The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, Part One: The Revolutionary Yogi, with Debashish Banerji
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- Debashish Banerji, PhD, is former Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles as well as an adjunct faculty member at Pasadena City College and the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is also the former director of the East West Cultural Center in Los Angeles. He is author of Seven Quartets of Becoming: A Transformative Yoga Psychology Based on the Diaries of Sri Aurobindo and also The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore, a book about his great grandfather. He edited an anthology about his great uncle, Rabindranath Tagore in the Twenty-First Century.
Here he describes Aurobindo’s unique role as a spiritual figure during the chaotic years of the early twentieth century. Born to an upper-class Indian family, he studied in England and achieved high marks as a scholar. When he returned to India, he became a leader in the anti-colonial movement. At this time he also began practicing yoga and quickly discovered many extraordinary states of consciousness. Eventually he was imprisoned for his political activities and, while in prison, his yoga and meditative practices accelerated. He began to experience himself as having a personal relationship with god (Brahman), mediated by the avatar Krishna. He came to experience everything and everyone as an embodiment of Krishna. As a result, he came to realize that a political revolution would be incomplete without an accompanying spiritual revolution.
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He serves as dean of transformational psychology at the University of Philosophical Research. He teaches parapsychology for ministers in training with the Centers for Spiritual Living through the Holmes Institute. He has served as vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and is the recipient of its Pathfinder Award for outstanding contributions to the field of human consciousness. He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.
(Recorded on December 20, 2015)
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Sri Aurobindo is a man of the future. We can't understand him with our logical minds.
Sri Arbindo never said the world is unreal or projection of Maya...he rejected ideas of shankaracharya and told that world is real but it's imperfect expressions of supreme consciousness....his integral yoga is tool to transform the earth and human conciousness...and his project is to descend supramental conciousness on earth to Devine life on earth...
Sri Aurobindo's thought is eternal thinking rediscovered , new to our Ignorance !
Thanks so much for posting these videos, I have been a student of Aurobindo's work and transmission for 2 decades. A great Teacher who impacted the world in huge ways, yet ironically rarely known.
Why Can you please share where you find his teachings . Thank you
I have been reading "The Life Divine" and let me tell you, it is pretty thorough. He covers many bases.
"Synthesis of Yoga " of Sri Aurobindo is purely intellectual knowledge. Do read u,ll get depth of integral yoga.
Very very informative video...Maharishi Sri Aurobindo...Integral yoga.is heart touching..Oh My
Lord koti koti pranam..
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Sincere gratitude to Dr. Banerji and Jeffrey Mishlove for ALL of their wonderful talks. He has so much profound and important material to share. As a yoga practitioner and an artist I've found myself relating so much to the various revelations, and find that they help me to fill in the gaps of my own awareness and the insights glimpsed in reflection. It has the fragrance of truth. Thank you!
“Self hatred “ indeed one of the tricks of conquerors . Same truck played all over the world .
Dr. Banerji is such a nice person.
The greatest human being of recent times - Shri Aurobindo. Sadly not many Indians are aware of his spiritual attainment. You have to read his letters on yoga to understand his profound thoughts and state of mind.
He IS a divine entity
Not really his letters much, much much more what is considered with good founded justification to actually be a "fifth Veda", his manifestation of English mantric poetic verse, the longest poem in the English language, "Savitri."
Where can I find his teachings please.
Vivekananda was the direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, who was said to be an avatara. Vivekananda came to America to speak at the world parliament of religions and became very popular, opening the Vedanta Society of New York, which then spread throughout the US.
Thank you so much for this precious video on Sri Aurobindo!
Spectacular. Thank You Jeffrey
Debashish, wonderful to see this so early in 2016. Ir is hoped, will stimulate awareness and encourage exploration of the adventure Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are calling those of us with a will to respond to set sailing on through times like these..
I just had a synchronicity that pushed me to watch this video I was reading Robert anton wilsons autobiography and he mentioned sri aurobindo, then I saw Jeffrey post this series on facebook
+Larry Tinsley incidences of synchronicity to me, mean you are on the right path
+Larry Tinsley
So did I. I am so glad I saw your comment, because it just reinforced that feeling again.
I’ve been listening to these immensely interesting topics. And I learn something new each time.
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So glad to hear such towering personalities on Shri Aurobindo Thanks .
Wise and intellectually stimulating conversation between the two. Thank you for the videos .
Thank you so much for uploading this wonderful video. You have done a great favour.
Sri Aurobindo woke up, saw Krishna in all things as told in the Bhagavad Gita.
Thank you both.
So glad to find all your videos!
