(Regarding an old Playground Talk of June 10, 1953.)
What is it about?
Attacks by adverse forces and Asuras.
Oh!… (Laughing) That’s a convenient way of putting the blame on others!
Do you think we should publish it?
Certainly. It’s helpful.
When now people tell me about attacks by adverse forces, I always feel like saying to them, “The adversity is within you!”
I think it’s a very convenient way to get impunity…. Because if you are perfect, they can’t do anything against you. It’s absolutely obvious. It’s imperfections that give them power. So if we shift our standpoint as Sri Aurobindo did, we’ll see, as he said, that the so-called adverse forces are tolerated because they are useful to awaken people to the need for transformation, to the urgency of purification.
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