This is the fourth in the series of the last set of eight articles Sri Aurobindo wrote during 1949-50 and it had appeared first in the 24 November 1949 issue of the Bulletin d' Education Physique (Bulletin of Physical Education). Even as the endeavour of the evolutionary unfoldment is towards the higher gnostic life, there has to first also come about a radical or fundamental spiritual change of our being; there has to be a spiritual change preparing the way for supramental manifestation which in fact is in the very nature of things inevitable. Those who are open to this change,—for no change is forced on anyone,—the difficulties of their nature will be removed by this higher consciousness; the life of the mental being, for instance, could lend itself increasingly to the working of the supramental or the truth-force. The so-called human concept of human potential will have a sense only when it recognizes the trend and meaning that is embodied in the principle of manifestation of the higher powers of the spirit in this world of material ignorance and material imperfection. To be more and more receptive to that working is the best beginning, and that is the expectation from the ready humanity.

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