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It is a world which has emerged from the Inconscient and these things [poverty and misery] are results of the imperfect working of the human mind which, being born into the ignorant life and matter, has to learn by effort and experience. Ignorance and ego have to be outgrown before there can be a true utilisation of the resources of Nature.

  • Sri Aurobindo

Source: CWSA Vol. 28: Letters on Yoga – I: Book I > Problems of Philosophy, Science, Religion and Society > Religion, Idealism, Morality and Yoga > Morality and Yoga

Link: https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/morality-and-yoga#p50

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