Broadcast talk on Sri Aurobindo by
Syama Prasad Mookerji on 15 August 1950
15th August is a memorable day for India. It marks
not only the withdrawal of British rule from India. It is the day on which Sri
Aurobindo was born – at once the last survivor of an heroic age and the creator
of a new age. Sri Aurobindo’s contributions to our national awakening have a
character, quality and content, which, it is particularly necessary to
comprehend and realise in order to protect us from the perils of an unknown
future darkened by skepticisms and lack of faith. His spiritual enlightenment
attained through a mental process of discipline, intuition, study as well as
contemplation has an abiding value not only in strengthening our bases of
culture, but also those of our character and actions.
…. When Sri Aurobindo retired as a recluse to Pondicherry,
the problems had not attained to their present stage of aggressiveness,
militancy or complexity. They were then incipient in their character. Sri Aurobindo
attended to a divine call – a call that comes to a few. He foreswore a life of
action for a life of meditation. Already in 1909 while in jail he had the
vision of God. He realized, in his own words to which he gave utterance in his
speech at Uttarpara in 1909, “The utter Truth of Hindu religion.” He had many
doubts about it before but now day after day he realised in the mind, he
realised in the heart, he realised in the body, the truths of the Hindu
religion. He followed it up by a life combined with the practice of Yoga,
contemplation and study. He is a philosopher and a prophet but is not a founder
of a new system of religion but a prophet who interprets life in its relation to
the supreme spirit. In him revitalised our ancient philosophy.
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