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.Sadhana and the work were waiting for the Mother's coming.

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Sri Aurobindo's work is a unique earth-transformation.

My work is... to bring down a higher spiritual light and power of a higher character which will make a radical change in the earth-consciousness.

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.. .anyone who wants to change earth-nature must first accept it in order to change it. To quote from an unpublished poem of my own:

He who would bring the heavens here, Must descend himself into clay And the burden of earthly nature bear And tread the dolorous way.

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The work consists in helping humanity as a whole to prepare itself for the new creation, that is to say, the supramental race.

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...the Mother, after a long stay in France and Japan, returned to Pondicherry on the 24th April, 1920.

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About 24 April 1920

The anniversary of my return to Pondicherry, which was the tangible sign of the sure Victory over the adverse forces.

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...when I came from Japan: I was on the boat, at sea, not expecting anything (I was of course busy with the inner life, but I was living physically on the boat), when all of a sudden, abruptly, about two nautical miles from Pondicherry, the quality, I may even say the physical quality of the atmosphere, of the air, changed so much that I knew we were entering the aura of Sri Aurobindo. It was a physical experience....

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I am seeking to bring some principle of inner Truth, Light, Harmony, Peace into the earth-consciousness;... I believe the descent of this Truth opening the way to a development of divine consciousness here to be the final sense of the earth evolution.

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It is only divine Love which can bear the burden I have to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth out of its darkness towards the Divine.

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I have borne every attack which human beings have borne, otherwise I would be unable to assure anybody "This too can be conquered".

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.. .my Sadhana was not done for myself but for the earth-consciousness as a showing of the way towards the Light, so that whatever I showed in it to be possible — inner growth, transformation, manifesting of new faculties, etc. — was not of no importance to anybody, but meant as an opening of lines and ways for what had to be done.

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When I concentrate, I work upon others, upon the world, upon the play of forces.

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For myself, the dark conditions do not discourage me or convince me of the vanity of my will to "help the world", for I knew they had to come; they were there in the world-nature and had to rise up so that they might be exhausted or expelled and a better world freed from them might be there.

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The nature of man and of things is at present a discord, a harmony that has got out of tune. The whole heart and action and mind of man must be changed... by realisation of God in ourselves and the world and a remoulding of life by that realisation. This can only be effected by Purnayoga...

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The yoga we practise is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity.

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The call upon us is to grow into the image of God, to dwell in him and with him and be a channel of his joy and might and an instrument of his works. Purified from all that is asubha, transfigured in soul by his touch, we have to act in the world as dynamos of that divine electricity and send it thrilling and radiating through mankind, so that wherever one of us stands, hundreds around may become full of his light and force, full of God and full of Ananda.

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A divine life upon earth, the ideal we have placed before us, can only come about by a spiritual change of our being and a radical and fundamental change, an evolution or revolution of our nature.

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O my Lord, my sweet Master, for the accomplishment of Thy work I have sunk down into the unfathomable depths of Matter, I have touched with my finger the horror of the falsehood and the inconscience, I have reached the seat of oblivion and a supreme obscurity. But in my heart was the Remembrance, from my heart there leaped the call which could arrive to Thee... "Lord, give the command to conquer and victory will be there."

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The Divine is already there immanent within us, ourselves are that in our inmost reality and it is this reality that we have to manifest; it is that which constitutes the urge towards the divine living and makes necessary the creation of the life divine even in this material existence.

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I know with absolute certitude that the supramental is a truth and that its advent is in the very nature of things inevitable.

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If I am seeking after supramentalisation, it is because it is a thing that has to be done for the earth-consciousness and if it is not done in myself, it cannot be done in others.

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If we had lived physically in the Supermind from the beginning nobody could have been able to approach us nor could any Sadhana have been done. There could have been no hope of contact between ourselves and the earth and men.... The Divine has to veil himself in order to meet the human.

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The descent of the supramental means only that the Power will be there in the earth-consciousness as a living force just as the thinking mental and higher mental are already there.

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The Mother was an adept in the Buddhist yoga and the yoga of the Gita even before she came to India. Her yoga was moving towards a grand synthesis. After this, it was natural that she should come here. She has helped and is helping to give a concrete form to my yoga. This would not have been possible without her co-operation.

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What is known as Sri Aurobindo's Yoga is the joint creation of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother...

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There is no difference between the Mother's path and mine;... the path that leads to the supramental change and the divine realisation; not only at the end, but from the beginning they have been the same.

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... we are living in an exceptional time at an exceptional turning point of the world's history.

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...we are, more or less consciously, waiting for a new reign of justice, of beauty, of harmonious good-will and fraternity.

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Only a new spiritual influx, creating in man a new consciousness, can overcome the enormous mass of difficulties barring the way....

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The new race shall be governed by intuition, that is to say, direct perception of the divine law within.

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.. .the way to supermanhood lies in the unfolding of the ever-perfect Spirit. All would change, all would become easy if man could once consent to be spiritualised.

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This is Sri Aurobindo's teaching and method of practice....

The one aim of his Yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinise human nature.

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