INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2138,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:07','2021-11-23 17:59:07','<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 THREE</title>\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 style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'><font size=\"4\">PART THREE</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\'>\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;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><i>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><font size=\"4\">The New Year Initiation</font><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>1944<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>0 Lord, the world implores Thee to\r\nprevent it from falling back<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>always into the same stupidities.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Grant that the mistakes recognised\r\nmay never be renewed.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Grant, lastly, that its actions may\r\nbe the exact and sincere expression of its</span></i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> <i>proclaimed ideals.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>– THE MOTHER<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>1<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>T</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>HIS</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> is the New Year Prayer the Mother has\r\nformulated for our sake. This is the turn <span class=GramE>She</span> would\r\nhave us give to our sadhana for the year. What is the special import of this\r\nnew orientation? It is, one may say, to direct our efforts towards an objective\r\nexpression, towards an application to life on the material plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>One starts on the path of sadhana\r\nwith an almost entire unconsciousness – it is so in all evolutionary process. A\r\ngoal is there, vague and indistinct, far off. Within him also the sadhaka feels\r\nan equally indefinite and indefinable <span class=GramE>urge,</span> he seems\r\nto move without any fixed aim or purpose, with an urge simply to move and. move\r\non. This is what he feels as a yearning, as an aspiration – <span class=SpellE><i>caraivete</i></span>,\r\nas the Upanishad says. Then step by step as he progresses, his consciousness\r\ngrows <span class=GramE>luminous,</span> the aim also begins to take a clear\r\nand definite shape. The mind is able slowly to understand and grasp what it <span\r\nclass=GramE>wants,</span> the heart\'s yearning and attraction also begin to be\r\ntransparent, quiet but deep. Still this cannot be called a change of nature,\r\nlet alone transformation. Then only will our nature consent really to change\r\nwhen we become, when even our sense-organs become subject to our inner\r\nconsciousness, when \r\n<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;text-indent:27.0pt;\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 lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-63<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>our actions and activities are inspired, guided\r\nand formed by the power and influence of this inner light.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>In the beginning, the sadhaka finds\r\nhimself a divided personality-in his heart there is the awakening of aspiration<span\r\nclass=GramE>,.</span> the divine touch, but with all its outward impulses, the\r\nphysical consciousness remains subject to the control of old fixed habits under\r\nthe sway of the lower nature. Ordinarily, man is an unconscious sinner, that is\r\nto say, he has no sense of the sins. <span class=GramE>he</span> commits. But\r\nhe becomes a conscious sinner when he: reaches the level of which we are\r\nspeaking. The conflicts<span class=GramE>,.</span> <span class=GramE>fears</span>,\r\nagonies, compunctions in this stage have perhaps been nowhere more evident than\r\nin the life of the Christian seeker. In this state we know what to do but\r\ncannot do it-the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. We want to do the\r\nright thing, we try to do it again and again, yet we fail every time. It is. <span\r\nclass=GramE>not</span> that we fail only in respect of the movements of our\r\nheart and mind, in practice also we commit the same stupidities time and again.\r\nThese stupidities – and their name is legion-m – are lust, anger, greed, ignorance,\r\nvanity, envy, distrust, disobedience, revolt; repentance, constant repentance\r\nand earnest supplication for the divine grace – that is the remedy, says the\r\ndevout Christian.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>But we, for ourselves, do not give\r\nany such supreme place to repentance. For, after all, it is a lower impulse, a\r\nvital impulse: as we call it; it does not allow the memory of the sin to be:\r\nforgotten; rather by dwelling upon it constantly, it keeps it alive, makes the\r\nimpression of the sin all the more lurid. And not <span class=SpellE>unoften</span>\r\ndoes it lead to luxuriating in sinfulness Behind the sense of repentance is\r\nthis consciousness, this idea that man is, by nature, corrupt, his sin is\r\noriginal. That is why the: Christian seeker has accepted sorrow and suffering,\r\nabasement and mortification as the indispensable conditions of his sadhana This\r\ncalls to our mind a witty remark of <span class=SpellE>Anatole</span> France,. <span\r\nclass=GramE>that</span> prince of humorists, that one could not be a lover of\r\nChrist unless one sinned – the more one sinned, the more: could one grow in\r\nrighteousness; the more the repentance, in other words, the more the divine\r\ngrace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>We have said that this is not our\r\npath. The divine grace is a fact – without that nothing is possible. From one\r\npoint of view, the divine grace is unconditioned. But it does not follow<o:p></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;text-indent:27.0pt;\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 lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-64</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>that the precedent of <span class=SpellE>Jagai-Madhai</span>\r\nis the invariable law of spiritual life. The law is rather this that the field\r\nmust be ready, the being and the consciousness must get into a certain mould,\r\nattain certain order and disposition so that the descent of the Divine Grace,\r\nits manifestation and play may be possible. For, just as the divine grace is\r\ntrue, so it is equally true that the individual is essentially one with the\r\nDivine, sin and ignorance are his external sloughs,\r\nidentity with the Divine is his natural right. We, therefore, Jay equal stress\r\non this hidden aspect of man, on the freedom of his will, on his personal\r\neffort which is the determining factor of his destiny. For in the field of\r\nignorance or half-knowledge, in the nether hemisphere of his consciousness, it\r\nis this power that directly builds up that ordered state of the being with\r\nwhose support the divine grace can actualise itself and give a material shape\r\nto the integral fulfilment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Hence the Mother gives the direction\r\nthat though external lapses may be natural to our external nature, now that our\r\ninner consciousness has awakened, the vision and the earnestness to see and\r\nrecognise our mistakes have developed – assuming that this much of development\r\nhas taken place in us – we must awake to the situation and be on the alert, we\r\nmust bring such control to bear upon our vital impulses, upon our nervous\r\ncentres as will prevent, for good and all, errors and stupidities from <span\r\nclass=SpellE>upsurging</span> again and invading our physical self and our\r\nfield of action. When we have reached this stage, we have acquired the capacity\r\nto ascend to another level of consciousness. It is then that we can lay the\r\nfoundations of a new order in the world-it is then that along with the\r\npurification, the achievement will begin to take on a material form.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>2<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The scope of this New Year Prayer does\r\nnot limit itself only to our individual sadhana-it embraces also the collective\r\nconsciousness which is specially the field of its application. It is the\r\nmuffled voice of entire humanity in its secret aspiration that is given\r\nexpression here. It is by the power of this <i>mantra</i>, protected by this\r\ninvulnerable armour, – if we choose to <o:p></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;text-indent:27.0pt;\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 lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-65<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>accept it as such, - that the collective\r\nlife of man will attain its fulfilment. We have often stated that the\r\noutstanding feature of the modern world is that it has become a <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Kurukshetra</span> of Gods and Titans. It is no doubt an eternal\r\ntruth of creation, this conflict between the divine and the anti-divine, and it\r\nhas been going on in the heart of humanity since its advent upon earth. In the\r\ninner life of the world this is a fact of the utmost importance, its most\r\nsignificant principle and mystery. Still it must be said that never in the\r\nannals of the physical world has this truth taken such momentous proportions as\r\nin the grim present. It is pregnant with all good and evil that may make or mar\r\nhuman destiny in the near future. Whether man will transcend his half-animal\r\nstate and rise to the full height of his manhood, nay even to the godhead in\r\nhim, or descend back to the level of his gross brute nature – this is the problem\r\nof problems which is being dealt with and solved in the course of the mighty\r\nholocaust of the present World War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>In her last year\'s message¹ the\r\nMother gave a clear warning that we must have no more hesitation, that we must\r\nrenounce one side, free ourselves from all its influence and embrace the other\r\nside without hesitation, without reservation. At the decisive moment in the\r\nlife of the world and of mankind, one must definitely, irrevocably choose one\'s\r\nloyalty. It will not do to say, like the over-wise and the over-liberal, that\r\nboth sides – the Allies and the Axis Powers - are equal – equally right or\r\nequally wrong - and that we can afford to be outside or above the prejudices or\r\ninterests of either. There is no room today for a neutral. He who pretends to\r\nbe a neutral is an enemy to the cause of truth. Whoever is Dot with us is\r\nagainst us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>We who have taken the side that is\r\nfor Light and Evolution and the great Future, must be thoroughly alive to the\r\nheavy responsibility that lies on us. The choice of the path is not by itself\r\nsufficient. Next to that, we have to see, at every step, and make sure that we\r\nare really walking straight along the true path, that we do not fall and slip\r\ndown, that we do not stray unawares into a wrong track or a blind alley.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>¹</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>\'The hour has come when\r\na choice has to be made, radical and definitive. Lord, give us the strength to\r\nreject the falsehood and emerge in Thy truth, pure and worthy of Thy victory” –\r\n1943</span></span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><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;text-indent:27.0pt;\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 lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-66</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>So far as the World War is concerned\r\nall nations and peoples and groups on our side who have felt and proclaimed\r\nthat they stand for equality, fraternity and freedom, the priests and prophets\r\nof a new future, of a happier humanity, all such warriors are also facing a\r\nsolemn ordeal. For them also the time has come to be on their guard and be\r\nwatchful. They must see that they give exact expression in their actions to\r\nwhat they have thought, felt and proclaimed. They have to prove by every means,\r\nby thought, word and deed, that their entire being is really one, whole and\r\nindivisible, in ideal and in intention.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Today at the beginning of the New\r\nYear we have to bear in mind what aim, what purpose inspired us to enter into\r\nthis tremendous &quot;terrible work&quot;, what force, what strength has been\r\nleading us to victory. They who consider themselves as collaborators in the\r\nprogressive evolution of Nature must constantly realise the truth that if\r\nvictory has come within the range of possibility, it has done so in just\r\nproportion to their sincerity, by the magic grace of the <span class=SpellE>Mahashakti</span>,\r\nthe grace which the aspiration of their inner consciousness has called down.\r\nAnd what is now but possible will grow into the actual if we keep moving along\r\nthe path we have so far followed. Otherwise, if we falter, fail and break\r\nfaith, if we relapse into the old accustomed track, if under pressure of past\r\nhabits, under the temptation of immediate selfish gain, under the sway of\r\nnarrow parochial egoism, we suppress or maim the wider consciousness of our\r\ninner being or deny it in one way or another, then surely we shall wheel back\r\nand fall into the .clutches of those very hostile powers which it has been our\r\ndetermined effort to overthrow. Even if we gain an outward victory it will be a\r\ndisastrous, moral and spiritual defeat. That will mean a tragic reversal – to\r\nbe compelled to begin again from the very beginning. Nature will not be baulked\r\nof her aim. <span class=GramE>Another travail</span> she will have to undergo\r\nand that will be far more agonising and terrible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>But we do not expect such a\r\ncatastrophe. 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margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Evolution of the Spiritual Consciousness</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=\'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;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\'>EVEN the Vedic Rishis used to refer to the\r\nancients, more ancient than they themselves. &quot;The ancients&quot;, they\r\nsaid, &quot;worshipped Agni, we too the moderns in our turn worship the same\r\ngodhead&quot;. Or again, &quot;Thus spoke our forefathers&quot;; or, &quot;So\r\nhave we heard from those who have gone before us&quot; and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></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\'>Indeed,\r\nthe tradition in the domain of spiritual discipline seems to have been always\r\nto realise once again what has already been realised by others, to rediscover\r\nwhat has already been discovered, to re-establish ancient truths. Others have\r\ngone before on the Path, we have only to follow. The teaching, the realisation\r\nis handed down uninterruptedly through millenniums from Master to disciple. In\r\nother words, the idea is that the fundamental spiritual realisation remains the\r\nsame always and everywhere: the name and the form only vary according to the\r\nage and the surroundings. The one reality is called variously, says the Veda.\r\nWho can say when was the first dawn! The present dawn has followed the track of\r\nthe infinite series that has gone by and is the first of<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>the <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt\'>I </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>infinite series that is to come. So sings\r\nRishi Kanwa. For the </span>core of spiritual realisation is to possess the\r\nconsciousness, attain the status of the Spirit. This Spirit may be called God\r\nby the theist or Nihil by the Negativist or Brahman (the One) by the Positivist\r\n(spiritual). But the essential experience of a cosmic and transcendental\r\nreality does not differ very much. ­So it is declared that there is only one\r\ngoal and aim, and there are, at the most, certain broad principles, clear\r\npathways which one has to follow if one is to move in the right direction,\r\nadvance smoothly and attain infallibly: but these have been well marked out,\r\nsurveyed and charted and do not admit of </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 – 151<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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>serious alterations and deviations. The\r\nspiritual aspiration is </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>a very\r\ndefinite and unitary movement and its fulfilment is also a definite and\r\ninvariable status of the consciousness. The spiritual is a typal domain, one\r\nmay say, there is no room here for sudden unforeseen variation or growth or\r\nevolution.<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:10.0pt\'>Is it so in fact? For, if one admits and\r\naccepts the evolu­tionary character of human nature and consciousness, the\r\noutlook becomes somewhat different. According to this view, human civilisation\r\nis seen as moving through progressive stages: man at the outset was centrally\r\nlodged in and occupied </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>with his\r\nbody consciousness, he was an <i>annamaya purusa</i></span><i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>; </span></i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>then </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>he raised himself and </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>centred</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'> in the vital consciousness and so became fundamentally a <i>pranamaya\r\npurusa; </i>next he climbed into the mental consciousness and became a <i>manomaya\r\npurusa; </i>from that level again he has been attempting to go further beyond.\r\nOn each plane the normal life is planned according to the central character,\r\nthe law – dharma – of that plane. One can have the religious or spiritual\r\nexperience on each of these planes, representing various degrees of growth and\r\nevolution according to the plane to which it is attached. It is therefore that\r\nthe Tantra refers to three gradations of spiritual seekers and accordingly\r\nthree types or lines of spiritual dis­cipline: the animal <i>(pasu bhava), </i>the\r\nheroic <i>(vira bhava) </i>and the godly or divine <i>(deva bhava). </i>The\r\nclassification is not merely typal but also hierarchical and evolutionary in\r\ncharacter.<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:10.0pt\'>The Divine or the spiritual consciousness,\r\ninstead of being a simple unitary entity, is a vast, complex, stratified\r\nreality. &quot;There are many chambers in my Father\'s mansion&quot;, says the\r\nBible: many chambers on many stories, one may add. Also there are different\r\nlevels or approaches that serve different seekers each with his own\r\nstarting-point, his <i>point de repaire. </i>When one speaks of union with the\r\nDivine or of entering into the spiritual consciousness, one does not refer to\r\nthe same identical truth or reality as any other. There is a physical Divine, a\r\nvital Divine, a mental Divine; and beyond the mind – from where one may\r\nconsider that the region of true spirit begins – there are other innumerable\r\nmodes, aspects, mani­festations of the Divine.