(1798,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:19','2021-11-23 17:58:19','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The World is One</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">The World is One</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n15.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>THE world is one, in fact and in potentia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>There is already a realised unity; that unity\r\nruns as the fundamental chord in and through differing and discordant notes.\r\nThese different and discordant and even denying notes have to be\r\nre-conditioned, blended, harmonised; that is the effective and patent unity\r\nthat lies in potentia and has to be brought forth in front. The world is one at\r\nbottom; it is to be made one upto the brim.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The material world is a factual unity. For it\r\nis one matter that exists everywhere; the same fundamental elements constitute,\r\nalthough in different degrees, the earth, the sun, the stars, the distant\r\ngalaxies and the extragalactic rays. It is in the last analysis charges of\r\nelectricity – infinitesimal and infinite charges of electric force, points of\r\nenergy that form the entire creation – pullulating particles that fill the\r\nuniverse; but they are not isolated, disconnected, disunited, they are a\r\ncontinuum. This continuum was called \'ether\' at one time, it is now called\r\n\'field\'. This material unity consists in the one extension that turns and\r\nswirls into creases and eddies giving the impression of separativeness and\r\ndisunity. The task of the scientist is to know how to recondition the swirling\r\ndispersing expanse so as to as similarise, polarise the disparate elements. That\r\nis the meaning of what the scientists are now handling as the \'laser\' or\r\n\'maser\' beams.¹<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Likewise, the vital world is also one. It is\r\none life that pulsates in and through all living formations – one sea as it\r\nwere, swaying and heaving and breaking into innumerable waves and</span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:6.0pt\'>¹ </span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt\'>Laser: Light amplifications\r\ndue to the stimulated emission of Radiation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt\'>Maser: Multiple\r\namplifications, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt\'>The result is that the light\r\nray cuts diamonds, bores rocks, welds metals, and works as a surgeon\'s knife</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt\'>.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:138.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n195<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:138.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>ripples. In spite of infinite variations there is one overall pattern\r\nthat persists through the living creation. Anatomy and more clearly physiology\r\nlinks in a strange way even the plant and the animal and man. And in humanity\r\nif there is a great vital upsurge somewhere, it spreads its vibration far and\r\nwide like a seismic motion. And it is because of this vital unity that there\r\narises the phenomenon known as contagion or pest and pestilence – that is to\r\nsay, mass-movements are occasioned by one indivisible life-urge. A common\r\nsuffering or a common elation is normal to human life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The fundamental unity, here too, works\r\nthrough discord and disunion, battle and conflict, denial and negation. Here\r\ntoo the drive or purpose of progress and of evolution is towards the same\r\npolarisation, that is to say, reorientation, evocation of vibrations that are a\r\npure or harmonious expression of the unity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Coming next to Mind, the unity here too, is\r\nquite marked, clearly discernible. There is only one Mind that rules the myriad\r\nmentalities of this world. Thoughts and ideas are not<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>in reality personal creations, they are various formulations of the one\r\nuniversal Mind; they enter into and possess individual minds as receptacles,\r\nand no doubt in the process undergo particular modifications in their general\r\ncharacter. It is a very common experience to see the same or very similar ideas\r\nand thoughts expressed by individuals (or groups) living far from each other,\r\nhaving practically no mutual contact. We have known of &quot;independent\r\ndiscoveries&quot; of the same truth or fact and innumerable instances of this\r\nkind has history provided for us. It is not a freak of nature that we find\r\nSocrates and Buddha and Confucious as contemporaries. Contemporaries also were </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>\'s </span><st1:place><st1:City><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Akbar</span></st1:City><span\r\n style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>, </span><st1:country-region><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>England</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>\'s Elizabeth and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Italy</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>\'s Leo X. Also the year 1905 has been known\r\nas Annus Mirabilis, a year of seminal importance – the sowing of the seed of a\r\nnew earth-life – significant for the whole human race, for the East and for the\r\nWest, particularly for </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>, for </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Japan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>, for </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Russia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> and even for </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>England</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>. And today\'s world has indeed become a world\r\nof compact unity in human achievement and also alas, in human distress!<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Now if one goes to the very source, the very\r\nroot of the matter, the cardinal fact of unity is that of the supreme Con</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>sciousness, </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 196<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>the original oneness of the one Divine Existence. It is the\r\nUltimate One, inviolate, inviolable – ekam <i>sat. </i>That unity is\r\ntransferred or translated or imaged on all the levels and strands of creation.\r\nThat is the basic reality that holds together all tiered multiplicities. True,\r\nthere has been side by side a movement of aberration, denial, disjunction in\r\nthe multiple formulations and translations of the One. A reunion remains to be\r\nachieved conveying and embodying the basic unity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The disturbing factor in the universal sway\r\nof unity is the sense of individualisation, the sense of ego. That is the dark\r\nray that cuts across the radiant harmony and produces the apparent discordance\r\nand disunion with all its attendant and consequent evil and bale.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The sense of separated and isolated\r\nexistence, the feeling of a closed system that one assumes in opposition to\r\nothers is the Maya of which the Vedanta speaks. It is real so long as it is\r\ntaken to be real. But it possesses no inherent or absolute reality. A re-orientation\r\nor a remodelling of the individual self is the way towards reestablishing in\r\nthe forefront, the background unity. Egoism, as it happens to be now, is the\r\nbroken-up and scattered unity. Polarisation means precisely re-ordering and\r\nre-orienting the dispersal movement of ignorance and bringing into a new\r\npurposeful existence the unity that already exists.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 197<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-063_The World is One','','publish','closed','open','','063_the-world-is-one','','','2021-11-23 17:58:19','2021-11-23 17:58:19','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/063_the-world-is-one/',0,'post','',0),(1799,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:19','2021-11-23 17:58:19','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Effort and Grace</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Effort and Grace</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-family:\r\n\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THERE are, we know, as Sri\r\nAurobindo says, two powers which in their conjunction bring about the great\r\nconsummation we aim at. It is personal effort from below and Divine Grace from\r\nabove. The one prepares the field, the other fructifies and fulfils.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nhas, however, always been declared that personal effort is not absolute in its\r\neffectivity, it is limited, relative and conditional: it does not by itself\r\nlead you to the final and supreme realisation; it takes you at the most to the\r\nthreshold of Grace which follows up the work and brings it to its goal. Indeed\r\nit has also been said that personal effort itself is operative when inspired\r\nand impelled by the Grace from behind or from above. The Gita says in effect:\r\nBy your effort and <i>tapasya </i>you are capable of withdrawing yourself from\r\nthe mayic world of the senses, get detached from the sense-objects; but the\r\nsecret attachment, the taste, the subtle interest for them goes only when the\r\nSupreme is visioned:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoHeading8 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Raso’pyasya param drstva nivartate¹</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Upanishad also says: the\r\nhighest is visible only when of its own accord It unveils itself:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoHeading8 style=\'tab-stops:283.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Yamevaisa_ vrnute tena<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>labhyah ²</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:70.9pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nactual function or role of personal effort is that of a guide, like Virgil\r\ntaking Dante through Hell and Purgatory and then arriving at the frontier of\r\nParadise and there entrusting him into the hands of Beatrice. It is to give\r\nthe preliminary</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ <i>The Gita: II, </i>59<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.15pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>² <i>Katha UPanishad: II, </i>23</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.6pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 284</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>experiences, initiate into the basic mysteries in order\r\nto prepare the vessel that is to house the Supreme. The Supreme is not.\r\namenable to your control whatever your effort may be, it is free, even\r\neccentric – the wind bloweth where it listeth – the Grace goes wherever it\r\nchooses to go; it does not weigh or examine the amount of your preparation, it\r\nhas its own manner of choosing. But the preparation that your personal effort\r\neffectuates is helpful for the working of the Grace not so much for its initial\r\ndescent – It is, as I said, to prepare the a<i>dhar </i>for holding,\r\nmaintaining and establishing it.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We know too well:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:56.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Only\r\na little the God-light can stay: . . .³</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:56.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n11.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>The whole problem is there: how to make the God-light stay\r\nhere, stay here for ever. The higher light does come down, but fitfully, one is\r\nnever certain of it. For it is as it were, &quot;a scout in a reconnaissance\r\nfrom the sun.&quot; Here then is this special utility of personal effort, the\r\nservice it can render,– to do the dredging, salvaging work. Personal effort\r\nwith the egosense has been put there to find out and note the barriers and\r\npitfalls, the faults and fissures in the human system, to overcome, remedy and\r\ncorrect them as far as possible. The human receptacle is normally impure and\r\nobscure, resistant and recalcitrant: the personal will and endeavour has to be\r\ncalled in to labour, to level and smoothen the field, breathe into it air and\r\nlight. That is the work of the individual will, to make of the adhar<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>a strong base, strong and capacious, to\r\nreceive and hold the descent. The temple is to be made clean and pure and\r\ninviting so that when the deity arrives he will find a happy home for a\r\npermanent dwelling.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nmust be noted however, in the last account the personal effort for\r\nself-purification and self-preparation is not altogether personal and mere effort;\r\nit is, as I have said, always supported and inspired by the secret presence and\r\npressure of the higher Influence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Still,\r\npersonal effort on our part has a unique value in this sense that it means\r\ncollaboration and goodwill and readiness of the being to fall in line with the\r\ncosmic work and the Divine </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>³ Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, Book 1, Canto I<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n	<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 285<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>plan: it signifies the\r\nassent of the lower consciousness to the working of the higher. What is required\r\nis conscious cooperation: unconscious cooperation is always there but it is,\r\nas it were, forced labour: does not the Lord declare to Nature</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:70.9pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I will pursue thee across\r\nthe century;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:70.9pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thou shalt be hunted\r\nthrough the world by love,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:70.9pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Naked of ignorance\'\r\nprotecting veil. . . </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:70.9pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Nowhere shalt thou escape\r\nmy living eyes.<span style=\'font-size:8.0pt\'>4<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoHeader style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n.5in center 3.0in right 6.0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Instead\r\nof the ill-will or unwillingness of the normal original ignorant being there\r\ncomes about a change, a conversion to the light and truth. First the Inferno,\r\nthen the Purgatory, finally there will be the Paradise. At the outset in the\r\nignorance\' the being withdraws, contracts, wriggles under the light touching\r\nit, its first impulse is to repel the newcomer. A conscious effort is a\r\nmovement of correction against the instinctive reaction, it is a movement\r\ntowards the right reaction of the being to the impact of the light. The whole\r\nbeing, the whole nature in all its parts and functions has to be corrected,\r\nre-oriented, gradually tempered and streamlined – polarised so that it is made\r\none-pointed, supple and obedient and responsive. That is the process of fixing\r\nupon earth the fleeting Godhead.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Personal\r\neffort is thus a training in collaboration. From inertia and indifference, unwillingness\r\nand even positive hostility to rise into cooperation and comradeship, that is\r\nthe discipline that personal effort gives to the mortal being, and then from\r\ncooperation and collaboration to union and identity with the Supreme Goal,\r\neffort merging into the spontaneous execution of the Divine Will, the personal\r\nmelting into the impersonal Person – that is the consummation brought about by\r\nGrace.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:205.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 16.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>4 Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, Book 11, Canto I<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:205.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 16.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 286</span></p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n	<p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n</div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-086_Effort and Grace','','publish','closed','open','','086_effort-and-grace','','','2021-11-23 17:58:19','2021-11-23 17:58:19','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/086_effort-and-grace/',0,'post','',0),(1800,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:19','2021-11-23 17:58:19','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Divine Grace</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The\r\nDivine Grace</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(1)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.1pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>WHEN you are in a certain set of circumstances and when certain things\r\nhappen, these things often go against your desire or against what appears to\r\nyou best. And you regret and say: &quot;Oh! How much better it would have been\r\nhad it been otherwise!&quot; It<b> </b>does not matter whether the thing\r\nconcerned is small or big.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The years pass, events roll on. You progress,\r\nbecome more conscious, understand better. And when you look back, you discover,\r\nat first with surprise, later on with a smile, that the special circumstances\r\nwhich once appeared to you disastrous or unfavourable were just the very best\r\nthing that could have happened for your needed progress. And if you were a\r\nlittle wiser you would say, &quot;Truly, the Divine Grace is infinite!&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And when this happens to you a good number of\r\ntimes, you begin to understand that in spite of man\'s blindness and wrong\r\nappearances, the Grace is at work everywhere and because of the Grace it is the\r\nbest possible that happens in the state where the world is at a given moment.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It<b> </b>is because our vision is limited or\r\nbecause we are blinded by our preferences that we are unable to discover why\r\nthings are as they are. But when one begins to see one enters into that state\r\nof wonder which nothing can describe. Behind the appearances one finds this\r\ninfinite, marvellous, all-powerful Grace that knows everything, organises\r\neverything, arranges everything, and leads us, whether we want it or not,\r\nwhether we know it or not, towards the supreme goal, the union with the Divine,\r\nthe awareness of the Divine Consciousness and becoming one with it.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:142.3pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thus living in the action and the\r\npresence of the Grace one \r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:142.3pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 124</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:142.3pt\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>lives a life full of delight and wonder, the sense of a marvellous power\r\nand at the same time, full of a quiet and complete trust which nothing can\r\nshake.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Whatever may be the faith and the trust you have\r\nin the Divine Grace, whatever your capacity of seeing it at work in all\r\ncircumstances, at every moment and at all points of life, you can never fully\r\nunderstand the marvellous immensity of its action and the precision and the\r\nexactitude with which it works. Never shall one grasp in what degree the Grace\r\ndoes everything, is behind everything, organises everything in order that the\r\nadvance towards the divine realisation may be as swift, as complete, as total as\r\nit can be under the given circumstances of the world.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As soon as you come in contact with it, you find\r\nthat there is not a second in time, not a point in space which does not show in\r\na signal manner this ceaseless work of the Grace, its constant intervention.\r\nAnd once you have seen that, you feel you are never up to the mark. For you\r\nmust never forget that you must not have fear or anguish or regret or recoil or\r\neven suffering. If<b> </b>you were in union with this Grace, if you saw it\r\neverywhere, you would begin to live a life of exultation, all power and\r\ninfinite happiness. And that would be the best possible collaboration in the\r\nDivine Work.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(2)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THERE is a time when one becomes conscious enough to see\r\nthat things in themselves are neither good nor bad. What they are and what\r\ntheir effects are upon us depends entirely upon the attitude that we have\r\ntowards them. The same thing, the same circumstance, identically the same, if\r\ntaken as a gift from God, as a Divine Grace, as the effect of a total harmony,\r\nhelps us to become more conscious, more strong and more true. On the other\r\nhand, taken as a blow given by Fate, as a bad force that seeks to hurt us it\r\nwill serve only to diminish us, make us dull and heavy; it will take away our\r\nconsciousness, our force and the harmony.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I wish you all to have this experience. For when\r\nyou have it, you become master of yourself, not only master of yourself, but<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 125</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>master of the circumstances of your life, at least so far\r\nas they concern you personally. And that depends exclusively on the attitude\r\nthat you take. It is not an experience that passes through your head (it may\r\nbegin there); it is an experience that may happen even in your body. Its\r\ncompletion however needs much labour for concentration, self-mastery, for\r\ndriving the consciousness into Matter. The result of a shock received by the\r\nbody from outside will vary according to the manner in which the body receives\r\nit. And the body can be so perfected in this line that you become master of\r\naccidents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This power some have, fully developed and realised\r\nin the mind, the power, namely, to act upon the outer circumstances so that\r\nthey are altogether changed when they act upon you. This power can come down\r\ninto matter, into the physical substance itself, in the cells of the body and\r\ngive to the body the same control over surrounding things. That is sure to\r\ncome. This opens before you fresh horizons; it is one step on the way towards\r\ntransformation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If you are truly in a state of intense aspiration\r\nthere is no circumstance that will not serve to help you in the realisation of\r\nyour aspiration. All will come to help you, as if it were the perfect and\r\nabsolute Consciousness that organised all things around you.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And you in your external ignorance may not\r\nrecognise it, may at first protest against the circumstances as they come to\r\nyou, may grumble and try even to change them. But after a time you will have\r\nbecome wiser, with a little distance put in between the event and yourself, you\r\nwill find out that that was just the thing necessary for you to make the\r\nrequired progress. It is a Will, a supreme Good Will that arranges everything\r\naround you.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If you say to the Divine with conviction, &quot;I\r\nwant you alone&quot;, the Divine will arrange all circumstances in such a way\r\nas to oblige you to be sincere. Something in you says, &quot;I want nothing but\r\nyou&quot;, and then all the while you want a hundred different things. Usually\r\nit is one thing particularly that comes<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 126</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>and troubles you and prevents you from realising your aspiration.\r\nWell, the Divine will come without showing himself, without even your\r\nsuspecting it and He will arrange circumstances in such a way that whatever prevents\r\nyou from being solely given to the Divine, will be inevitably removed from your\r\npath. And then when all such things are removed you begin to complain and\r\nshout. But subsequently, if you are sincere, you remember that you said to the\r\nDivine that you belonged to Him alone. And then He will remain with you, all\r\nthe rest will pass. That is the greater Grace.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Only you must say it with conviction – I do not mean that\r\nit has to be immediately integral, for if it is integral, the work is already\r\ndone but that the central will of the being must say with conviction, &quot;I\r\nwant nothing but you.&quot; Even once would be sufficient. That may take time\r\nmore or less, sometimes it may extend to years, but you reach your goal. You\r\nare certain to reach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If you want a precise thing, if you have a special\r\nreason for invoking the Grace, you must formulate your prayer exactly and\r\nclearly. Naturally, if you are in a state of complete surrender, if you are\r\ngiving yourself, offering yourself wholly, simply to the Grace and you let it\r\nwork as it wants, there is nothing to say, it is all right. But after a time\r\nyou must not begin to question about what it has done, you must not say,\r\n&quot;I did that with the idea of getting this&quot;. Indeed if you have in you\r\nthe idea of getting something then it is better to formulate the thing\r\nsincerely and simply, just as you see it. Thereafter it is for the Grace to\r\nchoose, whether it will do or not do as you want. In any case, you have clearly\r\nformulated your desire and there is nothing bad in that. It becomes bad only\r\nwhen it is not granted and you revolt. You must understand at that moment that\r\nthe desire or the aspiration that one has may not be very enlightened and that\r\none might ask for a thing that is not exactly good for oneself. So one must be wise\r\nand say, &quot;Let Thy Will be done&quot;.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But so long as you have an inner perception and a\r\nchoice of your own, there is no harm in formulating it. It is quite a natural\r\nmovement. For example, if you have committed a fault and wish sincerely not to\r\nrepeat it, I do not see any harm in asking<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 127<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>for it. On the contrary, if you ask for it with a true\r\ninner sincerity, there is a great chance of its being granted. You must not\r\nbelieve that the Divine likes to contradict you. He is not at all particular\r\nabout it. Only He may know better what exactly is good for you. He contradicts\r\nyour aspiration only when it is absolutely indispensable. Otherwise he is\r\nalways ready to grant you what you want.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If you have a very powerful imagination, and you\r\nbuild up a formation of your desire in all details and if the structure is well\r\nmade, complete and existing by itself, then you may be sure that if you live\r\nlong enough the thing will be realised. What is not put at the disposal of men\r\nis the time it takes: it may be tomorrow, it may be the next moment, or it may\r\ntake years and even centuries, but it will be realised.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If to this power of imagination you can add a kind\r\nof creative power of the vital, then you raise a wholly living force. Like all\r\nliving forces tending towards manifestation, this force too will exercise a\r\npressure upon earthly events in order to realise itself and it will realise\r\nitself.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Only personal desires and personal circumstances\r\nare things that are not persistent or stable. After a time, a thing that interested\r\nyou very much does not interest you any more: you think of another thing, you\r\nhave another desire, you make another formation. But if the earlier formation\r\nhad been well thought out and built up, then after having followed its course\r\nin space it would have realised itself. You are put in front of your first desire\r\nnow realised while you have already embarked upon your second, or may be your\r\nthird, or your fourth. You say then almost indignantly, &quot;But I do not want\r\nthat, why does it come to me?&quot; – without however taking into account the\r\nfact that it is the result of your previous action.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But if instead of being desires these are\r\naspirations for things spiritual, and if you follow your line of regular\r\nprogression, then it is absolutely certain that you will get one day what you\r\nhave imagined. It may be sooner, or it may be later if there are very many\r\nobstacles on the way. For example, if you have made a formation that is still\r\nforeign to the earth\'s atmosphere, then it may take some time to prepare the\r\nconditions for its appearance.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 128<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But if it is something already realised many times upon\r\nearth and not too radical a transformation, then you can have it quickly,\r\nprovided you follow the line with persistence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And if to that now you add the ardour of faith and\r\ntrust in the Divine Grace and that self-giving to the Grace which makes you\r\nwait upon the Divine for everything, then it becomes a formidable matter. You\r\ncan see before your eyes things happening more and more, the most wonderful\r\nthings realised one after another.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But there are conditions to fulfil: a great purity\r\nmust be there and a great intensity in the self-giving and that absolute trust\r\nin the supreme wisdom of the Divine Grace which knows better than us what is\r\ntruly good for ourselves. If the aspiration is offered to That and the offering\r\nis made truly and with enough intensity, the result will be marvellous.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But then you must be able to see. When things are\r\nrealised, most often people find that quite natural; they do not care to see\r\neven why and how it has so happened; they simply say, &quot;Yes, but of course\r\nit had to be so.&quot; And thus they lose the joy of gratefulness. After all,\r\nif one can be full of gratefulness and gratitude for the Divine Grace, then\r\nthat is the last thing; you begin to see that at every step things are exactly\r\nwhat they should be and the very best that can be. It is then that\r\nSachchidananda begins to gather Himself and refashion His Unity.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 129 <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-042_The Divine Grace','','publish','closed','open','','042_the-divine-grace','','','2021-11-23 17:58:19','2021-11-23 17:58:19','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/042_the-divine-grace/',0,'post','',0),(1801,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:19','2021-11-23 17:58:19','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>INDEX</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">INDEX</font><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section2>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>ADITI, 287</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Agnl,189,221,280,327,371 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Ahriman, 287</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Akbar, 196</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>Algeria</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n141</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Amrita, 29</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Arjuna, 206, 350</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Aryama, 330</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Ashram, the, 57, 118-9, 161,\r\n269, 270, 390</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Ashwapati, 237-41, 243, 246,\r\n274 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Asura, 250, 287, 368</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Atris, 372</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>BEATRICE, 284</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Beethoven, 273</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Bharati, 189</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>Bible, the, </i>121, 305, <i>345n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– Book of Job, 305n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– </i><st1:City><st1:place><i>St.\r\n  John</i></st1:place></st1:City><i>, 345n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Borman, 316</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Brahma, 256</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Brahman, 181-2, 185, 188-9,\r\n193, 205, 290, 299, 339, 368, 385 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Brindaban, 385</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n338</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Buddha, 52-3,\r\n104-6,182-3,196,221, 225,309,311, 344,349,400</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>CHINA</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n54</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Christ, 349, 379, 400 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Churchill, 346 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Commonwealth, 362 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Confucius, 196</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Czardom,\r\n338</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>DANTE, 228,284,287, 388 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– The Divine Comedy, </i>388\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Darshanas, 297</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>David-Neele, Alexandra, 142,\r\n173 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Diti, 287</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Durga, 249</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Duryodhana, 206</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>EINSTEIN, 222, 344, 374, 376 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:City><st1:place>Elizabeth</st1:place></st1:City>,\r\n196</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n117, 196</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Esau, 121</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:place>Europe</st1:place>,\r\n297, 383</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>FAR EAST, THE, 54 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Faust, 397 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n78, 141</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:place>GANGES</st1:place>,\r\nTHE, <i>85n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>George VI, 117</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>Gita, the, </i>173,\r\n198,208-9,248, 267,272, 284, 297, 337, 345</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Goethe, <i>244n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>HAMLET, 387 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Hapsburgs, the, 338 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Helen, 399 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:place>Himalayas</st1:place>,\r\nthe, 224 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Hitler, 338 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Hohenzollerns, the, 338 407</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section3>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 407<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section4>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>ILA, 189</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:place>Ilion</st1:place>,\r\n399</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n32, 106, 143, 196, 269, 289-90, 338, 357, 361</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Indra, 275, 371</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n196</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>JACOB, 121 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n54, 78, 196 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Job, 305 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Jupiter, 328</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>KALI, 80, 249, 297 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Kalidasa, 278, 390-1 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– Hero and the Nymph, </i>390\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– Vikramorvasie, 39<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>1n </i><st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>,\r\n134, 183, 206-7, 350 228, 297,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>LAKSHMI, 249 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lear, 391 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Leo X, 196 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lindberg, 316</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>MAETERLINCK, 71</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– The Blue Bird, </i>71 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mahalakshmi, 206, 228, 297 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Maheshwari, 206 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Marlowe, <i>399n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Maruts, the, 279-80, 331-2 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mayavada,182</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:City><st1:place>Milton</st1:place></st1:City>,\r\n371</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Minerva, 328</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mitra, 189</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mohammed, 379</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.35in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mother, the, <i>29n., </i>205-6, 208, 224, 229, 231-6, 247, 249, 253-7,\r\n260, 263, 269, 281-2, 293, 317, 333, <span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>339,\r\n341, 343, 360</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– Prayers and Meditations, </i>224,\r\n227-9, 231, 236, 247</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>NACHIKETAS,\r\n340, 400</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:City><st1:place>PARIS</st1:place></st1:City>,\r\n171, 173 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Pashupati, 179 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Pawamana Soma, 330 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Pharaohs, the, 264 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Pindar, <i>278n <o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>- Olympian Odes, 278n <o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Plato, 201, 297 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Poseidon, 383 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Prahlad, 183 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Pururavas, 390-1</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>RADHA, 134-5, 183, 297 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Rakshasa, 250 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Ramakrishna, <i>85n, </i>379 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n196</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:place>SAHARA</st1:place>,\r\n141, 313</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sankhya, 182, 186, 279 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sarama, 330</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Saraswati, 189</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sati, 184</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Satyavan, 242-6</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Savitri, 242-6, 252-3, 307 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shakespeare, 228, 386, 391 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– Hamlet, 386n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– Julius Caesar, 386n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– King Lear, 391n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shankara, 104-5, 309, 344 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sindhus, 330</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shiva, 106, 182, 184, 207, 297 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Socrates, 196,297, 379 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Soma, 330</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:16.