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Punishment
Don’t You find that work often suffers because of tolerance?
Because man takes tolerance as a permission or an opportunity
to take his own advantage, isn’t that so?

It is not the fault of tolerance but of man’s insincerity, and sup-
pression or punishment would only make it worse. It would
give a sort of legitimacy to his insincerity.
CWM 19: 296
We suffer because of our karma, don’t we?
Suffering is the result of separation and ignorance. Karma only
determines the kind of suffering that each one goes through,
according to one’s nature and actions, as the fastest way to
make progress. Suffering is not a punishment, but a logical
and inevitable consequence — inevitable unless the Grace in-
tervenes, and the Grace always intervenes in response to faith.
CWM 19: 299 The Mother

If mankind could but see though in a glimpse of fleeting expe-
rience what infinite enjoyments, what perfect forces, what lu-
minous reaches of spontaneous knowledge, what wide calms
of our being lie waiting for us in the tracts which our animal
evolution has not yet conquered, they would leave all & never
rest till they had gained these treasures. But the way is nar-
row, the doors are hard to force, and fear, distrust & scepti-
cism are there, sentinels of Nature, to forbid the turning away
of our feet from her ordinary pastures.
CWSA 12: 423 Sri Aurobindo

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