<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:10.0pt\'>As we say, there are not only aspects of the\r\nDivine, but</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 – 152<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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>there are also levels in him. The spiritual\r\nconsciousness rises tier upon tier and each spur has its own view and outlook,\r\nrhythm and character. Now, as long as man was chiefly preoccupied with his\r\nphysico-vital or mentalised physico-vital activities, as long as the burden of\r\nhis body and life and even mind lay heavy on him and their gravitational pull\r\nwas normally very strong, almost irresistible, the spiritual impulse in him acted\r\ngenerally and fundamentally as a movement of </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>escape from them into </span><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>some </span></i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>thing beyond. It was a negative </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>movement on the whole and it was enough to dissociate, reject,\r\nsublimate the lower status and somehow rise into something which is not that <i>(neti):\r\n</i>the question was not important at that stage of the human consciousness\r\nabout a scientific scrutiny of the Beyond, its precise constitution and\r\ncomposition.<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\'>But once there is the possibility gained of a\r\nmore </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>normalised</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>, familiar and\r\nwider reconnaissance of the Beyond, when the human being has been mentalised to\r\na degree and in a manner that makes it inevitable for him to overpass to a\r\nhigher status and live there habitually, then it becomes an urgent matter of\r\nconcern to know and find out where one goes exactly, on which level and in what\r\ndomain, once one is beyond. The question, it is true, engaged the attention of\r\nthe ancients too; but it was more or less an interesting inquiry, a good part\r\nspeculative and theoretical; it had not the reality and in­sistence of the need\r\nof the hour. We have today chalked out an almost exhaustive science of the\r\ninferior consciousness, of the lower hemisphere – of course, so far as it is\r\npossible for such a science to be exhaustive moving in the light of the partial\r\nand inferior consciousness. In the same way we need at the present hour a\r\ncomplete and precise science of the Divine Consciousness. As there is a logic\r\nof the finite, there is also a logic of the infinite, not merely its magic, and\r\nthat too has to be discovered and laid out.<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\'>Thus, the highest and most comprehensive\r\ndescription of the Divine is perhaps the formula Sat-chit-ananda. But even so,\r\nit is a very general and, after all, an inadequate description. It has to be\r\nfilled in and supplemented by other categories as well, if one may say so. For\r\nSat-chit-ananda presents to us the Sat Brahman. There is also the Asat Brahman.\r\nAnd again</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:.15in;\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;\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Page – 153<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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>we must accept a reality which is neither Sat\r\nnor Asat – ­<i>nasadasinno sadasit, </i>says the Veda. And as for the filling up\r\nof the details in an otherwise almost blank and featureless infinity, Sri\r\nAurobindo\'s charting of that vast unknown – with the categories of the\r\nSupermind and its various levels, of the Overmind and its levels too, all\r\nforming the Divine Status and Consciousness – is a new, almost a revolutionary\r\nre­velation, just the required science which the present world needs and\r\ndemands and for which it has been prepared through all the cycles of evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>This means to say that with the knowledge\r\nthat is given us today, one can determine more or less definitely the altitudes\r\nto which the various spiritual </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>realisations</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'> of the past rose and one can see also the degrees or graded stages of\r\nthe evolution of the spiritual consciousness. A broad landmark can be noted here\r\nwhich concerns us at the present moment. The spiritual consciousness has been\r\nrising to higher and higher peaks and possessing them one after another. At the\r\npresent moment we are at a crisis, at a crucial crossing. The spiritual\r\nconsciousness attained till now and securely held in human possession (in man\'s\r\ninner nature) is confined to the highest level of the mind with some\r\ninfiltration from the Over­mind and through that, as a springing board, a leap\r\ninto an indefinite, almost a blank Beyond. Now the time is come and the\r\nconditions are ready for the spiritual consciousness in humanity to arrive at\r\nthe status above the Overmind to the Supermind, and make that a living reality\r\nand build in and through that its normal consciousness.<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\'>A progressive revelation of higher and higher\r\nand more integral states of the spiritual consciousness in and through the </span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>realisations</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> of mystics and sages and seers – divine men ­–\r\nof all ages, such is the process of evolution that marks the life of man upon\r\nearth. This spiritual evolution, however, may not be obviously visible in the\r\nexternal life and character of man: it has been a phenomenon more in his inner\r\nbeing and consciousness, an occult phenomenon. Hence there has intervened a\r\nveil, wall of separation between the two. The veil has not been rent precisely\r\nbecause the very highest spiritual potential has not been reached and brought\r\ninto play. The call of the present age is just to do away with this<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;text-indent:.15in;\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&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.15in;\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– 154<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>veil, make of human nature a unified, a streamlined\r\nentity, a complete incarnation of the spiritual consciousness in the fullness\r\nof its own nature at its source and origin.<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;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&nbsp;</p>\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:11.0pt;\'>Page – 155<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> <b>\r\n	<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><font size=\"4\">Here or \r\n    Otherwhere</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>A </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>QUESTION</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> is often asked of us whether it is\r\npossible to do Yoga while remaining in the world. Some declare outright that it\r\nis not possible: world and Yoga are, like oil and water, absolutely different\r\nthings, they do not go together. World means, to put it plainly, earning money\r\nand raising family. Well, these two are the very opposite of Yoga, for they\r\ninvolve, at their best, desire and attachment and, at their worst, dishonesty\r\nand deceit, lust and libertinage. There is the other school, on the contrary,\r\nthat pronounces that a Yogic life must be lived in the world if it is not your\r\nintention to leave that world altogether and seek and merge in the Beyond, the\r\notherwhere, the immutable transcendent Brahman. It is quite possible for one to\r\nbe in the very midst of the worldly forces and yet remain unshaken by them.\r\nTherefore it has been said: When the causes of disturbance are there and still\r\nthe mind is not disturbed – hat indeed is the sign of a wise steadiness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>It can, however, be asked, what then\r\nis meant by being in the world? If it means merely sitting quiet, suffering and\r\nobserving nonchalantly the impacts of the world – something in the manner\r\ndescribed by Matthew Arnold in his famous lines on the East –, well, that stoic\r\nway, the way of indifference is a way of being in the world which is not very\r\nmuch unlike not being in the world; for it means simply erecting a wall of separation\r\nor isolation within one\'s consciousness without moving away physically. It is a\r\npsychological escapism. But if by living in the world we should mean\r\nparticipating in the movements of the world – not only being but becoming, not\r\nmerely standing as a witness but moving out as a doer –then the problem becomes\r\ndifferent. For the question we have to ask in that case is what happens to our\r\nduties – life in the</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><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;text-indent:27.0pt;\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 lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page- 92<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>world being a series of duties, duty to oneself\r\n(self-preservation), duty to the family (race-preservation), duty to the\r\ncountry, to humanity and, finally, duty to God (which last belongs properly to\r\nthe life in Yoga). Now, can all these duties dwell and flourish together? The\r\nChrist is categorical on the point. He says, in effect: Leave aside all else\r\nand follow Me and look not back. Christ\'s God seems to be a jealous God who\r\ndoes not tolerate any other god to share in his sovereign exclusiveness. You\r\nhave to give up, if you wish to gain. They who lose life shall find it and they\r\nwho stick to life shall as surely lose it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>But is not The Gita\'s solution\r\nsomewhat different? Sri Krishna urges Arjuna to be in the very thick of a\r\ndeadly fight, not a theoretical or abstract combat, but take a hand in the\r\ndirest man-slaughter, to &quot;do the deed&quot; (even like Macbeth) but\r\nyogically. Yes, The Gita\'s position seems to be that – to accept all life\r\nintegrally, to undertake all necessary work (<i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nnormal\'>kartavyam karma</i>) and turn them Godward. The Gita seeks to do it in\r\nits own way which consists of two major principles: (1) to do the work,\r\nwhatever it may be, unattached – without any desire for the fruit, simply as a\r\nthing that has to be done, and (2) to do it as a sacrifice, as an offering to\r\nthe supreme Master of works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The question naturally turns upon\r\nthe nature and the kind of work –whether there is a choice and selection in it.\r\nGita speaks indeed of all works, <i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>krtsna-karmakrt</i>,\r\nbut does that really mean any and every work that an ignorant man, an ordinary\r\nman steeped in the three Gunas does or can do? It cannot be so. For, although\r\nall activity, all energy has its source and impetus in the higher consciousness\r\nof the Divine, it assumes on the lower ranges indirect, diverted or even\r\nperverted formulations and expressions, not because of the inherent falsity of\r\nthese so-called inferior strata, the instruments, but because of their\r\ntemporary impurity and obscurity. There are evidently activities and impulsions\r\nborn exclusively of desire, of attachment and egoism. There are habits of the\r\nbody, urges of the vital, notions of the mind, there are individual and social\r\nfunctions that have no place in the spiritual scheme, they have to be\r\nrigorously eschewed and eliminated. Has not the Gita said, this is desire, this\r\nis passion born of the quality of Rajas? . . . There is not much meaning in\r\ntrying to do these<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;text-indent:27.0pt;\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 lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-93<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>works unattached or to turn them towards the\r\nDivine. When you are unattached, when you turn to the Divine, these \'Simply\r\ndrop away of themselves. Yes, there are social duties and activities and\r\nrelations 1bat inevitably dissolve and disappear as you move into the life\r\ndivine. Some are perhaps tolerated for a period, some are occasions for the\r\nconsciousness to battle and surmount, grow strong and pass beyond. You have to\r\nlearn to go beyond and new-create your environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>It was Danton who said, one carries\r\nnot his country with him at the sole of his shoe. Even so you cannot hope to\r\nshift bodily your present social ensemble, place it wholesale in the divine\r\nlife on the plea that it will be purified and transformed in the process.\r\nPurification is there indeed, but one must remember purification literally\r\nmeans burning and not a little of the past and present has to be burnt down to\r\nashes.<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;text-indent:27.0pt;\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 lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-94<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\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-013_Here or Otherwhere','','publish','closed','open','','013_here-or-otherwhere','','','2021-11-23 17:59:08','2021-11-23 17:59:08','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/013_here-or-otherwhere/',0,'post','',0),(2141,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:08','2021-11-23 17:59:08','<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 SIX</title>\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\"><a\r\nname=go><font size=\"4\"></font></a><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">PART SIX</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;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=\'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><i>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The End </font> </i></b><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i><font size=\"4\">of a Civilisation</font></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\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i><b><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:20.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></i></b></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\">THE world has been going\r\ndown in its course of degradation with an increased momentum since the very\r\nbeginning of the present century. One of the great symptoms of the decline is\r\nthe prevalence of wars. <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>It </span>can\r\nbe said in fact that there has been no real peace or even truce upon earth\r\nsince the century opened with the Russo-Japanese War. Wars have continued since\r\nthen uninterruptedly: some part or other of the world has always been involved.\r\nIndeed one can say it has been a single war carried on <span class=SpellE>on</span>\r\nmany fronts, breaking out at different times. Another noticeable thing about\r\nthese wars is their nature; with the lapse of time they have become more and\r\nmore extensive and more and more devastating. <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nbold\'>It </span>is no longer now simply a clash of armies or\r\nprofessionals, of that section of society whose business it is to fight. Whole\r\nnations – literally the whole of a people including men, women, <span\r\nclass=GramE>children</span> of all ages – are now <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>mobilised</span>, have to take part in the\r\nfight and share the same danger.<o:p></o:p></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\">Naturally,\r\nwar meant always killing; but the nature of killing has changed and even the\r\nmotive too. Killing is now attended with cruelty, done with methods terribly\r\natrocious and revoltingly ingenious. And this has affected the very\r\nconsciousness and morale of man. Not only there is no decency or decorum, not\r\nto speak of magnanimity and nobility of attitude and <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>behaviour </span>– once familiar things in\r\nstories of the Kshatriya, the Samurai, the Knights of old – there has come into\r\nthe field a phenomenon for which it has itself found a name, sadism, wanton\r\nviolence and on a mass scale. Man seems to have thrown off all <span\r\nclass=GramE>mask,</span> all the rules of <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>civilised</span> social life and has become worse than the animal: he is\r\nnow the Pisacha, the ghoul and the demon. He seems to have reached the bottom\r\nof the pit.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 213<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:13.5pt;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\nknow of worlds – vital worlds – which are made of the most unimaginable horror\r\nand ugliness and devilry. Many have contacted such domains either consciously\r\nin the course of their yogic experiences or unconsciously in nightmare. They\r\nbear testimony to the stark monstrosity of these worlds – the gloom, the fear,\r\nthe pain and torture, the doom and damnation that reign there. That entire\r\ninner world seems to have precipitated itself upon earth and taken a body here.\r\nA radiant poet spoke of <st1:place>Paradise</st1:place> being transplanted upon\r\nearth in the shape of a happy city (the city of the Raghus): today we have done\r\nthe opposite miracle, the devil\'s capital city is installed upon earth, or even\r\nsomething worse. For, in the subtler worlds there is a saving grace, after all.\r\nIf you have within you somewhere an aspiration, a trust, a faith, a light the\r\nenemy cannot touch you or maul you badly. You may have also around you there\r\nbeings who help you, a teacher, a guide who is near visibly or invisibly to\r\ngive you the necessary warning or protection. But here below when the enemy has\r\nclothed himself in a material form and armed himself with material weapons, you\r\nare almost helpless. To save <span class=GramE>yourself</span> from a physical\r\nblow, it is not always enough to have the proper inner consciousness only.\r\nSomething more is needed.<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\'>Therefore\r\nmisery stalks large upon the earth. Nothing com-parable to it, either in\r\nquality or quantity, can history offer as an example. Man finds no remedy for\r\nhis <span class=GramE>ills,</span> he does not dare to hope for any. He feels\r\nhe is being irretrievably drawn into the arms of the Arch-enemy.<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\'>Perhaps\r\nit was necessary that it should be so. A pralaya, a Deluge has to be\r\nthere to end an epoch and begin a new one. Indeed the civilisation that man has\r\nbuilt up over the millenniums, that has reached its culmination in modern scientism,\r\nwhatever gifts it might have brought to him, however great and powerful and\r\nbeautiful it might have been at its best in its own sphere, still it had and\r\nwas a limitation, acted as a deterrent to a further leap and progress of the\r\nconsciousness. It is the humanistic cycle that has reigned, from ancient <st1:country-region><st1:place>Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\ndown to modern <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.