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- મોરલી પંડ્યા 

ડિસેમ્બર, ૨૦૧૭

A random series of inept events 
To which reason lends illusive sense, is here, 
Or the empiric Life's instinctive search, 
Or a vast ignorant mind's colossal work. 
But wisdom comes, and vision grows within:
Then Nature's instrument crowns himself her king; 
He feels his witnessing self and conscious power; 
His soul steps back and sees the Light supreme.

A Godhead stands behind the brute machine. 
This truth broke in in a triumph of fire; 
A victory was won for God in man, 
The deity revealed its hidden face.

BOOK I: The Book of Beginnings 20 21

And press perfection on life's stumbling powers, 
Impose heaven-sentience on the obscure abyss 
And make dumb Matter conscious of its God. 
Although our fallen minds forget to climb, 
Although our human stuff resists or breaks, 
She keeps her will that hopes to divinise clay; 
Failure cannot repress, defeat o'erthrow; 
Time cannot weary her nor the Void subdue,
The ages have not made her passion less; 
No victory she admits of Death or Fate. 
Always she drives the soul to new attempt; 
Always her magical infinitude 
Forces to aspire the inert brute elements; 
As one who has all infinity to waste, 
She scatters the seed of the Eternal's strength 
On a half-animate and crumbling mould, 
Plants heaven's delight in the heart's passionate mire, 
Pours godhead's seekings into a bare beast frame, 
Hides immortality in a mask of death.

BOOK IV: The Book of Birth and Quest 354

Bliss is the Godhead's crown, eternal, free, 
Unburdened by life's blind mystery of pain: 
Pain is the signature of the Ignorance 
Attesting the secret god denied by life: 
Until life finds him pain can never end. 
Calm is self's victory overcoming fate. 
Bear; thou shalt find at last thy road to bliss.
Bliss is the secret stuff of all that lives,

Even pain and grief are garbs of world-delight, 
It hides behind thy sorrow and thy cry. 
Because thy strength is a part and not God's whole, 
Because afflicted by the little self 
Thy consciousness forgets to be divine 
As it walks in the vague penumbra of the flesh 
And cannot bear the world's tremendous touch,
Thou criest out and sayst that there is pain.

BOOK VI: The Book of Fate 453 454

VICTORY
The first victory is to create an individuality. And then later, the second victory is to give this individuality to the Divine. And the third victory is that the Divine changes your individuality into a divine being. There are three stages: the first is to become an individual; the second is to consecrate the individual so that he may surrender entirely to the Divine and be identified with Him; and the third is that the Divine takes possession of this individual and changes him into a being in His own image; that is, he too becomes divine. TM

You must make grow in you the peace that is born of the certitude of victory. SA

No human will can finally prevail against the Divine's Will. Let us put ourselves deliberately and exclusively on the side of the Divine, and the Victory is ultimately certain. TM

Flower Name: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis 'Grace Goo'
Malvaceae Chinese hibiscus, Hawaiian hibiscus, Rose-of- China
Significance: Victory
Will triumph over all obstacles.
Victorious Beauty
When it has removed the ugliness of life.