... to construct a precarious and quite mechanical unity by political and administrative means, the unity of the human race, even if achieved, can only be secured and can only be made real if the religion of humanity, which is at present the highest active ideal of mankind, spiritualises itself and becomes the general inner law of human life. The outward unity may well achieve itself,—possibly, though... pressure of unfavourable circumstances and the reassertion of old or the effective growth of new centrifugal forces. There is, however, at work a more powerful force, a sort of intellectual religion of humanity, clear in the minds of the few, vaguely felt in its effects and its disguises by the many, which has largely helped to bring about much of the trend of the modern mind and the drift of its ... original elements. The saving power needed is a new psychological factor which will at once make a united life necessary to humanity and force it to respect the principle of freedom. The religion of humanity seems to be the one growing force which tends in that direction; for it makes for the sense of human oneness, it Page 576 has the idea of the race, and yet at the same time it respects ...
... which could open the prospect of a sound and lasting order. In this context, the emergence of a religion of humanity is of a greater significance, although he finds its present intellectual form hardly sufficient. Sri Aurobindo, therefore, advocates the emergence of a spiritual religion of humanity and explains that he does not mean by it what is called a universal religion, a system, a creed of... that can be made by humanity, Sri Aurobindo perceives two important phenomena of the modern world which present a great sign of hope. These two phenomena are those of internationalism and of religion of humanity. But these two phenomena need to be understood in their inner implications. For internationalism seems to oppose the truth and force of nationalism, and this opposition can be fatal to a harmonious... discipline and the way by which each individual can be developed in accordance with his or her line of development towards integrality and an all-embracing perfection. In defining the spiritual religion of humanity in which the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity can be harmonised, Sri Aurobindo states: Yet is brotherhood the real key to the triple gospel of the idea of humanity. The union ...
... brotherhood exists only in the soul and by the soul. Therefore, Sri Aurobindo concludes, the religion of humanity must be a spiritual religion of humanity, not an institutional religion, not an intellectual religion, not a sentimental religion. That humanity is pressing forward towards this spiritual religion of humanity is of great significance for all of us who are keen to find the solution to the contemporary... rapidity, take place which can prepare a real and fundamental change in the life of humanity. 15 But internationalism, according to Sri Aurobindo, is not enough; there is a need of a religion of humanity or an equivalent sentiment which recognises a single soul in humanity of which each human being and each people is Page 39 an incarnation and soul form. This religion has already... socialism and pacifism are to a great extent its by-products or at least owe much of their vigour to its inner presence. But Sri Aurobindo points out that the purely intellectual and sentimental religion of humanity is not sufficient to bring about the needed great change in human psychology. For at its highest, it can only erect three great ideals of progress, — liberty, equality and fraternity, but in ...
... Chapter XXXIV The Religion of Humanity A religion of humanity may be either an intellectual and sentimental ideal, a living dogma with intellectual, psychological and practical effects, or else a spiritual aspiration and rule of living, partly the sign, partly the cause of a change of soul in humanity. The intellectual religion of humanity already to a certain extent exists... and nations and mankind. This, speaking largely, is the idea and spirit of the intellectual religion of humanity. One has only to compare human life and thought and feeling a century or two ago with human life, thought and feeling in the pre-war period to see how great an influence this religion of humanity has exercised and how fruitful a work it has done. It accomplished rapidly many things which... still unable to take a definite body, but are already mind-born and exist as influences of which the human mind is aware and to which it now responds in a desultory and confused fashion. The religion of humanity was mind-born in the eighteenth century, the mānasa putra 1 of the rationalist thinkers who brought it forward as a substitute for the formal spiritualism of ecclesiastical Christianity ...
... psychological impulsion provided by the desire for a religion of humanity - would nevertheless not be strong enough to ensure human unity so long as man or collective man refused to see the spiritual reality behind the brilliant and bewildering facades of material life: A spiritual religion of humanity is the hope of the future.... A religion of humanity means the growing realisation that there is... 'administrative' or 'military' support that will sustain the world community; a "religion of humanity" may, perhaps, produce better results, but what is basic to any religion is not a set of ethical rules but the ambience of the Spirit. Eighteenth-century Europe, by intuition as it were, sought to define the "religion of humanity" as the efflorescence of liberty, equality and fraternity. But Sri Aurobindo... of this truth, it is the awakening of the soul in man and the attempt to get him to live from his soul and not from his ego which is the inner meaning of religion, and it is that to which the religion of humanity also must arrive before it can fulfil itself in the life of the race. 49 The many favourable factors towards world-union - an appreciation of the closeness of common interests; the ...
