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		<font face="Times New Roman"><i>Sri Aurobindo</i></font></b><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0" align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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<font face="Times New Roman">From a certain standpoint Sri Aurobindo's message is very
simple, almost self-evident. The sum and substance of all he
says is that man is growing and has to grow in consciousness
till he reaches the complete and perfect consciousness, not only
in his individual but in his collective, that is to say, social life.
In fact, the growth of consciousness is the supreme secret of&nbsp;
life, the master key to earthly evolution.&nbsp;</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sri Aurobindo believes in evolution. Creation, according to
him, has, a purpose and man moves to a goal. That is nothing
else than the unfolding of consciousness. Originally all was
Matter, only dead Matter. At a certain stage out of Matter
came Life: what was or appeared to be dead became alive.
Thus the plant world was born—the first primeval stirring of
consciousness, a consciousness vague, blind, practically unconscious, yet moved by a newly acquired or awakened
pulsation. There was again a period of gestation and incubation
bringing out at the end a rudimentary Mind, a first conscious
consciousness: so the animal was born. Consciousness is clearer
and freer here, emerging into formulation: it is now instinct
or sensibility and in its higher grades infused with a streak of
spontaneous thinking. Sensuous mentality gave birth to Mind
proper, that is thought, reflection and man appeared. A fully
awakened consciousness, consciousness that can turn round upon itself is the 
characteristic marking out human consciousness. </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Such then are the stages in the progression of consciousness;&nbsp; they are clearly observable and admitted practically on all
hands. Only Sri Aurobindo points out two crucial characters </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">of this movement. First: Matter, Life, Mind-Intelligence—these
are not distinct or separate entities, one coming after another,
the succeeding one simply adding itself to the preceding,
coming we do now know from where. Not so, for something
cannot come out of nothing. If life came out of Matter, it is
because life was there hidden in Matter Matter was secretly
housing, was instinct with life. That only can evolve which
was involved. So, again, if Mind came out of life, it is because<br>
Mind was involved in life and therefore also in Matter although
at a farther remove. Yet again, vital mind developed into
Intelligence and consciousness proper, and it could be only
because that too was its secret nature and hence the secret
nature of Life and even brute Matter. Thus the whole chain of
gradation is linked together indissolubly and the binding reality
that runs through all is consciousness, overt or covert. It is
indeed consciousness that lies at the root of existence—the<br>
basic substance, Matter is nothing but consciousness become
unconscious; and the whole scheme or processus of the cosmos is
the increasing manifestation and expression of that conscious- .
ness. Secondly, the other character is that at each cross-over,
there is not only a rise in consciousness but also a reversal of<br>
consciousness, that is to say, the level attained turns back upon
the preceding levels, influencing and moulding them as far as
possible in its own mode and law of existence. When life
appeared in Matter, wherever there was material life, the
matter thus taken up by life behaved differently from dead
matter: an organic body does not not follow the strict mechanical laws of inanimate bodies. Likewise a life endowed with
mind has a different functioning than mere life. And a body<br>
which houses a life and mind, which has, as it were, flowered
into life and mind moves and acts in another way than an inert
body or even a vitalised body. Man's intelligence and reason
have reoriented or tend to reorient his vital instincts and
reactions, even his bodily functions and forms. A conscious
regulation, even refashioning of his life and body is the very
essence of human consciousness, the urge of his nature, instead
of a spontaneous <i>laissez-faire</i> movement of pure vitality or the
mechanical go-round of the material base. These three major
provinces or layers of consciousness—Matter, Life and Mind
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<font face="Times New Roman">—his Intelligence—has studied and classified them
arranging them serially as the well-known sciences of Physics,
Biology and Psychology.&nbsp;</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Now, Sri Aurobindo says, evolution marches onward and
will rise beyond mind to another status of consciousness which
he calls Supermind. In the earthly scheme there will thus
manifest a new type, a higher functioning of consciousness and a new race or 
species will appear on earth with this new consciousness as the ruling principle. Out of the rock and mineral
came the plant, out of the plant the animal, out of the mere