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sri Aurobindo, 3, 8,9, <i>29n., </i>42,46,51, 90, <i>101n., </i>105, 120,\r\n135, 151, 163, 168,212,236-7,248, 254-5, <i>270n., </i>274, 276, 284, <i>285n.,\r\n286n., </i>287, 293, 300, <i>318n., </i>323, 341, 343, 351,353,355-9, <i>370n.,\r\n</i>383-5, 390, <i>399n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– Collected Poems </i>&amp; <i>Plays,\r\n236n., 301n <o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>–</i> &quot;A God\'s\r\nLabour&quot;, 236</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>–</i> &quot;Love and\r\nDeath&quot;, 383</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>–</i> &quot;The Golden\r\nLight&quot;, 300 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– Elements if Yoga, </i>101n</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– Eric, </i>384</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– Perseus the Deliverer, </i>383</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section5>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 408<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section6>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– Rodogune </i>384</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– Savitri, 238-46n., </i>248,\r\n<i>249-52n., </i>266, 274, <i>276n., 286n., </i>287, 300, 318n., 323, 383, <i>390n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>–</i> <i>The Mother, 293n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>–Vasavadutta, </i>385</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>–Viziers of Bassora </i>385</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sri Aurobindo International\r\nCentre of Education, <i>32n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Srotas, 330</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:City><st1:place>St.\r\n  Augustine</st1:place></st1:City>, 290, 338</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Stone Age, 155</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>SunahsheIta, 318</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Surra, 221, 327</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>TAGORE,97</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Tantras, the, 182-3, 326 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Tertullian, <i>290n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– De Carne Christi, 290n </i><st1:City><st1:place>Troy</st1:place></st1:City>,\r\n399</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>UNITED STATES, THE, 362</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>Upanishads, the, </i>188,\r\n221, 246, 272-3, 27.5, 284, 297, 310-11, 320, 334, 340,371,377,379, 388-9,400 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– Katha, 284n., 298n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.6pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>– Kena, </i>272</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.6pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Urvasie, 390-1</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>VAISHNAVA, 183,265 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Vaishnavism, 183</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Varuna, 189,318-9, 369 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Vedanta, 181, 197</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>Vedas,\r\nthe, </i>188, 294, 330-1, 357, 369, 371</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Villon, François, <i>338n <o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Virgil, 284</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Vishnu, 106, 183-4, 358 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Vivekananda, 349 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Vrindavan, 183,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>Vyom, </i>280, 331</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>WORDSWORTH, <i>257n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>– Ode on the Intimations\r\nImmortality&quot;, <i>257n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Wu Wei, 144</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.6pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>YAMA, 400</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section7>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.6pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 409<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.6pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Goal of Evolution</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>You say it is obvious that evolution has a goal and that it cannot stop\r\nhere or now. It seems to you obvious because you have read Sri Aurobindo\'s\r\nbooks. But if you take anybody you meet in the street and ask him <span\r\nclass=GramE>what is the purpose of the universe or of the evolution,</span> you\r\nwill see that he will answer by saying that he knows nothing about it. Even\r\nhere there are many, perhaps hundreds, if you ask them individually not to\r\nrepeat what they have read but to say what they feel and think by themselves\r\nabout the question, what is the intention behind the universal evolution or\r\nwhether there is any intention at all, they will not be able to give a better\r\nanswer. I do not think that there are many who will be able to tell you in all\r\nsincerity, &quot;It is like this, it is like that, it is evident, etc., etc.<span\r\nclass=GramE>&quot;.</span> A good number may be able to quote passages from Sri\r\nAurobindo; otherwise, if you cease thinking, thinking with what you have read\r\nor heard<span class=GramE>,</span> if you try to express your own personal\r\nexperience, would you have any certitude to declare? I do not speak of the\r\nresult of what you have learnt, what you have read or heard about, I speak of\r\nyour own personal experience, exclusively genuinely your own, something that is\r\nevident because it is your life and realisation. Are you capable of anything of\r\nthat kind?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:11.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>If\r\nyou have an experience of the kind, I shall be glad to con­gratulate you and\r\nsay that you have not wasted your time here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:11.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Let\r\nus then look within ourselves.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 168<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-054_Goal of Evolution','','publish','closed','open','','054_goal-of-evolution','','','2021-11-23 17:58:19','2021-11-23 17:58:19','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/054_goal-of-evolution/',0,'post','',0),(1803,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:19','2021-11-23 17:58:19','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Love Divine</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<b><font size=\"4\">Love Divine</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&quot;THE\r\nintensity of Divine Love does not produce any perturb­ation in any part of the\r\nbeing&quot;.¹ Why should it? If there is a perturbation, it is more likely that\r\na different kind of love was in question. If it is Divine Love, there can be no\r\nperturbation, for each one receives it according to his capacity.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Divine\r\nLove is there in its full intensity, as a tremendous force. But most people,\r\nninety-nine out of a hundred, feel nothing at all. What they feel is exactly in\r\nproportion to what they are, what they can receive and hold. Indeed, you are\r\nalways bathed in an atmosphere vibrant with Divine Love. Sometimes, on rare\r\noccasions, for a few seconds perhaps, there is all on a sudden just the\r\nimpression of something, and you say: &quot;there, the Divine Love came to me!&quot;\r\nWell, it is a way of saying: the true fact being that for some reason or other\r\nyou happened to be just a little open and you had the perception of the thing\r\nthat is always with you. The Love is there, the divine consciousness, too, is\r\nthere in the same way. They are one, after all. They are there all the while;\r\nonly you do not feel it or do so only spasmodically. Once in a way you find\r\nyourself, without any rhyme or reason as it were, in that happy state and you\r\ndeclare that the Divine Love has at last turned towards you! But, as I say, the\r\nmatter is not like that. There came about an opening in you, perhaps no more\r\nthan a pinpoint, and that was sufficient for the thing to rush in; for the\r\natmosphere is surcharged with it and wherever there is a possi­bility of its\r\nbeing received, it is received. The same is true of all things divine. They are\r\nthere: you do not receive or perceive them, because you are closed, shut off,\r\nblocked up. You are</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>¹ Sri Aurobindo: <i>Elements of<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>Yoga.</i></span><i><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Page – 101<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>occupied,\r\nmost of the time with other things. You are full of yourself, packed with it,\r\nand there is no room for anything else. You are not merely passively filled\r\nwith yourself, but very act­ively, you are furiously busy with yourself. How\r\ncan you notice then the marvellous things that are about you, around you? You\r\nget a glimpse unawares, perhaps when you are asleep; but it fades away soon.\r\nMan\'s ego is a formidable thing; the whole universe, to him, is a mere function\r\nof the ego. You are the centre and the entire creation revolves around you.\r\nSuch is your vision of the universe. You do not see it as it is; you see only\r\nyourself when you look at it.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To\r\nbegin, then, you must be able to come out of your ego. You will have to enter,\r\nas the first step, into something like a state of inexistence. Thereafter only\r\nwill you begin to see things as they are, that is to say, from a height. If you\r\nwant to see things as they truly are, you must become absolutely like a mirror­\r\n– silent, peaceful, immobile, impartial, with no preference, in a state of\r\ntotal receptivity. You will begin to see many things that did not seem to be\r\nthere before, but only now becoming active. Well, you may very well have gone\r\ninside one of these things instead of being shut up into a minute spot in the\r\ninfinite universe, which you call yourself. There are many ways by which you\r\ncan come out of yourself. Anyhow that is the one thing to be done, if you wish\r\nto see the world as it is, not as it seems to be, a function of yourself.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now\r\nto come out of the ego, you must have naturally, first of all, the will to do\r\nso. The surest way to do it is to give yourself to the Divine, not to pull the\r\nDivine towards you but to abandon yourself to Him. That is how you start\r\nforgetting yourself. Usually when people think of the Divine, the immediate\r\nimpulse in them is to pull Him (or whatever they represent Him to be) towards\r\nthemselves, within themselves. The result generally is that they receive\r\nnothing; and they grumble: &quot;Oh, I called and called, I prayed and prayed,\r\nbut there was no answer, I received nothing, nothing came.&quot; But before\r\ngrumbling, ask yourself if you had offered yourself. You would find that\r\ninstead of offering yourself you had pulled. Instead of being generous,\r\nopen-handed and open-hearted, you were a miser, a beggar. When you pull you\r\nremain wholly within yourself, shut up, sealed within your ego. You raise a\r\nwall of separation between you and the thing<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 102<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>that is around you and\r\nwants to come in, which is thus not admitted, almost deliberately refused\r\nentrance. You enclose yourself within a prison and grumble that you have\r\nnothing, feel nothing. At least if you had opened a window you would have had\r\nsomething of the light and air about you.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page –&nbsp;103</span><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-035_Love Divine','','publish','closed','open','','035_love-divine','','','2021-11-23 17:58:19','2021-11-23 17:58:19','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/035_love-divine/',0,'post','',0),(1804,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:20','2021-11-23 17:58:20','<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Body-Energy</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Body-Energy</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE Mother spoke once of\r\nthe body being like a fortress, a strong shelter protecting you against\r\nenemy-attacks, the forces that are around roaming in the open spaces, the\r\nforces of physical and even moral disruption. The ancients used to refer to the\r\nbody as a walled city the gates of which are to be carefully guarded. It is\r\nalso compared to a temple, a firm structure wherein God is to dwell, which is\r\nto be kept always clean, trim and tidy. The body itself was worshipped as a\r\nholy thing almost as a Divinity by certain schools of spiritual discipline.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>These\r\nare, so to say various dimensions of the body; one more, somewhat of a\r\ndifferent category, may be added. The body is a battery, an accumulation of\r\nenergy, of energy and consciousness, of energy-consciousness. We are all\r\nfamiliar with the modern concept of the material particle being con­centrated\r\nenergy: it is tremendously concentrated and that is why it looks as though dead\r\nsolidity. In reality its stilled high potency <span class=SpellE>harbours</span>\r\nalmost an immeasurable force of creation and destruction.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nrelease of energy, material energy, in matter, is the business of Science and\r\nthe scientist; the release of conscious­ ness, the energy of consciousness in\r\nmatter is the business of yoga and the yogi. The <span class=SpellE>tantrik</span>\r\ndiscipline was in a large way occupied with this mystery. It found and\r\ndeveloped -its own method and process and its success in its own field is also\r\nwell recognised.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">The body-content thus is essentially consciousness\r\nconsoli­dated, <span class=SpellE>crystallised</span>. The problem then is how\r\nto release it. The first thing is that you must be conscious, you, that is to\r\nsay, your body must be conscious, must be aware always of what </p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 333<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>it</span>\r\nis doing: living, moving, acting; the body must be doing all that consciously,\r\nalmost voluntarily: there shall be no in­ voluntary movements. Each physical\r\ngesture must know itself by feeling itself in the act. It is not that the mind\r\nshould know<span class=GramE>,</span> the mind can have only a memory, but that\r\nthe limb itself has to pursue its function knowingly, in full awareness. At the\r\nbeginning there is inevitably a mixture of mental knowing but that is to be\r\ncleaned out and over passed</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One\r\nis conscious, can be conscious only through conscious­ ness; consciousness is\r\nborn through consciousness. It manifests, it grows through incubation, through\r\nself-<span class=SpellE>centration</span>. Energy <span class=SpellE>energises</span>\r\nitself, as the Upanishad says, <i>tapas <span class=SpellE>taptva</span>. </i>Energy\r\nis consciousness in movement and in moving it expresses itself, embodies\r\nitself. A muscle, for example, when moving, awakes to its own activity, the\r\nawakening is not confined to itself, but it extends gradually, extends to all\r\nits constituent cells and even to contiguous cells. The process in this way\r\npermeates the whole body and the entire material content of the body is filled\r\nwith consciousness and with its radiant energy.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There\r\nis however a basic preliminary necessity, a prepara­tory condition: the first\r\nessential condition under which the body can be conscious of itself is its\r\nfreedom, its absolute freedom. The body must be liberated wholly and entirely,\r\nit must feel its perfect freedom. As at present it is a slave: it never knows\r\nits own will, it is always under the orders of either the vital or the mind or\r\nboth. Under the control of <span class=GramE>this dual masters</span> – a cruel\r\ndiarchy – the body has lost all its independent move­ments. The activities,\r\nalmost all, of the present body are not really its own, they are expressions of\r\nan imposed will. In order to have and to be aware of its own wm the body must\r\nbe freed from its alien imposition and as soon as it gains its freedom, it will\r\nknow itself, learn itself, <span class=GramE>learn</span> its own movements. It\r\nwill gradually shred off all the wrong and distorted movements which form its\r\npresent habits. We shall find that in itself the body is a sane entity and it\r\nis not in need of many things that have been suggested to it and instilled into\r\nit by forces that are outside it, almost foreign to it, the mental and the\r\nvital forces. The liberation will bring to it automatically the awareness of\r\nits own self, it will become, <span class=GramE>that</span> is to say,\r\nconscious of itself and this consciousness will bring with it a pure and fresh</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.7pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 334<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>energy</span>\r\nwhich is that of its true self. As in the case of a subject nation the very\r\nfact of liberation brings to it the energy of self-consciousness and an\r\nexhilarating delight in the expression of the newfound selfhood, even as also\r\nin the case of the indi­vidual human being when he is freed from serfdom and\r\nslavery and bondages, he attains, realises the dignity of self-conscious­ness\r\nand self-power, even so the material body too becomes illumined with its\r\nfreedom and rejoices in its power and energy to express its own truth. The\r\nfirst effect of freedom after a long subjugation is likely to be a spell of <span\r\nclass=SpellE>erraticism</span>, but that is sure to die away if there is a\r\ncorrective central will.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nbody-movements in the animal are more authentic and truthful for they are not <span\r\nclass=SpellE>subsidised</span> and suborned by the vital and mental\r\ninjunctions, and they are more ordered and controlled, not subject to\r\nidiosyncrasies that sway the human character. They are <span class=GramE>more\r\nfree</span> and more natural: the same essential freedom and authenticity and\r\npurity shall belong to the body natural of the highest mode of being and\r\nconscious­ness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>However,\r\nin this age, at the present time the human body is inevitably moving towards\r\nsuch a consummation – towards freedom and buoyancy and <span class=SpellE>radiancy</span>,\r\na new valency, a new self-law. The individual efforts are more than\r\nsupplemented by a Grace that is at work in a supreme effective manner: for this\r\nis the hour of God – &quot;when even a little effort produces great results and\r\nchanges destiny.&quot;</p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 335</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-097_Body_Energy','','publish','closed','open','','097_body_energy','','','2021-11-23 17:58:20','2021-11-23 17:58:20','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/097_body_energy/',0,'post','',0),(1805,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:20','2021-11-23 17:58:20','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The World Tragedy</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">The World Tragedy</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>SHAKESPEARE in giving\r\nexpression to a most poignant experience of human life says – we all know the\r\nmost familiar and famous lines – in a most poignant manner:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The time is out of joint: O\r\ncursed spite, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That ever I was born to\r\nset it right! – ¹</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The poignancy comes not so\r\nmuch from the fact that this is a &quot;naughty world,&quot; a cruel world, an\r\nunending sea of troubles which you have to brave and bear and fight constantly\r\nagainst: it is not merely that the world is painful and dolorous and even\r\nwicked but that it wants to remain so; even if you want to lift it up, out of\r\nits maladies, it sinks down back again into its familiar mud, and brings down\r\nwith it the daring physician. The world does not tolerate its saviour: for this\r\ncrime it retaliates</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>upon</span>\r\nwhoever seeks to meddle in its affairs, brands him as an enemy of the people,\r\nputs him on the cross. The old law must continue, the wrongs must be preserved,\r\nand whatever good happens in spite of eveything must also be doomed and swallowed\r\nup by the wrong. The great poet declares again:</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:\r\n0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>The evil that men do lives\r\nafter them;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The good is oft interred\r\nwith their bones<span class=GramE>;²</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the end all traces of good\r\nare wiped away: it is sheer black, bleak, cursed track, this creation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Yes,\r\nif you want to cure this ailing and insane world, if you have the ambition to\r\nstrike a wholesome light in this</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>¹ <span class=GramE><i>Hamlet</i></span><i>, </i>Act\r\nI, Sc. V.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>² <i>Julius <span class=SpellE>Caeser</span>, </i>Act\r\nIII, Sc. II.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.4pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 386<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.4pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>dismal\r\ndarkness, if you exert yourself a little to turn it and set it on the right\r\npath, pour a little of goodwill in the mephistophelian stuff that the world\r\nis, well, your fate is Hamlet\'s – you create a yet greater desolation around\r\nyou. That is the way out of this tragedy.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\ncelebrated scientist elated with the wonderful discoveries of modern science\r\nand its more wonderful promises of the future seems to have said that if he\r\ncould get a foothold just outside the earth, he meant perhaps outside its\r\ngravitational field, he could as it were, twirl the earth upon his finger, with\r\na little push dislodge it from its orbit and its axis. Well, what he said is\r\ntrue and prophetic but the foothold outside has to be outside the gravitational\r\nfield, not of his physical existence, (the astronauts are trying it today), but\r\noutside his physical or normal consciousness. He has to rise above the\r\nphysical, material status of his being. There is the error that Hamlet\r\ncommitted in spite of his cultured and enlightened mind: not through the\r\nenlightened mind alone but through the enlightened heart, through the\r\nenlightened vital, even through an enlightened physical consciousness, the\r\nremedy of the earthly malady has to be sought, not to meet violence with\r\nviolence, not to be resentful, not to retaliate-that is what the Bible means\r\nwhen it says, &quot;Resist not evil&quot; – but rise in one\'s consciousness,\r\nabove the dualities as the eastern wisdom says, seek a higher source from where\r\nsprings the infallible energy of a purer light. <span class=GramE>The higher\r\nthe consciousness, the more effective its action.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Rise\r\nin your being and consciousness and by your aspiration and realisation and\r\ncontagion make others too <span class=GramE>rise</span>. Then the world will\r\nfind naturally and spontaneously <span class=GramE>its lever to shift its old\r\nand unhappy basic stand</span> to something higher, greater – diviner.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\ncomplete life is a full <span class=GramE>circle,</span> one half only is\r\nvisible to us, real to us: the other half is invisible like the far side of the\r\nmoon. The ancients used to call these halves, one the higher half (Parardha)\r\nand the other the lower half (Aparardha)<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 387<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>The lower\r\nhalf is the domain of death, the Upanishads declare, the higher half is the\r\ndomain of immortality. As we start our journey upon earth we begin with the\r\nordinary life, the life of death, and we pass through it gaining experience,\r\ngrowing in consciousness; and then when we have crossed the stage we enter into\r\nthe domain beyond death and begin to learn, to partake of the life immortal.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Dante,\r\nthe great Christian poet speaks likewise of a life in Hell and a life in <st1:place>Paradise</st1:place>,\r\nfirst, the tragedy, the life of sorrows, transmuted in the end into the Divine\r\nComedy, the life of happiness and bliss. There is an intermediary passage in between\r\nthrough which the poet leads us from the one to the other: the transition is\r\nspoken of as a stage of purification through which one has to pass to shake off\r\nthe human dross from his nature and put on and become in substance the noble\r\nmetal.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nis to be noted that death does not mean literally or exclusively the physical\r\nevent, disintegration and disappearance of the body: it is rather the symbol of\r\nthe corrosive consciousness of the ordinary ignorant life. There is the\r\nignorant consciousness making up the lower half circle of the integral life and\r\nthere is the luminous consciousness making up the higher half circle. In\r\nbetween there is, as I have said, a border range which partakes of the nature\r\nof both. In psychological terms, the lower is the predominantly vital and\r\nphysical ranges with a modicum of the mental shading into the higher mental. Up\r\ntill here it is more or less the region of ignorance. Then comes the higher\r\nmind with its aspiring will: this is the purificatory agent – the purgatory – the\r\ncrucible where forces are generated to stir and change and renovate the\r\ninferior sphere of our life. Indeed it is the region of the <span class=SpellE><i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>ajña<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>-cakra</span></i><i> </i>in Tantric terminology: in modern terms\r\nyou may call it the control-room, or in most modern lunar vocabulary, the\r\ncommand-module. It is from here that the first changes towards a higher and\r\npurer functioning are initiated in our lower limbs, the body, the vital and\r\neven the lower mental. Beyond <span class=GramE>is</span> the overhead and overmental\r\n– and still higher ranges. The luminous consciousness, the touch of immortality\r\nbegins with the overhead and the overmental. As we enter the overhead, we shake\r\noff the shadow of death upon us and our mortal nature. The Upanishad</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 388<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:14.15pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>speaks</span>\r\nof two kinds of knowledge that have to be known, two forms of consciousness\r\nthat have to be acquired in order to become the full integral Divine being.\r\nFirst you have to know, to become aware of the existence of ignorance, the\r\nprimal or primitive nature and through that awareness or knowledge probe into\r\nits character and movement and destiny. Ignorance, pure ignorance leads towards\r\ndisintegration and death, but to be a ware of the ignorance is already a step\r\ntowards enlightening the ignorance and redeeming it into knowledge. By this\r\nknowledge of the ignorance you release it from the grip of death; when you have\r\nthe full consciousness of the ignorance you transcend the region of death, and\r\nfree from death, free from ignorance you have the knowledge of knowledge and\r\nwith the knowledge of knowledge, that is to say, with the full revelation of it\r\nyou are one with Truth that is Immortality. The delight of immortality is love;\r\n<span class=GramE>love\'s</span> own status and home is <st1:place>Paradise</st1:place>.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The <st1:place>Paradise</st1:place>,\r\nthe <i>svargyam lokam<span style=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Arial Narrow\"\'> </span></i>of the Upanishads is not necessarily utterly afar\r\nand aloof, sundered from this world. The kingdom of heaven instead of being\r\nwholly within and absolutely beyond can be and has to be brought out and down upon\r\nand into earth, established here below in the fullness of its own glory. That\r\nis the material epiphany, the transformation of the physical nature, the\r\nultimate and inevitable destiny of earth and mankind.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Such\r\nis the full cycle of human life – in the beginning the birth in mortality and\r\nin ignorance, then a process of developing and purificatory consciousness, and\r\nthen the entry into the full blaze of light and force of Consciousness leading\r\nto a rebirth and re-embodiment in immortality, transforming the ignorant\r\ndeath-bound body into the glorious luminous body upon material earth, the\r\nembodiment of love Divine.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 389<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-109_The World Tragedy','','publish','closed','open','','109_the-world-tragedy','','','2021-11-23 17:58:20','2021-11-23 17:58:20','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/109_the-world-tragedy/',0,'post','',0),(1806,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:20','2021-11-23 17:58:20','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Beyond the Dualities</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Beyond the Dualities</font></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>IT is true that mind in its natural state seeks the truth, seeks to know\r\nthe fact, know what is what. But the difficulty is, it has its own criterion of\r\ntruth, it has a mould and whatever does not fit into that mould is brushed\r\naside or doubted as untruth. The most simple and the most categorical of its\r\ncanons is that a thing is always itself and cannot be anything else (it is the\r\nfamous logical law of identity and law of contradiction). One is always one and\r\ncannot be two. So by extension the mind affirms if the reality is one it cannot\r\nbe also many. If the Brahman is there, the world cannot be, and if the world is\r\nthere, Brahman cannot be. There begins also the unending theological dispute\r\nthat either God has a form or He is formless. He cannot be both at the same\r\ntime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>What the mind forgets or ignores is that the\r\nlaw of self-contradiction belongs exclusively to the finite. It does not hold\r\ngood in infinity. The Infinite is infinite because it has trans­cended the laws\r\nand categories of the finite, even as Eternity has transcended the temporal. In\r\nthe transcendental consciousness the reality is single and multiple at the same\r\ntime, simultaneously (although the conception of time is not there at all);\r\nalso God is both with form and without form at the same time. The mind may not\r\nbe able to conceive it but the fact is that, for one can rise above the mind\r\nand see and experience the reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.25pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>There are other dualities that are confusing\r\nto the mind. It is said two objects cannot occupy together the same spot or\r\nposition. One object must drive out another to occupy its position. Obviously\r\nthis is a truth belonging to the material world – for it is said matter is\r\nimpenetrable. But this law, however valid in the material plane, becomes less\r\nand less applicable in regions subtler and less and less material. Two</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\'>Page – 193<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n7.0pt\'>movements or two vibrations of consciousness, may exist to</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>gether without annihilating each other\'s\r\nidentity, being a total identity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And there is a law, a law of scientific\r\nrational inquiry which they have posited and called the law of Parsimony which\r\nmeans that a simpler solution to a problem is always to be preferred to a\r\ncomplex solution. But if it means that a simpler truth is more true than a\r\ncomplex one then we would be on a doubtful and even dangerous ground. To find a\r\nsimple truth one may be tempted to slice off truth, that is to say, reject or\r\nignore or shut one\'s eyes to some forms or aspects of the truth, even those\r\nthat belong to its very essence. In fact the real world is not a very simple\r\nthing, it is complex to its core. Contraries and even contradictories co-exist\r\nin the universe and they have to be equally accepted in an inevitably complex\r\nsolution. Modern science is in such a delicate situation. How can the same\r\nthing be a particle and a wave at the same time? How can a point be also a line\r\nat the same time? How to reconcile, assimilate, synthetise electric energy and\r\ngravitational force which seem to be two distinct and incommensurable entities\r\ngoverning, between them, the universe in its ultimate analysis? In other fields\r\nalso, social and political, there are ideologies, forces that run contrary to\r\neach other but claim equal allegiance of man­kind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>There are no unitary solutions to these\r\nproblems; the unitary solutions are constructions of the mind that lead nowhere\r\nexcept in a merry-go-round. We have to rise out of the mind and go beyond and\r\nrealise that unity in plurality or plurality in unity is a self-evident fact,\r\nsomewhere else than in the mind.