The Life Divine has its roots in the occasional articles on ethics and religion that Sri Aurobindo wrote for Bande Mataram, Karmayogin, Dharma, and later, The Standard Bearer. But the idea of Bhawani Bharati -- an ideal collectivity -- could not be elaborated sufficiently during the Arya period. It was during the revision in 1939 that the last six newly written chapters were added to The Life Divine. And this makes The Life Divine the greatest book on earth.
Especially the last two chapters lift it from dry ontology to resplendent sociology. The possibility of a Gnostic society is not premised on the separation of church and state, but a harmonization of the two is stipulated. A secularized polity has been shown to be an impossibility, while an ethics-driven, intuition-based rule of inner-freedom takes up the mantle of organizing the community affairs. The primacy of the philosopher-king concept has been given a new lease of legitimacy by invoking consensus and democracy.
Globalization and geo-politics are in ferment at presnt causing enormous anxiety and uncertainty in the minds of the people the world over. The security of the nationhood is falling apart as new vulnerabilities are looming large. Anticipating remedies for cross-cultural pathogens has become challenging as well as hazardous. In this scenario, the agenda of The Life Divine is the only secure path, and hence, people of all walks of life need to read it. [TNM]
Especially the last two chapters lift it from dry ontology to resplendent sociology. The possibility of a Gnostic society is not premised on the separation of church and state, but a harmonization of the two is stipulated. A secularized polity has been shown to be an impossibility, while an ethics-driven, intuition-based rule of inner-freedom takes up the mantle of organizing the community affairs. The primacy of the philosopher-king concept has been given a new lease of legitimacy by invoking consensus and democracy.
Globalization and geo-politics are in ferment at presnt causing enormous anxiety and uncertainty in the minds of the people the world over. The security of the nationhood is falling apart as new vulnerabilities are looming large. Anticipating remedies for cross-cultural pathogens has become challenging as well as hazardous. In this scenario, the agenda of The Life Divine is the only secure path, and hence, people of all walks of life need to read it. [TNM]
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