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ities while being of service to the community as a whole, which,
for its own part, would provide for each individual's subsistence
and sphere of action. In short, it would be a place where human
relationships, which are normally based almost exclusively on
competition and strife, would be replaced by relationships of
emulation in doing well, of collaboration and real brotherhood.
The earth is certainly not ready to realise such an ideal, for
mankind does not yet possess sufficient knowledge to under-
stand and adopt it nor the conscious force that is indispensable
in order to execute it; that is why I call it a dream.
And yet this dream is in the course of becoming a reality;
that is what we are striving for in Sri Aurobindo's Ashram, on a
very small scale, in proportion to our limited means. The reali-
sation is certainly far from perfect, but it is progressive; little
by little we are advancing towards our goal which we hope we
may one day be able to present to the world as a practical and
effective way to emerge from the present chaos, to be born
into a new life that is more harmonious and true.
CWM 12: 94 The Mother

The process
Sri Aurobindo has told us and we are convinced by experi-
ence that above the mind there is a consciousness much wiser
than the mental wisdom, and in the depths of things there is a
will much more powerful than the human will.
All our endeavour is to make this consciousness and this
will govern our lives and action and organise all our activities.
It is the way in which the Ashram has been created. Since 1926
when Sri Aurobindo retired and gave me full charge of it (at
that time there were only two rented houses and a handful of
disciples) all has grown up and developed like the growth of a
for-est, and each service was created not by any artificial plan-

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