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menace to the work and the leaders and doers of the work,

one would see this at once. But because the a ack is of a

subtler kind, can a passive a itude be right? It is a spiritual

ba le inward and outward; by neutrality and compromise
or even passivity one may allow the enemy Forces to pass
and crush down the Truth and its children. If you look at it
from this point you will see that if the inner spiritual equal-

ity is right, the active loyalty and firm taking of sides is as
right, and the two cannot be incompatible.
I have of course treated it as a general question apart
from all particular cases or personal questions. It is a prin-
ciple of action that has to be seen in its right light and pro-
portions.
CWSA 29: 131-33 Sri Aurobindo

Equality does not mean a fresh ignorance or blindness;
it does not call for and need not initiate a greyness of

vision and a blo ing out of all hues. Difference is there,

variation of expression is there and this variation we shall
appreciate, —far more justly than we could when the eye
was clouded by a partial and erring love and hate, ad-
miration and scorn, sympathy and antipathy, a raction

and repulsion. But behind the variation we shall always
see the Complete and Immutable who dwells within it
and we shall feel, know or at least, if it is hidden from us,
trust in the wise purpose and divine necessity of the par-
ticular manifestation, whether it appear to our human
standards harmonious and perfect or crude and unfin-

ished or even false and evil.
CWSA 23: 224-25 Sri Aurobindo

All India Magazine, October 2020