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<span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><font size="4">Nature's Own Yoga</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></h4>

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<span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'><o:p><font size="4">&nbsp;</font></o:p></span></p>

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EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'><font size="4">I</font><o:p></o:p></span></h2>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>SRI Aurobindo's Yoga is in the direct
line of Nature's own Yoga. Nature has a Yoga, which she follows unfailingly,
and inevitably – for it is her innermost law of being. Yoga means, </span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>in essence, a
change or transformation of consciousness, a heightening and broadening of
consciousness, which is effected by communion or union or identification with a
higher and vaster consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>This process of a developing
consciousness in Nature is precisely what is known as Evolution. It is the
bringing out and fixing of a higher and higher principle of consciousness,
hitherto involved and concealed behind the veil, in the earth consciousness as
a dynamic factor in Nature's manifest working. Thus, the first stage of
evolution is the status of <span class=SpellE>inconscient</span> Matter, of the
lifeless physical elements; the second stage is that of the semi-conscious life
in the plant, the third that of the conscious life in the animal, and finally
the fourth stage, where we stand at present, is that of the embodied self-con­scious
life in man.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>The course of evolution has not
come to a stop with man and the next stage, Sri Aurobindo says, which Nature
envis­ages and is labouring to bring out and establish is the life </span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>now <span
class=SpellE>superconscious</span> to us, embodied in a still higher type of
created being, that of the superman or god-man. The principle of consciousness
which will determine the nature and build of this new, being is a spiritual
principle beyond the mental principle which man now incarnates: it may be
called the Supermind or Gnosis. For, till now Mind has been the last term of the
evolutionary</span><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>consciousness</span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:
line'> – Mind as developed in man is the highest instrument built up and
organised by Nature through which the self-conscious being can express itself.
That is why the Buddha said: Mind is the first of all principles, Mind is the
hi hest of all principles: indeed Mind is the constituent of all principles-<span
class=SpellE>mana</span> <span class=SpellE><i>puvvangama</i></span><i>
dhamma.¹ </i>The consciousness beyond mind has not yet been made a patent and
dynamic element in the life upon earth; it has been glimpsed or entered into in
varying degrees and modes by saints and seers; it has cast its derivative
illuminations in the creative activities of poets and artists, in the finer and
nobler urges of heroes and great men of action. But the utmost that has been
achieved, the summit reached in that direction, as exampled in spiritual
disciplines, involves a withdrawal from the evolutionary cycle, a merging and
an absorption into the static status that is altogether beyond it, that lies,
as it were, at the other ex­treme – the Spirit in itself, Atman, Brahman,
Sachchidananda, Nirvana, the One without a second, the Zero without a first.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>The first contact that one has
with this static supra-reality is through the higher ranges of the mind: a
direct and closer communion is established through a plane which .is just above
the mind – the Overmind, as Sri Aurobindo calls it. The Overmind dissolves or
transcends the ego-consciousness which limits the being to its individualised
formation bounded by an outward and narrow frame or sheath of mind, life and
body; it reveals the universal Self and Spirit, the cosmic godhead and its
myriad forces throwing up myriad forms; the world-existence there appears as a
play of ever-shifting veils upon the face of one ineffable reality, as a
mysterious cycle of perpetual creation and destruction – it is the overwhelming
vision given by Sri Krishna to Arjuna in the Gita. At the same time, the
initial and most intense experience which this cosmic consciousness brings is
the extreme relativity, contingency and <span class=SpellE>transitoriness</span>
of the whole <span class=GramE>flux,</span> and a necessity seems logically and
psychologically imperative to escape into the abiding substratum, the ineffable
Absoluteness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>This has been the highest
consummation, the supreme goal which the purest spiritual experience and the
deepest as­piration of the human consciousness generally sought to attain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;
