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Research Article AJERR 2018,3:17

American Journal of Educational Research and Reviews (ISSN:2474-9265)

Philosophy of and - A Critical Analysis S.Lalitha Asst Prof. of English，Bharath Institute of Higher Education & Research .

ABSTRACT

Sri Aurobindo , was an Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philos- *Correspondence to Author: opher, , and poet. He joined the Indian movement for S.Lalitha freedom from British rule, for a while became one of its influen- Asst Prof. of English，Bharath In- tial leaders and then turned into a spiritual reformer, introducing stitute of Higher Education & Re- his visions on human progress and spiritual evolution. Swami search Chennai. Vivekananda, known in his pre-monastic life as Narendranath Datta, was born in an affluent family in . His father,Vish- wanath Datta, was a successful attorney with interests in a wide range of subjects, and his mother, Bhuvaneshwari Devi, was en- How to cite this article: dowed with deep devotion, strong character and other qualities. S.Lalitha. OF SWA- A precocious boy, Narendra excelled in music, gymnastics and MI VIVEKANANDA AND SRI AU- studies. By the time he graduated from Calcutta University, he ROBINDO A CRITICAL ANALYSIS. had acquired a vast knowledge of different subjects, especially American Journal of Educational and . These, then the Shâstras, the Research and Reviews, 2018,3:17. Guru, and the Mother¬land are the three notes that mingle them- selves to form the music of the works of Vivekananda .The pres- ent paper brings out the critical analysis of the of the two great spiritual philosophers and writers in a comparative style. eSciPub LLC, Houston, TX USA. Website: http://escipub.com/ Keywords: Philosophy, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Critical Analysis

http://escipub.com/american-journal-of-educational-research-and-reviews/ 0001 S.Lalitha, AJERR, 2018; 3:17 DETAILED PAPER According to Vivekananda, three now stand in the world which has come down to us Swami Vivekananda is one of most admired from time prehistoric , Zoroastrianism spiritual leaders of . The world knows him and Judaism. They have all received as an inspiring Hindu monk, his motherland tremendous shocks and all of them prove by regards him as the patriot saint of modern their survival their internal strength. But while India, and consider him as a source of Judaism failed to absorb and was spiritual power, mental energy, strength-giving driven out of its place of birth by its all- and open-mindedness. An avid scholar of conquering daughter, and a handful of Parsees Western and and ever thirsty is all that remains to tell the tale of their grand for the mystery of Creation and the law of , sect after sect arose in India and , Vivekananda found his guru in Sri seemed to shake the religion of the to its Ramkrishna Paramhamsa. He toured across very foundations, but like the waters of the India to know his country and people, and seashore in a tremendous earthquake it found his spiritual alma mater at receded only for a while, only to return in an all- the rock in Cape Comorin at the absorbing flood, a thousand times more southernmost tip of the Indian peninsula. The vigorous, and when the tumult of the rush was Vivekananda memorial is now a landmark for over, these sects were all sucked in, absorbed, tourists and pilgrims, and a tribute to him by his and assimilated into the immense body of the countrymen. "Art, science, and religion", mother faith. From the high spiritual flights of Vivekananda said once, "are but three different the philosophy, of which the latest ways of expressing a single truth. But in order discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the to understand this we must have the theory of low ideas of with its multifarious Advaita."The formative influence that went to mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists, the determining of his vision may perhaps be and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have regarded as threefold. . These are the treasure a place in the Hindu's religion. Where then, the which it is his to offer. These furnish him with question arises, where is the common centre to the ingredients whereof he compounds the which all these widely diverging radii converge? world's heal-all of his spiritual bounty. To him, Where is the common basis upon which all there is no difference between service of man these seemingly hopeless contradictions rest? and worship of God, between manliness and And this is the question one shall attempt to faith, between true righteousness and answer. . All his words, from one point of view, read as a commentary upon this central The Hindus have received their religion through conviction. revelation, the Vedas. They hold that the Vedas are without beginning and without end. It may Swami Vivekananda was the chief disciple of sound ludicrous to this audience, how a book Ramkrishna Paramhamsa. Ramkrishna can be without beginning or end. But by the Paramhamsa’s first spiritual teacher was an Vedas no books are meant. They mean the ascetic woman skilled in and Vaishnava accumulated treasury of spiritual laws . Later an Advaita Vedantic ascetic taught discovered by different persons in different him non-dual , and according to times. Just as the law of gravitation existed , he experienced nirvikalpa before its discovery, and