The Human Cycle
The Human Cycle is a book that the writer Aurobindo wrote during the First World War .
In this book, Aurobindo describes a shift towards a more spiritual society. He also writes that the influence of the East will be primarily in the direction of subjectivism and practical spirituality, which will lead to a greater opening of our physical existence to the realization of ideals that differ from previous limited goals about life and the body in differ in their gross nature.
Man, he says, needs space to grow spiritually and to be able to fulfill his own individual truth. This freedom must be granted to him. This is an idea and a truth that has been understood intellectually, has experienced its greatest external and superficial significance in Europe, and which is at its core in harmony with the deepest and highest spiritual concepts of Asia.
Education, too, will have the new goal of developing the students' own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical abilities, and no longer just squeezing the students into a fixed form and teaching them as much stereotypical knowledge as possible.
Furthermore, Aurobindo criticizes all forms of totalitarianism, authoritarian states, materialism, war and dictatorships in this book. He warned against a society that lives only through its institutions and not through people, which is just a machine in which life becomes a mechanical product.
Furthermore, Aurobindo claims that one does not have to submit one's ego to an institution or a bureaucratic machine, but to move towards the true divinity within ourselves.
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- Quotes from The Human Cycle
- Quotes from The Human Cycle
- Chapters 1 through 16 of The Human Cycle
- Chapters 21 through 24 of The Human Cycle
- Aurobindo about Germany, from The Human Cycle
- Jutta Ditfurth quotes Sri Aurobindo taken out of context ( Memento from June 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) An article by Jutta Ditfurth et al. a. on Aurobindo's influence on Rudolf Bahro