Rytų ir Vakarų kultūrų prieštara Sri Aurobindo koncepcijoje

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Hinduizmas; Hinduizmas: Rytų kultūra; Indija; Kultūra; Kultūrinis dialogas; Sri Aurobindas; Sri Aurobindo; Vakarų kultūra; Šri Aurobindas, kultūra; Cultural dialogue; Culture; Eastern culture; Hinduism; India; Sri Aurobindo; Western culture.

ENThe article discusses some of the main aspects of the problem of contradictions between Eastern and Western cultures and civilizations. Regarding the global phenomenon of today’s world, the author bases herself on the works of Sri Aurobindo, one of the most famous Indian thinkers and politicians of the 20th century, and founder of the new Advaita Vedanta school. The widest and most consistent position on this subject is defined in his book The Foundations of Indian Culture (1918-1921). According to Sri Aurobindo, the conflict between Oriental and Occidental cultures has its roots in historically determined cultural, social and political circumstances, mental differences and misunderstandings, the unperfected economic relations, the inequitable dialogue on the subject and especially the differences between basic Eastern and Western priorities of human existence. In the East, in this case in India, the very foundation of cultural conception is the superiority of spirituality with respect to other spheres of human activity. In the West, it is science and the industrial arts, rational thought and the material wealth based on it. The difference of priorities that causes the contradiction is a result of the evolutionary process. It could be solved only in a further course of evolution. The essential means for the solution, as Sri Aurobindo sees it, must be the growing consciousness in a human being and the uniting of efforts of two continents for one common goal: the manifestation of spirituality at all levels of human existence, mental, vital and physical Nature. [From the publication]