\r\nIs it not time that another consciousness should intervene, other gods make\r\ntheir appearance?<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 214<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;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\'>And\r\nyet if the civilisation really goes, it will not be a small thing, even when\r\nmeasured on the cosmic scale. A civilisation is to be judged and valued not at\r\nits nadir, but at its zenith, in its total effect and not by a temporary phase\r\nin its course. Civilisation really means preparation of the instrument: the\r\nhuman instrument that is to express the Divine. The purpose of creation, we\r\nhave often said, is the establishment of the highest spiritual consciousness in\r\nthe embodied life on earth. The embodied life means man\'s body and life and\r\nmind; individually and socially these constitute the instrument through which\r\nthe higher light is to manifest itself. <span class=GramE>The instrument.</span>\r\nhas to be prepared, made ready for the purpose; Actually it is obscure,\r\nignorant, narrow, weak; at the outset and for a long time it expresses only or\r\nmainly the inferior animal nature. Civilisation is an attempt to raise this\r\ninferior nature, to refine, enlarge and heighten it, to cultivate and increase\r\nits potentialities and capacities. The present civilisation, we have said, is a\r\ngrowth of thousands of years-at least five thousand years according to the most\r\nmodest archaeological computation. In this period man has developed his brain,\r\nhis rational intelligence, has <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>unravelled</span>\r\nsome of the great mysteries of nature; he has controlled and <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>organised</span> life to an extent that has\r\nopened new possibilities of growth and achievement; even with respect to the\r\nbody he has learnt to treat it with greater skill and endowed it with finer and\r\nmore potent efficiencies. There have been aberrations and misuses, no doubt;\r\nbut the essence of things achieved still remains and is always an invaluable\r\nasset: that must not be allowed to go.<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\'>If\r\nthe civilis at ion goes, it means the instrument is gone, the basis on which\r\nthe edifice for the Divine Consciousness is to be raised is removed, <span\r\nclass=GramE>nothing</span> remains to stand firmly on. So the labour has to\r\nstart again: one must begin from the beginning. The work has to be done and\r\nwill be <span class=GramE>done,</span> it cannot be allowed to terminate into a\r\nlabour of Sisyphus.<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\'>Look\r\nat the individual. Why is there in him the life-urge to persist, to endure, to\r\nsurvive? <span class=GramE>If life had no other meaning than mere living, then\r\nthe best thing would have been to drop the body as soon as it is badly damaged\r\nor incapacitated, through illness, accident or old age.</span> Instead, why\r\nthis attempt<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 215<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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>to</span> prolong it, to refuse to accept the present difficulties\r\nand disadvantages? The reason is that life requires time to grow in\r\nconsciousness, to acquire experiences, to assimilate and <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>utilise</span> them so as to transform them\r\ninto powers of being, time, that is to say, to build and forge the instrument\r\nso that it may house the higher consciousness and existence. In the present\r\nmake-up, the body, at a certain stage has to be given up; for the frame becomes\r\ntoo rigid and stiff to keep pace with the growing and fast moving inner\r\nconsciousness. The thread is taken up again in another life; but there is\r\nalways a considerable reduplication in this natural process, one has to\r\nrepeat the stage of babyhood and immaturity, a <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>retempering</span> of the instrument till it is\r\ncapable of newer uses. True, some-thing of the experiences, their essence, is\r\nstored up somewhere in the depth of the being; but it is not <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>utilised</span> fully, it is not an effective\r\nelement in the normal consciousness. And although one always bases oneself upon\r\none\'s past, the edifice constructed seems new every time. Yoga in the\r\nindividual seeks to eliminate this element of repetition and unconsciousness\r\nand delay in the process of growth and evolution: its aim is to complete the\r\ncycle of individual growth in a single life.<o:p></o:p></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\'>Now\r\nthe same principle can be extended to the wider collective development.\r\nCivilisation has reached a status today when the next higher status can be and\r\nmust be at-tempted. Man has risen to a considerable height in the mental\r\nsphere; the time and occasion are now here to step beyond into the supramental,\r\nthe dynamically spiritual. Dangers are ahead, even around and close: all the\r\nforces of the infra-human, the submerged urges of animal atavism are pushing\r\nand pulling man down to a regression, to a reversion to type. The choice\r\nis indeed crucial. If the civilisation is to perish, it means mankind has to\r\nstart over again its life course, begin, that is to say, at the baby stage,\r\nonce more to go through the slow process of centuries to acquire the mastery\r\nthat has been attained in the physical, the vital and the mental domains.\r\nAlready there have been such lost periods in man\'s evolution now submerged in\r\nhis consciousness and their gains are being with difficulty recovered. But a\r\nlandslide at this critical hour will be a colossal catastrophe – humanly\r\nspeaking, something almost irremediable.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 216<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;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\'>For\r\nhere is the sense of the crisis. The mantra given for the new age is\r\nthat man shall be transcended and in the process, man, as he is, shall go. Man\r\nshall go, but something of the vehicle that the present cycle has prepared will\r\nremain. For, that precisely has been the function of the passing civilisation,\r\nespecially in its later stages, viz, to build up a terrestrial temple for the\r\nLord. The aberration and deformation, rampant today, mean only an excess of\r\nstress upon this aspect, upon the external presentation which was ignored or\r\nnot sufficiently considered in the earlier and higher curves of the present\r\ncivilisation. The spiritual values have gone down, because the material values\r\ncame to be regarded as valueless and this upset the economy or balance in\r\nNature. It is true that we have gone far, too far in our <span class=SpellE>revanche</span>.\r\nAnd the problem that faces us today is this: whether mankind will be able\r\nto change sufficiently and grow into the higher being that shall inhabit the\r\nearth as its crown in the coming cycle or, being unable, will go totally,\r\ndisappear altogether or be relegated to the backwater of earthly life, somewhat\r\nlike the aboriginal tribes of today.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 217<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%; 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margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"></p>\r\n\r\n<h1 align=right style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Meditation and\r\nMeditation</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>\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-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">SOME people, when they sit\r\nfor meditation, imagine they have gone into a remarkable condition and are\r\nproud of it. But most often what they do in meditation is simply to let loose\r\ntheir thoughts: it is a sort of kaleidoscope that moves in their head. There\r\nare some, however, who can remain without any thought for a while; but if they\r\nare called out all on a sudden at the time for some reason or other, they wake\r\nup furious, protesting that a nice meditation is spoilt and fret and fume\r\nagainst the whole world. There are all the same a few who know how to meditate,\r\nthey do come to a sort of union with the Divine. Certainly, this is very good.\r\nThere are others who can follow the train of an idea up to a point, even up to\r\nthe central point of the idea. This is also very good. But most get into a\r\nhalf-sleepy condition, that is to say, very tamasic. The mind is inert,\r\naspiration inert, the whole being is inert. They can remain in that condition\r\nfor hours together. Well, nothing is more durable than inertia. And when they\r\ncome out of it, they think they have achieved something very great. But they\r\nsimply fell into unconsciousness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:13.5pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">Yes,\r\nsome know how to meditate. But even supposing you know how to enter into the\r\ndivine consciousness, that ex­perience must have some effect upon your external\r\nlife­ – naturally it would differ according to the person concerned. There are\r\nsome who cut themselves clean into two. These, as I have said, when they enter\r\ninto meditation, have or think they have experiences and very fine experiences.\r\nBut when they come back and begin to act, they become the most ordinary people,\r\nwith the most ordinary reactions, doing all kinds of things that should not be\r\ndone. They think of them­selves alone, busy arranging their own life, without a\r\nthought \r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 365<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</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section2>\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\'>for others,\r\nwhether one could be useful to the world or not. And yet in meditation, they\r\ncame into contact with some higher and deeper consciousness and reality. It is\r\nfor this reason that people who have found it difficult to change human nature,\r\nhave declared it an impossibility and advised that the one thing to do under\r\nthe circumstances is to abandon the world and escape. Naturally, if all could\r\nrun away there would no more be any world. But, luckily or unluckily, the\r\nexistence of the world does not depend upon the will of in­dividuals: they had\r\nno hand in the creation of the world and they do not know how it came about. Is\r\nit simply because some get away from the world that the world will cease to\r\nexist – for them, perhaps, but for others? Although I am not sure whether even\r\nthey really succeed in getting away. In any case, I do not believe that you can\r\ntransform yourself by meditation. But when a work is there before you and you\r\ndo it as well as you can, also while doing it you take care not to forget the\r\nDivine and you give yourself up to him so that he may change your being, change\r\nyour reactions into something beautiful and luminous, then indeed the Divine\r\nwill transform you.</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\'>I\r\nhave never seen people who left off everything to sit in a more or less empty\r\nmeditation making any progress; in any case their progress is very small. On\r\nthe contrary, I have seen people, full of enthusiasm for the work of\r\ntransformation in the world, devoting themselves to that work without\r\nreservation: they give themselves up with no idea of personal salvation. Yes,\r\nit is such people I have seen making the wonderful pro­gress. On the other\r\nhand, I have seen very many living in monasteries: well, they are not worth\r\ntalking about. It is not by running away from the world that you will change\r\nit: it is only by working steadily at it that you can bring about the change.</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; text-indent:13.5pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><i>Does\r\nthis mean that meditation is of no use at all?<o:p></o:p></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\"><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.75pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">Meditation\r\nwill come to you as much as is necessary for you. When it comes it seizes you;\r\nthen you should not resist. You sit down and go within yourself, withdraw\r\nyourself inside and you make the needed inner advance. When that is<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 366<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\">done you come out and\r\nstart again with your work. But above all, do not be vain. People who believe they\r\nare exceptional creatures and have more merit, put a bar to all their\r\nprogress. I must insist on the need of humility. People have often spoken much\r\nabout it but without understanding it very well. Be humble, but in the right\r\nway. If you could but root out this weed that is vanity! How difficult it is,\r\nyes, how difficult! You cannot do a single good thing, make the slightest\r\nprogress, without being puffed up secretly somewhere, cherish­ing a hidden\r\nself-satisfaction! You have to deal hammer blows to break that hard core of\r\negoism. You have to work all your life to destroy this poisonous herb. You\r\nthink you have done it and you are so satisfied with the idea of having done it\r\nat last.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 367<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</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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section2>\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</div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-103_Meditation and Meditation','','publish','closed','open','','103_meditation-and-meditation','','','2021-11-23 17:59:08','2021-11-23 17:59:08','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/103_meditation-and-meditation/',0,'post','',0),(2143,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:08','2021-11-23 17:59:08','<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 Body Natural</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<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; text-indent:9.8pt; 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\">The Body </font> </span>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Natural</font></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\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>WITH regard to the food that man takes, there\r\nare two factors that determine or prescribe it. First of all, the real need of\r\nthe body, that is to say, what the body actually requires for its maintenance,\r\nthe elements to meet the chemical changes occurring there, something quite\r\nmaterial and very definite, viz, the kind of food and the quantity. But usually\r\nthis real need of the body is obscured and sumberged under the de­mands of\r\nanother kind of agency, almost altogether foreign to it, (I) vital desire and (2)\r\nmental notions. Indeed, the menu of our table, at least 90% of it, is arranged\r\nso as to satisfy the demands of the second category, the consideration that\r\nshould come first comes last in fact. The body is at present a slave of the\r\nmind and the vital; it is hardly given the freedom of choosing its own\r\nrequirements in the right quantity and quality. That is why the body is seen to\r\nsuffer everywhere and it normally sick for the greater part of its earthly\r\nexistence. It has been compelled to occupy an anomalous position in the human\r\norganism between these two tyrants. The vital goes by its greed, its attraction\r\nand repulsion, its impulse to excess (sometimes to its opposite of\r\ndeprivation); what it has been accustomed to, what it has taken a fancy for, to\r\nthat it clings, and if the body has not what it prescribes, it throws the\r\nsuggestion into the body that it will fall ill. The physical mind has its own\r\nnotions and schemes, pet ideas and plans (perhaps from what has been read in\r\nbooks or heard from persons) in respect of the body\'s needs; it thinks that if\r\na certain prescription is not followed, the body will suffer. The mind and the\r\nvital are thus close friends and accomplices in regimenting the body. They\r\nimpose their own demands and prejudices upon the body which helplessly gets\r\nentangled<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=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>Page – 174<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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>in them and loses its native instinct. The\r\nbody left to itself is </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>marvellously</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'> self-conscious; it knows spontaneously and un­failingly what is good\r\nfor its health and strength. The animals usually, especially those of the\r\nforest, preserve still the </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>un­spoilt</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'> body instinct; for they have no mind to </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>tyrannise</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> over the body nor is their vital of a kind\r\nto go against the normal demands of the body. The body, segregated from the\r\nmind and the vital, can very easily choose the right kind of food and<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>the right quantity and even vary them\r\naccording to the varying conditions of the body. Common sense is an inherent\r\nattribute of the body consciousness; it never errs on the side of excess and\r\nimmoderation or perversity. The vital is dramatic, the mind is imaginative, but\r\nthe body is sanity itself. And that is not a sign of its inconscience and\r\ninertia. The dull and dumb immobility of which it is sometimes accused is after\r\nall perhaps a mode of its self-defence against the wild vagaries of the mind\r\nand the vital to which it is so often called upon to lend its support. Indeed,\r\nit may very well be that the accusa­tion against the flesh that it is weak is\r\nonly an opinion or suggestion imposed on the body by the mental – vital who\r\nthrow the whole blame upon the body just to escape from the blame due to\r\nthemselves. The vital is impatient and clamorous, and if it is all push and\r\ndrive-towards physical execution and fulfilment – it is normally clouded and\r\ntroubled and obscured and doubly twisted when </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>counselled</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> and supported by a mind, narrow and\r\nsuperficial, not seeing beyond its nose, bound within a frame of incorrect and\r\nborrowed notions.