The free and supple mind of India

Tusar N Mohapatra said... Sri Aurobindo has authored the 1117 pages of The Life Divine to bring home the concept of evolution. The book needs to be read in original for clarity on the subject. 1/09/2007 03:44:51 PM

NoMo said... Although I almost hate to bring it up, it does seem like something to be reckoned with:

"The mentality of the West has long cherished the aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set of dogmas, one cult, one system of ceremonies, one array of prohibitions and injunctions, one ecclesiastical ordinance. That narrow absurdity prances about as the one true religion which all must accept on peril of persecution by men here and spiritual rejection or fierce eternal punishment by God in other worlds. This grotesque creation of human unreason, the parent of so much intolerance, cruelty, obscurantism and aggressive fanaticism, have never been able to take firm hold of the free and supple mind of India." Sri Aurobindo 1/09/2007 03:57:23 PM

River Cocytus said... I would dispute his quote on the merit of his apparent Nationalism ;) But then again, the same could be said of America; we each seek the Spirit in our own way. What is important is that it is the same Spirit that we seek; all having the same rituals does not make our 'God' the same. Of course, having different rituals for the sake of diversity again, does not make our God the same. I agree, Sri-- though I would dispute that the mind of India is more supple than the mind of my own countrymen. 1/09/2007 04:03:33 PM