The Tragedy Of The Earth

by Satprem

SOPHOCLES, contemporary of soctrates and buddha embodies a great turning point of the human consciousness and our destiny, just as we were about to pluge into the modern barbarism of our post-Socratic era."Are we slaves?"asks Sophocles,"Are we doomed to nothingness?"And he looks at death with another mute question:"O unvanquished monster..........." At this other end of our iron age, which was the age of the great religion and of science, some ten thousand years after those extraordinary Vedic Seers who sang the dawn of men,Sri Aurobindo,the same questions,but with Vedic eyes,and a will to Do something"this time".