would exist if all under his guidance. Swami humanity forgot it, so is it with the laws that Vivekananda expanded on this knowledge and govern the spiritual world. The moral, ethical, he is considered a key figure in the introduction and spiritual relations between soul and soul of Hindu philosophies of Vedanta and to and between individual spirits and the Father of the “Western” World. http://escipub.com/american-journal-of-educational-research-and-reviews/ 0002 S.Lalitha, AJERR, 2018; 3:17 all spirits, were there before their discovery, the only Soul of which all souls are but delusive and would remain even if we forgot them. So manifestation? Thus is it, through multiplicity then the Hindu that he is a spirit. Him and duality, that the ultimate unity is reached. the sword cannot pierce — he the fire cannot Religion can go no farther. This is the goal of all burn — he the water cannot melt — he the air science. cannot dry. The Hindu believes that every soul All science is bound to come to this conclusion is a circle whose circumference is nowhere, but in the long run. Manifestation, and not creation, whose centre is located in the body and that is the word of science today, and the Hindu is death means the change of this centre from only glad that what he has been cherishing in body to body. Nor is the soul bound by the his bosom for ages is going to be taught in conditions of matter. In its very essence it is more forcible language and with further light free, unbounded, holy, pure, and perfect. But from the latest conclusions of science. somehow or other it finds itself tied down to Superstition is a great enemy of man, but matter, and thinks of itself as matter. A man he bigotry is worse. My brethren, we can no more attains perfection when he lives a life of bliss think about anything without a mental image infinite. He enjoys infinite and perfect bliss, than we can live without breathing. By the law having obtained the only thing in which man of association, the material image calls up the ought to have pleasure, namely God, and mental idea and vice versa. This is why the enjoys the bliss with God. So far all the Hindus Hindu uses an external symbol when he are agreed. This is the common religion of all worships. He will tell you, it helps to keep his the sects of India; but, then, perfection is mind fixed on the Being to whom he prays. He absolute, and the absolute cannot be two or knows as well as you do that the image is not three. It cannot have any qualities. It cannot be God, is not omnipresent. He saw that, in spite an individual. And so when a soul becomes of poverty, the masses clung to religion, but perfect and absolute, it must become one with they had never been taught the life-giving, , and it would only realise the Lord as ennobling principles of Vedanta and how to the perfection, the reality, of its own nature and apply them in practical life. Thus the masses existence, the existence absolute, knowledge needed two kinds of knowledge: secular absolute, and bliss absolute. We have often knowledge to improve their economic condition and often read this called the losing of and spiritual knowledge to infuse in them faith individuality and becoming a stock or a in themselves and strengthen their moral stone.“He jests at scars that never felt a sense. wound.” The next question was how to spread these two Science is nothing but the finding of unity. As kinds of knowledge among the masses? soon as science would reach perfect unity, it Through education this was the answer that would stop from further progress, because it Swamiji found. One thing became clear to would reach the goal. Thus Chemistry could not Swamiji: to carry out his plans for the spread of progress farther when it would discover one education and for the uplift of the poor masses, element out of which all other could be made. and also of women, an efficient organization of Physics would stop when it would be able to dedicated people was needed. As he said later fulfil its services in discovering one energy of on, he wanted “to set in motion machinery which all others are but manifestations, and the which will bring noblest ideas to the doorstep of science of religion become perfect when it even the poorest and the meanest.” It was to would discover Him who is the one life in a serve as this ‘machinery’ that Swamiji founded universe of death, Him who is the constant the a few years later. It basis of an ever-changing world. One who is was when these ideas were taking shape in his

http://escipub.com/american-journal-of-educational-research-and-reviews/ 0003 S.Lalitha, AJERR, 2018; 3:17 mind in the course of his wanderings that British rule. He was released when no evidence Swami Vivekananda heard about the World’s was provided. During his stay in the jail he had Parliament of Religions to be held in in mystical and spiritual experiences, after which 1893. His friends and admirers in India wanted he moved to Pondicherry, leaving politics him to attend the Parliament. He too felt that for spiritual work. the Parliament would provide the right forum to During his stay in Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo present his Master’s message to the world, and evolved a new method of spiritual practice, so he decided to go to America. Another reason which he called . The central which prompted Swamiji to go to America was theme of his vision was the