{"id":4016,"date":"2013-07-13T01:52:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:52:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:53","slug":"30-power-of-right-vol-03-questions-and-answers-volume-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/03-questions-and-answers-volume-03\/30-power-of-right-vol-03-questions-and-answers-volume-03","title":{"rendered":"-30_Power of Right.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\n\u00a0<\/font><\/span>Power of Right Attitude<\/font><\/b> <\/font><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n


\n <\/font><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\nI<\/font><\/span>s it really the best that always happens?\u2026 It is clear that all
\nthat has happened had to happen: it could not be otherwise–by the universal
\ndeterminism it had to happen. But we can say so only after it has happened, not
\nbefore. For the problem of the very best that can happen is an individual
\nproblem, whether the individual be a nation or a single human being; and all
\ndepends upon the personal attitude. If, in the presence of circumstances that
\nare about to take place, you can take the highest attitude possible that is, if
\nyou put your consciousness in contact with the highest consciousness within
\nreach, you can be absolutely sure that in that case it is the best that can
\nhappen to you. But as soon as you fall from this consciousness into a lower
\nstate, then it is evidently not the best that can happen, for the simple reason
\nthat you are not in your very best consciousness. I even go so far as to affirm
\nthat in the zone of immediate influence of each one, the right attitude not only
\nhas the power to turn every circumstance to advantage but can change the very
\ncircumstance itself. For instance, when a man comes to kill you, if you remain
\nin the ordinary consciousness and get frightened out of your wits, he will most
\nprobably succeed in doing what he came for; if you rise a little higher and
\nthough full of fear call for the divine help, he may just miss you, doing you a
\nslight injury; if, however, you have the right attitude and the full
\nconsciousness of the divine presence everywhere around you, he will not be able
\nto lift even a finger against you. <\/span><\/p>\n

This truth is just the key to the whole
\nproblem of transformation. Always keep in touch with the divine presence, try
\nto bring it down \u2013 and the very best will always take place. Of course the
\nworld will not change at once, but it will go forward as rapidly as it possibly
\ncan. Do not forget that this is so only if you keep on the straight road of
\nYoga, and not if you deviate <\/span>
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and lose your way and wander about capriciously or helplessly as
\nthough in a virgin forest. <\/span><\/p>\n

If each of you did your utmost, then there
\nwould be the right collaboration and the result would be so much the quicker. I
\nhave had innumerable examples of the power of right attitude. I have seen
\ncrowds saved from catastrophes by one single person keeping the right attitude.
\nBut it must be an attitude that does not remain somewhere very high and leaves
\nthe body to its usual reactions. If you remain high up like that, saying, \u201cLet
\nGod’s will be done\u201d, you may get killed all the same. For your body may be
\nquite undivine, shivering with fear: the thing is to hold the true
\nconsciousness in the body itself and not have the least fear and be full of the
\ndivine peace. Then indeed there is no danger. Not only can attacks of men be
\nwarded off, but beasts also and even the elements can be affected. I can give
\nyou a little example. You remember the night of the great cyclone, when there
\nwas a tremendous noise and splash of rain all about the place. I thought I
\nwould go to Sri Aurobindo’s room and help him shut the windows. I just opened
\nhis door and found him sitting quietly at his desk, writing. There was such a
\nsolid peace in the room that nobody would have dreamed that a cyclone was
\nraging outside. All the windows were wide open, not a drop of rain was coming
\ninside.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>
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\n <\/font><\/span>H<\/a><\/font><\/span>OME<\/font><\/a><\/b>
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