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Namah Towards a Spiritualised Society

do not really indicate the future that is luminous beings brought to earth to limitless
going to unfold because while the present horizons of possibility is Sri Aurobindo. He
is the result of his past energies released has planted a new aspiration in the human
through thoughts and feelings and actions, race and, through his luminous words and
the future is not necessarily the extension his own example, shown the way forward for
and prolongation of the present. That may the human individual and the human society.
be so if the person is driven by habit alone.
Thus, a society that may look like a dream- This new life is spreading fast as a growing
world today when seen by outer eyes and aspiration, a faith and a will to be in the
assessed on external parameters may well be spearheads of humanity. They are everywhere,
preparing its decline in times to come because in all countries so to speak. They are the true
its dreams are limited to amassing wealth spearheads of a silent social revolution that is
and outer comforts, increasing the means for taking place behind the surfaces of mankind,
pleasures of the body, often at the expense of like the chick is quietly being formed within
the inner life. Such a society is asuric and like the egg even though nothing seems visible
ancient golden Lanka and Atlantis preparing on the surface. Or like the tree silently taking
for its doom. On the other hand a society, roots in the soil below the visible surface. The
even in a subject nation, with noble and high farmer knows what is happening since it is he
aspirations is destined to throw away the who has prepared the soil, planted the tree or
shackles of bondage and rise like the phoenix sown the seed, watered it with all the care that
bird. is needed, provided it the right climate and the
space to grow. The ordinary man looking from
But there is in man a secret something, an the outside may not know it, but the chick is
inmost soul so to say, that declares itself growing its wings within the shell, ready to
through conscious aspiration and faith in fly. This ground where the seeds were sown
things that are not and yet can be. In every and the branch of heaven transplanted to
society, there are some forerunners who human soil is what we know today as the Sri
harbour this aspiration and, regardless of the Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. The dream of
degree of their success, they leave a stamp a New World was planted here as we find in
of their thought, open a door of possibility the following words of the Mother:
through the effort of their will, knead and
heave the mass by the power of their heart, “There should be somewhere on earth a place
as a living dynamo, sending tremendous which no nation could claim as its own, where
currents through the human race, and most all human beings of goodwill who have a sincere
of all, become living examples for the race. aspiration could live freely as citizens of the
Such were the great and luminous ones, the world and obey one single authority, that of
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Vedic seers, Srı Rama, Srı Krsna, the countless the supreme truth; a place of peace, concord
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saints and sages of the Middle Ages, the and harmony where all the fighting instincts
mighty Buddha and Shankara, and in our of man would be used exclusively to conquer
more recent times Sri Ramakrishna and the causes of his sufferings and miseries, to
Swami Vivekananda. Summing them up all surmount this weaknesses and ignorance, to
as well as extending the limits of what these triumph over his limitations and incapacities;
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