October 30
Birthday of #Satprem
Remebered his"message to the youth" The Great Sense written in French in 1969..addressed to students, to those who want to bring about the revolution of the future by the means of the future. A thread.
This is the time of the Great Sense.
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Birthday of #Satprem
Remebered his"message to the youth" The Great Sense written in French in 1969..addressed to students, to those who want to bring about the revolution of the future by the means of the future. A thread.
This is the time of the Great Sense.
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#Satprem
We look to the right or to the left, we build theories, reform our Churches, invent super-machines & go out in the streets to break the Machine that stifles us-we struggle in the small sense. When the terrestrial ship is sinking, does it matter whether the passengers
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We look to the right or to the left, we build theories, reform our Churches, invent super-machines & go out in the streets to break the Machine that stifles us-we struggle in the small sense. When the terrestrial ship is sinking, does it matter whether the passengers
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drown to the right or to the left, under a flag black or red, or celestial blue? Our Churches have already sunk: they are reforming their own dust. Our patriotisms are crushing us, our machines are crushing us, our schools are crushing us, & we build more machines to
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drown to the right or to the left, under a flag black or red, or celestial blue? Our Churches have already sunk: they are reforming their own dust. Our patriotisms are crushing us, our machines are crushing us, our schools are crushing us, & we build more machines to
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break out of the Machine. We go to the moon,but we do not know our own heart nor our terrestrial destiny. And we want to improve what is-but the time for improvements is past: can one improve rot? This is the time for SOMETHING ELSE. Something else, which is not the
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break out of the Machine. We go to the moon,but we do not know our own heart nor our terrestrial destiny. And we want to improve what is-but the time for improvements is past: can one improve rot? This is the time for SOMETHING ELSE. Something else, which is not the
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#Satprem
same thing with improvements.
But how shall we proceed?
They preach violence to us, or nonviolence. But these are two faces of the same Falsehood, the yes & no of the same impotence: the little saints have gone bankrupt with the rest, & others want to seize power -
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same thing with improvements.
But how shall we proceed?
They preach violence to us, or nonviolence. But these are two faces of the same Falsehood, the yes & no of the same impotence: the little saints have gone bankrupt with the rest, & others want to seize power -
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#Satprem
what power? That of the statesmen? Are we going to fight over the prison keys? Or to build another prison? Or do we really want to get out of it? Power does not flow from the barrel of a gun, neither does freedom flow from the bellies of the dead-for 30 million years
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what power? That of the statesmen? Are we going to fight over the prison keys? Or to build another prison? Or do we really want to get out of it? Power does not flow from the barrel of a gun, neither does freedom flow from the bellies of the dead-for 30 million years
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now, we have been building on corpses, on wars, on revolutions. And the drama is enacted over & over again. Perhaps the time has come to build on something else and find the key to the true Power?..
So let us look at the Great Sense...
It tells us that we were born
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now, we have been building on corpses, on wars, on revolutions. And the drama is enacted over & over again. Perhaps the time has come to build on something else and find the key to the true Power?..
So let us look at the Great Sense...
It tells us that we were born
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so many million years ago-a molecule, a gene, a quivering bit of plasma-& we have produced a dinosaur, a crab, an ape...But is man truly the goal of all these million years of striving?-The secondary school for all & the washing machine?
The Great Sense, the True Sense
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so many million years ago-a molecule, a gene, a quivering bit of plasma-& we have produced a dinosaur, a crab, an ape...But is man truly the goal of all these million years of striving?-The secondary school for all & the washing machine?
The Great Sense, the True Sense
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tells us that man is not the end. It is not the triumph of man that we want, not an improved version of the intelligent dwarf-it is another man on earth, another race in our midst.
"Man is a transitional being" #SriAurobindo said. We are right in the middle of this
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tells us that man is not the end. It is not the triumph of man that we want, not an improved version of the intelligent dwarf-it is another man on earth, another race in our midst.
"Man is a transitional being" #SriAurobindo said. We are right in the middle of this
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transition, it is bursting forth on every side: in Biafra, in Israel, in China, on the Boul'Mich. Man is uncomfortable in his skin...
But where is the lever of this Transmutation?
It is within.
There is a Consciousness within, there is a Power within, the very power
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transition, it is bursting forth on every side: in Biafra, in Israel, in China, on the Boul'Mich. Man is uncomfortable in his skin...
But where is the lever of this Transmutation?
It is within.
There is a Consciousness within, there is a Power within, the very power
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that strained & strove in the dinosaur, in the crab, in the ape, in man-it strives still, presses farther on, clothes itself in a more & more perfected form as its instrument grows, & creates its own form. If we grasp the lever of that Power, it will itself create its
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that strained & strove in the dinosaur, in the crab, in the ape, in man-it strives still, presses farther on, clothes itself in a more & more perfected form as its instrument grows, & creates its own form. If we grasp the lever of that Power, it will itself create its
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new form, for it is itself the lever of the Transmutation...we can hasten the time, we can make a concentrated evolution-we can be the conscious creators of the New Being.
In truth, this is the time of the Great Adventure. The world is closed, there are no more
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new form, for it is itself the lever of the Transmutation...we can hasten the time, we can make a concentrated evolution-we can be the conscious creators of the New Being.
In truth, this is the time of the Great Adventure. The world is closed, there are no more
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adventures outside:....The Adventure is within-Freedom is within, Space is within, so is the transformation of our world by the power of the Spirit. Because, in truth, that Power was always there, supreme, all-powerful, prodding evolution on: it was the hidden Spirit
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adventures outside:....The Adventure is within-Freedom is within, Space is within, so is the transformation of our world by the power of the Spirit. Because, in truth, that Power was always there, supreme, all-powerful, prodding evolution on: it was the hidden Spirit
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#Satprem
growing to become the Spirit manifest upon earth, & if we have trust, if we want that supreme Power, if we have the courage to descend into our hearts, everything is possible,
for God is in us.
Satprem
Pondicherry
27 June 1969
growing to become the Spirit manifest upon earth, & if we have trust, if we want that supreme Power, if we have the courage to descend into our hearts, everything is possible,
for God is in us.
Satprem
Pondicherry
27 June 1969
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