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241 \u2013 Atheism is a necessary protest against the wickedness of the
\nChurches and the narrowness of creeds. God uses it as a stone to smash these
\nsoiled card-houses. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

242 \u2013 How much hatred and stupidity men succeed in packing up decorously
\nand labelling \u201cReligion\u201d! <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Which is better: religion or atheism? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

So long as religions exist, atheism will be
\nindispensable to counter-balance them. Both must disappear to make way for a
\nsincere and disinterested search for Truth and a total consecration to the
\nobject of this search. <\/p>\n

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

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


\n21 December 1969<\/font><\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

243<\/a> \u2013 God guides best when He tempts worst, loves entirely when He
\npunishes cruelly, helps perfectly when violently He opposes. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

244 \u2013 If God did not take upon Himself the burden of tempting men, the
\nworld would very soon go to perdition. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

245 \u2013 Suffer yourself to be tempted within so that you may exhaust in the
\nstruggle your downward propensities. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

246 \u2013 If you leave it to God to purify, He will exhaust the evil in you
\nsubjectively; but if you insist on guiding yourself, you will fall into much
\noutward sin and suffering. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

247 \u2013 Call not everything evil which men call evil, but only that reject
\nwhich God has rejected; call not<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 286<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

everything good which men call good, but accept only what God has
\naccepted. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

If one gives oneself completely to the Divine, is it necessary to
\ndevelop one’s personal will, one’s power of choice, etc.? Will these things not
\nbecome obstacles? <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

Personal will and power of choice are
\nnecessary qualities for those who live in the ordinary ignorance and illusion. <\/span><\/p>\n

True self-giving to the Divine of course
\nmeans their surrender. But unfortunately, many people live in the illusion that
\nthey have entirely given themselves to the Divine, and yet preserve in
\nthemselves a very active ego which prevents them from clearly perceiving the
\nDivine Will; if these people abandon their personal will and discernment, they
\nare in danger of becoming incoherent and erratic. <\/p>\n

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

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

You must first acquire a perfect sincerity
\nin order to be sure of not deceiving yourself, and you must have clear evidence
\nthat it is truly the Divine Will which moves and guides you. <\/p>\n

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

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


\n22 December 1969<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

248<\/a> \u2013 Men in the world have two lights, duty and principle; but he who
\nhas passed over to God, has done with both and replaced them by God’s will. If
\nmen abuse thee for this, care not, O divine instrument, but go on thy way like
\nthe wind or the sun fostering and destroying. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

249 \u2013 Not to cull the praises of men has God made thee His own, but to
\ndo fearlessly His bidding. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

250 \u2013 Accept the world as God’s theatre; be thou the mask of the Actor
\nand let Him act through thee.<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 287<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

If men praise or hiss thee, know that they too are masks; and take God
\nwithin for thy only critic and audience. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

The first thing needed is to become
\nconscious of the Divine Will, and in order to do that one must no longer have
\nany desires or personal will. <\/span><\/p>\n

The best way to achieve this is to direct
\none’s whole aspiration towards the Divine Perfection, to give oneself to it
\nwithout reserve and to rely on That alone for all satisfaction. <\/p>\n

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

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

All the rest will follow as a result. <\/p>\n

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

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


\n23 December 1969<\/font><\/span><\/i> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

251<\/a> \u2013 If Krishna be alone on one side and the armed and organised world
\nwith its hosts and its shrapnel and its maxims on the other, yet prefer thy
\ndivine solitude. Care not if the world passes over thy body and its shrapnel
\ntear thee to pieces and its cavalry trample thy limbs into shapeless mire by
\nthe wayside; for the mind was always a simulacrum and the body a carcass. The
\nspirit liberated from its casings ranges and triumphs. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

This is to tell us that the only choice to
\nbe made is to unite with the Divine in spite of everything, even the opposition
\nof the whole world, because the world only has an apparent strength in the
\nmental and the physical, whereas the Divine possesses the eternal power of
\nTruth.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n26 December 1969 <\/span>
\n<\/font> <\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

