In spite of all adverse appearances, it may
well be that earth has been preparing for a certain realisation by steps and
stages. There has been a change in civilisation and a change in nature. If it
is not apparent, it is because we see from an external point of view and
because matter and its difficulties have never been seriously or thoroughly
dealt with up till now. Still internally there has been a progress; in the
inner consciousness there have been descents of the Light. But as to any
realisation in matter, it is difficult to say anything, because we do not
exactly know what might have happened there.
There have been in the long past great and
beautiful civilisations, perhaps as advanced materially as ours. Looked at from
a certain standpoint the most modern might seem to be only a repetition of the
most ancient cultures, and yet one cannot say that there has been no progress
anywhere. An inner progress at least has been achieved and a greater readiness
to respond to the higher consciousness has been born into the material parts.
It has been necessary to do over and over again the same things, because what
was attempted was never sufficiently done; but each time it has come nearer to
being adequately done. When we practise an exercise over and over again we seem
to be only repeating the same thing always, but still the accumulative result
is some effective change.
The mistake is to look at these things
through the dimensions of the human consciousness, for so seen these deep and
vast movements seem inexplicable. It is dangerous to try to explain or
understand them with the limited mental intelligence. That is the reason why
philosophy has always failed to unveil the secret of things; it is because it
has tried to fit the universe into the size of the human mind.
(CWM, Volume 3, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust,
Puducherry)
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