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THE KSHATRIYA TURN OF NATURE






                                                                                                                       . . . predominance of the will-force and the





                                                                                                                       capacities which make for strength, energy,




                                                                                                                       courage, leadership, protection, rule, victory





                                                                                                                       in every kind of battle, a creative and





                                                                                                                       formative action, the will-power which lays its





                                                                                                                       hold on the material of life and on the wills of





                                                                                                                       other men and compels the environment into




                                                                                                                       the shapes which the Shakti within us seeks to





                                                                                                                       impose on life or acts powerfully according to





                                                                                                                       the work to be done to maintain what is in





                                                                                                                       being or to destroy it and make clear the




                                                                                                                       paths of the world or to bring out into definite






                                                                                                                       shape what is to be.






                                                                                                                                  Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, 24: 744
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