COMPILER'S NOTE Because of the vast range of his writings, no compilation from Sri Aurobindo can claim to be comprehensive in every way. The present, however, is a cross-section of the words of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother that have a direct bearing on India's past, present, and, more than anything else, on her incalculably glorious Future — a Future with which is indissolubly bound up the Future of the whole world, of all humanity. The extracts have not been given their dates of publication as they are immortal truths of perennial value, and apply today as they did when they first came out from the Seer-vision of the Mother and the Master. Today, in this 'Hour of God', Ind

INDIA AND HER FUTURE Compiled from the writings of SRI AUROBINDO and THE MOTHER : with sketches of their life and work SRI AUROBINDO SOCIETY PONDICHERRY - 2 © Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 1971 August 15, 1971 Published by Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry-2 Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry PRINTED IN INDIA ILLUSTRATIONS 1. The Mother, Sri Aurobindo 2. Kandarya Mahadeva Temple, Khajuraho. 3. The Great Temple, Tanjore. 4.Mahabodhi Temple, Bodh Gaya. 5.Lingaraj Temple, Bhuvaneshwar. 6. Mahishasuramardini, Mahabalipuram. 7. Trimurti, Elephanta

  INDIA AND HER FUTURE   Contents   Pre-Content   Compilers Note   Part One     Sri Aurobindo on India and Her Future     Mother India     Her Spirituality and Many-sided Greatness     Her Conception of Life, Religion and Culture     Her Art     Her All-round Achievements     What Indians should do     India and the World     The Young and the Fut

PART TWO SRI AUROBINDO "....It matters not if there are hundreds of beings plunged in the densest ignorance. He whom we saw yesterday is on earth. His presence is enough to prove that a day will come when darkness shall be transformed into Light, when Thy reign shall be indeed established upon earth...." The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, on her first meeting with Sri Aurobindo on 29th March 1914. "....long after this turmoil, this agitation will have ceased... he will be looked upon as the poet of patriotism, as the prophet of nationalism and lover of humanity... his words will be echoed and reechoed not only in India but across distant s

  INDIA AND HER FUTURE   Contents   Pre-Content   Compilers Note   Part One     Sri Aurobindo on India and Her Future     Mother India     Her Spirituality and Many-sided Greatness     Her Conception of Life, Religion and Culture     Her Art     Her All-round Achievements     What Indians should do     India and the World     The Young and the Fut

  INDIA AND HER FUTURE   Compiled from the writings of SRI AUROBINDO and THE MOTHER : with sketches of their life and work   SRI AUROBINDO SOCIETY PONDICHERRY - 2 © Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 1971   August 15, 1971   Published by Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry-2 Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry PRINTED IN INDIA ILLUSTRATIONS 1. The Mother, Sri Aurobindo 2. Kandarya Mahadeva Temple, Khajuraho. 3. The Great Temple, Tanjore. 4. Mahabodhi Temple, Bodh Gaya. 5. Lingaraj Temple, Bhuvaneshwar. 6. Mahishasuramardini, Mahabalipuram. 7. Trimurti

Part One SRI AUROBINDO ON INDIA AND HER FUTURE MOTHER INDIA Mother India is not a piece of earth; she is a Power, a Godhead, for all nations have such a Devi supporting their separate existence and keeping it in being. Such beings are as real and more permanently real than the men they influence, but they belong to a higher plane, are part of the cosmic consciousness and being and act here on earth by shaping the human consciousness on which they exercise their influence. Each nation is a Shakti or power of the evolving spirit in humanity and lives by the principle which it embodies. India is the Bharata Shakti, the living energy of a great spirit