252<\/a> \u2013 If thou think defeat is the end of thee, then go not forth to
\nfight, even though thou be the stronger. For Fate is not purchased by any man
\nnor is Power bound over to her possessors. But defeat is not the end, it is
\nonly a gate or a beginning<\/span><\/b>.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 288<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\n253 \u2013 I have failed, thou sayest. Say
\nrather that God is circling about towards His object.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

254 \u2013 Foiled by the world, thou turnest to seize upon God. If the world
\nis stronger than thou, thinkest thou God is weaker? Turn to Him rather for His
\nbidding and for strength to fulfil it. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Why does God need to \u201ccircle about towards His object?\u201d He can easily
\nreach it immediately if He wants to, and make everybody’s work easier and more
\neffective. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

Surely Sri Aurobindo did not say that
\n\u201cGod\u201d needs<\/span> to circle about, because
\nhe is all-powerful; but his power is not an arbitrary one as men understand it.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

To begin to understand anything about
\nthis, one must know and feel that in the whole universe
\nthere is nothing<\/span> which is not an expression of his omnipotent and
\nomnipresent will; and only by consciously uniting with Him can one begin to
\nunderstand this, not mentally, but through an experience of consciousness and
\nvision.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

In his ordinary consciousness, even with
\nthe widest intelligence, man can only grasp an infinitesimal part of creation
\nand so he cannot understand it and still less judge it.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

And if we want to hasten the
\ntransformation of the world, the best we can do is to give ourselves without
\nreserve or calculation to That which knows.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n28 December 1969
\n<\/font> <\/span><\/i>
\n
\n <\/span><\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

255<\/a> \u2013 So long as a cause has on its side one soul that is intangible in
\nfaith, it cannot perish.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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

256 \u2013 Reason gives me no basis for this faith, thou<\/span><\/b> <\/span>murmurest. Fool! if it did, faith would not be needed or demanded of
\nthee.<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage –
\n289<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

257 \u2013 Faith in the heart is the obscure and often distorted reflection
\nof a hidden knowledge. The believer is often more plagued by doubt than the
\nmost inveterate sceptic. He persists because there is something subconscient in
\nhim which knows. That tolerates both his blind faith and twilit doubts and
\ndrives towards the revelation of that which it knows<\/span><\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Is it good to have a blind faith which neither questions nor reasons? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

What men usually call blind faith is in
\nfact what the Divine Grace sometimes gives to those whose intelligence is not
\ndeveloped enough to have true knowledge. So blind faith can be something very
\nrespectable, although it is of course clear that one who has
\ntrue<\/span> knowledge is in a far superior
\nposition.  <\/span><\/p>\n


\n29 December 1969<\/font><\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

To which plane does faith belong \u2013 mental or psychic? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

Faith is an exclusively psychic
\nphenomenon.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n30 December 1969<\/font><\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

258<\/a> \u2013 The world thinks that it moves by the light of reason, but it is
\nreally impelled by its faiths and instincts. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

259 \u2013 Reason adapts itself to the faith or argues out a justification of
\nthe instincts; but it receives the<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 290<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

impulse subconsciously, therefore men think that they act rationally<\/span><\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

260 \u2013 The only business of reason is to arrange and criticise the
\nperceptions. It has neither in itself any means of positive conclusion nor any
\ncommand to action. When it pretends to originate or impel, it is masking other
\nagencies. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

261 \u2013 Until Wisdom comes to thee, use the reason for its God-given purposes
\nand faith and instinct for theirs. Why shouldst thou set thy members to war
\nupon each other? <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

What are the highest aims of reason, faith and instinct in ordinary life
\nand in spiritual life? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

Each one has his own aims according to his
\nnature and the goal he wants to attain in ordinary life.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

As for spiritual life, it has only one
\ngoal: to know the Divine and to unite with Him, by every possible means and
\nwith the help of faith, which is certainly the most powerful motive-force for
\nbeginners. \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n31 December 1969 <\/span>
\n<\/font> <\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

262<\/a> \u2013 Perceive always and act in the light of thy increasing
\nperceptions, but not those of the reasoning brain only. God speaks to the heart
\nwhen the brain cannot understand him. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

263 \u2013 If thy heart tell thee, Thus and by such means and at such a time
\nit will happen, believe it not. But if it gives thee the purity and wideness of
\nGod’s command, hearken to it. <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 291<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