evolution of human to seek financial help for his project of uplifting life into a life divine. He believed in a spiritual the masses. realisation that not only liberated man but also Swamiji, however, wanted to have an inner transformed his nature, enabling a divine life on certitude and divine call regarding his mission. earth. In 1926, with the help of his spiritual Both of these he got while he sat in deep collaborator, "The Mother", he meditation on the rock-island at Kanyakumari. founded the . He died on With the funds partly collected by his Chennai 5 December 1950 in Pondicherry. disciples and partly provided by the of Aurobindo was the first Indian to create a major Khetri, Swami Vivekananda left for America literary corpus in English.His main literary from on 31 May 1893. works are The Life Divine, which deals with Through these inspiring and profoundly theoretical aspects of Integral Yoga; Synthesis significant lectures Swamiji attempted to do the of Yoga, which deals with practical guidance to following: Integral Yoga; and Savitri, an epic poem which to rouse the religious consciousness of the refers to a passage in the , where people and create in them pride in their cultural its characters actualise integral yoga in their heritage; to bring about unification of Hinduism lives. His works also include philosophy, poetry, by pointing out the common bases of its sects; translations and commentaries on to focus the attention of educated people on the the Vedas, and the . plight of the downtrodden masses, and to In July 1905 then Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, expound his plan for their uplift by the partitioned Bengal. This sparked an outburst of application of the principles of Practical public anger against the British, leading to civil Vedanta unrest and a nationalist campaign by groups of revolutionaries, who included Aurobindo. Sri Sri Aurobindo , born Aurobindo Ghosh, was an Aurobindo said he was "visited" by Swami Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, Vivekananda in the Alipore Jail. It is a fact that philosopher, yogi, guru and poet. He joined he was hearing constantly the voice of the Indian movement for freedom from British Vivekananda speaking to me for a fortnight in rule, for a while became one of its influential the jail in my solitary meditation and felt his leaders and then turned into a spiritual presence. The voice spoke only on a special reformer, introducing his visions on human and limited but very important field of spiritual progress and spiritual evolution. Sri Aurobindo experience and it ceased as soon as it had studied for the Indian Civil Service at King's finished saying all that it had to say on that College, Cambridge, . After returning to subject. Many years later, Aurobindo revised India he took up various civil service works some of these works before they were under the Maharaja of the princely published in book form. Some of the book state of Baroda and began to involve himself in series derived out of this publications were The politics. He was imprisoned by British Life Divine, Yoga, Essays on The Gita, The governance in India for writing articles against http://escipub.com/american-journal-of-educational-research-and-reviews/ 0004 S.Lalitha, AJERR, 2018; 3:17 Secret of The Veda, Hymns to the Mystic Aurobindo explained that Man is born an Fire, The Upanishads, The Renaissance in ignorant, divided, conflicted being; a product of India, War and Self-determination, The Human the original in conscience inherent in Matter Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity and The that he evolved out of. As a result, he does not Future Poetry were published in this magazine. know the nature of Reality, including its source Sri Aurobindo's main literary output was his and purpose; his own nature, including the voluminous correspondence with his disciples. parts and integration of his being; what purpose His letters, most of which were written in the he serves, and what his individual and spiritual 1930s, numbered in the several thousands. potential is, amongst others. In addition, man Many were brief comments made in the experiences life through division and conflict, margins of his disciple's notebooks in answer to including his relationship with others, and his their questions and reports of their spiritual divided view of spirit and life. The Life Divine is practice others extended to several pages of a combination of summarisation of the letters carefully composed explanations of practical published in Arya and interpretation of Isha aspects of his teachings. These were later Upanishad and is one of Sri Aurobindo's major collected and published in book form in three philosophical opus. It tries to decipher the volumes of Letters on Yoga. In the late 1930s, process of evolution and nature of reality and to Sri Aurobindo resumed work on a poem he had give a metaphysical interpretation of started earlier he continued to expand and Upanishads along with his own experiences. It revise this poem for the rest of his life. It is divided into two parts, the first explaining became perhaps his greatest literary nature of reality and the second part on achievement, Savitri, an epic spiritual poem in knowledge and evolution. In the first part blank verse is of approximately 24,000 lines. disseminating creation and the nature of reality, Sri Aurobindo calls his yoga