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\nChance <\/font> <\/span><\/i>
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\nW<\/font><\/span>hat do we understand by the term \u201cchance\u201d? Chance can only be the
\nopposite of order and harmony. There is only one true harmony and that is the
\nsupramental \u2013 the reign of Truth, the expression of the Divine Law. In the
\nSupermind, therefore, chance has no place. But in the lower Nature the supreme
\nTruth is obscured: hence there is an absence of that divine unity of purpose
\nand action which alone can constitute order. Lacking this unity, the domain of
\nlower Nature is governed by what we may call chance \u2013 that is to say, it is a
\nfield in which various conflicting forces intermix, having no single definite
\naim. Whatever arises out of such a rushing together of forces is a result of
\nconfusion, dissonance and falsehood \u2013 a product of chance. Chance is not merely
\na conception to cover our ignorance of the causes at work; it is a description
\nof the uncertain mel<\/i><\/span>\u00e9e<\/span><\/i> of the lower Nature which lacks the calm one-pointedness of the
\ndivine Truth. The world has forgotten its divine origin and become an arena of
\negoistic energies; but it is still possible for it to open to the Truth, call
\nit down by its aspiration and bring about a change in the whirl of chance. What
\nmen regard as a mechanical sequence of events, owing to their own mental associations,
\nexperiences and generalisations, is really manipulated by subtle agencies each
\nof which tries to get its own will done. The world has got so subjected to
\nthese undivine agencies that the victory of the Truth cannot be won except by
\nfighting for it. It has no right to it: it has to gain it by disowning the
\nfalsehood and the perversion, an important part of which is the facile notion
\nthat, since all things owe their final origin to the Divine, all their
\nimmediate activities also proceed directly from it. The fact is that here in
\nthe lower Nature the Divine is veiled by a cosmic Ignorance and what takes
\nplace does not proceed directly from the divine knowledge. That everything is
\nequally the will of God is a very convenient suggestion of the hostile influences
\nwhich
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would have the creation stick as tightly as possible to the
\ndisorder and ugliness to which it has been reduced. So what is to be done, you
\nask? Well, call down the Light, open yourselves to the power of Transformation.
\nInnumerable times the divine peace has been given to you and as often you have
\nlost it \u2013 because something in you refuses to surrender its petty egoistic
\nroutine. If you are not always vigilant, your nature will return to its old
\nunregenerate habits even after it has been filled with the descending Truth. It
\nis the struggle between the old and the new that forms the crux of the Yoga;
\nbut if you are bent on being faithful to the supreme Law and Order revealed to
\nyou, the parts of your being belonging to the domain of chance will, however
\nslowly, be converted and divinised.\u00a0 <\/span>
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Chance \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0   What do we understand by the term \u201cchance\u201d? Chance can only be the opposite of order and harmony. There is only one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-03-questions-and-answers-volume-03","wpcat-115-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}