{"id":6279,"date":"2013-07-13T02:06:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6279"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:06:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:06:48","slug":"43-may-25-1968-vol-09-volume-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/09-volume-09\/43-may-25-1968-vol-09-volume-09","title":{"rendered":"-43_May 25_1968.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>May 25, 1968<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Regarding an old Playground Talk of June 10, 1953.) <\/i><br \/>\n<P>What is it about?<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 147<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i>Attacks by adverse forces and Asuras.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Oh! &#8230; <i>(Laughing) <\/i>That&#8217;s a convenient way of putting the blame on others!<br \/>\n<P>Do you think we should publish it?<\/p>\n<p><i>Certainly. It&#8217;s helpful.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>When now people tell me about attacks by adverse forces, I always feel like saying to them, &#8220;The adversity is within you!&#8221;<br \/>\n<P>I think it&#8217;s a very convenient way to get impunity&#8230;. Because if you are perfect, they can&#8217;t do anything against you. It&#8217;s absolutely obvious. It&#8217;s imperfections that give them power. So if we shift our standpoint as Sri Aurobindo did, we&#8217;ll see, as he said, that the so-called adverse forces are tolerated because they are useful to awaken people to the need for transformation, to the urgency of purification.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 148<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"right\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 25, 1968 (Regarding an old Playground Talk of June 10, 1953.) What is it about? Page 147 Attacks by adverse forces and Asuras. Oh!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-09-volume-09","wpcat-144-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279","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=6279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}