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So far I have referred only to the education to be given to children; for a good many bodily
defects can be rectified and many malformations avoided by an enlightened physical
education given at the proper time. But if for any reason this physical education has not
been given during childhood or even in youth, it can begin at any age and be pursued
throughout life. But the later one begins, the more one must be prepared to meet bad habits
that have to be corrected, rigidities to be made supple, malformations to be rectified. And
this preparatory work will require much patience and perseverance before one can start
on a constructive programme for the harmonisation of the form and its movements. But if
you keep alive within you the ideal of beauty that is to be realised, sooner or later you are
sure to reach the goal you have set yourself.

The Mother. The Collected Works of the Mother, Volume 12. Pondicherry. Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Trust; 2002, pp. 12-17.

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