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Excerpted from Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo. (Recorded by A.B.Purani). 3rd Edition. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram; 1982, pp.210-2.
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Perfection of the Body
By Unknown Author - Jul 15, 2011
The perfection of the body, as great a perfection as we can bring about by the means at our disposal, must be the ultimate aim of physical culture. Perfection is the true aim of all culture, the spiritual and psychic, the mental, the vital and it must be the aim of our physical culture also. If our seeking is for a total perfection of the being, the physical part of it cannot be left aside; for the body is the material basis, the body is the instrument which we have to use. Shariiram khalu dharma saadhanam, says the old Sanskrit adage, - the body is the means of fulfilment of dharma, and dharma means every ideal which we can propose to ourselves and the law of its working out and its action. A total perfection is the ultimate aim which we set before us, for our ideal is the Divine Life which we wish to create here, the life of the Spirit fulfilled on earth, life accomplishing its own spiritual transformation even here on earth in the conditions of the material universe. That cannot be unless the body too undergoes a transformation, unless its action and functioning attain to a supreme capacity and the perfection which is possible to it or which can be made possible.
Moving Forward
By Unknown Author - Jul 15, 2011
There must be another way; another way to live and be.
The evolutionary journey of medical science
By Unknown Author - Jul 15, 2010
Medicine, like everything else that has the stamp of human creation upon it, evolves with the evolution of mankind. But the cycles of evolution do not always move in a straight line. As historians tell us, humanity has moved through many a curve and spiral of development and retrogression. Of course, when we speak of development we do not refer merely to the technological side but to man as a whole — man in his totality, his self-regard and his relation with the world he inhabits.
The coming race
By Unknown Author - Jul 15, 2010
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Moving Forward
By Unknown Author - Jul 15, 2010
One question doing the rounds in both scientific as well as general circles is whether scientists are beginning to play God. The answer is not an easy one. Very often in life, good comes out of what at first seems an evil and vice versa.