Can the Divine withdraw from us? But that seems to be a strange question—because there cannot be anything but the Divine: That alone exists. We want to dismiss all that is obscure, ugly, not living, not harmonious, all that as not divine so that we might feel comfortable. It is only an attitude of ours. At the material level, in the cells themselves it is a question of action. It has power: this gives the power and it works out things slowly—slowly and painfully. In reality, there is a perception that without the delight of being, there is no being. “This perception of suffering and delight, almost of evil and good,—these are necessities for the work. The work is allowed to be done in a certain field of inconscience. The true consciousness is something altogether different. And this, it is this which this consciousness of the cells is now learning, and learning through a concrete experience, and all these evaluations of what is good and what is bad, of what is suffering and what is delight, all this appears vague.” If the Truth, the concrete Thing is seized, one would be the omnipotent master. But it belongs to what shall be, to the domain of tomorrow. “Sri Aurobindo used to say always that if one went far enough, beyond the Impersonal, if one went further beyond, one would find something that we could call ‘Person’, but which corresponded to nothing that we conceive of as ‘Person’.” He wrote in Savitri about the formless liberation, of a condition where there is no frame of things, no figure of soul. In it even the temptation of joy to be vanishes. It is in that Beyond that the true Form, the true Person is recovered.

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