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As We Become Aware of the Extent of the Challenges, We Come Nearer to the Solutions Required · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In the preceding page, a passage from the synthesis of Yoga by
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  Sri Aurobindo was cited. The Mother is commenting on her
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  impressions while reading that passage.
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  The challenges involved in changing the awareness and
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  consciousness radically enough to recognize that the apparent
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  primacy of the material life and circumstances is an illusion
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  represent a requirement for a major shift of standpoint.
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  As with everything, once we understand the problem and take
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  steps towards adjusting our relation to that problem, we are
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  already nearing the solution. As the mother points out, for
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  most of humanity this recognition has not come.
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  There are a small number of people, one may call them
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  forerunners, who even have an inkling of these issues, and
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  they simply represent the first people truly touched by the
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  pressure of the new higher consciousness that is in the
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  process of manifesting. As that consciousness works its
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  way deeper and deeper into the material world, more people will
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  awaken to the need, the opportunity and the path
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  forward. This is the process of evolution
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  at work, which in the ordinary span of time could take
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  thousands of years. It is the hope that through
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  conscious dedication and participation by those who
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  awaken to this opportunity, the texturing of consciousness
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  generally can lead to a more widespread recognition of and
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  adoption of new ways of being, thinking and acting in the
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  world. At present, it seems like the
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  pressure of the existential crisis we face is forcing
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  humanity to grapple with these issues in a much more focused
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  manner, the mother observes. Quote.
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  It seems to me that when you begin to see things in this way,
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  when they appear to you as they are described here, you are
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  already close, very close, to the solution.
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  The worst of it is that generally the whole material
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  reality seems to be the only reality, and everything which is
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  not that seems altogether secondary.
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  And the right of that material consciousness to rule, guide,
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  organize life, to dominate all the rest is justified to such an
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  extent that if someone tries to challenge this sacrosanct
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  authority, he is considered half mad or extremely dangerous.
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  It seems to me one must still go a very long way to consider
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  material life in the way Sri Aurobindo has described it here.
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  And I am quite convinced that if one feels it like that, sees it
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  like that as he has described it, 1 is very, very close to the
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  remedy. It is only elite natures, those
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  who have already had a contact with a higher reality, with
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  something of the divine consciousness, who feel earthly
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  existence in that way. And when one has can become so
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  fully conscious of all these weaknesses and stupidities of
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  the outer consciousness, all these falsehoods of the
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  so-called material knowledge and so-called physical laws, the
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  so-called necessities of the body, the reality of one's
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  needs, if one begins to see how very false, stupid, illusory,
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  obscure, foolish all this is, 1 is truly very close to the
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  solution. That is the impression I had
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  while reading this. I had the feeling that to see
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  things in this way, one must have already climbed to a very
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  High Peak and that one is at the gates of liberation.
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  If you can read this passage again and be convinced of its
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  reality and it's absolute truth, well, that is already a great
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  step. End Quote reference Shrioro
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  Bindu and the Mother Looking from within, Chapter 1.
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  Looking at Life and Circumstances, pages 19 to 20.