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