Book II – Chapter IV – The Divine and the Undivine

SYNOPSIS THE DIVINE AND THE UNDIVINE On one hand we say the universe is the manifestation of the Divine Being and on the other hand we say our present life

Study Notes The Seer, the Thinker, the Self-existent who becomes everywhere has ordered perfectly all things from years sempiternal.                      

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 2      The distinction between the divine and the undivine life is in fact identical with the root distinction between a life of Knowledge lived in

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 3      It is not possible then to limit the description of our and the world’s undivine imperfection solely to moral evil or sensational suffering; there

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 4      When we say that all is a divine manifestation, even that which we call undivine, we mean that in its essentiality all is divine

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 6      It is possible to escape from the problem otherwise; for, admitting always the essential Presence, we can endeavour to justify the divinity of the

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 8      If the human consciousness were bound to the sense of imperfection and the acceptance of it as the law of our life and the

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 10      But these conclusions are only first reasonings or primary intuitions founded on our inner self-experience and the apparent facts of universal existence. They cannot

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 11      A second affirmation which our mind naturally accepts as the consequence of the first postulate, is that by the supreme consciousness and the supreme

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 13      Once we admit a divine government of the universe, we must conclude that the power to govern is complete and absolute; for otherwise we

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 15      There is then no real division or limitation of being, no fundamental contradiction of the omnipresent Reality; but there does seem to be a

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 17      As with the cause,—the Ignorance,—so is it with the consequences of the Ignorance. All this that seems to us incapacity, weakness, impotence, limitation of

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 18      As to suffering, which is so great a stumbling-block to our understanding of the universe, it is evidently a consequence of the limitation of

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 19 (Continued) All this imperfection is to us evil, but all evil is in travail of the eternal good; for all is an imperfection which is the

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 21      But if, accepting this side of Nature, we say that all things are fixed in their statutory and stationary law of being, and man

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 22      In that case, the only reasonable explanation of such a paradoxical manifestation or creation is that it is a cosmic game, a Lila, a