Ideal of Karmayogin

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

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THE AWAKENING SOUL
OF INDIA
NTO national awakening is really vital
and enduring which confines itself to
a single field. It is when the soul awakens that a nation is really alive, and the life will then manifest itself in all the manifold forms of activity in which man seeks to express the strength and the delight of the expansive spirit within. It is for ananda that the world exists; for joy that the Self pats Himself into the great and serious game of life; and the joy which He sees is the joy of various self-expression. For this reason it is that ne two men are alike, no two nations are alike. Each has its own separate nature over and above the
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