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are being given to all and sundry. We have yet to develop the full possibility of the human nature. And I believe it was fully recognized by the great work of one of our most illustrious men that all life IS yoga, and you must practise yoga for life, for infinity and the Divine. This was a voice, which was spoken by Sri Aurobindo, and I have no hesitation in saying that it was a profound truth he told us rather very early at the beginning of this century.
But I am afraid that the great promise that his philosophy gave to us, and his yoga gave to us, has not been as successful as it should have been. Why? Firstly the reason is that he somehow thought that a penultimate reality is more important than the ultimate Reality, and that the ultimate Reality will abolish our whole being if it came to participate in the life of every one of us. And the penultimate reality which he had before him, what he called the supermind he thought would do more work, and also show gradualness in the evolution of the divine man. I am not sure whether his optimism was justified. I have every reason to think that it has yet to be justified.
In the meanwhile the great founder of the Shri Ram Chandra Mission who is seated by my side has shown that really the ultimate Reality is the only force that can lead us to the Ultimate reality of our being. Any penultimate reality will give only a penultimate result-an imperfection which would have scored us out of reality. And it could not have transformed us, as we would have wished it to; as the great Vedic seers wished it to. Despite the appeals to Veda, I have my hunch that the ultimate truth of that reality was not fully grasped by that great seer. And so my search, I should now add my personal note, led me to the feet of this great personality who promised that we shall start with yoga, but with a yoga that is more dynamic in its nature, more perfect in its possibility, more simple in its practice, and certainly more profoundly elevating than any other. And that is why he asked, what is the index of a consciousness that has met the Divine? And I can honestly tell you the first index is the calm that settles on you, the silent mind. The silent mind is said to be the most difficult thing to attain. Well it was felt in the experience of most of us; even the first initiate on the first day might feel that the first is the silent mind. And then a deepening, a widening, and a certainly more illuminating mind begins to operate. It is no longer with the human mind, with all its dialectical contradictions, that we are dealing. In