মহাবিপ্লবী শ্রীঅরবিন্দ | Mahabiplabi Sri Aurobinda

৮০ “At present mankind is undergoing-an evolu- tionary crisis in which is concealed a choice of its destiny ; for a stage has been reached in which the human miud has achieved in certain direction an enormous development while in others it stands arrested and bewildered and can no longer find its way. A structure of the external life has been raised up by man’s ever-active mind and life-will, a structure of an unmanageable hugeness and complexity, for the service of his mental, vital, physical claims and urges, a complex political, socia), administrative, economic, cultural machinery, an organised collective means for his intellectual, sensational,*aesthetic and material satisfaction. Man has created a system of civilisa- tion which has become too big for his limited mental capacity and understanding and his still more limited spiritual and moral capacity to utilise and manage, a too dangerous servant of his blundering ego and its appetites. ----All that is there is a chaos of clashing ‘mental ideas, urges of individual and collective physi- cal want and need, vital claims and desires, impulses of an ignorant life-push, hungers and calls for life satisfaction of individuals, classes, nations, a rich fungus of political and social and economic nostrums and notion, a hushling medley of slogans and pana- ceas for which men are ready to oppress and be oppressed, to kill and be killed, to impose them some how or other by the immense and too formidable means at his disposal, in the belief that this is his way out to something ideal. | এ A rational and scientific formula of the vitalis-