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The Unseen Power 615resolution. Yet to convict that civilisation of error and prepareanother era of humanity was the intention of the Force that hasgiven them victory, its voice echoed confusedly in their thoughtand growing clearer in the minds of those who entered later witha deliberate and conscious will into the struggle.Great has been the havoc and ruin, immense the suffering,thick the blood-red cloud of darkness enveloping the world,heavy the toll of life, bottomless the expenditure of treasure andhuman resources, and all has not yet been worked out, the wholeprice has not yet been paid; for the after-effects of the war arelikely to be much greater than its present effects and much thatby an effort of concentration has resisted the full shock of theearthquake will fall in the after-tremblings. Well might the mindof a man during the calamity, aware of the Power that stoodover the world wrapped in this tempest, repeat the words ofArjuna on the field of Kurukshetra, —dṛṣṭvādbhutaṁ rūpam ugraṁ tavedaṁlokatrayaṁ pravyathitaṁ mahātman. ...dṛṣṭvā hitvāṁ pravyathitāntarātmādhṛtiṁ na vindāmi śamaṁ ca viṣṇo. ...yathā nadīnāṁ bahavo’mbuvegāḥsamudram evābhimukhā dravanti,tathā tavāmī nara-loka-vīrāviśanti vaktrāṇyabhivijvalanti.yathā pradīptaṁ jvalanaṁ pataṅgāviśanti nāśāya samṛddhavegāḥ,tathaiva nāśāya viśanti lokāstavāpi vaktrāṇi samṛddhavegāḥ.lelihyase grasamānaḥ samantāllokān samagrān vadanair jvaladbhiḥ,tejobhir āpūrya jagat samagraṁbhāsas tavogrāḥ pratapanti viṣṇo.ākhyāhi me ko bhavān ugrarūponamo’stu te devavara prasīda,vijñātum icchāmi bhavantam ādyaṁna hi prajānāmi tava pravṛttim.