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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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Moving Forward
By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2020
Modern society has centred itself around the animal side of humanity. It glorifies the beast in us by accepting fear, suspicion and anger as normal as long as they don’t disrupt our ‘normal’ function. It glorifies ambition, lust for power, greed for food and obsession with looks. On the other hand it suppresses the authentic spiritual impulse and regards our nobler impulses as impractical idealism. Our modern psychology does no better. It looks upon man as a social animal modified in appearance but the same in his core, an animal under the skin of man.

Moving Forward
By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2019
We, as human beings, lead a double existence. We have two lives, so to say. The first one with which we are generally more familiar is the surface life centred on the surface ego-identity. It is about the job we do and the money we make, the people who are associated with us through birth and other circumstances of our outer existence. This life consists of events and situations that move like shifting scenes, to which we react with pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow and so on and so forth.

Moving Forward
By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2018
An Age of Truth is fast dawning upon mankind and its very first effects are, paradoxically, a heightened confusion. It is so because the old values based on either a mechanical obedience to fixed formulas or else to an irrational reverence are being challenged in the mind-spaces of humanity. But the true values that are destined to replace the old ones are yet to emerge. The result is the ensuing confusion and a seeming chaos.

Moving Forward
By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2017
Though to our surface experience we all appear as separate and distinct entities, deep within us a secret oneness dwells. Not only our immediate environment affects us but also the distant stars. We feel a secret kinship with not only those who think and feel alike but also with the unthinking animal and the dumb stone. We share a common bond with all creation.

Moving Forward
By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2016
Being human is a precarious state of being. Man has left the security of the cave and the surety of his natural instinct. A nomad of varying climes, he is ever in search of a light he has lost. An adventurer of unseen lands, he fronts viewless dangers of the Unknown. He has added new complexities and with it new challenges and difficulties.