One of the aspects Sri Aurobindo saw in the nation was the sound foundation of its society governed by the principles of the spirit in its fourfold working. In it came together the faculties of knowledge, valour and strength, commerce and mutuality and relationship of harmony, and perfection in work. Even as these ensued from the great manifesting power of the spirit, they in turn become in the vast cosmic and individual working methods of attaining oneness with the same spirit. It is a oneness not in the passive sense, a quiescent union, but a dynamic oneness to make as though that spirit grow more and more in the possibilities of the Infinite. They become for the seeker of that truth yogic paths of Jnana Yoga, Raja Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, or Karma Yoga, or they combined in different ways depending upon the nature of the individual, his swabhāva. The revelation of these aspects made to us by Sri Aurobindo even in his early writings of the Karmayogin establishes the solidity of this social order itself, order in its true meaning and import that dismiss the crudities that have got accrued around it or have been attributed to it. In its authentic formulation it gives us a wholesome system which should really become the mode of organization of the collective life. Its truthful universality is not restricted to a particular epoch of time or a particular geographical region but to the psychological dimensions of the spirit working out its own expression in the cosmic manifestation. To be in tune with it is the desideratum of the spirit itself.

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