Essays van Shri Aurobindo & De Moeder

 

Essay over goed en kwaad uit het boek van Shri Aurobindo Syntheses of yoga

If we are to be free in the spirit, if we are to be subject only to
the supreme Truth, we must discard the idea that our mental
or moral laws are binding on the Infinite or that there can be
anything sacrosanct, absolute or eternal even in the highest of
our existing standards of conduct. To form higher and higher
temporary standards as long as they are needed is to serve the
Divine in his world march; to erect rigidly an absolute standard
is to attempt the erection of a barrier against the eternal waters
in their onflow. Once the nature-bound soul realises this truth, it
is delivered from the duality of good and evil. For good is all that
helps the individual and the world towards their divine fullness,
and evil is all that retards or breaks up that increasing perfection.
But since the perfection is progressive, evolutive in Time, good
and evil are also shifting quantities and change from time to
time their meaning and value. This thing which is evil now and
in its present shape must be abandoned was once helpful and
necessary to the general and individual progress. That other
thing which we now regard as evil may well become in another
form and arrangement an element in some future perfection.
And on the spiritual level we transcend even this distinction;
for we discover the purpose and divine utility of all these things
that we call good and evil. Then have we to reject the falsehood
in them and all that is distorted, ignorant and obscure in that
which is called good no less than in that which is called evil. For
we have then to accept only the true and the divine, but to make
no other distinction in the eternal processes.