Savitri
A Legend and a Symbol

Chapter 28Acceptance of the apparent denial of Truth

Book 1. JNANA (Knowledge)

And this incomprehension is a very small thing — a very small thing because the consciousness is such that it is not affected in the least — but it is a total and all-embracing incomprehension! That is to say, one is insulted and held in contempt and all that, just because of what one is doing; for, according to them — all the “great minds” of the earth — one has forsaken one’s divinity. They do not put it like that, they say: “What? You claim to have a divine consciousness, and then...” And one meets it in everybody, in all circumstances. From time to time, someone, for a moment, has a flash, but it is quite exceptional, whereas, “Well then, show your power” — this is everywhere.

For them, the Divine on earth ought to be all-powerful, obviously.

That’s it: “Show your power, change the world. And to begin with, do what I want. I mean, the first and most important thing is to do what I want — show your power!” That is what they say constantly.

25 September 1965

113 – Hatred is the sign of a secret attraction that is eager to

flee from itself and furious to deny its own existence. That too is God’s play in His creature.

114 – Selfishness is the only sin, meanness the only vice, hatred

the only criminality. All else can easily be turned into good, but these are obstinate resisters of deity.

This corresponds to a kind of vibration — the vibration received from people who hate. It is a vibration that is fundamentally the same, so to say, as the vibration of love. In its very depths there is the same sensation. Although on the surface it is the opposite, it is supported by the same vibration. And one could