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Strength and Grace
There is nothing unintelligible in what I say about strength
and Grace. Strength has a value for spiritual realisation, but to
say that it can be done by strength only and by no other means
is a violent exaggeration. Grace is not an invention, it is a fact
of spiritual experience. Many who would be considered as mere
nothings by the wise and strong have attained by Grace; illiter-
ate, without mental power or training, without "strength" of
character or will, they have yet aspired and suddenly or rapidly
grown into spiritual realisation, because they had faith or be-
cause they were sincere. I do not see why these facts which
are facts of spiritual history and of quite ordinary spiritual ex-
perience should be discussed and denied and argued as if they
were mere matters of speculation. Strength, if it is spiritual, is a
power for spiritual realisation; a greater power is sincerity; the
greatest power of all is Grace. I have said times without number
that if a man is sincere, he will go through in spite of long delay
and overwhelming difficulties. I have repeatedly spoken of the
Divine Grace. I have referred any number of times to the line of
the Gita:

Aham tv1 sarvap1pebhyo mo=ayi=y1 mi ma /uca#
"I will deliver thee from all sin and evil, do not grieve."
CWSA 29: 172 Sri Aurobindo

Illnesses and accidents
Sweet Mother, Are illnesses and accidents the result of some-
thing bad one has thought or done, of a fall in one's conscious-
ness? If the cause is a mistake one has made, how can one find
out what it is?

It has nothing to do with punishment; it is the natural and
normal consequence of an error, shortcoming or fault which

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