12.25.
THE EQUINOX
3‘ If others are to read this, I should like them to
see that elaborate codes of morality have
nothing to do with my system. No question
of sin and grace ever enters it.
If a chemist wants to prepare copper sulphate from its
oxide, he does not hesitateon the ground that sulphuric
acid, thrown in the eyes, hurts people.
So I use the
moral drug which will produce the desired result,
whether that drug be what people
commonly call
poison or no.
In short, I act like a sensible man; and
I think I deserve every credit for introducingthis com-
pletely new idea into religion.
That function of my brain which says “You ought to
be willing Adonai ” sometimes acts.
But I am willing
Him!
It is so active because all this week it has been
working hard, and doesn’t realise that its work is done.
Just as a retired grocer wakes up and thinks “ I must
go and open the shop.”
In Hindu phrase, the thought-stuff, painfully forced
all these days into one channel, has acquired the habit
[i.e., of flowing naturally in it.—BD.]
I am Ekägrata—
one-pointed.
Just as if one arranges a siphon, one has to suck and
suck for a while, and then when the balance in the two
arms of the tube is attained, the fluid goes on softly
and silently of its own act.
Gravitation which was
against us is now for us.
So now the whole destiny of the Universe is by me
overcome; I am impelled, with ever-gathering and
irresistible force, toward Adonai.