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		<b><font face="Times New Roman"><i>The Relative Best</i></font></b></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman">WHATEVER happens is for the best—<i>under the circumstances,</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
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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 to be 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.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There 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&nbsp; 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.</font>
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