The new spirituality as conceived in the Realistic Adwaita is not based on the notion of a far-off God. The Transcendence here is a thing of living experience. The divinized creature will be in constant union with the Supreme. But that is not all. That is only one aspect of the spiritual life which makes the human spirit free. This freedom is necessary for the individual so that, when he lives, moves and acts in the world, the lower forces of nature may not in any way bind him and impede the fullness of his life, so that universal love, knowledge and joy may embrace all manifested forms. The individual being, one with the Divine, will be in union with the many without losing the oneness…

Indian religious movements mostly escaped dogmatism and rigidity because men had the freedom to reject past revelations and undertake freely their personal spiritual adventure. There have always been rebellious free-seekers and seers of the Infinity. Whenever there were signs of immobility, someone came with new spiritual vision. But even then there were nefarious by-products—religions, social domination, etc.,—which have impeded the free growth of one and all. The true spirituality is dynamically free…

The spiritual living which will be fulfilled by the supramental transformation is supremely free. There can be no dogmas, no cults and no moral prescriptions. Any effort to turn this spirituality into a religion is unthinkable…

“The one aim of this yoga,” Sri Aurobindo says, “is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinise human nature.”

This aim is beyond all that religions have ever imagined.   more »