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<font size="4">Divine
Intervention</font></b></p>
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we have named Intervention is also known popularly as Providence. It
is the element of the incalculable and the unforeseen in Nature.
Nature, in one respect, seems to be a closed circle: it is a rigid
mechanism and its movements are very definite and absolutely fixed
admitting of no change or variation whatsoever. That was the idea
which governed our earlier scientists when they spoke or the Law of
Nature. Law of Nature was to them, in the great Sophoclean phrase,
something indelible and inviolable, immemorially the same which no
man or god dare alter or disobey. Laplace, one of the pioneers of the
scientific outlook, said, in fact, that he could very well imagine a
mathematician recording and calculating all the forces that act and
react in the world and from the present position of things foretell
the time and place of each and every event in the cosmic field. The
idea of Karma, or Kismet, is a parallel conception in the domain of
human nature and character. The chain reaction of cause and effect&quot;
is rigorous and absolute, follows a single line of movement and
possesses a rigidly predetermined disposition. The principle is
equally applicable either to a phenomenon of the physical world or to
that of man's inner consciousness.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>But we have arrived today at a stage when this old-world
view has perforce to be discarded. We can no longer take Laplace
seriously: for scientists themselves have established as a fact in
physical Nature the indeterminacy of her movements, the impossibility
of foretelling <I>a la </I>Laplace, not because of any deficiency in
the human instrument but because of the very nature of things.
Science is of course at a loss to explain the why or even the how of
this indeterminacy. We say, however, that it is nothing but the
intrusion of another,</FONT><BR>
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different kind of force in the field of the forces actually at play.
That force comes from a higher, a subtler level. Things and forces
move in their ordinary round, according to the normal laws, bound
,within their present frame: but always there drops in from elsewhere
an unknown element, a force or energy or impulse of another quality,
which causes a shift of emphasis in the actual, brings about a change
unaccountable and unforeseen. This is what is called miracle: the
imposition of a higher law, a generic law governing subtler forms and
forces upon an inferior and grosser sphere. And the higher or subtler
the plane from which the new force descends – the plane can be
anything between the one nearest to the material, the subtle physical
or ethereal, and the one nearest to the other extreme, the spiritual
– the greater will be the change in nature, quality and extent in
the lower order. Such miracles, interventions, providential
happenings are not rare. They are always occurring, only they do not
attract attention. For it is these phenomena that are the real causes
of all progress – cosmic as well as individual. Evolution is based
upon this truth of Nature.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Man is not bound to the present pattern or complex of
his nature and character: he is not irrevocably fixed to the frame –
a Procrustean bed – given by the parallelogram of actual forces in
or around him. Always he can call down forces or forces can descend
into him from otherwhere and bring about a change, even a revolution
in the mode and make-up of his character and nature and life. What we
call &quot;opening&quot; in our. Sadhana refers to this factor in our
consciousness. It means the possibility of the descent of a higher
force in our normal nature. Nature is not such a solid stream-lined
structure as not to admit of any interstices in it. We know of the
comparatively vast spaces that separate atom from atom, the immense
emptiness across which even the ultimate nuclear particles have to
act upon each other. These are the loop-holes in the great net and it
is precisely through them that other forces percolate.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Man or Nature does not mark time; they are always on the
march. The march would have been a thrice vicious circle, a mere
issueless repetition of the old and the agelong but for this stress
of a higher destiny behind. Great souls,</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Page – 389</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Vibhutis, Avatars themselves are incarnations of such
descents of higher and other forces from toprung sources.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The higher the source the greater, more substantial and
permanent is the miracle. The miracle of miracles awaits the destiny
of man on earth when the supreme consciousness of the Divine will
descend here into Matter and mould all mortality into immortality.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Page – 390</FONT></P>
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