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perfect; we are the self-multiplications of that conscious delight, thrown out into being to
be His playmates. The world is a formula, a rhythm, a symbol-system expressing God to
Himself in His own consciousness, — it has no material existence but exists only in His
consciousness and self-expression; we, like God, are in our inward being That which is
expressed, but in our outward being terms of that formula, notes of that rhythm, symbols
of that system. Let us lead forward God’s movement, play out His play, work out His
formula, execute His harmony, express Him through ourselves in His system. This is our
joy and our self-fulfilment; to this end we who transcend & exceed the universe, have
entered into universe-existence.

Perfection has to be worked out, harmony has to be accomplished. Imperfection, limitation,
death, grief, ignorance, matter, are only the first terms of the formula — unintelligible till
we have worked out the wider terms and reinterpreted the formulary; they are the initial
discords of the musician’s tuning. Out of imperfection we have to construct perfection, out
of limitation to discover infinity, out of death to find immortality, out of grief to recover
divine bliss, out of ignorance to rescue divine self-knowledge, out of matter to reveal Spirit.
To work out this end for ourselves and for humanity is the object of our Yogic practice.

— Sri Aurobindo*

*Sri Aurobindo. The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo, Volume 12. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Trust; 1997, pp. 96-97.

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