animal man has come and out of man the Superman will come
inevitably.&nbsp; </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Standing on the mental plane, immured within the dimensions of Reason and mental intelligence, it is not easy to
contemplate the type of consciousness that will be; even as it
was difficult for the ape to envisage the advent of his successor,
man. But certain characteristic signs, rudimentary or fragmentary movements of the higher status are visible in the
mental consciousness even as it is: the ape likewise was not
without a glimmer of Reason and logic, even the faculty of
ratiocination that seems to be the exclusive property of man. There is, for 
example, a movement we call Intuition, so different from Reason to which even Scientists and Mathematicians acknowledge their debt of gratitude for so many of their
discoveries and inventions. There is also the other analogous
movement called Inspiration that rules the poet and the artist
disclosing to them a world of beauty and reality that is not
available to the normal human consciousness. Again, there is
yet another group of human beings at the top of the ladder of
evolution—mystics and sages—who <i>see</i> the truth, possess the
truth direct through a luminous immediacy of perception,
called Revelation. Now, all these functionings of consciousness
that happen frequently enough within the domain of normal
humanity are still expressions of a higher mode of consciousness : they are not the product or play of Reason or logical
intelligence which marks the character, the differentia of
human consciousness. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But, as at present, these are mere glimmers and glimpses from
elsewhere and man has no command or control over them. They
are beyond the habitual conscious will, they come and go as </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">they like, happy visitations from another world, they do not
abide our question and are not at our beck and call. The
Supermind, on the contrary, is in full possession of that consciousness of which these are faint beginnings and distant
echoes. The Superman will be born when man has risen above
his mind and emerged into the supramental consciousness.</font><p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-indent:25px; line-height:150%" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One thing needs to be pointed out here: it is that man is
expected to consciously transcend himself and deliver this
supermanhood, for it is to be a conscious process, a labour of
the wakeful will. That is the great difference which the new
transition has brought in. So long evolution was a spontaneous
and apparently unconscious process, moving slowly and
inadvertently as things in nature normally move. Man rose
out of the animal: he simply found himself man one day,
there was no conscious effort, no previous knowledge of the
change on the part of the animal undergoing the change<br>
Likewise the animal came out of its plant origin spontaneously
and unwittingly: the plant too evolved out of the inert and
inanimate matter through a natural process of slow mutation.
But now at the stage of manhood consciousness has become
fully conscious, self-conscious, and therefore its further&nbsp; ascension
cannot but be conscious, ever more conscious, the result of
deliberate energising. This is a process of self-transformation.
It has a method, a technique, a whole system of its own. The
growth of consciousness, its culture and transformation is the
end and purpose of all true education: its highest consummation, its supreme perfection is what is intended by Yoga, the
mystic's system of inner discipline. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We say, then, supramentalisation of consciousness is the goal
Nature is aiming at and man striving for: it is the next step
that earth and man are taking in their evolutionary urge. Man,
however, represents a very crucial stage—he is the dividing
line between two hemispheres—two modes of consciousness,
two types of creation. As I have said, up to man it is a natural
spontaneous unreflecting unconscious evolution: with man
it is conscious, deliberate, wilful evolution. What was being
done behind the veil in ignorance will now be done openly in
full knowledge. The very first result will be the shortening of
the time factor. The conscious process increases the tempo,
telescopes into decades or years a process or development that </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">would take centuries or more otherwise; in man a growth is
achieved in one life that would normally need several lives.
The other characteristic result is that when the Supermind
establishes itself, there is no more ignorance, it is all light and
knowledge. Till the mental range, even at its highest heights,
it is a mixture of light and darkness, of knowledge and ignorance: there is always an element of doubt, uncertainty or
partial perception: there is a groping, a trial and one moves at
best from greater darkness to lesser shade. With the Supermind
all that changes: the Superman lives always in the full daylight,
in the zenith consciousness, in the plenitude of knowledge.
