The Perpetual Effort Required for Transformation of Life in the World

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Ascent and integration,
relentless effort.

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What many do not appreciate is
that any attempt to achieve

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individual perfection or
transformation is limited by the

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readiness of the world, and the
rest of humanity in particular,

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to accept those changes that are
needed for this to occur.

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Thus, progress will necessarily
be partial, halting, and in some

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cases there may appear to be
retrogressive steps as forces

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that oppose the changes, raise
up their defenses and fight to

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prevent the next step of
progress from taking hold and

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becoming the standard from which
the further steps of progress

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could then begin.
There is a range of capacity

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available within humanity at any
point in time, and as long as

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the individual stays more or
less within that range, progress

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can be made.
Once an individual reaches the

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upper boundary, however, and
attempts to go beyond, the real

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resistance can kick in.
This is where persevering,

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relentless focus and effort is
required.

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Without accepting failure or
discouragement as the final

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answer, one may attempt to
overcome the force of desire.

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For instance, various methods
have been tried in human

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history.
Yet the individual is not immune

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to the vibrations that cause
desire to arise, and with the

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least failure of vigilance,
these vibrations can take hold

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and manifest within him.
It can be even more difficult if

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active opposition arises to
protect the status quo.

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In his epic poem Savitri, A
Legend and a Symbol, Srioro

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Bindo provides an illuminating
segment describing the world

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redeemer's efforts.
Quote, hard is the world

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redeemer's heavy task.
The world itself becomes his

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adversary.
Those he would save are his

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antagonists.
This world is in love with its

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own ignorance.
It's darkness turns away from

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the Savior light.
It gives the cross in payment

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for the crown.
End Quote Reference Book 6 Canto

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2, page 448.
The mother writes quote.

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It is only by a very persistent
effort that one can succeed in

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overcoming his difficulties.
And yet it seems impossible to

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cut oneself off completely from
one's solidarity with the rest

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of the world.
Therefore, a perfect purity, a

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perfect perfection, seems
impossible so long as the world

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has not reached at least a
certain degree of perfection.

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Even the ascetic, the solitary
who goes and sits in a cave or

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under a tree or in the jungle,
cannot completely free himself

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from solidarity with the rest of
the world.

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The air he breathes is full of
all the vibrations of the world.

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The food he eats, whatever it
may be, even if it is reduced to

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the minimum, contains the
vibrations of the world.

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And so it is enough for him to
exist to be in solidarity with

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the difficulties of the world.
That is why, in fact, the way is

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so long, even without having any
other consideration than that of

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what one is absorbing constantly
into himself.

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When breathing or eating all
these things one must constantly

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transform as one goes on
absorbing them.

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It is a continuous alchemy in
which one absorbs a particular

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kind of vibration containing all
the possible disorders, and must

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transmute this into something
which is ready to receive the

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light from above.
And this work is perpetual and

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perpetually renewed.
So it is impossible to live in

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this world, in the world as it
is, and become perfect without

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the world itself making a great
progress.

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End Quote.
Reference Sri Orobindo and the

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Mother, The Hidden Forces of
Life, Chapter Eight Life A Mass

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of Vibrations, page 187.