as integral yoga, analysis about human aspiration and current and according to Sri Aurobindo most ways of system of spirituality, there repercussions in other yoga are paths to beyond of human understanding of reality, proposes different existence and towards reaching spirit as a final levels of reality and in eventuality of the objective and away from normal life. Sri humans rising to these different levels of reality. Aurobindo's philosophy aims at ascending to The analysis the interplay of reality and the spirit and again descending to normal the nature of human and the second part existence to transform it. According to Sri describes evolution and knowledge, how the Aurobindo, mind is the highest term reached in knowledge has been interpreted and the reason the path of evolution till now but has not yet for the way it is. Finally hints of existence of a reached its highest potency and calls current higher consciousness which would include all in mind as an ignorance seeking truth, but he also reality and make sense of everything in reality, states that even though the human being is and calls this as a possible bringing down of treading in ignorance there is in every human Divine life on earth. The early writings of being a possibility of divine manifestation. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh consist of the poems that he Aurobindo states that there is a possibility to penned down when he was a student in open oneself to higher divine consciousness England. He wrote quite a number of plays and which would reveal one's true self, remain in poems, during his thirteen years of stay in constant union of divine and bring down a Baroda. If you want to have a look at Sri higher force, which he names as superamental Aurobindo works, you can check out the force which would transform mind, life and volumes titled Collected Plays that contain the body. To realise the above has been the main short stories and plays written by him. His objectives of Sri Aurobindo's yoga. Sri poetry is published in the volume Collected Poems. http://escipub.com/american-journal-of-educational-research-and-reviews/ 0005 S.Lalitha, AJERR, 2018; 3:17 Sri Aurobindo came in limelight due to his Aurobindo had expected or wanted from yoga, editorials and articles that were published in the and they did not fit either within the mental Calcutta daily newspaper named Bande framework of his instructor, Lele, whose own Mataram. His political articles got published in experiences were with the personal Divine. the Calcutta weeklies. In the beginning, he was During the following weeks Lele still taught actively involved in the politics of the country. Aurobindo how to rely both for his outer work However, later, he focused his attention on the and for the rest of his inner development on an practice of yoga. After having concentrated on inner guidance, but after that, they parted ways. yoga for a long period of fourteen years, he The presence of the silent Brahman never left came out with a 64 page monthly philosophical Aurobindo, though it subsequently merged with review called 'Arya' in the year 1914, which other realisations of the Divine. Interestingly, all consisted of all his important works. Important this happened during one of the busiest periods Works of Aurobindo are the Essays on the Gita, of his life while he was at the peak of his The Life Divine, The Secret of the Veda, The political influence, and he managed, in his own Synthesis of Yoga, The Human Cycle, The words, to organise political work, deliver Ideal of Human Unity, The Foundations of speeches, edit his newspaper and write Indian Culture, and The Future Poetry. articles, all from an entirely silent mind. According to Aurobindo, There was no ego, no Sri Aurobindo described the main areas of his real world—only when one looked through the life’s work as five world-movements which he immobile senses, something perceived or bore wished for as a young man, and which he upon its sheer silence a world of empty forms, worked for during the different phases of his materialised shadows without true substance. life. The people looked, in his own words, like There was no One or many even, only just impractical dreams when he was young, but he absolutely That, featureless, relation less, saw all of them fully or partially fulfilled during sheer, indescribable, unthinkable, absolute, yet his lifetime: supremely real and solely real. This was no 1. A free and united India; mental realisation nor something glimpsed somewhere above, no abstraction, it was 2. The resurgence and liberation of the positive, the only positive reality, although not a peoples of Asia and her return to her spatial physical world, pervading, occupying or great role in the progress of human rather flooding and drowning this semblance of civilization; a physical world, leaving no room or space for 3. A world-union forming the outer basis of any reality but itself, allowing nothing else to a fairer, brighter and nobler life for all seem at all actual, positive or substantial. I mankind; cannot say there was anything exhilarating or 4. The spread of the spiritual gift of India to rapturous in the experience . . . but what it the world; brought was an inexpressible , a 5. A step in evolution which would raise stupendous silence, infinity of release and man to a higher and larger freedom. consciousness and begin the solution of There