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and half-perfection. Therefore men cry out dismally & lament that
all is perishing. But if they trusted in God's Love & Wisdom, not
preferring to it their conservative & narrow notions, they would
rather cry out that all is being reborn.
CWSA 12: 55 Sri Aurobindo

Can the manifestation come to its dissolution, its Pralaya?

A very old tradition, more ancient than the Vedas, says
that the present manifestation is the seventh, and that
the six preceding ones were followed by six pralayas, but
this one will be transformed perpetually, without return-
ing to the Creator.
3 September 1969 The Mother

The greater the destruction, the freer the chances of cre-
ation; but the destruction is often long, slow and oppres-
sive, the creation tardy in its coming or interrupted in its
triumph. The night returns again and again and the day lin-
gers or seems even to have been a false dawning. Despair
not therefore but watch and work. Those who hope vio-
lently, despair swiftly: neither hope nor fear, but be sure
of God's purpose and thy will to accomplish.
CWSA 13: 209 Sri Aurobindo

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