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The Master of Our Works
The Master of our works respects our nature even when he
is transforming it; he works always through the nature and not
by any arbitrary caprice. This imperfect nature of ours contains
the materials of our perfection, but inchoate, distorted, mis-
placed, thrown together in disorder or a poor imperfect order.
All this material has to be patiently perfected, purified, reorgan-
ised, new-moulded and transformed, not hacked and hewn and
slain or mutilated, not obliterated by simple coercion and deni-
al. This world and we who live in it are his creation and manifes-
tation, and he deals with it and us in a way our narrow and ig-
norant mind cannot understand unless it falls silent and opens
to a divine knowledge. In our errors is the substance of a truth
which labours to reveal its meaning to our groping intelligence.
The human intellect cuts out the error and the truth with it and
replaces it by another half-truth half-error; but the Divine Wis-
dom suffers our mistakes to continue until we are able to arrive
at the truth hidden and protected under every false cover. Our
sins are the misdirected steps of a seeking Power that aims,
not at sin, but at perfection, at something that we might call a
divine virtue. Often they are the veils of a quality that has to be
transformed and delivered out of this ugly disguise: otherwise,
in the perfect providence of things, they would not have been
suffered to exist or to continue. The Master of our works is
neither a blunderer nor an indifferent witness nor a dallier with
the luxury of unneeded evils. He is wiser than our reason and
wiser than our virtue.
CWSA 23: 245-46 Sri Aurobindo

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