<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:10.0pt\'>The body, precisely because of its negative\r\nnature – its dumb inertia, as it is called – precisely because it has no axe of\r\nits own to grind, that is to say, as it has no fancies and impulsions, plans\r\nand schemes upon which it can pride itself, precisely because of this childlike\r\ninnocence, it has a wonder­ful plasticity and a calm stability, when it is not\r\ntroubled by the mind or vital. Indeed, the divine qualities that are secreted\r\nin the body, which the body seeks to conserve and express are a stable harmony,\r\na balance and equilibrium, capable of supporting the whole weight of all the levels\r\nof consciousness from the highest peak to the lowest abysses even as physically\r\nit bears the weight of the entire depth of the atmosphere so lightly as it\r\nwere, without feeling the burden in the least.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 175<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\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><o:p></o:p></i></b></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</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-034_The Body Natural','','publish','closed','open','','034_the-body-natural','','','2021-11-23 17:59:08','2021-11-23 17:59:08','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/034_the-body-natural/',0,'post','',0),(2144,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:08','2021-11-23 17:59:08','<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>Record of World-History</title>\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=\"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\">Record of World-History</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;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\'>ALL that\r\nhas happened upon earth, everything from the beginning of creation till now,\r\neverything without exception has been recorded somewhere in some particular\r\nworld or region of consciousness. All that man has thought<span class=GramE>,</span>\r\nhis researches and discoveries, his findings and conclusions are kept intact,\r\ncarefully stored. If you want to know anything of the past history of the\r\nearth, the happening at a particular time and place, you have simply to\r\ntransplant yourself into that world and look into the records.</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 a very curious place, something like a vast library. It consists of an\r\ninfinite number of cells, as it were, each containing all information on a\r\nparticular subject. They seem to be squares in shape and they remain closed\r\nnormally. If you have to consult a particular square, you press a button and it\r\nopens and out of it comes a roll of written matter. You unroll it and find out\r\nwhat you want. There are millions and millions and millions of these cells and\r\nrolls, around, above, every-where. Fortunately in the mental world you can move\r\nany-where as you like, you do not require lifts and ladders to go up.</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\npoint, however, is how to go there at all. Well, the first thing is that you\r\nmust completely silence your mind. Mental cogitations, agitations you must\r\nleave behind, no thoughts must enter your consciousness, it must be tranquil\r\nand still, like a tram parent sheet of water or smooth and polished like a\r\nmirror. The description I have given of a library is only an <span class=GramE>image,</span>\r\nthe real thing is something different. However, you have in this way some idea\r\nto go upon. In the silent mind you form a point of consciousness and send it\r\nout as an emissary to gather the required information. This point of\r\nconscious-ness must be absolutely detached and free to go as it likes;<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'><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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 311<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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>for</span> if it were in any way kept tied to the normal movements\r\nof your own mind, then you will not go further than what is in your head. You\r\nmust be able to make your brain a <span class=GramE>blank,</span> you must have\r\nno preconceived notion, no idea that the solution of your problem might lie in\r\nthis way or that. As I say, your mind has to be a thoroughly blank page, a\r\nclean slate, with nothing written on it, no mark even. There should\' be instead\r\na sincere aspiration to know the truth, without postulating beforehand what\r\nkind of truth it might be; other-wise you will meet your own formation in the\r\nbrain.</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\'>You\r\ncan certainly test and correct the information you get from your inner voyage\r\nby out\'3ide information, what others have found or what are recorded in books.\r\nThe inner know-ledge need not and should not replace the outer knowledge, but\r\nsupplement <span class=GramE>it,</span> both should support and complete each\r\nother. But there is a mixture about which you must be very careful. Your silent\r\nmind, your inner consciousness receives the necessary knowledge, but as you\r\nwant to express it or translate in normal terms, that is to say, as your brain\r\ngets active again, it may and often does supply its own materials and\r\nformations and the original knowledge gets disturbed and distorted. Sometimes\r\nwhat you may do is to dictate most passively the things you see or perceive and\r\nlet another take down in writing as you proceed. You must say exactly as you\r\nsee and the other take down exactly as he hears.</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\'>It\r\nis the image of reading a book that I have given you. But it is, as I said,\r\nonly an image. What it is really is a kind of perception. And the perception\r\nmay be in the form of an image, it may be in the form of a narrative. At other\r\ntimes it may be a simple answer to a particular question. There are many kinds\r\nand varieties of record, different according to the types or levels of\r\nconsciousness that you go to.</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\'>Naturally\r\nthe process is not easy and available to every-body, as an ordinary book. It\r\nrequires a special aptitude and special discipline.<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 – 312<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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-085_Record of World history','','publish','closed','open','','085_record-of-world-history','','','2021-11-23 17:59:08','2021-11-23 17:59:08','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/085_record-of-world-history/',0,'post','',0),(2145,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:08','2021-11-23 17:59:08','<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>Total Transformation Demands Total Rejection</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; text-indent:23.25pt; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<span style=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";\'><font size=\"4\" face=\"Times New Roman\">Total Transformation \r\n</font></span><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font size=\"4\">Demands Total Rejection</font><o:p></o:p></font></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:23.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; 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 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 a\r\npositive side in the sadhana, there must also be a negative one. Realisation or\r\nexperience, on one side, must be accompanied by rejection of things that oppose\r\nit, on the other. People wonder\' why a beautiful experience fades away too soon\r\nor does not repeat itself easily, why a happy condition does not continue long\r\nbut is followed almost inevitably by a condition of despond.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.9pt;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\nreason is very simple. The experience or realisation is not a total one, that\r\nis to say, it belongs to a part only of the nature and is not shared by other\r\nparts. The sadhak is not of one piece: the whole of his nature is not worked to\r\nthe same pitch and amplitude, it is not equally responsive everywhere. Thus,\r\nwhen the psychic brings forward an experience and the inner consciousness is\r\nfull of the light and energy and joy and faith, even then, in the background or\r\nby the side, if you are vigilant and observe carefully, you will see that the\r\nmind, the external mind, has its reservations or continues to move in its\r\naccustomed way. It looks askance at the experience, <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>criticises</span> or doubts; or it tries to\r\nunderstand or explain in its own terms, seize it within its frame of\r\ncomprehension. Or else, the vital rises up and tries to get hold of the\r\nexperience and <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>utilise</span>\r\nit for its own purposes; it is enjoyed as a tasty food, made to serve the\r\nvital\'s ambition or vanity, some lower ignorant egoistic urge. Or again, the\r\nphysical, the body consciousness may not at all participate in the experience;\r\nit may remain indifferent, listless, <span class=GramE>lethargic</span> with no\r\nimpulse or enthusiasm to carry out in practice the experience of the inner\r\nconsciousness. Any of these drags or cross-currents is sufficient to maim and\r\ndiminish and even wipe out the experience: and usually all</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:13.9pt;\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\n229<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:13.9pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;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;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> three are finally there to combine and reinforce each\r\nother\'s effects to do the mischief.<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\'>The\r\nremedy is to turn back and hold to the spot of light that is there in the\r\nconsciousness, the clarity or the aspiration that belongs to the inner and\r\nhigher being. That has to be used as a torch, as a staff to support and guide\r\nyou in your periods of darkness and vacillation. That beam of burning light\r\nshould be thrown, in turn, upon those parts in you that besiege with their\r\nobscurity and inconscience, doubt and arrogance, the realisation that comes,\r\nthe progress on the way. It must be done with firmness, vigilance and perseverance.\r\nThe mixture has to be sorted out, the dross separated, kept on one side and the\r\npure element on the other: the impurities have to be put under the flame-light\r\nto melt, burn away and be eliminated. And this means an ardent sincerity, for\r\nthat is the tinder which keeps the fire blazing.<o:p></o:p></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\'>And\r\nsincerity demands often a severe dealing with oneself; it involves accepting an\r\ninconvenience, inflicting even a painful pressure. One has to be prepared for\r\nsuch a <span class=GramE>turn,</span> one has to welcome it even at times. The\r\npart that is unwilling or refractory has to feel the wrench, if it is to be\r\ncleansed and corrected.<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;tab-stops:264.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Indeed, the experience of joy in the very process of\r\nsuffering is a common experience with the saint and the martyr. We know of\r\ninnumerable instances where the fierce torture of the flesh was drowned,\r\noverwhelmed in the ecstasy of the inner aspiration; the vital enthusiasm drawn\r\nfrom the inner flame suffuses, courses through the nerves and tissues with such\r\nenergy and impetus that it effectively blocks out the invading reaction of\r\npain. <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>It<b> </b></span>is a discipline\r\nthat has its value even for the sadhak of the sunlit path.<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:264.2pt;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\n230<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:264.2pt;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 align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-050_Total Transformation Demands Total Rejection','','publish','closed','open','','050_total-transformation-demands-total-rejection','','','2021-11-23 17:59:08','2021-11-23 17:59:08','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/050_total-transformation-demands-total-rejection/',0,'post','',0),(2146,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:08','2021-11-23 17:59:08','<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>Things Significant and Insignificant</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-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Things Significant and Insignificant</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></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;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\'>ALL things are\r\ninsignificant in ordinary life. The thoughts you think, the actions you do, the\r\nfeelings you experience, all your movements have no significance at all, they\r\npossess no value. They belong to the superficial part of your being, they come\r\nand pass away, like ripples on the sea, leaving no trace or effect in the\r\ndepths. Only at a rare moment, if ever you come in contact with a corner of\r\nyour soul, if something of that inmost consciousness touches or gazes at any\r\nlimb of yours, that flash of a moment is the only significant thing that\r\nhappens in the midst of all the useless mass that is your life. This is the\r\nonly precious point and the rest a world of rubbish. To make your life\r\nsignificant, to give it its true meaning and value, you must then draw back from\r\nthe surface trivialities and look for something else behind. You must go very\r\ndeep indeed if things are to cease being insignificant.<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 – 341<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\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></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</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-095_Things Significant and Insignificant','','publish','closed','open','','095_things-significant-and-insignificant','','','2021-11-23 17:59:08','2021-11-23 17:59:08','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/095_things-significant-and-insignificant/',0,'post','',0),(2147,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:08','2021-11-23 17:59:08','<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>Offering and Surrender</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<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">Offering and\r\nSurrender</font><o:p></o:p></span></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\"><b><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></b></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\">THEY are not quite the same\r\nthing: they are rather two aspects of the same thing. They do not belong\r\naltogether to the same level of consciousness. For example, you have resolved\r\nto make an offering of your life to the Divine. All on a sudden there happens a\r\nvery unpleasant thing: you did not expect it. Your first movement is to react\r\nand protest. And yet you have made the offering; but something in you turns. If\r\nyou are, however, consistent in your offering, you will hold the protesting\r\npart in your hands and place it before the Divine and say, &quot;let thy will\r\nbe done&quot;. In surrender, on the other hand, there is a natural,\r\nspontaneous, <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>unprotesting</span>\r\nadhesion. Even if there happens something unpleasant or contrary to your\r\nexpectations, you are equally unperturbed and tranquil.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.5pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">In\r\nthe beginning you make a general surrender or submission, in principle, as it\r\nwere: it is in your inner being. It must be brought forth gradually in the\r\nouter being, carried out in all the details of life. That is how difficulties\r\narise. You have made your offering, you say, even you have worked at it for a\r\nlong time, worked hard, given much time and much will; suddenly you find,\r\nupsetting your calculations, something different happening, you have not\r\nsucceeded in something. So there is a revolt, a turning back and so on. But\r\nwhat you have to do is to renew your offering, reaffirm your adhesion. When the\r\nadhesion is complete, when there is the spontaneous acceptance of the Divine\r\nWill in everything, in every manner of happening, then comes the surrender, the\r\nperfect obedience which is calm, tranquil, at peace in either case, whether\r\nthings happen in this way or that.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.5pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">You\r\nask if you cannot make a mistake unwittingly, do a wrong even if you do not\r\nwant to. It is not likely. If you are \r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 371<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\'>sincere to\r\nthe core, you are always conscious and you cannot be taken unawares. It is some\r\nform or degree of insincerity that veils your sense of right and wrong, makes\r\nyou unconscious, as it were. Your discrimination is clouded, because you wish\r\nthings to happen in a way, or do not wish them to happen in another way. On the\r\nother hand, if you are straight, if you are indifferent to either way and await\r\nonly the Divine\'s will, you will always immediately perceive if there is or\r\nlikely to be a wrong movement in you; you know it intimately in a very precise\r\nmanner, for you are ready to rectify it.</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\'>Perfect\r\nsincerity does not want to err: it will give up every­thing rather than live in\r\nan illusion. It is a very precise move­ment, but it is also a very delicate\r\nmovement. For when you do a thing, even the right thing, the mental and the\r\nvital are there that seek to profit by it, a profit, at least of personal\r\nsatisfaction, to have a good opinion of oneself. It is difficult not to\r\nhoodwink oneself.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 372<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\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-105_Offering and Surrender','','publish','closed','open','','105_offering-and-surrender','','','2021-11-23 17:59:08','2021-11-23 17:59:08','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/105_offering-and-surrender/',0,'post','',0),(2148,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:09','2021-11-23 17:59:09','<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 Story of Creation</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 Story of Creation</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\n18.0pt\'><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\">CONSCIOUSNESS is the\r\nsource and basis of creation. Even the most material object, apparently\r\nunconscious, the stone, for example, has inherent in it a vibration of\r\nconsciousness. Where there is absolutely no consciousness, it is the\r\nInconscient. If you ever descend into the Inconscient, that is to say, further\r\ndown the scale from the inanimate stone, you will know the difference. The gulf\r\nbetween the stone and the Inconscient is very much, very much indeed, greater\r\nthan that between the stone and man. For it is a secret consciousness that\r\nlinks man to the stone, but beyond there is a hiatus, something unbridgeable.