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live and which work in us as well as outside of us, we can manipulate them as we understand them and as our intelligence unfolds we become more and more their masters until the man becomes superman and material nature becomes his servant.
To understand the law of karma is not to renounce activity but to know the conditions under which activity is best carried on. Man should always aim at little more than he thinks he can do. That we can do a little means power of doing more and even if we fail, the power put forth to the utmost passes into the reservoir of our forces and the failure of today means the victory of tomorrow.
APPENDIX IIII
Dear,
......The question of Daiva and Puruşakāra is a very complicated thing. To approach this question through logic and reason is futile. I have thought over the matter. The conclusion I have arrived at is a simple one. That is, we should always remember and never forget that Ultimate Truth is One---so this Daiva and Puruşakára with their apparent difference, contradictions, oppositions etc. is nothing but different plays of the one and the same ultimate energy or consciousness, whatever you may call it.
This ultimat: consciousness is taking different shapes, it has different levels and gradations etc. The matter is nothing but one level of this consciousness, life is nothing but another level of it (though a little higher than the material level) and so also the mind a still higher level than the level of life. There are also several levels higher than the mind, to which Yogis and greater personalities have access. But they are nothing but the play of one force i. c., the ultimate consciousness. So this “Daiva and Puruşakāra” are nothing but the play of One Consciousness. So the very same thing which is there as Daiva determining some.
1. Scc lootnotc i, p. 10.