I like to have a group of people
Who can work and contribute
on points , how darkness remove on our ancient knowledge
And failure of British rule
I'm thrilled that New Thinking Allowed continues on. The first series produced such a long list of very interesting interviews, in a conversational format I find rewarding for trying to understand these things. Keep it up!
Thankyou mr. Mishlove. Not everybody would include auribindo in their conversations. -Respect!
##Great tolisten, a wonderful insight.
The conversation is wonderful!
the integration, the combination of all useful ideas of east and west, of all good forces is the new, hopeful , joyful work,result of sri aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo Genius
Quite informative.
Sri Aurobindo the Sun of lndia
When arose in the Eastern Horizon, darkness scattered into pieces, the mountain high
resistance of the British unable
to stop his advent..
Nice to see and enjoy New Thinking Aloud!!
MATHAJI & MAHARSHI AUROVINDO, both Great souls ,
Spiritual activity enhanced by them in different way, we should visit MAITHRI MANDIR.. the sacred place at PONDICHERRY .
I was blessed to visit the ashram in Pondicherry before the pandemic. Blessings from Johannesburg, South Africa 🙏🕉️
12:42 "... the concept of Maya... projected onto a screen... a projection of Maya..."
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I found about this guy from one of the meditation teachers on soulvana.
British theosophists were responsible for the rejuvenation of buddhism in Sri Lanka, and Anny Besant was a member of the Indian congress party. The west was open to eastern philosophies after Schuré’s les grands initiés.
Active brahma seems an analogy of active intellect (aristotelianism)
Sri Aurobindo the God head
This is Pure Land Buddhism!
Where can I find that beautiful statue or busk?
goo.gl/grhtEg
Thanks Jeff!
Comparing Marx and other western personalities with Aurobindo ? Bald man is crazy. You have no idea about what Aurobindo achieved. Comparing him with anyone else anywhere during that time is utterly stupid.
exactly. marx was an arrogant idiot comparitively.
Real thinking ... is about establishing the differences between things as well as their similarities. Thus, we compare All to All.
As for your meanness, I think you should seek the fountainhead
@@yashwanthkumar5081 he may well have had some arrogance, but he was most certainly not an idiot. you may disagree with aspects of his thought, but he was a genius in his own right.
I was talking about Hegel to an Indian man and he immediately compared Hegel's ideas with Aurobindo. Being that Hegel was Marx's mentor there might be legitimate similarities.
@@matthewkopp2391 Aurobindo was most importantly an enlightened man. A spiritual guru as compared to meere mortals like Marx or Tom Dick Harry.
WERE colonized...?! :)
To other audiences : His great grandfather was Nobel Prize winner (Rabindranath Tagore). Even his wholy family lineage are greatest .....
...aurobindo was just 10 years younger than rabindranath thakur and heat belong from the Ghosh family not from the Tagore family and his mother was from the family of hathkhola datta .
........it is true that belong from a very big family but not necessarily he belongs from the thakur family and he was very much loved by rabindranath thakur rabindranath thakur rotor hold poem dedicated to aurobindo
@@DattaMusics and @The AK,
The video description clearly states that Rabindranath Tagore was Debashish Banerji's relation,
not Sri Aurobindo's.
Any talk on Sri Aurobindo's attainments or life is bound to be a failure because his life was not on the surface for men to see. IT would be wise to shut up.
That is also because not many are sincere in doing the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, so how would they know anything to relay anything!! I fully agree with you!!
Irresponsible comment... How can a being(Sri Aurobindo) in higher realm could be understood by beings in lower realm... If we don't understand something, it's better to shut up
too difficult to listen to.
Boring conversation!!! There seems to be no one who is an authority of actual experience of practicing Sri Aurobindo's Yoga!!! What they're talking in this clip is something I read in books, basically a repeat! It's like Deepak Chopra doing a guided meditation and thinking he has realized the true Self! I listen to Satprem speak and I feel I learn something!!
The name is Sri Aurobindo not Aurobindo I think Debashish is aware regarding this significance. Knowledge of Russian language??? Sri Aurobindo himself never claim this from where does Debashish collect this information? The first revolutionary martyr Khudiram and Prafulla Chaki was not disciple of Sri Aurobindo they were much more connected with Barin (his brother). His temporary mentor Lele was not connected with freedom struggle rather he utterly opposed the Maniktala conspiracy plan. Sri Aurobindos spiritual experiences started from his childhood before he leaved for England. Debashish should mention his experience in Apollo bunder Bombay. If you have any idea of Gita one can realize the comparison of Arjun and Krishna is too hilarious and stupid.
Aurobindo was not a terrorist. He was a freedom movement leader. What kind of language is this bald man using here? Not appropriate.
why can't this guy stand up for India? I like him but he is an apologist.