A problem of faith

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Namaste.

 

Having recently stumbled across some very interesting

literature by Sri Aurobindo, I am very happy to share

the same. The following are extracted from Sri Aurobindo's

"The Riddle of this World", written on June 24,1931.

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How to conciliate these two notions :

1) that the Divine's will is behind all movements and

happenings.

2) that the Divine will is distorted in the manifestation.

 

There are two kinds of faith:

The faith that calls down the equanimity and the faith that

calls down the realisation.

 

which correspond to two different aspects of the Divine:

the Transcendent Divine and the Cosmic Divine.

The Will of realisation is that of the Transcendent Divine.

 

The Cosmic Divine is what is concerned with the actual

working out of things under the present circumstances. It

is the Will of that Cosmic Divine which is manisfested in

each circumstance, each movement of this world.

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Then too we can see that even in the play of the forces

and in spite of their distortions the Cosmic Will is

working towards the eventual realisation of the Will

of the Transcendent Divine.

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The faith that goes to the Cosmic Divine is limited in the

power of its action by the necessities of the play.

To get entirely free from these limitations one must

reach the Transcendent Divine.

 

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With Love,

Raghava