Q: “Sweet Mother, it is said that always the good and the
true triumph, but we see that often in life it is otherwise. The wicked win,
seem somehow to be protected from suffering.”
The Mother: (Mother laughs, then remains silent.)
People always confuse two ideas. It is from the universal and spiritual point
of view that, not positively the “good” as men understand it, but the True, the
Truth, will have the last word; it goes without saying. That is to say, finally
the Divine will be victorious. That is what is said, what all who have lived a
spiritual life have said—it is an absolute fact. Men, in translating it, say,
“I am a good boy, I live in accordance with what I think to be true, therefore,
all existence should be good for me.” (Mother laughs) First of all,
one’s own appreciation of oneself is always doubtful, and then, in the world as
it is now, all is mixed, it is not the Law of Truth that openly manifests
itself to the half-blind human consciousness—it will not even understand it. I
mean, to be more exact, that it is the supreme vision that is realising itself
constantly, but its realisation in the mixed material world does not appear to
the ignorant human sight as the triumph of good, what men call good and true.
But (to say it in a joking way) it is not the fault of the Lord, it is the
fault of men! That is to say, the Lord knows what he is doing, and men do not
understand it.
(CWM, Volume 11, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust,
Puducherry)
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