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<b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size="4">Order and Discipline</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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must become conscious of yourself, conscious in every detail. You must organise what you call yourself around the psychic centre, the divine centre
of your being so that you can possess a single, cohesive, fully conscious
being: as this centre is wholly consecrated to the Divine, if all the elements
are organised harmoniously around it, they too get consecrated to the Divine.
Thus, when the Divine wills it, when the time comes, when the work of
individualisation is complete, then the Divine permits you to let your ego melt
in Him, so that you may exist for the Divine alone. But it is the Divine that
takes the decision. You should have done the whole preliminary work first,
become a conscious being, solely and exclusively <span lang=EN-GB
style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>centred</span> around the Divine and governed
by Him. When your ego has served its purpose in forming a complete individual
out of you, when that work has been perfectly, fully achieved, then you can say
to the Divine, &quot;Here, I am ready now; do you want me?&quot; The Divine
generally says, &quot;Yes&quot;. Then everything is worked out, everything
accomplished. You become a true instrument for the Divine's work. But the
instrument must be built up first.<o:p></o:p></p>

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are sent to school, you are asked to do <span class=GramE>exercises</span>
(both mental and physical); do you think it is just to put you to trouble? No,
it is because a surrounding is absolutely necessary where you can learn to form
yourself. If you tried by yourself this work of individualisation, integral
formation, all alone in one corner, you would be asked nothing till you have
done it; but you are not likely to do it, not a single child would do it, he
would not even know how to do it or where to begin. If a child is not taught
how to live, he would not be able to live, he would not.</p>
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how to do anything. The most elementary movements it is not able to do unless
it is taught. Therefore if every one were to go through the whole experience,
unaided, in the matter of forming his individuality, he would be dead long
before he could begin to exist even. That is the utility of the experiences of
others, accumulated through centuries, of those who have had the experience
and who tell you, &quot;If you want to go quick, and learn in a few years what
needed centuries to learn-well, do this, do that, this way, that way, read,
study, attend to your lessons at school, in the playground.&quot; Once you are
on the way, you can find your own method if you are a genius. But in the
beginning you must know from others how to stand on your legs and walk. It is
not easy to go all by <span class=GramE>oneself</span>. That is why one needs
education.<o:p></o:p></p>

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are children who are very disorderly. They do not know how to keep things tidy.
They do not know even how to keep things. They lose or spoil them. There are
several reasons for it. First of all, very often it means that the child lacks
sufficient vitality. The vital is not strong enough to take care of external
objects. Another reason may be that he does not find interest in the physical
life; his interest may lie in the direction of mental occupation, imagination
or dreaming etc. Or again it may be a lack of self-control and discipline.<o:p></o:p></p>

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the result is the same. <span class=GramE>That is to say, confusion.</span>
There are children who, when they undress, throw their clothing right and
left or, when they have done their task, do not know where they put their books
and paper, pencil, or ink pot; it takes a lot of trouble to find them again or
bring them together. In reality, all this shows an undisciplined nature, a
character that is not methodical; it shows that not only in the outside but
internally too the person is disorderly. There are people, perhaps considering
themselves big, who even have <span class=GramE>a contempt</span> for physical
objects. But Sri Aurobindo says<span class=GramE>,</span> people who cannot
take care of things do not deserve to have them, have no right to ask for them.
As I say, it shows a kind of acute egoism, much inner confusion.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page - 8<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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are people who live in rooms apparently clean and tidy. But open a cupboard,
pull out a drawer, you will find there a battlefield: all is mixed up. They
have a head too that is very much like that-a poor small head where ideas are
in the same condition as the objects outside in the cupboard. They have not
organised them, put them in order. You may take it as an absolute rule. I have
never seen a man who keeps things in a disorder and yet possesses a logical
brain. In him ideas like the objects are thrown together pell-mell, the most
dissimilar and contradictory ideas form a jumble, they are not organised, harmonised
into a higher synthesis.<o:p></o:p></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Hence,
to know a man's character you need not spend your time in talking to him, you
just go and open a drawer of his or open his almirah, you will know. But I may
speak of someone – I shall tell you presently who it is – who used to live in
the midst of heaps of books and papers. You enter into his <span class=GramE>room,</span>
you find piles of them everywhere. But if by chance, you were, to your
misfortune, to displace a single sheet of paper, he would know perfectly well
and would ask immediately who <span class=GramE>was it that had disturbed the
papers</span>. There were masses of <span class=GramE>things,</span> on your
entering you would not find your way. But each thing had its place – notes,
letters, <span class=GramE>books</span>, all in order and you could not
mishandle them without his knowing it. Well, it was Sri Aurobindo. In other
words, you must not confuse orderliness with poverty. Naturally if you have a
few things – a dozen books and a limited number of objects – it is easier to
have them properly arranged. But what is to be aimed at is a logical order, a
conscious intelligent order among a multiplicity of objects. That requires a
capacity for organisation. It is a capacity which every one must acquire and
possess, unless of course you are physically disabled – when one is ill or
sickly or maimed and has not the required strength: even then there is a limit.
I know of sick people who could tell you: &quot;Open me that drawer, you will
find on the right or on the left or at the bottom such and such a thing.&quot;
They could not themselves move and handle the things but knew where they were.
Apart from such cases, the ideal must be one of order, organisation, like that
of a library for example, where you have thousands and thousands of books that
are yet all arranged, classified, docketed and you have only to name a title
and in a few minutes the book is in your hand of<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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class=GramE>course</span>, it is not the work of a single person; even then,
the pattern is there as an example to follow.<o:p></o:p></p>

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too must organise your affairs in the same way. You need not follow another's
method or system. You have your own rule, that which is convenient and true for
you – but it must be well planned and properly laid out.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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