"All would change if man could once consent to be spiritualized; but his nature, mental and vital and physical, is rebellious to the higher law. He loves his imperfection."
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/3-april-1957#p10,p12,p13,p14,p15,p16,p17,p18,p19</ref>
==What is Religion?==
Sri Aurobindo defines religion as the seeking after the spiritual, that is, the Supermind, of what is beyond the ordinary human consciousness, and what ought to influence life from a higher realm. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/25-may-1955#p8</ref>
Religion is the spiritual and ethical life of the individual, the relations of his soul with God and the intimate dealings of his will and character with other individuals.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/25/the-drive-towards-legislative-and-social-centralisation-and-uniformity#p10</ref>
The aim of religion is to link the human with the Divine and in so doing sublimate the thought and life and flesh so that they may admit the rule of the soul and spirit. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/18-june-1958#p2</ref>
The very essence of religion is the discovery of the immaterial Spirit and the play of a supraphysical consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/25/reason-and-religion#p8</ref>
God gives Himself to His whole creation; no one religion holds the monopoly of His Grace. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/religion#p1</ref>
Gods are those who are turned to the Light, who live in the Power and the Knowledge; that is what the Buddha means, he does not mean the gods of religion. They are beings who have the divine nature, who may live in human bodies, but free from ignorance and falsehood. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/happiness#p16</ref>
==Misconception of Religion==