From The Mother -

[Guest guest]

TO THE CHILDREN OF THE ASHRAM

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There is an ascending evolution in nature which goes from

the stone to the plant, from the plant to the animal, from

the animal to man. Because man is, for the moment, the last

rung at the summit of the ascending evolution, he considers

himself as the final stage in this ascension and believes

there can be nothing on earth superior to him. In that he

is mistaken. In his physical nature he is yet almost wholly

an animal, a thinking and speaking animal, but still an

animal in his material habits and instincts. Undoubtedly,

nature cannot be satisfied with such an imperfect result;

she endeavours to bring out a being who will be to man what

man is to the animal, a being who will remain a man in its

external form, and yet whose consciousness will rise far

above the mental and its slavery to ignorance.

 

Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to teach this truth to men.

He told them that man is only a transitional being living

in a mental consciousness, but with the possibility of

acquiring a new consciousness, the Truth-consciousness, and

capable of living a life perfectly harmonious, good and

beautiful, happy and fully conscious. During the whole of

his life upon earth, Sri Aurobindo gave all his time to

establish in himself this consciousness he called

supramental, and to help those gathered around him to

realise it.

 

You have the immense privilege of having come quite young

to the Ashram, that is to say, still plastic and capable of

being moulded according to this new ideal and thus become

the representatives of the new race. Here, in the Ashram,

you are in the most favourable conditions with regard to

the environment, the influence, the teaching and the

example, to awaken in you this supramental consciousness

and to grow according to its law.

 

Now, all depends on your will and your sincerity. If you

have the will no more to belong to ordinary humanity, no

more to be merely evolved animals; if your will is to

become men of the new race realising Sri Aurobindo's

supramental ideal, living a new and higher life upon a new

earth, you will find here all the necessary help to achieve

your purpose; you will profit fully by your stay in the

Ashram and eventually become living examples for the world.

 

The Mother, 24 July 1951

 

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