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<font size="4">Vengeance
is Mine</font></b></p>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=3>ONE
who seeks to live in God's consciousness cannot take the law into his
own hands; he must leave it all to God. When he takes up the
self-appointed task of remedying the situation, &quot;resisting evil&quot;
as Christ termed it, he invites resistance from the other side which
takes up its own counter-measures. The principle of <I>revanche </I>or
<I>vendetta, </I>practised by nations and families, has not been a
success, as history has amply proved. It is a seesaw movement, a
vicious circle without issue. Not only so, the movement gathers
momentum and increases in violence and confusion the farther it
proceeds on its career. That is why Christ uttered his warning: and
Buddha too declared that enmity cannot be appeased by enmity, it can
be appeased only by the want of enmity. The truth is true not only in
respect of two enemy forces of the same quality and on the same
plane, but also with regard to the antagonism between higher and
lower forces, between Good and Evil.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Do we then propose taking it all lying down, it may be
asked? Is martyrdom then our ideal? Not so, for we do not believe
that evil forces can be appeased or conquered or transformed by
yielding to them, letting them free to have their own way. Otherwise
Krishna would not have enjoined. and inspired (almost incited) Arjuna
to enter on a bloody battle. Still forces, whether good or bad, are
conquered or quelled or transformed truly and permanently by forces
that belong not to the same level of being or consciousness, but to a
higher one. Instead of working in a parallelogram of forces, we must
take recourse, as it were, to a pyramid of forces. We know of the
ideal of soul-force standing against and seeking to persuade or
peacefully subdue brute force. It is not an </FONT>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=3>impossibility;
only we must be able really to get to the true soul and not a
semblance or substitute of it. The true soul is .man's spiritual or
divine being – the consciousness in which man is one in substance
and nature with God. It is not a mere thought formation, a mental and
moral ideal. The only force that can succeed against a lower or
undivine force is God's own force – and the success can be complete
and absolute by the calling in or intervention of God's force in its
highest status. Anything less than that will be no more than a
temporary lull or adjustment.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The world is not changed in spite of many efforts,
because man is always taking to human means, he is not allowing God
to do God's work, but putting his own individual initiative in God's
place, taking perhaps God's name on the lips with a secret,
unconscious feeling that unless he himself does something nothing
will be <I>done – kart<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">Ä</FONT>hamiti
manyate. </I>Human means may achieve at its best a compromise, but no
permanent solution: it is often the beginning of a worse situation, a
greater disharmony and conflict – peace, it has been said, is only
a preparation for war. That vicious circle can be and has to be cut
by the razor-blade consciousness of the aspirant to life divine who
by the clear and tranquil energy of his <I>tapas </I>can call down a
divine interference in mortal affairs.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The right attitude, then, for a sadhak who has to live
dangerously in the world of today is to rise above the turmoils that
surge around, to lift the consciousness to a serener height and
aspire wholly towards the help and guidance from above, not to be
moved by the blast that passes but hold himself firmly anchored upon
the rock of ages, the Divine Grace. It is only then that the question
can come of actually taking part in the battle of life – for it is
then that you can act as God's agent or instrument. If you have to
take to the field of actual battle you must first receive God's
commission <I>(chaprash – as </I>Ramakrishna called it), even as
Arjuna did.</FONT></P>
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