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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; 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 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 dif-
ficulties. I have repeatedly spoken of the Divine Grace. I

have referred any number of times to the line of the Gita:

AhaW tvD sarvapaDpebhyo mokIayiIyami mD QucaU
‘I will deliver thee from all sin and evil, do not grieve.’
CWSA 29: 172 Sri Aurobindo

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