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be not destroyed, but perfected, enlarged to its widest ca-
pacity, deepened to its spiritual rapture, the love of God,
the love of man, the love of all things as ourselves and as
beings and powers of the Divine; a large, universal love, not
at all incapable of various relation, will replace the clamant,

egoistic, self-regarding love of li le joys and griefs and in-

sistent demands afflicted with all the chequered pa ern of
angers and jealousies and satisfactions, rushings to unity
and movements of fatigue, divorce and separation on which
we now place so high a value. Grief will cease to exist, but
a universal, an equal love and sympathy will take its place,

not a suffering sympathy, but a power which, itself deliv-
ered, is strong to sustain, to help, to liberate. To the free
spirit wrath and hatred are impossible, but not the strong
Rudra energy of the Divine which can ba le without hatred

and destroy without wrath because all the time aware of the
things it destroys as parts of itself, its own manifestations
and unaltered therefore in its sympathy and understand-
ing of those in whom are embodied these manifestations.
All our emotional nature will undergo this high liberating
transformation; but in order that it may do so, a perfect

equality is the effective condition.
CWSA 23: 703-05 Sri Aurobindo

It is to record the divine
or true appearance of things and return to them the
reaction of an equal Ananda without dislike or desire.

CWSA 28: 207 Sri Aurobindo

All India Magazine, October 2020