\r\nThe Inconscient is the Void, the absolute zero (&quot;Inane,&quot; Sri\r\nAurobindo names it in <i>Savitri): </i>it is hot sub-stance, it is pure\r\nnegation. Consciousness is at the back of the material universe: without that\r\nconsciousness there would not be the marvellous organisation that is found\r\nwithin the material particle of atom. The Inconscient is pre-existent to the\r\nmaterial creation.<o:p></o:p></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\">The\r\none indivisible Reality and its pure consciousness: that is the origin. This\r\nSupreme Consciousness chose to objectify himself, bring himself out of himself,\r\nwitness himself in play – the Upanishad says, the One wished to have a second,\r\na companion. <span class=GramE>to</span> himself, <span class=SpellE><i>sa</i></span><i>\r\n<span class=SpellE>dwitiyam</span> <span class=SpellE>aichhat</span>. </i>This\r\npower of self-objectification is a free-will given to the consciousness to move\r\nout of its original unified status and move abroad and away, as it liked. Thus\r\nthe Supreme saw himself as his own power of <span class=GramE>self-manifestation,</span>\r\nand that is the Mother Consciousness, Adya Shakti, Aditi – consciousness-power,\r\nwho again in her forward creative urge expressed herself in the first four\r\nmajor Emanations (Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati). But this \r\nfree urge, free to separate itself and pro<span\r\nclass=SpellE><span class=GramE>ceed</span> </span>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 225<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\'>\r\n<span\r\nclass=SpellE>in an independent movement of\r\nself-expression and evolution precipitated itself immediately, almost as a\r\nlogical consequence of its career of free choice, into the Denial, the Negation\r\nthat is inconscience. So, against the Supreme, the Divine Consciousness, there\r\nstood out the utter unconsciousness: the Light disappeared into absolute\r\nDarkness. It was the result of a self-choice in the consciousness: but the end\r\nwas the very opposite of consciousness.<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\'>It\r\nwas a dead silence, more silent than Death and <span class=GramE>more dead</span>\r\nthan Silence itself. And it was utter helplessness and hopelessness. The Divine\r\nConsciousness – Aditi – saw the terrible line of destiny that freedom had taken\r\nand ended in: she could stand it no longer and a cry went out for succour, for\r\nhelp. And the answer came <span class=GramE>immediate,</span> a ray shot down\r\nfrom the one Supreme Consciousness and entered into the womb of Inconscience.\r\nLo, the miracle, Matter was born, the first creation, the first manifestation\r\nof the Supreme Grace. Matter holds in it the spark of consciousness that is to\r\ngrow and unfold itself, shine more and more into the enveloping gloom of\r\nInconscience, illumining it farther and farther, pushing its frontiers ever\r\nbackward and away.<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\'>The\r\nbirth of Matter coincided with another descent of the Supreme Consciousness; it\r\nis a descent in graded stages linking up the highest to the lowest through\r\nintermediate formations: they are telescoped into Matter so that Matter might\r\nlodge and express them gradually through its inherent developing consciousness\r\ntill the highest is revealed and embodied here as it is always self-revealed at\r\nthe highest.<o:p></o:p></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-weight:bold\'>In<b> </b></span>the graded descent, in the\r\nhierarchy of planes and levels, there appeared forces and beings also proper to\r\neach domain. The earliest, the first among them are the Asuras, rather the\r\noriginal Asuras – the first quaternary (some memory of them seemed to linger in\r\nthe Greek legend of <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Chronos</span>\r\nand his brood). For they embody the powers of division, of Inconscience: they\r\nare the Affirmations of the Negation. Against the Asuras there came and\r\nranged-at the first line of division, on the one side of the descent of the\r\nLight – the first godheads, the major powers and personalities of the Divine\r\nConsciousness. The battle of the gods and Titans for the possession of the\r\nearth has been going on ever since. The end will come one<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 226<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-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=GramE>day</span>:\r\nit will mean the dissolution of the forces of Negation, at least within the\r\nearthly sphere, and the establishment there of the reign of ,Light.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; 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text-align:center; line-height:150%;\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Equality of the Body – Equality of the Soul</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin:0; text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"margin:0; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\">EQUALITY of the external\r\nbeing means good health, a solid body, controlled nerves – when you are not shaken by the least shock, when you are calm, quiet, poised, <span\r\nclass=GramE>balanced</span>. In that condition you can receive into you a great\r\nforce in yourself from above (or, from the environing energy around you) and\r\nyet not get upset. If one of you at any time had received some such force, he\r\nmust have known by experience that without a perfectly sound physical health,\r\none could not contain or hold it. You cannot remain still, you are restless,\r\nyou move about, talk, cry, weep, jump or dance, just to throw out the energy\r\nyou are unable to hold. You scatter about what it is not possible for you to\r\ngather and assimilate. In order to be able to gather and assimilate the force,\r\nthe body and the nerves must be quiet and strong.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"margin:0; text-align:justify; text-indent:12pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\">Equality\r\nof the soul is different; it is psychological, not physical. It is the power to\r\nbear the impact of things, good or bad, without being grieved or elated,\r\ndiscouraged or enthused, without any upsetting or disturbance. Whatever happens\r\nyou remain serene and at peace. But both the equa­lities are necessary. There\r\nare <span class=GramE>many equalities</span>, in fact. Apart from the equality\r\nof the vital and the equality of the body, there is also the equality of the\r\nmind proper. That is to say, all ideas from all quarters may come into your\r\nhead, even the most contradictory: yet you remain quiet, untroubled, and even\r\nunconcerned. You are a witness, you see them, sort them, arrange them, put each\r\nidea in its proper place, appreciate the value of each, determine the relation\r\nof each to the other, and to the whole, but you are not swayed by any\r\nparticular one.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"margin:0; text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 373<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: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-106_Equality of the Body','','publish','closed','open','','106_equality-of-the-body','','','2021-11-23 17:59:09','2021-11-23 17:59:09','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/106_equality-of-the-body/',0,'post','',0),(2150,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:09','2021-11-23 17:59:09','<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 Expanding Body-Consciousness</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 Expanding Body-Consciousness</font><o:p></o:p></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=\'font-size:\r\n18.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:13.5pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">THE\r\nfield of our physical activity is very limited. If you look at it closely you\r\nwill find it indeed extremely narrow and our capacities confined within a small\r\ncircle. Weare bound by the outline of our material body. I cannot, for\r\ninstance, be sitting in my room and at the same time doing gymnastics in the\r\nplayground. If you wish to do one thing you cannot do another; if you are at\r\none place you cannot be at another simultaneously. How convenient it would be\r\nif while I was writing at the table, I could get there immediately a book from\r\na far-off shelf for consultation without moving or taking anybody\'s help! And\r\nyet is the thing so very impossible? We know, for example, of extraordinary – at\r\nleast, queer – things happening at what are called &quot;spirit <i>séances&quot;,\r\n</i>things that cannot be explained by the normal functioning of the physical\r\nsenses; they are explained as interventions from the spirit world. In reality,\r\nhowever, spirits or ghosts have, in general, very little to do in this matter.\r\nIt is action not of disembodied beings but of the normal human energies – especially\r\nthe vital or life energy – freed from the body\'s control and exerting itself\r\nindependently. An example, a true fact that happened, will best illustrate what\r\nI mean to say.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:10.55pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">A young\r\nman, in Paris, a clerk at a railway station, used to receive there his <i>fiancée\r\n</i>and her mother from time to time. One day he was expecting them and waiting\r\nfor the train time; they had to come by train. As he was busy with his work at\r\nthe table, at about the appointed hour, people around saw him all on a sudden\r\nbending down his head with a loud scream and then resting it on the table; he\r\nlay unconscious. In the meantime, what happened on the other side was a terrible\r\nrailway disaster: the two women were involved in it.</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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 242<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\'>The trains\r\nwere smashed and all the passengers killed or mortally wounded. But, curious to\r\nsay, the young woman, the <i>fiancée, </i>was found, living and almost\r\nunscathed, in the midst of the debris, within a sort of cover made by a fallen\r\nbeam that lay across over her. She was pulled out with only a few bruises upon\r\nher body. Here is, however, the young man\'s version of the story. He said that\r\nas he was working at the table, suddenly he heard the voice of his <i>fiancée </i>calling\r\nloudly for help and he saw in a flash, as it were, the situation she was in, he\r\nrushed out, not physically indeed, and ran and threw himself over the body of\r\nhis <i>fiancée </i>to protect her; that is the only thing he could do. As a\r\nresult he did in fact protect her. True, he did not rush out in his body, for\r\nthat matter, if he had done, it would have been of no use. What rushed out of\r\nhim was his vital body, a formation of that life energy which is most close to\r\nthe body and almost as concrete as physical energy but much more powerful and\r\neffective. This vital power concentrated and projected out of him acted as a\r\nveritable shield over the woman. The young man himself, curious to <span\r\nclass=GramE>say,</span> bore marks of bruises upon his head as if a huge load\r\nhad fallen upon it. A strong impact upon the vital can and does leave scars\r\nupon the material body: it is not an uncommon phenomenon. Many of the Christian\r\nsaints (Saint Francis of Assisi, for example) are reported to have borne on\r\ntheir body the marks – the stigmata of crucifixion of Christ\'s body;\r\nRamakrishna, too, it is said, once showed marks of scourging on his back when a\r\nboy was whipped in his presence.<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\'>All\r\nthis means that the physical body is not man\'s sole means of action in the\r\nphysical world. The physical extends and expands into more and more subtle\r\nmodes of activity and all the more, not less, effective for that very reason.\r\nBehind the physical lies the subtle physical, behind which again is the vital physical\r\nand then the various grades of the vital. Indeed the vital or life energy as a\r\nwhole is the real dynamism of all our physical activities and if it usually\r\nacts through its bodily instruments, it can act independently of them too;\r\nnormally, too, it often acts in this way, only we are not conscious or\r\nobservant enough to notice. A conscious concentration of the vital energy\r\ndirected upon a material object can</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 – 244<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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>handle</span> it with the effectivity of material energy. When it\r\nneeds physical conditions it creates them, as the protective vital energy of\r\nthe young man created the physical disposition of objects that formed a covert\r\nfor the girl.<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\'>In\r\nthe present case, the phenomenon happened automatically without any\r\npremeditation on the part of the persons concerned; because the sympathy\r\nbetween the two was so strong, other considerations did not weigh in the\r\nbalance against it. Needless to say, if one wishes to obtain conscious mastery\r\nof this occult power, one will have to go through a long and arduous\r\ndiscipline. But, if difficult, the thing is not impossible. In the matter of\r\nphysical feats, for example, a particular development may seem for the moment\r\nbeyond your reach; but with practice and perseverance, stubborn will and wise\r\nguidance, you can not only arrive at your immediate end but do much more. The\r\nstory of many who have broken Olympic records is revealing in this respect. In\r\nthe same way, one can master the subtle forces, if one goes about the thing\r\nearnestly and in the right way. It is more difficult – much more perhaps – but\r\nthe way is there provided the will is there.<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 – 244<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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-055_The Expanding Body','','publish','closed','open','','055_the-expanding-body','','','2021-11-23 17:59:09','2021-11-23 17:59:09','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/055_the-expanding-body/',0,'post','',0),(2151,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:09','2021-11-23 17:59:09','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; 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line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">&quot;I Have Nothing, I Am Nothing&quot;</font></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\'><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 state is\r\nthat of utter commonplaceness. The feeling that I am doing Yoga, that I am\r\nsomething and have a special work to do, that something has to be achieved,\r\nthat life has a<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>purpose etc., etc. all\r\nthat has left and left a blank, a void inside and an absolutely mechanical\r\nautomaton outside. I do the most ordinary things of life, as any other common\r\nman, like the routine work of a machine; I know nothing and have no impulse to\r\nknow or to plan as to what I should do, how I am to move or why is it all like\r\nthis. A great tranquility and silence possess the whole being. There is no “I”,\r\nno person to refer to in the consciousness: individuality has been totally\r\nabolished, a sweep of universality passes through the consciousness and makes\r\nit as it were a no-man’s-land. The mind has laid down its burden and says it is\r\nfree now and obedient to the call that may come to it. The vital too submits\r\nits adherence and awaits the order: it has no inclination or choice of its own.\r\nThe physical is likewise wholly docile.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'>This\r\nstate of supreme blankness and passivity borders on the experience of illusion\r\n– the illusoriness of the world and the vanity or hollowness of life. Creation\r\ndoes seem like an empty shell, with no meaning or purpose and no real truth of\r\nexistence even: it is a shadow play that rests on nothing and vanishes into\r\nnothing. The great exponents of Illusoriness must have had an experience of\r\nthis kind and considered therefore that – Nothing – as the ultimate truth and\r\nmystery of existence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'>Now\r\nwhen all sense of personality – not only the sense but even the fact itself –\r\ntotally dissolved, the voice of the Supreme Divine was heard and His impulsion\r\nrecorded. The <i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>Prayers and Meditations</i>\r\nhereafter were written through such an impulsion; </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 – 266<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\'>it\r\nwas truly automatic writing – the instrument did not know what it was writing\r\nand even did not understand the meaning of the recorded words, it was merely a\r\ncopyist, it looked at the writing as a third person would.</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\'>The\r\nwhole being in all its parts acted thus like a recording or transmitting\r\nagency. <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>It<b> </b></span>was under such\r\nconditions – at the zero point of human personality and consciousness – that\r\nthe instrument which so long lived apart and behind, concerned with itself more\r\nor less, was made to come forward and take up the work that the Divine demanded\r\nof it. The vessel that was completely empty, a universal and transcendental\r\nshape, came gradually to be filled, with the Divine\'s own will and its own\r\nformations.<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 – 267<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\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-065_I Have Nothing','','publish','closed','open','','065_i-have-nothing','','','2021-11-23 17:59:09','2021-11-23 17:59:09','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/065_i-have-nothing/',0,'post','',0),(2152,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:09','2021-11-23 17:59:09','<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>True Charity</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\">True Charity</font><o:p></o:p></span></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\n15.0pt\'><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\n10.0pt\'>CHARITY is commonly understood to consist in rendering material help to\r\nyour fellow men, giving alms to the poor, medicine to the sick, money or\r\nmaterial to those who need them and physical service also where that is\r\nrequired. All this is well and good. The world is ridden with diseases and\r\nprivations and calamities. And if something is done to alleviate them, it is as\r\nit should <span class=GramE>be,</span> activities in that direction deserve\r\nfull encouragement. But this does not go far enough, does not touch the root of\r\nthe matter. It is the human way of dealing with things and must naturally be\r\nvery limited in its scope and efficacy. There is a higher, a diviner way – the\r\nway of the Spirit – for the cure of earthly ills, cure and not mere alleviation.\r\nThat was the secret inspiration behind the message of the Christ and the\r\nBuddha.