</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 194<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-062_Beyond the Dualities','','publish','closed','open','','062_beyond-the-dualities','','','2021-11-23 17:58:20','2021-11-23 17:58:20','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/062_beyond-the-dualities/',0,'post','',0),(1807,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:20','2021-11-23 17:58:20','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Supramental Manifestation and </title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:200%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">The Supramental Manifestation and\r\n</font> </span></b></p>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;line-height:200%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:131.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">World Change</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:3.35pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:5.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>HAVE been asked what difference the presence of the Supermind will\r\nmake, in what way will it change the trend of events and how, since the\r\nSupramental manifestation, life has to be reviewed. I am asked to give\r\npractical examples. I do not know what this means, but here is what I have seen\r\nin a somewhat mathematical mood. Although the mathematical language is quite\r\nforeign to me, still I may call it a mathematical mood, that is to say, a\r\nmathematical way of looking at the problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>I believe you have done sufficient\r\nmathematics to know the complexity of combinations that arises when you take as\r\nyour basis some elements out of a sum total. To make it clearer I shall give\r\nyou an example – but without using the terms you have been taught at school – from\r\nthe letters of the alphabet. There are a certain number of letters. Now, if you\r\nwant to calculate or know the number of combinations possible with these\r\nletters, taking all the letters together and organising them in as many ways as\r\nyou can, as you have been taught, you will find that it runs into a fantastic figure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Similarly, take the material world and come\r\ndown to the most minute particle – you know scientists have arrived at things\r\nthat are absolutely invisible and incalculable – and take this particle as your\r\nbasis and the material world as the total and, further, imagine a Consciousness\r\nor a Will playing with these particles, making all sorts of possible\r\ncombinations, never repeating the same combination. Of course, mathematically\r\nthey say that the number of particles is finite and therefore the number of combinations\r\nalso is finite, but this is purely theoretical, and theory does not interest\r\nus. Coming to the practical,</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 153<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>even if you suppose that these combinations follow each other in<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>such a manner and at such a speed that the\r\nchange from one to another is hardly perceptible, it is clear that the time\r\nneeded for the working out of all these combinations would be, apparently,\r\ninfinite. That is to say, the number of combinations would be so immense that\r\npractically no end could be assigned to it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>Now imagine, as I have just asked you to do,\r\nthat really there exists a Consciousness, a Will manifesting these combinations\r\nsuccessively and indefinitely, never repeating twice the same thing; then we\r\nmust come to the conclusion that the universe is new at each moment of\r\neternity, and if the universe is new at each moment of eternity we are forced\r\nto admit there is nothing absolutely impossible; even further, what we call\r\nlogical is not necessarily the true, and the logic or what might almost be called\r\nthe fancy of the Creator has no limit to it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>Therefore, if for some reason (which it is\r\ndifficult to express) a combination is not followed up by that which is nearest\r\nto it, but another one freely chosen by the Supreme Freedom, all our external\r\ncertainties and all our surface logic would fall to the ground.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>For, the problem is much more complicated\r\nthan you imagine. It is not merely on one plane, in one domain, that is to say,\r\nwhat may be called the surface of things, that there is this almost infinite quantity\r\nof elements allowing combinations eternally new. There is more than that, there\r\nis what may be termed depth, that is to say, other dimensions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>Creation is the result not only of\r\ncombinations on the surface but also of combinations in the depths of this\r\nsurface: in other words, there are psychological factors. But I am looking at\r\nit from the purely mathematical standpoint; although I do not speak the\r\nmathematical language, it is still a mathematical conception. Here is then the\r\nproblem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>Each time a new element is introduced into\r\nthe sum total of possible combinations, it is as it were a tearing of its\r\nlimits; the introduction of something that effaces the past limits, brings in\r\nnew possibilities into play, multiplies indefinitely the old possibilities. You\r\nhad, for example, a world as the ancient knowledge found it, with twelve layers\r\nof depth or successive dimensions. Now suppose in this world of twelve\r\ndimensions<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:.1pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 154 <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:5.25pt;text-align:center;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:.1pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n.1pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>suddenly other dimensions were precipitated;\r\nall the old formulas would be changed immediately and the whole possibility\r\naccording to the old unfolding would be, one cannot say increased, but\r\nsupplemented by an almost infinite number of new possibilities, and that in\r\nsuch a manner that all the old logic would become illogical in the presence of\r\nthe new logic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>I do not speak at all of what the human mind\r\nhas made of the universe, because that is a reduction to its own dimension. I\r\nspeak of the fact as it is, of the sum total of combinations that realise\r\nthemselves successively according to an order and a choice which evidently\r\nescape wholly the human consciousnes, a sum total to which man has somewhat\r\nadapted himself and has at last succeeded in giving an expression that links\r\nitself to something tangible, after a great effort of study made through the\r\ncenturies. It is evident that the modern scientific perception is much nearer\r\nto something that corresponds to the universal Reality than the perceptions,\r\nsay, of the Stone Age; there is not a shadow of doubt about\r\nt4at. But even this will be completely transcended, surpassed and probably\r\nupset by the intrusion of something which was not in the universe and has not\r\nbeen studied so far. <o:p></o:p> </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>This change, this sudden mutation in the\r\nuniversal elements will very certainly bring a kind of chaos in our\r\nperceptions, but out of it a new knowledge will arise. That, in a most general way,\r\nwill be the result of the New Manifestation. From a more restricted, external\r\nand limited point of view I shall speak now of things which are not within my\r\nown experience, but which I have heard being spoken about. It is said, for example,\r\nthat one finds now a larger number of what they call child prodigies.\r\nPersonally, I have met none, so I cannot say what exactly is\r\n&quot;prodigious&quot; in these children. However, as the stories go, there is\r\na new type or types of consciousness which appear surprising to the ordinary\r\nhuman consciousness. It is such examples, I suppose, that you would like to\r\nhave in order to understand what is happening. Indeed it is quite possible that\r\nthings are happening now which people are not accustomed to meet with. But that\r\nis a question of interpretation. The only fact I am sure of is what I have just\r\ntold you, that the quality, the quantity and the </span>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 155<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:5.25pt;text-align:center;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:6.7pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>nature of the possible universal combinations are about to change to\r\nsuch an extent that it will stagger all those who deal with life. Let us wait\r\nand see.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>I may add one word, a practical word, to what\r\nI have already said; it is an illustration of a detail, but it will be a kind\r\nof reply to some other questions put to me some time ago about the so-called\r\nlaws of Nature, causes and effects, inevitable consequences in the material\r\nworld, more particularly from the point of view of health: we are told that if\r\nsome precautions are not taken, if we do not eat as we should, if we do not\r\nfollow certain rules, necessarily there will be consequences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>True. But if you look at the thing in the\r\nlight of what I have told you – that there are no two universal combinations\r\nthat are alike – then how can you establish laws and what is the absolute truth\r\nof such laws?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>There is no such truth. For, if you are\r\nlogical, that is to say, with a little higher logic, how can you say that a\r\nthing repeats itself, since there are no two things, no two combinations, no\r\ntwo universal manifestations that are the same? The &quot;sameness&quot; could\r\nbe only an appearance, not a fact. The mind sets up rigid laws, and when it\r\ndoes that, you do not cut yourself off from the apparent surface existence, for\r\nthe surface, in a very obliging manner, seems to satisfy these laws. But that\r\nis an appearance, and it does cut you off from the creative Power of the\r\nSpirit, cut you off from the true Power of Grace. You can understand that if,\r\nby your aspiration and your attitude, you bring down a higher element, a new\r\nelement – which now we may call the Supramental – into the existing\r\ncombinations, you can all on a sudden change their nature and then all these\r\nso-called necessary and inexorable laws become absurdities. It is you, with\r\nyour conception, your attitude, your acceptance of certain so-called\r\nprinciples, it is yourself who shut the door against the possibility of what\r\nyou call miracles. They are not miracles, if you know how they come about, but\r\nevidently for your consciousness they have the look of the miraculous.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>It is you who say with a logic that appears\r\nquite reasonable: &quot;If I do this, necessarily this will happen,&quot; or\r\n&quot;If I do not do this, this other thing will surely come about,&quot; and\r\nthat is how you put, as it were, an iron curtain between yourself and the free\r\naction of the Grace.</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 156<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n.1pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>How\r\ngood would it be to imagine that the Supreme Consciousness, essentially free,\r\nthat presides over the universal manifestation, is fanciful in its choice and\r\nthat it makes things succeed each other, not according to a logic that is\r\naccessible to the human thought, but according to another kind of logic, the\r\nlogic of the unforeseen! <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n.1pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>Then there would be no limit to the\r\npossibilities, the unexpected and the wonderful. And one could hope for the\r\nmost splendid, the most delightful things from this Will, sovereignly free,\r\nplaying eternally with the elements, ceaselessly bringing forth a new world\r\nthat would have logically nothing to do with the world that went before. Don\'t\r\nyou think it would be the happiest of things? We have had enough of the world\r\nas it is. <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n.1pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>All this I am telling you so that each one of\r\nyou may put as few barriers as possible against future possibilities. And that\r\nis my conclusion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n.1pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>I do not know if I have made myself understood\r\nor not, but I suppose a day will come when you will know what I have wanted to\r\nsay. \r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.5pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:1.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 157<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n1.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-049_The Supramental Manifestation and World_Change','','publish','closed','open','','049_the-supramental-manifestation-and-world_change','','','2021-11-23 17:58:20','2021-11-23 17:58:20','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/049_the-supramental-manifestation-and-world_change/',0,'post','',0),(1808,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:20','2021-11-23 17:58:20','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Thought the Creator</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Thought the Creator</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>HUMAN thought always creates forms in the\r\nmental world. It is a creative force. You are creating thought-forms constantly\r\nand sending them out into the atmosphere around; they go abroad to do their\r\nwork. You are yourself surrounded always by such formations. No doubt there are\r\npeople who cannot think clearly; they form around them only a kind of whirl.\r\nBut they who think clearly and strongly create thought-forms that go out to\r\naccomplish their task and return to the source. There are cases of people who\r\nare troubled by their own formations that return to them or upon them as if to\r\npossess them and which they cannot get rid of; they do not know how to unmake a\r\nform which they make. When you have made a particularly strong formation, it\r\nremains always linked to you; it comes back again and again hitting your head\r\nand gathering force. In the end it becomes a necessity for you. There is a\r\nwhole world of mystery to learn in this matter. Men live in ignorance; they\r\nhave powers of which they are thoroughly unconscious or know very little.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>Buddhists, I mean those who are in the more\r\northodox tradition, do not believe in God or an eternal Reality; they do not\r\nbelieve in gods either, that is to say, in beings who are truly divine. They,\r\nhowever, know admirably how to use the mind and the mind\'s power. The Buddhist\r\ndiscipline makes you master of the mental instrument. A person following the\r\nBuddhist discipline came to me once and said that he had made an experiment:\r\nhe had formed a being with his thought, he had created something like a\r\nMahatma. He knew and it is a proved fact that these mental formations after a\r\ntime begin to have a personal life, independently of the author,-although they\r\nmay be connected with him, yet they are quite independent, in the </span>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:199.9pt center 231.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt;\'>Page – 34</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\r\ncolor:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-left:4.5pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:-4.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>sense that they have a will of their own. But\r\nnow he was facing a formidable difficulty. He said: &quot;Do you know I have\r\nformed my Mahatma so well that he has become a personality quite independent of\r\nme and comes all the while to trouble me? He comes, scolds me for this and\r\nthat, advises me in this matter and that and wants to control my life\r\naltogether. I am unable to get rid of him. I find it extremely difficult and do\r\nnot know how to go about it. As I say, my Mahatma has become extremely\r\ntroublesome. He does not leave me to be at rest. He interferes in all my activities,\r\nprevents me from doing my work and yet I know it is my own creation and I am\r\nunable to do away with it.&quot; He explained to me how he had tried to get rid\r\nof the thing. I then told him it was because he did not know the trick. I\r\nshowed him the process and the next morning he came happy and beaming, saying\r\n&quot;it has left.&quot; He could not cut the connection; even then cutting the\r\nconnection is not sufficient, for the being would continue to live apart and\r\nindependent. What is needed is to re-absorb what one has created, to swallow\r\nwhat has been put out. \r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>Page – 35<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-012_Thought the Creator','','publish','closed','open','','012_thought-the-creator','','','2021-11-23 17:58:20','2021-11-23 17:58:20','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/012_thought-the-creator/',0,'post','',0),(1809,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:20','2021-11-23 17:58:20','<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Sadhana Must be Done in the Body</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h1 style=\"line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\" align=\"center\"><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Sadhana\r\nMust be Done in the Body</font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-family:\r\n\"Arial Narrow\"\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 style=\'text-indent:0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THERE are people who are disgusted\r\nwith life. They want to go away in the hope that it will be better the next\r\ntime. But we tell you: It is no use running away from your body, it will not be\r\neasier without a body. On the contrary, it will be much more difficult. The\r\nbody is meant for you to do Yoga. We are upon earth here and it is precisely\r\nduring the period of our life upon earth that we can make progress.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 style=\'text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You cannot progress outside the\r\nlife on earth. The terrestrial life, the material life is essentially the life\r\nfor progress. It is here that we develop and advance. Outside the earthly life\r\nyou take rest, or else you remain unconscious. You can have this period of\r\nassimilation, period of rest or period of inconscience elsewhere. But for\r\nperiods of progress you must come to the earth and in the body. So when you\r\ntake a body it is for making progress and when you leave it the period of\r\nprogress ends.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now\r\ntrue progress means Sadhana, in other words the most conscious and the most\r\nrapid progress. Otherwise there is a progress with the march of Nature and that\r\ntakes centuries and centuries, hundreds of centuries to move just a little\r\nforward.</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>True progress is done by Sadhana. By Yoga\r\nyou can do a thing in a brief space that would otherwise take a long, interminable\r\nperiod. But it is always upon earth and with the body that this can be done,\r\nnot elsewhere. So that is why while you&nbsp; are in the body you must profit by it\r\nand not lose time, nor to say, \'later on, later on.\' It is much better to do\r\nthe thing forthwith. Years that you pass without making progress are years\r\nwasted, you can only regret it afterwards.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 65<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>Every human being here upon earth, whoever he is and\r\nwhatever he is, has within him a psychic Being, only in various degrees of\r\nevolution. An embodied person possesses many other things e.g. states and forms\r\nof consciousness. His task upon earth is to transform these elements which\r\nform, as it were, the part of the universe given to him for his work of\r\ntransformation. And even if he has a vaster mission beyond his own person, he\r\ncannot do that unless he has done the personal work first. You cannot change\r\nthe outside world unless you have begun changing your own self. It is the first\r\nand indispensable condition and it is true for all, young or old, small or big.\r\nIt is for this reason that life has been given to the psychic being: it is\r\nman\'s opportunity for progress. The span of earthly life is the time for\r\nprogress. Outside earthly life there is no progress. The possibility and the\r\nmeans for the progress are only there in earthly life. So one must begin with\r\noneself. When the work has been done with regard to oneself then only one can\r\nbegin elsewhere. But first, work at home.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You\r\ngo to kill yourself when you are a coward. The psychic comes with a definite\r\naim to gather a certain sum of experiences, to learn, to make progress. If you\r\ngo away before the work is done, you have to come back and do it over again but\r\nin circumstances much more difficult than before. Whatever you avoided in one\r\nlife, you will find reappearing in a more difficult form. Without going very\r\nfar, take for example this small difficulty in your life, the examination you\r\nhave to pass. If you do not go through it, if you turn your back, you will have\r\nto pass it, another time and that time it will be more difficult.</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Men are so ignorant. They think that there\r\nis life and that there is death, life is a bundle of troubles, death brings\r\nabout peace. But it is not at all like that. Generally, when one goes out\r\nunnaturally, in a fit of ignorant and obscure passion, one enters straight into\r\na vital world, made of all these passions and ignorant movements. The trouble\r\nthey want to avoid they meet again but without having the protection that the\r\nbody gives them. For if ever you had had a nightmare – i.e. a bold promenade\r\ninto the vital world, you must have known that you came out of it by waking up,\r\nin other words, by rushing into your body. But when you have wilfully destroyed\r\nthe body, you have lost your protective armour. You have to live in<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 66<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>a continual nightmare. It is\r\nnot very pleasant. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To\r\navoid a nightmare you have to be in your psychic consciousness; for when you\r\nare in that consciousness nothing troubles you or brings you anxiety. It is\r\nonly when you are in a movement of ignorance that you do not have the courage\r\nor the strength to face a danger.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:10.05pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>What is the <span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>source </span>of cowardice?</i></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-bottom:0\'>Ignorance is the source. Ignorance is the cause of all evil. I think,\r\nhowever, that one becomes a coward when one is tamasic i.e. one fears to make\r\nan effort.</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n12.0pt;\'>Page – 67<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-023_Sadhana Must be Done in the Body','','publish','closed','open','','023_sadhana-must-be-done-in-the-body','','','2021-11-23 17:58:20','2021-11-23 17:58:20','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/023_sadhana-must-be-done-in-the-body/',0,'post','',0),(1810,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:20','2021-11-23 17:58:20','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Golden Life – line</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">The Golden Life – line</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><i>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";\r\n\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:99.25pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:106.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:99.25pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:106.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As slow\r\nour ship her <span class=SpellE>foaming</span> track </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:99.25pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:106.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Against\r\nthe wind was cleaving,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:99.25pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:106.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Her\r\ntrembling pennant still looked back<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n106.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>To that dear <span\r\nclass=GramE>isle \'t</span> was leaving.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:99.25pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:106.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>So <span\r\nclass=SpellE>loth</span> we part from all we love,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n106.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>From all the\r\nlinks that bind us,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:99.25pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:106.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>So turn\r\nour hearts as on we rove,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:99.25pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:106.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To\r\nthose we\'ve left behind us.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THIS is not merely children\'s\r\nhomesickness; it is a fundamental note of the human nature as it is at present\r\nconstituted. We always look backward, we always are tied to our roots and it is\r\nwith great difficulty and much effort that we advance and go forward or upward\r\naway from our origins. In a nobler language this is called tradition. Often\r\ntradition is made identi­cal with and taken for both life and culture. Denying\r\nthe past is looked upon almost as refusing the source of life and light.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Viewed\r\nfrom another standpoint this harking back to the past, to the roots, as we say,\r\nis the greatest obstacle to human progress. Man progresses, indeed the whole\r\ncreation advances, by breaking with the past. The leap from the mineral to the\r\nplant, from the inorganic to the organic, is the first and most significant\r\nbreak. Even so, are the progressive breaks from the plant to the animal and\r\nfrom the animal to man. In man too similar progressive, that is, radically\r\nprogressive steps or leaps are <span class=SpellE>recognisable</span>. The ape\r\nman without tools and the first man with tools mark very different stages in\r\nhuman consciousness and life. And we have carried on more or less the same\r\nmanner of progression till today. But against this forward movement of nature,\r\nthere is a counter-pull backward. The \r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 308<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>principle</span> of inertia, of standing still, is of the very\r\nnature of matter, the basic fact of creation. The force of gravity, earth\'s\r\npull, does not allow you to shoot up; it brings you down, and if you stand\r\nerect, the innate tendency of the body is to sit down or lie flat, \'obedient to\r\nthe earth\'s attraction. This physical inertia acts also upon the mind,\r\nincluding the vital conscious­ness. This is translated in the consciousness as\r\nan attachment to the past, to what man has been familiar with. Conservation is\r\nthe term in respect of physical Nature and atavism is its expression in human\r\nnature.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nis so difficult for man to leave the beaten track, for that means risk and\r\ndanger; our thoughts and movements are all shaped in the mould of the past, we\r\ncarry out what old habits have instructed us; any new thought, any new act we\r\nhappen to come across we seek to link it to an antecedent or precedent, similar\r\nin kind or form. It is a never-ending succession, a causal chain that makes up\r\nour life, the present being always produced by its past. That means the\r\npresent, and so also the future, is only another form or term of the past. What\r\nis not in the past is not in the present or the future, that is to say, such is\r\nthe constitution of our consciousness and nature: there is a natural and\r\ninevitable faith and trust in the past, an extension of the past; there is only\r\napprehension for the future, uncertainty in the present.¹ It was Buddha\'s\r\nsignal achievement to uncover this great illusion, the illusion of an inexhaustible\r\nand inexorably continuing past, continuing into the present and into the\r\nfuture. He saw that to be is not conti­nuity but a sequence of discrete moments\r\n(and events). It is ignorance that finds a link between these entities; they\r\nare in reality absolutely separate and distinct from each other. If you can\r\nwake up from this ignorance as from a dream you will find they \'all\r\ndisintegrate and disperse and end in nothing. The only reality is that Nothing.\r\n<span class=SpellE>Shankara</span> however says that it is not mere Nothing but\r\nPure <span class=GramE>Existence,</span> instead of an illusion of existences\r\nyou have the original Existence, the absolute existence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">¹ It is not that the conscious intelligence of man\r\nis ignorant of the truth, his reason and higher perception surely sees and\r\nacknowledges it; but the life impulse that moves him, his spontaneous energy\r\nand instinct turns him away from a dyna­mic recognition of what otherwise\r\nshould inspire his movements. The link with the past is of much greater\r\nstrength than a possibility of the future.</font><o:p><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 309<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nUpanishad speaks of the creation as a garland and all the elements of life –\r\nthat are like precious jewels – are strung upon a secret thread. Indeed, it is\r\nnot on nothing that this multiplicity which is the creation is standing and\r\nholding together. There is however a twofold secret thread – one that binds\r\ntogether a world of ignorance: that is the thread of ignorance which passes\r\nthrough, even keeps alive as it were, all the expressions and embodiments of\r\nthe ignorance, pain and suffering, greed and hunger, egoism and selfishness and\r\nall forms of what is<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>called evil. But it\r\nis the apparent world; even so, it is not pure delusion: it is a make-believe\r\nor falsehood which keeps behind</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.2pt;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>it</span> the true, the real world. That world lies behind the mask,\r\nthe present actual world; it is another world of light and truth, power and\r\ndelight and purity. There the link that binds together the succession of events\r\nand realities is a golden thread of pure consciousness. The link of ignorance\r\nis, one may say, the iron link, and is open to rust and decay inevitably. It is\r\nthe link that binds together the ordinary life of ignorance, that pulls always\r\nbackward, clings to all that has gone by, seeks to extend the past into the\r\npresent and the future, feels unhappy if that is disturbed.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\na new and higher life we are asked to discard that link and come out of it, to\r\ndiscover the other inner link, the link of light. That turns always to the\r\nfuture, directs all impulses and activities towards the realities that are to\r\nbe.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>These are then the two chains binding, each in\r\nits own way, our life movements, each building a whole with a special\r\nsignificance and <span class=SpellE>fulfilment</span>. They are two life-\r\nlines, as it <span class=GramE>were</span>, a running parallel to each other.\r\nOne, as I have said, is the normal mundane life, the other a transfigured\r\nspiritual life. The Upanishad, we know, speaks of the path of the Sun and the\r\npath of the Fathers – they roughly correspond to the two lines I have just\r\nspoken of. But the <span class=SpellE>Upanishadic</span> path of the Sun is a\r\nvertical ascension from the normal life-line into a transcendent beyond. What\r\nwe meant was not <span class=GramE>an ascension</span> beyond but a parallel\r\ngrowth in transformation, that is to say, what we referred to as the lower iron\r\nlinks are to be transmuted into the golden ones, without breaking or dissolving\r\nthem. The problem is to find out the secret of this alchemy that transmutes the\r\niron links into the golden ones. Psychologically<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 310<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> Buddhist way is a great help even if it is not the\r\nunique and inevitable one towards that consummation. For it dislocates,\r\ndisintegrates the chain that binds the being to the normal and ignorant life.\r\nIt teaches one to see and feel life as separate and isolated \'moments\', there\r\nbeing no real link between the moments; so if one is to live the truth of life\r\none must learn to live from<i> </i>moment to moment without any thought from\r\nthe past or of the future. The Biblical motto gains in this connection a deeper\r\nsignificance: sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. One does not carry\r\non his shoulders the burden of the past moments <span class=GramE>nor</span> a\r\npossible burden in the thought of the morrow. One becomes free, absolutely\r\nfree, with no care but just the need of the moment to note and the immediate\r\ngesture to meet it.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That\r\nis a way, an effective way, for dissolving life, but we seek, as we have said,\r\nnot dissolution or disintegration but integration – Integration into a higher\r\ninteger, a greater reality. The lower chain dissolved, we have to find a new\r\nstatus beyond the dissolution. That is perhaps what the Upanishad indicated\r\nwhen it said: one has to traverse death through Ignorance (perception of\r\nignorance) and then through Knowledge (perception of the Knowledge) to attain\r\nimmortality. Buddha has led us across death, now we have to reach immortality.\r\nThere is a higher line of Karma and a lower line running parallel, as I said,\r\nto each other – the lower (the iron chain) leads from death to death, the\r\nhigher (the golden one) leads from life to life and from light to light.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\ntransference from the lower chain to the higher is to be effected by the <span\r\nclass=SpellE>consciosuness</span> of nothingness (<span class=SpellE>Shunyam</span>)\r\nbeing filled or impregnated with the new consciousness of Immortality; for the\r\nunits of the normal or ignorant. <span class=GramE>con­sciousness</span> are\r\nthemselves not wholly or essentially ignorant and mortal. They have in them\r\nwhat Buddha did not see or <span class=SpellE>recognise</span> – the immortal\r\nsoul or self – as the Vedic <span class=SpellE>Rishis</span> said: that which\r\nis immortal in the mortal. What is mortal in the apparently mortal unit is the\r\ncovering that hides the immortal nucleus. This covering is made of, as we know,\r\nthe mental, the vital and the physical beings. These perish, that is to say,\r\nchange; but that does not affect the immortal being within. Thus the\r\nconsciousness is to be drawn away or detached<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 311<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:165.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>from</span> the covering and hitched on to the unchanging reality\r\nwithin. That forms the golden link of the chain of immortality of the Supreme\r\nLight. The transference from the lower chain is to be effected through the\r\nconsciousness of the luminous immortal divine unit. It is the Divine in man, familiarly\r\ncalled \'<span class=SpellE>antaryamin</span>.\'</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Naturally,\r\nthe transference of the consciousness and being from the lower or surface line\r\nto the line that <span class=GramE>lies in a higher and deeper level does</span>\r\nnot mean, we must note, the rejection or annihilation of the lower in <span\r\nclass=SpellE>favour</span> of the higher. The con­sciousness of the soul or\r\nself does not negate the consciousness of the body and the life and the mind.\r\nIt only purifies, elevates, and transmutes them into its true and divine expression\r\nand embodiment.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To\r\nlive in the soul is to live in eternity with the vision and inspiration of the\r\neternal. It is living in the mind and the vital and the body that turns and\r\nbinds one to the past renders one a slave to mortality.