--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" <emptybill@...> wrote: > > > Aurobindo was a poet and yogin, not a philosopher and certainly not a > scholar-yogin. > > He carried 19th century ideas from British and Continental philosophical > idealism into his understanding of yoga. Thus he emphasized "historical > and spiritual evolution" as a way to contextualize yogic development. > > His understanding of Advaita Vedanta was misinformed and almost > pedestrian in its descriptions. > > His understanding of Tantra was minimal and his comprehension of > Buddhism was so truncated it was useless. > > The most unfortunate reality is that as a speaker and translator of > Classical Greek he could have read the great Neo-Platonists in their own > language, i.e. Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus and Damascius. It would > have widened his yogic view in a dramatic way. However, he left them > alone showing himself to carry within him the prejudices of his > era. > > In many ways he was the consummate British-educated Indian and his > evolutionary-stratified "integral yoga" was the encoding of > these ideas. > > At the individual level, he had great yogic power which he used many > times to help and heal his many disciples around the world. To describe > his yoga as "for the world" and "not for the individual" > is a bit extreme. If you have ever read his "Letters On Yoga" > then you would know how personal and committed to his disciples he was > as a guru. > > He searched for the key to physical human immortality as a yogic ideal > but did not achieve any such thing. Neither did Mira. > > In the end he died from kidney failure - just like so many white-rice > eating Asians. > > FWIW The Glycemic Index: Bhasmati white rice = 58 and Table sugar > = 64 >
And wholewheat bread is 68, while chocolate cake is 38 and ice cream is 37. So MMY was ahead of his time -- cutting the cake of invincibility is also also cutting the cake of immortality. So going by GI alone, a really good diet would be chocolate cake, ice cream. And alcohol reduces GI of most foods by 15% so wash it down with and lots of brandy. Combination with other foods and also quantity of GI hi foods makes a large difference. Small to moderate portions of basmati rice has much lower insulin impact than a large portion. And when mixed with low GI foods such as dal, the overall GI is reduced significantly. And fats, ghee, lower overall GI in a meal. So basmati rice, dal cooked with a tablespoon of ghee will have a relatively low GI. Add in some panir, and some veggies, even lower. (And a particular dal -- I for get which one, had the lowest GI of any food -- its like a GI of 11 or something.) and modest portions of basmati rice may have little impact on insulin. Finish off with some chocolate cake, ice cream and a couple of shots of brandy will be "golden". > > > **************************************************** > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut <no_reply@> wrote: > > > Sure. But then Sri Aurobindo did have a completely different > cosmology. For him the above view would be some kind of escapism. He > believed that his yoga was for the world, not the individual, and that > the creation of the supramental body, would be a necessary evolutionary > step toward a different kind of creation. > > >