... of free nations would then come to be injured. Therefore, we have to integrate internationalism with the religion of humanity. But, again, religion of humanity must not be construed in the image of a dogmatic, ritualistic and institutional framework of any particular creed. Religion of humanity should be conceived in terms of spirituality that transcends the boundaries of institutional religion. S... are rightly fostered by humanity, we can arrive at universal solidarity that is based upon freedom and mutuality. The first idea is that of internationalism and the second idea is that of the religion of humanity. But both these ideas will require to be more chiselled and much more forged than what they attempt to convey to us today. Mere internationalism may provide a sense of wideness and globality... of this truth, it is the awakening of the soul in man and the attempt to get him to live from his soul and not from his ego which is the inner meaning of religion, and it is that to which the religion of humanity also must arrive before it can fulfil itself in the life of the race. 4 Page 496 V We have spoken of the spiritual issue and of the spiritual solution, but the question ...
... become. It is a sign of the increasing dynamic character which the unity of mankind is gradually achieving. The Bhoodan movement sponsored by Vinoba Bhave, is a practical effort to live the religion of humanity in actual conditions of life in India. It puts into practice the motto : "The whole humanity is one family"—in short, " One World " is its inspiring ideal. That in a conservative country like... to be understood in the narrow sense of an external social religion. It is a kind of spiritual religion that is meant. In the last century some thinkers and poet! had accepted this spiritual religion of humanity. It was s microscopic minority at that time. It was that which inspired that poem of Leigh Hunt — " Abuben Adam may his tribe increase ... .Rose one day from a deep dream of peace." The idea... all external efforts should be continued till yth inner unity is attained. Sri Aurobindo in " The Ideal of Human Unity " has given the following conception of the religion of mankind. "A religion of humanity means the growing realisation that there is a secret Spirit, a divine Reality, in which we arc all one, that humanity is its highest present vehicle on earth, that the human race and the human ...
... genuine human feeling and with the rejection of God, the feeling does not go, it persists. So a new religion is proposed, a Godless religion, a Natural Religion and it came to be called the Religion of Humanity. God was replaced by Humanity. Humanity is a collective reality: to serve it became the ideal, the summum bonum. And to serve is to worship and adore. Thus a new deity was installed. To give... called by any other name. He is to be worshipped as God. No lesser gods but the Supreme God Himself. Does not the Bible say: "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God" ? ¹ A Godless morality or a Religion of Humanity, even at its best is a truncated truth. These do not possess the imperious urge of the total man; it is a headless waif wandering about in search of what it wants in this dreary wilderness of ...
... species; he also evaluated his method, sociobiology, as surpassing any other explanation and interpretation, including those of the religions, and that sociobiology should therefore become the new religion of humanity. Monod, one of his precursors, had already written: “In order to survive, vitalism [to Monod a form of “animism,” the chief scapegoat of his reductionism] needs that there remain in biology ...
... another aspect, which has developed in recent times, which wants to install man and his holistic search of knowledge and fulfilment as the central concern. Sri Aurobindo has spoken of spiritual religion of humanity as the hope of the future, a religion that is non-dogmatic, that is entirely removed from religionism and devoted to the Yogic pursuit of knowledge and action in their integrality. There ...
... Part V The Turn Towards Unity 310 Unity in Diversity, Law and Liberty 317 The Peril of the World-State 325 The Conditions of a Free World-Union 334 Spiritual Religion of Humanity 344 A Postscript Chapter 347 Part VI Supermind and Humanity 365 Supermind in the Evolution 377 Man and the Supermind 385 The Divine Superman 390 Part ...
... article of Bertrand de Jouvenel in Diogène. No. 33, jan-mars 1961. 8. Billy Graham, Life Magezine, 15 August 1960 9. See Sri Aurobindo, The Ideal of Human unity, Ch, XXXIV. "The Religion of humanity. 10.the Bible says "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." Compare this with "The greatest prospect that we face - indeed what must now be counted one of the central economic ...
... not an appendage of Britain, but a nation awakened, a puissant nation on the march, a nation leading other nations, not by recourse to war, but by giving a new religion to the world - the true religion of humanity reared on spiritual foundations. All this came as a boost to the revolutionaries, and as a warning to the Ruling Race. No mere analysis or comment, however, can really measure the impact of ...
... still mundane in its outlook and intellectual and moral rather than spiritual in its temperament. Patriotism, cosmopolitanism, service of society, collectivism, humanitarianism, the ideal or religion of humanity are admirable aids towards our escape from our primary condition of individual, family, social, national egoism into a secondary stage in which the individual realises, as far as it can be done ...
... process, the need for preserving and bringing to fullness the principle of individual and group freedom within the human unity, and the insufficiency of formal unity without a growth of the religion of humanity which can alone make it a great psychological advance in the spiritual evolution of the race. 1919 Page 274 Publisher’s Note to the Second Edition The Ideal of Human Unity ...