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nunits of this higher chain of consciousness are free from all drag of the past\r\nor hold of the present: their being is turned automatically towards the future,\r\nthe Great Event to which all creation moves; for that is the truth of its\r\ninmost reality: the inspiration of its movements comes from that intimate\r\nsource. The units of one\'s own life, all its moments share in this freedom and\r\nthis life-inspiration and all together form the wonderful harmony of the golden\r\nchain. The units are not separated or isolated from each other – freedom of the\r\nindividual here does not mean isolation: it is a close union, indeed, it is an\r\nindivisible unity for all units, all individual formations are identical, for\r\nin a sense all are identified with the only reality, the one supreme consciousness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nsoul-consciousness is the golden thread running through the chain of light and\r\nwhen it comes forward and becomes dynamic it gradually engulfs and purifies\r\nwhat was its covering, the life, the mind and the body and reforms them in its\r\nown light and energy expressing and embodying its divine truth and <span\r\nclass=SpellE>fulfilment</span> here below.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 312<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-091_The Golden Life','','publish','closed','open','','091_the-golden-life','','','2021-11-23 17:58:20','2021-11-23 17:58:20','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/091_the-golden-life/',0,'post','',0),(1811,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:20','2021-11-23 17:58:20','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Labours of the Gods: </title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center; line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center; line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">The Labours of the Gods:\r\n</font> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center; line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">The five Purifications</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:32.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</i></b><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>NOWDAYS we\r\nhear much of brain-washing. The other day, instead of brain-washing, I spoke of\r\nbrain-ignition. That is to say, for a total reconstitution of the brain, for a\r\nnew building of the physique of the new man, one has to transform the cells of\r\ngrey matter into particles of fire, packets of burning energy. I said, the\r\ncranium being the control-room of physical existence and the brain being the\r\ncontrolling agent – the brain extending its range down the spinal column to its\r\nend at the last vertebra – this is the element that has to be treated and\r\nreorganised first and foremost if a physical reorganisation of human nature and\r\nbehaviour is to be achieved. I explained – tried to explain – that this being\r\nthe physical or material field, the first of the elements – ksiti or earth or\r\nmatter – the God presiding over it, Fire, has to be invoked and its especial\r\nworking carried out here.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n	<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span></i></b><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-spacerun:yes\'>\r\n\r\n</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n\r\nThe brain thus is the controller-general of\r\nthe whole physical system of the human body. <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nbold\'>In </span>particular, however, it is the controller and regulator of the\r\nphysical mind and the senses (the six indriyas of Indian psychology). This is\r\nthe province of the basic earth principle, this range of material matter over\r\nwhich the Fire is the presiding deity. There are, however, other provinces and\r\nunits, co-lateral to the brain system and having special functions of their\r\nown. First of all, at the bottom of the scale, or rather the first step upward\r\nin the scale, – that is, after the vertebral pedestal – is the abdominal system\r\nwhich consists, as we know, of the three main operations: (i) digestion, (ii)\r\nevacuation, and (iii) generation, comprising, in other words, the stomach, the\r\nintestines, the liver and the spleen, the kidneys, the bladder, and finally, the\r\nsex glands. The glands indeed, here in this domain, are the operative\r\n\r\n</span></span>\r\n\r\n</span></p><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n\r\n	<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n</i></b><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 329</span></span><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</i></b><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>agent: and they have a special way of operation,\r\nnamely, washing. If fire controls the most material, the earth-principle, it is\r\nwater, apas, that is the god in this region of the vital functions. The Vedas\r\nspeak of the purifying streams of the Sindhus and the Srotas; they speak of the\r\nunderground stream of rasa which Sarama, the Hound of Heaven, crossed to\' come\r\nover to our earth. Water, in fact, does the work appropriate to this region. It\r\nis the vital region in man and consists of functions attached to the vital\r\nactivities. The vital in its ordinary and normal functions means desires and\r\nattachments, hunger and thirst, ties and bondages, urges and demands – these have\r\nto be cleared and washed out if there is to be healthy strength in the system,\r\nwashed by spraying the pure vital fluid. Physiologically the enzymes and\r\nendocrine secretions are the physical formations or outer formulations of the\r\nhidden vital fluid. This indeed is the function of the deity, Soma, Pawamana\r\nSoma, the flowing stream of Delight, who in effect is the true presiding\r\ngodhead here. For it is this section of the body that is the stage for our\r\nwhole world of enjoyment – for the play of all our physical delights as well as\r\nof all our ailments and diseases. Purified, it is the giver of health and\r\nhappiness leading ultimately to that Supreme Delight which is immortality,\r\nLife transfigured.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Above and next to this\r\nregion of the viscera, on the other side of the diaphragm, is the region of the\r\nthorax, the chest cavity. It contains the ,most important of all human organs,\r\nthe heart and the lungs, which means the respiratory and the circulatory\r\nsystems, extending into the solar plexus; and the power that controls it is\r\nthat of the third element Tejas, the pulsating, radiant energy. It is the\r\nenergising heat, the warmth of will and aspiration, concentration in the heart;\r\nit is also Tapas. It is indeed a form of fire, fire in its essential substance,\r\na quiet white flame against the robust red and crimson and purple fires of\r\nearth. It is the mounting urge of consciousness in its rhythmic poise of\r\nharmonious strength. And that is the god Aryama of the Vedas, the godhead\r\npresiding over the upward surge of evolution. From here comes not merely the\r\ndrive to go forward, the secret dynamo that moves the being to its goal but\r\nalso the vision that shows the way and the conditions under which the end is\r\nachieved or fulfilled. From</p>\r\n\r\n</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n\r\n	<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 330</span></span><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</i></b><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;tab-stops:35.45pt 285.6pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>here\r\ntoo comes rhythm and the balance and the happy harmony of all movements in\r\nlife. The calm heave of the lung sand the glad beat of the heart are the sign\r\nand symbol of a radiant animation.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n	<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\nnow come to the fourth domain, the domain of Marut; in the physical body it is\r\nthe mouth, the throat, the tongue, the facial front in general. It is the field\r\nof expression, of articulation – Vak, the word is the symbol. Here is the\r\nalert, the mobile field, also a stage for the play, the outward display of all\r\nthe significances that life movements carry in them, physical or psychological.\r\nSpeech or utterance is the epitomised or concretised expression of the sense\r\nof life movement.</span><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</i></b><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This\r\nregion of the Marut can be linked to that where the Vedic Maruts rule and\r\ngovern. The Maruts are called thought gods – thought-gods riding on the\r\nmovements of life. They represent the aerial spirits or energies that lift, the\r\nhuman spirit from its purely vital and material coils into the rarer regions of\r\npure thinking and light and consciousness, who spread and move further upward\r\nin the still farther and rarer regions of consciousness and energy.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Beyond\r\nis the fifth element, Vyom, the sphere overhead the Vast and the Infinite.\r\nThat, of course, is the original source and status of the human being, where he\r\ngathers up all the elements in one indivisible perfect consciousness. That is\r\nthe root of the Divine Tree of Existence which, as the Vedas say dwells up\r\nthere, spreading downward all its branches, namely the other elements of the\r\nbeing.</span><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</i></b><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Such\r\nthen are the five operations of the divine alchemy with regard to the\r\npurification of the human vessel, somewhat in the manner of the ancients while\r\ntreating the base metal; they are (I) burning, (2) washing, (3) brightening up\r\nor warming up or enlivening, (4) articulating i.e. giving an expression or a\r\nform of beauty and truth, and (5) setting the whole within or in reference to\r\nthe frame of the Infinite and the Impersonal.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n	<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\nhave said that each element has its special function in relation to the human\r\nadhara, the fire burns in the earthly or material sheath, the water flushes and\r\ncleans the vitals, the radiant energy activises and regulates the cardiac\r\ndomain – which in fact is the central knot of life – the air or wind, the\r\nbreath of consciousness inspires the right expression in thought</span></span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 331</span></span><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</i></b><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And speech and act, and finally, the vast limitless\r\nbeyond is the ultimate reality embracing the rest of the being in its truth and\r\nlove and delight. In reality, however, the elements in their essence are not exclusive\r\nof each other. Indeed they with their respective fields and functions are\r\ninterchangeable, each one can do the work of any other or of all together. They\r\nfunction severally and collectively, and they intermingle and reciprocate in\r\ntheir functioning even like and following the example of the Vedic gods. Fire\r\ncan ignite the brain or the vitals or the cardiac and the throat region or even\r\nthe crown. The water as well can flush likewise the brain, the vitals, the\r\nthorax and the throat. The radiant energy of the heart, in its turn, can\r\nluminously animate and regulate the same fields and functions. The air or the\r\nMarut can sweep through and purify and dynamise each and everyone of the rest,\r\ngive an inspired expression through man\'s face, – the frontal field and instrument.\r\nAnd it goes without saying that the Infinite, the Vast, lies behind and at the\r\nheart of all, without it nothing can exist or move. That is the supreme agent\r\nfor creation and new creation – the Grace Divine.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All the different elements\r\nare but varied formulations of one and the same divine Creative Energy.\r\nTherefore the Vedic Rishi declares: It is all one single reality, the sages\r\ngive it different names.</span><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</i></b><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 332 </span>\r\n\r\n</span><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n\r\n<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n</i></b></div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-096_The Labours of the Gods','','publish','closed','open','','096_the-labours-of-the-gods','','','2021-11-23 17:58:20','2021-11-23 17:58:20','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/096_the-labours-of-the-gods/',0,'post','',0),(1812,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:21','2021-11-23 17:58:21','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Health in the Ashram</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Health in the Ashram</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n15.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt\'>(1)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n13.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>THERE are people who come to me and say that they would like to go\r\nhome, for their health does not permit them to con­tinue here; it is gradually\r\ngetting worse and worse and they ask for my permission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>I wonder at their ignorance. Perhaps I should\r\nnot wonder; human nature is like that. These people do not know or see or feel\r\nin the least that they are here in the best of conditions for cure, nowhere else\r\nin the world would they get anything like the opportunity or the help that is\r\nhere. Naturally, if one is to be here and derive the full benefit of his stay,\r\none has to fulfil certain conditions or rather <i>one </i>condition. That one\r\ncondition is to give up the ego, not to live the life of the ego, but to live the\r\nlife of the soul, to dedicate oneself to the Divine. So it is evident that if\r\nthis condition is not fulfilled, that is to say, being here you continue to\r\nlive the life of your old self, your ego, if you refuse to change, naturally\r\nyou do not get the benefit of the help that is given here. And when you refuse\r\nto go forward, not only do you halt where you are, you go backward. That is the\r\nmeaning of one\'s health getting worse. Of course if you ask my permission to go\r\naway, you have it. The Grace is every­ where for all to the extent they can\r\nreceive and allow it to come to them. But that is not what things would be if\r\nyou were<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>here</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'> and agreed to attempt to fulfil the conditions of the life </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>here. </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>To be able to stay here one must have faith.\r\nBut people\'s faith depends upon what the ego desires and seeks. &quot;I believe\r\nin the Divine provided I find Him doing or arranging things as I would like\r\nthem to be. If things happen contrary to my</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\'>Page – 169<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>notions</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'> and wishes, then I believe no more in the Divine.&quot; That is their\r\nattitude.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>Now it is precisely this ego-view that\r\nvitiates one\'s approach to life and existence. In the true and the most ancient\r\ntradition of spirituality, the world was never looked upon as Maya or <span\r\nclass=GramE>illusion,</span> it was the ego that was considered as an illusion\r\nand the generator of illusions. It is the ego and ego\'s view that puts us in a\r\nwrong relation with the world and the consequences are all the falsehoods and\r\nmiseries. Be egoless, do not contaminate your perception or your movement with\r\nthe ego\'s touch, you will see the world changed and transformed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>If you had faith, if you had less of the\r\negoistic demands and shrinkings, you would see how beautifully Nature\r\ncollaborates with you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>The greatest thing that can ever be, the most\r\nmarvellous thing since the beginning of creation, the <i>miracle </i>has\r\nhappened. And that is the only thing that concerns us most intimately and the\r\nonly thing we should be concerned with. <span class=GramE>A new world</span>,\r\nyes a completely new world, is born and is here. Nothing can be more momentous.\r\nAnd yet, do you know, feel or perceive it? Unless things give a physical knock\r\nupon your nose, you do not believe in its reality. And yet it is there. You are\r\nblind and without sense because you are ego-bound. It is <span class=GramE>your\r\nI</span>, My and Mine that has woven around you a web, a screen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>(2)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>Wake up in yourself a will to conquer. Not a\r\nmere will in the mind but a will in the very cells of your body. Without that\r\nyou can\'t do anything, e.g., you may take a hundred medicines but they won\'t\r\ncure you unless you have a will to overcome the physical illness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>I may destroy the adverse force that has\r\npossessed you. I may repeat the action a thousand times. But each time that a\r\nvacuum is created it will be filled up by one of the many forces that try to\r\nrush in. That is why, I say, wake up the will to conquer.</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\'>Page – 170<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-055_Health in the Ashram','','publish','closed','open','','055_health-in-the-ashram','','','2021-11-23 17:58:21','2021-11-23 17:58:21','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/055_health-in-the-ashram/',0,'post','',0),(1813,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:21','2021-11-23 17:58:21','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>GO Through</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h2 style=\"line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\" align=\"center\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Go Through</font></b></h2>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>IT is said one must be\r\nfree from human love if one is to enjoy Divine Love. But to be free is usually\r\ntaken to mean to reject, to reject naturally by force, that is to say, to\r\ncoerce, to repress and suppress. &quot;But who can coerce a force of\r\nNature?&quot; the Gita asks. Indeed a force of Nature like human passion cannot\r\nbe dominated or obliterated by force; it is sure to come back with a redoubled <span\r\nclass=SpellE>vigour</span>. Nor can such an elemental feeling be overlooked,\r\nside-tracked or by-passed. This way also the element is sure to come back and\r\ncatch you from behind.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nbest way to tackle the thing is, as the Mother says, to go through it. To go\r\nthrough means to stand and face it and not run away from it. To go through does\r\nnot mean, however, to satisfy or to indulge the urge – that makes you a slave\r\nof it more and more; you get all the more entangled and can never hope to be\r\nfree. You stand and face in order to seize the truth, the reality of the thing\r\nyou have to deal with. You have to purify it and clean it in order to remove\r\nthe dust that covers the gold. If it is human love, to purify means to free it\r\nfrom selfishness, from egoistic desire, the sense of possession. Instead, you\r\nlove simply for the joy of loving without any expectation or demand of return.\r\nYou find in the end that this way of loving brings to you a greater delight, a\r\nnew thrill and poignancy, proper to a pure feeling.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Indeed\r\nnot only love but all human impulses and urges are to be dealt with in the same\r\nway. The Gita furnishes a beautiful and crucial example. The Gita teaches man\r\nto go through the field of activity and not to reject or avoid it. The whole of\r\nthe Gita is an ideal lesson in the technique of going through. The Gita says,\r\ndo not renounce work but dedicate it– not <span class=SpellE><i>karmatyâga</i></span><i>\r\n</i>but <span class=SpellE><i>karmanyâsa</i></span><i>. </i>What does this\r\ndedication mean? </p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.5pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 208<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The first step in the\r\nprocess of dedication is <span class=SpellE>desirelessness</span> – to do work\r\nwithout desire. It is usually thought that desire is the source and origin of\r\nwork. If you have no desire, you have no need or impulse to work. But this is a\r\nvery superficial view of things. The impulse for work springs from elsewhere,\r\nfrom a deeper and impersonal source. The true spirit in which you should work\r\nis, as the Gita enjoins, to do a work because it is a thing to be done, not\r\nbecause you desire it. So naturally you <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>do\r\nnot hanker for the fruit of your action. <span class=GramE>First then, no\r\nattachment to the action itself, then no attachment to the fruit that it\r\nbrings.</span> This can be done only when you are unselfish. Not only\r\nunselfishness but you have to go a step farther, to selflessness. So then there\r\nare these three stages in the process of dedication or purification. <span\r\nclass=GramE>First to work without desire, without attachment to the result of\r\nthe work.</span> Then you will be able to see that you are an instrument only,\r\nthe work is being done through you. At the beginning you are a <span\r\nclass=SpellE>desireless</span>, unselfish doer of works, next you see yourself\r\nas a detached witness of your action and finally you see that the action\r\nhappening in you is Nature working in you, Nature the instrument of the\r\nDivine. Finally <span class=GramE>yourself</span> is no longer there, it is the\r\nDivine alone that is and acts.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\'margin-right:-3.05pt;text-indent:14.2pt;\r\nline-height:150%;tab-stops:.5in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>What has been said of works is\r\ntrue of all activities in man, his thoughts, feelings, impulses, physical acts.\r\nIt is the process of going through and meeting the reality beyond, which hides,\r\nencloses itself with all its envelopes or coverings which you pass through.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>In fact it is to the Divine that the\r\ndedication has to be made. Dedication means offering. All works, says the Gita,\r\nhave to be offered to the Supreme, that is the meaning of sacrifice, the\r\nsacrifice of works (<span class=SpellE>Karmayajna</span>), all works come from\r\nthe Divine and they are to go back to Him, that is how they are purified and\r\nthrough them thus purified and elevated, man attains his goal, union with the\r\nSupreme. However, not works alone but each and every element of the human being\r\n– even love and passion and all the grosser urges – do come from the only one\r\nSource, the Divine. They become impure and distorted, muddy and poisonous when\r\nman seeks to appropriate, that is to say, misappropriate them as his own\r\npersonal belongings. To give up the sense of ownership is the core of<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 209</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>dedication</span>. You are not the <span class=GramE>possessor,</span>\r\nthe Divine is the only possessor. In fact, you also do not belong to yourself,\r\nyou belong to the Divine. That is the ceremony of sacrifice you have to\r\nundertake – install the Divinity in all your parts and functions. That is how\r\nyou purify and <span class=SpellE>divinise</span> your human elements. That is\r\nhow you go through ignorance and mortality and arrive at knowledge and\r\nimmortality.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 210<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:21.1pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-069_GO Through','','publish','closed','open','','069_go-through','','','2021-11-23 17:58:21','2021-11-23 17:58:21','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/069_go-through/',0,'post','',0),(1814,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:21','2021-11-23 17:58:21','<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">The Evolution of Language</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><span style=\'font-size:18.0pt;\r\n\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>HUMAN language was born\r\nout of the necessity of inter-communication among human beings living together.\r\nThe necessity naturally related to the physical life and its demands and\r\nrequirements. Man being a mental being sought intercommunication through his\r\nmind. So mind yoked to the physical demands gave the first form and pattern to\r\nhuman speech.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Language\r\nin the beginning must have been an echo or a graphic expression of man\'s\r\nsense-bound mind. But as the mind developed, became more and more rational and\r\nintellectual, language also tended to become more and more abstract and. intellectualised. Even so at its best, language could be the vehicle and\r\nembodiment of man\'s mental and intellectual world.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\nman moves on, his mind opens on new horizons, his consciousness is not tethered\r\nto sense-experiences nor even limited to the region of thought and ideation\r\nbuilt or grown in accordance with the mode and schema of sense-experiences.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Man\r\nbegan to possess, to acquire intuitions and inspirations, that is to say,\r\nmovements of consciousness that lie beyond the frame given by the sense-mind.\r\nThese new perceptions could naturally be expressed with difficulty through what\r\none may call the earth-nurtured or earth-bound language. The aerial luminous\r\ncharacter of the mystic consciousness is always said to be beyond speech,\r\nbeyond even mental formulation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nyet poets, mystic poets have always sought to express themselves, to express\r\nsomething of their experience and illumination through the word, the human\r\ntongue. It is extremely interesting to see how a material, constructed or\r\nformed to satisfy the requirements of an ordinary physical life\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 214</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>is being turned into an\r\ninstrument for luminous and effective communication and expression of other\r\ntruths and realities in the hands of these seer-creators <i>(</i>kavi-kratuh)<i>.\r\n</i>They take the materials from ordinary normal life, familiar objects and\r\nhappenings but use them as images and allegories putting into them a new sense\r\nand a new light. Also they give a new, unfamiliar turn to their utterance, a\r\nnew syntax, sometimes uncommon construction and novel vocabulary to the language\r\nitself so that it has even the appearance of something very irregular and\r\ntwisted and obscure. Indeed obscurity itself in the expression, in the form of\r\nthe language has often been taken as the very sign of the higher and hidden\r\nexperience and illumination.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nVedic rishis speak of the different levels of speech-the human language is only\r\none form of speech, its lowest, in fact the crudest formulation. There are\r\nother forms of speech that are subtler and subtler as one rises in the scale of\r\nconsciousness. The highest formulation of language, the supreme Word –vâk<i>\r\n– is \'</i><st1:place><i>OM</i></st1:place><i>\' – nâda – <span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>s</span>abda-brahma.\r\n</i>That is the supreme speech - vibration, the rhythmic articulation of the\r\nSupreme Consciousness Sachchidananda; the expression there is nearest to\r\nsilence, almost merges into silence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Our\r\nhuman language cannot expect to attain that supreme height of felicity of\r\nexpression but wherever something of the vibration has been communicated to it\r\nby the magic hand of the creative poet, we have the \'mantra\', the supreme, the\r\nmantric poetry.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 215</span></p><hr>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-071_The Evolution of Language','','publish','closed','open','','071_the-evolution-of-language','','','2021-11-23 17:58:21','2021-11-23 17:58:21','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/071_the-evolution-of-language/',0,'post','',0),(1815,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:21','2021-11-23 17:58:21','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>To Melt into the Divine</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">To </font> </b><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><font size=\"4\">Melt into the Divine</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:235.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-indent:25pt\'><b><i>How to melt into the Divine? That is to say, how to get dissolved in\r\nthe Divine, lose one\'s ego?</i></b></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:235.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>F<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>IRST</span> of all, one must wish for it, will for it,\r\naspire for it with perseverance. Every time the ego shows itself, you must give\r\nit a blow on the nose, until it receives so much of it that it gets tired and\r\ngives up. Generally, however, one does not administer the blow but cherishes\r\nthe miscreant, justifies its presence. When it shows itself one says, &quot;After\r\nall it is right&quot;; although in most cases, one does not even know it is the\r\nego, one takes it for one\'s self. The first condition then is to consider it\r\nessential that one should have no more ego. You must understand what is meant\r\nwhen you say you no longer want it. It is not so easy. For while in your brain\r\nyou turn and turn the idea \'I do not want ego, I do not want to be separate from\r\nthe Divine\', in life it has no effect; when actually you do a selfish or\r\negoistic act, you find it quite natural; it does not even give a shock to you.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\nmust begin by understanding what the thing really means. There are many stages\r\nor steps in it. First of all, you must distinguish between two things (1)\r\nselfishness and (2) egoism. Selfishness is a crude form and it should not be\r\nvery difficult to get rid of it, at least a good part of it. You can get over\r\nit simply by having a sense of the ridiculous. You do not see how absurd a\r\nselfish man is. He always thinks of himself, bringing everything round to\r\nhimself, ruled by considerations of his small person, putting himself at the\r\ncentre of the universe and trying to organise the universe, including God,\r\naround himself, as if he was the most important item of the universe. Now, if\r\nyou just try to look at yourself from outside in a dispassionate way, see\r\nyourself as in a mirror, you immediately recognise how ridiculous your\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 96<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>little\r\nperson is. I remember I read in French, translated of course, a line from\r\nTagore which amused me very much. It was about a little dog. The dog was seated\r\nin the lap of its mistress and considered itself to be the centre of the\r\nuniverse. Yes, the picture stuck in my mind. I knew actually a little dog who\r\nwas like that. There are many of the kind, perhaps all: they want that\r\neverybody should be busy with them and they succeed in doing so.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You\r\nhave to go a long way before you can think of merging your ego, your self in\r\nthe Divine. First of all, you cannot merge your ego or your self until you are\r\na completely individualised being. And do you know what does that mean – \'to be\r\ncompletely individualised\'? It means one capable of resisting all external\r\ninfluences. The other day I received a letter from someone who says that he\r\nhesitates to read books; for he has a very strong tendency to identify himself\r\nwith what he reads; if he reads a novel or a drama he becomes the character\r\npictured and is possessed by the feelings and thoughts and movements of the\r\ncharacter. There are many like that. If they read something, while they read\r\nthey are completely moved by the ideas and impulsions and even ideals they read\r\nabout and are totally absorbed in them and become them, without their knowing\r\nit even. That is because ninety-nine per cent of their nature is made of butter\r\nas it were: if you press your finger it leaves a mark. That is the ordinary\r\nman\'s character. One takes in, as one comes across it, a thought experienced by\r\nanother, a phrase read in a book, a thing observed or an incident the eyes fall\r\nupon, a will or wish of a neighbour, all that enters pell-mell intermixed –enters\r\nand goes out, others come in – like electric currents. And one does not notice\r\nit. There is a conflict, a clash among these various movements, each trying to\r\nget the upper hand. Thus the person is tossed to and fro like a piece of cork\r\nupon the waves in the sea.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Instead\r\nof this unformed and unconscious mass, one has to become conscious, cohesive,\r\nindividualised, that which exists by itself and in itself, independently of its\r\nsurroundings, that which can hear, read, see anything and will not change\r\nbecause of that. It receives from outside only what it wishes to receive. It\r\nrejects automatically what does not agree with its purpose: nothing can leave\r\nany impression upon it, unless it wishes to<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 97<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>have the\r\nimpress. It is thus that one begins to be individualised. And when one is an\r\nindividual, then only can one make a gift of it, for unless you possess a thing\r\nyou cannot give it; when you have nothing or are nothing you can give nothing.\r\nSo in order that the separate ego may disappear, one must be able to give oneself\r\nwholly, totally without restrictions. And to be able to give, one must exist\r\nand to exist one must be an individual. If your body were not rigid as it is – the\r\nbody is indeed terribly rigid – if it were not something quite fixed and if you\r\nhad not this solid skin around the skeleton, if you were the exact expression\r\nof what you are vitally and mentally, it would be worse than the gelatinous\r\njelly fish. All would enter and melt into one another, what a chaos and\r\nconfusion would it be! That is why a rigid form is given at the outset. And you\r\ncomplain: the physical is so fixed, it lacks plasticity, suppleness – it lacks\r\nthe fluidity that enables one to melt into the Divine! But it was a necessity.\r\nFor if you were out of your body and entered into the regions behind –the\r\nvital, – you would see how things stand there: things get mixed, separated,\r\nintertwined, all kinds of vibrations, currents, forces that come and go,\r\nstruggle and fight, seize each other, absorb each other, repulse each other!\r\nVery difficult to find a personality in all that. It is only forces, movements,\r\nimpulsions, desires. Not that there are not individualities and personalities\r\nthere too! But they are Powers. They who have individualised themselves in such\r\na world are either heroes or demons!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nthen in the mind, if you become conscious only of the physical mind, apart from\r\nwhat belongs to the brain, independent of the head, you will see that it is\r\nreally a market place, as it has been called: everything enters here, all kinds\r\nof ideas and notions cross and recross and move about, jostle one another,\r\nknock against each other – there are even accidents sometimes. There you can\r\nsearch, but search in vain to find where your own mind lies.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One\r\nneeds years of labour – organising, selecting, building up very diligently,\r\nvery carefully, very rationally, very cohesively, in order simply to form\r\noneself: to form this simple thing, for example, to think in one\'s own way. You\r\nbelieve you think in your own way, you do not know how much you depend for your\r\nthoughts upon the people you speak to, upon the books that you read, upon your\r\nvarying moods; yes, it depends<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 98<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>not unoften \r\nupon your good or bad digestion, upon the fact of your being closed in a room or \r\nfree in the open air, upon the scenery around you, upon sun or shower. You do \r\nnot notice it, but you think of different things in different ways according to \r\nconditions or situations which have nothing to do with your own self. So, I say, \r\nto have your thoughts coordinated, cohesive, logical, you would need a\r\nlong, very long work in minute details. And then, that is the most important\r\npart of the thing, when you have come to a beautiful mental structure,\r\nwell-shaped, very strong, very powerful, the first thing you will be told to do\r\nis that you must break it up, if you wish to be united with the Divine! And\r\nunless and until you have done that first part you cannot do the second part,\r\nunless you form yourself you cannot give yourself, you would have nothing to\r\ngive to the Divine. You are nothing more than a mass of inchoate things which\r\nare not yourself. First you must exist, you must be, before you can give\r\nyourself.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>At\r\nthe present moment in the actual state of things what one can give to the\r\nDivine is one\'s body. But that is precisely the thing that one does not give.\r\nYes, try to consecrate your work, your bodily labour; even there, there are so\r\nmany things that are not true or correct.