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456 − Dost thou hate the atheist because he does not love God?
\nThen shouldst thou be disliked because thou dost not love God perfectly. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

457 − There is one thing especially in which creeds and churches
\nsurrender themselves to the devil, and that is in their anathemas. When the
\npriest chants Anathema Maranatha, then I see a devil praying.<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

458 − No doubt, when the priest curses, he is crying to God; but
\nit is the God of anger and darkness to whom he devotes himself along with his
\nenemy; for as he approaches God, so shall God receive him. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

459 − I was much plagued by Satan, until I found that it was God
\nwho was tempting me; then the anguish of him passed out of my soul for ever. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

460 − I hated the devil and was sick with his temptations and
\ntortures; and I could not tell why the voice in his departing words was so
\nsweet that when he returned often and offered himself to me, it was with sorrow
\nI refused him. Then I discovered it was <\/span><\/b>
\nKrishna<\/span>
\nat His tricks and my hate was changed<\/span> <\/b>
\ninto laughter<\/span><\/span>.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

461 − They explained the evil in the world by saying that Satan
\nhad prevailed against God; but I think more proudly of my Beloved. I believe that
\nnothing is done but by His will in heaven or hell, on earth or on the waters<\/span><\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

I<\/span><\/i>n the Supreme, opposites are reconciled
\nand complement each other. It is division in the manifestation which has made
\nthem into opposites; but once one’s consciousness is united to the<\/i><\/span> <\/i><\/p>\n

Divine Consciousness, opposition disappears.  <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n


\n7 April 1970<\/span><\/font><\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

\u00b9Alternative reading: devil worshipper.<\/font> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\nPage – 341<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

462<\/a> − In our ignorance we are like children proud of our success
\nin walking erect and unaided and too eager to be aware of the mother’s
\nsteadying touch on the shoulder. When we wake, we look back and see that God
\nwas leading and upholding us always<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

463 − At first whenever I fell back into sin, I used to weep and
\nrage against myself and against God for having suffered it. Afterwards it was
\nas much as I could dare to ask, \u201cWhy hast thou rolled me again in the mud, O my
\nplayfellow?\u201d Then even that came to my mind to seem too bold and presumptuous;
\nI could only get up in silence, look at him out of the corner of my eyes −
\nand clean myself.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

So long as man prides himself on his
\nvirtue, the Supreme Lord will make him fall into sin to teach him the necessity
\nof modesty.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n8 April 1970 <\/span>
\n<\/font> <\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

464<\/a> − God has so arranged life that the world is the soul’s
\nhusband; <\/span><\/b>
\nKrishna<\/span> its divine paramour. We owe a debt of service to the world and are
\nbound to it by a law, a compelling opinion, and a common experience of pain and
\npleasure, but our heart’s worship and our free and secret joy are for our
\nLover. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

465 − The joy of God is secret and wonderful; it is a mystery and
\na rapture at which common sense makes mouths of mockery; but the soul that has
\nonce tasted<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 342<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

it, can never renounce, whatever worldly disrepute, torture and
\naffliction it may bring us. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

For the moment, the world still seems to
\nbe in contradiction with the pure and luminous divine joy; but a day will come
\nwhen the world too will manifest this joy. This is what we must prepare it for.
\n<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n


\n9 April 1970<\/font><\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

466<\/a> − God, the world Guru, is wiser than thy mind; trust Him and
\nnot that eternal self-seeker and arrogant sceptic. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

467 − The sceptic mind doubts always because it cannot understand,
\nbut the faith of the God-lover persists in knowing although it cannot
\nunderstand. Both are necessary to our darkness, but there can be no doubt which
\nis the mightier. What I cannot understand now, I shall some day master, but if
\nI lose faith and love, I fall utterly from the goal which God has set before
\nme. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

468 − I may question God, my guide and teacher, and ask Him, \u201cAm I
\nright or hast Thou in thy love and wisdom suffered my mind to deceive me?\u201d
\nDoubt thy mind, if thou wilt, but doubt not that God leads thee. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

Life is given to us to find the Divine and
\nunite with Him.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The mind tries to persuade us that it is
\nnot so. Shall we believe this liar?  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n10 April 1970 <\/span>
\n<\/font><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

469<\/a> − Because thou wert given at first imperfect conceptions about
\nGod, now thou ragest and deniest <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 343<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

Him. Man, dost thou doubt thy teacher because he gave not thee the whole
\nof knowledge at the beginning? Study rather that imperfect truth and put it in
\nits place, so that thou mayst pass on safely to the wider knowledge that is now
\nopening before thee. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

470 − This is how God in His love teaches the child soul and the
\nweakling, taking them step by step and withholding the vision of His ultimate
\nand yet unattainable mountain-tops. And have we not all some weakness? Are we
\nnot all in His sight but as little children? <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

