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powers and the satisfied assent of all our being to her workings
in and around it is the last perfection of faith in the Shakti.
And behind her is the Ishwara and faith in him is the most
central thing in the 0raddh1 of the integral Yoga. This faith we
must have and develop to perfection that all things are the
workings under the universal conditions of a supreme self-
knowledge and wisdom, that nothing done in us or around us is
in vain or without its appointed place and just significance, that
all things are possible when the Ishwara as our supreme Self
and Spirit takes up the action and that all that has been done
before and all that he will do hereafter was and will be part of
his infallible and foreseeing guidance and intended towards the
fruition of our Yoga and our perfection and our life work. This
faith will be more and more justified as the higher knowledge
opens, we shall begin to see the great and small significanc-
es that escaped our limited mentality and faith will pass into
knowledge. Then we shall see beyond the possibility of doubt
that all happens within the working of the one Will and that
that will was also wisdom because it develops always the true
workings in life of the self and nature. The highest state of the
assent, the 0raddh1 of the being will be when we feel the pres-
ence of the Ishwara and feel all our existence and conscious-
ness and thought and will and action in his hand and consent
in all things and with every part of our self and nature to the
direct and immanent and occupying will of the Spirit. And that
highest perfection of the 0raddh1 will also be the opportunity
and perfect foundation of a divine strength: it will base, when
complete, the development and manifestation and the works
of the luminous supramental Shakti.
CWSA 24: 780-82 Sri Aurobindo

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