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<p class="paracenter">THE DIVINE FAMILY
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When people, far separated from one another, 
belonging to different parts of the world or pursuing most diverse 
professions, meet and gather and work for a common purpose, it means 
that they are kindred souls and have met together and worked together 
before in other lives. They felt they belonged to the same family and 
resolved to act together and collaborate in a common endeavour for a 
common ideal. Indeed, the souls, in their psychic reality, are grouped 
in big families, as it were; they come down in groups again and again to
 take up and continue the work they are engaged in till it is complete.
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At a given moment, when the time is ripe, they 
are called up. The souls are like children asleep, in the peace and 
repose of the psychic world, awaiting the urge or order for another 
birth. As soon as the order is given, they wake up and rush down towards
 the earth. When they drop thus into the earth's atmosphere, they are no
 longer together, they are scattered about all over the earth. One does 
not know even where one drops. Also once under the material conditions 
and circumstances here below, things take a very different aspect. For, 
the inner impulse, the original purpose gets veiled; the psychic forgets
 itself and is now surrounded and hedged in by forces, things and 
persons perhaps quite foreign and contradictory to its nature. Now comes
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<p class="para">labour of the soul, to find itself, to look about
 for the lost end of the thread. The inner urge must be strong enough, 
the original will categorical enough for the being to surmount all 
obstacles, pass through all vicissitudes, work through all the windings 
of a labyrinthine journey and finally arrive. Some perhaps do not arrive
 at all in a particular life or arrive only to stop at a distance: 
others arrive not in a straight line, but, as I have said, after a 
tortuous and round-about wandering. In other words, in their external 
mind and impulsion, they look for other things, they are interested in 
objects that are far other than the soul's interest—like the person who 
enquired of Yoga, as she thought a Yogi could give her back her spoilt 
beauty. And yet the soul makes use of such trivial or absurd means to 
turn the man towards itself, guide him gradually to the place or the 
family to which he really belongs.
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The material world is full of things that draw 
you away from your soul's quest, from approaching your home. Normally 
you are tossed about by the forces of ignorant Nature and you are driven
 even to do the utmost stupidities. There is but one solution, to find 
your psychic being; and once you have found it, cling to it desperately 
and not to allow yourself to be drawn out by any temptation, any other 
impulsion whatsoever.
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