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You\r\nmay naturally ask how to melt the body in the Divine? You say you understand\r\nsomewhat melting the mind, melting the vital, thoughts and emotions, ideas and\r\naspirations into the Divine, but the body? It cannot be melted as in a\r\ncauldron! And yet that is the only thing upon which you can put your personal\r\nname – although that too is only a convention – and say this is I. Of course if\r\nyou look at yourself in a mirror, you see clearly you are not what you were\r\ntwenty years ago, you are now quite different, quite unrecognisable. Still you\r\nhave the perception that it is the same person, yourself. You can begin your\r\ngiving by that which is most formed, most known to you as yourself.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\ndo not mean to confront you with complicated movements. What I say is this that\r\nif you speak of melting into the Divine or uniting with the Divine, you must\r\nfirst of all know what you are. You are apparently the ego. It is there. The\r\nego is meant to make you conscious, an independent, individualised being – that\r\nis to say, you must not be a market place where all kinds of movements </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 99<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>mingle and jostle; you must be able to exist in yourself. The ego is for that\r\nand that is why you have a skin, to form a closed circle (allowing, of course,\r\nthings to infiltrate through its pores, so to say, but it must be at your will\r\nand bidding).</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You\r\nmust form yourself, you must be conscious of yourself – not in a general way\r\nbut in every detail. Every detail of what you call yourself must be organised\r\naround one centre, your true self, the divine being in you, so that the whole\r\nmay be a cohesive organised entity. When thus wholly conscious, harmoniously\r\norganised around the divine centre, then it can be wholly consecrated, united\r\nwith the Divine: then the time comes, the Divine permits the true union to be\r\nmade. When the individualisation is complete then He lets you merge your ego\r\ninto the Divine, you live and exist for the Divine alone.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 100 </span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-034_To Melt into the Divine','','publish','closed','open','','034_to-melt-into-the-divine','','','2021-11-23 17:58:21','2021-11-23 17:58:21','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/034_to-melt-into-the-divine/',0,'post','',0),(1816,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:21','2021-11-23 17:58:21','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Golden Bridge</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b><font size=\"4\">The </font> </b><st1:place><font size=\"4\"><st1:PlaceName><b>Golden</b></st1:PlaceName><b> </b>\r\n</font><st1:PlaceType><b><font size=\"4\">Bridge</font></b></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><b><i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt;color:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE Truth, the Supreme\r\nTruth cannot be expressed here below, neither in words, nor in mental ideas: It\r\nis inexpressible, <i>indeterminable – anirvacaniy\'am, anirdesyam. </i>For, it\r\nexists, it is found only where the creation ceases to <i>exist – prapancopasamam.<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If\r\nit is asked how does then the world itself exist? has it not come out of the\r\nTruth? is it not an expression of the Divine? well, an easy answer is: Look at\r\nthe world and see what kind of</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>expression it is. Is it a\r\ndivine creation? What truth is there? In truth, it is an expression of\r\nfalsehood, it is all an error. So it has been declared by the great sages of\r\nthe past that this is a false creation; it is an illusion, a delusion. Why is\r\nit so? How is it so? Go beyond it, into the Truth beyond, you will know. Being\r\nin the illusion, how can you perceive that it is an illusion, or why or how is\r\nit an illusion? This is one way of looking at the problem, we may say, a very\r\ncategorical or radical way. But there are other possibilities, other lines of\r\napproach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This\r\ncreation as an expression of the Divine Truth may not be altogether a\r\nfalsehood. It is an inadequate expression, as it stands at present, as it has\r\nbeen till now; but it is a growing, a progressive expression. In other words,\r\nthe instruments of expression, to start with, are not fully developed, they\r\nhave to be developed; they are being developed, through the evolutionary movement\r\nof Nature, in the course of advancing time. Indeed evolution in Nature means that\r\nand a great deal of that.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Take\r\nfor example, speech, which is a special organ of expression for man. Now,\r\noriginally speech, that is to say, the vocabulary on man\'s tongue consisted of vocables related only\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 295<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>to the familiar objects\r\naround him, in the ordinary day to day movement of life. The field was narrow\r\nand limited, level to the ground. Observe the language also, the written\r\nlanguage. The original written language started with images, pictorial diagrams:\r\nthere was no alphabet but things and movements were presented, that is\r\nrepresented, almost actually. Thus for man a figure of man was drawn, that is\r\nto say, straight lines sticking out representing hands and legs and a dot for\r\nthe head; the sun was a circle and so on. As consciousness grew and as the mind\r\ndeveloped and reason became active, the images, the figures and the symbols\r\ngradually changed into more and more abstract signs. At first there was the\r\npictogram, then the ideogram, and then, at the end, came the alphabet.\r\nEvidently, it appears, language could not develop so quickly as the\r\nconsciousness or the mind did, for we see even in the earlier epochs of human civilisation and culture, man could and did come in contact with the Truth and\r\nRealities beyond his normal sense-bound consciousness. And the experiences the\r\nseers had on those levels were of such a kind that whenever they sought to\r\nexpress them, communicate them to others in the outward mind and speech, they\r\nhad to take refuge in symbolism: they had to use the words of everyday life as\r\nsigns and symbols pointing to other realities, other-worldly and unfamiliar.\r\nThus, horse was to them life-force, cow the radiance of truth, the wind thought\r\nenergies, the sun consciousness or Truth, night as ignorance, light as\r\nknowledge, wine <i><span style=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Arial Narrow\"\'>(</span>soma<span style=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'> </span></i>means both wine and moon) as\r\ndelight and ecstasy, the sky as infinity or transcendence. And so on.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Indeed,\r\nthat is the hiatus, the inadequacy that still cripples and stultifies the mind,\r\nthe physical mind in its attempt to seize other realities beyond. It is the\r\nmind which gives the formal structure, the pattern of expression in the\r\nmaterial frame. The mind being bound to the life of the ignorant and outgoing\r\nsenses is constitutionally incapable of receiving or holding or expressing\r\nfacts of the higher life, the life beyond – what we name as the spiritual or\r\nthe divine. Not only so, the mind in trying to express the higher or supraterrestrial truths inevitably diminishes, dilutes, devalues, even negates\r\nand annuls them. The attempt through parables and allegories is the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.35pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 296</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>story of\r\nthe difficulty – the impossibility of expressing through the mind truths beyond\r\nthe mind. We land into the weird and confused worlds of myths and mythologies,\r\n– myths and mythologies for example about popular Radha and <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>,\r\nand Kali or Shiva. We are compelled to reduce to our human measures, to\r\naccentuate our human failings in order to present graphically to us the\r\ninexpressible intensities or extensions of the high experiences above. The\r\nVaishnava lyrics or the songs of Solomon become to us high spiritual documents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.95pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Man\r\nstarted his life on earth as an animal and is still continuing to be so in a\r\nlarge measure: his mental equipment also was almost wholly conditioned by the\r\nnecessities of such a situation: his language, his culture even built upon an\r\noutward view of things, upon the mode and manner of his physical reactions to\r\nimpacts of the gross outward world, the brute objects of physical life.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nliberation of the mind, at least the higher mind, as an instrument of\r\nexpression for the human consciousness was achieved to a remarkable degree in\r\nthe Upanishads generally, particularly in some, although the beginnings of it\r\nmight be traced even in some of the earliest of the Vedic Riks. A serious and\r\npersistent attempt for this liberation was made later, in the age or rather\r\nages of the Gita, the Mahabharata, the Darshanas. It was the rational spirit\r\nthat impelled and inspired the Buddhist consciousness and in <st1:place>Europe</st1:place>\r\nit had its heyday in the age of Socrates and Plato. Those were intellectual\r\nages and the intellect was trying to find and explore its own domain in its\r\nfull and free power and sovereignty. And the human language too, as a\r\nnecessary corollary was remoulded, remodelled, rationalised: it shook itself\r\naway as far as possible from the prejudices and prepossessions of the\r\nsense-bound mind. That is the inner story of the growth of language from the\r\nsynthetic inflexional cohesive stage to its modern analytic discursive\r\ncharacter. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Still,\r\nhowever, it is not easy to completely ignore or efface the influence of a concrete\r\ntruth, a fact which is at the basis of human birth – the truth and fact of the\r\nbody, of the external material objects. For example, how to express That which\r\ndoes not belong to this world, has not the measures of this body? The Upanishad\r\nhas perforce to speak negatively of the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 297<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Supreme positive Reality.\r\nIt has to say, &quot;It is not this, it is not this, it is quite other than all\r\nthis, it has no parallel here below although it is the source and origin of all\r\nthis.&quot; We have found some positive words <i>indeed – sat-cit-ananda; </i>but\r\nthe other key-word is a negative in <i>structure – amrtam, </i>not death.\r\nImmortality means not mortality, and <i>ananta </i>too is a negative\r\nexpression. We remember the famous lines: <i>Na tatra surya bhati </i>etc.,¹\r\nit is a supreme revelation, it is supremely evocative but it is built up of\r\nnegatives. The Vedic rishis followed a different line, as I said; they did not\r\nevade or reject the materials of a physical life, they boldly grasped them and\r\nused them as signs, symbols, embodiments of other truths and realities. They\r\naccepted the sun, the moon, the stars, man and woman, even the normal\r\nactivities of life but they gave these quite a different connotation. They\r\nfilled them with a new depth and density, a higher specific gravity.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\ninstruments being inadequate, it was necessary to bypass them and take to an\r\nindirect way for expressing realities that are beyond them. Neither the\r\nlanguage nor the mental concepts were the vessels that could hold the divine\r\ndrink. And sometimes the result was not very happy.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nmovement of freeing the consciousness from the hold of sense-perceptions has\r\ncontinued and has attained an unprecedented success. Rational mind, in order\r\nto find its autonomy has abstracted itself so much from the data of life experiences\r\nthat it has become almost an esoteric domain. Mathematical logic of today has\r\nbrought forth a language that has almost no kinship with either the popular or\r\nthe aristocratic tongue. Modern science has so much sublimated the facts of life,\r\nthe contents of experience, that it has become only a system of geometrical\r\nformulae.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nrecoil from the brute facts of life, the concrete living realities has affected\r\neven the world of artistic creation. We are very much familiar with what has\r\nbeen called abstract art, that is to say, art denuded of all content. The\r\nsupreme art today is this sketch of bare skeleton – even a skeleton, not in its\r\norganised form but merely dismembered bits strewn about. Even poetry, the art\r\nthat is perhaps most bound to the sense pattern, as no other, so indissolubly\r\nmarried to sense-life, seems to be giving way to the new impact and\r\ninspiration. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ <i>Katha Upanishad, </i>11.2.15</span></p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.75pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 298</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A poetry devoid of all\r\nthought-content, pure of all sentiment and understandable imagery is being\r\nworked out in the laboratory, as it were, a new poetry made of a bizarre\r\ncombination of tones and syllables with a changed form too in regard to\r\narrangement of lines and phrases. It is the pure form that is aimed at – the\r\nvery essence, it is said, what is quintessential!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nother words, mind, that is to say, the rational mind on which stands man\'s\r\nsuperiority has now been so developed, developed along a single line, has\r\nspecialised itself so much that it has almost defeated its own purpose. Today\r\nit has entered a <i>cul-de-sac, </i>a blind alley where it has bogged itself\r\nand does not know where and how to move.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nrecoil from the normal, the rich and lush physico-mental expression of human\r\nconsciousness and experience has been so radical and complete that it has\r\ncatapulted us into an opposite extreme of bareness and nudity, at the most into\r\na world of pure signs and symbols of notches and blotches, the disjointed\r\nmimics and inarticulate groans of a deaf and dumb man. The process of\r\nabstraction has gone so far that it has now been reduced to an absurdity. It\r\nhas its parallel in the movement that led man away from the world of Maya to\r\nthe Transcendent featureless Brahman. In either case the reason is that the\r\nlink that joins the two ends could not be found – a living truth that is of the\r\nTranscendent, yet denying not, but affirming in a new manner the mayic\r\nexistence. That is because man till now sought to create from a level of\r\nconsciousness, by a force of consciousness that is not adequate to the task;\r\nfor it belongs still to the mental region, to this inferior hemisphere although\r\nat present it seems to be the acme and topmost hemisphere in the scale. It is\r\nnot an extension or intensification of the mind and its capacities that will\r\nsolve the problem: a radical change in the very nature of the mind, a reversal\r\nof the mental consciousness – a turning of it inside out as it were, an\r\nopening out and up is needed to discover the true source of the Light.\r\nTherefore it has been said that man must transcend himself, find a new status\r\nin the other hemisphere. In fact there is a domain, a status of being and\r\nconsciousness, a master-force which when revealed and made active will remould\r\ninevitably and spontaneously human creation and expression as a reality\r\nembodying the Highest. It is the world of Idea-Force which</p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 299</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sri Aurobindo has named\r\nSupermind: it is beyond the mind, even the highest mind: it is the typal\r\nconcentration of the Supreme Consciousness. It is the fulcrum for the Supreme\r\nConsciousness to create and express a new formulation of the Truth in the world\r\nof matter. The mind, the highest mind, in its attempt to grasp the Supreme\r\nReality is prone to reject, annul and efface the Cosmic Reality. The Supermind\r\nhas no need to do that. It links the two ends in a supreme and miraculous\r\nsynthesis negating neither, giving the full value to each, for the two are\r\nunited, concentrated in its substance. Thus is found the golden bridge uniting\r\nearth and heaven.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nphysical mind, with its satellite, the human speech, must indeed be rescued\r\nfrom the thraldom of the animal life, the life of the ordinary senses. They\r\nshould be put under the regimen of the new consciousness, the status of the\r\nIdea-Force. The action of that consciousness will create its own norm and\r\npattern adequate for expressing and embodying suprasensuous realities. It will\r\nnot have to depend upon allegories and parables, symbols and signs seized from\r\nordinary life. What exactly this will be is difficult to say at present.\r\nEvidently there is likely to be an intermediary creation – a passage leading\r\nfrom the sensuous to the supra-sensuous, the higher not totally rejecting the\r\nlower or primitive formula, the lower not altogether englobing and swallowing\r\nthe higher.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nmantra of <i>Savitri </i>wields a language and expresses a physical mind that\r\nalready shows how the alchemy will be done or is being done: the transmutation\r\nof the ordinary experience into a supra-sensuous or the supra-sensuous embodying\r\nitself in the sensuous. The process is still in a state of transition, and as a\r\nsample of the process in action and a prefigure or for taste of the achievement,\r\nmay be recognisable in the famous sonnet of Sri Aurobindo which I quote here in\r\nfull and conclude.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<b>THE\r\nGOLDEN LIGHT</b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thy golden Light came down\r\ninto my brain</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And the\r\ngrey rooms of mind sun-touched became</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A bright reply to Wisdom\'s\r\noccult plane,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A calm\r\nillumination and a flame.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 300<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.15pt 120.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thy golden Light came down into my throat,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And all\r\nmy speech is now a tune divine,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A paean-song of thee my single note;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>My words\r\nare drunk with the Immortal\'s wine.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thy golden Light came down\r\ninto my heart</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:10.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Smiting\r\nmy life with Thy eternity;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now has it grown a temple\r\nwhere Thou art</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:10.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And all\r\nits passions point towards only Thee.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thy golden Light came down\r\ninto my feet:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>My earth is now thy\r\nplayfield and thy seat.²</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>² <i>Collected Poems </i>[Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, vol.\r\n5, p. 134]</span></p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 301</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-089_The Golden Bridge','','publish','closed','open','','089_the-golden-bridge','','','2021-11-23 17:58:21','2021-11-23 17:58:21','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/089_the-golden-bridge/',0,'post','',0),(1817,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:21','2021-11-23 17:58:21','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>“The Hero and the Nymph”</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">“The Hero and the Nymph”</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-family:\r\n\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>A\r\nnote on Kalidasa\'s &quot;The Hero and the Nymph&quot; (translated by Sri\r\nAurobindo), staged at the Ashram Theatre on December 1st and </i><st1:date\r\nYear=\"1971\" Day=\"3\" Month=\"12\"><i>December 3rd </i>1971</st1:date>.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The story of Kalidasa\'s\r\n&quot;The Hero and the Nymph&quot; is the eternal legend of the marriage of heaven\r\nand earth upon earth. The Heavenly Beauty can descend upon earth and be united\r\nto a human soul only, as it appears, under a malediction; for heaven and earth\r\nare normally understood to be opposites and contradictories. The malediction\r\nmeans that the union can happen under certain limitations. First of all, there\r\nis the limitation of time, that is to say, the union does not last long, it can\r\nbe only for a more or less short duration: even the span of human life is too\r\nlong for it. It is not in the nature of supreme love to linger long on our\r\nmurky earth:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&quot;Only a little the God-light can stay:&quot;¹</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Secondly the limitation is\r\nthat of a mixture, a dilution. The quality and nature of Divine Love entering\r\nearth suffers an alteration, a diminution and pollution. It is mixed with baser\r\nelements of human nature. Kalidasa too mentions these – foremost of all is\r\njealousy – jealousy that caught Urvasie like a wild fire and made her run\r\nhelter-skelter and enter straight into the arms of self-oblivion and infra-consciousness\r\n– she turned into a soulless plant. Thirdly, the limitation that the very\r\nintensity and turbulence of passion bring – it is not only turbulence but\r\nturbidity, love gone mad, love becoming lunacy – that is Pururavas and his cry:</p>\r\n	<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>¹<span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> <i>Savitri, </i>Book I, Canto I.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 390<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>&quot;Halt, ruffian, halt!\r\nThou in thy giant arms</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Bearest\r\naway my Urvasie!..&quot; ¹</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This cry almost verges on\r\nKing Lear\'s heart-rending frantic yell: &quot;Blow, winds and crack your\r\ncheeks! rage! blow!&quot;² relieved, one may say in Kalidasa, by his sheer\r\npoetry – but in Shakespeare also not less so, although in a different hue and\r\ntune. This tumult of the soul, the raging raving wild thing that man becomes –\r\nthis seems to be, in Kalidasa, the price that mortality has to pay for a touch\r\nof divinity – it is the churning of the ocean that yields at last immortality.\r\nIt may be suggested here that the queen is a foil, a hark back to wisdom and\r\npoise, to steadiness and normalcy. She symbolises also the consent of the mere\r\nhuman to the divine Dispensation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\nShakespearean tragedy Kalidasa avoids by finding a way out of the impasse – a\r\nhappy marriage between heaven and earth is possible if with heaven agreeing to\r\ncome down upon earth, earth too on its side agrees to go up to heaven. The\r\nheavenly Bride can stay here on earth as companion to Pururavas only if\r\nPururavas agrees to go up to heaven, consents to take up the gods\' work. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nearthly mixture presumably gives to the pure heavenly love a zest, a strange\r\nhomely taste which otherwise it could not have. The white diamond with this\r\nimmixture of the earthly ray becomes as it were a ruby.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Here\r\nwas a human soul, a rare human soul, a soul of beauty and bravery. Even on\r\nearth he was in the service of the gods and as a reward he was given the chance\r\nof lifting the divine trophy and treasuring it in his earthly home: he\r\nsucceeded in possessing the treasure as he continued to be in the service of\r\nthe Divine.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<font size=\"2\">¹ <i>Vikramorllasie,\r\n</i>Act IV, Sc. II. </font> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<font size=\"2\">² <i>King\r\nLear, </i>Act III, Sc., II.</font><o:p><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 391<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-110_The Hero and the Nymph','','publish','closed','open','','110_the-hero-and-the-nymph','','','2021-11-23 17:58:21','2021-11-23 17:58:21','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/110_the-hero-and-the-nymph/',0,'post','',0),(1818,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:21','2021-11-23 17:58:21','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Are Not The Ascetic Means Helpful At Times</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\" align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Are Not The Ascetic\r\nMeans Helpful At Times?</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 style=\'text-indent:0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I DO not think so. You cure\r\nnothing in that way. You give yourself the illusion that you are progressing,\r\nbut you are really freed of nothing. The proof is that as soon as you stop the\r\npractices, the old things come back violently with a vengeance.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\nnaturally all depends upon the meaning you attach to the word. If it means not\r\nyielding to your desires, then it is not asceticism, it is common sense, it is\r\ngood sense. By asceticism people usually understand fasting, bearing biting\r\ncold or burning heat, lying on a bed of sharp nails, that is to say, torturing\r\nthe body in some way or other. That gives you only self-importance or\r\nspiritual egoism, nothing more. You acquire no true control or mastery in this\r\nway. People do it because it is so simple and easy, because it satisfies their\r\nvanity. You make a show of your ascetic virtues and under the guise hide many\r\nother things. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nis much more difficult, however, to master one\'s impulses quietly,\r\ndeliberately, prevent them from bursting out instead of mortifying the body\r\nwith ascetic feats. It is much more difficult not to be attached to things that\r\none possesses than to possess nothing. Yet it is a simple truth that has been\r\nrecognised through ages. To be without posessions or to reduce one\'s\r\npossessions to a minimum is easy: difficult it is not to be attached to\r\nwhatever you happen to possess. It means a higher degree of moral value. Try to\r\ndo this simply and you will know what it costs: when a thing comes to you,\r\naccept it and if it goes away, for some reason or other, let it go, without\r\nregret, without trying to hold it back; not to refuse it when it comes, not to\r\nregret when it leaves – naturally, I speak of material objects, things\r\nrequired for use in life.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:15.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Physical asceticism does not\r\ncure. <span class=GramE>For the defects are within.</span> You are afraid of\r\ncontacts from outside and you withdraw into<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:15.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 56<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:15.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>caves</span> and jungles and hilltops, to live all by yourself. But\r\nyou need no borrowing from others; you carry a sufficient load yourself. In\r\nfact if they were not in you, you would not have even detected them in others.\r\nYou catch the infection from outside, simply because you carry the germs\r\ninside. Great waves of passion, one can say with much truth, roll through <span\r\nclass=GramE>men,</span> they are not generated in them. But if there is anyone\r\nperfectly pure, with no possibility of any passion in him, then such waves may\r\nbe sweeping over for centuries together, he will not be affected or touched by\r\nthem. He may see them, look at them as they pass, like a storm across the sky,\r\nbut he will not feel them.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>When\r\nthere is an answering vibration in us to the vibration outside, it means that\r\nthe vibration is already there within, otherwise no outside vibration can enter\r\nor make an impression. <span class=GramE>The explanation of a panic – a general\r\nfear entering into each and every one of a crowd – lies there.</span> A panic,\r\nhowever, can be stopped, if there <span class=GramE>are</span> one or two who\r\ncan resist, who are not touched, who are outside the vibrations. Such\r\nindividuals can save the situation and prevent the stampede. The thing has\r\nhappened often. A movement, a vibration, a force is contagious, because the\r\nground of contagion is already there.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>Why does\r\nnot the effort towards progress come always spontaneously, especially for us\r\nwho are here in the Ashram?</i></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>It is because the physical nature in man is usually\r\ntamasic. Effort is natural to the vital. But the vital generally makes the\r\neffort for its own satisfaction. I do not think that the physical nature left\r\nto itself moves spontaneously in the direction of effort; it needs some\r\nactivity but of a subdued kind.</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Here the thing is somewhat different. The\r\nprinciple of education or training followed here is that of liberty. Life is <span\r\nclass=SpellE>organised</span> on the basis of maximum freedom; in other words,\r\nrules and regulations, injunctions and prohibitions are reduced to a minimum.\r\nIf you compare our way with that followed by parents in the world with their\r\nconstant admonitions: don\'t do this, that is forbidden, must do this but not\r\nthat etc., etc., you will find the difference. At the school and the college,\r\neverywhere, there are rules infinitely <span class=GramE>more strict</span>\r\nthan are found here. So, because no absolute conditions are imposed on you for\r\nyour progress,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 57</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>you</span> do it when it pleases you and you don\'t do when it does\r\nnot please you; you take things quite easily.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Of\r\ncourse there are some who do make the effort spontaneously. And that from the\r\nspiritual point of view has an infinitely greater value. You make the progress,\r\nbecause you feel within you the need to do so, because it is an impulse that\r\nwells up from your depths, not because you are driven by a compel ling force\r\noutside. What you do spontaneously and sincerely of your own accord <span\r\nclass=GramE>is</span> something part and grain of yourself. You do a thing not\r\nbecause if you do it you will be rewarded and if you do not do it you will be\r\npunished. It might happen, however, sometimes that something comes to you or\r\ninto you and gives you the impression that your effort is appreciated, but the\r\neffort is not due to that. Indeed, things are arranged in such a way here that\r\nthe satisfaction of having done and done well is the best reward one has and\r\none punishes oneself thoroughly by doing badly or not doing; no other\r\npunishment can be more real or more concrete. All this is immensely significant\r\nand valuable from the standpoint of spiritual growth, much more than things\r\nproduced by external regulation and pressure.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>What is exactly a\r\nspiritual experience?</i></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>It is something which puts you\r\nin contact with a consciousness higher than that you have ordinarily. You live\r\nin a certain state and you do not even know what it is like. That is the ordinary\r\nconsciousness. Suddenly you become conscious within you of something very\r\ndifferent and much superior – that is a spiritual experience, whatever it may\r\nbe. You may formulate it in a mental idea or you might not, you may explain it\r\nor you may not, it may last or it may not, it may be quite momentary. But if\r\nthere is this difference in the essential quality of the consciousness,\r\nsignifying something coming from above, from a greater height, something pure\r\nand true, purer and truer than anything you normally experience, that I call\r\nspiritual experience, although there are a thousand things that belong to that\r\ncategory.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n12.0pt;\'>Page – 58<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-020_Are Not The Ascetic Means Helpful At Times','','publish','closed','open','','020_are-not-the-ascetic-means-helpful-at-times','','','2021-11-23 17:58:21','2021-11-23 17:58:21','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/020_are-not-the-ascetic-means-helpful-at-times/',0,'post','',0),(1819,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:22','2021-11-23 17:58:22','<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Asceticism </title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Asceticism </font> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">You have seen Sannyasins lying upon nails. Why do\r\nthey do that? Perhaps to prove their saintliness. But when they do so in\r\npublic, well, the suspicion is legitimate that it is something like a pose.\r\nThere are some perhaps who do the thing sincerely and seriously, that is to\r\nsay, they do not do it merely to make a show. In their case we might ask why\r\nthey do so. They say it is to prove to themselves their detachment from the\r\nbody. There are others: they go a little further and say that one must make the\r\nbody suffer in order to free the soul. But I tell you that the vital has a\r\ntaste for suffering and imposes suffering on the body because of this perverse\r\ntaste for suffering. I have seen children who, when they got hurt, would press\r\nthe part hurt in order to get more pain and it was a pleasure to them. I have\r\nseen bigger persons also doing the same thing – morally I mean. It is a very\r\nwell-known fact. I always tell people \'If you are unhappy, it is because you\r\nwant to be unhappy. If you suffer, it is because you like suffering, otherwise\r\nyou would not have the thing.\' I call it an unhealthy state; for it is contrary\r\nto harmony and beauty; it is a kind of unhealthy need for strong sensations. Do\r\nyou know, <st1:country-region><st1:place>China</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\nis a country where they have invented the most atrocious kinds of torture,\r\nunthinkable ways? When I was in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\nI asked a Japanese who liked the Chinese very much, why it was so. He told me:\r\n\'It is because the people of the <st1:place>Far East</st1:place>, including the\r\nJapanese, possess very dull sensibility. They feel very little; unless the\r\nsuffering is very strong they feel nothing.\' They were obliged to use their\r\nintelligence for the discovery of extremely strong sufferings. Well, all people\r\nwho are inconscient or tamasic – the more inconscient they are the greater the\r\ntamas – have their sensibility blunted; they need strong sensations if they\r\nhave to feel them. This is what usually makes them cruel, because\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n54</span></p><hr>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; padding:0in; border-style:none; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">cruelty\r\ngives very strong sensations. The nerve tension produced in you when you impose\r\nsuffering on someone, well, it does bring a sensation: they need that in order\r\nto feel, otherwise they would not feel. It is for that reason that whole races\r\nare particularly cruel. They are inconscient, inconscient vitally. They may\r\nnot be unconscious mentally or otherwise. But they are unconscious vitally and\r\nphysically, physically above all.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; padding:0in; border-style:none; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; padding:0in; border-style:none; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><i><span\r\nstyle=\'color:black\'>If one has a sense of beauty can he be cruel? </span></i></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; padding:0in; border-style:none; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">It is a psychological problem. It depends upon the\r\nregion where there is the sense of beauty. There may be a physical sense of\r\nbeauty, a vital sense of beauty and a mental sense of beauty. If you have the\r\nmoral sense of beauty, that is to say, a sense of decency and nobility, you can\r\nnever be cruel. You will be always generous; your movements will consist of\r\nfine gestures. But, as I say often, man is composed of many different bits\r\npieced together. For example, I frequented very much the artists. I knew all\r\nthe great artists of the end of the last century and the beginning of the\r\npresent. I lived among them. They had really a great sense of beauty. But\r\nmorally some were very cruel. It is because when you see an artist in his study\r\nat work you find him living in an atmosphere of great beauty, but when you see\r\nthe gentleman at home, he is a different person, having very little contact\r\nwith the artist he was. Here he becomes vulgar and commonplace. Many of them\r\nare indeed like that. But there are always exceptions. 