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that something must be not a mental and vital movement but an
inner somewhat which can well be seen by the inner eye. If it is there
and when it becomes active in front, then the Compassion can act,
though the full action of the Grace may still wait attending the de-
cisive decision or change; for this may be postponed to a future
hour, because some portion or element of the being may still come
between, something that is not yet ready to receive.
CWSA 29: 168-69
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 ex-
perience. Many who would be considered as mere nothings by the
wise and strong have attained by Grace; illiterate, 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 because they were sincere. I do not see
why these facts which are facts of spiritual history and of quite
ordinary spiritual experience 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 sin-
cerity; 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:
AhaW tvD sarvapDpebhyo mokIayiIyD mi mDQucaU
“I will deliver thee from all sin and evil, do not grieve.”
CWSA 29: 172 Sri Aurobindo

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