{"id":2593,"date":"2013-07-13T01:42:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:42:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:42:38","slug":"19-the-silence-behind-life-vol-12-essays-divine-and-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/12-essays-divine-and-human\/19-the-silence-behind-life-vol-12-essays-divine-and-human","title":{"rendered":"-19_The Silence behind Life.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is a silence behind life as well as within it and it is only
\nin this more secret, sustaining silence that we can hear clearly the voice of God. In the noise of the world we hear only altered & disturbed echoes of it; for the Voice comes always\u2014who else speaks to us on our journey?\u2014but the gods of the
\nheart, the gods of the mind, the gods of desire, the gods of sense take up the divine cry, intercept it and alter it for their
\npurposes. Krishna calls to us, but the first note, even the opening power or sweetness, awakes a very brouhaha of these echoes.
\nIt is not the fault of these poor gods. The accent of power is so desirable, the note of sweetness is so captivating that they
\nmust seize it, they would be dull & soulless, there would be no hope of their redemption if they did not at once leap at it
\nand make it their own. But in becoming their own, it ceases to be entirely his. How many who have the religious faith and
\nthe religious temperament, are following the impulses of their heart, the cravings of their desire, the urgency of their senses,
\nthe dictates of their opinion when they fully imagine that their God is leading them! And they do well, for God is leading
\nthem. It is the way He has chosen for them, & since He has chosen it, it is the best & wisest & most fruitful way for them.
\nStill it is their God\u2014not one they have made in their own image as the Atheist believes, but One who makes Himself in
\nthe image that they prefer, the image that best suits with their nature or their development. “In whatever way men come to
\nme, in that way I love & cleave to them.” It is a saying of fathomless depth which contains the seed of the whole truth
\nabout God & religion. After all it is only in this way that the conditioned can meet the Absolute, that which has a nature or
\ndharma of its own with that which is beyond all limit of nature or dharma. After the meeting of the soul with God,\u2014well, that
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Nevertheless, there is a higher way of meeting him than that
\nwhich leads us through subjection to the Gods. By perfect Love, by perfect Joy, by perfect Satisfaction, by perfected mind one can
\nhear what the Voice truly says if not the Voice itself,\u2014catch the kernel of the message with a sort of ecstatic perfection, even if
\nafterwards the Gods dilate on it & by attempting to amplify & complete, load it with false corollaries or prevent some greater
\nfullness of truth from arriving to us. Therefore this way also, though it is high, cannot be the highest.
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