The Life Divine
Book Specification
| Item Code: | NAK609 |
| Author: | Sri Aurobindo |
| Publisher: | Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2017 |
| ISBN: | 9788170588443 |
| Pages: | 1142 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Other Details | 8.5 inch x 5.5 inch |
| Weight | 850 gm |
Book Description
About the Author
Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15 August 1872. At the age of seven he was taken to England for his education. He studied at St. Paul's School, London, and at King's College, Cambridge. Returning to India in 1893, he worked for the next thirteen years in the Princely State of Baroda in the service of the Maharaja and as a professor in the state's college.
In 1906 Sri Aurobindo quit his post in Baroda and went to Calcutta, where he became one of the leaders of the Indian nationalist movement. As editor of the newspaper Bande Mataram, he put forward the idea of complete independence from Britain. Arrested three times for sedition or treason, he was released each time for lack of evidence.
Sri Aurobindo began the practice of Yoga in 1905. Within a few years he achieved several fundamental spiritual realisations. In 1910 he withdrew from politics and went to Pondicherry in French India in order to concentrate on his inner life and work. Over the next forty years, he developed a new spiritual path, the Integral Yoga, whose ultimate aim is the transformation of life by the power of a supramental consciousness. In 1926, with the help of his spiritual collaborator the Mother, he founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. His vision of life is presented in numerous works of prose and poetry, among the best known of which are The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on the Gita and Savitri. Sri Aurobindo passed away on 5 December 1950.
Contents
| Book One | |
| Omnipresent Reality and the Universe | |
| Chapter I | |
| The Human Aspiration | 3 |
| Chapter II | |
| The Two Negations | 8 |
| 1. The Materialist Denial | |
| Chapter III | |
| The Two Negations | |
| 2. The Refusal of the Ascetic | 20 |
| Chapter IV | |
| Reality Omnipresent | 29 |
| Chapter V | |
| The Destiny of the Individual | 38 |
| Chapter VI | |
| Man in the Universe | 47 |
| Chapter VII | |
| The Ego and the Dualities | 56 |
| Chapter VIII | |
| The Methods of Vedantic Knowledge | 66 |
| Chapter IX | |
| The Pure Existent | 78 |
| Chapter X | |
| Conscious Force | 87 |
| Chapter XI | |
| Delight of Existence: The Problem | 98 |
| Chapter XII | |
| Delight of Existence: The Solution | 108 |
| Chapter XIII | |
| The Divine Maya | 120 |
| Chapter XIV | |
| The Supermind as Creator | 130 |
| Chapter XV | |
| The Supreme Truth-Consciousness | 141 |
| Chapter XVI | |
| The Triple Status of Supermind | 152 |
| Chapter XVII | |
| The Divine Soul | 161 |
| Chapter XVIII | |
| Mind and Supermind | 170 |
| Chapter XIX | |
| Life | 185 |
| Chapter XX | |
| Death, Desire and Incapacity | 200 |
| Chapter XXI | |
| The Ascent of Life | 210 |
| Chapter XXII | |
| The Problem of Life | 220 |
| Chapter XXIII | |
| The Double Soul in Man | 231 |
| Chapter XXIV | |
| Matter | 245 |
| Chapter XXV | |
| The Knot of Matter | 254 |
| Chapter XXVI | |
| The Ascending Series of Substance | 266 |
| Chapter XXVII | |
| The Sevenfold Chord of Being | 276 |
| Chapter XXVIII | |
| Supermind, Mind and the Overmind Maya | 285 |
| Book Two | |
| The Knowledge and the Ignorance - The Spiritual Evolution | |
| Part I | |
| The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance | |
| Chapter I | |
| Indeterminates, Cosmic Determinations and the Indeterminable | 309 |
| Chapter II | |
| Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti | 336 |
| Chapter III | |
| The Eternal and the Individual | 380 |
| Chapter IV | 11 |
| The Divine and the Undivine | 403 |
| Chapter V | |
| The Cosmic Illusion; Mind, Dream and Hallucination | 428 |
| Chapter VI | |
| Reality and the Cosmic Illusion | 455 |
| Chapter VII | |
| The Knowledge and the Ignorance | 499 |
| Chapter VIII | |
| Memory, Self-Consciousness and the Ignorance | 519 |
| Chapter IX | |
| Memory, Ego and Self-Experience | 529 |
| Chapter X | |
| Knowledge by Identity and Separative Knowledge | 543 |
| Chapter XI | |
| The Boundaries of the Ignorance | 573 |
| Chapter XII | |
| The Origin of the Ignorance | 586 |
| Chapter XIII | |
| Exclusive Concentration of Consciousness-Force and the Ignorance | 602 |
