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Periodical: Arya

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Arya.
A Philosophical Review.
1914--1921 Monthly
Pondicherry, India. Language: English.
Publisher: Modern Press / Imprimerie Moderne. Editor: Sri Aurobindo Ghose and Mirra and Paul Richard.
1/1, August 1914-January 1921. 64 pp., 6 Rs. 77 issues. The title is given in Sanskrit.

This was a philosophical journal published in India in English and French by Mirra Alfassa (la Mere), formerly a disciple of Max Theon and student of the Tradition Cosmique, and her husband Paul Richard and Sri Aurobindo. The journal's stated purpose, set out in each issue, was twofold: "1. A systematic study of the problems of existence; 2. The formation of a vast Synthesis of knowledge, harmonising the diverse religious traditions of humanity occidental as well as oriental. Its methods will be that of a realism, at once rational and transcendental, -- a realism consisting in the unification of intellectual and scientific disciplines with those of intuitive experience." In practice, the journal principally published the works of Aurobindo, which were serialized in the journal as they were written. It was continued by Aurobindo and the Richards after the Richards departed for France in 1915, and for a short time after Mirra returned to India in 1920. Seven issues of a French edition of the journal, under the name Revue de Grande Synthèse, were published before Richard was recalled to France during the First World War.

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Issues:Arya V1 1914
Arya V2 1915-1916
Arya V3 1916-1917
Arya V4 1917-1918
Arya V6 1919-1920
Arya V7 1920-1921
Claude-Generated Themes:   Arya was the philosophical monthly Sri Aurobindo published from Pondicherry between 1914 and 1921, and it is the first home of his major works: The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga and the Essays on the Gita all appeared here in serial before they were books. Its subject is Integral Yoga and a Vedantic metaphysics of the evolution of consciousness — the ascent from mind to what Aurobindo called the Supermind, the transformation of the individual as a step in a cosmic process, and the reading of the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita as psychology rather than as devotion. It is dense systematic philosophy, entirely without phenomena, and its author was explicit that the Upanishadic tradition should not be explained away by European parallels. The journal belongs to this archive as one of the principal channels through which Indian spiritual thought reached Western readers in the early twentieth century, in a period when Theosophy, New Thought and the comparative study of religion were all drawing on the same sources.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Hindu Religion and Philosophy | Mouvement Cosmique | Perennial Philosophy and Comparative Religion | Yoga and Vedanta