Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville

by Akash Kapur

We all live somewhere on that continuum—that stretch of road between doubt and certitude, questioning and belief, resistance and surrender.

Edmund Burke’s famous dictum that all that’s necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

Religion, philosophy, and spirituality all aim at the same thing, he realizes. The difference is that religion aims at it through rituals and ceremonies, philosophy through what he calls “ratiocination,” and spirituality via a change of consciousness.