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The Life Divine

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The Life Divine - Contents


- Book 1: Omnipresent Reality and the Universe

- Book 2: The Knowledge and the Ignorance - The Spiritual Evolution
- Part 1: The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance
- Part 2: The Knowledge and the Spiritual Evolution
- (1940 addition) The Spiritual Evolution


Important Note on the History of Revision and Publishing of 'The Life Divine'

Sri Aurobindo begins at the same time 'The Synthesis of Yoga'

  • Book 1: Omnipresent Reality and the Universe
    • 01 - The Human Aspiration
    • 02 - The Two Negations: The Materialist Denial
    • 03 - The Two Negations: The Refusal of the Ascetic
    • 04 - Reality Omnipresent
    • 05 - The Destiny of the Individual
    • 06 - Man in the Universe
    • 07 - The Ego and the Dualities
      (22 February 1915: The Mother leaves Pondicherry)
    • 08 - The Methods of Vedantic Knowledge
    • 09 - The Pure Existent
    • 10 - Conscious Force
    • 11 - Delight of Existence: The Problem
    • 12 - Delight of Existence: The Solution
    • 13 - The Divine Maya
    • 14 - The Supermind as Creator
    • 15 - The Supreme Truth-Consciousness
    • 16 - The Triple Status of the Supermind
    • 17 - The Divine Soul
    • 18 - Mind and Supermind
    • 19 - Life
    • 20 - Death, Desire and Incapacity
    • 21 - The Ascent of Life
    • 22 - The Problem of Life
    • 23 - The Double Soul in Man
    • 24 - Matter
    • 25 - The Knot of Matter
    • 26 - The Ascending Series of Substance
    • 27 - The Sevenfold Chord of Being
    • 28 - Supermind, Mind and the Overmind Maya
  • Book 2: The Knowledge and the Ignorance - The Spiritual Evolution

    Part 1: The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance
    • 01 - Indeterminates, Cosmic Determinations and the Indeterminable
    • 02 - Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakritit, Shakti
    • 03 - The Eternal and the Individual
    • 04 - The Divine and the Undivine
    • *05 - The Cosmic Illusion; Mind, Dream and Hallucination (entirely re-written in 1939 for the 1940 edition) (76 Kb)
    • 06 - Reality and the Cosmic Illusion
    • 07 - The Knowledge and the Ignorance
    • 08 - Memory, Self-Consciousness and the Ignorance
    • 09 - Memory, Ego and Self-Experience
    • 10 - Knowledge by Identity and Separative Knowledge
    • 11 - The Boundaries of the Ignorance
    • 12 - The Origin of the Ignorance
    • 13 - Exclusive Concentration of Consciousness-Force and Ignorance
    • *14 - The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil (entirely re-written in 1939 for the 1940 edition) (76 Kb)
  • Book 2: The Knowledge and the Ignorance - The Spiritual Evolution

    Part 2: The Knowledge and the Spiritual Evolution
    • 15 - Reality and the Integral Knoweldge
    • 16 - The Integral Knowledge and the Aim of Life; Four Theories of Existence
    • 17 - The Progress to Knowledge - God, Man and Nature
    • 18 - The Evolutionary Process - Ascent and Integration
    • 19 - Out of the Sevenfold Ignorance Towards the Sevenfold Knowledge
    • 20 - The Philosophy of Rebirth
    • 21 - The Order of the Worlds
    • *22 - Rebirth and Other Worlds; Karma, the Soul and Immortality (contains some material from the Arya (March 1917) but much that is entirely re-written in 1939 for the 1940 edition ) (92 Kb)

      (1940 addition) The Spiritual Evolution
    • 23 - Man and the Evolution
    • 24 - The Evolution of the Spiritual Man
    • *25 - The Triple Transformation (entirely new-written in 1939 for the 1940 edition)
    • *26 - The Ascent Towards Supermind (entirely new-written in 1939 for the 1940 edition)
    • *27 - The Gnostic Being (entirely new-written in 1939 for the 1940 edition)
    • *28 - The Divine Life (entirely new-written in 1939 for the 1940 edition)

      You can download the fulltext of the 6 chapters zipped in TXT-format (Online only: 182 Kb) or formatted police Arial RTF-Format (191 Kb) Use the RIGHT button of your mouse. (internal)

      in "The Life Divine"
      SABCL Volumes 18 and 19
      published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry
      diffusion by SABDA
      or
      Lotus Light Publications U.S.A.



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