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Conclusion
America tuming to Sri Aurobindo as the only hope and refuge in the dismal bankruptcy of the modern rationalistic, scientific and technocratic culture, and discovering in his teachings the synthetic spiritual vision, the all-reconciling comprehensive outlook, the happy fusion of the ideals of the East and the West, and, above all, the authentic divine dynamism, capable of transforming human nature and creating a new worldorder, which alone can lift mankind from the morass of degeneracy into which it has fallen. May humanity turn. more and more to the delivery of light. (Vide Preface. "The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo'.)
Further, barring his only work 'Atma-siddhi', not a single work is translated into English. We get the collections of his writings in original Gujarati or its Hindi translation. Perhaps because of this, he is not wellknown to the modern world as a gifted philosopher and acquaintance with him is more or less limited to Gujarat only.
We conclude our work by quoting an incident from Śrīmad's last days which bears a symbolic meaning as it were. It was in Idar that Śrīmad had his meeting with the disciples, the munis on a high peak of the Aravali hills situated near the town. He seated himself
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