We feel swept into a movement of accelerated evolution. All structures of themodern world are changing fast. More new problems arise from advances inscience and technology than can be solved. Man"s mind cannot keep up with themovement he has created. What does this crisis mean? Will old values breakdown? Or will a civilization of dread and despair, of soulless regimentation,turn the human race into a giant ant-hill? NO. The aspirations of man revealother possibilites. This book is an anthology of Sri Aurobindo"s writtings onthis very subject - the meaning of terrestrial life and of the presentevolutionary crisis.