Sri Aurobindo

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This strength of every particular individual is the strength of God

and not his own, because every particular strength is merely a part of

the Universal force and it is really the Universal force and not the

individual strength that is acting. But in living beings, when

consciousness has become separate, individual is allowed to suppose

himself to be strong in his own strength. He is not really so. God

gave the strength and He can take it away. He gave it power to act and

He can battle its action of the fruits the individual sought and turn

it to quite other results. This is so common an experience that we do

not see how any man with the power of introspection can deny it. Only

at a ordinary times, when things seem to be moving according to our

calculations, we forget it, but on certain occasions He manifests

Himself with such force either in events or in our own actions that

unless we are blinded by egoism or by infatuation we are compelled to

perceive the universally of the force that is acting and the

insignificance of the individual.