Spiritual Awakening and Enlightenment according to Sri Aurobindo and J. Krishnamurti

Text written in English by Dominique Schmidt to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Sri Aurobindo, in a recently published book : Sri Aurobindo-A Visionary Among World Thinkers. This text was the subject of an Interview (in English) filmed in Auroville, India in February 2024 with the director of SACAR, Sri Aurobindo Center for Advanced Research.

The Luminous Quest

Krishnamurti, in a discussion with physicist David Bohm, confided that it was not he who meditated, but the universe itself within him. He then spoke of the idea that the universe itself was in meditation! “Learning” would then be the ability to allow the universe to penetrate into our consciousness, so that it directly reveals…