Coursework.Info - Inspiration in an Instant

On the left is an image preview of every page of this document, and below are the first 150 words with formatting removed:

Sri Aurobindo's Concept of Absolute Dr. Priyavrat Shukla Reader in Dept. of Philosophy Rani Durgawati University India ps_11@msn.com Sri Aurobindo was a mystic philosopher with a synthetic and renovating insight who also crowned the contemporary period of the Indian thought. He considered the Absolute as an unknowable reality in the sense that it can neither be defined nor be conceived in its completeness of connotation. Absolute or Reality is self evident to itself but to human mind unknowable.1 This contention simply means that the Absolute is unknowable only for the sense experiences and common human reasoning or thought process. Sri Aurobindo was aware of the fact that the sense experiences function in a spatial-temporal framework. The human reason is compelled to posit the existence of the Absolute as the fundamental principle of every thing, but it also cannot immediately realize the Absolute. However, at the same time, the Absolute is not altogether unknowable. On...

Get instant access

• Instant, unlimited access to our documents in full
• Swap your work for free access, or pay £4.99
• To see the full version of this document and 150,044 others