Spirituality and Religion
Sri Aurobindo, the great Indian saint who developed Integral Yoga is the Eastern father of modern evolutionary spirituality. He writes, "Before there could be any evolution, there must be an involution of the Divine. Otherwise there would be not an evolution but a successive creation of things new, not contained in their antecedents, not their inevitable consequences or processes in a sequence, but arbitrarily willed or miraculously conceived by an inexplicable Chance, a stumbling fortune, or an external Creator....Evolution is nothing but the progressive unfolding of Spirit out of the density of material consciousness and the gradual self- revelation of God out of this apparent animal being."
Sri Aurobindo, the great Indian saint who developed Integral Yoga is the Eastern father of modern evolutionary spirituality. He writes, "Before there could be any evolution, there must be an involution of the Divine. Otherwise there would be not an evolution but a successive creation of things new, not contained in their antecedents, not their inevitable consequences or processes in a sequence, but arbitrarily willed or miraculously conceived by an inexplicable Chance, a stumbling fortune, or an external Creator....Evolution is nothing but the progressive unfolding of Spirit out of the density of material consciousness and the gradual self- revelation of God out of this apparent animal being."
Reading: The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1973. The Life Divine explores for the modern mind the great streams of Indian metaphysical thought, reconciling the truths behind each and from this synthesis extends in terms of consciousness the concept of evolution. The unfolding of Earth's and man's spiritual destiny is illuminated pointing the way to a Divine life on Earth.
The Synthesis of Yoga. Pondicherry, India: Sri Aurobindo Ashram. 1955. A master work from the great Eastern yogi, who along with Teilhard de Chardin established the ground work for evolutionary spirituality and the emergence of the universal human. Websites: www.sriaurobindosociety.org.in, www.miraura.org
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