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replace what now is by a greater and happier manifestation. That
too is a labour of divine Love.
CWM 13: 146-47 The Mother

What Sri Aurobindo has written is absolutely true and must be
followed.
There is only one new fact — from the beginning of this year a
new consciousness has manifested and is working energetically
to prepare the earth for the new creation.
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Emerge into a higher state
It is obvious that what especially characterises man is this
mental capacity of watching himself live. The animal lives sponta-
neously, automatically, and if it watches itself live, it must be to a
very minute and insignificant degree, and that is why it is peaceful
and does not worry. Even if an animal is suffering because of an
accident or an illness, this suffering is reduced to a minimum by
the fact that it does not observe it, does not project it in its con-
sciousness and into the future, does not imagine things about its
illness or its accident.
With man there has begun this perpetual worrying about
what is going to happen, and this worry is the principal, if not the
sole cause of his torment. With this objectivising consciousness
there has begun anxiety, painful imaginations, worry, torment,
anticipation of future catastrophes, with the result that most
men — and not the least conscious, the most conscious — live in
perpetual torment. Man is too conscious to be indifferent, he is
not conscious enough to know what will happen. Truly it could
be said without fear of making a mistake that of all earth's crea-
tures he is the most miserable. The human being is used to being
like that because it is an atavistic state which he has inherited
from his ancestors, but it is truly a miserable condition. And it
is only with this spiritual capacity of rising to a higher level and

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