The Life Divine

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo's principal work of philosophy.

In this book, Sri Aurobindo presents a theory of spiritual evolu­tion and suggests that the present crisis of humanity will lead to a spiritual transformation of the human being and the advent of a divine life upon earth.

The material first appeared as a series of essays published in the monthly review Arya between 1914 and 1919. They were revised by Sri Aurobindo in 1939 and 1940 for publication as a book.

"THE earliest preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts and, as it seems his inevitable and ultimate preoccupation, - for it survives the longest periods of scepticism and returns after every banishment, - is also the highest which his thought can envisage. It manifests itself in the divination of Godhead, the impulse towards perfection, the search after pure Truth and unmixed Bliss, the sense of a secret immortality. The ancient dawns of human knowledge have left us their witness to this constant aspiration; today we see a humanity satiated but not satisfied by victorious analysis of the externalities of Nature preparing to return to its primeval longings. The earliest formula of Wisdom promises to be its last, -God, Light, Freedom, Immortality".


Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.
Soft cover
ISBN 978-81-7058-844-0
1129 pages