FROM MAN HUMAN TO MAN DIVINE

Sri Aurobindo's Vision of the Evolutionary Destiny of Man

FROM MAN HUMAN TO MAN DIVINE

Sri Aurobindo's Vision of the Evolutionary Destiny of Man

What now we see is a shadow of what must come.

- Sri Aurobindo

JUGAL KISHORE MUKHERJEE

SRI AUROBINDO INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF EDUCATION.

PONDICHERRY

First Edition: 21.2.1990

ISBN (S.C.) 81-7058-232-6

ISBN (H.C.) 81-7058-233-4

© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 1990

Published by Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education,

Pondicherry 605002

Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press,

Pondicherry 605002

PRINTED IN INDIA

There is a need within the soul of man

The splendours of the surface never sate;

For life and mind and their glory and debate

Are the slow prelude of a vaster theme,

A sketch confused of a supernal plan,

A preface to the epic of the Supreme.

-Sri Aurobindo

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I know, O God. the day shall dawn at last

When man shall rise from playing with the mud

And taking in his hands the sun and stars

Remould appearance, law and process old.

Then, pain and discord vanished from the world,

Shall the dead wilderness accept the rose

And the hushed desert babble of its rills;

Man once more seem the image true of God.

-Sri Aurobindo

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O Thou who climbedst to mind from the dull stone,

Turn to the miracled summits yet unwon.

-Sri Aurobindo

(From Sri Aurobindo's Collected Poems, pp. 137, 89 & 164)