Evolving Towards a Consciousness of Unity by Lori Tompkins

Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the highest Heaven (The Empyrean);from Gustave Doré's illustrations to the Divine Comedy, Paradiso Canto 31



[I wrote this article in July of 2011 and I almost forgot about it. Here it is, an offering for the New Year.]


In 1908-1909, while spending a year in jail for being a seditionist against British rule in India, Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) came to the

Politics

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Sri Aurobindo withdrew
from politics; and, in his Ashram,

a most important rule is that one must abstain from all politics

― not because Sri Aurobindo did not concern himself with

the happenings of the world, but because politics, as it is

practised, is a low and ugly thing, wholly dominated by

falsehood, deceit,