The central root of our difficulty lies mainly in our sense of separateness — the individuality and its attendant problem of want and greed and lust and desire. This too, however has a place and purpose in our evolution. The sense of ‘not-self’ translates into effort for adaptation as well as imbalances of various kinds at physical, vital and mental levels leading to disease and death. But a premature shedding of the individuality may mean a collapse into a subconscient mass or an opening to universal forces of ignorance.
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‘Sri Aurobindo does not belong to the past nor to history. Sri Aurobindo is the Future advancing towards its realisation. Thus we must shelter the eternal youth required for a speedy advance, in order not to become laggards on the way.’ The Mother
I had been afraid of meeting her. It had taken me six long weeks to get to this point because I was afraid of her. In some of her photographs we see how formidable she can be.