The Yogi and the Mystic- A Study in the Spirituality of Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard De Chardin (An Old and Rare Book) By Jan Feys

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If anything. Sri Aurobindo was a yogi. Teilhard's thought, Henri de Lubac has maintained, is in essence mystic. Spirituality, then, lies at the basis of their world-view. From which it further follows that a true comparison between both must be established at the level of spiritual experience. Religious language, it will be contended, has no real meaning. But then, why did the Yogi and the Mystic write? To convey a message they hoped we would receive. We are left to pore over their texts. We propose to help by offering a close analysis of Aurobindo's Essays and Teilhard's Le milieu divin.

Commentaries do not make exciting reading. They are useful though. We have tried to be dispassionate, searching, minute. The analysis results in an inchoative synthesis. It generalises the particular: Aurobindo as a Hindu, and the Christian in Teilhard. Both turn out to be different, which is not surprising. But they are not as we hoped they would-complementary. However, we shall accept any proof to the contrary. 'Truth shall prevail.