Sri Aurobindo
The Riddle of This World
Correspondence
The Riddle of This World
Why does a world created by the divine contain ignorance, pain and evil? Aurobindo answers with his theory of involution: suffering belongs to the phase of the Ignorance and evolution is destined to overcome it. It includes letters on the hostile forces and on the experience of the divine.
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Authorship note
Letters to disciples on the problem of evil and suffering, published in 1933. CWSA 28.
Editions and translations
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English
Sri Aurobindo
The Riddle of This World
The Conscious LibraryThe Riddle of This World
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1989
ISBN 9788170581604
Sri Aurobindo
The Riddle of This World
The Conscious LibraryThe Riddle of This World
Auromere Books, 1984
ISBN 9780890713068
Other works by Sri Aurobindo
- The Life Divine · 1939
- The Synthesis of Yoga · 1948
- Essays on the Gita · 1922
- The Secret of the Veda · 1956
- Hymns to the Mystic Fire · 1946
- Isha Upanishad · 1914
- Kena and Other Upanishads · 1915
- The Human Cycle · 1949
- The Ideal of Human Unity · 1919
- War and Self-Determination · 1920
- The Future Poetry · 1953
- The Renaissance in India · 1920
- A Defence of Indian Culture (The Foundations of Indian Culture) · 1953
- The Problem of Rebirth · 1952
- Heraclitus · 1941
- The Mother · 1928
- Lights on Yoga · 1935
- Bases of Yoga · 1936
- More Lights on Yoga · 1948
- Letters on Yoga · 1958
- Letters on Himself and the Ashram · 2011
- Letters on Poetry and Art · 2004
- Thoughts and Glimpses · 1920
- Thoughts and Aphorisms · 1958
- Essays Divine and Human · 1994
- Essays in Philosophy and Yoga · 1998
- The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth · 1952
- The Hour of God · 1959
- Record of Yoga · 2001
- Yogic Sadhan (attributed) · 1911
- New Lamps for Old · 1893
- Bhawani Mandir · 1905
- Bande Mataram: Political Writings and Speeches 1890–1908 · 2002
- The Doctrine of Passive Resistance · 1948
- Uttarpara Speech · 1909
- Karmayogin: Political Writings and Speeches 1909–1910 · 1997
- The Ideal of the Karmayogin · 1918
- A System of National Education · 1921
- The Brain of India · 1921
- Bankim — Tilak — Dayananda · 1940
- Tales of Prison Life (Kara-kahini) · 1910
- Writings in Bengali and Sanskrit · 2017
- Early Cultural Writings · 2003
- Kalidasa · 1929
- Vyasa and Valmiki · 1956
- The Significance of Indian Art · 1947
- Vedic and Philological Studies · 2013
- Translations · 2003
- Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol · 1950
- Collected Poems · 2009
- Songs to Myrtilla · 1895
- Urvasie · 1896
- Love and Death · 1921
- Ahana and Other Poems · 1915
- Poems Past and Present · 1946
- Last Poems · 1952
- Ilion: An Epic in Quantitative Hexameters · 1957
- Collected Plays and Stories · 1998
- Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest · 2006
- Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (CWSA) · 1997
- Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo · 1959
- Talks with Sri Aurobindo · 1966
- The Lives of Sri Aurobindo (Peter Heehs) · 2008
- Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness (Satprem) · 1964
Sources
- Sri Aurobindo. Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (CWSA). 37 vols. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department, 1997–2025. Sustituye a la Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL, 30 vols., 1972).
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