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Change of consciousness needed
People are here to change their consciousness. Unless they
become, all of them, true to their aim, nothing true can be done.
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It is evident that those who want to live here must change
not so much their way of living as their way of being.
We are striving towards a consciousness more deep, more
total and more true; because our raison d'être is to manifest this
consciousness.
CWM 13: 115

Living in a community
It is impossible to give a single answer for all cases. With
each person and on each occasion, it will differ. But, at any rate,
it can be said that whoever lives in a community must follow,
as much as possible, the rules of that community. Moreover
people have a right to go against collective rules only when all
their actions are prompted exclusively by the Divine in them. If
all they do, all they say is done and said as they would do and
say in the presence of the Divine, then, but then only, they have
the right to say, "I follow my own rule and no other."
CWM 13: 117

A declaration
Sri Aurobindo withdrew from politics; and, in his Ashram,
a most important rule is that one must abstain from all politic
— not because Sri Aurobindo did not concern himself with the
happenings of the world, but because politics, as it is practised,
is a low and ugly thing, wholly dominated by falsehood, deceit,
injustice, misuse of power and violence; because to succeed in
politics one has to cultivate in oneself hypocrisy, duplicity and
unscrupulous ambition.

40 All India Magazine, August 2026