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inner transformation that a truth- consciousness can take pos-
session of the material world and that the Divine Unity can be
manifested upon earth.
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Organisations, however vast and complete they may be, can
achieve nothing permanent unless a new force, more divine and
all-powerful, expresses itself through a perfected human instru-
ment.
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No material organisation, whatever its degree of preparation, is
capable of bringing a solution to the miseries of man.
Man must rise to a higher level of consciousness and get rid
of his ignorance, limitation and selfishness in order to get rid also
of his sufferings.
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So long as you do not have the power to change the world, it is
useless to say that the world is wrong. And if you abolish in your-
self the things that are wrong in the world, you will see that the
world will no longer be wrong.
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When you are truly changed, everything around you will also be
changed.
CWM 14: 275-78

Yielding to desires is not the way of getting rid of them. There is
no end to desires — each one which is satisfied is at once replaced
by another one and they go on clamouring more and more.
It is only by conquering the desires that you can get rid of
them, by coming out of this consciousness of the lower nature
and rising to a higher consciousness .
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Renunciation of desires: the essential condition for realisation.
CWM 14: 253 Sri Aurobindo

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