Savitri
A Legend and a Symbol

Chapter 91Benevolence

Book 3. Part Three: Elements of Yoga

* A tireless benevolence, clear-seeing and comprehensive, free from all personal reaction, is the best way to love God and serve Him upon earth.

I mean a benevolence sincere and spontaneous in thought and speech and not a supposed benevolence in acts which is accompanied most often by a dreadful sense of condescending superiority serving chiefly as a platform for human vanity.

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TOLERANCE Tolerance is full of a sense of superiority; it should be replaced by a total understanding.

* Tolerance is only the first step towards wisdom.

The need to tolerate indicates the presence of preferences. He who lives in the Divine Consciousness regards all things with a perfect equanimity.

9 August 1969