I am going to tell you a story. ...I heard it from Alexandra David-Neel who, as you probably know, is a well-known Buddhist, especially as she was the first European woman to enter Lhasa.
It is the darkest nights that prepare the greatest dawns — and it is so because it is into the deep inconscience of material life that we have to bring, not an intermediate glimmer, but the full glory of the divine Light.
But it is vain and idle to believe that the Kingdom of Heaven can be reproduced outside by an act of parliament as long as we have not discovered the kingdom of Heaven within us.
"As long as the human mind is what it is, it is fully capable of twisting and perverting even the highest truth when it comes. And that is why Sri Aurobindo's aim was to go beyond the mind such that this perverting path of the mind can be completely abolished."
"...It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness to the Divine" - from a letter of Sri Aurobindo, 1934