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will and greatness. Despise not force, nor only man could consent to be spiritualised.’
hate it for the ugliness of some of its faces, And perhaps it would be enough if some
nor think that love only is God. All perfect individuals became pure gold, for this would
perfection must have something in it of the be enough to change the course of events....
stuff of the hero and even of the Titan. But We are faced with this necessity in a very
the greatest force is born out of the greatest urgent way.
difficulty (6).”
This courage, this heroism which the Divine
“After all, the whole problem is to know whether wants of us, why not use it to fight against one’s
humanity has reached the state of pure gold or own difficulties, one’s own imperfections, one’s
whether it still needs to be tested in the crucible. own obscurities? Why not heroically face the
furnace of inner purification so that it does not
One thing is evident, humanity has not become become necessary to pass once more through
pure gold; that is visible and certain. one of those terrible, gigantic destructions
which plunge an entire civilisation into
But something has happened in the world’s darkness?
history which allows us to hope that a
selected few in humanity, a small number of This is the problem before us. It is for each one
beings, perhaps, are ready to be transformed to solve it in his or his own way. This evening I
into pure gold and that they will be able am answering the questions I have been asked,
to manifest strength without violence, and my reply is that of Sri Aurobindo: If man
heroism without destruction and courage could once consent to be spiritualised....
without catastrophe.
And I add: Time presses... from the human point
But in the very next paragraph Sri Aurobindo of view (7).”
gives the answer: ‘If man could once consent
to be spiritualised.’ If only the individual References
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continue to be what it is: the mixed ore Trust; 1997, p. 386.
which needs to be cast into the furnace. At 2. Ibid., p. 40.
the moment we are at a decisive turning-
point in the history of the earth, once 3. Sri Aurobindo. CWSA, Volume 22; 2005,
again. From every side I am asked, “What pp. 1090-91.
is going to happen?” Everywhere there is
anguish, expectation, fear. “What is going 4. The Mother. The Collected Works of the Mother,
to happen?...” There is only one reply: ‘If Volume 10. Cent ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo

1 “All could change if man could once consent to be spiritualised; but his nature, mental and
vital and physical, is rebellios to the higher law. He loves his imperfection.”

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