ON MATERIALISM
ON MATERIALISM
Extracts from "The Life Divine"
by Sri Aurobindo
Compiled by Kireet Joshi
THE MOTHER'S INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH, New Delhi
in association with
MIRA ADITI , Mysore
THE MOTHER'S INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH
200I
Excerpts taken from
Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library
First edition, 1972
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
Compiled by Kireet Joshi
The publication or this book was facilitated
by a grant received by the Mother's Institute of Research from the Ministry of
Human Resource Development, department or Education,
Government of India, which is gratefully acknowledged.
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In Europe and in India, respectively, the negation of the materialist and the refusal of the ascetic have sought to assert themselves as the sole truth and to dominate the conception of Life. In India, if the result has been a great heaping up of the treasures of the Spirit, — or of some of them, — it has also been a great bankruptcy of Life; in Europe, the fullness of riches and the triumphant mastery of this world's powers and possessions have progressed towards an equal bankruptcy in the things of the Spirit. Nor has the intellect, which sought the solution of all problems in the one term of Matter, found satisfaction in the answer that it has received.
Therefore the time grows ripe and the tendency of the world moves towards a new and comprehensive affirmation in thought and in inner and outer experience and to its corollary, a new and rich self-fulfilment in an integral human existence for the individual and the race.
Sri Aurobindo