Sri Aurobindo was to bring that tradition into a global context

Heru Joined: 08 25 04 Posts: 1342 Location: The Misty Pacific Northwest Posted: 11/30/06, 5:38 pm Post subject: The Illusion is Reality (for Broken Yogi) Lightmind Forums Forum Index

Yes, this has been done--especially in the last century or so, really starting with the Theosophists, then Rudolf Steiner, Aurobindo and into the 1960s, and now with Wilber's integral movement (for better or worse). It is a cultural movement that is only possible with globalization and, like global civilization, still in its infancy. But it is the future. This is why I find Ramana and Aurobindo to be an interesting contrast. As I said before, I see Ramana as something of a "quintessence" of the East, as if the great Vedic traditions were essentialized in him and his teaching. He is a gift of that heritage. Aurobindo, on the other hand, was trying, beginning, to bring that tradition into a global context. Steiner was coming at it from the Western mystery schools, but basically doing something similar to Aurobindo. Thus, Ramana was culminative inheritance of an older age, while Aurobindo and Steiner were harbingers of a new one.