ABSTRACT
Aurobindo Ghose decided to get away from political life, in the conventional sense, to immerse himself in Yogic self-education and to prepare himself for the task of broadcasting the 'eternal message' of India. In the ancient Hellenic and Roman societies, according to Aurobindo Ghose, the rational, ethical and aesthetic aspects of life were emphasized. Karl Lamprecht, on whom Aurobindo draws for his human cycle, established a Centre for Comparative History in Germany, stipulating psychological forces as the basic forces in all of history. Aurobindo sought to heal the divide between Matter and Spirit by advocating a theory of Evolution. Overall then, the first symbolic stage of evolution is predominantly religious and spiritual, with other elements: economic, psychological, ethical subordinated to it. The present age of mankind, for Aurobindo, may be characterized from the point of view of a graded psychological evolution. According to Aurobindo, liberal democracy cherished liberty, but this liberty becomes laissez-faire.
