Dear Tushar,
Thanks for your e-mail. I have very high respect but very limited knowledge about Sri Aurobindo. Last year on our trip to south India we visited Aurobindo ashram and we found it very nice peaceful place. I am interested in relating physics to the non sensory world which our sages talk about. But I have never met anyone who has experience about Samadhi, astral body etc. I have not even talked to anyone who has met anyone with such experiences. I have been in U.S. since 1960 and of course it is not practical matter to go to India and search for such people! In our visit to the ashram, I inquired if there are such people around. No one could point me to one. Similar thing happened in our visit to Raman Ashram. At both places they said just meditate. You will get your answers! That may be very well true. I can also read about such experiences in books, but that is not very satisfactory from a scientific point of view. Anyway, do you think Sri Aurobindo had such experiences about Samadhi and astral body etc.? I would like to hear about your opinion on these matters.
Best Regards.
Kaashyap
From: Tusar Nath Mohapatra [mailto:tusarnm...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 11:35 AM
To: Vasavada, Kashyap V <vasa...@iupui.edu>
Subject: Sadhu Sanga forum
Dear friend,
I glance through your posts on Sadhu Sanga. I'm curious to know whether you are aware about Sri Aurobindo and if your worldview has any connection with his ontology?
Thanks,
Tusar
Dear Kashyap,
1. A new book by Arun Shourie is making waves and I give below links to two important reviews from which one can draw some impression:
Deconstructing Arun Shourie's “Two Saints” | IndiaFactsIndiaFacts
indiafacts.org › deconstructing-arun-sho...
Arun Shourie’s new book, “Two Saints” explores an interesting, but not unknown, area of spirituality wherein mystical experiences, their mechanism and effects are investigated in the light of modern neurology and psychology. ...
Shourie's 'Two Saints' Is An Important Book, But Neither Original Nor Thorough - Swarajya
https://swarajyamag.com › books › shour...
Arun Shourie's new book Two Saints: Speculations around and about Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Ramana Maharishi uses this occidental heritage to study the religious experiences ...
2. Sri Aurobindo used to record his experiments and experiences which can be read at:
3. Further, a good book on the subject is:
Seven Quartets of Becoming: A Transformative Yoga Psychology Based on the Diaries of Aurobindo
4. Since arguments over physics is gradually turning a war on Sadhu-Sanga forum, Sri Aurobindo's formulations on Consciousness should receive more attention, in my opinion.
Wishing you all the best,
Tusar (b.1955)
June 11, 2017
https://selforum.blogspot.in/2017/06/consciousness-and-immortality.html
4. Since arguments over physics is gradually turning a war on Sadhu-Sanga forum, Sri Aurobindo's formulations on Consciousness should receive more attention, in my opinion.
Dear Tusar , Paul, Kashyap
The review ,you have enclosed by Rajrishi Nandy as well as the
one by Pratap Bhanu Mehta in Indian Express give the impression that
Shourie has belittled The Swamis' achievements by saying that
neuroscience can explain and duplicate them easily. I do not know if
this is Shourie's aim. Mehta points out that even if neuroscience
replicates the experiences, getting them voluntarily is different
from getting them with help of neuroscience. I think this is an
important point.
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