed. 1933
Bases of Yoga 1st ed. 1936
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3.1.01_-_The_Problem_of_Suffering_and_Evil, #Letters On Yoga I, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Problem of Suffering and Evil
The Riddle of this World
It is not to be denied, no spiritual experience will deny that this is an unideal and unsatisfactory world, strongly marked with the stamp of inadequacy, suffering, evil. Indeed this perception is in a way almost the starting-point of the spiritual urge - except for the few to whom the greater experience comes spontaneously without being forced to seek it by the strong or overwhelming, the afflicting and detaching sense of the Shadow overhanging the whole range of this manifested existence. But still the question remains whether this is indeed, as is contended, the essential character of all manifestation or so long at least as there is a physical world it must be of this nature, so that the desire of birth, the will to manifest or create has to be regarded as the original sin and withdrawal from birth or manifestation as the sole possible way of salvation. For those who perceive it so or with some kindred look - and these have been the majority - there are well-known ways of issue, a straight-cut to spiritual deliverance. But equally it may not be so but only seem so to our ignorance or to a partial knowledge - the imperfection, the evil, the suffering may be a besetting circumstance or a dolorous passage, but not the very condition of manifestation, not the very essence of birth in Nature. And if so, the highest wisdom will lie not in escape, but in the urge towards a victory here, in a consenting association with the Will behind the world, in a discovery of the spiritual gate to perfection which will be at the same time an opening for the entire descent of the Divine Light,
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If you want a solution which will be agreeable to the human mind and feelings, I am afraid there is none. No doubt if human beings had made the universe, they would have done much better; but they were not there to be consulted when they were made. Only your central being was there and that was much nearer in its temerarious foolhardiness to Vivekananda's or X's than to the repining prudence of your murmuring and trembling human mentality of the present moment - otherwise it would never have come down into the adventure. Or perhaps it did not realise what it was in for? It is the same with the wallowers
1 The preceding letter was published under the heading "The Riddle of this World" in a book of the same name in 1933. - Ed.
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Agenda_Vol_10, #The Mothers Agenda, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ah, what text?
It was a very "Ordinary" text (I've brought it with me), in "The Riddle of this World."
Ah!
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139"The Riddle of this World" (July 1933) in Letters on Yoga, 22.31.
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The_Riddle_of_this_World, #unknown, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
object:The Riddle of this World
author class:Sri Aurobindo
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Rebirth and Personality
The Riddle of this World
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The Riddle of this World
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