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Sri Aurobindo and August 15
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“August 15 , 1947 is the birthday of free India. It
marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a
new age. But we can also make it by our life and acts as
a free nation an important date in a new age opening
for the whole world, for the political, social, cultural
and spiritual future of humanity.
“August 15 th is my own birthday and it is naturally
gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast
significance. I take this coincidence, not as a fortuitous
accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine
Force that guides my steps on the work with which I
began life, the beginning of its full fruition.”
[Sri Aurobindo wrote this as part of a special message at
the request of All India Radio, Tiruchirapalli, India, for
broadcast on the eve of India’s independence.]
