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there must be a solution and beyond this Ignorance in which he
dwells a Knowledge that reconciles, he has to take his stand upon
this faith, "Though Thou slay me, yet will I trust in Thee." All human
thought or faith that is active and affirmative, whether it be theistic,
pantheistic or atheistic, does in fact involve more or less explicitly
and completely such an attitude. It admits and it believes: admits
the discords of the world, believes in some highest principle of God,
universal Being or Nature which shall enable us to transcend, over-
come or harmonise these discords, perhaps even to do all three at
once, to harmonise by overcoming and transcending.
CWSA 19: 47-48

Crisis, transition and war
Then, as to human life in its actualities, we have to accept its
aspect of a struggle and a battle mounting into supreme crises such
as that of Kurukshetra. The Gita, as we have seen, takes for its frame
such a period of transition and crisis as humanity periodically expe-
riences in its history, in which great forces clash together for a huge
destruction and reconstruction, intellectual, social, moral, religious,
political, and these in the actual psychological and social stage of
human evolution culminate usually through a violent physical con-
vulsion of strife, war or revolution. The Gita proceeds from the ac-
ceptance of the necessity in Nature for such vehement crises and it
accepts not only the moral aspect, the struggle between righteous-
ness and unrighteousness, between the self-affirming law of Good
and the forces that oppose its progression, but also the physical
aspect, the actual armed war or other vehement physical strife
between the human beings who represent the antagonistic powers.
We must remember that the Gita was composed at a time when
war was even more than it is now a necessary part of human activ-
ity and the idea of its elimination from the scheme of life would
have been an absolute chimera. The gospel of universal peace and
goodwill among men — for without a universal and entire mutual
goodwill there can be no real and abiding peace — has never suc-

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