At the Crossroads - The Evolution of the Spiritual Being

Foreword

    The present study is the outcome of research done on Sri Aurobindo's texts on the occasion of the UNESCO sponsored seminar, "Humanity at the crossroads: the evolution of Consciousness" to be held in Auroville in February 1994.

    I have divided this research into two volumes. This first volume, "At the crossroads: the evolution of the spiritual being" is a more general approach to Sri Aurobindo's perspective on evolution. The second volume, "The next stage of evolution: genesis of the supramental being" will deal more directly with the practice of integral Yoga.

    The summary is a "condensation" of Sri Aurobindo's sentences - not to intrude with my own language. All quotes but one are from the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library.

    Special thanks are due to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust which has authorised the first extensive compilation on Sri Aurobindo's teachings done in Auroville.

    I am also very grateful to the sadhaks of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press who have accepted the task though overloaded by previous commitments, and who have done their best to try to complete the publication in time for the seminar.