Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume I - Part 5

Fragment ID: 10792

Predestination and chance are words – words that obscure the truth by their extreme rigidity of definition. All is done through a play of forces which seems to be a play of different possibles, but there is Something that looks and selects and uses without being either blindly arbitrary (predestination) or capriciously decisive (chance).