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The Life Divine

By Sri Aurobindo

Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1939, Two volumes, 1939–1940

First written 1914–1919 (serialized in the Arya)

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Sri Aurobindo’s major philosophical work, which sets out the involution of the divine in matter and its evolution through life and mind toward supermind, and argues against both materialism and the ascetic denial of the world.

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Sri Aurobindo. The Life Divine. Two volumes, 1939–1940. Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1939.

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@misc{sources-life-divine-aurobindo,
  title = {{The Life Divine}},
  howpublished = {The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society},
  note = {Source. Last modified November 7, 2026},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/sources/life-divine-aurobindo}
}