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Faust, as you know,\r\nyou must have seen him on our school stage, was a very learned man. His\r\nambition was to acquire all knowledge, knowledge of all subjects, of all arts\r\nand sciences. But he wanted not only to be a doctor of theories but of practice\r\nalso, not only a learned man but a man of power in addition – not only to know\r\nbut to control. Universal nature was his field and he sought not only to\r\nmeasure and survey the outside but to probe into her deeper secret mysteries.\r\nIn those days there was a line of inquiry pursued by savants that was called occultism.\r\nThe occultist sought to discover the secret and subtle forces of nature through\r\nwhich one could influence and control outer and material things and happenings.\r\nIn this field there were the alchemists whose attempt was to transform lead\r\ninto gold, that is to say, manipulate forces and elements in nature in such a\r\nway that mere lead would be turned into pure gold. So, our Dr. Faust, in tune\r\nwith these magicians as they were commonly known, ventured into this region to\r\npossess the power over the forces of nature. This control over nature could go\r\nto the extent of producing what we know as miracles, for example,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>you ask for a thing,\r\nanything whatsoever, and it is there before you; you want to go some place, you\r\nwill the thing and you are there like a flash of lightning. You can even make\r\npeople do what you want to be done.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One\r\nday when Dr. Faust was deeply engaged in this interesting occupation, suddenly\r\nhe saw standing in front of him a figure – a strange figure, black, robed in\r\nblack, huge in stature – he was taken by surprise. Half in curiosity, half in\r\nfear he asked who he was. The figure answered: he was what Dr. Faust wanted,\r\nthat is to say, he could give Faust whatever he wanted, he was that Power. Dr.\r\nFaust questioned him and he \r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 397<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.7pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>was answered that the\r\nperson was indeed what he was claiming to be. Faust was to ask only to have the\r\nthing he wanted. Faust could have more and more knowledge, more and more power.\r\nNot only that, but something infinitely greater and more precious. Dr. Faust\r\nwanted to know what that was. &quot;Infinite pleasure, infinite delight. You\r\nwill never be sad or sorrowful, never suffer, I will give you perfect\r\nenjoyment.&quot; This ambitious greedy man swallowed the bait. Faust asked\r\nwhether it was all true – what he was professing. The person answered: &quot;More\r\nthan what I have promised, I will give you. But it is give and take, you can\r\ntake only when you give.&quot; &quot;Give! What can I give? What have I\r\ngot?&quot; Oh! it is nothing, it is just a trifle. You won\'t ever know that you\r\nare giving. Ready?&quot; &quot;Ready? Yes, quite. But just tell me what it\r\nis?&quot; &quot;Oh! it is indeed nothing – your soul!&quot; &quot;Soul?&quot;\r\nFaust did not know what the soul was. He nodded assent, strange to say,\r\nsomewhat hesitatingly – although so eager and ardent till now. Take it then, he\r\nsaid.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.95pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nthe meanwhile, somewhere in the background of his mind, he felt a little queer,\r\njust a twitch, felt the presence of something, even perhaps saw a figure deep\r\ninside or far off on the horizon. The other one that was talking to him was a\r\ndark black huge, even ominous shape. But this one, although some what vague,\r\nwas robed in white and luminous, even soft like a moonbeam. The Doctor, a\r\nlittle stunned, gazed and gazed at the luminous spot, rubbed his eyes, heaved a\r\nsigh, and said: &quot;It is nothing, just an illusion&quot;, but it was his\r\nsoul visiting him to give him a warning. He however turned away and looked at\r\nthe tempter and with a snatch of bravado delcared: &quot;I am ready. Take my\r\nsoul and give me all that you promise&quot;, and thus with his consent, through\r\nhis free choice, the Devil approached him, opened his breast and took out his\r\nsoul. As the operation was being done, he felt a great shadow, an infinite sadness\r\ninvading him but he pushed it away and told his master: &quot;Now bring me all\r\nthat I want and all that you promised.&quot; Henceforth he virtually became\r\nlord of all things, he was taken to all kinds of worlds, offered all kinds of\r\npowers and all enjoyments, the <i>asta-siddhi </i>of our Indian yoga – levitation,\r\ngravitation, <i>telekinesis – anima, laghima </i>etc. – were within\r\nhis grasp. Even then at times a great dissatisfaction rose within him as<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 398<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:13.4pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:62.85pt 273.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>from\r\na secret fount and he found himself unconsciously uttering &quot;Oh God! Oh\r\nGod!&quot; And he used to glimpse at a distance that white vague\r\nmoonlight-figure. But the Devil used to reappear immediately and threaten him:\r\n&quot;You are going to lose everything, drive away all those illusions, be your\r\nnormal self, come with me, I will show you greater miracles.&quot; He was taken\r\nto the world of beauty and beauties, the source of poignant delight, even the\r\nmost poignant of all, a human physical love. He saw there rising before his\r\neyes her who was the most beautiful woman in the world. Bewitched, beside\r\nhimself, he cried out:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Is\r\nthis the face that launched a thousand ships </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nburnt the topless towers of <st1:place>Ilion</st1:place>?¹</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nwas the Helen of Troy. At the extreme end of the journey Satan was slowly\r\ndragging him on towards the brink from where, once down, there is no return. In\r\nthe very midst of all superhuman ecstasy he felt, he was being burnt up and\r\nyearningly looked for the soothing moonlight-beam that he had left. The\r\nyearning was so intense and sincere that all at once he felt a cloud burst and\r\nthe dark shape of the Devil scattered into bits and he rose from a dream as it\r\nwere, a happy new-born soul.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\nwill tell you now the moral of it. Each one of us, each human being has, or\r\nrather is, a soul. In reality we have or are two beings – an external outside\r\nbeing with its outward body and heart and mind, with all their ordinary desire\r\nmovements and within that as under a cover lies your true being, your soul,\r\nthat is made not of desire but of Truth. The outer person of desire is made of\r\nignorance and unconsciousness, the true person or soul is made of truth and\r\nconsciousness. Always there is a struggle between the two, the inner being,\r\nyour true divine being is always trying to express itself through the lower and\r\noutward limbs, impress itself upon them but normally with very little result.\r\nThese outer limbs are more obedient to the world forces of ignorance and\r\nfalsehood, their lord is the anti-Divine,</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>¹ <span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>These lines of Marlowe are\r\noften quoted by Sri Aurobindo as an example to show the height of poetic beauty\r\nwhich the English language is capable of expressing.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 399<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>whose name is Satan. A\r\nlegend says that at the beginning of creation there was a wager between God and\r\nSatan. Satan said: &quot;I am here to win away your children from you and make\r\nof them my slaves.&quot; God said: &quot;My sons can never be your bond-slaves.\r\nYou may test and try them, you may believe for a time you have won but your\r\ntrials and ordeals only make them stronger in their inner being and they all\r\ncome back to me.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The soul\r\nis never lost, there is no eternal hell.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\nman, the human soul, has to go through hell, that is to say, through trials and\r\ntribulations and ordeals in order to reach heaven. We know there are\r\ninnumerable legends to illustrate the point. You must have read, all of you,\r\nstories of saints, how they were tempted and obstructed by hostile forces, the\r\narmies of the undivine. The great Buddha before his illumination as he sat\r\nunder the Bo-tree firmly resolved on pursuing in his inner consciousness the\r\npath of realisation till the very end, was surrounded – we should say today,\r\n\'gheraoed\' – by all the varieties of dark forces, forces of ambition, of\r\npassion, of attachment, of enjoyment: they pleaded, they threatened, tried to\r\ndraw him away by violence and trickery and temptation, but his was a great\r\nheroic soul, he refused all invitations and threats, unmoved he held fast to\r\nhis resolution and in the end came out into the vast illumination. To the\r\nChrist too, the same thing happened. Satan came to him, showed to him all the\r\nluxury and grandeur and majesty that lay at his disposal if he would only\r\nconsent to follow him. Christ only told him &quot;Get thee behind, Satan&quot; <i>(Apage\r\nSatana) </i>and he was free. In the Upanishads also, we know of the story of\r\nthe boy Nachiketas who wanted to possess the truth, the Immortality, and Yama\r\ncame to him or rather he came to Yam a and asked for these things. Yama, the\r\nKing of Immortality, said in effect, a young boy like him need not strive for\r\nsuch abstract things that confuse the mind even of gods, &quot;I will give you better\r\nthings – these beautiful chariots and horses, the resounding musical\r\ninstruments or these abounding riches and even these beautiful women – that\r\ntake and be happy.&quot; You all know Nachiketas\', the boy\'s answer: &quot;Dear\r\nSir, all these good things keep for your good self, let me have the one<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 400<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>thing that I need, the Divine Knowledge.&quot; I am\r\nsure many of our children here will be bold enough to say as Nachiketas did.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.4pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nour Puranas too we see whenever and wherever the Rishis assemble and start\r\ndoing tapasya, the hostiles – they are called rakshasas – rush in, try to\r\nbreak their tapasya, even kill them. The akshasas are the embodiments of the\r\ndark forces, agents and armies of the Devil himself. The Rishis had to seek\r\nrefuge in the help of the gods, that is to say, take refuge in the strength and\r\nsincerity of their souls, that is the only way to safety and security, to the\r\nachievement of their goal.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.95pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I may\r\ndwell here upon a characteristic feature in the matter of rakshasas, they are a\r\nspecial type of hostile force. Rakshasas are well known for their greed for\r\nhuman flesh, the flesh of animals is the usual food for animals that take flesh\r\nexcepting perhaps the Royal Bengal Tiger, even then it is said they do so only\r\nwhen compelled, but for the rakshasas the human flesh – nara mansa – is a\r\nsupreme delicacy; sweet, very sweet indeed it is to the tongue of the rakshasa.\r\nBut is it really sweet? Is there a special reason for such a predilection in\r\nthem for human flesh? Here is an explanation. It occurs to me that human flesh\r\nis really sweet; the human body has been sweetened because it contains\r\nsomething which the other animals do not have, it is precisely the thing that\r\nwe were talking about just now, because the human body enshrines a soul, and\r\nthe soul is the source of all sweetness. Thus, since the body holds the soul in\r\nit, the body itself becomes sweet by contact or infusion. The rakshasas have\r\ncome to know of it, that is to say, not the soul but the sweetness that the\r\nsoul induces in the material flesh. There must be some truth in the suggestion.\r\nConsequently a rishi\'s body must be all the more appetising to the rakshasa,\r\nfor it must contain a larger store of swetneess, a rishi\'s body enshrining a\r\nlarger and greater soul in view of his rishihood.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Also\r\nwe know there are some types or lines of sadhana in which the spiritual\r\ndiscipline, it is said, needs a human sacrifice, to complete the full course of\r\nsuch a discipline at the end one has to offer a human sacrifice – kill a human\r\nbeing – a young boy, because . .because he has a sweet soul.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\nneed not be shocked; after all, the phenomenon is symbolic. The rites\r\nrepresent a psychological operation. A human being, a young boy sacrificed\r\nmeans whatever is most developed<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 401<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>in you,\r\nwhatever is aspiring, whatever is beautiful, is offered to the Divine. In fact,\r\nall rituals and ceremonies, all pujas are symbolic, that is to say,\r\nrepresentations on the physical plane of inner movements – spiritual efforts.\r\nIt is true some of them, to us moderns, appear revolting and reprehensible but\r\nwe must remember these ceremonies if they were physically practised were done\r\nmilleniums ago when humanity was quite young and had not emerged very much out\r\nof the animal existence. The life in that early stage of consciousness had to\r\npursue for bare subsistence a mode of living that is un-understandable to the\r\nconsciousness of today. The human aspiration however was still present there\r\nand made use of these normal modalities of life to express and embody itself.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\nleave it at that, but the point of the matter is this: the material, the\r\nphysical life that is in your body is made interesting, even the body itself\r\nbecomes not only living but beautiful because of the presence of the soul in\r\nit, embalming it, perfuming it. If you are able ever to meet it, contact it,\r\ntouch it, you will find yourself wonderfully transmuted, you will carry yourself\r\nand spread abroad your own sweet scent like the scented deer. The body is\r\ncalled a temple, the habitation of the Divinity that is in you. Therefore it\r\nmust be kept clean and pure – no dust from the intruding feet of Satan\'s brood\r\nnor any shadow from their presence should fall here. That other influence must\r\nalways be shaken off. You must always love your soul, always remain in its\r\nembrace, then you will no longer be a mere human being but an angel, indeed a\r\ngod.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nyet there is a still more mysterious mystery. Satan or his armies do not quite\r\nbelong to the outside world apart from you, they are within you, at least their\r\nfoothold is within you. In fact man is a twofold being, one half of him belongs\r\nto the Divine, the other half to the un-Divine. His nature is a twofold string,\r\nthe two inextricably intertwined, there is a luminous ray and there is its\r\nshadwow, the shadow makes the light unstable, flickering, at times even\r\ncompletely obscures and eclipses it. The Hostile outside gains its strength and\r\nits hold upon you because of the obscurity within you; the greater the\r\nobscurity within the greater the dimension and power of the force outside. One\r\nhas to dwell upon the luminous ray inside – which is what we have termed the\r\nsoul – and slowly, or in<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 402<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>proper time\r\ndissolve or dissipate the obscurity. In proportion as the obscurity within\r\nrecedes, the darkness outside also retires and vanishes. And one sees in the\r\nend that it was only an illusion that seized us, and it was never there. We\r\nwere and we are always a glorious sunshine. Only the experience through the\r\nIllusion has served to add a new dimension to the original Glory where we\r\nreturn.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 403<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-113_The Story of Dr','','publish','closed','open','','113_the-story-of-dr','','','2021-11-23 17:58:22','2021-11-23 17:58:22','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/113_the-story-of-dr/',0,'post','',0),(1821,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:22','2021-11-23 17:58:22','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Meditation and Wakefulness</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h1 style=\"line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\" align=\"center\"><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Meditation\r\nand Wakefulness</font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To have\r\ngood meditation or contact with the inner world, if you are obliged to go into\r\nSamadhi, then your normal consciousness will remain always the same without\r\nchanging. In other words, people who have a higher consciousness only in deep\r\nmeditation, once they come out of it, are not worth more than what they were\r\nbefore. All their defects are there which they get back as soon as they get\r\nback their previous consciousness.¹ <span class=GramE>Such</span> people never\r\nprogress; for they never establish a connection between their deeper\r\nconsciousness, the truth of their being, and their external being. They take\r\noff their external being like a robe and put it aside in a corner telling it\r\n&quot;keep quiet, my dear friend, you bother me&quot; –and they enter into contemplation,\r\nmeditation, their deep experience or realisation; and when they return they put\r\non their robe again which has not changed in the meanwhile, even might have\r\nbecome more dirty than ever. So they remain where they are or become worse, in\r\ntheir outward nature, in spite of their meditation. If you want to change your\r\nexternal being, you must remain conscious of it and while being conscious have\r\nother experiences: you must not lose contact with it if you wish to derive\r\nfull benefit out of your experiences. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\nThere are many such people who meditate for long hours, some almost all the \r\ntime; but if by chance they are disturbed in their meditation by someone calling \r\nthem or making noise, they fly into a rage, shout and abuse the whole world; \r\nthey be<span class=GramE>come</span>\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>¹<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> Sri Ramakrishna used to\r\ntell a story in this connection. When asked about the <span class=SpellE>purificatory</span>\r\nvirtue of a dip in the Holy Ganges he answered that the sins leave you as soon\r\nas you are about to enter the waters, but they keep waiting on the shore, and\r\ndirectly you are out they pounce upon you and settle in you as merrily as\r\nbefore.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 85<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>more nasty than they would have been had they remained ordinary men without\r\ntrying meditation. The reason is, as I say, that they neglect to associate\r\ntheir outer life with their deeper consciousness: they cut themselves into two,\r\nthere is one bit that is within making progress and another bit outside that\r\ngoes from bad to worse, for it is left wholly uncared for.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page - 86</span></p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-029_Meditation and Wakefulness','','publish','closed','open','','029_meditation-and-wakefulness','','','2021-11-23 17:58:22','2021-11-23 17:58:22','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/029_meditation-and-wakefulness/',0,'post','',0),(1822,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:22','2021-11-23 17:58:22','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Life in and Through Death</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Life in and Through Death</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n15.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>THE soul carries the body even like a corpse, says a scripture. It is a\r\ndead inert mass of inconscience weighing upon the conscious being that is\r\nbehind. Such is the burden of life that the soul bears through its earthly\r\nexistence. The image is beautifully delineated in the Indian legend of Shiva\r\nand Sati. Sati is dead, the bereaved Shiva goes about in anguish with the dead\r\nbody of Sati flung upon his shoulder. Shiva is to be relieved of this burden,\r\notherwise the creation will go to rack and ruin. The prayer went to Vishnu and\r\nVishnu hurled his discus that cut to pieces the corpse of Sati-the pieces were\r\nfifty-two in number and each spot where a piece, a limb of Sati, fell became a\r\ngreat place of pilgrimage. Even so, the world in its inconscience lies heavy on\r\nthe secret Consciousness that is behind. It lies almost smothered under the\r\ndead weight of the inconscient and the unconsciousness. But the Divine Grace\r\nhas entered into the inertial mass and split it up, entered into each particle\r\nas a spark of consciousness to turn gradually the dead matter into a rising and\r\nevolving tier of consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Creation started orginally with an absolutely\r\ninconscient existence. It is the pressure of an indwelling spirit – the Grace\r\ndescending into matter – that has forced matter to burst into, to flower into\r\nforms of light and consciousness. The pressure is ever-present and the\r\nflowering continues into higher and higher modes of the Divine Consciousness.\r\nThe figure \'52\' of the mythological legend denotes perhaps the integral multiplicity\r\nof the manifested universe. We may suggest an interpretation just to satisfy a\r\nmental curiosity: 52=50+2; and 50 is 5 X 10. The number 5 is very well-known as\r\nrepresenting the five planes of consciousness, and as there is a descending and\r\nan ascending movement in each level – that gives the num</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>ber 10. And 5 times 10 is 50. </span>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 184<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>This makes up the manifested creation.\r\nThe remaining two are the Supreme Divine and his Shakti, or two unities at each\r\nend – the one above, the one below. This however may be considered as a playful\r\ncalculation meaning to represent, as I said, a multiple integrality of existence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>The injunction is: you must die to the world\r\nif you want the life Eternal. Even so you must die to yourself if you want the\r\nDivine. The existing life which your ego has built up is a life of ignorance,\r\nmisery and decadence. Death is indeed the natural and inevitable consequence;\r\nbut this is a death in ignorance and bondage, it does not lead you to\r\nliberation and freedom. The dying that liberates is a conscious, deliberate\r\nmovement of intelligence and will; dying to the world means withdrawing\r\nyourself from the world and turning within. Dying to yourself means withdrawing\r\nfrom your egohood and turning to the self, the being that is beyond. This\r\nwithdrawal is to be done constantly and consistently in all the parts of the\r\nbeing. The mind is to move away from its thoughts, the vital from its desires\r\nand impulses and the body from its hunger and thirst. The first result of this\r\nwithdrawal is a division of the being, an inner passive part and an outer\r\nactive part. The inner part becomes gradually a mere witness and the outer part\r\na mere mechanical functioning. When the withdrawal is so complete that the\r\nouter being or the world has no effect upon the inner, does not raise any\r\nripple in it by its touch or contiguity then is accomplished the real death.\r\nThen it is said the outer existence, the material life does not continue long,\r\nit comes sooner or later to a dead stop. Thus the inner being is liberated\r\ncompletely and is freed into the life beyond, the Divine Existence, the\r\nBrahman. It is said that when each and every seed of the various elements that\r\ncompose the being, that sprouts into the luxuriant tree of material life, when\r\neach and every seed is burnt up by the heat of mounting \'tapas\', the force of\r\naspiring consciousness, then there is no more chance or possibility of an\r\nignorant earthly life, one is then naturally born into the Life of the Eternal.\r\nThat is the final, the supreme death which is <i>laya </i>or <i>pralaya.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>To live away from life and consequently away\r\nfrom death is one thing, comparatively easy; but to live in life and conse</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>quently </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\'>Page – 185<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>in death is another thing, somewhat more difficult. To withdraw\r\noneself from the field of death and retire in the immutability beyond or some\r\nform of it is what was attempted in the ancient days. But there has been side\r\nby side always a growing tendency in man to stay here in this vale of tears\r\nunder the shadow of death, to live dangerously and face the Evil and conquer it\r\nhere itself; for death is not a mere negation an annihilation of the reality,\r\nit is only a mask put over the reality or is its obverse. Tear off or remove\r\nthe disguise, you will see the smiling radiant Godhead behind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The gold is there, the purest gold, but it is\r\ncrusted over with dross. The dross is to be eliminated and the noble metal\r\nfreed. Indeed each element of the being wherever and whatever it is, each\r\ncorpuscle, mental, vital or physical is ambivalent – it is a polarised entity\r\nconsisting of two parts or two ends, one pure, the other impure. The ancients\r\nthought that the whole creation is impure; the only pure substance is the\r\nDivine. The Sankhya posited clearly the demarcation between Purusha, the\r\nConscious Being secreted above and behind and the entire Prakriti which is\r\nabsolute unconsciousness. But as we have said, a new revelation has been slowly\r\ncoming up which speaks of a different conclusion \'and a different destiny for\r\nman and the universe. Each element of the created universe has a double nature,\r\nit is both conscious and unconscious, it is both immortal and mortal. And\r\nfurthermore, the two are not united or soldered together inextricably so that\r\nif one is eliminated the other gets eliminated automatically. Life and death\r\nappear to be bound together absolutely and eternally; in fact, however, it is\r\nnot so. Even in life, Life can be established in its single pure reality free\r\nfrom the normal counterpoint of Death. Purusha is not the only conscious\r\nelement in or above creation. Prakriti is not merely the unconscious being. The\r\nunconscious Prakriti is only the apparent aspect of the Higher Prakriti, the\r\nPara Prakriti, which is supremely conscious, for it is one with the Supreme\r\nPurusha.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>This Higher Prakriti is the inner reality of\r\neach created cell of the universe. And it is always insisting and working for\r\nthe elimination of its counterpart, the inferior Prakriti; and evolution, human\r\nor cosmic is nothing but the gradual corroding of the inferior Prakriti by the\r\npressure of the Light-Energy</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 186<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>of the Higher Prakriti. One day when this\r\nlower Prakriti is dissolved in this way in each cell, the fullness of the\r\nradiant manifestation, an embodiment of the Divine Reality will be realised\r\nupon this material earth made spiritual, in this human body made Divine.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 187<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-059_Life in and Through Death','','publish','closed','open','','059_life-in-and-through-death','','','2021-11-23 17:58:22','2021-11-23 17:58:22','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/059_life-in-and-through-death/',0,'post','',0),(1823,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:22','2021-11-23 17:58:22','<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Mounting Fire</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">The Mounting Fire</font></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:6.45pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:102.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE seat of human\r\nconsciousness, in fact of all consciousness, is the brain – the grey substance\r\nfilling up the cranium. The brain constitutes man in his essential and\r\ncharacteristic substance and functioning.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I am\r\nspeaking specially of the physical and material basis of mind and\r\nconsciousness, for unless this basis is changed there can be no change in the\r\nstructure of the being, and in the movement of outward life; even the\r\nconsciousness would not change radically or permanently: a stable\r\ntransformation can come only when the material stuff has undergone a reversal.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nhuman brain consists, as physiologists tell us, of three parts: (1) the frontal\r\nlobe, (2) the hub behind and (3) further down, a hidden part – they are as we\r\nknow, the cerebrum, the cerebellum and the Bridge and the Medulla. Such is\r\nman\'s head, the cranium, the lodgings where human mind dwells and from where it\r\nmoves and controls all man\'s dynamic behaviour.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nfrontal lobe is the seat of intellect and intelligence: the topmost portion,\r\nthe crown of the head is usually associated with the still higher functions of\r\nmind, tending towards intuition, direct knowledge, luminous vision, etc. The\r\nfront proper, the forehead that is to say, is the seat of intellect proper, the\r\ndiscursive deductive rational mind. The section of the brain in the hind\r\nportion of the cranium is usually associated not with reason or understanding\r\nbut with vital urges, impulsions, sentiments, passions, desires, etc.: the\r\nnervous knots there are the controlling agent of these lower functions of the\r\nmind; that is the control room, as it were, for all dynamism, for man\'s\r\ncharacter and nature. And the part hidden or imbedded below houses the\r\ninfra-impulses: the demands and needs that are </p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:114.45pt 287.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 324</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>inherent\r\nmostly in the bodily functions, all the movements that are called forth in the\r\nwake<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>of physical existence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nquestion, the problem now is, how to change, purify these ranges of the mind or\r\nbrain: to suffuse the cranium with a new functioning and organisation replacing\r\nthe old order of the ordinary, more or less animal man</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.65pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nusual Course followed is to call in the higher reality: the light and its power\r\nof organisation, that lie above, above the brain outside the cranium, to invoke\r\nthe light, the transcendent light and power to descend and penetrate the\r\nbrain-consciousness and work out there a process of purification and new organisation. This has been done with considerable success. This is the\r\nVedantic way.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But,\r\nthere is a but, that is to say, a limitation in this line. The higher\r\nconsciousness is brought down, it descends, but normally it does not penetrate\r\nfar enough; it penetrates only very partially, slowly, intermittently and in a\r\ngradually diminishing strength. The top region receives the light comparatively\r\neasily; the middle receives or is touched and influenced with great difficulty\r\nand after long travail, but the bottom portion is rarely connected or\r\ncontacted, only nominally perhaps. In other words, if the higher mind, the\r\nintellect and intelligence is somewhat illumined with a new light from above\r\nand even if the higher vital comes under its influence in a general way, the\r\nlower vital comes hardly in its grasp. And the lowest region, the region of\r\nphysical or nervous movements for all practical purposes lies outside the\r\ninfluence of the Higher or Transcendent Consciousness; that remains almost\r\nundisturbed, un-regenerated. To bring down the Higher Light there, behind and\r\nbelow the brain stuff, is a task very few have done or even attempted to do.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:14.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Tantriks devised a different way, an\r\nabout-turn way. Instead of trying to bring down the superior or the supreme\r\nconsciousness into these lower darknesses, they sought to attack these from\r\nbelow, set a blazing fire below that would shoot up its tongues into those\r\nnether regions of the brain or mind. Instead of a force of light from above\r\ncoming down, a force of fire is rocketed upward and made to strike as it were\r\nat the back of the lower masses of the mind. Now where to find this fire, this\r\nmounting tongue of a living flame? That is what the</p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 325</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Tantras have imaged in the\r\nconcept of the Kundalini Shakti. There is a force, a mighty energy coiled and\r\nconcentrated at the base of the spine holding it and supporting at its top,\r\nfirst, the subliminal region of the brain at the bottom, and over it the other\r\ntwo. There is a secret fire at the base of the human system. It is a fire as\r\ninvoked by the Vedic Rishis: the tantriks view it as a coiled python – the\r\nuniversal nature-power, her massive ingathered creative energy. This energy is\r\nforceful and fierce because it is as much creative as it is destructive. That\r\nis the poison which the python carries, it is a poison in the ignorant state\r\nand unconsciousness, to the ignorant and the unconscious, but to the aspirant\r\nand the awakened and the luminous consciousness it begins to work as the\r\nimmortalising draught – nectar.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nenergy at the root of the spine is stored, as it is said, in the muladhara, the\r\nroot, that is to say, in the root of the very material constitution of the\r\nhuman being. It is the concentrated energy in matter, indeed it is the energy\r\nof the mother earth. The Vedic Rishis speak of fire as being a deity of earth,\r\nas the Sun or the God of Light is the deity of the heaven. The earth-energy\r\nhas to be awakened or kindled and it has to move upward and forward, piercing\r\nand burning and illumining all the inferior and denser regions of consciousness\r\ntill it pierces through and enters into the head, and then goes beyond, into\r\nthe supreme solar light. That is the image given in the Tantras calling it <i>sat-chakrabheda.</i><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\ninferior parts of the brain are denser and darker than the superior. The lower\r\nit is, the denser and darker it becomes. I do not know if physically it is so,\r\nbut the sensitivity, the vibrations there seem to point to such a direction. So\r\nit appears, it is not easy for the Light from above to penetrate, to penetrate\r\nto a great depth, to the bottom of the brain. It is not the Light from above\r\nbut the fire from below, the flaming force of material consciousness that has\r\nto do the main or final work. For the light from above is mostly mental or\r\nmentalised, the very supreme Light does not descend easily, is not readily\r\navailable: indeed it is ready and available only at the call of the fire below.\r\nAgni is therefore named \'hota,\' one who calls the Divine down here below. It is\r\nthe God here below that can call down the God above.</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.75pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 326</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:13.4pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>But how to awaken this God buried in matter, how is one to\r\nkindle this fire that apparently lies extinguished, the Vedic Rishis have a\r\nwhole ritual of the process. They speak, first of all, of preparing the seat\r\nfor <i>Agni – barhi: </i>it is the material casing of the body, and then one\r\ntakes two pieces of the <i>arani, </i>species of wood or fuel, and rubs them\r\none against the other till the fire leaps out. It refers to an aspiration, a\r\nconcrete and concentrated aspiration that is breathed into the living cells,\r\nthis breathing, a<i>dhmatam, </i>is the concretising or embodying of\r\nthe<i> </i>aspiration: it is the invocation that calls forth sleeping divinity.