264 \u2013 When thou hast the command, care only to fulfil it. The rest is
\nGod’s will and arrangement which men call chance and luck and fortune. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

It is obviously in the silence of the mind
\nthat it is possible to perceive the Divine Command. The true way of knowing is
\nabove words and thoughts. <\/p>\n

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

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

When this phenomenon occurs, it becomes
\nvery clear, because one knows the Divine Command
\nfirst<\/span>, and the words to describe it come later. <\/p>\n

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

<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n


\n1 January 1970
\n<\/font> <\/span><\/i>
\n
\n <\/font><\/span><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

265<\/a> \u2013 If thy aim be great and thy means small, still act; for by action
\nalone these can increase to thee<\/span><\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

266 \u2013 Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to
\nfail or to prosper<\/span><\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

267 \u2013 There are three forms in which the command may come, the will and
\nfaith in thy nature, thy ideal on which heart and brain are agreed and the
\nvoice of Himself or His angels. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

268 \u2013 There are times when action is unwise or impossible; then go into
\nTapasya\u00b9\u00a0 <\/span>in some physical solitude or in
\nthe retreats of thy soul and await whatever divine word or manifestation. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

269 \u2013 Leap not too quickly at all voices, for there are lying spirits
\nready to deceive thee; but let thy heart be pure and afterwards listen. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

\u00a0<\/span>It
\nis indeed of utmost importance not to accept each and every<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

\u00b9Austerity, spiritual discipline<\/font><\/span>.<\/font> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\nPage – 292<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

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

voice as coming from the Divine, because
\none is liable to obey the command of an imposter. There is only one guarantee
\nwhich is a complete absence of all personal desire, even the desire of serving
\nthe Divine, and the fact of being immersed in a total peace. Only then can one
\nbe sure of one’s discernment. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n


\n3 January 1970<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

270<\/a> \u2013 There are times when God seems to be sternly on the side of the
\npast; then what has been and is, sits firm as on a throne and clothes itself
\nwith an irrevocable \u201cI shall be.\u201d Then persevere, though thou seem to be
\nfighting the Master of all; for this is His sharpest trial. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

271 \u2013 All is not settled when a cause is humanly lost and hopeless; all
\nis settled, only when the soul renounces its effort. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

This is to encourage us not to allow ourselves
\nto be influenced by appearances and to persist in our effort even if it seems
\nto have no result. <\/p>\n

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

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

In life, we must do what is revealed to us
\nas the true thing to be done, even if others mock and criticise; for the
\nopinion of men has no value, the Divine Will alone is true and will triumph.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n4 January 1970<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

272<\/a> \u2013 He who would win high spiritual degrees, must pass endless tests
\nand examinations. But most are anxious only to bribe the examiner<\/span><\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

273 \u2013 Fight, while thy hands are free, with thy hands and thy voice and
\nthy brain and all manner of weapons. Art thou chained in the enemy’s dungeons
\nand<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 293<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

have his gags silenced thee? Fight with thy silent all-besieging soul
\nand thy wide-ranging will-power and when thou art dead, fight still with the
\nworld-encompassing force that went out from God within thee.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

Truth is a difficult and strenuous
\nconquest. One must be a true warrior to make this conquest, a warrior who fears
\nnothing, neither enemies nor death, for, against the whole world, with or
\nwithout a body, the struggle continues and will end in Victory.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n6 January 1970<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

274<\/a> \u2013 Thou thinkest the ascetic in his cave or on his mountain-top a
\nstone and a do-nothing. What dost thou know? He may be filling the world with
\nthe mighty currents of his will and changing it by the pressure of his
\nsoul-state. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

275 \u2013 That which the liberated sees in his soul on its mountain-tops,
\nheroes and prophets spring up in the material world to proclaim and accomplish.
\n<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n276 \u2013 The Theosophists are wrong
\nin their circumstances but right in the essential. If the French Revolution
\ntook place, it was because a soul on the Indian snows dreamed of God as
\nfreedom, brotherhood and equality. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

This is simply to show us that the power of
\nthe spirit is far greater than all material powers. But both are indispensable
\nfor the realisation.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


