Sri Aurobindo on Vivekananda
«In
vindicating ancient things it has been obliged to do so in a way that
will at once meet and satisfy the old mentality and the new, the
traditional and the critical mind. This in itself involves no mere
return, but consciously or unconsciously hastens a restatement. And the
riper form of the return has taken as its principle a synthetical
restatement; it has sought to arrive at the spirit of the ancient
culture and, while respecting its forms and often preserving them to
revivify, has yet not hesitated also to remould, to reject the outworn
and to admit whatever new motive seemed assimilable to the old
spirituality or apt to wide the channel of its larger evolution. Of this
freer dealing with past and present, this preservation by
reconstruction, Vivekananda was in his life-time the leading exemplar
and the most powerful exponent. But this too could not be the end; of
itself it leads towards a principle of new creation.»
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