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<font size="4">There's
a Divinity</font></b></p>
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<FONT SIZE=2><I>There's a Divinity that shapes our ends,</I></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2><I>Rough-hew them how we will. </I>*</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>That is what man can do at his best, and even at his
worst, <I>rough-hew. </I>Ignorant as he is, crude as his instruments
are, he can do no better (and happily, no worse either). The ideals
he has do not go very far, not much beyond his nose – they are
limited by his senses, by his notions, by his immediate reactions to
the circumstances of the moment. Even when the ends are commendable,
the purposes decent, even when he is happily inspired, the materials
and means at his disposal are crude and he uses them in a rough and
ready manner. What he can achieve in this direction is not even a
near but a very far approximate. And w hen he is otherwise inspired,
when suggestions and impulsions come to him from the Hostiles, well,
he hews his way, as Hitler did – and some others are doing now –
to wrong ends; even there he does not succeed wholly, realises his
design very partially, <I>grosso modo. </I>The stone club in the hand
of the palaeolithic man and the atom bomb in the hand of the modern
are equally rough instruments, and the ends which they serve, whether
for good or for evil, are also gross, neither far-visioned nor deep
inspired, but superficial, strait and narrow, blindly immediate. In
either case, however, the Divine remains unaffected, firmly seated
behind and in and through both, in and through their ignorant and
perverse wills, it is His Will that works itself out and finds
fulfilment in the end. Whether one is for or against the Divine,
whether one is a God or an Asura, each in his own way contributes to
the progressive realisation of</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>-------------------------------</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>* <I>Hamlet, </I>Act v, Sc. ii</FONT><BR>
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Cosmic Purpose. From a certain point of view even it may seem as
though nothing helps or hinders, all are like a straw in a rushing
current.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>In our human reckoning, we seem to help the evolutionary
course sometimes and sometimes hamper it with our efforts in so far
as they are well directed or ill directed. In the practice of
spiritual life too, one may be tempted to find a measurable
proportion between the personal endeavour and the attainment. However
that may be, at the end of all human efforts, the finishing touch
always comes from the Divine Grace. Whether we succeed or fail,
whatever be the human judgment of the situation, the Grace is sure to
intervene in the final stage: to success it will bring more success
giving it the peak of fulfilment, and failure too it will transmute
into a glorious triumph.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Page – 387</FONT></P>
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