THE LIFE DIVINE

 

PART ONE

 

SRI AUROBINDO

 

Contents

 

Pre Content

 

 

 

 Book One

 

       

 

I

The Human Aspiration

 

 

II

The Two Negations : The Materialist Denial

 

 

III

The Two Negations : The Refusal of the Ascetic

 

 

IV

Reality Omnipresent

 

 

V

The Destiny of the Individual

 

 

VI

Man in the Universe

 

 

VII

The Ego and the Dualities

 

 

VIII

The Methods of Vedantic Knowledge

 

 

IX

The Pure Existent

 

 

X

Conscious Force

 

 

XI

Delight of Existence : The Problem

 

 

XII

Delight of Existence : The Solution

 

 

XIII

The Divine Maya

 

 

XIV

The Supermind as Creator

 

 

XV

The Supreme Truth-Consciousness

 

 

XVI

The Triple Status of Supermind

 

 

XVII

The Divine Soul

 

 

XVIII

Mind and Supermind

 

 

XIX

Life

 

 

XX

Death, Desire and Incapacity

 

 

XXI

The Ascent of Life

 

 

XXII

The Problem of Life

 

 

XXIII

The Double Soul in Man

 

 

XXIV

Matter

 

 

XXV

The Knot of Matter

 

 

XXVI

The Ascending Series of Substance

 

 

XXVII

The Sevenfold Chord of Being

 

 

XXVIII

Supermind, Mind and the Overmind Maya

 

 

 

 

 

Book Two

 

   

Part I

 

 

 

 

 

 

I

Indeterminates, Cosmic Determinations and the Indeterminable

 

 

II

Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti

 

 

III

The Eternal and the Individual

 

 

IV

The Divine and the  Undivine

 

 

V

The Cosmic Illusion : Mind, Dream and Hallucination

 

 

VI

Reality and the Cosmic Illusion

 

 

VII

The Knowledge and the Ignorance

 

 

VIII

Memory, Self-Consciouness and the Ignorance

 

 

IX

Memory, Ego and Self-Experience

 

 

X

Knowledge by Identity and Separative Knowledge

 

 

XI

The Boundaries of the Ignorance

 

 

XII

The Origin of the Ignorance

 

 

XIII

Exclusive Concentration of Consciousness-Force and the Ignorance

 

 

XIV

The Origin and Remedy of Falsehood, Error, Wrong and Evil

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

 

THE LIFE DIVINE first appeared serially in the Arya from August 1914 to January 1919. Volume I, revised and enlarged, was first published in book from in November 1939; Volume II, recast and enlarged, followed in July 1940, in two parts. These were reprinted in 1943 and 1947. The Sri Aurobindo Library, New York, issued a single volume edition in 1949 and reprinted it in 1951. An edition under the imprint of the Sri Aurobindo international Centre of Education,  also in a single volume, appeared in 1955 and was reprinted in 1960. The India Library Society Edition (New York) came out in 1965. The present edition in two volumes forms part of the Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo in the SRI AUROBINDO BIRTH CENTENARY LIBRARY.