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.5pt; 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\'>It is not true that when one\'s wants are met,\r\none always becomes or remains happy; all paupers are not unhappy, nor <span\r\nclass=GramE>are</span> the affluent invariably happy. Happiness is a quality\r\nthat depends upon something else and comes from elsewhere: it is not directly\r\nproportional to material well-being. Unhappi­ness too is a psychological entity\r\nand consists in a special vibration of mind and vitality – and consequently of\r\nthe physical being – due to a warp in the consciousness itself, in the core of\r\nthe inner personality. The material conditions serve only to manifest it,\r\nmaintain or aggravate it, but do not create it – truly they are created by it.\r\nThat is why the spiritual healers always refer to the bliss of the Spirit as\r\nthe sole remedy for physical ills even, for disease, misery and death. And the\r\nunhappy mortals are always called to turn to the Divine alone in their <i>distress\r\n– <span class=SpellE>bhajasva</span> <span class=SpellE>mam</span>.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.5pt; 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\'>True charity consists in laying the healing\r\nbalm upon the<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 – 187<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\nclass=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>sore that lies hidden behind all external\r\nmiseries which derive from that source and sustainer. And it is in the sole possession\r\nof him alone who has found the bliss of the Spirit and dwells in it always.\r\nSuch a person does not require external acces­sories for his work of healing\r\nand comforting. He need do nothing apparently; he may even appear to be aloof\r\nand indifferent. But his presence itself is a healing power: the patient feels\r\nit and wonders at the ease and happiness that come into him as if from nowhere.\r\nMany physicians have this kind of healing power; indeed without that, a mere\r\nmedical man, with his pharmacopoeia, is no physician. <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nbold\'>It </span>may not be well known and recognised, but it is a fact that a\r\ngood part of the efficacy of medicines lies in the subtle influence, the vital\r\nhealth, that the doctor puts into his medicine or even directly into the body\r\nof his patient. And in the case of a spiritual <i>Bhishak, </i>the power can be\r\nraised to the nth degree. The healer need not even be present at all physically\r\nnear the patient; his influence can act very well from any distance. <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>It<b> </b></span>is quite natural and\r\ninevitable that it should be so. For the healing power is in the spiritual\r\nconsciousness, the ina­lienable bliss of one\'s status in the Spirit. One\r\nbecomes identi­fied with each and every object – person or thing – in one\'s own\r\nself, in the true being and substance; and the light and happiness that one\r\npossesses there inalienably go out in a spontaneous flow to others who are not\r\nreally others but integral parts and portions of the same self.<o:p></o:p></span></span></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>This condition is attained, fully and\r\nsovereignly, when there is absolute egolessness, when there is no consciousness\r\nof a separate person, the dual consciousness of the helper and the helped, the\r\nreformer and the reformed, the doctor and the patient. The normal human sense\r\nof values is based upon such a division, upon egohood, <i>mamatvam. </i>A philanthropic\r\nman helps others through a sense of sympathy giving rise to a sense of duty and\r\nobligation. This feeling of pity, of com­miseration is <span class=GramE>dangerous,</span>\r\nfor it puts you in a frame of mind that tends to make you look down upon, take\r\na superior air towards your object of pity. You become self-conscious, with the\r\nconsciousness of your inferior self, that you are helping others, doing <span\r\nclass=GramE>good</span> to the world, doing something that raises your value:\r\nthis sense of personal merit is only another name<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 – 188<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-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=GramE><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>for</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'> vanity. Vanity and ambition are the motive powers that lie behind the\r\nphilanthropical spirit born of sympathy. To denote a shade of meaning different\r\nfrom what is usually conveyed by the word &quot;sympathy&quot;, modern\r\npsychology has </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt\'>I </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>found another word – &quot;empathy&quot;.\r\nSympathy may be said to </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>be the\r\nrelation or contact between two egos; it is a link or </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>bridge between two separate and independent\r\nentities; empathy, on the other hand, means the entering into the <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt\'>I </span>very\r\nbeing and consciousness of another, becoming that other one; it is\r\nidentification and identity. This again is what <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n15.0pt\'>I </span>spiritual\r\nconsciousness alone can do. Sympathy leads to<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n6.0pt\'>! </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>philanthropy, empathy is the origin of true charity, the\r\nspiritual </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:17.0pt\'>I </span>compassion of a Buddha or a Christ.\r\nPhilanthropy is human, <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt\'>I </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>charity <i>(caritas) </i>is divine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></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\'><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 – 189<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-039_True Charity','','publish','closed','open','','039_true-charity','','','2021-11-23 17:59:09','2021-11-23 17:59:09','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/039_true-charity/',0,'post','',0),(2153,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:09','2021-11-23 17:59:09','<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 Steps of the Soul</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\">The Steps of the Soul</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\n20.0pt;font-family:\"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; 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\n14.0pt\'>THE</span><span style=\'font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'> </span>human individual is a very complex\r\nbeing: he is com-posed of innumerable elements, each one of which is an\r\nindependent entity and has almost a personality. Not only so, the most\r\ncontradictory elements are housed together. If there is a particular quality or\r\ncapacity present, the very opposite of it, annulling it, as it were, will be\r\nalso found along with it and embracing it.. I have seen a man brave,\r\ncourageous, heroic to the extreme, flinching from no danger, facing unperturbed\r\nthe utmost peril, the bravest of the brave, truly; and yet I have seen the same\r\nman cowering in abject terror, like the last of poltroons, in the presence of\r\ncertain circumstances. I have seen a most generous man, giving away largely,\r\nfreely, not counting any expenditure or sacrifice, without the least care or\r\nreservation; the same person I have also found to be the vilest of misers in\r\nrespect of certain other considerations. I have seen again the most intelligent\r\nperson, with a clear mind, full of light and understanding, easily\r\ncomprehending the logic and implication of a topic and yet I have seen him\r\nbetraying the utmost stupidity of which even an ordinary man without education\r\nor intelligence would be incapable. These are not theoretical examples, but I\r\nhave come across such persons actually in life.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.5pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\nThe complexity arises not only in extension, but also in depth. Man does not \r\nlive on a single plane but on many planes at the same time. There is a scale of \r\ngradation in human consciousness: the higher one rises in the scale the greater \r\nthe number of elements or personalities that one possesses. Whether one lives \r\nmostly or mainly on the physical or vital or mental plane or on any particular \r\nsection of these planes or on planes above and beyond, there will be accordingly </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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 238<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\'>differences in the constitution or psycho-physical make-up of the individual\r\npersonality. The higher one stands the richer the personality, because it lives\r\nnot only on its own normal level, but also on all that are below and which it\r\nhas transcended. The complete or integral man, some occultists say, possesses\r\n365 personalities; indeed it may be much more. (The Vedas speak of the three\r\nand thirty-three and thirty-three hundred and thirty-three thousand gods that\r\nmay be housed in the human vehicle – the basic three being evidently the triple\r\nstatus or world of Body, Life and Mind).<o:p></o:p></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\'>What\r\nis the meaning of this self-contradiction, this division in man? To understand\r\nthat we must know and remember that each person represents a certain quality or\r\ncapacity, a particular achievement to be embodied. How best can it be done?\r\nWhat is the way by which one can acquire a quality at its purest, and highest\r\nand most perfect? It is by setting an opposition to it. That is how a power is\r\nincreased and strengthened – by fighting against and overcoming all that\r\nweakens and contradicts it. The deficiencies in respect of a particular quality\r\nshow you where you are to mend and reinforce and in what way to improve in\r\norder to make it perfectly perfect. It is the hammer that beats the weak and\r\nsoft iron to transform it into hard steel. The preliminary discord is useful\r\nand necessary to be <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>utilised</span>\r\nfor a higher harmony. This is the secret of self-conflict in man. You are\r\nweakest precisely in that element which is destined to be your greatest asset.<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\'>Each\r\nman has then a mission to fulfil, a role to play in the universe; a part he has \r\nbeen given to learn and take up in the cosmic Purpose which he alone is capable \r\nof executing and none other. This he has to learn and acquire through \r\nlife-experiences, that is to say, not in one life, but in life after life. In \r\nfact, that is the meaning of the chain of lives that the individual has to pass \r\nthrough, namely, to acquire experiences and to gather out of them the thread – \r\nthe skein of qualities and attributes, powers and capacities – for the pattern \r\nof life he has to weave. Now, the inmost being, the true personality, the central\r\nconsciousness of the evolving individual is his psychic being. It is, as it\r\nwere, a very tiny speck of light lying far behind the experiences in normal\r\npeople. In grown<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 239<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-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">up souls this psychic\r\nconsciousness has an increased light – increased in intensity, volume and\r\nrichness. Thus there are souls, old and new. Old and ancient are those that\r\nhave reached or are about to reach the fullness of perfection; they have passed\r\nthrough a long past of innumerable lives and developed the most complex and yet\r\nthe most integrated personality. New souls are those that are just emerged or\r\nemerging out of the mere physico-vital existence; these are like simple\r\norganisms, made of fewer constituents, referring mostly to the bodily life,\r\nwith just a modicum of the mental. It is the soul, however, that grows with\r\nexperiences and it is the soul that builds and enriches the personality.\r\nWhatever portion of the outer life, whatever element in the mind or vital or\r\nbody succeeds in corning in contact with the psychic consciousness, that is to\r\nsay, is able to come under its influence, is taken up and lodged there: it\r\nremains in the psychic \'being as its living memory and permanent possession. It\r\nis such elements that form the basis, the groundwork upon which the structure\r\nof the integral and true personality is raised.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:.15in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">The\r\nfirst thing then to do is to find out what it is that you are meant to realise,\r\nwhat is the role you have to play, your particular mission and the capacity or\r\nquality you have to express. You have to discover that and also the thing or\r\nthings that oppose and do not allow it to flower or come to full manifestation.\r\nIn other words, you have to know yourself, recognize your soul or psychic\r\nbeing.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.5pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">For\r\nthat you must be absolutely sincere and impartial. You must observe yourself as\r\nif you were observing and criticising a third person. You must not start with an \r\nidea that this is your life\'s mission, such is your particular capacity, you are \r\nto do this or you are to do that, in this lies your talent or genius etc. That \r\nwill carry you away from the right track. It is not the liking or disliking of \r\nyour external being, your mental or vital or physical choice that determines the \r\ntrue line of your growth. Nor should you take up the opposite attitude and say, \r\n&quot;I am good for nothing in this matter, I am useless in that other, this is not \r\nfor me.&quot; Neither vanity or arrogance nor self-depreciation or false modesty \r\nshould move you. As I said, you must be absolutely impartial and unconcerned. </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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 240<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.2pt;\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\'>You should be like a mirror that reflects the truth and does not judge.<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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>If<b> </b></span>you are able to keep such an\r\nattitude, if you have this repose and quiet trust in your being and wait for\r\nwhat may be revealed to you, then something like this happens: you are, as it\r\nwere, in the woods, dark and noiseless; you see in front of you just a sheet of\r\nwater dark ,and still, hardly visible-a bit of a pond imbedded in the\r\nobscurity, and slowly upon it a moonbeam is cast and in the cool dim light\r\nemerges the calm liquid surface. That is how your secret truth of being will\r\nappear and present itself to you at your first contact with it: there you will\r\nsee gradually reflected the true qualities of your being, the traits of your\r\ndivine personality, what you really are and what you are meant to be.<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;tab-stops:284.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One who has thus known oneself and possessed oneself\r\nconquering all opposition within himself, has by that very fact extended\r\nhimself and his conquest, making it easier for others to make the same or\r\nsimilar conquest. These are the pioneers or the elite who by their victorious\r\ncampaign within themselves help others towards their victory.<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:284.6pt;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\n241<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:284.6pt;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 align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-054_The Steps of the Soul','','publish','closed','open','','054_the-steps-of-the-soul','','','2021-11-23 17:59:09','2021-11-23 17:59:09','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/054_the-steps-of-the-soul/',0,'post','',0),(2154,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:09','2021-11-23 17:59:09','<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 Freedom and the Force of the Spirit     </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<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 Freedom and the Force of the Spirit</font><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font> </span></b></p>\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\'>\r\n<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></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\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>THE first thing that has to be learnt in life\r\nis that circums­tances are not all in all: however powerful and overwhelming\r\nthey may appear to be at a given moment, man can always react against them. If\r\nthere is not an immediate success externally as desired, the will thus exerted\r\ndoes not go in vain. First of all, it declares and asserts the independence and\r\nautonomy of the inner man: something within is found and established which is\r\nnot touched by the environment, which lives by its own authentic truth and\r\nreality and is ever contented and happy. It is in reference to such a poise of\r\nconsciousness that the great poet says:<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'><span class=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>A mind not to be changed by place or time.</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The mind is\r\nits own place, and in itself <o:p></o:p></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\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Can make a\r\nHeaven of Hell<span class=GramE>, .</span> .¹<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></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\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><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\'>The soldier of an ideal, the martyr, bears testimony to the reality of\r\nthis mental condition: the Yogi is he who is supremely indifferent to outside\r\ncontacts (matrasparsah)<span class=GramE>,<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>fixed as he is in inner union with the\r\nDivine. Secondly, the freedom of the will not only liberates the inner person,\r\nbut exerts a pressure on the outside also, upon the field and circumstances,\r\nobliging them to change or move in the direction and according to the demand of\r\nthe will. Consciousness has this power: only all depends on the nature of the\r\nconsciousness and the will it embodies. For consciousness-will has varying degrees and levels of its potential. A will\r\nbelonging to the purely mental consciousness can have only a very limited\r\nresult and may not even show itself at all in any external modification. For</span></span></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=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ </span><st1:City><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>Milton</span></st1:place></st1:City><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>: </span><st1:place><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>Paradise</span></st1:place><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'> Lost. </span><span class=GramE><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>Bk. 1.