The article posted here is an abstracted text taken from Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo. For the fuller presentation please go to the original. The essay first appeared in the August 1949 issue of the Bulletin of Physical Education and later, in 1952, published in the book Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth. This is the last set of eight prose articles Sri Aurobindo wrote at the request of the Mother. If the evolutionary aim is the manifestation of the Divine in the physical, that even the body shall be the House of God, that it shall express dynamically the possibilities of the Spirit, then the question arises as to what shall be its nature. “Light and bliss and beauty and a perfection of the spontaneous right action of all the being are there as native powers of the supramental truth-consciousness and these will in their very nature transform mind and life and body even here upon earth into a manifestation of the truth-conscious spirit.” There has to be always the push towards perfection that the manifesting powers of light and joy and truth and beauty and sweetness and love find their natural scope of articulation and presentation. The new type, the divine body, must continue the already developed evolutionary form; but it will acquire new means and ranges of communication. It must ultimately reflect or reproduce here in a divine life on the earth something of the highest glory and greatness of the self-manifesting spirit. It shall be the dynamic centre of activity that a divine collectivity, divyam janam, will be in a position to lead the evolution not from Ignorance to Knowledge but from Knowledge to greater Knowledge in the limitless vistas of the Infinite.

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