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The Riddle of this World

1933

As for the contact with the Mother in the vital and your sense of the fine the magnificent experience it was —that too is natural and right ; for the vital no less than the psychic and every other part of the being has to feel the Divine Mother and give itself entirely to her. [...] The arrangement of things may be that and not a mere question of the pounds shillings and pence of a distribution of rewards and retributory mifortunes ! It is the same with the problem of the taking of animal life under the circumstances put forward by your friend in the letter. [...] For once it aepears it acquires for the Soul descending into evolutionary manifestation an irresistible attraction which creates the inevitability--an attraction which in human terms on the terrestrial level might be intepreted as the call of the unknown the joy of danger and difficulty and adventure the will to attempt the impossible to work out the incalculable the will to create the new [...] For to the original being of light on the verge of the descent the one thing unknown was the depths of the abyss the possibilities of the Divine in the 102THE RIDDLE OF THIS WORLD Ignorance and Incenscience. [...] in this acquiecence was embraced too the will of the great Sacrifice the descent of the Divine itself into the Inconscience to take up the burden of the Ignorance and its consequences to intervene as the Avatar and the Vibhuti walking between the double sign of the Cross and the Victory towards the fulfilment and deliverance.
philosophy religion
Pages
115
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143341
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv Aurobindo view
A Far Greater Truth
1-3 unknown view
Supernals
4-9 unknown view
The Graded Worlds
10-15 unknown view
The Ascending and the Descending Movement
16-22 unknown view
Western Metaphysics and Yoga
23-32 unknown view
The Agnostic and the Vedantic Unknowable
33-36 unknown view
Doubts and the Divine
37-39 unknown view
The Valley of the False Glimmer
40-50 unknown view
The Intermediate Zone
51-67 unknown view
Cosmic Truth and Cosmic Ignorance
67-67 unknown view
Samata and Equality
68-69 unknown view
The Fundamental Difference
69-69 unknown view
The Higher and the Lower Truth
70-71 unknown view
A Problem of Faith
72-75 unknown view
The Triune Godhead
76-79 unknown view
Some Spiritual Dilemmas
80-86 unknown view
Rebirth and Personality
87-91 unknown view
The Riddle of this World
92-109 unknown view

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