\r\n253</span></span><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</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>it is only one among a million contending\r\nforces and its effect will depend upon the allies it can count on its side.\r\nSimilar is the case with a vital will or a physico-vital will: these are more\r\neffective apparently but always in a narrow field; the narrower the field, the\r\ngreater the possibility of the effectiveness. Moreover, a mental will affects\r\nchiefly the mental field, a vital will is directly\r\noperative in the vital world, even as a physical force is effective on physical\r\nthings: each is largely confined to its own domains, the effect on other\r\ndomains is for the most part indirect and remote.<o:p></o:p></span></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\'>But the truly effective will, that can\r\nproduce an all-round change, comes from a still higher or deeper source.\r\nIndeed, the will that never fails, that turns even the external circums­tances,\r\nadverse and obstructive though they appear to be, to serve it, is the will of\r\nthe soul, the spiritual being in us. And man is man, not a mere animal, because\r\nhe has been called upon to seek and find his soul, to get at his inner and\r\ninmost being and from there command his external nature and outside\r\ncircumstances too. The orthodox name for this endeavour is spiritual\r\ndiscipline or Yoga.<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:10.0pt\'>On lower levels, a conscious will made up of\r\na compound energy of the mental and vital and physical will, when in sufficient\r\nproportions, has considerable effective force: great men of action have this distinction.\r\nEven then, however<span class=GramE>, <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt\'>. </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>theirs\r\nis not that type which is absolute or never-failing, nor </span>that especial category which will bring about\r\na collective change, a fundamental change, intensive as well as extensive,\r\nneeded at this evolutionary crisis of earth and humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></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:10.0pt\'>The ordinary average man is part and parcel\r\nof Nature\'s movement and his life is almost wholly moulded by circums­tances:\r\nhe has not developed an independent inner being that can react against the\r\nuniversal Nature\'s current, that is to say, the Nature as it is, as it is\r\nactually and dynamically ex­pressed. He is the creature, described graphically\r\nin the Gita, as being moved helplessly on the circling wheel of Ignorance.¹ But\r\neven among the average men there are many who are called men of will, they are\r\nnot entirely submerged in Nature\'s current, but endeavour to have their own way\r\neven against that current. Their psycho-vital, aided often by their physical </span></p>\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\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ Bh ramayan<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\">sarvabhutani<span class=GramE><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span></span>yantrarudhani<span class=GramE><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span></span>mayaya–XVIII.61</span></span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'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;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Page-157<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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>consciousness, has an independent formation, being a\r\nstrong centre of self-driven force, and can impress upon the outer Nature and\r\ncircumstances its own pattern and disposition. Naturally, all depends upon the\r\ndegree and character of that consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></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 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;\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\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>But\r\nthe true secret of the power to control and guide Nature\'s dispensation lies\r\nalong a different line, not along the line of the normal activity of the mental\r\nand vital and physical consciousness. Body and life and mind belong after all,\r\nat least are closely affiliated, to one\'s environmental consciousness; they are\r\nindeed part of the circumstances in which one is born and lives and moves. It\r\nis when one bypasses them or passes through them beyond into one\'s soul, into\r\none\'s true being and divine personality that one at last crosses mortality and\r\nattains <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>immortality – mrtyum\r\ntirtva<span class=GramE>.</span> . .amrtam asnute.¹<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\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\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Page-158<o:p></o:p></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\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"62\" height=\"28\" border=\"0\"></a></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n</span></div><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>\r\n\r\n</span></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-029_The Freedom and the Force of the Spirit','','publish','closed','open','','029_the-freedom-and-the-force-of-the-spirit','','','2021-11-23 17:59:09','2021-11-23 17:59:09','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/029_the-freedom-and-the-force-of-the-spirit/',0,'post','',0),(2155,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:09','2021-11-23 17:59:09','<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>Selfless Worker</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\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Selfless Worker</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\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\'><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 Prayer\r\nsays: &quot;I look for my conscious mind and 1 find it no more. . .&quot;¹ <span\r\nclass=GramE>Normally</span> one is conscious of oneself. Whatever one does or\r\nwhenever one does something, the consciousness always remains behind, &quot;I\r\nam here, <span class=GramE>I</span> am doing&quot;. And if this sense of\r\n&quot;I am&quot; is not there, one can do nothing. All action stops automatically\r\nif I do not see or feel that I am acting. But that is the nature of ordinary\r\nconsciousness; in the spiritual consciousness things are otherwise. Spiritual\r\nconsciousness means the consciousness in which this sense of &quot;I am\r\ndoing&quot; or even &quot;I am&quot; has <span class=GramE>disappeared,</span>\r\ngot dissolved. Truly, the work is done not by me, by the sense of\r\n&quot;I-ness&quot;, but by Prakriti, Nature, apparently by Lower Nature,\r\nsecretly by Higher Nature. When the &quot;I&quot; disappears, the force that\r\nhas been working continues to work, only the sense of &quot;I&quot; attached to\r\nit (in ignorance and by ignorance) is no longer there. Or, the &quot;I&quot;\r\nhas completely merged itself into the working Force and is one with it. What is\r\nconscious is not the personality or the individual I, but the Force of action.</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;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><font size=\"2\">¹ The\r\nMother: Prayers and Meditations, <st1:date Year=\"1914\" Day=\"7\" Month=\"4\">7\r\n April 1914</st1:date></font><o:p><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;</font></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 – 291<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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-077_Selfless Worker','','publish','closed','open','','077_selfless-worker','','','2021-11-23 17:59:09','2021-11-23 17:59:09','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/077_selfless-worker/',0,'post','',0),(2156,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:10','2021-11-23 17:59:10','<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 FOUR</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<p align=\"center\" 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:italic\'><font size=\"4\">PART\r\nFOUR</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\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;\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\'><i>\r\n<o:p><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></i></p>\r\n\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\'>\r\n<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal; font-style:italic\'><font size=\"4\">The Divine Man</font><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;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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;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:10.0pt\'>T</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>HE</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> core of Sri Aurobindo\'s teaching, the\r\ncentral pivot on which his Yoga and his work rest is the mystery of the Divine\r\nDescent-Spirit descending into Matter and becoming Matter, God coming down upon\r\nearth and becoming human, and as a necessary and inevitable consequence, Matter\r\nrising and being transformed into Spirit and man becoming God and Godlike.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;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:10.0pt\'>This is a truth, a fact of creation – giving\r\nthe whole clue to the riddle of this world – that has not been envisaged at all\r\nin the past or otherwise overlooked and not given the value and importance that\r\nit has. Poets and seers, sages and saints along with common men from the very\r\nbirth of humanity have mourned this vale of tears, this sorrowful transient\r\nearthly life, anityam asukham lokam imam¹, into which they have been thrown:\r\nthey have wished and willed and endeavoured to change or reform or re-create\r\nit, but have always failed, and in the end, finding it ultimately incorrigible,\r\nconcluded that escape was the only solution, the only issue, either like the sage\r\ngoing out into Nirvana, spiritual dissolution, or like the atheist stoically\r\ngoing down with a crumbling world into a material disintegration. The truth of\r\nthe matter is, however, different as Sri Aurobindo sees it. The spectacle is\r\nnot so gloomy and irremediable. The world has a future and man has hope.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;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:10.0pt\'>The world is not doomed nor man past cure;\r\nfor it is not that the world has been merely created by God but that God has\r\nbecome and is the world at the same time: man is not merely God\'s creature but\r\nthat he is made of God\'s substance and is God himself. The Spirit has shed its\r\nsupreme conscious­ness, that is to say, overtly has become dead matter; God has\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;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\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;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:10.0pt\'>¹</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'> <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>The Gita, </span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial\'>IX. 33</span></span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\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-125</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\">\r\n\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\'>veiled his effulgent infinity and has taken\r\nup a human figure. The Divine has clothed his inviolable felicity in pain and\r\nsuffering, has become an earthly creature, you and me, a mortal of mortals. And\r\nthus, viewed in another perspective because Matter is essentially Spirit,\r\nbecause man is essentially God, therefore Matter can be resolved and\r\ntransformed into Spirit and man too can become utterly divine. The urge of the\r\nspiritual consciousness that is the essence of matter even, the massed energy\r\nimbedded or lying frozen in it, manifests itself in the forward drive of evolution\r\nthat brings out gradual­ly, step by step, the various modes of the\r\nconsciousness in different degrees and potentials till the original summit is\r\nrevealed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;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:10.0pt\'>But there is a still closer mystery, the\r\nmystery of mysteries. There has not been merely a general descent, the descent\r\nof a world-force on a higher plane into another world-force on a lower plane;\r\nbut that there is the descent of the individual, the personal Godhead into and\r\nas an earthly human being. The Divine born as a man and leading the life of a\r\nman among us and as one of us, the secret of Divine Incarnation is the supreme\r\nsecret. That is the mechanism adopted by the Divine to cure and transmute human\r\nills – himself becoming a man, taking upon himself the burden of the evil that\r\nvitiates and withers life and working it out in and through himself. Some­thing\r\nof this truth has been caught in the Christian view of Incarnation. God sent\r\nupon earth his only begotten son to take upon himself the sins of man, suffer\r\nvicariously for him, pay the ransom and thus liberate him, so that he may reach\r\nsalvation, procure his seat by the side of the Father in Heaven. Man corrupted\r\nas he is by an original sin cannot hope by his .own merit to achieve salvation.\r\nHe can only admit his sin and repent and wait for the Grace to save him. The\r\nIndian view of Incarnation laid more stress upon the positive aspect of the\r\nmatter, viz, the role of the Incarnation as the inaugurator and establisher of\r\na new order in <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>life –\r\ndharmasamsthapanarthaya. The Avatar brings down and embodies a higher principle\r\nof human organisation, a greater consciousness which he infuses into the\r\nexisting pattern, individual or collective, which has -served its purpose, has\r\nbecome otiose and time-barred and needs to be remodelled, has been at the most\r\npreparatory to</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>something else. </span></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt;\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-126</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\">\r\n\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\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The Avatar means a new\r\nrevelation and the uplift of the human consciousness into a higher mode of\r\nbeing. The physical form he takes signifies the physical pressure that is\r\nexerted for the corroboration and fixation of the inner illumination that he\r\nbrings upon earth and in the human frame. The Indian tradition has focussed its\r\nattention upon the <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Good <i>sreyas</i> – and\r\ndid not consider it essential to dwell upon the Evil. For one who finds and sees\r\nthe Good always and everywhere, the Evil does not exist. Sri Aurobindo lays\r\nequal emphasis on both the aspects. Naturally, however, he does not believe in\r\nan original evil, incurable upon earth and in earthly life. In conformity with\r\nthe ancient Indian teaching he declares the original divinity of man: it is\r\nbecause man is potentially and essentially divine that he can become actually\r\nand wholly divine. The Bible speaks indeed of man becoming perfect even as the\r\nFather in Heaven is perfect: but that is due exclusively to the Grace showered\r\nupon man, not because of any inherent perfection in him. But in according full\r\ndivinity to man, Sri Aurobindo does not minimise the part of the undivine in\r\nhim. This does not mean any kind of Manicheism: for Evil, according to Sri\r\nAurobindo, is not coeval or coter­minous with the Divine, it is a later or\r\nderivative formation under given conditions, although within the range and\r\nsphere of the infinite Divine. Evil exists as a stern reality; even though it\r\nmay be temporary and does not touch the essential reality, it is not an\r\nillusion nor can it be ignored, brushed aside or bypassed as something\r\nsuperficial or momentary and of no importance. It has its value, its function\r\nand implication. It is real, but it is not irremediable. It is contrary to the\r\nDivine but not contradictory. For even the Evil in its inmost substance carries\r\nor is the reality which it opposes or denies outwardly. Did not the very first\r\nof the apostles of Christ deny his master at the crucial moment? As we have\r\nsaid, evil is a formation necessitated by certain circumstances, the\r\ncircumstances changed, the whole disposition as at present constituted changes\r\nautomatically and fundamentally.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The\r\nDivine then descends into the earth-frame, not merely as an immanent and hidden\r\nessence – <i>sarvabhutantaratma</i>-but\r\nas an individual person embodying that essence –<i> manusim tanum asritam.</i> Man\r\ntoo, however earthly and impure he may<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;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 – 127</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\">\r\n\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\'>be, is essentially the Divine himself,\r\ncarries in him the spark of the supreme consciousness that he is in his true\r\nand highest reality. That is how in him is bridged the gulf that apparently\r\nexists between the mortal and the immortal, the Infinite and the Finite, the\r\nEternal and the Momentary, and the Divine too can come into him and become, so\r\nto say, his lower self.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;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:10.0pt\'>The individual or personal Divine leaves his\r\nhome of all bliss – Vaikuntha – forgets himself and enters into this world of\r\nall misery; but this does not mean that he becomes wholly the Man of Misery: he\r\nencompasses all misery within himself, penetrates as well into the stuff and\r\nsubstance of all misery, but suffuses all that with the purifying and\r\ntransforming pressure of his own supreme consciousness. And yet pain and\r\nsuffering are real, cruelly real, even to the Divine Man. Just as the ordinary\r\nhuman creature suffers and agonises in spite of the divine essence in him, in\r\nspite of his other deeper truth and reality, his soul of inalienable bliss, his\r\npsychic being, the Divine too suffers in the same way in spite of his divinity.