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the older religions or to found any new religion, for any of these
things would lead away from his central purpose. The one aim of
his Yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who fol-
lows it can in time discover the one Self in all and evolve a high-
er consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental
consciousness which will transform and divinise human nature.
CWSA 35: 547-550

Not an Asram like others
This is not an Asram like others — the members are not
Sannyasis; it is not moksa that is the sole aim of the Yoga here.
What is being done here is a preparation for a work — a work
which will be founded on Yogic consciousness and Yoga-Shakti,
and can have no other foundation. Meanwhile every member
here is expected to do some work in the Asram as part of his
spiritual preparation.

CWSA 35: 590

The Ashram itself has been created with another object than
that ordinarily common to such institutions, not for the renun-
ciation of the world but as a centre and a field of practice for
the evolution of another kind and form of life which would in
the final end be moved by a higher spiritual consciousness and
embody a greater life of the spirit. There is no general rule as
to the stage at which one may leave the ordinary life and enter
here; in each case it depends on the personal need and impul-
sion and the possibility or the advisability for one to take the
step, the decision resting with the Mother.
CWSA 35: 592-593

Write that this Asram is not intended for religious teaching,
but for the practice of Yoga; its object, like that of all Yoga, is

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