Sri Aurobindo (1997) who stressed that the method of India is “to discover the spirit within and the higher hidden intensities of the superior powers and to dominate life in one way or another so as to make it more responsive to and expressive of the spirit and in that way increase the power of life”, had no clear plan of social action. He also seemed to be confused about the possibility of renaissance in India:
India has the key to the knowledge and conscious application of the ideal; what was dark to her before in its application, she can now, with a new light, illuminate; what was wrong and wry in her old methods she can now rectify; the fences which she created to protect the outer growth of the spiritual ideal and which afterwards became barriers to its expansion and farther application, she can now break down and give her spirit a freer field and an ampler flight: she can, if she will, give a new and decisive turn to the problems over which all mankind is laboring and stumbling, for the clue to their solutions is there in her ancient knowledge. Whether she will rise or not to the height of her opportunity in the renaissance which is coming upon her, is the question of her destiny. |
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