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Near the end of the 1940s India, who had just acquired its independence and its status as a nation on the terrestrial stage, was a universe entirely woven with a rich complexity of traditions upon which had superimposed, to sheer pragmatic and interested ends, the Victorian values of England. When, in this unorthodox ashram now endowed with a school, She introduced a program of physical education that was identical for women and for men, for boys and for girls, addressing each growing individuality as a living soul whose uniqueness, freed from the ego, must be cherished and sustained and encouraged, this was the actual announcement of a great revolution. Children and disciples of all ages were now wearing, several hours a day, the same uniform, participated in the same games and underwent the same training. It was then that He chose to briefly interrupt His silent concentration to write a limpid and lucid text that She published in the new quarterly Bulletin of the Center of Education, in which He defined the terms of the necessary progress of the corporeal consciousness in order to ensure an earthly physical base for the evolutionary transition, through the first manifestation of what He then named the “Mind of Light” = an intermediate step that required the strong, balanced, plastic, enduring and mastered receptivity of the physical consciousness and the life of the body, the very cells of the material organism learning to participate. Reticence, resistance, alarm, indignation, comments were fusing everywhere.

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