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Namah War and Peace

of consciousness that wars will end.

This spiritual evolution is the next logical
step in the journey of the earth and one that is
pressing upon us with a growing urgency. It
is as we grow into the law of beauty and light
through a spiritual evolution that the debt to
Rudra would be paid and be replaced by the
benevolent SSiva and his gentler ways or else
to use another analogy, the war-torn field of painful destruction appals thy mind, console it
Kuruksetra will be replaced with the dance of with the certainty of a large and great creation.
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Vrndavan. Wars are a reminder that our efforts God is there not only in the still small voice, but
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at unity are still incomplete and we have yet in the fire and in the whirlwind.
to go through the needed purification so that
strife is no longer needed and the wrestle of “The greater the destruction, the freer the
enemies in the arena of the world is changed chances of creation; but the destruction is
into a loving clasp of brothers. often long, slow and oppressive, the creation
tardy in its coming or interrupted in its triumph.
The remedy therefore lies in hastening the The night returns again and again and the
human evolution out of the ego-centred, mind day lingers or seems even to have been a false
governed, desire-burdened civilisation to a dawning. Despair not therefore but watch
soul-centred, Divine-governed civilisation, and work. Those who hope violently, despair
driven by the aspiration for Truth and Light swiftly: neither hope nor fear, but be sure of
and Beauty and Peace and Love. Such a change God’s purpose and thy will to accomplish (5).”
may seem impossible for the average human
thought but if this further spiritual evolution “Wherefore God hammers so fiercely at his
is not impossible then we have to accept the world, tramples and kneads it like dough, casts
inevitability of wars and possibility of human it so often into the blood-bath and the red hell-
self-destruction. Yet let us hope that it will heat of the furnace? Because humanity in the
not be so. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother mass is still a hard, crude and vile ore which
assure us that a spiritual evolution is indeed will not otherwise be smelted and shaped; as
the next evolutionary step and have given is his material, so is his method. Let it help to
the clear roadmap towards this inevitable transmute itself into nobler and purer metal,
future unfolding. Perhaps if we could take his ways with it will be gentler and sweeter,
even a few baby-steps and put our will in this much loftier and fairer its uses.
direction it may be enough to tilt the balance
in favour of a lasting harmony and peace for Wherefore he selected or made such a
all mankind. material, when he had all infinite possibility
to choose from? Because of his divine Idea
“Wherever thou seest a great end, be sure of which saw before it not only beauty and
a great beginning. Where a monstrous and sweetness and purity, but also force and

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