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Namah Towards a Spiritualised Society

and standing at different degrees and scales truth, that by this very realisation they can be
of human layers, formed so far through the above these consequences and secure against
evolutionary forces that operate through them, enjoy the protection bestowed by the
nature. All of this cannot be undertaken at Light and Truth, by Purity — the divine Purity
the Ashram because of the sheer limitations through the inner transformation — and that
of physical space so the Mother extended the storm may pass over the world without
Herself everywhere, connecting and linking being able to destroy thisgreat hope of the near
all who so aspired as points of golden light future; that the tempest may not sweep away
woven together through golden threads and this beginning of realisation.
joined through her heart and the golden ties
of the New Consciousness. A larger group Instead of falling asleep in an easy quietude
life started preparing itself soon after the and lettingthings happen according to their
supramental manifestation as revealed own rhythm, if one strains to the utmost one’s
through her conversations soon after. will, ardour, aspiration and springs up into the
light, then one can hold one’s head higher; one
“This is the condition of the earth, and it is not can have, in a higher region of consciousness,
very bright. But for us one possibility remains enough room to live, to breathe, to grow and
— I have spoken about it to you several develop above the passing cyclone.
times already — even if, outside, things are
deteriorating completely and the catastrophe This is possible. In a very small way, this was
cannot possibly be avoided, there remains for already done during the last war, when Sri
us, I mean those for whom the supramental Aurobindo was here. It can be done again.
life is not a vain dream, those who have faith But one must want it and each one must do
in its reality and the aspiration to realise it — his own work as sincerely and completely
I don’t necessarily mean those who have as he can (2).”
gathered here in Pondicherry, in the Ashram,
but those who have as a link between them She reminds us that true unity is not
the knowledge Sri Aurobindo has given and dependent upon geographical space or on
the will to live according to that knowledge the language we speak and dress we wear
— there remains for them the possibility of or customs we follow. These are but outer
intensifying their aspiration, their will, their things. They may give us a semblance of unity
effort, to gather their energies together and like the orange that appears as one piece but
shorten the time for the realisation. There is divided inside. True unity is like the musk-
remains for them the possibility of working melon that looks like different pieces, joined
this miracle — individually and to a small together to create the fruit, but is in fact a
extent collectively — of conquering space, single whole within. This unity can only be
duration, the time needed for this realisation; created by a joining-off of inner efforts, a
of replacing time by intensity of effort and going unity built through a common aspiration,
fast enough and far enough in the realisation to spreading naturally from within outwards. It
liberate themselves from the consequences of is at first a unity of souls that come together in
the present condition of the world; of making a common aspiration. The outer unity should
such a concentration of force, strength, light, be a natural consequence and not vice versa.

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