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THE CONCEPTION

Condition of the Earth
This is the condition of the earth, and it is not very bright.
But for us one possibility remains—I have spoken about it to you
several times already — even if, outside, things are deteriorat-
ing completely and the catastrophe cannot possibly be avoided,
there remains for us, I mean those for whom the supramental
life is not a vain dream, those who have faith in its reality and
the aspiration to realise it—I don't necessarily mean those who
have gathered here in Pondicherry, in the Ashram, but those
who have as a link between them the knowledge Sri Aurobindo
has given and the will to live according to that knowledge—
there remains for them the possibility of intensifying their aspi-
ration, their will, their effort, to gather their energies together
and shorten the time for the realisation. There remains for them
the possibility of working this miracle — individually and to a
small extent collectively — of conquering space, duration, the

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