... might be increasingly created in its very process of growth, but certain psychological elements would have to be present in great strength. There would be needed, to make the change persist, a religion of humanity or an equivalent sentiment much more powerful, explicit, self-conscious, universal in its appeal than the nationalist's religion of country; the clear recognition by man in all his thought and ...
... necessary intellectual and psychological change; for such an inner change could alone give some chance of durability to the unification. That change would be the growth of the living idea or religion of humanity; for only so could there come the psychological modification of life and feeling and outlook which would accustom both individual and group to live in their common humanity first and most, subduing ...
... mentioned. The inspiration of Descartes’ philosophical re-evaluation of the bases of Western knowledge was revealed to him in three dreams. August Comte, the theorist of positivism, launched a new religion of humanity. Nietzsche’s thinking, however this-worldly in its intention, started from and returned to a-material suppositions. And theoretical physics in the last one hundred years has been leading up ...
... rewarded their loyalty by satisfying their ambitions and greed. Only when this generation had died out could, secondly, “a secular nation of priests” take shape, the first wave of “a new religion of humanity, the creation of a new human species”. Hitler realized that this would be possible only after the decisive war of world conquest “which was to come unavoidably”. National Socialism, or rather ...
... was enunciated by Sri Aurobindo in the last chapter of The Ideal of Human Unity, which appeared at the same time (July 1918) as the last chapter of The Human Cycle: A spiritual religion of humanity is the hope of the future. ... [it] means the growing realisation that there is a secret Spirit, a divine Reality, in which we are all one.... By its growth within us oneness with our fellow-men ...
... building up aggregates, 484; religion of country or nationalism, 484; free association preferable to compulsion, 484; external support less important than subjective readiness, 485; spiritual religion of humanity, 486; compared with the views of Tagore, Toynbee, Radha-krishnan,486,490 Ilion, 71,100,155,623,638ff;sources, 639; evocation of doom, 640 Penthesilea-Achilles motif, 64 1ff; role ...
... es were to come safely through "the Valley of the Shadow of Death" that lay ahead of them, the long night of violence and repression and tribulation that seemed to stretch before them. A religion of humanity, a belief in the divinity of man, a faith in the compelling power of selfless action and high-spirited sacrifice - these were the cardinal needs of the moment. In an article, 'India and ...
... neighbourhood,—for what is there in neighbour- hood and distance? nor because the religions tell me he is my brother,—for where is the root of that brotherhood? but because he is myself. Neighbourhood and distance affect the body, the heart goes beyond them. Brotherhood is of blood or country or religion or humanity, but when self-interest clamours what becomes of this brotherhood? It is only by living... thy brothers and strengthen by sympathy their capacities and their courage. 487—Love of man, love of woman, love of things, love of thy neighbour, love of thy country, love of animals, love of humanity are all the love of God reflected in these living Page 346 images. So love and grow mighty to enjoy all, to help all and to love for ever. 488—If there are things that absolutely refuse ...
... is neighbourhood,—for what is there in neighbourhood and distance? nor because the religions tell me he is my brother,—for where is the root of that brotherhood? but because he is myself. Neighbourhood and distance affect the body, the heart goes beyond them. Brotherhood is of blood or country or religion or humanity, but when self-interest clamours what becomes of this brotherhood? It is only by living... slave of all humanity. 513) After all when thou countest up thy long service to God, thou wilt find thy supreme work was the flawed & little good thou didst in love for humanity. 514) There are two works that are perfectly pleasing to God in his servant; to sweep in silent adoration His temple-floors and to fight in the world's battlefield for His divine consummation in humanity. 515) He who... heal thy brothers and strengthen by sympathy their capacities & their courage. 486) Love of man, love of woman, love of things, love of thy neighbour, love of thy country, love of animals, love of humanity are all the love of God reflected in these living images. So love & grow mighty to enjoy all, to help all and to love for ever. 487) If there are things that absolutely refuse to be transformed ...
... path or the primrose path of easy success, for the invisible adverse forces are always around; but Grace too is near at hand. On 3 April there is a reference to the old religions and humanity's current needs. All great world religions had begun with mystic God-vision but had later been imprisoned in their "intellectual dogma and cult-egoism". If only these divers God-visions could "embrace and cast ... form, every limited form of life. It embraces all possibilities and manifestations and makes them the expression, the vehicle of a higher and more universal truth. It is not a new religion, much less a synthetic religion, that we want; it is a new life that has to be created and sustained by the new supramental Light, Force and Consciousness. Further, commenting on the two movements of perfection... that the new forces were active: ...the old world, the creation of what Sri Aurobindo calls the Overmind, was an age of the gods and consequently the age of religions.... In the supramental creation there will no longer be any religions.... But all this is in the future; it is a future... which has begun, but which will take some time to be realised integrally.... We are now witnessing ...
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