Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 4

Fragment ID: 10535

The doctrines of Ahimsa and non-violence and altruism are early steps on the road to spiritual knowledge – but once advanced on the road what is true behind them takes its place, as a thread in the complex weft of spiritual truth and feeling, not as a rigid ethical rule or all-swallowing dogma. The Manifestation here is too complex in its concealed Unity for such mental or emotional formulas to be unerring guides.