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        freedom and infinity. But now all that has  a prisoner. There were moments of course
        changed. Those paths of yoga were like early  when the prisoner would be temporarily out.
        experiments, preparatory moves of nature in  Yet this escape from the prison was always
        some individuals to see how far and wide  conditional, a prisoner on parole as it were.
        can they stretch their consciousness. Now  But the new spirituality is bound to integrate
        the yoga has been generalised in nature  these higher possibilities, these greater states
        itself and hence sections of humanity are  of consciousness with life and its manifold
        suddenly awakening to regions and domains  activities. It will touch upon every aspect
        of consciousness that were normally not  of life down to the smallest details until the
        accessible to us. They do not yet know how  highest and lowest become one.
        to make sense of their experiences and yet
        these experiences are multiplying.

        A new thought is stirring the mind of man,
        a thought that is freed from the tyranny
        of material paradigms. A new feeling is
        stirring the human heart, a feeling that is
        stretching beyond the confines of family and
        clan and is reaching out to all creatures. It
        is not confined to humans alone but even
        to birds and animals, and earth and rivers
        and even to ghosts and aliens! A new will  What it means is that in the days to come there
        is stirring the human will, a will to dare the  will be more and more children and sections
        impossible, a faith in things that are not and  of humanity that will breathe spirituality
        yet can be and must be. It seems that within  from its very birth. Their consciousness will
        the human body a sub-species is arising  be different and effortlessly they would
        with quite a qualitatively different content  have access to an inner intuition of truth
        of consciousness. It rejects nothing but seeks  just as animals have it with their instincts.
        to transmute everything into something that  They will follow an entirely new standard
        is more beautiful, perfect, divine.      of life and action and will be endowed
                                                 with a new and universal feeling, a larger
        These are the early forerunners. They may  sentiment, a wider thought,  a  clearer
        seem awkward and perhaps even strange  intuition of divinity in things, bypassing
        when seen through the lens of humanity. Yet  the religious sense which has  already
        these seemingly ‘strange and maladroit’  outlived its purpose. We can stop with
        human beings may be actually breaking  these first hints and glimpses of possibilities
        through certain human limits and barriers  and wait for the last Act in the great epic
        that nature had built around us for staying  of creation, in the drama of the world to be
        within the limits of our humanity. It is  enacted. The actors are being trained behind
        precisely these barriers that yoga was  the scenes, the stage and the costumes are
        meant to break and set man free from the  being prepared and the story line is ready.
        limits in which nature had tied him down as  It is just a question of time when we will


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