Terrific research. Beautiful and greatly illuminating quotes. ...will read and refer to it again. ...will use the parts of it for my future articles. ...will forward it to a few friends including Dr. Karan Singh on whom I have edited a book on his association with Auroville. Would like to send that book to you. Address?
I suppose there is an extrinsic ethics in the narrow sense, which has become identified with prakrti, the utilitarianism of the material flow, including the entirely of our psychic energies and the resulting mask of the personality. But then, there is a more fundamental ethics of the life-monad (purusa), based on what Dewey called “the intrinsic possibility of the ideal”, which is not actual in the ordinary sense, and is the sole ground for Truth. “Here too we need to reverse the ordinary statement and say that whatever introduces genuine perspective [in our attitude and conduct] is religious, not that religion is something that introduces it.” (A Common Faith, p.22).
The view that we can achieve harmony by the former is entirely false. And as far as I know, this has been substantiated in toto by modern evolutionary psychology (examples abound).
What is it left then? That stillness point of Eliot, which of course comprises the entirely of movement: “prakrti in action through the gunas is compared to a dancing girl of the seraglio, who ceases dancing the moment the onlooker loses interest” (H. Zimmer, Philosophies of India, p.323).
Terrific research. Beautiful and greatly illuminating quotes. ...will read and refer to it again. ...will use the parts of it for my future articles. ...will forward it to a few friends including Dr. Karan Singh on whom I have edited a book on his association with Auroville. Would like to send that book to you. Address?
I suppose there is an extrinsic ethics in the narrow sense, which has become identified with prakrti, the utilitarianism of the material flow, including the entirely of our psychic energies and the resulting mask of the personality. But then, there is a more fundamental ethics of the life-monad (purusa), based on what Dewey called “the intrinsic possibility of the ideal”, which is not actual in the ordinary sense, and is the sole ground for Truth. “Here too we need to reverse the ordinary statement and say that whatever introduces genuine perspective [in our attitude and conduct] is religious, not that religion is something that introduces it.” (A Common Faith, p.22).
The view that we can achieve harmony by the former is entirely false. And as far as I know, this has been substantiated in toto by modern evolutionary psychology (examples abound).
What is it left then? That stillness point of Eliot, which of course comprises the entirely of movement: “prakrti in action through the gunas is compared to a dancing girl of the seraglio, who ceases dancing the moment the onlooker loses interest” (H. Zimmer, Philosophies of India, p.323).