471 − This I have seen that whatever God has withheld from me, He
\nwithheld in His love and wisdom. Had I grasped it then, I would have turned
\nsome great good into a great poison. Yet sometimes when we insist, He gives us
\npoison to drink that we may learn to turn from it and taste with knowledge His
\nambrosia and His nectar<\/span><\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

When man becomes a little wiser, he will
\nnot complain about anything and will take the things the Divine sends him as a
\nmanifestation of His all-compassionate Grace.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The more surrendered we are, the more we
\nshall understand.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The more grateful we are, the happier we
\nshall be.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n11 April 1970<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

472<\/a> − Even the atheist ought now to be able to see that creation
\nmarches towards some infinite and mighty purpose which evolution in its very
\nnature supposes. But infinite purpose and fulfilment presupposes an infinite
\nwisdom that prepares, guides, shapes, protects and justifies. Revere then that
\nWisdom and worship it with thoughts in thy soul if not with incense in a
\ntemple, and even though<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 344<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

thou deny it the heart of infinite Love and the mind of infinite self-
\neffulgence. Then though thou know it not, it is still Krishna whom thou
\nreverest and worshippest. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

Beyond words, beyond thoughts, the Supreme
\nPresence makes itself felt and compels our wonder.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Let us beware of all mental constructions
\nthat limit and distort. Let us strive to keep the contact pure. <\/i><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n


\n12 April 1970 <\/span>
\n<\/font> <\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

473<\/a> − The Lord of Love has said, \u201cThey who follow after the
\nUnknowable and Indefinable, follow after Me and I accept them.\u201d He has justified
\nby His word the Illusionist and the Agnostic. Why then, O devotee, dost thou
\nrail at him whom thy Master has accepted? <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

To the Divine Vision, all sincere human
\naspirations are acceptable, whatever diversity or even apparent contradiction
\nthere may be in their forms.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

And all of them together are not enough to
\nexpress the Divine Reality.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n13 April 1970<\/span><\/font><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

474<\/a> − Calvin, who justified eternal Hell, knew not God but made
\none terrible mask of Him His eternal reality. If there were an unending Hell, it
\ncould only be a seat of unending rapture; for God is Ananda and than the
\neternity of His bliss there is no other eternity.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

475 − Dante, when he said that God’s perfect love created eternal
\nHell, wrote perhaps wiselier than he knew; for from stray glimpses I have
\nsometimes thought there is a Hell where our souls suffer aeons of<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 345<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

intolerable ecstasy and wallow as if for ever in the utter embrace of
\nRudra, the sweet and terrible<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

The divine splendours are too marvellous
\nfor human littleness, which finds it hard to bear them, and an eternity of
\ndelight may well be intolerable for a human being.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n14 April 1970 <\/span>
\n<\/font> <\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

476<\/a> − Discipleship to God the Teacher, sonship to God the Father,
\ntenderness of God the Mother, clasp of the hand of the divine Friend, laughter
\nand sport with our Comrade and boy Playfellow, blissful servitude to God the
\nMaster, rapturous love of our divine Paramour, these are the seven beatitudes
\nof life in the human body. Canst thou unite all these in a single supreme and
\nrainbow-hued relation? Then hast thou no need of any heaven and thou exceedest
\nthe emancipation of the Adwaitin. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

There is nothing to add. It is a perfect
\nprogramme.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

It only remains for us to realise it.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n15 April 1970<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

477<\/a> − When will the world change into the model of heaven? When
\nall mankind becomes boys and girls together with God revealed as Krishna and
\nKali, the happiest boy and strongest girl of the crowd, playing together in the
\ngardens of Paradise. The Semitic Eden was well enough, but Adam and Eve were
\ntoo grown up and its God Himself too old and stern and solemn for the offer of
\nthe Serpent to be resisted. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

478 − The Semites have afflicted mankind with the conception of a
\nGod who is a stern and dignified king <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 346<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

and solemn judge and knows not mirth. But we who have seen Krishna, know
\nHim for a boy fond of play and a child full of mischief and happy laughter. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

479 − A God who cannot smile could not have created this humorous
\nuniverse. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

Ridicule is the strongest weapon against
\nthe powers of falsehood. With a single sentence, Sri Aurobindo annihilates the
\npower of one of these man-made gods.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n17 April 1970 <\/span>
\n<\/font> <\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

480<\/a> − God took a child to fondle him in His bosom of delight; but the
\nmother wept and would not be consoled because her child no longer existed. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

481 − When I suffer from pain or grief or mischance, I say, \u201cSo,
\nmy old Playfellow, thou hast taken again to bullying me,\u201d and I sit down to
\npossess the pleasure of the pain, the joy of the grief, the good fortune of the
\nmischance; then He sees He is found out and takes His ghosts and bugbears away
\nfrom me. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

With sparkling humour Sri Aurobindo
\nendeavours to make us understand the falsehood of the ordinary human consciousness
\nand the luminous and all-powerful joy of the Divine Consciousness we must
\nacquire.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n18 April 1970<\/span><\/font><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

