This book is all about the
evolution of Man - not just from a historical perspective, but from psychological as well. The
author credits the contents to a supernatural status, something that was streamed in through a divine source. Sri Aurobindo had evolved to a high degree of awareness, and what we get to read in the Life Divine are his experiences on this higher plane of awareness.
There is a liberal dose of Upanishadic thoughts and concepts, and the contents actually corroborates what the ancient seers had experienced. Life Divine is the Light that has penetrated the veil of the Unknown, and has thus brought down those Radiant Truths in the form of this purely philosophic diction.
The readers have to belong to those intermediate plains of awareness; only thus will they be able to grasp those sublime truths. It would be an unique experience for each reader and he would do well to read only a few paragraphs or at the most a few pages on a regular basis. It should be like a meditation to go through the pages everyday. This would
certainly raise the evolutionary level in gradual steps, without the reader being aware of the process.
Once the process starts, it will progress according to the capacity of the "vessel", so to speak. There will never be a strain on the various faculties of the reader. He will actually turn into a sadhak, in quest of the Eternal Truth. Slowly, he will be drawn to his actual purpose in this life, the foundation of which may have been laid over several births.
This is a book certainly far ahead of the present times that we are in, and hence not meant for everybody- not at least in this lifetime.
evolution has still a long, long way to go, before the final culmination!!