STRUCTURE AND WORKING "There should be somewhere on earth a place which no nation could claim as its own, where all human beings of goodwill who have a sincere aspiration could live freely as citizens of the world and obey one single authority, that of the supreme truth; a place of peace, concord and harmony where all the fighting instincts of man would be used exclusively to conquer the causes of his sufferings and miseries, to surmount his weaknesses and ignorance, to triumph over his limitations and incapacities; a place where the needs of the spirit and the concern for progress would take precedence over the satisfaction of desires and passions, the search for pleasur

THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BASIS I. The Purpose of Creation "A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme: His nature we must put on as he put ours; We are sons of God and must be even as he: His human portion, we must grow divine. Our life is a paradox with God for key." 1 "The universe is an objectivisation of the Supreme, as if He had objectivised himself outside of himself in order to see himself, to live himself, to know himself, and so that there might be an existence and a consciousness capable of recognising him as their origin and uniting consciously with him to manifest him in the becoming. The

PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION 1. General Remarks "The spirit shall look out through Matter's gaze   And Matter shall reveal the Spirit's face."   - Savitri, XI-1-709. (i) Beauty It is in the form of beauty that the Divine manifests in the physical. Hence, in a setting like that of the SADLEC, the beauty of forms and designs, the beauty of surroundings and landscape, a high quality of materials, and a perfect ordering and arrangement of material objects ought to characterize all physical manifestation. This would tend to considerably increase the cost of structures, furnishings, equipment and landscaping. The Capital ex

  SRI AUROBINDO   DIVINE LIFE EDUCATION CENTRE   Contents   Pre-Content   Object THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BASIS   1. The Purpose of Creation     2. The Integral Spiritual Ideal     3. The Nature of the Present Evolutionary Crisis Before Mankind and the way to its True Resolution     4. The Path of Ascension to Divine Life   INTEGRAL EDUCATION     1. Integral Perfection     2. The True Ami of

INTEGRAL EDUCATION 1. Integral Perfection "One man's perfection still can save the world."1 An integral approach to perfection combines the spiritual and the material or the higher and the lower approaches to perfection. As we shall see, these approaches tend to be exclusive and as a result, fail to arrive at any truly integral realisation or perfection. "The higher perfection is the spiritual perfection, integral union with the Divine, identification with the Divine, freedom from all the limitations of the lower world. That is independent of the body and the physical world — which, in ancient times, meant first rejecting the body and the physical life so as t

    "The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would be only an insect crawling among other ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe." — Sri Aurobindo HOME