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The Genius of India - Video

2007-01-21 17:41 | Posted by Tejvan Pettinger | Permanent Link | India, Sri Aurobindo, Videos
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In an essay written in 1918 and entitled The Renaissance in India, Sri Aurobindo presents us with a masterly view of India's culture through the ages -- her essential spirit and her characteristic soul, her unique genius and powers which gave her her remarkably long periods of greatness and an unusually prolific creativity -- that which allowed her to survive for so long when other ancient civilisations faded away. He explains the basis of her strength -- that which enabled her to resist so many attempts at crushing her culture.

 

"Spirituality is the master key of the indian mind. the sense of infinity is native to it

- From video

See also: Genius of India at Auroville