Chapter 55125–126

divine power which can, for its own ends, use all processes and formulas and transform them at will.

5 August 1969 128 – Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West;

but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

129 – O son of Immortality, live not thou according to Na-

ture, but according to God; and compel her also to live according to the deity within thee.

What does Sri Aurobindo mean here by “the nature which exceeds the body”?

The nature which exceeds the body is the nature which goes on living even after the disappearance of the body; it is the psychic nature which is immortal and divine in essence. The psychic can and must become conscious of the Divine at its centre and consciously unite with Him.

7 August 1969 130 – Fate is God’s foreknowledge outside Space and Time

of all that in Space and Time shall yet happen; what He has foreseen, Power and Necessity work out by the conflict of forces.

If everything is foreseen, what is the role of human aspiration and effort?

In each domain (physical, vital and mental) everything is fore-seen; but the intrusion of a higher domain (overmental and