As We Become Aware of the Extent of the Challenges, We Come Nearer to the Solutions Required

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In the preceding page, a passage
from the synthesis of Yoga by

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Sri Aurobindo was cited.
The Mother is commenting on her

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impressions while reading that
passage.

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The challenges involved in
changing the awareness and

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consciousness radically enough
to recognize that the apparent

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primacy of the material life and
circumstances is an illusion

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represent a requirement for a
major shift of standpoint.

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As with everything, once we
understand the problem and take

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steps towards adjusting our
relation to that problem, we are

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already nearing the solution.
As the mother points out, for

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most of humanity this
recognition has not come.

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There are a small number of
people, one may call them

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forerunners, who even have an
inkling of these issues, and

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they simply represent the first
people truly touched by the

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pressure of the new higher
consciousness that is in the

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process of manifesting.
As that consciousness works its

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way deeper and deeper into the
material world, more people will

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awaken to the need, the
opportunity and the path

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forward.
This is the process of evolution

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at work, which in the ordinary
span of time could take

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thousands of years.
It is the hope that through

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conscious dedication and
participation by those who

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awaken to this opportunity, the
texturing of consciousness

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generally can lead to a more
widespread recognition of and

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adoption of new ways of being,
thinking and acting in the

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world.
At present, it seems like the

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pressure of the existential
crisis we face is forcing

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humanity to grapple with these
issues in a much more focused

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manner, the mother observes.
Quote.

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It seems to me that when you
begin to see things in this way,

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when they appear to you as they
are described here, you are

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already close, very close, to
the solution.

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The worst of it is that
generally the whole material

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reality seems to be the only
reality, and everything which is

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not that seems altogether
secondary.

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And the right of that material
consciousness to rule, guide,

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organize life, to dominate all
the rest is justified to such an

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extent that if someone tries to
challenge this sacrosanct

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authority, he is considered half
mad or extremely dangerous.

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It seems to me one must still go
a very long way to consider

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material life in the way Sri
Aurobindo has described it here.

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And I am quite convinced that if
one feels it like that, sees it

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like that as he has described
it, 1 is very, very close to the

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remedy.
It is only elite natures, those

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who have already had a contact
with a higher reality, with

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something of the divine
consciousness, who feel earthly

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existence in that way.
And when one has can become so

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fully conscious of all these
weaknesses and stupidities of

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the outer consciousness, all
these falsehoods of the

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so-called material knowledge and
so-called physical laws, the

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so-called necessities of the
body, the reality of one's

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needs, if one begins to see how
very false, stupid, illusory,

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obscure, foolish all this is, 1
is truly very close to the

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solution.
That is the impression I had

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while reading this.
I had the feeling that to see

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things in this way, one must
have already climbed to a very

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High Peak and that one is at the
gates of liberation.

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If you can read this passage
again and be convinced of its

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reality and it's absolute truth,
well, that is already a great

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step.
End Quote reference Shrioro

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Bindu and the Mother Looking
from within, Chapter 1.

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Looking at Life and
Circumstances, pages 19 to 20.