This is the third in the series of the last set of eight articles Sri Aurobindo wrote during 1949-50 and it had appeared first in the 15 August 1949 issue of the Bulletin of Physical Education. Sri Aurobindo holds in his vision the possibility of a divine life in a divine body, and here in this article gives certain hints about the nature of this new body, its structure, its principle on which it could be founded. Obviously if a divine body has to emerge as an aspect of the evolutionary process, if transformation has to occur then it is necessary that its process be known or worked out. If there has to be continuity then the new body must continue the already developed evolutionary form. The body itself might acquire new means and ranges of communication with other bodies, new processes of acquiring knowledge, a new aesthesis, new potencies of manipulation of itself and objects. Indeed, there could be something of the highest greatness and glory of the self-manifesting Spirit in its development.

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