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is comparatively less difficult to accomplish. One must start with
an inner control of the consciousness over the body, a power to
make it obey more and more the will or the force transmitted to it.
In the end as a higher and higher Force descends and the plasticity
of the body increases, the transformation becomes possible.
It is absolutely idle to think of transforming the body when
other things that are so much easier to do — though of course
none is easy — are not done. The inner must change before the
outermost can follow. So what is the use of such a concentration
— unless one thinks that everything else is perfect, which would
be a rather astonishing claim. What has to be done with the body
at first is to make it open to the Force, so as to receive strength
against illness and fatigue — when they come, there must be the
power to react and throw them off and to keep a constant flow of
force into the body. If that is done, the rest of the bodily change
can wait for its proper time.
The supramental perfection means that the body becomes
conscious, is filled with consciousness and that as this is the Truth
consciousness all its actions, functionings etc. become by the
power of the consciousness within it harmonious, luminous, right
and true — without ignorance or disorder.
CWSA 28: 305 Sri Aurobindo

Progress is youth
Sincerity, humility, perseverance and an insatiable thirst for
progress are essential for a happy and fruitful life. Above all, one
must be convinced that the possibility of progress is unlimited.
Progress is youth; one can be young at a hundred.
CWM 16: 431

Cultivate the instruments
Consequently, we are not here to repeat what others have
done, but to prepare ourselves for the blossoming of a new con-

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