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In his writings, talks, and letters Sri Aurobindo has referred to several European philosophers with whose basic concepts he was familiar, commenting on their ideas and discussing the question of affinity to his own line of thought. He says the theory is an intellectual response to a difficult problem and that Sri Aurobindo uses the trait of unpredictability in theorising and discussing things not based upon the truth of existence. Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department. This ceased publication in 1921. Many years later, he revised some of these works before they were published in book form. A new edition of collected works was started in 1995. Currently, 36 out of 37 volumes have been published: Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (CWSA). Though Rene Guenon thought Sri Aurobindo's thoughts were betrayed by some of his followers and that some works published under his name were not authentic, since not traditional. See A.B. Purani, Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo argues that divine Brahman manifests as empirical reality through līlā, or divine play. However, Sri Aurobindo's critique of Shankara is supported by U. C. Dubey in his paper titled Integralism: The Distinctive Feature of Sri Aurobindo’s Philosophy.

Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and the President Rajendra Prasad praised him for his contribution to Yogic philosophy and the independence movement. Margaret Woodrow Wilson (Nistha) (1886-1944), daughter of US President Woodrow Wilson, came to the ashram in 1938 and stayed there until her death. With the help of the finite reason, he says, "we are bound to determine the nature of reality as one or many, being or becoming. But Sri Aurobindo's Integral Advaitism reconciles all apparently different aspects of Existence in an all-embracing unity of the Absolute." Next, Dubey explains that for Sri Aurobindo there is a higher reason, the "logic of the infinite" in which his integralism is rooted. He stated that he found the task of understanding the nature of reality arduous and difficult to justify by immediate tangible results. Malkani says that awareness is already a reality and suggests there would be no need to examine the creative activity subjected to awareness.

He resigned from this position in August 1907, due to his increased political activity. In his public activities, he favored Non cooperation and Passive resistance; in private he took up secret revolutionary activity as a preparation for open revolt, in case that the passive revolt failed. This sparked an outburst of public anger against the British, Poetry About Yoga leading to civil unrest and a nationalist campaign by groups of revolutionaries that included Aurobindo. In 1907-1908 Aurobindo travelled extensively to Pune, Bombay and Baroda to firm up support for the nationalist cause, giving speeches and meeting with groups. Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist but is best known for his philosophy on human evolution and Integral Yoga. Adi Da finds that Sri Aurobindo's contributions were merely literary and cultural and had extended his political motivation into spirituality and human evolution. N. R. Malkani finds Sri Aurobindo's theory of creation to be false, as the theory talks about experiences and visions which are beyond normal human experiences. Sri Aurobindo believed that Darwinism merely describes a phenomenon of the evolution of matter into life, but does not explain the reason behind it, while he finds life to be already present in matter, because all of existence is a manifestation of Brahman.

Prof XuFancheng (Hsu Hu) (26 October 1909, Changsha - 6 March 2000, Beijing) , Chinese Sanskrit scholar, came to Ashram in 1951 and became a devotee of Sri Aurobindo and a follower of The Mother. Johnston, David T. (Nov. 2016) Jung's Global Vision: Western Psyche, Eastern Mind, With References to Sri Aurobindo, Integral Yoga, The Mother. Satprem (1923-2007) was a French author and an important disciple of "The Mother" who published Mother's Agenda (1982), Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness (2000), On the Way to Supermanhood (2002) and more. When a man goes into deep sleep, he enters a plane beneath consciousness. The Yogi teaches that the mind itself has a higher state of existence, beyond reason, a superconscious state, and when the mind gets to that higher state, then this knowledge, beyond reasoning, comes to man. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the man in his intellect, and the god in spiritual contemplation. Six weeks later, he left his businesses and travelled extensively, in an effort to seek insight into his spiritual experiences. After about six days, Vasudev had another similar experience at home. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth, until we experience it ourselves.