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=Religion at Sri Aurobindo Ashram=
Here we do not have religion. We replace religion by the spiritual life, which is truer, deeper and higher at the same time, that is to say, closer to the Divine. For the Divine is in everything, but we are not conscious of it. This is the immense progress that man must make. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/sri-aurobindo-ashram#p44</ref>
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...the children of Auroville should replace the exclusiveness of one religion by the wide faith of knowledge.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/aims-and-principles#p412</ref>
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Religion always tends to make God in the image of man, a magnified and aggrandised image, but in the end it is always a god with human qualities. This is what makes it possible for people to treat him as they would treat a human enemy. In some countries, when their god does not do what they want, they take him and throw him into the river!
[Based on aphorism 59 -One of the greatest comforts of religion is that you can get hold of God sometimes and give him a satisfactory beating. People mock at the folly of savages who beat their gods when their prayers are not answered; but it is the mockers who are the fools and the savages.] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-59#p1,p3</ref>
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...men are so foolish that they can change anything into a religion, so great is their need of a fixed framework for their narrow thought and limited action. They do not feel secure unless they can assert this is true and that is not; but such an assertion becomes impossible for anyone who has read and understood what Sri Aurobindo has written. Religion and Yoga do not belong to the same plane of being and spiritual life can exist in all its purity only when it is free from all mental dogma.[Based on aphorism 59] <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-59#p7,p11</ref>
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Religion and Yoga do not belong to the same plane of being and spiritual life can exist in all its purity only when it is free from all mental dogma. [Based on aphorism 59 - One of the greatest comforts of religion is that you can get hold of God sometimes and give him a satisfactory beating. People mock at the folly of savages who beat their gods when their prayers are not answered; but it is the mockers who are the fools and the savages.] <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-59#p11</ref>
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Religion and philosophy seek to rescue man from his ego; then the kingdom of heaven within will be spontaneously reflected in an external divine city. [Aphorism 200]<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-199-200#p2</ref>
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''Q. Which is better: religion or atheism?''
''A:''So long as religions exist, atheism will be indispensable to counter-balance them. Both must disappear to make way for a sincere and disinterested search for Truth and a total consecration to the object of this search. [Based onAphorism 241—Atheism is a necessary protest against the wickedness of the Churches and the narrowness of creeds. God uses it as a stone to smash these soiled card-houses.
242—How much hatred and stupidity men succeed in packing up decorously and labelling "Religion"!] <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-241-242#p3,p4</ref>
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There are four very great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindavan and the colloquy with Arjuna on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindavan created devotional religion (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ from his cross humanised Europe, the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity. Yet it is said that none of these four events ever happened. [ Aphorism 40]
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-40#p1</ref>
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...if one has faith in the god of a religion, how can one have faith in the incarnate Divine? That is quite right.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/1-june-1934#p2</ref>
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