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I am trying to do something new in God’s creation. Even today spirituality shuns physical activities. Not only in India but even in the West I can spiritually and occultly see that they are like the North Pole and South Pole. But this is absurdity on the face of it. The inner divinity must come forward to blossom into the outer beauty. Outer beauty is strength or, let us call it physical fitness. For us, remaining in the Himalayan caves can never be the answer. Nor is it our goal to be in the larger-than-the-largest palace. The spiritual life is not the life of austerity, and it is not the life of pleasure; it is the life of inner aspiration and outer dedication. Inner discipline and outer determination must go together. Prayer-life, concentration-life and meditation-life are our inner meal. Regularity, punctuality and determination are our outer meal. We need nourishment in both our inner life and our outer life.