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For there came the need to found the bases of what would become the Center of Education: indeed, the children had arrived. It so happened that, near the end of the Second World War, the Two of Them had to open the doors of the ashram to families of disciples originating from Bengal who were no longer safe and sought refuge near Them – with their children naturally. And so quite suddenly the life of the ashram had to adapt in a thousand ways so as to include and embrace this raw vitality with all its needs. Not only had one to look after them all, but one had to establish a progressive dynamism of integral development able to nourish, sustain and encourage the growth of the true consciousness in each and every unique individual child. And to that end had to be trained those amongst the disciples who would take up and carry out the functions, not of “teachers” but of helpers and participants in the self-discovery, self-mastery and the search for true knowledge in every child and adolescent.

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And very soon She introduced the imperative necessity of physical education, so that each could concretely grasp the importance of a wakeful and participating physical consciousness and of bodies that are balanced, plastic, harmonious and eager with the flame of progress.

Needs and necessities call for answers and thus new spaces were made and provided and the range of activities further diversified.

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