Chapter 82210–211

vengeance. Leave these things, for they belong to a lower humanity.

Anger and vengeance belong to a lower humanity, the humanity of yesterday and not of tomorrow.

1 December 1969 212 – Poets make much of death and external afflictions; but

the only tragedies are the soul’s failures and the only epic man’s triumphant ascent towards godhead.

Usually man is not afflicted with the only thing truly tragic, the failure to find one’s soul and to live according to its law.1

In truth, the only thing that is truly tragic is not to become conscious of one’s soul, the psychic being, and not to be entirely guided by it in one’s life.

To die before having found one’s soul and lived according to its law, that is the true failure.

And the true epic, the true glory is to find the Divine in oneself and to live according to His law.

3 December 1969 213 – The tragedies of the heart and the body are the weeping

of children over their little griefs and their broken toys. Smile within thyself, but comfort the children; join also, if thou canst, in their play.

It is the narrowness of the human consciousness that makes tragedies out of events which for the Divine Consciousness are only movements in the general evolution. But even when one 1 This sentence was in English in the original.

sees that, one can and must keep a profound sympathy for those who are still living in the throes of ignorance.

4 December 1969 214 – “There is always something abnormal and eccentric

about men of genius.” And why not? For genius itself is an abnormal birth and out of man’s ordinary centre.

215 – Genius is Nature’s first attempt to liberate the impris-

oned god out of her human mould; the mould has to suffer in the process. It is astonishing that the cracks are so few and unimportant.

Once a man becomes conscious of the Divine and unites with Him, he certainly becomes abnormal to ordinary eyes, for he no longer has the weaknesses that make up ordinary human nature.

But fortunately for him, by the very fact of his inner realisa-tion, he loses man’s habit of boasting and is thus able to avoid the ill will of others.

5 December 1969 216 – Nature sometimes gets into a fury with her own re-

sistance, then she damages the brain in order to free the inspiration; for in this effort the equilibrium of the average material brain is her chief opponent. Pass over the madness of such and profit by their inspiration.

It is indeed wise to look at everything with the calm smile of perfect trust. For, with his present consciousness, man can hardly understand the aims of the Supreme Lord.

7 December 1969