{"id":2616,"date":"2013-07-13T01:42:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:42:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:42:46","slug":"31-beyond-good-and-evil-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\/31-beyond-good-and-evil-vol-12-essays-divine-and-human","title":{"rendered":"-31_Beyond Good and Evil.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beyond Good and Evil <\/b>
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God is beyond good and evil; man moving Godwards must
\nbecome of one nature with him. He must transcend good and evil.
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God is beyond good and evil, not below them, not existing and limited by them, not even above them, but in a more absolute
\nsense excedent and transcendent of the ideas of good and evil. He exceeds them in his universality; they exist in him, but the
\nvalues of good and evil which we give to things is not their divine or universal value, they are only their practical value
\ncreated by us in our psychological and dynamic dealings with life. God recognises them and seems to deal with us on the basis
\nof this valuation of life, but only to such an extent as may serve his purpose in Nature. In his universal action he is not limited
\nby them. But into his transcendent being of which his highest universal is the image, they do not at all enter; there in the highest
\nuniversal which is to us transcendent is only the absolute good of which both our good and evil have in them certain differentiated
\nelements. Neither our good nor our evil are or can of themselves give the absolute good; both have to be transformed, evil into
\ngood, good into pure and self-existent good, before they can be taken up into it.
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This explains the nature of the universe which would otherwise be inexplicable, inconsistent with the being of God, a
\nforcefully inconscient and violently active enigma. God must be beyond limitation by our ideas of good, otherwise the universe
\nsuch as it is could not exist whether as the partly manifested being of a divine Existence or a thing created or permitted by a
\ndivine Will. He cannot, either, be evil, otherwise in man, his highest terrestrial creature or his highest terrestrial manifestation,
\nthere could not be this dominant idea of good and this stream of tendency towards righteousness. He cannot be a mixture
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of good and evil, whether a self-perplexed and struggling or
\na mysteriously ordered double principle, Ormuzd and Ahriman, or at least he cannot be limited by this duality, for there is
\nmuch in the universe which is neither good nor evil. Perhaps the greatest part of the totality is either supramoral or inframoral or
\nsimply amoral. Good and evil come in with the development of mental consciousness; they exist in their rudimentary elements
\nin the animal and primitive human mind, they develop with the human development. Good and evil are things which arrive in
\nthe process of the evolution; there is then the possibility that they will disappear in the process of the evolution. If indeed
\nthey are essential to its highest possible point of culmination, then they will remain; or if one of them be essential and the
\nother non-essential, then that one will remain and its opposite will disappear.
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