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		<b><font face="Times New Roman"><i>Cosmonautics</i> </font></b></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman">MODERN science, modern applied science, has brought about
and is bringing about more and more a big change in the earth
atmosphere. It is not merely the dust and smoke, gases and
fumes thrown out by the modern machineries from the earth
into the sky that have been increasing ominously in volume, but the less patent 
vibrations that have been released by advanced scientific projects and experiments and that have been
encircling the earth more and more in a tight embrace. A
quiet and clean air was such a treasure for human beings; men
have always longed for it as a necessity and also as a diversion,
and it was so readily available. The saints and sages went up
to mountain-tops and into deep forests and far away into open
meadows for a full-breath draught of that heavenly element.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But now physically, materially, we know that the radiowaves 
and innumerable other cosmic waves have been constantly, ceaselessly hammering, churning the earth-atmosphere
all around us. Human bodies are immersed in a real turmoil.
They are bathed in a whirlwind constantly. The nerves and
tissues are being shaken from within to their very roots through-out one's life, day and night. There is no peace, no tranquillity
upon earth; physical and material repose has altogether
disappeared. The high hill-tops or mountain-sides do not help
any more nor the ocean depths nor any African jungle nor
even the Sahara desert.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The incidence of illness, of disequilibrium among human
beings, is a pronounced phenomenon in modern age. Stability,
steadiness, measure, all the qualities that made for a balanced
sober life in the past are on the decline, have almost disappeared. </font>&nbsp;<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0" align="center">
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<font face="Times New Roman">Ill-health, malaise, imbalance, physical and mental,
are reigning supreme. And the million doctors upon earth are
finding it difficult to heal their patients or even themselves.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Is that the reason why man has now become so eager to
quit earthly atmosphere and soar up into starry spaces? In
any case, the human body is now, at least by way of experiment, being shifted to other atmospheres, other modes of
living. The important, the most significant thing however is
not so much the discovery of new regions of the universe but
new dimensions of the human body itself. No doubt this is just
the beginning, but there are indications, pointers towards un-thinkable possibilities in the future. Men are now training
themselves to be inhabitants not of earth only but of distant
places. It is a demonstration of developments on unusual lines
for the body. At present to dwell or even to stay in unearthly
regions, the earthly body has to be protected, buttressed, propped up, with much care and skill by a mechanical outfit
— crude scaffolding after all. In the future, other simpler and
natural ways will surely be found.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As we know, Nature has pushed up its secret consciousness
to the human level and is still pushing it up, upward to levels
of the higher man, towards the Superman. She has moulded the body for the 
jelly-fish and moved up through all the intermediaries to the human body. Man's body like his consciousness has to be remoulded in such a way as to be able to enclose
' and express the superman-consciousness. The rigid natural laws that bind down 
the body—the so-called natural laws of temperature and pressure, of respiration and circulation, of assimilation
and rejection—have to be turned, obviated, neutralised so that
man may be actually, physically a citizen of the world.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Now, the discipline that the physical body is made to undergo
at present, in order to accustom itself to high flying, may one
day point to the way for a new adaptation and disposition for
the body. As it is, the disruption that has been made in the
earth atmosphere because of Science's new adventure is also a
way to acclimatising the human body to new conditions. The
new conditions are becoming even more and more new and
the body is being forced to follow suit. At the beginning the
result is a rupture but that is the way towards a new disposition,
a new dispensation.</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Showers, torrential streams of tiny infinitesimal particles
—waves of invisible light, charges of electricity, all kinds of ultimate units 
of matter, are pouring down upon earth shrouding it, overwhelming it, drowning it, stifling it as it were. It is
.not merely a discovery of what has already been there, a static
reality since time immemorial, but that they have been coming,
arriving, adding ceaselessly to the volume already there, and
continuing to do so more and more as time advances. For it is
said that these particles, cosmic rays, radio-waves, have been
on their journey for such a long time from the very beginning
of time that they are arriving only now into the earth atmosphere. And always 
there are others that are arriving, are continuing to arrive at every instant from farther and farther
distances. The density and volume and the force of impact of
this additional quantity of matter are ever on the increase and
one does not know when and what will be the end. Not only
so, not only the old existing particles but new particles, none
can gainsay the probability, are also being created continuously,
in the process. And suppose even some are destroyed, the loss
is more than compensated by the creation of new ones, may
be, of a different variety, with prospects of a new and novel
development.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thus the burden upon earth has been increasing—and the&nbsp;
nature also of the burden is changing. The change is not perhaps
very obvious today but the body has already been feeling it
and expressing its reactions in the instability of the balance so
long enjoyed by man. That is to say, the modern man physically
lives or soon will have to live under a new set of circumstances
and his physical body has to undergo a change commensurate
with its habitat or it will have to disappear.</font>&nbsp;

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The cosmonauts are teaching us at least the possibility of a
new, almost a revolutionary acclimatisation of the body, the
capability of the human organs to follow a different rhythm of
life in place of the old normal way. We know from the past
history of the evolutionary stages of life that the advent of a
new species is signalled by a change in the conditions of living,
and the change in the habitat involves a change in the form,
the organs and functions of the body: that is what is meant by</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><b>&nbsp;</b>the appearance of a new type of creature adapted to the new
conditions. Even so today cosmic travels are forcing the human
body to adapt itself to new conditions and it is a very conscious
discipline. The change in the body of living beings in the
previous stages is due to an unconscious pressure brought to
bear upon it by an unconscious Nature. But now the situation.
is different: man is attempting consciously to surpass himself,
he has begun to do it in the physical field with remarkable
results and a great promise. True, there is another factor, indeed
the major factor behind, within the inner consciousness of man
and within the inner regions of the world. As I have said, it is
a revolutionary change there that is forcing itself upon the
outside and the surface of existence.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thus there is a twofold process for the new man to establish
himself here. First, of course, there is the psychological or inner
change and reorganisation: man's attempt to reach a new
status of being and consciousness not in the category of the
mere mental but a supramental status. Its nature and character
and formation is being probed into by the new spiritual seekers
and aspirants. That work is being done from within outward,
and from above downward. This however is supplemented,
supported, effectuated or materialised by the other attempt
from below going upward and from outside going inward.
That is the way of science, of the pragmatic man. The one we
may say somewhat philosophically, is the Purusha, the conscious being coming down; the other, Prakriti, pushing up,Nature driving upward or inward.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is true the process of acclimatisation that Nature follows
is a slow one and gradual though somewhat crude, in spite of
scientific refinements and subtleties; yet it is a help and has an
accumulated effect. We may just record the progress achieved
in the mere outward mechanisation from Lindberg's transatlantic crossing to Borman-company's journey to the moon.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Just at present the appearances are slender but the cumulative effect of these slender forerunners in the long run, or,
who knows may be in the short run, is sure to be tremendously
obvious. It is expected that the human body itself will acquire
new dispositions forced by outer circumstances, the newly
developing environment and impelled by the inner stress of the
descending consciousness with its formative power. The power</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">and action of the descending consciousness is outside our ken,
it is easily overlooked—unknown and invisible to the normal
mind. But in fact it is a great deal due to this element and
thanks to it, that man's phenomenal discoveries of today and
miraculous successes have been and are being achieved in the
physical field in such a quick and revolutionary manner. The
Mother has plainly declared that the new world is already
there built and ready and is pressing down upon the material<br>
cover and sooner rather than later will force it open and
manifest itself.</font>

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