Reading Sri Aurobindo: Metaphysics, Ethics and Spirituality

Foreword - Professor Mrinal Miri.- Introduction: Reading Sri Aurobindo: Towards a Swaraj in ideas Bindu Puri.- Part I: Sri Aurobindo and the idea of evolution.- Chapter 2: Sri Aurobindo's Hindu philosophy: Spiritual evolution of human consciousness Hari Shankar Prasad.- Chapter 3: Man: Towards its Self-Transcendence: In the light of Sri Aurobindo Raghunath Ghosh.- Chapter 4: Boons of Nachiketas and Savitri V Ananda Reddy.- Part II: Sri Aurobindo: On Integral Yoga.- Chapter 5: Evolution with Harmony: Integral Yoga and its transformational potential in the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo Nishant Kumar.- Chapter 6: Sri Aurobindo as Archetypal Guru: Toward a theology of liberation through Integral Yoga Sebastian Velassery.- Part III: Situating Sri Aurobindo: Modernity and post-modernity.- Chapter 7: Postmodernism and Sri Aurobindo Debashish Banerji.- Chapter 8: Harmonies of Light: Walking with Rohith Vemula and Sri Aurobindo Monica Gupta.- Part IV: Sri Aurobindo: On the nation, the state and the ideal of human unity.- Chapter 9: Understanding Aurobindo's concept of nationalism: An integral philosophy or a religious faith? Reetu Jaiswal.- Chapter 10: Sri Aurobindo and the idea of human unity Ramin Jahanbegloo.-Chapter 11: Nation-soul, State and unity: Sri Aurobindo and Tagore on the Religion of Humanity Bindu Puri.- Part V: Sri Aurobindo: Philosophy and Practice.- Chapter 12: Teaching Sri Aurobindo: The descent of Consciousness Christopher Key Chapple.- Chapter 13: Rethinking and transforming language, knowledge, self, society and state and the calling of Alternative planetary futures: Walking and meditating with Sri Aurobindo Ananta Kumar Giri.- Part VI: Sri Aurobindo: On emotions.- Chapter 14: Sri Aurobindo on the transformation of emotions: Reflections on divine love and absolute devotion Dipika Bhatia.- Part VII: Sri Aurobindo: Towards an ethics of the environment.- Chapter 15: Environmental Consciousness and Aurobindo: Learnings for the present Dr. Sujata Roy Abhijat.- Chapter 16: Spiritualistic Ecologism in the evolutionary ideologies of Sri Aurobindo Saji Varghese.-Part VIII Sri Aurobindo: On philosophical Agnosticism.- Chapter 17: Sri Aurobindo, Agnosticism, and the Unknowable Peter Heehs.