bernie
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They (psychoanalysts) look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not below, upari budhna esam. The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms forever in the Light above. The self-chosen field of these psychologists is besides poor, dark and limited; you must know the whole before you can know the part and the highest before you can truly understand the lowest. That is the promise of the greater psychology awaiting its hour before which these poor gropings will disappear and come to nothing. - (Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga) Integral philosophy embodies an insight into the fullness of Being. To know Being steady and whole is to grasp the reality of evolution as the creative self-expression of the eternal. Evolution and timeless perfection are inseparable aspects of Being. So when a person attains full wisdom, he cannot remain passive, aloof and withdrwn from life, turning a deaf ear to the cries of human anguish. Compassion spontaneously flows from the right kind of wisdom. And compassion knows no rest until it issues forth into the right kind of action. It sets forth the ideal of constructive refashioning of life and society into a growing image of the divine. - (Haridas Chaudhuri, The Philosophy of Integralism)
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