Bengali Writings
As a matter of fact, all without exception is real; the world is unreal in the transcendent status, but we who are not beyond Time and Space have no right to call the world false.
At the Feet of The Mother
Bengali Writings
Most of the pieces in Bengali were written by Sri Aurobindo in 1909 and 1910 for Dharma, a Calcutta weekly he edited at that time; the material consists chiefly of brief political, social and cultural works. His reminiscences of detention in Alipore Jail for one year (“Tales of Prison Life”) are also included. There is also some correspondence with Bengali disciples living in his ashram.
Bengali Writings
Many think that although works form part of dharma, not so all types of work; only those that are governed by sattwa and conducive to nivṛtti.
Bengali Writings
Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, thinking (meantalising) are all functions of prakamya.
Bengali Writings
We do not call the dharma and the fundamental thought of India, just because they are old, the eternal dharma, the eternal truth.
Bengali Writings
When God roused India, in the first flush of her awakening the flaming power of the national consciousness began to flow swiftly in the veins of the nation.
Bengali Writings
The country and nothing but the country is the foundation of Nationalism, neither the nation, nor religion, nothing else matters.
Bengali Writings
Freedom is the goal of our political struggle, but there is a difference of opinion regarding the true meaning of freedom.
Bengali Writings
Man is not born for the society — but the society is created for him. Those who forget the inner Divinity in man and give a higher place to the society are worshipping the undivine.
Without fraternity, social equality is impossible. And because of the absence of fraternity Europe was deprived of social equality. ... Only brotherly feeling can bring about brotherhood. There is no brotherly feeling in Europe, equality and liberty are tainted there.