India’s Rebirth
India’s Rebirth
This book presents Sri Aurobindo’s vision of India as it grew from his return from England in 1893 to his political days in the first decade of the century and finally to his forty-year-long withdrawal from public view during which he plunged into his ‘real work’ of evolutionary action.
This brief chronological selection from all that Sri Aurobindo said or wrote on India, her soul and her destiny, is by no means integral, but we trust it offers a sufficiently wide view of the lines of
development Sri Aurobindo wished India to follow if she was to overcome the deep-rooted obstacles standing in the way of her rebirth.
A few notes have been added to help put the excerpts into historical perspective, and a Chronology, list of References and Index have been provided at the end of the book.
Book Details
Author: Sri Aurobindo
Print Length: 209 pages
Publisher: Institute for Evolutionary Research
Book format: ePub
Language: English, French, German
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Contents
- Editors’ Note
- I. 1893-1910: Revolutionary Writings
- II. 1910-1922: Essays, Letters & Articles
- III. 1923-1926: Talks (1st series)
- IV. 1929-1938: Letters
- V. 1938-1940: Talks (2nd series)
- VI . 1940-1950: Letters & Messages
- Chronology
- References
Book Sample
Aphorisms
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident’s success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.
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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
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