He moves from light to light, knowledge to knowledge, no
longer bound to the division and duality inherent in the present
human consciousness. It may be that man may not at a bound
reach the peak of the Supermind: for there are lower ranges,
voluntary limitations of the Light, less absolute formulations
of the perfect being through which man will have to pass for a greater 
enrichment of his nature and for the establishment of other orders of luminous existence upon earth. Sri
Aurobindo has, in this connection, spoken of the Overmind
and the Mind of Light. But these too lie beyond the border of
mental twilight and are domains of Light, own delegates of
Supermind. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It may not be out of place here just to mention a few characters proper to this supramental over-border consciousness. First
of all, it is the seat and organon of complete knowledge:&nbsp; knowledge here is not the result of the deductive and inductive
process of reason, it does not balance pros and cons and out of
uncertain possibilities strike out an average probability: it is direct, straight, immediate, certain and absolute. Knowledge
here comes by identity—the knower and the known are one
and what is known is therefore self-knowledge, Secondly, the
will too is not an effort or striving and struggling, but the
spontaneous expression of the self-power of the consciousness; willing means achieving, one wills the inevitable truth for,
knowledge and will too are one. Thirdly, it is the status of
perfect delight, for one has passed beyond the vale of tears and
entered the peace that passeth understanding, one has found
that Joy is the source of creation and the truth of existence is
held in Ecstasy. </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is in other words at bottom the Vedantic status of Sat-chit
ananda (perfect Being, Consciousness-energy and Beatitude),
but individualised serving as the basic reality of the world-life
and existence: it is this that seeks to manifest and embody
itself in its own dharma—supreme law—in and through the
physical forms and modes of that life and existence. Beyond
this it is not possible here to enter into the further mysteries of
the Arcanum. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lastly, another point and we have done. It is that all human
efforts in the past in any realm or domain towards a higher life
has been contributory to this supreme consummation that
Sri Aurobindo envisages as coming or sure to come. It is very
often asserted that human nature is irremediable and although
we may try at a little amelioration of his instinctive life, especially as a social being, there can be no permanent or radical 
cure of the original sin of Ignorance and Inconscicnce with
which his earthly nature is branded. Reformers, idealists, even
saints and sages have seen and sought to counter the evil
—some tried to get rid of it, others round it: but it is still there,
as rampant as ever, apparently with no effect upon it. For
one thing, evil was sought to be cured by its opposite, the good,
but the good that belongs to the level of consciousness to
which evil too belongs. In other words, we tried to deal with
the world and treat it with the force of the Mind, even though
in some cases, the mind was a high or even the highest spiritual
mind. To touch the roots of the malady that extend into our
deepest fibres, our most material being, dead inconscience,
one must rise to the very source of consciousness, the creative
truth-consciousness: the Supermind alone can transform the
earth, transfigure the earthly life. In the second place, the
past attempts did not all go in vain: they were preparations,
the first ground-work, on various levels and in various domains
of human life and consciousness where the light infiltrated, to
whatever extent it may be and things, and forces were shaken
and reshuffled to admit of other forces and inspirations; if
nothing else, at least the possibility was created. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sri Aurobindo's aim, we have said, is not an individual
fulfilment, however glorious and successful it might be, and
not merely the fulfilment of one limb only of the individual
however deep and high. Sri Aurobindo embraced the whole&nbsp; </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">man and the whole society. A fulfilled life in society upon
earth—the highest and completest life possible, not only
possible but inevitable to the human being—that is the work
for which he laboured. Man's mind and intelligence, his life-
energy, his body-form are all taken up, purified of the lower
formulation, remoulded into the mode and pattern of the
supramental truth-consciousness: he becomes a complete,
integral perfect being expressing and embodying in all his
limbs and movements the supreme reality made of utter truth
and knowledge and power and delight. This being his individual life, his collective or social life too would figure the
same pattern. A new society in which men have found their
soul and soul function is a harmonious, a unitary body, composed of individuals who by living each one in his self live in
all and living in all each one lives in his self. Likewise, an
aggregate of such societies—a society of nations, as it is already called 
somewhat in a prophetic vein,—will also be an inherently harmonious and unified, even a unitary body too,
since all these larger units will express through their corporate
life each in its own special way the glory and greatness of the
Divine Consciousness. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In this global reconstitution of the earth life, Sri Aurobindo
gives India a great role—a mighty destiny and a heavy responsibility. For he considers India as the repository of the
spiritual consciousness, the Guardian of Truth, as the Veda
says, and in the new age of world unification her national
being will act as the spearhead breaking into the old-world
formations and signalling the shape of things to come. </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;The poet of patriotism, the prophet of nationalism and the
lover of humanity&quot; he was, in the famous words of his advocate
and friend and follower who stood for him before the bar of
History for his cause, and not merely before a British Court of
Justice. Indeed he was all that, but today we have to add
another epithet and complete the description. For he is now
the builder of the Life Divine. This was indeed the secret
Truth that worked in him from behind and gave to these </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">earlier preoccupations the reality and the beauty they attained
and the fullness of their significance. He worked for human
evolution, that was his life mission. He thus formulates the&nbsp;
stages of human evolution: </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;.Family, nationality, humanity are Vishnu's three strides
from an isolated to a collective unity. The first has been
fulfilled, we yet strive for the perfection of the second, to-
wards the third we are reaching out our hands and the
pioneer work is already attempted&quot;. </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But the supreme secret lies in Vishnu's fourth stride, from
humanity to divinity. That is the goal of the evolution and
that furnishes also the key to the solution of the problem.
