India - the Mother

July 15, 1953

... If you take your thought far enough, you will see that if the Divine is truly all-powerful in this world, if he always does whatever he likes, well, I say that he is the greatest monster in the universe! Because someone all-powerful who would make the world as it is, watching with a smile people suffer and be miserable, and who would find it all quite fine, as for me, I call him a monster. That was the sort of thing I thought of when I was five. I would say to myself, "But that can't be, what we are taught can't be true!" ... You will see that this whole conception and notion you have is based on something, an entity you call God, and a world you call his creation, two things you think to be different, one having created the other, the other being subservient to the first and the expression of what the first did. Well, that is the initial error. While if you could feel deeply that there is no division between that something you call God and this something you call the creation, if you said, "It's exactly the same thing," if you could feel that what you call God (which may be just a word) suffers when you suffer, is ignorant when you are ignorant, that it is through this whole creation that he finds himself again little by little, step by step, unites with himself, realizes himself, expresses himself, and it's not at all something he wanted arbitrarily and did autocratically, but the growing, increasingly developing expression of a consciousness that objectifies to itself ... Then there is nothing but the sense of a collective advance towards a more total realization, a self-awareness and self-knowledge within a total oneness that will integrally reproduce the primordial Consciousness.

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