Is Duality the Key to Spiritual Transformation

When the individual is more evolved, duality and separation trigger the need for peace and harmony. Pleasures, passions and the ambitions of the ego now feel vain, superficial and bring frustration and suffering. The individual feels an emptiness which pushes him or her towards a disidentification and detachment from all things. Eventually, this outer detachment leads to a detachment from oneself.

The Sacred Leap from Ego Consciousness to Global Consciousness

“All being is one and to be fully is to be all that is. (…) to feel all selves as one’s own self.”

With these few words, Sri Aurobindo gives a perfect definition of what Global Consciousness consists of. Somehow, at the same time, he provides a direction to our ego, which is lost in the mischief of separateness.

The problem that humanity faces is a problem of growth.

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 the truths that are impenetrable to thought. …

Unity Through Conformity Vs. Uniqueness and Universality

A more comprehensive, holistic vision of life includes the lesser views. It puts forth the proper significance and value of all its aspects that a diminished or limited perception cannot comprehend.

Chaos exists at one level of reality-clashing forces of desire and ideas. In a global cosmic perception, reality is order and harmony, desire becomes love, and ideas are pure intelligence. …

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

Sri Aurobindo and J. Krishnamurti are two of the most important contemporary sages of our time. They have opened a new path towards self-transformation and genuine spiritual awakening. Their message, addressed to each one of us, gives a new direction for the third millennium. They challenge our present psychological make-up centered on the ego and each in his own unique fashion, …