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THE IDEAL OF THE KARMAYOGIN
is to be revealed or the good to be donie, and not the evil or the falsehood.
The use of mental powers for directly destructive ends has always been regarded as accursed. It is what the West calls black magic, and certainly recoils upon the user in very terrible ways. A large beneficence should distinguish the man who knows the power of his own thought. He should not, indeed, assert two conflicting goods at the same time. But out of all that is possible, he should select that which, for reasons that he apprehends, is most admirable and desirable, and concentrate upon it. As this emerges into fact, he will find that all that opposes it is automatically banished or destroyed. The confusion of wishing this and that in opposite directions, is the ordinary way of the ordinary world. This way represents a clearing and rationalising of the ground, it means a dealing scientifically with our own desires, in such a way as to make them realisable by the world about us.
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