THE DESTINY OF THE BODY

THE DESTINY OF THE BODY

The Vision and the Realisation

in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga

Even the body shall remember God.

— Sri Aurobindo

Jugal Kishore Mukherjee

Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education,

Pondicherry

First edition: 1975

Third impression: 2000

ISBN 81-7058-141-9

© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 1975

Published by Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education

Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry

PRINTED IN INDIA

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

Jugal Kishore Mukherjee, whose book we are offering to the public, has been in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram since 1949 when, at the age of 24, he joined it after completing his Post-Graduate studies in Science with a Special Paper on Nuclear Physics. From then onwards he has been associated with the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education as a teacher, successively or concurrently, of Physics, Mathematics, History of Science and Philosophy.

The problems his book deals with have occupied the world of thought for millenniums and acutely interest the present-day mind. Here we have a treatment, both metaphysical and scientific, in the light of the profound vision that is Sri Aurobindo's, based on an all-round spiritual realisation.

We are grateful to the Government of India for a generous grant to meet the cost of publishing this volume.

Humbly offered

AT THE LOTUS-FEET OF

THE MOTHER

for whose pleasure alone and with whose Blessings

this series of essays was originally composed.

An extract from a letter written by the Mother to the author:

"Une fois que tu as commencé, tu dois continuer, et la

legitimation des études est de trouver dans ce qui a été révélé

dans le passé, l'indication prophétique de ce qui se réalisera

dans 1'avenir."*

La Mère

* "Once you have started, you should continue, and the justification of the studies is to find in what has been revealed in the past, the prophetic indication of what will be realised in the future."

The Mother