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acquiescence is only the basis. Man is the instrument of an

evolution which wears at first the mask of a struggle, but
grows more and more into its truer and deeper sense of a
constant wise adjustment and must take on in a rising scale

the deepest truth and significance — now only underlying
the adjustment and struggle — of a universal harmony.
The perfected human soul must always be an instrument
for the hastening of the ways of this evolution. For that a
divine power acting with the royalty of the divine will in
it must be in whatever degree present in the nature. But to
be accomplished and permanent, steadfast in action, truly
divine, it has to proceed on the basis of a spiritual equality,
a calm, impersonal and equal self-identification with all be-

ings, an understanding of all energies. The Divine acts with
a mighty power in the myriad workings of the universe,
but with the supporting light and force of an imperturbable
oneness, freedom and peace. That must be the type of the
perfected soul’s divine works. And equality is the condition
of the being which makes possible this changed spirit in the
action.
But even a human perfection cannot dispense with
equality as one of its chief elements and even its essential
atmosphere.
CWSA 23: 698-701 Sri Aurobindo

All India Magazine, October 2020