So let's become and conquer as Rishi Agastya said:
"Let us have the taste of even all the contesting
forces,
Let us conquer indeed even here,
Let us run this battle-race of a hundred leadings..."
(Letter to an Auroville woman. Note in the margin: "Not
sent, except to the Devil!")
The game of the Asura is always the same, throughout
all of human spiritual history: it catches a bit of the Truth, and with the very
force of the Truth it has swallowed, it develops its Falsehood. The danger of
the Falsehood is not Falsehood, if I dare say, but the portion of Truth that has
been swallowed and that helps strengthen the Falsehood. The true Asura is not
the "devil" whom everybody knows is dark and wicked, but the little saint who
uses the Truth and utters the words of Truth for his selfish ends. In the name
of Christ's "Love," more than one "heretic" was imprisoned and tortured and
burnt. In the name of "nonviolence," they betrayed the true Shakti of India and
encouraged a
mass
of spiritual calves who meditate seated on the rot of the country. The greatest
crimes and the greatest betrayals have always been committed in the name of
Truth, it goes without saying. In the name of Mother and Sri Aurobindo and the
"Ideal of Human Unity," they imprison some Aurovilian brothers and hire dubious
lawyers. In the name of this much-vaunted "Unity," they expel Satprem from the
Ashram, take away the visas of the dissidents or the rebels, and at the same
time, say: let's embrace Navajata, let's embrace Shyamsundar — let's embrace one
another, we are all "One," aren't we? No, little one, I don't know if it is the
"Truth," but it is mental rot. The "spiritual" arguments of the person you speak
of smell bad — it is a corpse of the decaying Truth. You must choose, you must
know what you want and on which side you stand. It is this courage that is
needed. During the war too, we heard more than one traitor, in the name of the
"Unity of France," proclaim collaboration with the troops of the Gestapo.
Unity is all very well, but we have first to deserve
it: you don't create unity by putting a viper in your pocket, or else it will
bite you and so much the better, if you are silly enough to put a viper in your
pocket.
Truth is not something that is like a fried egg: it is
something that becomes itself and conquers itself. Unity is not something that
exists like a pair of spiritual slippers. It is something that becomes itself
and conquers itself at each instant against a thousand enemies.
So let's become and conquer as Rishi Agastya said:
"Let us have the taste of even all the contesting
forces,
Let us conquer indeed even here,
Let us run this battle-race of a hundred leadings..."
(Rig-Veda I. 179)
That's it.
Satprem
source: http://www.aurobindo.ru/workings/satprem/carnets_of_an_apocalypse_0002_e.htm
