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There is an ascending evolution in nature which goes from
the stone to the plant, from the plant to the animal, from the
animal to man. Because man is, for the moment, the last rung
at the summit of the ascending evolution, he considers himself
as the final stage in this ascension and believes there can be
nothing on earth superior to him. In that he is mistaken. In his
physical nature he is yet almost wholly an animal, a thinking
and speaking animal, but still an animal in his material hab-
its and instincts. Undoubtedly, nature cannot be satisfied with
such an imperfect result; she endeavours to bring out a being
who will be to man what man is to the animal, a being who will
remain a man in its external form, and yet whose conscious-
ness will rise far above the mental and its slavery to ignorance.
Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to teach this truth to men.
He told them that man is only a transitional being living in
a mental consciousness, but with the possibility of acquiring
a new consciousness, the Truth-consciousness, and capable of
living a life perfectly harmonious, good and beautiful, happy
and fully conscious. During the whole of his life upon earth,
Sri Aurobindo gave all his time to establish in himself this con-
sciousness he called supramental, and to help those gathered
around him to realise it.

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