482<\/a> − The seeker after divine knowledge finds in the description
\nof Krishna stealing the robes of the Gopis one of the deepest parables of God’s
\nways with the soul, the devotee a perfect rendering in divine act<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 347<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

of his heart’s mystic experiences, the prurient and the Puritan (two
\nfaces of one temperament) only a lustful story. Men bring what they have in
\nthemselves and see it reflected in the Scripture. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

483 − My lover took away my robe of sin and I let it fall,
\nrejoicing; then he plucked at my robe of virtue, but I was ashamed and alarmed
\nand prevented him. It was not till he wrested it from me by force that I saw
\nhow my soul had been hidden from me. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

Let us drop our robe of virtue so that we
\nmay be ready for the Truth.\u00b9\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n22 April 1970 <\/span>
\n<\/font> <\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

484<\/a> − Sin is a trick and a disguise of <\/span><\/b>
\nKrishna<\/span> to conceal Himself from the gaze of the
\nvirtuous. Behold, O Pharisee, God in the sinner, sin in thyself purifying thy
\nheart; clasp thy brother. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

As always, in his striking and humorous
\nway, Sri Aurobindo tells us that the Divine truth is above both virtue and sin.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n\u00a0<\/font><\/span>19 April 1970<\/font><\/span><\/i> <\/font><\/span><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

485<\/a> − Love of God, charity towards men is the first step towards
\nperfect wisdom.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

486 − He who condemns failure and imperfection, is condemning God;
\nhe limits his own soul and cheats his own vision. Condemn not, but observe
\nNature, help and heal thy brothers and strengthen by sympathy their capacities
\nand their courage.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/p>\n

\u00b9 Oral reply<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\nPage – 348<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

487 − Love of man, love of woman, love of things, love of thy
\nneighbour, love of thy country, love of animals, love of humanity are all the
\nlove of God reflected in these living images. So love and grow mighty to enjoy
\nall, to help all and to love for ever.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

488 − If there are things that absolutely refuse to be transformed
\nor remedied into God’s more perfect image, they may be destroyed with
\ntenderness in the heart, but ruthlessness in the smiting. But make sure first
\nthat God has given thee thy sword and thy mission.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

489 − I should love my neighbour not because he is neighbourhood, −
\nfor what is there in neighbourhood and distance? nor because the religions tell
\nme he is my brother, − for where is the root of that brotherhood? but
\nbecause he is myself. Neighbourhood and distance affect the body, the heart
\ngoes beyond them. Brotherhood is of blood or country or religion or humanity,
\nbut when self-interest clamours what becomes of this brotherhood? It is only by
\nliving in God and turning mind and heart and body into the image of his
\nuniversal unity that that deep, disinterested and unassailable love becomes
\npossible. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t<\/i><\/p>\n

All the human reasons that are given for
\nsolidarity and mutual love are of little value and also of little effect. Only
\nby becoming conscious of the Divine and uniting with Him can one attain and
\nrealise true Unity. <\/p>\n

 <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n20 April 1970
\n<\/font> <\/span><\/i>
\n
\n
\n <\/span><\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

490<\/a> − When I live in Krishna, then ego and self-interest vanish
\nand only God himself can qualify my love bottomless and illimitable. <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 349<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

491 − Living in Krishna, even enmity becomes a play of love and
\nthe wrestling of brothers.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

492 − To the soul that has hold of the highest beatitude, life
\ncannot be an evil or a sorrowful illusion; rather all life becomes the rippling
\nlove and laughter of a divine Lover and Playfellow<\/span><\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t<\/i><\/p>\n

To know how to keep the Divine contact in
\nall circumstances is the secret of beatitude.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n21 April 1970 <\/span>
\n<\/font> <\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

493<\/a> − Canst thou see God as the bodiless Infinite and yet love Him
\nas a man loves his mistress? Then has the highest truth of the Infinite been
\nrevealed to thee. Canst thou also clothe the Infinite in one secret embraceable
\nbody and see Him seated in each and all of these bodies that are visible and
\nsensible? Then has its widest and profoundest truth come also into thy
\npossession. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

494 − Divine Love has simultaneously a double play, an universal
\nmovement, deep, calm and bottomless like the nether Ocean, which broods upon the
\nwhole world and each thing that is in it as upon a level bed with an equal
\npressure, and a personal movement, forceful, intense and ecstatic like the
\ndancing surface of the same Ocean, which varies the height and force of its
\nbillows and chooses the objects it shall fall upon with the kiss of its foam
\nand spray and the clasp of its engulfing waters. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t<\/i><\/p>\n

To make himself understood, Sri Aurobindo
\nuses images that are accessible to everyone; but the marvels of Union
\ninfinitely exceed these human images. <\/p>\n

\t\t<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

22 April 1970 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\nPage – 350<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\t\t<\/i><\/p>\n

\t\t<\/i><\/p>\n


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