The Mother’s commentaries on Sri Aurobindo’s 'Thoughts and Aphorisms' spoken or written in French.
Ce volume comporte les commentaires de la Mère sur les Pensées et Aphorismes de Sri Aurobindo, et le texte de ces Aphorismes.
The Mother’s commentaries on Sri Aurobindo’s 'Thoughts and Aphorisms' were given over the twelve-year period from 1958 to 1970. All the Mother's commentaries were spoken or written in French. She also translated Sri Aurobindo's text into French.
241—Atheism is a necessary protest against the wickedness of Page 283 the Churches and the narrowness of creeds. God uses it as a stone to smash these soiled card-houses. 242—How much hatred and stupidity men succeed in packing up decorously and labelling "Religion"!
241—Atheism is a necessary protest against the wickedness of
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the Churches and the narrowness of creeds. God uses it as a stone to smash these soiled card-houses.
242—How much hatred and stupidity men succeed in packing up decorously and labelling "Religion"!
Which is better: religion or atheism?
So long as religions exist, atheism will be indispensable to counter-balance them. Both must disappear to make way for a sincere and disinterested search for Truth and a total consecration to the object of this search.
21 December 1969
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