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Sri Aurobindo on Hinduism
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To: soc-religion-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Sri Aurobindo on Hinduism
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From: Srinivasa Chakravarthy <srini@monod.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu>
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 10:34:38 -0600
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian, soc.culture.indian.kerala, soc.culture.indian.karnataka, soc.culture.indian.marathi, soc.culture.indian.gujarati, soc.culture.indian.delhi, soc.culture.indian.jammu-kashmir, soc.culture.tamil, soc.culture.bengali, soc.religion.hindu
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Organization: Baylor College of Medicine
"Indian religion placed four necessities before human life.
First,
it imposed upon the mind a belief in the highest consciousness or state
of existence universal and transcendent of the universe, from which all
comes, in which all lives and moves without knowing it and of which all
must one day grow aware, returning towards that which is perfect,
eternal and infinite.
Next, it laid upon the individual life the need of self-preparation by
development and experience till man is ready for an effort to grow
consciously into the truth of this greater existence.
Thirdly, it provided it with a well-founded,
well-explored, many-branching and always enlarging
way of knowledge and of spiritual or religious discipline.
Lastly, for
those not yet ready for these higher steps it provided an organisation
of the individual and collective life, a framework of personal and
social discipline and conduct, of mental and vital and moral development
by which they could move each in his own limits and according to his
own nature in such a way as to become eventually ready for the greater
existence. The first three of these elements are the most essential to
any religion, but Hinduism has always attached to the last also a great
importance; it has left out no part of life as a thing secular and
foreign to the religious and spiritual life."
Sri Aurobindo
From "Foundations of Indian Culture"
