INDIA'S REBIRTH

"I write, not for the orthodox, nor for those who have discovered a new orthodoxy, Samaj or Panth, nor for the unbeliever. I write for those who acknowledge reason but do not identify reason with Western Materialism; who are sceptics but not unbelievers; who, admitting the claims of modern thought, still believe in India, her mission, her gospel, her immortal life and her eternal rebirth."

Sri Aurobindo (c. 1911)

Out of the ruins of the West...

INDIA'S

REBIRTH

A selection from Sri Aurobindo's

writings, talks and speeches

INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES EVOLUTIVES, Paris

& MIRA ADITI, Mysore

This book was prepared by a team of researchers under the direction of Sujata Nahar. Any profits arising from its sale will be entirely devoted to the spread of Sri Aurobindo's vision of India and her future evolution.

The publisher of this book, the Institut de Recherches Evolutives ("Institute for Evolutionary Research"), has published in France the 13 volumes of L'Agenda de Mere (Mother's Agenda) and looks after the worldwide diffusion of Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's evolutionary experience. The co-publisher, Mira Aditi, looks after the same work in India and Asia.

This selection was prepared from Sri Aurobindo's works published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India.

Information addresses:

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Mira Aditi Centre

62 'Sriranga', 2^nd Main, l ^st Cross

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Mysore 570 009, India

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Printed at Thomson Pre s s , Faridabad, India
ISBN 2-90277 6-47-0 & 8 1·85 137-27-7
First edition, August 1993
SECOND EDITION, revised and enlarged, January 1997