Lakshminath Bezbaroa#Lakshminath
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#Lakshminath
Lakshminath Bezbaroa · 1864–1938
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Who this is
Revolutionary nationalism, then philosophy and yoga — editor of Bande Mataram, defendant in the Alipore Bomb Case, author of The Life Divine and Savitri, founder (with the Mother) of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
“The most dangerous journalist in British India — tried for sedition, tried for conspiracy to wage war on the King — walked away from politics at thirty-seven, at the height of his fame, and spent forty years in silence writing a philosophy of what humanity might become; whether that was desertion or completion is a question India still cannot close.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Evolution did not stop with us. As life once emerged in matter and mind in life, a greater consciousness is still to emerge in man — and can be worked for, deliberately, as the real next step of human history.”
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