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JAI SRIMA

By the Grace and Divine Blessings of THE MOTHER and SRI AUROBINDO, a humble attempt to spread #TheLifeDivine by #SriAurobindo.

THE LIFE DIVINE STUDY CIRCLE – CHENNAI (#TLDSCC)
1. Website - lifedivinechennai.in
2. YouTube Channel - youtube.com/channel/UCoP5z…

1/18

The content is based on the simplified material prepared by Shri S Sivakumar, a devotee of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, from Chennai.
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2/18

A very hearty appreciation and gratitude to Shri Sivakumar for his sincere and dedicated efforts to explain the rather difficult philosophic work in a simplistic and comprehensible manner.
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3/18

My sincere pranaam to him for permitting to post the same on twitter for spreading The Masters’ Words to a wider audience on #Twitter.

The weekly (twice) sessions are conducted in Tamil, though the notes & explanation are in English.
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4/18

Anyone interested in joining the group can fill the following form to register - lifedivinechennai.in/how-to-attend

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5/18

About The Life Divine Study Circle – Chennai

#TLDSCC is a collective effort by the devotees of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother spread all over India & abroad to regularly meet and study The Life Divine through online video meetings.
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6/18

The discussions take place based on the simplified explanation material prepared by Shri S Sivakumar, a devotee from Chennai.
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7/18

The Life Divine is Sri Aurobindo’s principal philosophic work, a theory of spiritual evolution culminating in the transformation of man into a Supramental being and the advent of a divine life upon earth.
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8/18

The materials and the video recordings of the discussions are published in the website, chapter-wise as and when they are completed.

Sri Aurobindo on THE LIFE DIVINE -
“Here is possible a realistic as well as an illusionist Adwaita.
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9/18

The philosophy of The Life Divine is such a realistic Adwaita. The world is a manifestation of the Real & therefore is itself real. The reality is the infinite & eternal Divine, infinite & eternal Being, Consciousness-Force & Bliss.
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10/18

This Divine by his power has created the world or rather manifested it in his own infinite Being. But here in the material world or at its basis he has hidden himself in what seem to be his opposites, Non-Being, Inconscience and Insentience.
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11/18

This is what we nowadays call the Inconscient which seems to have created the material universe by its inconscient Energy; but this is only an appearance, for we find in the end that all the dispositions of the world can only have been…
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12/18

...arranged by the working of a supreme secret intelligence.

The Being which is hidden in what seems to be an inconscient void emerges in the world first in Matter, then in Life, then in Mind and finally as the Spirit.
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13/18

The apparently inconscient Energy which creates is in fact the Consciousness-Force of the Divine and its aspect of consciousness, secret in Matter, begins to emerge in Life, finds something more of itself in Mind and…
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14/18

...finds its true self in a spiritual consciousness and finally a supramental consciousness through which we become aware of the Reality, enter into it and unite ourselves with it.
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15/18

This is what we call evolution which is an evolution of consciousness and an evolution of the Spirit in things and only outwardly an evolution of species.
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16/18

Thus also, the delight of existence emerges from the original insentience first in the contrary forms of pleasure and pain and then has to find itself in the bliss of the Spirit or as it is called in the Upanishads, the bliss of the Brahman.
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17/18

That is the central idea in the explanation of the universe put forward in The Life Divine.”

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18/18
(to be contd)

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