Dedicated fanaticism!

ray harris Says: April 26th, 2007 at 6:09 pm I’m not suggesting that there has to be set rules. I’m merely pointing out that there aren’t any. I think it’s impossible to arrive at a universally accepted set of rules - and that’s the problem. People ‘assert’ so and so has achieved the ‘highest’ stage by applying various criteria.

Btw, Tusar, I have a great respect for Aurobindo, but not for your apparent fanaticism in regard to Aurobindo. You are quite clearly a dedicated devotee.

alan kazlev Says: April 26th, 2007 at 6:33 pm I do agree with Sri Aurobindo in seeing agnosticism and atheism as good, because it is serves as a foil to fundamentalism and literalism, just as pomo does. But as with any fine tool, one can become stuck using it, and that is when the good servent becomes a bad master. Once you are stuck in relativism, you cannot go beyond to the transcendent experiences that convey the immediate experience with an authenticity that the mind could never achieve, and which in its highest and largest reaches (if one assumes an Aurobindonian ascent of even stages of enlightenemnt itself) includes and reconciles all the relative perspectives.