layout-grid-mode:line'><font size="2">¹ The <span class=SpellE><i>Dhammapada</i></span><i>, </i><st1:place><span
 lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>I.</span></st1:place></font><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'><font size="2"> 1</font><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>But in this view, the world or creation or Nature
came in the end to be looked upon as fundamentally a product of Ignorance:
ignorance and suffering and incapacity and death were declared to be the very
hallmark of things terrestrial. The Light that dwells above and beyond can be
made to shed for a while some kind of lustre upon the mortal darkness but never
altogether to remove or change it – to live in the full light, to be in and of
the Light means to pass beyond. Not that there have not been other strands and
types of spiritual experiences and aspirations, but the one we are considering
has always struck the major chord and dominated and drowned all the rest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>But the initial illusory
consciousness of the Overmind need not at all lead to the static Brahmic
consciousness or Sunyam alone. As a matter of fact, there is in this particular
processus of consciousness a hiatus between the two, between Maya and Brahman,
as though one has to leap from the one into the other <i>somehow. </i>This
hiatus is filled up in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga by the principle of Supermind, not
synthetic-analytic¹ in knowledge like Overmind and the highest mental
intelligence, but inescapably <span class=GramE>unitarian</span> even in the
utmost diversity. Supermind is the Truth-consciousness at once static and
dynamic, self-existent and creative: in Supermind the Brahmic consciousness –
Sachchidananda – is ever self-aware and ever manifested and embodied in
fundamental truth-powers and truth-forms for the play of creation; it is the
plane where the One breaks out into the Many and the Many still remain one,
being and knowing themselves to be but various self-expressions of the One; it
develops the spiritual archetypes, the divine names and forms of all
individualisations of an evolving existence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>The Upanishads speak of a solar
and a lunar Path in the spiritual consciousness. Perhaps they have some reference
to these two lines-one through the Mayic consciousness of the Overmind enters
into the static Bliss, ecstatic Nihil, and the<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:
7.9pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;
layout-grid-mode:line'><font size="2">¹ The <span class=SpellE>Supennind</span> is not merely
synthetic. &quot;The Supermind is synthetic only on the lowest spaces of
itself, where it has to prepare the principles of Overmind, – synthesis is
necessary only where analysis has taken place, <span class=GramE>one</span> has
dissected everything, put in pieces (analysis), so one has to piece together.
But Supermind is <span class=GramE>unitarian</span>, has never divided up, so
it does not need to add and piece together the parts and fragments. It has
always held the conscious <span class=GramE>Many</span> together in the
conscious One.&quot;</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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style='font-size:9.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>SRI
AUROBINDO</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>other</span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:
line'> mounts still farther to the solar status which is a mass, a sea, an
infinity of that light and ecstasy but which can at the same time express and
embody itself as the creative Truth-­consciousness <i>(<span class=SpellE>surya</span>
<span class=SpellE>savitri</span>).<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>In the Supermind things exist in
their perfect spiritual reality; each is consciously the divine reality in its
transcendent essence, its cosmic extension, its, spiritual individuality; the
diversity of a manifested existence is there, but the mutually exclusive <span
class=SpellE>separativeness</span> has not yet arisen. The ego, the knot of <span
class=SpellE>separativity</span>, appears at a later and lower stage of involu­tion;
what is here is indivisible nexus of in <span class=SpellE>dividualising</span>
centres of the one eternal truth of being. Where Supermind and Overmind meet,
one can see the multiple godheads, each distinct in his own truth and beauty
and power and yet all together forming the one supreme consciousness infinitely
composite and inalienably integral. But stepping back into Supermind one sees
something more – Oneness gathering into itself all diversity, not destroying
it, but annulling and forbid­ding the <span class=SpellE>separative</span>
consciousness that is the beginning of Ignorance. The first shadow of the
Illusory Consciousness, the initial possibility of the movement of Ignorance
comes in when the supramental light enters the penumbra of the mental sphere.
