The Life Divine Paperback – 1 Jan. 1985

By the simple fact that this book was written by Sri Aurobindo, One of the Greatest being of our time since the ancient Indian Seers 3000 years ago. He rediscovered the hidden truth of their work and expressed the Synthesis of all Religions and Philosophies, embracing them in their totality as being necessary part of the Evolution of Consciousness.Sri Aurobindo cannot be termed as a Yogi, Guru, Philosopher or so...He was writing from a Silent Mind, which means he had no thoughts going on in his head. The knowledge was pouring down from higher plane of consciousness and he was just acting as an instrument of this Divinity to give the possibilities to those who want to fulfill the purpose of life to be able to do so. Impersonal in his actions, and loving in his consciousness, probably one of the greatest person that we know of having lived and produced results upon earth since the Buddha.

I am very pleased with the book that I have received.

This book is also an blessing for us. Thank you forgotten books

Perfect service, perfect item.

Many of Sri Aurobindo's books are available for free in e-book format from his official website, which is a great resource for all his works. I hope you enjoy the wisdom he imparts so freely.[...]

One of the greatest spiritual books I have ever read and I have read hundreds, explains everything you would ever want to know, very deep, can be a little intellectual and difficult to follow - read slowly. Sri Aurobindo is a great enlightened being who seems omniscient!!

For serious truth seekers, you will find many gems of wisdom. Great addition to a spiritual book library!

The best book I have ever read.

Escrito hace mas de 100 anos, nos habla de una manera simple y clara sobre la razon principal de nuestro viaje en esta vida. Da mucha inspiracion, fuerza para afrontar la vida y ver la belleza y la harmonia en el todo.

Delightfilled...

If you are like me and reading and spiritual development have gone hand in hand in your life, then it is possible I suppose to name a handful of books that really made difference; and I suppose it is possible, if push came to shove, perhaps to name just one book or one author that made a difference. It is also possible, that when you look at your life you see a book or an author that stands out at a given time as of paramount significance. For me, reading Emerson in my early 20s was one such author/book. Reading him, doors flung open that I didn't know existed, and I still read him at least once a year; essays like The Oversoul, Circles, and others are timeless, beautiful statements of spiritual understanding. Years of reading great books went by, but none seemed to strike the blows that Emerson effected on my consciousness. Then in my late 30s I was introduced to Jane Roberts and her Seth books, and once again my mind was lifted beyond its ordinary field of vision by the authenticity of her work with such books as Seth Speaks, The Nature of Personal Reality, The Nature of the Psyche, and others. More great books intervened, Plotinus, St. Teresa of Avila, and others, but again none seemed to speak directly to me in the way that Emerson or Jane Roberts did. The reading continued, but I think that I had in the back of my mind resolved myself to sifting and finding gold here and there, as I tried to piece all of the insights from a lifetime of reading into some kind of a coherent picture of the nature of reality, why the beings of the earth (and I include animals) have to suffer so much, what we can expect if anything after death, and so forth. Indian thought had always impressed me with its genuineness, even though the ancient text seemed to obscure or poetic or foreign to speak to my heart and mind the way Emerson and Roberts did. Much reading lead to Radhakrishnan, the once president of India and a great writer on spiritual matters, and Radhakrishnan led to Sri Aurobindo. I told my wife the other day that I wished that I had discovered Aurobindo when I was young, but I am fully aware that if I had I would not have read for long; his writing is too complicated and philosophical for the young mind, and for the average reader I suppose. But I have to say that it is the work of Aurobindo that stands out as the most significant of my late middle years of spiritual exploration in books. Jane Roberts, as Seth, once said that there are rare individuals that are born completely conscious, many of whom you might not recognize as you go about your daily life. I am not sure if this appellation applies to Aurobindo, but he is the only person I have read during my lifetime that combines the spiritual insight of the mystic and the ability to put his visions into understandable, if difficult, language. Emerson had the insight but chose to employ a method of expression that was more poetic than systematic. The Life Divine runs more than a thousand pages and at times I found myself wishing that he had written a pithy article that communicated his essential points rather than the nuanced arguments that this book represents. I would imagine that most people that begin this work do not finish it or get very far, which is in my opinion a pity: it is the most outstanding philosophical-religious work that I have ever read. If you are interested in a more practical application of his ideas (which are based on his personal insights and from extensive reading of the ancient Indian texts, the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Gita, all of which he has commented on extensively in separate books) then I suggest his book The Synthesis of Yoga, in which he discusses the traditional Vedanta ways of aspiring to a union with God or with the spiritual reality within us. But it would be better to begin I feel with The Life Divine. The effort required to read him will repay itself in value beyond measure. He is a great genius and a great soul.What is his main message? Look within; the within of things is endless. God or Brahman or All That Is (Plotinus and the Neo-Platonists, the tradition in the West that most closely represents Vedanta in the East, call the Divine Reality the One, as did Aurobindo) "is within everything that you can perceive with your senses," to use Jane Roberts words, and this "primary motive force" (again Jane) "has a reality independent of its connection with the world of appearances." Your Inner Self, like everything else, is a manifestation of this inner spiritual reality, and this Self, possessed of the freedom and self-awareness and joy and energy or power and will and creativity and goodness and beauty of All That Is (see Jane Roberts "The Nature of the Psyche"), is without limits. All dimensions of all realities are psychological and the "barriers" between them are fluid.Thought added Aug 2013: Add Sri Nisargadatta's "I AM That" to this list of great great books, a collection of his conversations. Delightful, stimulation, entertaining, etc. Don't miss it.