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The Ego Must Go

Hour of the Ego is Gone
For centuries and centuries humanity has waited for this
time. It is come. But it is difficult.
I don’t simply tell you we are here upon earth to rest and
enjoy ourselves, now is not the time for that. We are here... to
prepare the way for the new creation.
... You are here at this moment, that is to say upon earth,
because you chose it at one time — you do not remember it
any more, but I know it — that is why you are here. Well, you
must rise to the height of the task. You must strive, you must
conquer all weaknesses and limitations; above all you must
tell your ego: “Your hour is gone.” We want a race that has no
ego, that has in place of the ego the Divine Consciousness. It
is that which we want: the Divine Consciousness which will
allow the race to develop itself and the supramental being to
take birth.
CWM 11: 307

The ego must be replaced by the divine consciousness — Sri
Aurobindo himself called it “supramental”; we can call it su-
pramental so that there might not be any misunderstanding,
because when one speaks of “the Divine”, immediately people
think of a “God”, and that spoils everything. It is not that.
CWM 11: 316

When humanity was first created, the ego was the unifying ele-
ment. It was around the ego that the different states of being
were grouped; but now that the birth of super-humanity is be-
ing prepared, the ego has to disappear and give way to the psy-
chic being, which has slowly been formed by divine intervention

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