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is advancing towards a perfection which seems to recede as one
goes forward towards it, for what seemed a perfection at a certain
moment is no longer perfect after a time. The most subtle states
of being in the consciousness follow this progression even as it is
going on, and the higher up the scale one goes, the more closely
does the rhythm of the advance resemble the rhythm of the uni-
versal development, and approach the rhythm of the divine devel-
opment; but the material world is rigid by nature, transformation
is slow, very slow, there, almost imperceptible for the measure-
ment of time as human consciousness perceives it... and so there
is a constant disequilibrium between the inner and outer move-
ment, and this lack of balance, this incapacity of the outer forms
to follow the movement of the inner progress brings about the
necessity of decomposition and the change of forms. But if, into
this matter, one could infuse enough consciousness to obtain the
same rhythm, if matter could become plastic enough to follow the
inner progression, this rupture of balance would not occur, and
death would no longer be necessary.
So, according to what Sri Aurobindo tells us, Nature has found
this rather radical means to awaken in the material consciousness
the necessary aspiration and plasticity.
It is obvious that the most dominant characteristic of matter
is inertia, and that, if there were not this violence, perhaps the in-
dividual consciousness would be so inert that rather than change
it would accept to live in a perpetual imperfection.... That is pos-
sible. Anyway, this is how things are made, and for us who know
a little more, there is only one thing that remains to be done, it
is to change all this, as far as we have the means, by calling the
Force, the Consciousness, the new Power which is capable of in-
fusing into material substance the vibration which can transform
it, make it plastic, supple, progressive.
Obviously the greatest obstacle is the attachment to things
as they are; but even Nature as a whole finds that those who have

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