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Human nature- Slavery to Activity

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The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram
The value of an experience
04/18/2018
A progressive surrender
04/20/2018
Published by The Mother on 04/19/2018
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  • On Thoughts and Aphorisms
Tags
  • activity
  • Aspiration
  • freedom
  • human nature
  • human race
  • laziness
  • libertinism
  • rough handling
  • slavery

Human nature is such that laziness has taken the place of aspiration — not for everyone, but anyway in quite a general way — and licence or libertinism has taken the place of freedom — which would tend to prove that the human race has to pass through a period of rough handling before it is ready to pull itself away more sincerely from its slavery to activity.

Ref:  On Thoughts and Aphorisms

 

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