The movement of Supermind is the movement of light without obscurity, straight,
unwavering, unswerving, absolute. The Force here contains and holds in their
oneness of Reality the manifold but not separated lines of essential and
unalloyed truth: its march is the inevitable progression of each one assured
truth entering into and upholding every other and therefore its creation, play
or action admits of no trial or stumble or groping or deviation; for each truth
rests on all others and on that which harmonises them all and does not act as a
Power diverging from and even competing with other Powers of being. In the
Overmind commences the play of divergent possibilities – the simple, direct,
united and absolute certainties of the supramental consciousness retire, as it
were, a step behind and begin to work themselves out through the interaction
first of separately individualised and then of contrary and contradictory
forces. In the Overmind there is a conscious underlying Unity but yet each
Power, Truth, Aspect of that Unity is encouraged to work out its</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>possibilities</span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:
line'> as if it were sufficient to itself and the others are used by it for its
own enhancement until in the denser and darker reaches below Overmind this
turns out a thing of blind conflict and battle and, as it would appear, of
chance survival. Creation or manifestation originally means the con­cretisation
or devolution of the powers of Conscious Being into a play of united diversity;
but on the line which ends in Matter it enters into more and more obscure forms
and forces and finally the virtual eclipse of the supreme light of the Divine
Consciousness. Creation as it descends' towards the Ignorance becomes an
involution of the Spirit through Mind and Life into Matter; evolution is a
movement back­ward, a return journey from Matter towards the Spirit: it is the
unravelling, the gradual disclosure and deliverance of the Spirit, the
ascension and revelation of the involved conscious­ness through a series of
awakenings – Matter awakening into Life, Life awakening into Mind and Mind now
seeking to awaken into something beyond the Mind, into a power of conscious
Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>The apparent or actual result of
the movement of <span class=SpellE>Nescience</span> – of Involution – has been
an increasing negation of the Spirit, but its hidden purpose is ultimately to
embody the Spirit in Matter, to express here below in cosmic Time-Space the
splendours of the timeless Reality. The material body came into existence
bringing with it inevitably, as it seemed, mortality; it appeared even to be
fashioned out of mortality, in order that in this very frame and field of
mortality, Im­mortality, the eternal Spirit Consciousness which is the secret
truth and reality in Time itself as well as behind it, might be established and
that the Divine might be possessed, or rather, possess itself not in one unvarying
mode of the static conscious­ness, as it does even now behind the cosmic play,
but in the play itself and in the multiple mode of the terrestrial existence.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>The secret of evolution, I have
said, is an urge towards the release and <span class=SpellE>unfoldment</span>
of consciousness out of an apparent unconsciousness. In the early stages the
movement is very<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;
mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>slow</span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:
line'> and gradual; there it is Nature's original unconscious process. In man
it acquires the possibility of a conscious and therefore swifter and concentrated
process. And this is in fact the function of Yoga proper, <span class=SpellE>viz</span>,
to bring about the evolution of consciousness by hastening the process of
Nature through the self-conscious will of man.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>An organ in the human being has
been especially developed to become the effective instrument of this
accelerated Yogic process – the self-consciousness which I referred to as being
the distinctive characteristic of man is a function of this organ. It is his
soul, his &quot;psychic being&quot;; originally it is the spark of the Divine
Consciousness which came down and became involved in Matter and has been
endeavouring ever since to release itself through the upward march of
evolution. It is this which presses on continually as the stimulus to the evolu­tionary
movement; and in man it has attained sufficient growth and power and has come
so far to the front from behind the veil that it can now lead and mould his
external consciousness. It is also the channel through which the Divine
Consciousness can flow down into the inferior levels of human nature. It is the
&quot;being no bigger than the thumb ever seated within the heart&quot;, spoken
of in the Upanishads. It is likewise the basis of true individuality and
personal identity. It is again the reflection or expression in evolutionary
Nature of one's essential <i>se1f – <span class=SpellE>jivatman</span> – that </i>is
above, an eternal portion of the <span class=GramE>Divine</span>, one with the
Divine and yet not dissolved and lost in it. The psychic being is thus on the
one hand in direct contact with the Divine and the higher consciousness, and on
the other it is the secret upholder and controller' <i>(<span class=SpellE>bharta</span>,
<span class=SpellE>antaryamin</span>) </i>of the inferior consciousness, the
hidden nucleus round which the body and the life and the mind of the indi­vidual
are built up and organised.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>The first decisive step in Yoga
is taken when one becomes conscious of the psychic being, or, looked at from
the other side, when the psychic being comes forward and takes posses­sion of
the external being, begins to initiate and influence the movements of the mind
and life and body and gradually free them from the ordinary round of ignorant
nature. The awaken­ing of the psychic being means, as I have said, not only a
