The Teaching

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 because 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 endeavors to bring out a being who will be to man is to the animal, a being who will remain a man in its external, from and yet whose consciousness will rise for 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 which he called the supramental, and to help those gathered around him to realise it … …

Now all depends on your will and your sincerity, if you have the will no more 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 … …

24-7-1951

THE MOTHER

(The Ideal Child, 1971 Ed. Pp.11-14)