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THE STRENGTH OF STILLNESS
good always, the pleasant always, the happiness always. It is elated by fortunate happenings, disturbed and unnerved by their opposite. But the illuminated eye of the seer perceives that all leads to good; for God is all and God is sarvamangalam. He knows that the apparent evil is often the shortest way to the good, the unpleasant indispensable to prepare the pleasant, misfortune the condition of obtaining a more perfect happiness. His intellect is delivered from enslavement to the dualities.
Therefore the action of the Yogin will not be as the action of the ordinary man. He will often seem to acquiesce in evil, to. avoid the chance of relieving misfortune, to refuse his assent to the efforts of the noblehearted who withstand violence and wickedness; he will seem to be acting pisachavat. Or men will think him jada, inert, a stone, a block, because he is passive, where activity appears to be called for; silent, where men expect voicefulness ;
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