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3. Religion, Morality, Idealism and Yoga

Fragment ID: 176

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Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

September 19, 1936

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I do not take the same view of the Hindu religion as J. Religion is always imperfect because it is a mixture of man’s spirituality with his endeavours that come in in trying to sublimate ignorantly his lower nature. Hindu religion appears to me as a cathedral-temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance – crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral-temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit. The outer social structure which it built for its approach is another matter.

 

1 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 3; CWSA, volume 35: Jawaharlal

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2 CWSA, volume 35: the errors

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3 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 3; CWSA, volume 35: come in trying

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4 CWSA, volume 35: crumbled

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5 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 3; CWSA, volume 35: and

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6 CWSA, volume 35: overgrown

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7 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 3; CWSA, volume 35: in many places

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Current publication:

Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga // SABCL.- Volume 22. (≈ 28 vol. of CWSA).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1971.- 502 p.

Other publications:

[A letter: ] Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- 1st ed.- In 4 Volumes.- Volume 3. 1936 – 1937 / edited by Sujata Nahar, Michel Danino, Shankar Bandopadhyay.- Pune: Heri Krishna Mandir Trust; Mysore: Mira Aditi, 2003.- 305 p.

Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Himself and the Ashram // CWSA.- Volume 35. (≈ 26 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2011.- 658 p.

Sri Aurobindo. Letters of Sri Aurobindo: In 4 Series.- Second Series [On Yoga].- Bombay: Sri Aurobindo Sircle, 1949.- 599 p.