The Mother’s commentaries on Sri Aurobindo’s 'Thoughts and Aphorisms' spoken or written in French.
Ce volume comporte les commentaires de la Mère sur les Pensées et Aphorismes de Sri Aurobindo, et le texte de ces Aphorismes.
The Mother’s commentaries on Sri Aurobindo’s 'Thoughts and Aphorisms' were given over the twelve-year period from 1958 to 1970. All the Mother's commentaries were spoken or written in French. She also translated Sri Aurobindo's text into French.
130—Fate is God's foreknowledge outside Space and Time of all that in Space and Time shall yet happen; what He has foreseen, Power and Necessity work out by the conflict of forces.
If everything is foreseen, what is the role of human aspiration and effort?
In each domain (physical, vital and mental) everything is foreseen; but the intrusion of a higher domain (overmental and
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beyond) introduces another determinism into events and can change the course of things. This is what aspiration can achieve.
As for human effort, it is one of the things that are determined and its role is foreseen in the overall play of forces.
9 August 1969
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