This is the fifth in the series of the last set of eight articles Sri Aurobindo wrote during 1949-50 and it had appeared first in the 21 February 1950 issue of the Bulletin d' Education Physique. Sri Aurobindo has been all along yogically maintaining that the supramental Light and Force must depend upon earth. But what would be the consequences of this descent for humanity? In what way will the lot of this race born of ignorance and inconsciennce change? But if Supermind is a supreme creative Force its coming here is not going to be merely an addition of another element in the working of the earth nature. There will be a possibility of developing higher means and instrumentalities to pass over the last borders of Ignorance into a higher knowledge. There would be, to begin with, “a new mental being not only capable of standing enlightened in the radiance of Supermind but able to climb consciously towards it and into it, training life and body to reflect and hold something of the supramental light, power and bliss, aspiring to release the secret divinity into self-finding and self-fulfilment and self-poise, aspiring towards the ascension to the divine consciousness, able to receive and bear the descent of the divine light and power, fitting itself to be a vessel of the divine Life.”

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