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Religion
The religion
which embraces Science and faith, Theism, Christianity, Mohamedanism
and Buddhism and yet is none of these, is that to which the
World-Spirit moves.
All religions have saved a number of
souls, but none yet has been able to spiritualize mankind. For that
there is needed not cult and creed, but a sustained and all
comprehending effort at spiritual self-evolution.
Vedanta
says rather, "Man, thou art of one nature and substance with God,
one soul with thy fellow-men. Awake and progress then to thy utter
divinity, live for God in thyself and in others." This gospel which
was given only to the few, must now be offered to all mankind for
its deliverance.
There are two works that are perfectly
pleasing to God in His servant; to sweep in silent adoration His
temple floors and to fight in the world's battle-field of His divine
consummation in humanity.
God's servant is something; God"s
slave is greater.
Our ideal is not the spirituality that
withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the
spirit.
-Sri Aurobindo
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