Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume II - Part 3
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Sri Aurobindo — Unknown addressee
November 28, 1936
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There is no connection between the Christian conception
(of the Kingdom of Heaven) and the idea of the supramental descent. The
Christian conception supposes a state of things brought about by religious
emotion and moral purification; but these things are no more capable of changing
the world, whatever value they may have for the individual, than mental idealism
or any other power yet called upon for the purpose. The Christian proposes to
substitute the sattwic religious ego for the rajasic and tamasic ego, but
although this can be done as an individual achievement, it has never succeeded
and will never succeed in accomplishing itself in the mass. It has no higher
spiritual or psychological knowledge behind it and ignores the foundations
of human character and the source of the difficulty – the duality of mind, life and body. Unless there is a descent of a new Power of Consciousness, not subject to the dualities but still dynamic which will provide a new foundation and a lifting of the centre of consciousness above the mind, the Kingdom of God on earth can only be an ideal, not a fact realised in the general earth-consciousness or
earth-life.
1 SABCL, volume 22; Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 1 Ser. foundation
2 SABCL, volume 22; Letters of Sri Aurobindo. 1 Ser. and
Current publication:
Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. II // CWSA.- Volume 29. (≈ 22-24 vol. of SABCL).- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2013.- 522 p.
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