Sri Aurobindo's Vision of Integral Human Development Designing a Fut

This book explores the integral vision of human development contained in the original works of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. It delves into multiple layers of the human personality as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother and explores a new developmen

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Sri Aurobindo‘s Vision of Integral Human Development Designing a Future Discipline of Study

Sri Aurobindo’s Vision of Integral Human Development

Monica Gupta

Sri Aurobindo’s Vision of Integral Human Development Designing a Future Discipline of Study

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Monica Gupta Department of Elementary Education Gargi College University of Delhi New Delhi India

ISBN 978-81-322-1903-3 ISBN 978-81-322-1904-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-1904-0 Springer New Delhi Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014938618  Springer India 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

For Sri Aurobindo and The Mother for the revelatory power of the ‘Word’ contained in their writings which has dynamically sustained me through the entire process of writing this work

Preface

This work attempts to bring together the developmental insights contained within the works of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. I have made a conscious attempt in my work to present Sri Aurobindo and The Mother’s ideas in their own terms and to avoid unnecessary generalisations. The main aim is to identify key developmental ideas from the original works of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, and put them together in coherent developmental framework that represents the theoretica