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all challenges of life are at bottom evolutionary challenges and whether we rise up to
the challenge or fall back to the same old ways depends upon the choices we make. We
may choose the same old familiar methods, in which case we do not pass through the
tunnel to the other side but return to where we began because the darkness was too
intimidating. But instead, if we take on the challenge that life poses and press always
towards the future, a future born out of man’s creative impulse then we evolve. For this
man was born, to find new ways, to discover new possibilities, to break into and conquer
new grounds, in one word, to evolve the godhead struggling in his breast in terms of his
material existence.

Let a new cycle begin with the coming year and may we take a leap towards the future.

* The Mother, The Collected Works of the Mother, Volume 15. Cent ed. Pondicherry:
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, 1980. p. 182.

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