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Essays on the Gita, Chapter 1, Our Demand and Need from the Gita, Extracts · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We of the coming day stand at the head of a new age of
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  development, which must lead to such a new and larger synthesis.
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  We are not called upon to be orthodox vedantins of any of the
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  three schools or tantrics, or to adhere to one of the theistic
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  religions of the past, or to entrench ourselves within the
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  four corners of the teaching of the Gita.
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  That would be to limit ourselves, and to attempt to
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  create our spiritual life out of the being, knowledge, and nature
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  of others, of the men of the past, instead of building it out
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  of our own being and potentialities.
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  We do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of the
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  future. A mass of new material is
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  flowing into us. We have not only to assimilate
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  the influences of the great theistic religions of India and
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  of the world, and a recovered sense of the meaning of
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  Buddhism, but to take full account of the potent though
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  limited revelations of modern knowledge and seeking.
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  And beyond that, the remote and dateless past which seemed to be
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  dead, is returning upon us with an effulgence of many luminous
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  secrets long lost to the consciousness of mankind, but
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  now breaking out again from behind the veil.
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  All this points to a new a very rich, a very vast synthesis.
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  A fresh and widely embracing harmonization of our games is
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  both an intellectual and a spiritual necessity of the
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  future. But just as the past synthesis
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  have taken those which preceded them for their starting point,
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  so also must that of the future to be on firm ground.
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  Proceed from what the great bodies of realized spiritual
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  thought and experience in the past have given among them, the
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  Gita takes a most important place.
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  Oh peace, peace, peace.