The Ethics, Sustainability and Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Advaita

The Ethics, Sustainability and Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Advaita, with Debashish Banerji, PhD, Dean of Academic Affairs, at the University of Philosophical Research, Los Angeles ( View Video of talk)

While the practice of Sri Aurobindo’s yoga has been largely conceived as being “beyond ethics” and focused on individual spiritual attainment, this attitude has amply revealed its dangers in terms of moral blindness and unconscious violence for the majority of practitioners, who struggle to transcend their egoic ignorance. By revisiting the Vedantic basis of Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy (darshan), this talk will attempt to reconceptualize his yoga in terms of an ethical and environmentally sustainable praxis.

Debashish Banerji is Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Philosophical Research, Los Angeles. He is also Adjunct Professor of Art History at the Pasadena City College and Adjunct Faculty in Transformational Studies at the CIIS, San Francisco. Since the 1970s, Banerji has been a student of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s teaching.