Whether in the matter of the family or the nationality or
humanity in general there has been a stalemate, a stagnation,
even a frustration; an effort towards progress seemed to lead
more towards conflict, disharmony, away from what is beautiful and good and happy. That is bound to be. Man must reach
his very highest and deepest, his absolute itself before he can
arrive at perfection in the lower and the relative. Man must
exceed himself if he is to fulfil himself. A new connotation has
to be found for family and nationality and even humanity.
That connotation, Sri Aurobindo says, is divinity. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We must understand however that there is divinity and 
divinity. There is a divinity that suffers, supports and transcends all that is existent. For it is the all-reality, all-consciousness, the ever-present and- omnipresent Immutable behind
the mutabilities of creation. That does not take part in the
cosmic struggle, the universal urge of progress forward. Apart
from the divinity that suffers, there is a divinity that shapes
—and is shaped at the same time, shapes from behind and
is shaped itself in front. This dynamic Divine Sri Aurobindo
calls the supramental Divine or the incarnate Divine Mother. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the inevitable course of evolution man is something that
will be surpassed, not in the sense that he will be rejected and
thrown out as an unnecessary element, like some of the prehistoric animals, no, he will still be at the head of earthly
creation, but undergo a sea-change, as it were, and be transmuted into a divine creature. </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As at present man is a mental being, that is to say, it is his
mind—his reason and intellect—that governs him and it is
through that faculty that he governs the world. But mind is not
the highest or the most powerful faculty in him, nor the last
term of his consciousness. Beyond the mind there rise other
powers of consciousness, tier upon tier, and man can go there,
live there or bring them down into his normal life and change
it into their pattern. The highest of these Sri Aurobindo calls
the plane of Truth-Consciousness, the Supermind. It is the
supreme luminous Power-—the Light of lights—towards which
the creation moves and by which the creation is moved in
secret. It is the heart-centre of fulfilled harmony. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Man has been striving through his lesser powers, through
&quot;the grace of the lower gods since his advent upon earth to
arrive at a reconstruction of his life and surroundings. That is
why he has never attained the full measure of success. Indeed
a period of success or progress was always followed by a period
of decline and retrogression, a so-called golden age by an age
of iron. As a matter of fact today humanity finds itself terribly
enclosed in a cage of iron as it were. The earth has become too
small for his soaring capacities and multitudinous necessities
—he is already thinking of a place in the moon! That is only
the sign and symbol of an inner impasse to which he has
arrived. The anguish of the human soul has reached its acme:&nbsp; the problems, social, political, educational, moral it is facing
have proved themselves to be totally insoluble. Yes, he has
run into a cul-de-sac, where he is caught as in a death-trap.
No ordinary rational methods, half-way nostrums can deliver
him any more. All the outer doors and issues are now closed
for him; the only way is to turn inward, there lies the open
road to freedom and fulfilment. That is the way to transcendence and surpassing. To attempt any other way is not only
to try the impossible but to head straight towards doomsday. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The time then is now, for the time is ripe. It will not do to
say that the way proposed is beyond the reach of the common
man. He has neither the capacity nor the knowledge nor even
the inclination or impulse to surpass himself, to do anything
non-human. First of all, as I said, if man is to survive in any
form, this is the only way and there is no second. Next, what
do we know of the capacity and impulsion even of the common </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">man ? Even in a smaller scale and on the material level, have
we not seen to what tremendous acts of heroism he can rise
automatically, through what travails—tapasya—of concentrated effort he agreed to pass, simply because the occasion
demanded it ? Man's secret soul is greater than all the limitation
of his outward frame. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That does not mean that the entire human race will wholly
change over to the new life. All, without exception, are not
expected to come up to the highest level of fulfilment. But
that is not required, for the beginning at least. It is always the&nbsp;
few pioneers, a select group of forerunners that form the
foundation of a new creation A first snowball perhaps, but it
moves and gathers others on the way and builds up larger and
larger collectivities. At all crises of evolutionary cycles such<br>
beings inevitably appear, they are thrown up-by Nature or they
come down from above and incarnate; especially it is so when
Nature proposes to take a leap and not merely trudge and
crawl. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is the fulfilment of Nature that has to happen and is
happening, the fulfilment of the inferior Nature in and through
the higher divine Nature. Here we come perhaps to the very
heart of the mystery. For till now, till almost yesterday, we may
say in a general way, the spiritual life, any kind of divine life
was considered possible only through battling with Nature,
through a struggle upstream against the current of Nature.
