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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><st1:country-region><st1:place><b
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<span
  style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font size="4">India</font></span></b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font size="4">, the World and the Ashram</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<st1:country-region>
<st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
has become the symbol representing all the difficulties of modern humanity.</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
will become the land of the world's resurrection <span class=GramE>–<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>the resurrection of a higher and
truer life.</span></p>

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<font size="2">1.2.1968</font><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'><font size="2">&nbsp;</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></span><font size="2">THE 
    MOTHER</font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>A great revelation of a great truth
that concerns the whole world.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>We know also that the
earth is the symbol of the cosmic evolution. What creation means has been
epitomised in earth's history: the earth has been chosen as the field and means
of working out a cosmic plan. As the earth is the representative of the world,
so <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> is the
representative of the earth. For the evolution of the earth, <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
has been chosen as the channel and the laboratory; all problems confronting
humanity are found as if gathered here. All that is solved here will be solved
almost automatically in the world and the how of it will be shown. All
difficulties are concentrated here because here there is a living consciousness
which alone can solve them.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In
the same way it may be said that our Ashram here is the symbol of all the
difficulties that humanity faces, difficulties psychological and material,
national and social. All varieties of contradictions and contraries, obstacles
and impediments, ignorances and prejudices are here that confuse the issue and
seek to delay the journey as much as possible, towards progress and new
creation. This is because it is a place where there is behind the surface
movements of negation, an aspiration and a supporting consciousness supreme in
power and effectivity. The individuals here have to meet all kinds of
difficulties so
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class=GramE>that</span> a way out of them may be discovered both in the
individual nature and in collective achievement.<span style='mso-tab-count:
1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>We
have here in the Ashram varieties of races and religions, all social types,
samples of humanity as it were, each represent­ing a particular facet of human
nature, a particular possibility and its own field of work. Not only with
regard to outward work or enterprise, each one carries his own inner nature
different from everybody else's, each one has his own psycho­logical assets and
liabilities. In other words, each one under­takes the yoga of, understanding
and purifying himself and finding out his particular role. Apart from that,
here each one is not exclusively for <span class=GramE>himself</span>, in fact,
he is not himself only but is part and parcel of a living unity, in a larger
whole.</p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Man carries the burden of his own sins, in a way;
but in a truer sense he carries the burden of all. It is one single burden that
lies equally upon everybody everywhere. Thus the burden of the universal
movement is shared by all collectively in equal measure.<sup>l</sup> This is true of
mankind in general; but it becomes dynamically true here among us where there
is a conscious effort on the part of individuals to uplift and change the human
consciousness. It is however the privilege of each individual to deal with
one's share in the whole in one's own way, that is to say, the individual has
been given the freedom and the capacity to make the burden light or let it remain
or grow <span class=GramE>more heavy</span>. It must be remembered that behind
the individual a greater conscious personality has emerged and taken its place
to help, to guide and fulfil the individual's divine destiny: even so, behind
the universal effort there is a divine helping hand growing more and more
powerful and effective in its manipulation of earthly forces and events. The
solution of the difficulties will come from there and that can be the only
solution.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>We,
who are here, living under the very eye of the supreme transfiguring force and
consciousness that is working out inexorably the destinies of the individual
being, the national being and the being of humanity to their divine fulfilment,
we who have the privilege of not merely witnessing but </p>
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text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ Sri Aurobindo says,
&quot;Even if our personal deliverance is complete, still there is the
suffering of others, the world-travail, which the great of soul cannot regard
with indifference. There is unity with all beings which something within us
feels, and the deliverance of the others must be felt as intimate to its own
deliverance.&quot;</span></p>
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in the mighty labour, however little it may be in our way, we can only bow down
in thankfulness and grateful­ness in the silence of our hearts.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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