Short prose pieces written between 1910 and 1950, but not published during Sri Aurobindo's lifetime.
Short prose pieces written between 1910 and 1950, but not published during Sri Aurobindo's lifetime. The material is arranged in four parts: (1) 'Essays Divine and Human', complete essays on yoga and related subjects, (2) 'From Man to Superman: Notes and Fragments on Philosophy, Psychology and Yoga'; (3) 'Notes and Fragments on Various Subjects', and (4) Thoughts and Aphorisms. (Some of this material was formally published under the title 'The Hour of God and Other Writings')
541) I know that the opposite of what I say is true, but for the present what I say is still truer.
542) I believe with you, my friends, that God, if He exists, is a demon and an ogre. But after all what are you going to do about it?
543) God is the supreme Jesuit Father. He is ever doing evil that good may come of it; ever misleads for a greater leading; ever oppresses our will that it may arrive at last at an infinite freedom.
544) Our Evil is to God not evil, but ignorance and imperfection, our good a lesser imperfection.
545) The religionist speaks a truth, though too violently, when he tells us that even our greatest and purest virtue is as vileness before the divine nature of God.
546) To be beyond good and evil is not to act sin or virtue indifferently, but to arrive at a high and universal good.
547) That good is not our ethical virtue which is a relative and erring light in the world; it is supra-ethical and divine.
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The last two aphorisms (541-42) in the notebook containing the main series were not clearly intended for inclusion in the Karma, Jnana or Bhakti sections. The editors have placed them in a separate section along with five other aphorisms (543-47) that were written in a different notebook. The handwriting of these last five indicates that they were written somewhat later than 1913—possibly as late as 1919.
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