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god to be worshipped, as flawed and often an uglier and more bar-
barous fetish than the egoism of the individual. What the spiritual
man seeks is to find by the loss of the ego the self which is one in
all and perfect and complete in each and by living in that to grow
into the image of its perfection, — individually, be it noted, though
with an all-embracing universality of his nature and its conscious
circumference. It is said in the old Indian writings that while in the
second age, the age of Power, Vishnu descends as the King, and
in the third, the age of compromise and balance, as the legislator
or codifier, in the age of the Truth he descends as Yajna, that is to
say, as the Master of works and sacrifice manifest in the heart of
his creatures. It is this kingdom of God within, the result of the
finding of God not in a distant heaven but within ourselves, of
which the state of society in an age of the Truth, a spiritual age,
would be the result and the external figure.
CWSA 25-255-56 Sri Aurobindo

The greater the destruction, the freer the chances of cre-
ation; but the destruction is often long, slow and oppressive,
the creation tardy in its coming or interrupted in its triumph.

The night returns again and again and the day lingers or
seems even to have been a false dawning. Despair not there-
fore but watch and work. Those who hope violently, despair
swiftly: neither hope nor fear, but be sure of God's purpose
and thy will to accomplish.
CWSA 13-209 Sri Aurobindo

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