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ishness and hatred and jealousy and malignance and envy and
strife, if treachery and greed and ingratitude are mixed in the
sacred chalice, if grossness of passion and unrefined desire de-
grade devotion, in such hearts the gracious and beautiful God-
dess will not linger. A divine disgust seizes upon her and she
withdraws, for she is not one who insists or strives; or, veiling
her face, she waits for this bitter and poisonous devil’s stuff to
be rejected and disappear before she will found anew her happy
influence. Ascetic bareness and harshness are not pleasing to
her nor the suppression of the heart’s deeper emotions and the
rigid repression of the soul’s and the life’s parts of beauty.

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… it is through love and beauty that she lays on men the yoke
of the Divine. Life is turned in her supreme creations into a rich
work of celestial art and all existence into a poem of sacred de-
light; the world’s riches are brought together and concerted for
a supreme order and even the simplest and commonest things
are made wonderful by her intuition of unity and the breath of
her spirit. Admitted to the heart she lifts wisdom to pinnacles
of wonder and reveals to it the mystic secrets of the ecstasy
that surpasses all knowledge, meets devotion with the passion-
ate attraction of the Divine, teaches to strength and force the
rhythm that keeps the might of their acts harmonious and in
measure and casts on perfection the charm that makes it en-
dure for ever.
CWSA 32:20-22 Sri Aurobindo

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