are two things noteworthy about this the problems which have perplexed and experience. The first is that it was not a fleeting vexed him since he first began to think experience but a true realisation in the sense and to dream of individual perfection and that the peace and inner silence never a perfect . diminished. The other is that the experience of For several years Sri Aurobindo was a pivotal the silent Brahman and the Māyāvādin sense of figure in the movement for independence. He the unreality of the world were not at all what had the qualities of a natural leader but was http://escipub.com/american-journal-of-educational-research-and-reviews/ 0006 S.Lalitha, AJERR, 2018; 3:17 always happy to work in the background as was also a noted poet. Many of his poems are much as possible. It was during this period that vivid and soulful portrayals of his supramental Sri Aurobindo also became increasingly experiences. For example, interested inYoga and meditation. Sri Only the illimitable Permanent Aurobindo was able to practice meditation and Is here. A Peace stupendous, featureless, still. read about the ancient principles of yoga, Replaces all, – what once was I, in It undisturbed by outer commitments. Sri A silent unnamed emptiness content Aurobindo began to have profound . Either to fade in the Unknowable Entering into higher realms of consciousness Or thrill with the luminous seas of the Infinite. he became aware of the omnipresence of God. Sri Aurobindo taught that the different world It was also in prison that Sri Aurobindo was religions were right in their own way. However visited by the soul of Swami Vivekananda, who Sri Aurobindo also stated that there was no instructed Sri Aurobindo about the workings of need to repeat what had happened in the past. the super consciousness which was above the The world is in continuous evolution and there mind. Sri Aurobindo also became aware of a is a need to bring down a higher truth with each divine inner guidance that was never to leave age. Continuing the vision of Swami him. From this divine source he was given an Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo sought to combine Adesh ‘inner command’ that henceforth he the best from Eastern spirituality and Western should not worry about politics. India would materialism. gain her independence in due course but this would be achieved by others. The task for Sri “I saw them cross the twilight of an age Aurobindo was the renewal of ‘sanatana The sun-eyed children of a marvelous dawn… , the eternal religion.’ To pursue this The massive barrier-breakers of the world.. spiritual task it was necessary for Sri Aurobindo The architects of immortality… to leave the political arena. In his own words Sri Bodies made beautiful by the Spirit’s light, Aurobindo said of his mission. Carrying the magic word, the mystic fire, Carrying the Dionysian cup of joy.. “ ‘We must return and seek the sources of life and strength within ourselves… It is the spiritual All these “world-movements” have begun, we foresee and the material is only though none of them has been perfectly its shadow and reflex.’ Sri Aurobindo’s style accomplished in the direction Sri Aurobindo varies from the wit and humor of his letters to envisaged. In the long run, it seems likely that the austere tone and architectonic structure of Sri Aurobindo will be remembered mainly for his philosophical texts. Whereas spiritual his role in the fifth movement, on which he experience and enlightenment are transcribed worked incessantly during the last 40 years of in classical prose, his experimental poetry is his life. Just before his death in 1950, he still expressed through the , which is a kind wrote a few essays for a newly started Ashram of language that aims to capture different states Journal on the transitional period between our of consciousness or what he defines as the present state and the supramental stage he “overmental” verse of the future poetry. envisaged for the future. He also completed the revision of the first part of The Synthesis of Sri Aurobindo was a rare combination of poet, Yoga and the whole of Savitri. The Mother philosopher, writer and spiritual Master. During continued his work till her own passing in 1973 his time in Pondicherry he wrote several books at the age of 95. The Ashram and the explaining his view on Yoga and spirituality. His international township, Auroville, which she most notable exposition was perhaps in ‘The started in 1968, still exist and continue to Life Divine’ which is a comprehensive develop as creative spiritual communities. explanation of his integral yoga. Sri Aurobindo

