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is, to observe and value rightly his action as it reveals itself at the
start and now; afterwards the way and the goal will better reveal
themselves. We must acknowledge Kurukshetra; we must submit
to the law of Life by Death before we can find our way to the life
immortal; we must open our eyes, with a less appalled gaze than
Arjuna's, to the vision of our Lord of Time and Death and cease to
deny, hate or recoil from the universal Destroyer.
CWSA 19: 43-46 Sri Aurobindo

Debt to Rudra
Sri Aurobindo writes in his Essays on the Gita: “The law of Vishnu
cannot prevail till the debt to Rudra is paid.”
What does this mean? Mother, is the present situation in India
like the debt which must be paid to Rudra?

Here is the whole quotation which I had prepared in advance
for those who would ask the wherefore of the present situation. I
am sending it to you so that your question is taken care of.
“No real peace can be till the heart of man deserves peace;
the law of Vishnu cannot prevail till the debt to Rudra is paid. To
turn aside then and preach to a still unevolved mankind the law of
love and oneness? Teachers of the law of love and oneness there
must be, for by that way must come the ultimate salvation. But
not till the Time-Spirit in man is ready, can the inner and ultimate
prevail over the outer and immediate reality. Christ and Buddha
have come and gone, but it is Rudra who still holds the world in
the hollow of his hand. And meanwhile the fierce forward labour of
mankind tormented and oppressed by the powers that are profi-
teers of egoistic force and their servants cries for the sword of the
Hero of the struggle and the word of its prophet.”
CWM 13: 364 The Mother

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