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complete meaning. That is to say, if one can be sufficiently
master of oneself and above things, in a much higher con-
sciousness which can see from above — even that which ap-
pears the most terrible and most dramatic to the ordinary
human consciousness makes you smile as at a childishness.
And so, if one is in that consciousness in which one can smile
at everything (for one understands the causes of everything,
and one also sees the forces working in all things), if one can
be in that consciousness and then smile at what happens,
immediately things change. Only, this is not a little external
and social smile: it must be the psychic being which smiles.

CWM 5: 369-70
Look at all things with a smile
You say, “I am like that, what can I do about it? I separate
myself from Nature, I let her do whatever she likes, I am not
this Nature, I am the Purusha. Ah! let her go her own way;
after all, I can’t change her.” This is extremely convenient.
And that is why people adopt it; for they imagine they are in
the Purusha, but at the least scratch they fall right back into
Prakriti, and then they fly into a temper or are in despair or
fall ill. And that’s that.
I heard someone who had, however, realised precisely
this kind of identification with the Purusha and radiated a very
remarkable atmosphere; but he called dangerous revolution-
aries all those who wanted to change something in the earth-
Nature, all who wanted things on earth to change —wanted,
for example, that suffering might be abolished or ultimately
the necessity of death might be done away with, that there
might be an evolution, a luminous progress requiring no de-
struction: “Ah! those who think like that are dangerous revo-
lutionaries. If need be, they should be put in prison!”

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