Life
and Death
Life,
death,—death, life; the words have led for ages
Our thought and consciousness and firmly seemed
Two opposites; but now long-hidden pages
Are opened, liberating truths undreamed.
Life only is, or death is life disguised,—
Life a short death until by life we are surprised.
-
Sri Aurobindo
...
Even
if Science,—physical Science or occult Science,—were
to discover the necessary conditions or means for an indefinite
survival of the body, still, if the body could not adapt
itself so as to become a fit instrument of expression for
the inner growth, the soul would find some way to abandon
it and pass on to a new incarnation. The material or physical
causes of death are not its sole or its true cause; its
true inmost reason is the spiritual necessity for the evolution
of a new being.
...
-
Sri Aurobindo
