Sarkar, Anil Kumar. Sri Aurobindo and Haridas Chaudhuri: (A Glimpse of a Dynamic Prospect for Mankind). Hayward, CA: Sarkar Publications, 1986
Abstract
Aurobindo's writings, in prose or in poetry,
though channelled through the dichotomous mind, are integrally inspired
by the Supramental power, which is reachable only through Yogic-Tantric
disciplines beyond the post-Buddhist Vedantic and Vaisnavite processes.
Whitehead's Philosophic Method lies in discerning intellectual
process as an emergent consciousness within Nature. But this
consciousness is grounded upon a non-sensuous continuous
feeling-process of Nature, which is a basic urge with a possibility.
This creative possibility cancels the restlessness of consciousness,
and directs it beyond itself, to a meditative condition of Peace, which
is akin to the post-intellectual meditative process of the Buddhists of
India. Chaudhuri, with the insights of Aurobindo of India, and
Whitehead of Britain - understands the implication of the inspiring
stretch of the transcendent Supermind from the mind to matter of
Aurobindo, and also the dual urge of Whitehead's Nature - Viz.,
Nature's basic connectedness and urge for creativity. Chaudhuri's was a
discovery of a transformed emergent conscious self beyond both Indian
and Western cultural processes. He did not either over-stress India/s
one-sided transcendent modes behind the postulations of the Self of the
Upanisads, or 'No Self' of the Buddhists. Finally Chaudhuri was not
also for the transcendent ever-shining process of the Self of the
Vedantins. His was an equal emphasis on the transcendent Spirit and the
confronted Matter with a stretch and control, for transforming the
confronted experience of Matter and Mind in advancing cultural and
scientific ways to a further possibility. With the general ideas and
attitudes of the three 'greats' of the present times - Aurobindo,
Whitehead, and Chaudhuri - this book stands for realizing Peace, as an
inter-cultural pursuit beyond Truth, Beauty, Art, and Adventure, not in
any restrictive aspect of any conceptual or empirical mode, cultivated
so often in the early currents of all civilization.