ON AUROBINDO
Sri Aurobindo may have realised the futility of attempting to strengthen India politically without first strengthening her spiritual foundations. So, as per his Uttarpara Address claim, he, at the behest of Sri Krishna's and Swami Vivekananda's spirit, quit politics to lay for humanity a spiritual foundation which would help evolve it unto the next phase of its terrestrial life. Whether he succeeded or not is debatable but he believed that he did.
The spiritual philosophy Sri Aurobindo has left behind is a vast treasure-house of intellectual thinking at least and great literature at that. One may not subscribe to his claims but one for sure may delve in Sri Aurobindo's thought and profit from it. That will be self-culture indeed, provided one is objective in one's study.
Written by Sugata Bose
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