http://escipub.com/american-journal-of-educational-research-and-reviews/ 0007 S.Lalitha, AJERR, 2018; 3:17 The view of Vivekananda on the diversity of Swami’s thought and style. Now let us look at a religious expressions in India was greatly few selections from Swami Vivekananda’s admired and reiterated by Sri Aurobindo. The poems.A sensible reader can easily correlate European mind ‘cherished the aggressive and the idea of “intuitive poetry” with the two quite illogical’ idea of a single religion for all excerpts that follow. mankind…and so it considered the endless ‘All nature wear one angry frown, variety of and religion as not To crush you out - still know, my soul, only bewildering and wearisome but also useless. But Vivekananda came and asserted You are Divine. March on and on, not only the unity of all religions based on Nor right nor left but to the goal. Ramakrishna’s realisations, but also that this Nor angel I, nor man, nor brute, unity must necessarily express itself in an Nor body, mind, nor he nor she, increasing variety of forms. Sri Aurobindo own The books do stop in wonder mute realisations underscored this fact. Along with Vivekananda he asserted that the perfect state To tell my nature; I am He. of the unity of all religions would come when A true poet, according to Sri Aurobindo, is a se each man had his own religion for spiritual er, one who can transcend all conventional upliftment suited to his nature. stereotypes to ascend to the level of a Swami Dayanand , Sri Ramakrishna visionary, where the idea of “tat sat” is realised. Paramahamsa, Swami Sri Aurobindo goes on to say that Vivekananda Vivekananda,AnnieBesant and Sri Aurobindo c came to assert that in every one of the three aused a social upheaval through spiritualism.Ev hundred million men and women, of India at the en thenationalist spirit of the freedom time, from the Raja on his throne to the coolie movement was deeply influenced by at his labour, from the absorbed in his spiritualism. BalGangadhar Tilak, Gopal Sandhya to the Pariah walking shunned of Gokhale, Mahadeo Govind Ranade, men, God Liveth. ‘’We are all gods and andthe other leaders of the creators, because the energy of God is within Indian Freedom Movement derived their us and all life is creation’’. inspiration and motivation from the Indian Swami Vivekananda’s popular Chicago speech spiritual philosophy. Swami Vivekananda’s delivered at the ‘Parliament of the World’s advent into the scene brought about an Religions’. He played an important role in assimilation between the Indian and the introducing Hinduism to the western world. His Western spiritualism, philosophy and science, historic speech in Chicago on September 1893 as well as the realities about the correlation delivered with crisp logic and scientific insight between life and religion, materialism and attracted major attention. The speech earned mysticism, humanity and Godhood. It is him a two-minute standing ovation from the therefore predictable that his creative energy present dignitaries and the title of ‘the cyclonic would reflect his ideals, beliefs and monk of India’. Though the speech was intuitions. No wonder his immense creative ene delivered 125 years ago it is relevant even rgy was spontaneously channelized today. Here are some impressive lessons from occasionally in the form of poetry. His poetry the famous speech. was what Sri Aurobindo calls as • Love for all religion- The Christian is not ‘intuitive poetry.’ to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a First, his poems are not easily available to Hindu or a Buddhist to become a readers; and secondly, short citations may not Christian. But each must assimilate the be adequate to visualise the magnitude of the spirit of the others and yet preserve his

http://escipub.com/american-journal-of-educational-research-and-reviews/ 0008 S.Lalitha, AJERR, 2018; 3:17 individuality and grow according to his in man.” This must not of course be understood own law of growth. as some sort of spiritual imperialism…it is the • Being patriotic- We believe not only in reading of India’s destiny based on deep universal , but we accept all introspection. religions as true. REFERENCE: • Analysis of religions-I am a Hindu. I am 1. Reddy, V. Madhusudan. Seven Studies in Sri sitting in my own little well and thinking Aurobindo. Hyderabad, India: Institute of Human Study, 1989. that the whole world is my little well. The 2. Paranjape, Makarand, ed. The Penguin Sri Christian sits in his little well and thinks Aurobindo Reader. New : Penguin, 1999. the whole world is his well. The 3. Explorations in Indian English Poetry.Ed. Jaydeep Mohammedan sits in his little well and Sarangi. Delhi: Authorspress, 2007. thinks that is the whole world. • Acquaintance with science- The Vedas teach us that creation is without beginning or end. Science is said to have proved that the sum total of cosmic energy is always the same. • Goal of science- Science is nothing but the finding of unity. As soon as science would reach perfect unity, it would stop from further progress, because it would reach the goal. • Faith in god- Whatever may be the position of philosophy, whatever may be the position of metaphysics, so long as there is such a thing as death in the world, so long as there is such a thing as weakness in the human heart, so long as there is a cry going out of the heart of man in his very weakness, there shall be a faith in God. Like Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo too had the vision that India must be reborn, because ‘‘in her rebirth is the future of the world’’. With Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo too held that India has the undisputed right to extend spiritual sway over the world. It may not be an exaggeration to conclude that the poetry of Swami Vivekananda attains that lofty height of the mantra --“the inspired rhythmic word”, which is not meant for mere aesthetic delight of the reader but for the quest of the divinity within one’s own self, to borrow Sri Aurobindo’s words again, to realise God as “the Self of all things and beings, the Life of the universe, the Divinity

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