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Namah Man and beyond Man

their heart extends further than the limits of radical change, not merely an ethical life or
their own person and family, that their thought saintliness, least of all a multiplication
embraces more than small personal interests of ‘holy men’. It will be a diviner living
and local conventions, all those, in short, who and not an other-worldly saint, who lives
realise that they belong not to themselves, or to his life in seclusion and withdrawal from
their family, or even to their country, but to God the material world and worldly life. The
who manifests Himself in all countries, through Mother reveals:
mankind, these, indeed, know that they must “At present, man governs his life through
rise and set to work for the sake of humanity, reason; all the activities of the mind are of
for the advent of the Dawn (1).” common use for him; his means of knowledge
are observation and deduction; it is by and
through reasoning that he takes his decision and
chooses his way — or believes he does — in life.

The new race shall be governed by intuition,
that is to say, direct perception of the divine
law within. Some human beings actually know
and experience intuition — as, undoubtedly,
certain big gorillas of the forest have glimpses
of reasoning.

In mankind, the very few who have cultivated
their inner self, who have concentrated their
energies on the discovery of the true law of
their being, possess more or less the faculty of
intuition. When the mind is perfectly silent,
The New Race pure like a well-polished mirror, immobile as
a pond on a breezeless day, then, from above,
The new life which is emerging out of as the light of the stars drops in the motionless
the mentalised life of man is not just an waters, so the light of the supermind, of the
improvement upon the old. Nor is it simply Truth within, shines in the quieted mind
a vague sense of spirituality, a philosophical and gives birth to intuition. Those who are
understanding or a religious aspiration, not accustomed to listen to this voice out of the
even occasional spiritual glimpses. These Silence, take it more and more as the instigating
things are at best preparations for an emerging motive of their actions; and where others, the
spiritual life. What truly defines spiritual average men, wander along the intricate paths
evolution is a change of consciousness, a shift of reasoning, they go straight their way, guided
of the centre of action. It is not just a new through the windings of life by intuition, this
conception but a new understanding and superior instinct, as by a strong and unfailing
vision, a new way of life, a new way of feeling hand.
and willing, a new way of action whose basis
is no more in the ego or its desires. It is a This faculty which is exceptional, almost

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