Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 8839

The Avatar and Humanity [1]

Every Avatar descended to relieve the world from falsehood, darkness, vice, etc. Also, everyone preached against them.

I am not concerned with what the Avatars did or are supposed to have done (though in that case Krishna seems to have done some very queer and undivine things). My business is with rising above the human consciousness and not with fulfilling limited human ideals; and I look at things from that standpoint.

20 April 1936