Debashri Banerjee

Historical Stages of Life Divine Debashri Banerjee

The concept of Life Divine in Sri Aurobindo's thought was a very tricky one. Some critics associate it with the doctrine of metaphysics, some associate it with ethics, some with epistemology, some with social-political thought. However the notion of Life Divine seems to be the all-pervasive one. To me Sri Aurobindo was not only a profound mystic or yogi but also a true visionary who had foreseen the modern atmosphere of hatred, racial & cultural differences, ever-developing tension & violence among human kind in modern world. He himself witnessed the brutality of First & Second World Wars along with 200 years long fight for Indian independence. He as a true visionary calculated the devastation of war & hatred to be seen in twenty-first century world. Therefore he preached for the notion of Life Divine by whose help people of modern world can understand their unity with the Almighty. Paramatman (Supreme/God) & Jivatman (human kind) are not different from each other & to comprehend this theory we should comprehend first his thesis regarding Life Divine. In this book I took extreme fascination to show every aspects of Sri Aurobindo's thesis concerning Life Divine. For establishing my notion firmly I even took the help of several instances of the then social-political scenario. I hope my book will be helpful to unravel quite a new side of Sri Aurobindo's thesis regarding Life Divine unlike his other disciples.