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nfire in fact is the aspiration in the body, the divine demand in the body and\r\nit kindles itself by its own self-pressure. The spreading of the <i>barhi </i>in\r\nthe Vedic image means also the surrender and submission, the prostration of the\r\nbodily being. By <i>namas, </i>by constant obeisance the fire is to be tended;\r\nand a ceaseless refuelling has to be done by a ceaseless self-offering of all\r\nmovements, especially all the automatic reactions of the physical that form the\r\nroots of the material existence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nwhole physical being if it is to embody a new life in a new organisation must\r\nconcentrate at one point within itself and find or found there the Fire, the\r\ndynamic Divine Will in its most concrete reality – the body\'s self and soul:\r\nthe <i>yajamana, </i>the human figure of the Divine here invoking,\r\ncalling forth the godhead who leads the sacrificial journey through all the\r\nworlds and domains to the Supreme Heights.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\nhave said that fire is a denser and intenser force than light: while the light\r\nis likely to stop short or to dispense, the fire is apt to act fiercely and\r\ndecisively with the denser or more refractory objects of existence, strands\r\nthat are moved, as I have said, from the central control of the brain. Earth\r\nenshrines volcanoes; likewise the cells in the material body may be turned into\r\nlittle volcanoes if the Divine Flame is roused there in the intensive process\r\nof aspiration.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Earthly\r\nbeings as we are, Agni, the earthly Godhead is the Deity we adore, he is the\r\nLord of the Home, <i>grhapati. </i>He is the foremost of the gods and he goes\r\nin front of us <i>purohita, </i>Agni\'s flame rises towards Surya, the supreme\r\nLight, but first he must prepare the passage, burn down and clear the woodlands\r\nand marshes that intervene – the growths and formations in the past of the very\r\nsubstance of the being.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 327<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thus,\r\nthe head, the brain, must be built wholly of fire particles. The cranium will\r\nhold, as it were, a golden ball, rounded and fully formed, the golden egg, <i>hiranyagarbha,\r\n</i>out of which the new physical creation will emerge – something in the\r\nmanner of the legendary Greek goddess Minerva, whole and entire, complete in\r\narms and panoply, out of the head of Father Jupiter.</p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 328</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-095_The Mounting Fire','','publish','closed','open','','095_the-mounting-fire','','','2021-11-23 17:58:22','2021-11-23 17:58:22','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/095_the-mounting-fire/',0,'post','',0),(1824,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:22','2021-11-23 17:58:22','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Psychological Perfection</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Psychological Perfection</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THERE\r\nis a flower to which we have given this name. It is the familiar <i>Champa. </i>The\r\nflower has five petals. Each petal represents a quality or movement of\r\nconsciousness, the five qualities or movements making up the psychological\r\nperfection. In the beginning I named them-(l) Surrender, (2) Sincerity, (3)\r\nFaith, (4) Devotion and (5) Aspiration. Of course the meaning can be changed.\r\nIn fact, when I give the flower to someone, I do not always mean the same\r\nqualities. I change according to the need of the person and at the moment.\r\nHowever, we can have all the same a general scheme. In any case, in all combinations\r\nand to whomsoever I may give, the first among the qualities is and must always\r\nbe <i>Sincerity. </i>For, if sincerity is not there, one cannot move even half\r\na step. So sincerity is the first thing necessary and should be always there.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This\r\ncan be translated by another word, if you like. That would be transparence. Let\r\nme explain.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>When\r\nsomeone comes to me and I look at him, I look into his eyes, straight into his\r\neyes. If the person is sincere, that is to say, <i>transparent, </i>I enter\r\ninto him through his eyes and I see his soul clearly. But when I look and see\r\nin the eyes a cloud, and then a screen or continuing farther I meet a wall or\r\nsomething very black and when I find I have to pass through all that and drill\r\nholes at places to go through, even so at the last minute I am not sure if I do\r\nnot stand against a bronze wall that refuses all entry, then in such cases I do\r\nnot find the soul and the person I can declare to be not sincere. Literally,\r\nsuch a person is not transparent. So, then, this is the first thing.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nnext item which is also obviously necessary for all progress is <i>Faith. </i>There\r\nis also another word for it which although seemingly limited, possesses for me\r\nat least a greater importance; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 48<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\nmean, trust. If your faith is not made of a complete trust in the Divine or if\r\nyou begin to lose the trust, then you gradually lose faith in the Divine Power\r\nor in the Divine Goodness or in the trust that the Divine has in you. These\r\nare the three great stumbling-blocks.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nhappens at times, if not quite often, that starting with a faith which you\r\ndescribe unshakable, the faith that the Divine alone does everything and can do\r\neverything, that whatever occurs in me or in others, everywhere, is the work of\r\nthe Divine and of none other than the Divine and you continue to the logical\r\nend, apparently at least, till after a time you begin to accuse the Divine of\r\nthe most frightful misdeeds, make him a veritable demon being the author or\r\nabettor of all the evils in the world.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Or\r\nyou say, you have faith in the Divine, but as to this world, you know what it\r\nis and you put no trust in it. You say: &quot;In the first instance, I suffer\r\nmuch, I am unlucky, much more unlucky than any other person&quot;–one is always\r\nmore miserable than one\'s neighbour, be sure &quot;life has been unkind to me.\r\nNow, if the Divine is divine, all kindness, all generosity, all love and\r\nharmony, how is it that I am so unfortunate? The Divine must then be powerless.\r\nOtherwise, how can he leave me in unhappiness, if he is so kind?&quot; That is\r\nthe second stumbling-block. The third one is this. There are people who are too\r\nmodest, full of an excessive and misguided humility, who say: &quot;Surely the\r\nDivine has rejected me, I am good for nothing, He can do nothing with me, it is\r\nbetter for me to give it all up.&quot; Such difficulties will always crop up,\r\nif along with faith you do not have complete trust in the Divine.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Next in the series comes <i>Devotion. </i>Certainly,\r\ndevotion is very good; but here too, unless it is accompanied with many other\r\nthings, it can lead you into much error. For with devotion one keeps one\'s ego\r\nalso. Out of devotion you may behave most egoistically. You think of your\r\ndevotion, only of your devotion, that is to say, you think of yourself alone,\r\nyou do not think of others, of the world, of the work that you do and ought to\r\ndo you become formidably egoistic. And when you see that the Divine, for some\r\nreason or other, does not respond to your devotion with an enthusiasm you\r\nexpect of him, you despair and fall into one or all of the three difficulties I\r\nspoke of just now. Either the Divine must be cruel<font face=\"Times New Roman\">–</font>we know of devotees who\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 49<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>throw all\r\ntheir anger upon the Divine, accusing him of neglect and cruelty; or then they\r\nthink, &quot;I must have made a grave, blunder, I am hopeless in his eyes and I\r\nam rejected.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now,\r\nthere is a movement which one can have and constantly along with devotion, as\r\ncomplementary to it – a sense of gratitude, that the Divine exists and one\r\nfeels a kind of gratefulness, born of wonder, which fills you truly with a\r\nsublime joy; the very fact that the Divine exists, that there is something in\r\nthe universe which is the Divine, that it is not merely a monstrosity that we\r\nsee here below, brings a flow of unspeakable gladness in you. Every time the least\r\nthing puts you in contact with this sublime reality of the Divine\'s existence,\r\nwhether directly or indirectly, your heart is filled with a feeling so intense,\r\nso marvellous, the feeling precisely of a profound gratitude which has of all\r\nthings the sweetest savour, that no other joy can bring. So I say devotion by\r\nitself is incomplete, it must have gratitude as its companion.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\ncome to the next term. I spoke to you once of courage; I said courage means the\r\ntaste for adventure, the supreme adventure. This taste for the supreme\r\nadventure is <i>Aspiration – aspi</i>ration that seizes you wholly and throws\r\nyou without calculation or reserve, without the possibility of withdrawal, into\r\nthe great adventure of the discovery of the Divine, the great adventure of meeting\r\nthe Divine and the still greater adventure of realising the Divine. It means\r\nplunging into an unknown venture without looking backward, without asking even\r\nfor a moment what is going to happen – for if you ask where you are going to\r\nfall, you never start, you remain fixed where you are, both your feet firmly\r\nrooted on the spot, fearing lest you lose your balance. That is why I call the\r\nthing courage. But truly it is aspiration. The two go together. True aspiration\r\nis something full of courage.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We have till now, then, four elements. The\r\nfifth one I wish to add is <i>Endurance. </i>For, if you are not capable of\r\nfacing your difficulties without getting disheartened, without abandoning your\r\neffort because it is too difficult, and if you are not able to bear blows,\r\npocket them and go on never minding – for the blows come because of your faults\r\nand mistakes – you cannot go very far: at the first turning where you lose\r\nsight of your petty habitual life, you despair and give up the game.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 50</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Endurance\r\nin its physical expression is perseverance. That is to say, you must be\r\nprepared to do a thousand times, if necessary, the same thing over and over\r\nagain. You take a step forward, you think you are firmly placed; but there\r\nwill always crop up something or other which brings back the old difficulty.\r\nYou think you have solved the problem, you will have to solve it again: it will\r\ncome in a slightly different form, but it is the same problem. You must be\r\nready to face the problem, go through the same difficulties a million times.\r\nThat is how you are sure to arrive at the goal.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We have left out one very important <i>factor\r\n– Surrender. </i>Now Sri Aurobindo says that surrender is the first and\r\nabsolute condition for doing Yoga. Without it there is no Yoga. So we can say\r\nthat it is not one of the qualities required, but that it is the primary\r\nindispensable attitude for one to be able to begin Yoga. If you have not\r\ndecided to surrender you cannot start on the path. But to make this surrender\r\ntotal and complete all the Five that we have enumerated are needed. This is\r\nthen what I propose. We put Surrender on the top, at the head; for to do the\r\nintegral Yoga, one must first of all take the resolution to surrender entirely\r\nto the Divine, there is no other way that is the one way. Afterwards, one must\r\nhave the five psychological perfections.\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 51<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-017_Psychological Perfection','','publish','closed','open','','017_psychological-perfection','','','2021-11-23 17:58:22','2021-11-23 17:58:22','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/017_psychological-perfection/',0,'post','',0),(1825,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:22','2021-11-23 17:58:22','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Thought and Imagination</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Thought and Imagination</font></span><span style=\'font-size:18.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>WHEN you think of a person or a thing you are\r\nimmediately I there and come into contact with the object of your thought. But\r\nthis happens in the thought world only; you know nothing of the vital or\r\nphysical context of the object. Thought is conscious of thought only in the\r\nmental world; by your thought you can be conscious of the mental atmosphere of\r\nthe distant object, of the thought of the person to whom you go, but nothing\r\nelse, absolutely nothing of his vital or physical.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.95pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>If you want to know of the vital you must go\r\nto the object vitally; it means an </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>exteriorisation</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'> that leaves the body at least three-fourths in trance. And if you want\r\nto see things physically you will have to go out in your most material subtle\r\nphysical; that leaves the body in an entirely cataleptic condition. These\r\nthings cannot be done without there being someone by your side who has the\r\nright knowledge and who can protect you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>But the mental exteriorisation happens\r\nconstantly. It puts you in relation with the mental world. If you are very\r\nconscious and the person you see in thought is also very conscious, then you\r\ncan know of the ideas and opinions which the person might form at that time,\r\nbut even then only indirectly, you do not know directly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>When you imagine a thing, it means that you\r\nmake a mental formation which may be near to the truth or far from it according\r\nto the quality of your formation. There are people who have this power of formation\r\nto such an extent that they are capable of realising what they imagine. They\r\nimagine something and they make such a strong and well-shaped formation that\r\nthey succeed in </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>materialising</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'> it. They are truly creators. There are not many like that, but there\r\nsurely are a few.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>Page – 36</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.8pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>You can meet a dead person also in your\r\nthought if he continues to be in the mental world; you can be in contact with\r\nhis mind and have a sort of mental vision of his life there. But if he is gone\r\nto the psychic world, then thinking of him is not sufficient; you must know\r\nhow to go into the psychic world and meet him there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.6pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>The mind has its own power of vision; it is\r\nnot the vision of the physical eyes, but it is yet vision, perception through\r\nforms. It is not imagination which is a quite different faculty. Suppose you\r\nfigure to yourself an ideal being to whom you attribute all conceptions of\r\nideality you have. You say he must be like this, he must be like that, his\r\nthoughts are like this, his character like that; you fill up all the details\r\nand build up the being. Well, that is the work of imagination. Literary men,\r\nnovel-writers, always do this kind of construction. Of course, there are\r\nwriters who take up things from life; but there are others who imagine things\r\nand impose them upon life. A character, a concourse of circumstances, a whole\r\nchain of events, they spin out of their head. And if they are powerful and\r\npossess sufficient creative force, it is quite possible there may be one day\r\nactually a physical human being embodying the type imagined.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>You can make use of imagination for a high\r\npurpose. With its help you can recreate your inner and outer life. You can\r\nwholly build your life if you know how to use it and have the power. As a\r\nmatter of fact, it is the most ordinary and primary way of creating and forming\r\nthings in the world. I had always the impression that if one had not the\r\ncapacity of imagination, one would not make any progress. Your imagination\r\nalways goes ahead of your life. When you think of yourself, usually you imagine\r\nwhat you would like to become – that comes first, the prevision, and then you\r\nfollow it up; you continue to imagine and realise, realise and imagine.\r\nImagination opens the way to realisation.&quot; It is very difficult to move\r\nunimaginative people. They see only what is just in front of their nose, they\r\nfeel only what is there at a given moment. They cannot advance, they are\r\nblocked by the immediate present. It is imagination that makes the whole\r\ndifference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>Men of science also have and should have a\r\ngreat power of imagination; otherwise they would discover nothing. Imagination,\r\nis in reality, the capacity to project oneself out of realised<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>Page – 37<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>things towards things </span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>realisable</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'> and pull them in by the very power of\r\nprojection. It is true there is a progressive and there is a regressive\r\nimagination. There are people who always imagine all possible catastrophes and\r\nhave the power even to make them come. However, imagination has its good use.\r\nIt sends out, as it were, <i>antennae </i>into a world that is not yet\r\nrealised, and they catch hold of something there and draw it here. Naturally,\r\nit means an addition to earth\'s atmosphere, addition of things that tend\r\ntowards manifestation. Imagination then is an instrument that one can train and\r\ndiscipline and use at will. It is one of the principal faculties that should be\r\ndeveloped and made serviceable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>Even, you can imagine the Divine and come\r\ninto contact with Him. You do in fact come into contact with that which you\r\nimagine. Do you know you cannot imagine anything that is not somewhere? It may\r\nnot exist here upon earth, but it is and must be elsewhere. As I say, it is\r\nimpossible to imagine anything that is not contained in the universe in\r\nprinciple at least. Otherwise it would not be there even as an idea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>The universe is progressive. That is to say,\r\nmore and more things constantly manifest themselves there. Now, imagination is\r\na faculty by which you go beyond the range of manifested things; if you have\r\nprogressed so far as to imagine things that are not yet manifested, you already\r\nhelp in bringing down these things and making them part of the manifested\r\nreality. Naturally, you must know how to go beyond the manifested universe in\r\norder to be able to imagine what is not there. And there are many, many such\r\nthings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>First of all, you must know how to get beyond\r\nthe terrestrial manifestation, in order to be able to imagine a new thing in\r\nit. And (or how many millions of years has earth existed! What has been the\r\noutput of new things there? Countless, for no two things upon earth are exactly\r\nthe same, although they may be very similar. It is not easy with your mind to\r\nget out of the earthly atmosphere. But if you have succeeded in doing that, you\r\nhave to get out of the universal life. To enter into contact with all that has\r\nbeen here upon earth since the beginning of its appearance till the present day\r\nand then to enter into contact with the universal of which the earth forms only\r\na tiny particle from its beginning to its formulation today – this is not\r\nsufficient. You<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>Page – 38<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'>have still to go beyond, beyond the universal, into the transcendent,\r\nthe unmanifest. Then you can think of imagining and bringing down something new\r\ninto the manifestation and upon earth. Not that one cannot do this. But it is\r\nnot so easy.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>Page – 39<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-013_Thought and Imagination','','publish','closed','open','','013_thought-and-imagination','','','2021-11-23 17:58:22','2021-11-23 17:58:22','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/013_thought-and-imagination/',0,'post','',0),(1826,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:22','2021-11-23 17:58:22','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Origin of Desire</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">The Origin of Desire</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>FROM where\r\ndoes desire come? Buddha said that it came from Ignorance. It is almost that.\r\nDesire is something in the being which imagines that it requires an object\r\nother than itself for its satisfaction. This is sheer ignorance, proved by the\r\nfact that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred when one has the thing desired,\r\none no more cares for it.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>At\r\nits very origin, I think, it was an obscure need for growth or increase. In the\r\nlowest forms of life we find love transformed into an instinctive and\r\nirresistible need for enlarging, swelling, absorbing, adding to it another\r\nbody. This need to take in is desire. So perhaps if you go back far enough into\r\nthe last depths of inconscience, you will see that the ultimate source of\r\ndesire is love: it is love in its most dark and inconscient form. It is, as I\r\nsaid, a need for accretion, an attraction for an outside object in order to\r\nembrace it, swallow it, make it part of itself and so grow bigger. Now, suppose\r\nyou have before you something beautiful, harmonious, pleasing: if you have the\r\ntrue consciousness, you enjoy and are happy to the full, by simply looking at\r\nthe thing, by having an inner contact in consciousness with the beauty and\r\nharmony that is there. And there the matter ends. You have the joy and that is\r\nall. Such a movement is very common in the artist. He sees a beautiful person,\r\nhe has the joy of observing the grace of the form, the harmony of the movements\r\nand all that. But it does not go beyond. He is perfectly happy, perfectly satisfied\r\nwhen he has seen something beautiful.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>An\r\nordinary consciousness, on the contrary, I mean very ordinary, flat as ordinary\r\nthings are, when it sees something beautiful, whether it is a material object\r\nor a person, it imme­diately jumps at it, shouting, &quot;I must have it!&quot;\r\nIt is pitiable, isn\'t it? And even then with such a consciousness you cannot<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 52</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>enjoy\r\nbeauty, for the anguish of desire will pursue you. You lose true enjoyment but\r\ndo not get anything in return. There is no happiness in desiring something. It\r\nonly puts you in an unhappy state.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.8pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Buddha\r\nalso said that there was a greater joy in overcoming a desire than in\r\nsatisfying it. Everybody can make this experiment and have the experience. It\r\nis quite interesting to do so.</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.6pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>When you give up a desire, there occurs at\r\nthe moment an inner communion with your psychic being and that is why one gets\r\na greater joy in rejecting a desire than in fulfilling it. Besides, when you do\r\nsatisfy your desire always there is a bitter after­taste somewhere. There is no\r\ndesire which when satisfied does not leave this bitterness in you, as when you\r\nhave taken some­thing very sweet, the mouth becomes full of a bitter taste. The\r\nnature of desire is like that. You must try to throw it away, but sincerely.\r\nYou must not pretend doing it and keep the thing in a comer. In that case it\r\nwill surely bring misery to you.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 53<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-018_The Origin of Desire','','publish','closed','open','','018_the-origin-of-desire','','','2021-11-23 17:58:22','2021-11-23 17:58:22','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/018_the-origin-of-desire/',0,'post','',0),(1827,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:23','2021-11-23 17:58:23','<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Night and Day</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h4 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<font size=\"4\">Night and Day</font></h4>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:6.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE night is the\r\nbackground to the day or otherwise the day is the stage and the night the green\r\nroom, that is to say, what­ever is expressed in the day, all your activities\r\nphysical or mental, are in a large part determined or coloured by your\r\nactivities at night in sleep. The day represents your conscious activities,\r\nproducts of choice and the exercise of conscious will, but of the night we are\r\nwholly unconscious and we have no control over its hidden activities. Even so,\r\nit exercises a tremendous influence on the life of the day. The mood, the\r\nrhythm in the sleep-state colours, as I say, very much the mood and rhythm of\r\nthe active life of the day. The contrary also is true. For the nature of the\r\nday-life has an influence also on the nature of the night that follows.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As\r\nthe day-life is consciously controlled, so also the night - life has to be\r\ncontrolled. Otherwise half of our life goes to waste. As we seek to utilise the\r\nday to our benefit we must know in the same way how to utilise the night.\r\nIndeed the night and the day must work together in union for a common purpose.\r\nThe Vedic Rishi says, &quot;The Night and the Day, although they look\r\ndifferent, are of one mind.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To\r\nhave control over the night one must, first of all, be conscious of what\r\nhappens in the night, that is to say, one must remember the events that occur\r\nin sleep. Usually one forgets and cannot recall easily the experiences that one\r\nhas gone through while asleep. The first exercise then is, as soon as you\r\nawake, to retain whatever happens to linger still in memory, and then with this\r\nas the leading string to go backward to happenings associated with it. Even\r\notherwise when you cannot recall any particular happening or experience, you\r\ncan begin your enquiry by noting the nature of the feeling that \r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 211<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>the experiences have left\r\non you, that is to say, you note whether you passed a good night or a bad\r\nnight. A bad night means either a tamasic state or a disturbed state. Tamasic\r\nmeans when you get up you feel inert, heavy, dep­ressed, still feeling like\r\ngoing to sleep again. The disturbed state is one in which you feel agitated,\r\nunable to control, unable to do any organised work. Instead of this unhappy\r\ncondition the night may bring to you peace and happiness, a positively\r\npleasurable sensation. That is the first step of the discipline of what I may\r\ncall night-control viz. to distinguish these two states and react accordingly\r\nthrough your conscious will. The next step would be to distinguish two other\r\ncategories of the experiences. The one is the confused and chaotic condition in\r\nwhich sensations and ideas and impulsions are in a jumble, a meaningless whirl\r\nor otherwise you find your sensations or notions or impulsions moving in an\r\norganised and purposeful way. The first naturally brings you discomfort and\r\nsadness, the second, on the contrary, gives you a sense of uncommon happiness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There\r\nare occasions when the dream experience comes to you with a clear authenticity\r\nas if you were taking part in a real drama. Everything is happening truly and\r\nundisputably exactly like a happening in the normal life. Indeed when it is\r\nhappening you feel it is happening in your waking life. You find the difference\r\nonly when you wake up. As a matter of fact it is a region very near to the\r\nmaterial world running parallel to it. And at times we are lifted bodily as it\r\nwere into it and the experiences and adventures we go through are very\r\nanalogous to those in normal life. Still when we are awake and compare the two,\r\nwe notice there is a difference in pattern and movement. Yet there are other\r\nexperiences of quite a different nature. You feel and see, you are transported\r\nto a region made, it would appear, of elements of a different kind. The\r\natmosphere gives a different feel from the earthly atmos­phere, there is a\r\nlight which seems to have a different vibration, even the earth there, for the\r\nearth still exists, is made of different density and solidity. These are the\r\nworlds perhaps, which Sri Aurobindo refers to when he speaks of &quot;the other\r\nearths.&quot; Beings and things have a happy, a pure beauty in their form and\r\nmovement. This does not come to you merely as a thought<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 212</span></p><hr>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>or an imagination but a\r\nvery concrete reality in which you live and move and have your being. your\r\nsleep-world is full of many worlds, rising tier \r\n<span style=\"background-color: #FFFFFF\">upon tier </span> like hills in a\r\nmountain range. Quite at the bottom is an almost physical, a subtle physical\r\nworld and at the top is the world of the spiritual or psychic being or\r\nconsciousness. You range through all of them in some way or other but you\r\nremember only partially and in snippets and you do not know which is which. It\r\nis by focussing your attention upon them and trying to distinguish the\r\ndifferent modes of each in regard to your feeling and perception that you\r\ngradually begin to unravel them, untie the knots and spread out the threads\r\nseparately.</p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 213</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-070_Night and Day','','publish','closed','open','','070_night-and-day','','','2021-11-23 17:58:23','2021-11-23 17:58:23','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/070_night-and-day/',0,'post','',0),(1828,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:23','2021-11-23 17:58:23','<html>\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<title>PART EIGHT</title>\r\n<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"Namo WebEditor v4.0\">\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body bgcolor=\"white\" text=\"black\" link=\"blue\" vlink=\"purple\" alink=\"red\" background=\"_Gif%20Image/check_pink.gif\">\r\n<div align=\"center\">\r\n	<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\r\n		<tr>\r\n			<td align=\"center\" width=\"25%\">\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n			<font size=\"4\">CONTENT</font></b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n			&nbsp;</p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n			<font size=\"4\">VOLUME \r\n			4</font></b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>PART EIGHT</b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"3\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<a href=\"-001_Choosing-to-do-Yoga\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">&nbsp;Choosing \r\n        To Do Yoga</font></a></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<a href=\"-002_Order-and-Discipline\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">Order \r\n        and Discipline</font></a></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<a href=\"-003_Organise-your-Life\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">Organise \r\n        your Life</font></a></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-004_Doing-for-Her-Sake\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Doing \r\n        for Her Sake</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-005_Will-and-Desire\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Will \r\n        and Desire</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-006_A-Sign-and-A-Symbol\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">A \r\n        Sign and A Symbol</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-007_Sleep-and-Pain\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Sleep \r\n        and Pain</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-008_The-Minds-Bazar\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Mind\'s Bazaar</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-009_Spirits-in-Trees\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Spirits \r\n        in Trees</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-010_Are-Not-Dogs-More-Faithful-Than-Men\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Are \r\n        Not Dogs More Faithful than Men?