Indeed Nature was despised, feared, rejected as an enemy of
the Spirit. But today the wheel seems to have turned full
circle. The, Spirit recognises the body as its counterpart and
visible form, welcomes the body as its earthly figure and
expression. The old antinomy has become obsolete, because
the body too on its side recognises that it has not the structure
and character that millennial ignorance gave it. The material
particles that constitute the physical body are found to be after
all not inert masses but quantas of energy, of luminous energy.<br>
The spiritual Light above demands nothing better for its
earthly home. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This is symbolical of the collaboration that Nature is now
offering to the Spirit. A new substance, made of light-energy
emanating from Consciousness-Force, is now slowly permeating the earth atmosphere, as the Mother declares and it is this </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">that will serve as the basis of the new creation and give it its
law and constitution. A new world built out of knowledge and
vision and luminous power is destined to come, for man is no
longer in love with his ignorance, but a divine afflatus is&nbsp; possessing him. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The new world has to be based on new foundations. The
old world was built from outside with superficial cheap elements
that lower Nature offers easily and profusely. It is body's needs,
vital hungers assembled and arranged according to a plan
supplied by mind's ideas and notions under the directive and
compulsion of the ego, the sense or consciousness of one's
separate individual existence as against others. The new world
will start from the soul, the luminous divine element in man
which is one with all and grow from within outward. It is as
if the foundations are laid not below, but above—the tree of
existence would branch out not from below upwards, but from
above downward, in the image given by the ancient Rishis of
India. The individual will therefore be not primarily a body
housing secondary—or as it is sometimes called epiphenomenal
—movements such as those of the mind and the vital limited
and largely conditioned by it. The individual will primarily be
a consciousness, a focus of energy-consciousness existing and
acting in union and communion with all other similar individual foci, for all form one single undivided entity. The body .
and life and mind are moulded in the substance and rhythm
of that sovereign consciousness. The hard egoism or self-centred<br>
ness, the gross animality that seem to be the very constitution
of the human individual are dissolved into the soul's radiant&nbsp; urges. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The individual can be and is to be fulfilled in and through
his soul—the presiding consciousness that has at its disposal
the mind, the vital and the body as its instruments and means
of expression, but which till now, because of an evolutionary
necessity of growth and development, acted more as an obstruction or a veil than as an aid or a channel. When in the new
consciousness the individual attains its soul-status, in other
words, its divinity, then a reshaping and recasting of the lower
. limbs becomes possible and even inevitable. The soul-status
means freedom, harmony, purity, knowledge, power, delight and immortality, absolute and inalienable. </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As individuals grow in this line, the social structure too is
altered and transmuted. The harmony and fullness that individuals present are automatically represented in the collective
grouping. Instead of a battling competitive society we have
not merely a, cooperative but a unitive community striving in a
common aspiration towards a single unique achievement.
For all individuals know and feel that they are but various
limbs of the same organism, luminously and unfailingly
functioning each in its and for its own appointment—expressing
differently the one Light 'supreme. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And nations that are finding so difficult, almost impossible,
to form a comity, that are in their disparate tendencies driving
towards a catastrophe, perhaps annihilation, shall undergo a
sea-change. The nation, the national being is also a reality, a
divine reality that has to come to its own&quot;—that is to say, its
own soul. For there is a collective soul, as well as an individual
soul. It is the presiding deity, the norm of consciousness and
being that works out the growth and evolution of a collectivity&nbsp;
that has found a common life. This collectivity is also enlarging
itself in wider and wider commonalty. As we see actually today
the nation is tending towards and growing into the supranation
or Commonwealth or Federation as it is termed politically. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The conception of the United- States of the world is taking
possession of the human mind; it is being applied and larger
and more integrated collective groupings than the nation are
developing; they may ere long become familiar realities. Such
. formations moving towards and effectuating the one indivisible
humanity open out the possibility towards a superhumanity
which will have to base itself on a new principle of organisation ; for that must be a new mode of consciousness. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Even the family, the first unit of collective formation<b> 
</b>in<b> 
</b>humanity that has attained a fulfilled status, is yet capable of a
remodelling, a transmutation in the higher supramental
consciousness. The family instead of being built upon blood-relationship may surely have a different foundation in soul-
kinship, in affinity of consciousness, comradeship in life-work. It means a total revolution, a reversal of nature, the roots
being above instead of being below, as already referred to. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Such far-reaching changes may well be called for and inevitable if mankind is to be radically cured of all the illnesses of </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">which it is till now a natural prey The full health of a divine
body in its individual as well as its collective and global functioning is assured only when the human being is lifted out of
its mental sheath and established in the supramenal status. </font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is an adventure for the heroic soul, for the vanguards of
humanity; but its fruition will spread abroad a benefit that
even the common level shall share, even those that denied shall
offer their accession and adhesion. </font>
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