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had created the law of death and devouring in the animal world
or that tremendous process by which Nature creates indeed and
preserves but in the same step and by the same inextricable action
slays and destroys. It is only a few religions which have had the
courage to say without any reserve, like the Indian, that this enig-
matic World-Power is one Deity, one Trinity, to lift up the image
of the Force that acts in the world in the figure not only of the be-
neficent Durga, but of the terrible Kali in her blood-stained dance
of destruction and to say, "This too is the Mother; this also know
to be God; this too, if thou hast the strength, adore." And it is sig-
nificant that the religion which has had this unflinching honesty
and tremendous courage, has succeeded in creating a profound
and wide-spread spirituality such as no other can parallel. For truth
is the foundation of real spirituality and courage is its soul. Tasyai
satyam Dyatanam.

We must acknowledge Kurukshetra
All this is not to say that strife and destruction are the alpha
and omega of existence, that harmony is not greater than war,
love more the manifest divine than death or that we must not
move towards the replacement of physical force by soul-force,
of war by peace, of strife by union, of devouring by love, of ego-
ism by universality, of death by immortal life. God is not only the
Destroyer, but the Friend of creatures; not only the cosmic Trinity,
but the Transcendent; the terrible Kali is also the loving and benef-
icent Mother; the lord of Kurukshetra is the divine comrade and
charioteer, the attracter of beings, incarnate Krishna. And whither-
soever he is driving through all the strife and clash and confusion,
to whatever goal or godhead he may be attracting us, it is—no
doubt of that—to some transcendence of all these aspects upon
which we have been so firmly insisting. But where, how, with what
kind of transcendence, under what conditions, this we have to dis-
cover; and to discover it, the first necessity is to see the world as it

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