Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Second Series
Fragment ID: 20566
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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
2 CWSA, volume 35: the errors
3 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 3; CWSA, volume 35: come in trying
4 CWSA, volume 35: crumbled
5 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 3; CWSA, volume 35: and
6 CWSA, volume 35: overgrown
7 Sri Aurobindo to Dilip.- Vol. 3; CWSA, volume 35: in many places
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Sri Aurobindo. Letters of Sri Aurobindo: In 4 Series.- Second Series [On Yoga].- Bombay: Sri Aurobindo Sircle, 1949.- 599 p.
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