“O Uno que é Múltiplo”: a circularidade entre a filosofia de Sri Aurobindo e os Upaniṣads

Abstract

The main purpose of this master thesis is to analyze some theoretical traces of the philosophical-soteriological project of Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), based on his interpretative approach to the seminal textuality of the Upaniṣads. This will require we address Aurobindo’s own argumentative insertion into the tradition of Vedānta, as part of a continual trend of application for those texts. His dialogical revisiting to this broad argumentative horizon is distinguished by his thoughtful assimilation of other linguistic contexts of reasoning, and synthesized by the correlative concepts of the One and the Many. However, we will seek to point out that the way Aurobindo approaches this dual conceptualization and its confluence of meanings is mainly encapsulated by the nexus of questions and formulations concerned to the Indian tradition. For such a purpose, this philosophical core is heuristically suggested by the Vedantic category of bhedābheda (“difference and non-difference”). Thus the thesis assumes that Sri Aurobindo’s project or praxis would sustain as a fundamental concern the same question which, according to himself, has embodied the context of understanding regarding the entire tradition of Vedānta: how to live fully the moviment of existence in the light of the concept of pure Being of the Upaniṣads?