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truth in its entirety because there there is much that is not clear
and pleasant and comfortable, but hard to understand and harder
to bear. The raw religionist, the superficial optimistic thinker, the
sentimental idealist, the man at the mercy of his sensations and
emotions agree in twisting away from the sterner conclusions, the
harsher and fiercer aspects of universal existence.
(CWSA 19:381) Sri Aurobindo

There is something that makes the heart of the world to rejoice
and take pleasure in the name and nearness of the Divine. It is
the profound sense of that which makes us see in the dark face
of Kali the face of the Mother and to perceive even in the midst of
destruction the protecting arms of the Friend of creatures, in the
midst of evil the presence of a pure unalterable Benignity and in
the midst of death the Master of Immortality. From the terror of
the King of the divine action the Rakshasas, the fierce giant pow-
ers of darkness, flee destroyed, defeated and overpowered. But
the Siddhas, but the complete and perfect who know and sing the
names of the Immortal and live in the truth of his being, bow down
before every form of Him and know what every form enshrines and
signifies. Nothing has real need to fear except that which is to be
destroyed, the evil, the ignorance, the veilers in Night, the Rak-
shasa powers. All the movement and action of Rudra the Terrible
is towards perfection and divine light and completeness.
(CWSA 19:389-90) Sri Aurobindo

Rudra power
It [the equivalent of anger in the higher nature] is a rudra power
of severity and indignation (in the deepest sense of the word)
against what should not be — the warrior force of Mahakali in
combating the Asura.
(CWSA 31:271) Sri Aurobindo

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