Westerners will never ever acknowledge the greatness of Sri Aurobindo's work and philosophy. Swami Vivekananda had a similar problem. He was full of passion about bringing the high spiritual dharma of the East to the West. But because he was a brown skinned man from India he had no hope in hell of getting significant numbers of westerners to take much notice of him. That is one reason why he died at 33 years of age. He was literally worn out by the effort that it required. They were (and still are) full of their western "christian" arrogance. This arrogance is alive and well (sic) in the Vatican and is a feature of all the USA right wing think tanks (why not feeling tanks??) and so called "religious" institutes etc. Check out First Things (FT) or Touchstone or Crux and their associated websites and blogs etc etc. The current issue of FT contains an essay The Orthodox Imperative which emphatically states that there is ONLY one source of "truth" in the world and that ALL other ways are inherently false and the breeding ground of all kinds of relativism. No ecumenism allowed--none! # posted by John : 7:25 AM
What a hoot especially when compared to your next posting re philosophy and feeling. And also the absolute anti-thesis of everything that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother taught and stood for. Rand's wisdomless "philosophy" was that of the loveless heart, the angular "philosophy" of the machine and its inevitable manifestation technocratic "civilization" --the "culture" of death!
The "philosophy" of anti-feeling, the "philosophy" of complete self-possession (there is only me!! and naked self interest). Its inevitable outcome being the war of all against all and everything. Very soberly described in this essay: 1. www.dabase.net/coop+tol.htm Plus this essay on the primacy of feeling and touch as the very essence of our humanity. 2. www.beezone.com/AdiDa/touch.htm Also The Asana of Science and Objectivism. www.aboutadidam.org/readings/asana_of_science/index.html # posted by John : 6:58 AM
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