800 Years of Slavery
By Karmayogi
Man is moral. To him the good man
must be rewarded, the evil man must be destroyed. Life is wider than morality.
It is amoral. Man's view is mystic. Life's vision spreads over the
universe.
Very often Life wantonly does things that Man abhors. Sri Aurobindo says that
life works through good as well as evil. A parent gives greater, apparently
unjust attention to a refractory child, much to the annoyance of the
well-behaved child. To the parent what is important is the refractory child
should become a normal child. That annoys the good child. Man is like a good
child. The good child should appreciate the parents attending on the bad child
much to the neglect of himself. It is too difficult to expect it. That is the
subtle secret of significance of Nature.
Let us look at India's slave past. Eight hundred years ago the Muslims
invaded India, and gradually united three-fourths of the country. It was a
resort of Nature. Nature wants India to spiritually lead the world as she has
reached the acme of the Spirit. But the foundation is physical. Our legends
speak of 56 kingdoms of the north. The truth was India was in hundreds of
principalities, potententates, and fiefdoms. The Guru of the world cannot be
ruled by his servant, children, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, brothers or wife.
To discharge the duty of the Guru, he must be a master of his household. India
needed to be united geographically, if she is to offer spiritual leadership to
the world. As the Muslims did not go beyond a certain limit, Nature brought in
the Westerner who united India, Burma, Malaya, Singapore, Ceylon, etc. Spiritual
short-sightedness, insisting on non-practical strategies, has again split India
into three parts. What is the Truth?
Man is not moral. Life is not moral. Nature is amoral. Man who is exceedingly
moral, when it comes to touch his deep seats of sensitivity, becomes inmmoral. This
is what all of us know. Life rewards the scoundrel, the rogue. Why should we
expect Nature to be moral? God is behind and beyond. It is man's wisdom
to expect God to reward the good man and punish the evil one. One who has
realised God inwardly should see HIM act outside. It is his spiritual wisdom to
SEE the right, good and morality in what God does, in what happens, instead of
clamouring for silly ideas of 'human justice'. That is why
Shakespeare said marriages are made in heaven. He who sees his wife, whatever
SHE is, as an angel, and who is able to see God in her face, is a God-realised
soul.