It is only by the progressive awakening of the Body's consciousness to the higher divine forces that it can eventually escape the law and need of illness.
Pain is a state when our consciousness is intensely concentrated at one spot, be it physical or psychological. There are four things we can
do with it.
Those who stand obstinately in our progress or come in the way by sapping all our time and energy meant for dedicating to the Divine and His Work, have to be quietly but firmly shunned.
Sleep is at once a school of nature as well as a necessity at our present stage of evolution. Unfortunately very little has been explored about it apart from the usual physiological aspects.
We stand today at the threshold of a New Age. It is period of great upheavals and confusions, when the old bases get shaken so that a deeper and stronger foundation can be secured and the new things may manifest upon earth.
We may say that the work for which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother came was fulfilled in a way on the 29th February 1956. Sri Aurobindo had predicted this in one of his diary notes.
She has assured us that we must not be bewildered by appearances, and that Sri Aurobindo is in our midst as a dynamic Presence guiding us on the path of transformation, and that the work undertaken by him is going to end in a success.
The whole purpose of yoga is to transform and divinise human life and hence the working is on a vast field and area of life. In this sense it is a laboratory of spiritual evolution.