Ideal of Karmayogin

Author(s): Aurbindo Ghose
Publisher: Prabartak Publishing House

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THE IDEAL OF THE KARMAYOGIN
history of our race, forward to the gran. diose history for which that destiny has prepared it.
We do not believe that our political salvation can be attained by enlargement of Councils, introductions of the elective principle, colonial self-government or any other formula of European politics. We do not deny the use of some of these things as instruments, as weapons in a political struggle, but we deny their sufficiency whether as instruments or ideals and look bevond to an end which they do not serve except in a trilling degree. They might be sufficient if it were our ultimate destiny to be an outlying province of the British Empire or a dependent adjunct of Euroropean civilisation. That is a future which we do not think it worth making any sacrifice to accomplish. We believe on the other hand that India is destined to work out her own independent life and civilsasation, to stand in the forefront of the world and solve the political, social, econo