"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>
= Why Religion is Important?=
==Purpose of Religion==
To see your Self in all creatures and all creatures in your Self—that is the unshakeable foundation of all religion, love, patriotism, philanthropy, humanity, of everything which rises above selfishness and gross utility.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/16-july-1958#p3,p4,p5</ref>
The Spirit is the truth of our being; mind and life and body in their imperfection are its masks, but in their perfection should be its moulds.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/3-april-1957#p5</ref>
Religions are forms, much too human, of spiritual life. Each one expresses one aspect of the single and eternal Truth, but in expressing it exclusive of the other aspects, it deforms and diminishes it.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/religion#p10</ref>
The truth of Sri Aurobindo is a truth of love and light and mercy. He is good and great and compassionate and Divine. And it is He who will have the final victory.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/3-april-1962#p4</ref>
Spiritual religion of humanity is the hope of the future. spiritual life insists on freedom and variation in its self-expression and means of development.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/25/summary-and-conclusion#p11</ref>
==Why People Follow Religion?==
People cling to a religion, because that religion has helped them in one way or another, it has helped in them precisely something which wanted to have a certitude, not to have to search but to be able to rest on something solid without being responsible for the solidity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/7-september-1963#p19</ref>
===Why Morality?===
Its true aim is a preparation and purification of the soul to fit it for the presence of God. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/18/an-incomplete-work-of-vedantic-exegesis#p7</ref>
=How to Embrace God?==