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Namah Towards a Spiritualised Society

receives from the group, then the whole would is pulled forward even if by an inch. This is
rise up into a higher consciousness far ahead of how the collective yoga operates in an unseen
where it was before….. There is no other reason yet tangible manner. Thus each takes or rather
for this kind of apparent fall which, in fact, is assumes his full responsibility for the whole
not one. It is the spiral movement of progress whereas the whole helps each to grow and
which makes it necessary to move away from a progress by creating a matrix in which those
certain realisation in order to make it not only with a new consciousness can breathe and
vaster but also higher. If everyone collaborates grow.
consciously and with goodwill, it will go much
faster. A collective life therefore has started forming.
It grows as the number of individuals are
It was an imperative necessity if one wanted organically brought in. Each brings his or
this Ashram life to be viable. Everything that her own challenges, difficulties, problems
does not progress necessarily declines and but also new and unique possibilities. Each
perishes, and for the Ashram to last it had to becomes a part of the whole and carries
make progress in its consciousness and become within himself the whole. But this matrix that
a living entity. There. We are rather far away has formed right beside the old world matrix
in the spiral from the line of realisation we had is not cut off from the old. It receives the
some years ago, but we shall come back to it on impacts of the old world and sends healing
a higher level (3).” and harmonising signals out of itself into the
old. Thus slowly, through percolation and
permeation, the whole earth draws together
into a single plan.

What that plan is, what are the details of this
new life have also been elaborately described
by Sri Aurobindo with which we can close
for the moment.

“A spiritualised society would live like its spiritual
individuals, not in the ego, but in the spirit, not as
the collective ego, but as the collective soul. This
freedom from the egoistic standpoint would
Blueprint for the future be its first and most prominent characteristic.
But the elimination of egoism would not be
What remains now is for us to move as a brought about, as it is now proposed to bring it
collective body remembering that each of about, by persuading or forcing the individual
us is like a unit in the great unity, or like a to immolate his personal will and aspirations
cell within the larger body having an impact and his precious and hard-won individuality
upon each other. If one of us falls back, the to the collective will, aims and egoism of the
whole body suffers its advance. On the other society, driving him like a victim of ancient
hand, if one of us progresses then the whole sacrifice to slay his soul on the altar of that huge

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