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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>WHATEVER happens is for
the <i>best – <span style='font-size:10.0pt'>under the circumstances,</span>
</i>it must be added, for the best is the resultant of many forces pulling in
all directions for and against and sideways. The <i>best </i>means whatever
leads to the goal, to the ultimate good, the final reality, the Supreme, the
Divine. The universe is so arranged, the divine dispensation acts in such a way
that every event, every circumstance, whatever its appearance, always leads to
the Supreme Goal. So it is said the way, whatever it is, straight or crooked,
always guides you to your final realisation.</p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">Only, in the progressive march, the best can always
be bettered and must be bettered. In the earlier stages, when one is in
ignorance and darkness lies about, the path is sure to be tortuous with ups and
downs, aberrations and retrogressions, but as one advances and the
consciousness grows the obscurity dissipates, gradually the path too
straightens itself, becomes smooth and kindly. That is how the best at one
moment, which may appear to the superficial consciousness, very bad or even the
worst, is bettered – betterment means precisely this that one rises into a
clearer consciousness, one moves along a straighter path, one takes a shorter and
happier course to the Goal. This is true as much of the individual as of the
world as a whole, for the world too, like the individual, moves inevitably
towards its high destiny – the same as or parallel to that of the individual.</p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">It is the best that happens always for nothing else
can happen but it is a relative best, relative to the situation that the consciousness
according to its status creates around. As the consciousness advances the
nature of the best is also transformed.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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is an absolute best but that can happen only when the consciousness has arrived
at, attained union with the Supreme Consciousness. In fact there is then no
longer any path to traverse, the path has lapsed or merged into the goal, the
path and the goal have become one. This does not mean that dangers and
difficulties and pitfalls have to be accepted and welcomed but that they have
to be faced in the right spirit as aids and helps necessary and inevitable at
certain points of the journey. One must grow into the consciousness that will
be able to see them as such, find their use and turn them into the good that
lies behind or ahead.</p>
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