</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-011_The-Work-Here\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Work Here</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-012_Thought-the-Creator\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Thought \r\n        the Creator</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" height=\"25\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-013_Thought-and-Imagination\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Thought \r\n        and Imaginaton</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" height=\"25\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-014_Poetry-and-Poetic-Inspiration\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Poetry \r\n        and Poetic Inspiration</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" height=\"25\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"-015_Divine-Living\">Divine \r\n        Living</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" height=\"25\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-016_Perfection-and-Progress\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Perfection \r\n        and Progress</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-017_Psychological-Perfection\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Psychological \r\n        Perfection</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-018_The-Origin-of-Desire\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Origin of Desire</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-019_Asceticism\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Asceticism</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-020_Are-Not-The-Ascetic-Means-Helpful-At-Times\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Are \r\n        Not The Ascetic Means Helpful </a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-021_Human-Birth\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Human \r\n        Birth</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-022_Regarding-the-Body\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Regarding \r\n        the Body</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-023_Sadhana-Must-be-Done-in-the-Body\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Sadhana \r\n        Must be Done in the Bod</a>y</font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-024_On-Food\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">On \r\n        Food</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-025_Meat_Eating\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Meat-Eating</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-026_Faith-and-Progress\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Faith \r\n        and Progress</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-027_Value-of-Religious-Exercises\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Value \r\n        of Religious Exercise</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-028_Prayer-and-Aspiration\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Prayer \r\n        and Aspiration </a></font> </p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-029_Meditation-and-Wakefulness\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;Meditation \r\n        and Wakefulness</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-030_Dealing-with-a-Wrong-Movement\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Dealing \r\n        with a Wrong Movement</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-031_Personal-Effort-and-Surrender\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Personal \r\n        Effort and Surrender</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-032_The-Surrender-of-an-Inner-Warrior\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Surrender of an Inner Warrior</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-033_Opening-to-the-Divine\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Opening \r\n        to the Divine</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-034_To-Melt-into-the-Divine\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">To \r\n        Melt into the Divine</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-035_Love-Divine\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;Love \r\n        Divine</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-036_Buddha-and-Shankara\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Buddha \r\n        and Shankara</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-037_The-Significance-of-Dates\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Significance of Dates</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-038_The-Value-of-Money\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Value of Money</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:9pt;\">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:9pt;\">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>PART NINE</b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"4\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-039_Prayer-and-Aspiration\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;Prayer \r\n        and Aspiration</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-040_Meditation\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Meditation</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-041_The-Psychic-Being\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Psychic Being</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-042_The-Divine-Grace\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Divine Grace</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-043_The-Story-of-Love\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Story of Love</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-044_How-Can-Time-Be-a-Friend\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">How \r\n        can Time Be a Friend</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-045_How-to-Become-Indifferent-to-Criticism\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">How \r\n        to Become Indifferent to Criticism</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-046_The-Modern-Taste\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Modern Taste</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-047_The-Origin\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Origin</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><a href=\"The-Supramental-Vision\">\r\n		<span style=\"text-decoration: none\">\r\n		<a href=\"-048_The-Supramental-Vision\" style=\"text-decoration: none\"><font size=\"2\">The \r\n        </font> \r\n        </a> \r\n        </span>\r\n		<a href=\"-048_The-Supramental-Vision\" style=\"text-decoration: none\"><font size=\"2\">Supramental Vision</font></a></a></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-049_The-Supramental-Manifestation-and-World_Change\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Supramental Manifestation and World Change</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"-050_The-True-Teaching\">The \r\n        True Teaching</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-051_On-Teachers-and-Teaching\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">On Teachers and Teaching</a></font></td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-052_Education-of-Girls\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Education \r\n        of Girls</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-053_How-to-Listen\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">How \r\n        to Listen</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"-054_Goal-of-Evolution\">Goal \r\n        of Evolution</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-055_Health-in-the-Ashram\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Health \r\n        in the Ashram</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n			<font size=\"2\">\r\n			<a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"-056_The-Mother-on-Herself\">&nbsp;The \r\n        Mother on Herself</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:9pt;\">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:9pt;\">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>PART TEN</b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"4\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-057_Cycles-of-Creation\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;Cycles \r\n        of Creation</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-058_Beyond-Vedanta\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Beyond \r\n        Vedanta</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-059_Life-in-and-Through-Death\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Life \r\n        in and Through Death</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-060_Transfiguration\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Transfiguration</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-061_Mind-and-the-Mental-World\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Mind \r\n        and the Mental World</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-062_Beyond-the-Dualities\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Beyond \r\n        the Dualities</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-063_The-World-is-One\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        World is One</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-064_Consciousness-as-freedom\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Consciousness \r\n        as Freedom</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-065_Education-as-the-Growth-of-Consciousness\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Education \r\n        as the Growth of Consciousness</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-066_Education-is-Organisation\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Education \r\n        is Organisation</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-067_Beyond-Love-and-Hate\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Beyond \r\n        Love and Hate</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-068_The-Divine-Grace-and-Love\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Divine Grace and Love</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-069_GO-Through\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Go \r\n        Through</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-070_Night-and-Day\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Night \r\n        and Day</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-071_The-Evolution-of-Language\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Evolution of Language</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-072_The-Relative-Best\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Relative Best</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"-073_Miracles_--Their-True-Significance\">Miracles \r\n        : Their True Significance</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-074_Short-Notes\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Short \r\n        Notes</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-075_Prayers-and-Meditations-of-the-Mother\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Prayer \r\n        and Meditations of the Mother</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\"><a href=\"-076_Savitri\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Savitri</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-077_How-to-Read-Sri-Aurobindo-and-the-Mother\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">How \r\n        to Read Sri Aurobindo and the Mother</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-078_A-True-Professor\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">A \r\n        True Professor</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-079_Consciousness\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Consciousness</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-080_Love-and-Love\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Love \r\n        and Love</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-081_Gods-Debt\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">God\'s \r\n        Debt</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-082_India-the-World-and-the-Ashram\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">India, \r\n        the World and the Ashram</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-083_The-Mystery-of--the--Five-Senses\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Mystery of the Five Senses</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-084_The-Mystery-of--the--Five--Elements\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Mystery of the Five Elements</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-085_On-Discipline\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">On \r\n        Discipline</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-086_Effort-and-Grace\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Effort \r\n        and Grace</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-087_The-Moral-and-the-Spiritual\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Moral and the Spiritual</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-088_Cling-to-Truth\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Cling \r\n        to Truth</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-089_The-Golden-Bridge\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Golden Bridge</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>PART \r\n			ELEVEN</b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"4\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-090_The-Opening-Scene-of-Savitri\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;The \r\n        Opening Scene of &quot;Savitri&quot;</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-091_The-Golden-Life\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Golden Life-line</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-092_Cosmonautics\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Cosmonautics</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-093_The-Triple-Cord\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Triple Cord</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-094_The-Ladder-of-Unconsciousness\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Ladder of Unconsciousness</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-095_The-Mounting-Fire\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Mounting Fire</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-096_The-Labours-of-the-Gods\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Labours of the Gods:</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-097_Body_Energy\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Body-Energy</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-098_Towards-the-Immortal-Body\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Towards \r\n        the Immortal Body</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-099_The-Test-of-Truth\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Test of Truth</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-100_The-Ideal-Centre\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Ideal Centre</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-101_Two-Equations\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Two \r\n        Equations</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-102_In-these-Fateful-Days\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">In \r\n        These Fateful Days</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-103_Our-Finest-Hour\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Our \r\n        Finest Hour</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-104_Sri-Aurobindo\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Sri \r\n        Aurobindo</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:9pt;\">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>PART TWELVE</b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"4\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;<a href=\"-105_This-Great-Earth-our-Mother\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">This \r\n        Great Earth, Our Mother</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-106_The-Stress-of-the-Spirit\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Stress of the Spirit</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-107_The-Sorrows-of-God\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Sorrows of God</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-108_Love-and-Death\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Love \r\n        and Death</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-109_The-World-Tragedy\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        World Tragedy</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-110_The-Hero-and-the-Nymph\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">&quot;The \r\n        Hero and the Nymph&quot;</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-111_The-Double-Trinity\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Double Trinity</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-112_Notes-on-Freedom\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Notes \r\n        on Freedom</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-113_The-Story-of-Dr\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Story of Dr. Faustus Retold</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-114_The-Sunlit-Path\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Sunlit Path</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\"><a href=\"-115_INDEX\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Index</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:9pt;\">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n			</td>\r\n		</tr>\r\n	</table>\r\n</div>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','volume-4-000_Content','','publish','closed','open','','volume-4-000_content','','','2021-11-23 17:58:23','2021-11-23 17:58:23','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/volume-4-000_content/',0,'post','',0),(1829,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:23','2021-11-23 17:58:23','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>PART TWELVE</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">PART TWELVE</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:20.15pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><i><font size=\"4\">This Great Earth, Our Mother</font></i></b><i><o:p><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>MAN\'S soul\r\nis man\'s inalienable possession. And also it is his exclusive possession. He is\r\nthe only created being that has a soul. It is, strange to say, an earthly gift\r\nand belongs to no other creature either in this world or other worlds and\r\nlevels of existence. This earth is a miraculous object: it has qualities solely\r\nits own. A fundamental quality is that it grows: it is not static, it evolves,\r\nthat is to say, changes in quality; it sprouts, germinates, brings forth\r\nobjects and qualities that seem foreign, anomalous to its apparent and external\r\nnature. New modes of existence that were not there before appear as though from\r\nnowhere. Dead and dark soil or mud brings forth green shoots and that will grow\r\nin course of time into spreading branches and leaves, culminating in a beatiful\r\npanoply of foliage and fruit.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nsoul grows out of the earth\'s soil, yet it is not a production or creation of\r\nearth. It is earth\'s gift, as I have said, but it is a gift to earth from\r\nsomewhere up in heaven. However, it is inextricably woven into the very texture\r\nof earth and material existence. It is a spark of consciousness imbedded in an\r\nunconscious inert mass, the secret nucleus, as it were, behind the material\r\nsheath; from behind it enlivens, moves, directs, even illumines the apparently\r\ndead earth-element leading it towards a radiant destiny.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This\r\ngrowing embodied consciousness is, as I have said, earth\'s possession alone – growing,\r\nevolving, unfolding ever new dimensions of existence: it is not found elsewhere\r\nin the material universe. The rest of the universe is a play of the very original,\r\nmere material elements – the cosmic and other invisible rays that are in vogue\r\nnowadays with their multiple ranges have been acting in the same way since the\r\nbeginning<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 367<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\nof the material creation till today. There is not another earth in this \r\nuniverse, materially because there is no water or water vapour elsewhere: water is life, the sap of life,\r\nthe creative element. We know now the nature of moon-dust, – it is dry as dust,\r\narid and brittle. Indeed the other heavenly bodies seem to possess nothing of\r\nthe kind of earthly atmosphere.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All\r\nother beings or creatures within the frame of this material heaven do not\r\nbreathe air; all other heavens lack precisely this earth-atomsphere: and they\r\ndo not grow or change. Take for instance the legendary beings of the subtle\r\nworlds – fairies, elfs, spirits, gnomes, goblins – all are types, definite\r\nspecies, they do not change, alter their character or nature: they remain\r\nthemselves, true to themselves throughout from beginning to end, they come up\r\nto us today with the same features that they had to the eyes of the men of prehistoric\r\nages. Even the gods belong to the same category of immutability: they are each\r\nan eternal reality, an unchangeable norm, an ideal petrified so to say. They\r\nare not inconstant and fickle and ever-changing as mortals are. Asuras also\r\nhave the same character. All these typal beings have to be broken before they\r\ncan be moulded into another pattern. If any of them wishes to change or evolve\r\ninto something else he has to come down on earth, enter into a human mould or\r\ntake birth as a human being.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(2)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nsoul, however, is not the self. We spoke of the material universe as something\r\ndead, unconscious and inconscient, but in reality there is a basic\r\nconsciousness behind, upholding, maintining all and everything. That is the\r\nSelf, Sachchidananda, Brahman. It is the static consciousness beyond time and\r\nspace but standing behind as a support. This here moves but That does not move –\r\ngrow or evolve. That is fixed, stagnant. The soul comes out – out of That in\r\nthe ultimate analysis – in the process of the creation, the material creation\r\nand evolution.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nultimate particles of matter, all behave uniformly, there is practically no\r\nindividual variation. It is all a common general universal movement. The <i>individuation\r\n</i>begins with the living cells. Each living form starts with moving and\r\nreacting in its<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n12.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:11.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n12.0pt;\'>Page – 368<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:5.5pt;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>own\r\ncharacteristic manner and style. The one transcendent Consciousness,\r\nSachchidananda, that is behind all seems here on the life plane to gather to a\r\npoint or points, becomes diversified and concentrated at many centres. This\r\nconcentration effectuates a deepening into so many whirlpools, as it were, and\r\ninstead of a lateral and horizontal movement, a mere expansiveness, Nature\r\nstarts as though a vertical movement. The process continues: a light, a fire\r\nenters into the earthly material creation which grows and throws out units\r\ngradually with a more and more specialised character. Earth is no longer an\r\nelement merely general or universal in character, there begins a particularisation\r\nand individualisation. The first step towards individualisation is what may be\r\ntermed individuation. With life upon earth, with the appearance of a living\r\norganism there entered into it the rudimentary psychic element or entity: as it\r\ngrows it achieves first of all, as I have said, an individuation, an elementary\r\nindividual form, as in the lower animals, and then in the higher animals it\r\narrives at individualisation. With the emergence of conscious will,\r\nself-observation and self-direction in man, the mere psychic element or entity\r\nbecomes an individuality, a psychic being, the person, the soul, and finally, a\r\nfull-grown self-fulfilled person or personality becomes a deity, the soul\r\nbecomes the Divine.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Such\r\nis the story of the evolution in the inner core of things. Along with this\r\ninner growth there is or there is to be a growth in the outer material level\r\nalso. The growth of the psychic being or the soul radiates its influence into\r\nthe mind and life and body forming its outer instrument for expression. These\r\ntoo must partake of the luminous nature of the soul, be intimate and identified\r\nwith it for the integral fulfilment.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(3)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nVeda draws a graphic picture of the eternal stability, the sameness, almost the\r\noppressive monotony of the material universe through millions and millions of\r\naeons of its existence. The eternal recurrence without beginning and without\r\nend of the rising and setting of the sun and the stars, the inviolable law of\r\nVaruna, suffers no break or change. But when we look near<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 369<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>at home,\r\nturn from our father the Heaven to our mother Earth and look a little more\r\nclosely, a different picture emerges here: for here is the arena of the Vedic\r\nprogressive sacrifice.¹</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nearth is well-known for its force of gravitation, the force that pulls things\r\ndownward and at best allows a horizontal trajectory, that is the apparent\r\nmovement. But it also has another, a contrary movement, the anti-gravity force,\r\nthe force of levitation and ascension. Earth, clay, never had a warm reception\r\nat the hands of spiritual persons or even of ordinary people who lay the whole\r\nblame upon this poor element for all the misfortunes of life here\r\nbelow-precisely because of the earth\'s gravitating pull. The earth is\r\nconsidered as the very nursery of sin; the consciousness of sin however began\r\nwith the advent of man upon earth. The creation was governed at the beginning\r\nand for long by an eternal unchangeable law, and man came in as an\r\nintervention, a breach of the law; He came with the knowledge and force of\r\ndivision and distinction, that between the right and the wrong. He brought in\r\nhim the will independent of the eternal law – to discover a law of his own.\r\nThat has been called transgression; in the popular style, that is sin. Apart\r\nfrom the obloquy that the term sin carries with it, it is at bottom, however,\r\nthe sense of ambiguity, the sense of choice, the sense of liberty. Man has been\r\ngiven this sense so that he may find out that the customary, the habitual, the millennial is not the only rhythm or line of movement but that he may look\r\nbeyond and find other lines which open the way to progress, which are not bound\r\nto mere reiteration. A new sense of direction is behind the spirit of independence\r\nthat appears as transgression or sin – it is this which the human consciousness\r\naims at in the movement. It is an opportunity to move away and upward, to fresh\r\ndimensions of consciousness and being.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Progress\r\ntakes place through a process of dialectics, that is to say, by way of choice\r\nbetween two opposites. The established harmony and uniformity becomes rigid and\r\nunalterable, has</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>¹ <span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>The rishi speaks of the\r\nyoung mother holding her child tight in her womb and not offering it to the\r\nfather. * She does so as long as she is the inconscient Matter but as she grows\r\nconscious she starts making.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>* <i>The young Mother bears\r\nthe boy pressed down in her secret being and gives him not to the Father. </i>(V.1.2.\r\nSri Aurobindo\'s translation.) The offering and the child grows more and more\r\nconscious with the consciousness of the Father: and it makes the Mother also,\r\nin her turn, grow more and more conscious.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:70.55pt 275.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 370<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:16.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:70.55pt 275.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:70.55pt 275.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>to\r\nbe broken in order to start a move towards another harmony richer and higher,\r\nand this is done in the human consciousness by the growth of a free will in the\r\nindividual that disobeys the established law. That is the great Disobedience of\r\nwhich <st1:City><st1:place>Milton</st1:place></st1:City> speaks so thunderingly\r\nin his famous epic poem and which is at the very centre of the Christian\r\nreligion. It means a Fall: the sense of separation itself is a fall – a separate\r\negoism standing out against all and everyone, including God Himself. But this\r\nhas been necessary to replace the blind obedience of an automaton by the\r\nwilling and happy collaboration of a free being. That is the psychic with its\r\nfree choice. The choice lies, as the Upanishad says, between <i>\'sreyas\' </i>and\r\n<i>\'preyas\'; </i>the deliberate choice of the <i>\'sreyas\' </i>by the\r\npsychic being at every step is the great dialectic movement of evolution\r\nthrough which the consciousness moves forward and upward towards the supreme\r\nreality. The initial separation, disobedience or sin is the price that the\r\nindividual human being has to pay in order to move towards its final destiny,\r\nthe freedom and the integrality of its supreme divine fulfilment. Egoism, the\r\nfount and origin of sin, is the mask, the camouflage over the visage of God,\r\nthe Individual.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(4)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\nhave spoken of the sprouting virtue in the earth-element; the same has\r\ndeveloped in man, the earth\'s child, to unforeseen dimensions. Earth\'s upward\r\ndrive towards a greater harmony is in reality the working of the Godhead\r\n&quot;Agni&quot;, the self-conscious energy that is secreted in the heart of\r\nall earthly existence. The Vedas say, the earth is the own home of Agni. Agni\r\nis an earthly Godhead, even as Indra is a godhead of the heavens. We spoke of\r\nwater being the characteristic element imbedded, inextricably mixed with the\r\nearth. Water gives the necessary condition or element for the sprouting\r\nmovement; but Agni is the agent, the initiating executive force, it is the\r\nconcentrated energy of consciousness: in man it is the individualised\r\nspiritual element, therefore Agni is said to be the leader of the progressive\r\nsacrifice, <i>adhvara yajña, </i>the journey of ascent and evolution towards\r\nthe final destiny.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nEarth gives her material body, her substance for the</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 371<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:8.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>incarnation\r\nand establishment of the supreme state of the Transcendent – the Self or\r\nSachchidananda – here below. And for the manifestation and expression through\r\nlife and the senses she offers her secret conscious-force, the light-energy to\r\nincorporate the supreme Chit-tapas; but the Ananda of the Supreme she realises\r\nin a strange and piquant way. The delight that earth offers or embodies is of a\r\nspecial nature. It is the delight of taste.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Tasting,\r\ndrinking, eating are properties said to be fundamental to the body, and they\r\nare no less applicable in the case of the soul. The Gods are memorable eaters\r\nand drinkers and a whole family of Rishis has been called Atris, that is to\r\nsay, \'eaters\'. It is said that these physical properites are only metaphorical\r\nor symbolical; when used in respect of the spiritual principles and realities\r\nthey are used as mere tokens or indices because of the deficiencies of\r\nlanguage, language being built out of material symbols. It is not quite so,\r\nfor, as I have said, earth itself is not a mere symbol but a special\r\nconcentration of Sat and it includes also concentrated Chit and Ananda.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nsoul that is imbedded in earth or wedded to it acquires and enjoys these gifts\r\nof the earth and carries them forward and offers to the Supreme. The soul is\r\nthe efflorescence of the earth and in that way it adds a new quality of\r\nfulfilment to the fulfilment of the Supreme, the Sachchidananda.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:country-region><st1:place><i>Annam</i></st1:place></st1:country-region><i>\r\n</i>means both Matter and food. Matter is the earthly food for the Spirit\r\nSupreme who has become it, losing Himself in it and regains it consciously and\r\nenjoys it in and through His earthly delegate the human soul.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thus\r\nto recapitulate, the transcendent Spirit came down from above and stood behind\r\nthe creation – stood behind for long. And then it advanced towards the front\r\nhere upon earth: life appeared, the inorganic material particles became organised\r\ncells with the first incidence of an incipient consciousness and will. With its\r\ngrowth and the appearance of mind there grew the psychic element, the beginning\r\nof the individual, in the higher animal for example. And the psychic element\r\nwith the growth of consciousness and will and individuality in man, developed\r\ninto the psychic being which moves on towards the Divine impersonation on the\r\nearth. This is Earth\'s divine fulfilment in and through her earthly son, man.\r\nShe clothes<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 372<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>herself more and more with\r\nthe developing psychic consciousness of man meeting the Divine Consciousness –\r\nfinally incorporating in herself and as herself her lord, the Supreme Divine\r\nand in her individual formations his parts and portions to make the whole a\r\ndivine Play.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.5pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n373<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-105_This Great Earth our Mother','','publish','closed','open','','105_this-great-earth-our-mother','','','2021-11-23 17:58:23','2021-11-23 17:58:23','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/105_this-great-earth-our-mother/',0,'post','',0),(1830,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:23','2021-11-23 17:58:23','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>God\'s Debt</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">God\'s Debt</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n15.6pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n15.6pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Here is a line from <i>Savitri..</i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And paying here God\'s debt to earth and man.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>What is this debt that God owes to earth and\r\nman? We understand the debt that man and earth owe to God, their creator. But\r\nhow is God indebted to his creation? Besides we learn that God pays his debt\r\nthrough his representative, his protagonist upon earth, the aspiring human\r\nbeing.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>First\r\nlet us understand the mystery of God\'s debt to man. We know, in ordinary life a\r\nsubordinate has a duty towards his superior, the lesser owes a debt to the\r\ngreater. That is easily understood. Likewise the superior also has a duty to\r\nhis subordinate, the greater has his duty to the smaller. The child owes a debt\r\nto his parents; no less is the debt that the parents owe to the child. The\r\nparents not only bring forth the child, but they have to bring him up, nourish,\r\nfoster, educate and settle him in life. We know also, as the scriptures tell\r\nus, that there is a debt man owes to the gods. The paying of the debt is\r\ndescribed in the institution of the sacrifice <i>(yajna). </i>It is through his\r\nsacrifice that man achieves what he has to achieve upon earth. It is the\r\ngiving-of what one is and what one has<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>–\r\nto the gods – the sacrifice mounts carrying the offering to the gods. But the\r\nsacrifice is not a mere one-sided movement, the sacrifice brings from the gods\r\ngifts for the man – material prosperity and spiritual fulfilment. Man increases\r\nhimself in this way, but thereby increases the gods also. The offering that man\r\nbrings in his sacrifice – all his possessions-his earthly possessions, but\r\nchiefly his possessions of the inner world, the wealth of his spirit, the\r\nvirtues of his consciousness – all go to the gods and increase them, that is to\r\nsay, they become more\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 266<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>manifest and more powerful\r\nupon earth and in <span style=\"background-color: #FFFFFF\">earthly</span> existence and in the service of man.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nsacrifice going up to the gods as offered by man means the sadhana, the inner\r\ndiscipline that he follows by which he lifts up his being with its mental and\r\nvital and physical formulations to their higher and higher potencies upon\r\nearth. The dedication of the normal powers and faculties to the gods means\r\npurification and release from the bondages of ignorance and egoism. This serves\r\nto make the gods living to us, bring them near to our terrestrial life, to our\r\nnormal consciousness. This is what is meant by increasing the gods – man\'s duty\r\nor debt to the gods. In answer there is a corresponding gesture from the gods,\r\nwith their immortalising reality they dwell in us and fill our being with their\r\ngodlike qualities, their light, their energy, their delight, their very\r\nimmortality. Man increases the gods and the gods increase man and by their\r\nmutual increasing they attain the supreme increment, the Divine status, so says\r\nthe Gita.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now,\r\nwe go beyond the gods, to the very origin, God himself, the Supreme. What is\r\nthe debt that God, the Supreme, the Divine, owes to us human beings? We owe to\r\nGod everything, our life, our very existence, our soul and substance given to\r\nus by him, then how is he indebted to us? What kind of debt he has incurred\r\nwhich he has to pay to his creature, the human being? Primarily because he is\r\nthe Divine Father, he has to take charge of his own creation, see to its growth\r\nand fruition and fulfilment. Indeed that is the role of the Divine in us (and\r\nabove us and around us): that is his work, the Divine Work. Since he has put us\r\nout of his consciousness (for a special experience of growth and development),\r\nit is also his work (and duty) to bring us back to him: after a process of\r\nself-separation a process of self-integration. Man, so long as he is a separate\r\nconsciousness has to dedicate, lift up and unify this separative conscious\r\nbeing to the whole being and consciousness. This is how he discharges his debt\r\nto the Divine, and the answering grace of the Divine is the clearing of the\r\ndebt which He owes to His creatures.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>What\r\nhas been said of man is equally applicable to earth. The destiny of man is the\r\ndestiny of earth as also the destiny of earth is the destiny of man. For man is\r\nan earthly creature, is</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 267</span></p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>born out of earth and he\r\ngrows with the growth of the earth; equally the earth grows with the growth of\r\nman.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nreality it is God\'s growth in man and earth that is reflected and embodied in\r\nthe growth of man and earth. The debt spoken of is the debt of God himself to\r\nhimself. In other words, it is a work, a mission that he has himself taken upon\r\nhimself for his own mysterious delight of existence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Earth\r\nmoves forward through man who is its flowering and man moves forward through\r\nhis representative, the higher man, who reveals and embodies still greater\r\npotentialities of God\'s creation, having the privilege of being so conscious as\r\nto contact the gods and God Himself – he is master of life-force <i>(aswapati</i><b>);\r\n</b>he climbs to the summits and brings down upon earth the heavenly riches and\r\nthe Divine Grace, which fulfils, transmuting all debits into credits.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 268</span></p>\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"-000_Content\">\r\n<img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n		</div>\r\n		<p>&nbsp;</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>','-081_Gods Debt','','publish','closed','open','','081_gods-debt','','','2021-11-23 17:58:23','2021-11-23 17:58:23','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/081_gods-debt/',0,'post','',0);