deepening and heightening of the consciousness and its release</span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>from</span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:
line'> the obscurity and limitation of the inferior <span class=SpellE>Prakriti</span>,
confined to the lower threefold status, into what is behind and beyond; it
means also a return of the deeper and higher consciousness upon the lower
hemisphere and a consequent purification and illumination and regeneration of
the latter. Finally, when the psychic being is in full self-possession and
power, it can be the vehicle of the direct supramental con­sciousness – which
will then be able to act freely and absolutely for the entire transformation of
the external nature, its trans­figuration into a perfect body of the
Truth-consciousness – in a word, its divinisation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>This then is the supreme secret,
not the renunciation and annulment, but the transformation of the ordinary
human <span class=GramE>nature :</span>– first of all, its <span class=SpellE><i>psychicisation</i></span><i>,
</i>that is to say, making it move and live and be in communion and
identification with the light of the psychic being, and, secondly, through the
soul and the <span class=SpellE>ensouled</span> mind and life and body, to open
out into the supramental consciousness and let it come down here below and work
and achieve.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>The soul or the true being in
man uplifted in the supramental consciousness and at the same time coming
forward to possess a divinised mind and life and body as an instrument and
channel of its self-expression and an embodiment of the Divine Will and Purpose
– such is the goal that Nature is seeking to realise at present through her
evolutionary <i>élan. </i>It is to this labour that man has been called so that
in and through him the destined transcendence and transformation can take
place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>It is not easy, however, nor is
it necessary for the moment to envisage in detail what this divinised man would
be like, externally – his mode of outward being and living, <span class=SpellE><span
class=GramE><i>kim</i></span><i> asita vrajeta kim, </i>as Arjuna queried – or how the collective life of the new
humanity would function or what would be the com­position of its social fabric.
For what is happening is a living process, an organic growth; it is being
elaborated through the actions and reactions of multitudinous forces and
conditions, known and unknown; the precise configuration of the final outcome
cannot be predicted with exactitude. But the Power that is at work is
omniscient; it is selecting, rejecting, correct­ing, fashioning, creating,
co-ordinating elements in accordance</span></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;
mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>with</span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:
line'> and by the drive of the inviolable law of Truth and Harmony that reigns
in Light's &quot;own home&quot; <i>– <span class=SpellE>swe</span> dame – the </i>Supermind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>It is also to be noted that as
mind is not the last limit of the march of evolution, even so the progress of evolution
will not stop with the manifestation and embodiment of the Supermind. There are
other still higher principles beyond and they too presumably await
manifestation and embodi­ment on earth. Creation has no beginning in time <i>(<span
class=SpellE>anadi</span>) </i>nor has it an end <i>(<span class=SpellE>ananta</span>).
</i>It is an eternal process of the <span class=SpellE>unraveling</span> of the
mysteries of the Infinite. Only, it may be said that with the Supermind the
creation here enters into a different order of existence. Before it there was
the domain of Ignorance, ­after it will come the reign of Light and Knowledge.
Mortality has been the governing principle of life on earth till now; it will
be replaced by the consciousness of immortality. Evolution has proceeded
through struggle and pain; hereafter it will be a spontaneous, harmonious and
happy flowering.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>Now, with regard to the time
that the present stage of evolution is likely to take for its fulfilment, one
can presume that since or if the specific urge and stress has manifested and
come up to the front, this very fact would show that the problem has become a
problem of actuality, and even that it can be dealt with as if it had to be
solved now or never. We have said that in man, with man's self-consciousness or
the consciousness of the psychic being as the instrument, evolution has
attained the capacity of a swift and concentrated process, which is the process
of Yoga; the process will become swifter and more concentrated, the more that
instrument grows and gathers power and is infused with the divine afflatus. In
fact, evolution has been such a process of gradual acceleration in tempo from
the very beginning. The earliest stage, for ex­ample, the stage of dead Matter,
of the play of the mere chemical forces was a very, very long one; it took
millions and millions of years to come to the point when the manifesta­tion of
life became possible. But the period of elementary life, as manifested in the
plant world that followed, although it too lasted a good many millions of
years, was much briefer than the preceding period – it ended with the advent of
the first animal form. The age of animal life, again, has been very</span></p>

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	<span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'>much</span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'> shorter
than that of the plant life before man came upon earth. </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
  lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:
  line'>And.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line'> man is
already more than a million or two years old-it is fully time that a higher
order of being should be created out of him.</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;
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