The Aims and Ideals

of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Aims and Ideals

of the

Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Selections from the Works of

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM

PONDICHERRY

First edition 2000

ISBN 81-7058-625-9

Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 2000

Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department

Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry

PRINTED IN INDIA

Our aim is not . . . to found a religion or a school of philosophy or a school of yoga, but to create a ground of spiritual growth and experience and a way which will bring down a greater Truth beyond the mind but not inaccessible to the human soul and consciousness.

SRI AUROBINDO

None of the present achievements of humanity, however great they are, can be for us an ideal to follow. The wide world is there as a field of experiment of human ideals. . . .

I know that from the external point of view we are below many of the present achievements in this world, but our aim is not a perfection in accordance with the human standards. We are endeavouring for something else which belongs to the future.

THE MOTHER