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From Justice to Grace
Indeed, in our ignorance of true justice, the justice which
is one with perfect harmony, perfect equilibrium and perfect
order, our wisest course is to take the path of love, the path of
charity which shuns all judgment.
This is what justifies the attitude of those who always set
charity against justice. Justice is, in their eyes, rigorous, merci-
less, and charity must come to temper its excessive severity.
Certainly, they cannot speak thus of divine justice, but
more rightly of human or rather of social justice, the egoistic
justice which is instituted to defend a more or less extensive
grouping of interests and is as much opposed to true justice as
shadow is contrary to light.
When we speak of justice as it is rendered in our so-called
civilised countries, we should call it not rigorous and merciless
but blind and monstrous in its ignorant pretension.
So we can never make too many amends for its fatal ef-
fects, and there charity finds an opportunity to apply itself
fruitfully.
But this is only one side of the question and before delving
deeper into our subject, I would like to remind you that char-
ity, like all other human activities, is exercised according to
four different modes which must be simultaneous if its action
is to be integral and truly effective. I mean that no charity is
complete if it is not at the same time material, intellectual,
spiritual or moral and, above all, loving, for the very essence
of charity is love.
CWM 2: 99-100 The Mother

God had opened my eyes; for I saw the nobility of the vulgar, the
attractiveness of the repellent, the perfection of the maimed
and the beauty of the hideous. CWSA 12: 423 Sri Aurobindo

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