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

\n277<\/a> \u2013 All speech and action
\ncomes prepared out of the eternal Silence<\/span><\/b>.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 294<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

278 \u2013 There is no disturbance in the depths of the Ocean, but above
\nthere is the joyous thunder of its shouting and its racing shoreward; so is it
\nwith the liberated soul in the midst of violent action. The soul does not act;
\nit only breathes out from itself overwhelming action.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

This tells us again that That which causes
\naction, the Consciousness and Power which are manifested in action, are quite
\ndifferent from the individuals who carry it out materially and who think in
\ntheir ignorance that they are the originators of action. <\/p>\n

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

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


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

 <\/span><\/p>\n

279<\/a> \u2013 O soldier and hero of God, where for thee is sorrow or shame or
\nsuffering? For thy life is a glory, thy deeds a consecration, victory thy
\napotheosis, defeat thy triumph<\/span><\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

For one who is totally consecrated to the
\nDivine, there can be neither shame nor suffering, for the Divine is always with
\nhim and the Divine Presence changes all things into glory.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n9 January 1970<\/font><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

280<\/a> \u2013 Do thy lower members still suffer the shock of sin and sorrow? But
\nabove, seen of thee or unseen, thy soul sits royal, calm, free and triumphant.
\nBelieve that the Mother will ere the end have done her work and made the very
\nearth of thy being a joy and a purity. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

281 \u2013 If thy heart is troubled within thee, if for long seasons thou
\nmakest no progress, if thy strength faint and repine, remember always the
\neternal word of our Lover and Master, \u201cI will free thee from all sin and evil;
\ndo not grieve\u201d <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 295<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

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

Here, what Sri Aurobindo calls the soul is
\nthe Divine Presence in each one of us; and the certitude of this constant Presence
\nwithin us will alleviate all our sorrow by convincing us of the ultimate
\nvictory which is certain.  <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\n10 January 1970
\n<\/font> <\/span><\/i>
\n
\n <\/span><\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

282<\/a> \u2013 Purity is in thy soul; but for actions, where is their purity or
\nimpurity? <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

Sri Aurobindo does not use the word purity
\nin the ordinary moral sense. For him, purity means exclusively under the
\ninfluence of the Divine, expressing only the Divine. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n      <\/span>At present, no action on earth can be like
\nthis. <\/p>\n

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

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


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

 <\/span><\/p>\n

283<\/a> \u2013 O Death, our masked friend and maker of opportunities, when thou
\nwouldst open the gate, hesitate not to tell us beforehand; for we are not of
\nthose who are shaken by its iron jarring. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

284 \u2013 Death is sometimes a rude valet; but when he changes this robe of
\nearth for that brighter raiment, his horseplay and impertinences can be
\npardoned. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

285 Who shall slay thee, O soul immortal? Who shall torture thee, O God
\never-joyous? <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Why has death been associated with sorrow ever since the beginning? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

Human ignorance and egoism are the cause
\nof sorrow. But this sorrow has also played its part in the evolution of
\nhumanity.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n


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

\nPage – 296<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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

What part has sorrow played in the evolution of humanity? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

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

Sorrow, desire, suffering, ambition and
\nevery other similar reaction in the feelings and sensations have all
\ncontributed to make consciousness emerge from the inconscience and to awaken
\nthis consciousness to the will for progress. <\/p>\n

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

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


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

 <\/span><\/p>\n

286<\/a> \u2013 Think this when thy members would fain make love with depression
\nand weakness, \u201cI am Bacchus and Ares and Apollo; I am Agni pure and invincible;
\nI am Surya ever burning mightily.\u201d <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

287 \u2013 Shrink not from the Dionysian cry and rapture within thee, but see
\nthat thou be not a straw upon those billows. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

288 \u2013 Thou hast to learn to bear all the gods within thee and never
\nstagger with their inrush or break under their burden. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

This is to teach man not to be dominated
\nor frightened by the gods of the various religions; for, as a human being, man
\ncarries within himself the possibility of uniting with the Supreme Lord and
\nbecoming conscious of Him. <\/span><\/p>\n


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

\nPage – 297<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

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