The New World will manifest with the pressure of will and faith. As the new aspiration grows mounting upwards towards Her from the heart of man, the faith and aspiration will become the connecting point, the bridge between the past and the future. It is our faith in the past ways, past formulas, past discoveries, past realisations that holds us back. But the past must become a spring board towards the future. Purified from all that yet clings we must rise out of the ashes of a dying past like Phoenix, the mystical bird, and surge towards the future.
‘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
