Sri Aurobindo represents a synthesis of the teachings of both the West and the East. Not content simply with dissolution into a transcendental, other-worldly God-consciousness, nor with concentration on the outer life and its powers to the exclusion of anything other or higher, Sri Aurobindo has created the teachings of a Divine Life on Earth.
The Hour of God consists of extremely powerful short prose pieces written between 1910 and 1940 by Sri Aurobindo and published posthumously.