Chapter 78201–202

There is nothing to add. Sri Aurobindo has clearly and masterfully stated first the evil and then its remedy. All we have to do is to put into practice what he has taught us.

16 November 1969 203 – The human race always progresses most when most it

asserts its importance to Nature, its freedom and its universality.

204 – Animal man is the obscure starting-point, the present

natural man the varied and tangled mid-road, but supernatural man the luminous and transcendent goal of our human journey.

Man finds his full power for progress when he no longer feels bound to Nature or limited by her laws. Nature is only a limited expression of the Divine, whereas man was created to become the conscious expression of the Divine, with all the possibilities of power and light which that implies.

18 November 1969 205 – Life and action culminate and are eternally crowned

for thee when thou hast attained the power of symbol-ising and manifesting in every thought and act, in art, literature and life, in wealth-getting, wealth-having or wealth-spending, in home, government and society, the One Immortal in His lower mortal being.

No doubt, this is the description of man when he reaches the summit of his being. But it is only the first step of the superman.

24 November 1969