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The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo, 1916
From Volume 21 and 22 of
The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo
Contents
Book One - Omnipresent Reality and the Universe
0 Original preface
1 The Human Aspiration
2 The Two Negations - The Materialist Denial
3 The Two Negations - The Refusal of the Ascetic
4 Reality Omnipresent
5 The Destiny of the Individual
6 Man in the Universe
7 The Ego and the Dualities
8 The Methods of Vedantic Knowledge
9 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 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 Two - The Knowledge and the Ignorance - The Spiritual Evolution
I The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance
1 Indeterminates, Cosmic Determinations and the Indeterminable
2 Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti
3 The Eternal and the Individual
4 The Divine and the Undivine
5 The Cosmic Illusion; Mind, Dream and Hallucination
6 Reality and the Cosmic Illusion
7 The Knowledge and the Ignorance
8 Memory, Self-Consciousness and the Ignorance
9 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 the Ignorance
14 The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil
II The Knowledge and the Spiritual Evolution
15 Reality and the Integral Knowledge
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
23 Man and the Evolution
24 The Evolution of the Spiritual Man
25 The Triple Transformation
26 The Ascent towards Supermind
27 The Gnostic Being
28 The Divine Life
29 Note on the Text
Detailed Contents
Book One - Omnipresent Reality and the Universe
0 Original preface
0.1 Publisher's Note
0.2 Contents
1 The Human Aspiration
2 The Two Negations - The Materialist Denial
3 The Two Negations - The Refusal of the Ascetic
4 Reality Omnipresent
5 The Destiny of the Individual
6 Man in the Universe
7 The Ego and the Dualities
8 The Methods of Vedantic Knowledge
9 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 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 Two - The Knowledge and the Ignorance - The Spiritual Evolution
I The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance
1 Indeterminates, Cosmic Determinations and the Indeterminable
2 Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti
3 The Eternal and the Individual
4 The Divine and the Undivine
5 The Cosmic Illusion; Mind, Dream and Hallucination
6 Reality and the Cosmic Illusion
7 The Knowledge and the Ignorance
8 Memory, Self-Consciousness and the Ignorance
9 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 the Ignorance
14 The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil
II The Knowledge and the Spiritual Evolution
15 Reality and the Integral Knowledge
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
23 Man and the Evolution
24 The Evolution of the Spiritual Man
25 The Triple Transformation
26 The Ascent towards Supermind
27 The Gnostic Being
28 The Divine Life
29 Note on the Text
29.1 The revision of Volume I (Book One)
29.2 The revision of Volume II (Book Two)
29.2.1 Revised Arya Chapters
29.2.2 Partly New Chapters
29.2.3 New Chapters
29.3 Mottoes
29.4 Printing history after 1940
29.5 The present edition
29.6 Chapters in Arya and 1940 edition