\r\nThis double line of consciousness, this system of parallels running alongside\r\neach other, interacting upon each other (even intersecting each other, when\r\nviewed in a frame of infinity) gives the whole secret mechanism of creation,\r\nits purpose, its working and its fulfilment. It is nothing else than the\r\ngradual replacement or elimination, elevation or sub­limation of the elements\r\non one line that are transmuted into those of the other. The Divine enters into\r\nthe Evil to root out the Evil and plant there or release and fructify the seed\r\nof Divinity lying covered over and lost in the depths of dead inconscience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;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:10.0pt\'>The Divine descends as an individual person\r\nfundamentally to hasten the evolutionary process and to complete it; he takes\r\nthe human form to raise humanity to divinity. The fact and the nature of the\r\nprocess have been well exemplified in Sri Ramakrishna who, it is said, took up\r\nsuccessively different lines of spiritual discipline and by a supreme and\r\nsovereign force of concentration achieved realisation in each line in the\r\ncourse of a few days what might take in normal circumstances years or even\r\nlives to do. The Divine gathers and concentrates in himself the world-force,\r\nthe Nature-Energy – even like a<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\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 – 128</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\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\'>dynamo – and focuses and canalises it to give\r\nit its full, integral and absolute effectivity. And mortal pain he accepts, and\r\nswallows the poison of ignorant life – even like Nilakantha Shiva – to\r\ntransmute it into ecstasy and immortality. The Divine Mother sank into the\r\nearth-nature of a human body:<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><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\'>Of her pangs she made a mystic poignant sword. . .<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 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\'>Hoping her greater being to implant<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\'>That heaven might native grow on mortal soil.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\n10.0pt\'><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\n10.0pt\'>But this is God\'s share – la part de Dieu; for man too as man has to do\r\nhis part. Because the Divine descending and accom­plishing the work does not\r\nmean either of two things: first, it does not mean that it is a sudden miracle,\r\ndeus ex machina, a fiat from the heaven which upsets and bears down everything\r\nbefore it and practically has no relation, logical or causal with what precedes\r\nand what follows. It is, on the contrary, as we have said, the culmination of a\r\nlong process, the seal of fulfilment set upon a steady preparation and\r\ntravailing growth. The Divine descends when the time is ripe, that is to say,\r\nwhen forces and instruments have been developed, refined, sharpened and\r\ntempered, so that they can harness and wield the Power from above. But for the\r\npreparation, the necessary conditions being there, the Grace would not have descended,\r\nalthough it is also true that but for the Grace, the culmination and the utter\r\nfulfilment would not have come about – there would have been only a vicious\r\ncircle or an unending seesaw. Next, the Descent does not mean \'either that\r\nfollowing upon it the whole business is done and completed automatically and\r\nimmediately or nothing is left to be done any more. Not so. It means that what\r\nhas been so long practically beyond reach, towards which one had to move with\r\nuncertainty and vague effort and in a roundabout way, as though through a\r\ntrackless virgin forest or across an uncharted sea, has now been brought nearer\r\nand closer to human grasp, is now made part and parcel of earth\'s familiar\r\natmosphere, so that any human being who genuinely aspires and looks for it can\r\nfind it about him: there is just a thin veil which has to be put aside a\r\nlittle, <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\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;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt\'><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;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt\'><font size=\"2\">¹ Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, Book J, Canto I</font><o:p><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;</font></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;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 – 129</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\">\r\n\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\'>into which a little opening is to be made and\r\none comes in contact with or even enters into what one seeks. This means that\r\nthe Grace has leaned down to man, but man too has at least to stretch his arms\r\nto touch and embrace it. Furthermore, to make that Grace permanently active and\r\nreal in the normal conscious­ness, one has to labour, work out in fact what is\r\ngiven poten­tially: the seed is planted for him, it will grow and bloom and\r\ncome to fruition provided necessary care and attention are given to the soil\r\nthat bears it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;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:10.0pt\'>Thus then the embodied human person who has\r\nthe embo­died Divine Person before his eyes must know how to instal and\r\nincorporate the Divine Person in him, in his body and physical existence. That\r\nwas perhaps the mystery sought to be conveyed in the Christian sacrament of\r\ntransubstantiation. The bread and wine that the initiate has to take in\r\nrepresent – are or become actually and physically, as the Christian mystics\r\nassert – the flesh and blood of Christ. One has to be­come the Divine Person in\r\nflesh and blood, wholly and inte­grally. As the fossil is a transmutation in\r\nstone, grain by grain, of a living body – organic elements eliminated and\r\nreplaced by the inorganic in the very atomic structure and constitution – even\r\nso, the living human structure, the mental, vital and physical formation will\r\nbe translated, grain by grain, atom by atom into the divine substance by the\r\ninfusion and imposi­tion of the Divine figure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;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:10.0pt\'>The Christian mystics themselves, however, do\r\nnot seem to have aimed at real physical transubstantiation-although that might\r\nhave been at the back of the older Hebrew sacra­ment of the Eucharist; the\r\nperfection sought by them was to be enjoyed in Heaven in company of the Father\r\nand not on this earth and in this human body: it was more a sublimation than a\r\ntransformation that was their goal. 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Usually, when you are about to do a thing, the\r\nimpulse is to rush towards it and rush it through; between the idea and the\r\nexecution you do not want to leave any gap. You are in a haste to see the thing\r\ndone. You do not care to pause and look about you, view and weigh the\r\nconditions and circumstances, think out the best way of working towards the\r\ngoal. The result of the hustle is failure, very often dead failure. You have to\r\nbegin over again. You may even have to begin over and over again if you do not\r\nlearn the lesson given. Evidently, you lose time, lose energy and lose your\r\nsuccess. On the contrary, what you have to do before you actually take up your\r\nwork is not to jump at it, but understand what it means and involves, have\r\nbefore your mind\'s eye a clear figure or pattern of the thing to be undertaken,\r\nnot to go upon a vague and indefinite notion about it, something that will take\r\nshape – that will take care of itself – as you proceed. You must have a clear\r\nconception of your work and also you must find out the exact ways and means,\r\nhave at your elbow the best possible implements. It is only when you are fully\r\narmed with the necessary equipment that you can be sure of success without any\r\nwaste of time or energy.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.5pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">And\r\nthen there is a time, a propitious time for everything. A thing cannot be done\r\nat any time, it has its own appointed hour; you cannot succeed even if you\r\nattempt a hundred times before that hour strikes. But when the time is ripe,\r\nhow easily a thing seems to get done! In what does this ripeness of time consist,\r\nwhat are the marks of the propitious hour? It is when you are in complete\r\npossession of the right instruments and when the disposition of circumstances\r\nis such that they</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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 233<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\nclass=GramE>concur</span> to help and execute and not mar and obstruct. But how\r\nto find out or recognise when such conditions are available? Not by your mind\r\nor external reasoning. You must have the intuition, and instinctive perception\r\nof the situation. Always the indication is there in the very poise of your consciousness.\r\n<span class=GramE>That is to say, when it is filled with a great calm, trust\r\nand confidence, a luminous concentration.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 234<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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-052_How to Wait','','publish','closed','open','','052_how-to-wait','','','2021-11-23 17:59:10','2021-11-23 17:59:10','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/052_how-to-wait/',0,'post','',0),(2158,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:10','2021-11-23 17:59:10','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\n\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 Family</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<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\">The Divine Family</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;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\'>WHEN people,\r\nfar separated from one another, belonging to different parts of the world or\r\npursuing most diverse pro­fessions, meet and gather and work for a common\r\npurpose, it means that they are kindred souls, and have met together and worked\r\ntogether before in other lives. They felt they belonged to the same family and\r\nresolved to act together and collaborate in a common endeavour for a common\r\nideal. Indeed, the souls, in their psychic reality, are grouped in big\r\nfamilies, as it were; they come down in groups again and again to take up and\r\ncarry on the work they are en aged in till it is complete.</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\'>At\r\na given moment, when the time is ripe, they are called up. The souls are like\r\nchildren asleep, in the peace and repose of the psychic world, awaiting the\r\nurge or order for another birth. As soon as the order is given, they wake up\r\nand rush down towards the earth. When they drop thus into the earth\'s\r\natmosphere, they are no longer together, they are scattered about all over the\r\nearth. One does not know even where one drops. Also once under the material\r\nconditions and circum­stances here below, things take a very different aspect.\r\nFor, the inner impulse, the original purpose gets veiled; the psychic forgets\r\nand is now surrounded and hedged in by forces, things and persons perhaps quite\r\nforeign and contradictory to its nature. Now comes the labour of the soul, to\r\nfind itself, to look about for the lost end of the thread. The inner urge must\r\nbe strong enough, the original will categorical enough for the being to surmount\r\nall obstacles, pass through all vicissitudes, work through all the windings of\r\na labyrinthine journey and finally arrive. Some perhaps do not arrive at all in\r\na particular life or arrive only to stop at a distance: others arrive not in</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 – 415<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\'>a straight\r\nline, but, as I have said, after a tortuous and round­about wandering. In other\r\nwords, in their external mind and impulsion, they look for other things, they\r\nare interested in objects that are far. other than the soul\'s interest – like\r\nthe person who enquired of Yoga, as she thought a Yogi could</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\'>give her back her spoilt\r\nbeauty. And yet the soul makes use of such trivial or absurd means to turn the\r\nman towards itself, guide him gradually to the place or the family to which he\r\nreally belongs.</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\'>The\r\nmaterial world is full of things that draw you away from your soul\'s quest,\r\nfrom approaching your home. Normally you are tossed about by the forces of\r\nignorant Nature and you are driven even to do the worst stupidities. There is\r\nbut one solution, to find your psychic being; and once you have found it, cling\r\nto it desperately and not to allow yourself to be drawn out by any temptation,\r\nany other impulsion whatsoever.<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 – 416<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\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-120_The Divine Family','','publish','closed','open','','120_the-divine-family','','','2021-11-23 17:59:10','2021-11-23 17:59:10','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/120_the-divine-family/',0,'post','',0),(2159,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:10','2021-11-23 17:59:10','<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 ONE</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	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'><font size=\"4\">PART ONE</font></span></b></p>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<h1 align=center style=\'line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><font size=\"4\">A Yoga of the Art of Lift</font></span></b><i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></span></i></h1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>1<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>W</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>HEN</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> Sri Aurobindo said, &quot;Our Yoga is not for ourselves but for\r\nhumanity,&quot; many heaved a sigh of relief and thought that the great soul\r\nwas after all not entirely lost to the world, his was not one more name added\r\nto the long list of Sannyasins that India has been producing age after age\r\nwithout much profit either to herself or to the human society (or even perhaps\r\nto their own selves). People understood his Yoga to be a modern one, dedicated\r\nto the service of humanity. If service to humanity was not the very sum and\r\nsubstance of his spiritual­ity, it was, at least, the fruitful end and\r\nconsummation. His Yoga was a sort of art to explore and harness certain unseen\r\npowers that can better and ameliorate human life in a more suc­cessful way than\r\nmere rational scientific methods can hope to do.<o:p></o:p></span></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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Sri Aurobindo saw that the very\r\ncore of his teaching was being missed by this common interpretation of his\r\nsaying. So he changed his words and said, &quot;Our Yoga is not for humanity\r\nbut for the Divine.&quot; But I am afraid this change of front, this\r\nvolte-face, as it seemed, was not welcomed in many quarters; for thereby all\r\nhope of having him back for the work of the country or the world appeared to be\r\ntotally lost and he came to be looked upon again as an irrevocable\r\n&quot;metaphysical&quot; dreamer, aloof from physical things and barren, even\r\nlike the Immutable Brahman.<o:p></o:p></span></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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><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:10.05pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>2</span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:10.05pt; 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;tab-stops:10.05pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>In order to get a nearer approach to the ideal for\r\nwhich Sri Aurobindo has been labouring, we may combine with</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;tab-stops:10.05pt;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 lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Page-3<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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>advantage the two mottoes he has given us and say\r\nthat his mission is to find and express the Divine in humanity. This is the\r\nservice he means to render to humanity, viz, to manifest and embody in it the\r\nDivine: his goal is not merely an amelio­ration, but a total change and\r\ntransformation, the divinisation of human life.<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Here also one must guard against\r\ncertain misconceptions that are likely to occur. The transformation of human\r\nlife does not necessarily mean that the entire humanity will be changed into a\r\nrace of gods or divine beings; it means the evolution or appearance on earth of\r\na superior type of human­ity, even as man evolved out of animality as a\r\nsuperior type of animality, not that the entire animal kingdom was changed into\r\nhumanity.<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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>As regards the possibility of\r\nsuch a consummation, – Sri Aurobindo says it is not a possibility but an\r\ninevitability – ­one must remember that the force that will bring about the\r\nresult and is already at work is not any individual human power, however great\r\nit may be, but the Divine himself, it is the Divine\'s own Shakti that is\r\nlabouring for the destined end.<o:p></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=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;text-autospace:ideograph-other;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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'>Here is the very heart of the mystery, the master-key to the problem. The\r\nadvent of the superhuman or divine race, however stupendous or miraculous the\r\nphenomenon may appear to be, can become a thing of practical actuality,\r\nprecisely because it is no human agency that has undertaken it but the Divine\r\nhimself in his supreme potency and wisdom and love. The descent of the Divine\r\ninto the ordinary human nature in order to purify and transform it and be\r\nlodged there is the whole secret of the sadhana in Sri Aurobindo\'s Yoga. The\r\nsadhaka has only to be quiet and silent, calmly aspiring, open and acquiescent\r\nand receptive to the one Force; he need not and should not try to do things by\r\nhis independent personal effort, but get them done or let them be done for him\r\nin the dedicated consciousness by the Divine Master and Guide. All other Yogas\r\nor spiritual disciplines in the past envisaged an ascent of the consciousness,\r\nits sublimation into the consciousness of the Spirit and its fusion and\r\ndissolution there in the end. The descent of the Divine Consciousness to\r\nprepare its definitive home in the dynamic and pragmatic human nature, if\r\nconsidered at all, was not the main theme</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination: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 lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-4<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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>of the past efforts and achievements. Furthermore,\r\nthe descent spoken of here is the descent, not of a divine consciousness – ­for\r\nthere are many varieties of divine consciousness – but of the Divine\'s own\r\nconsciousness, of the Divine himself with his Shakti. For it is that that is\r\ndirectly working out this evolu­tionary transformation of the age.<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>It is not my purpose here to enter\r\ninto details as to the exact meaning of the descent, how it happens and what\r\nare its lines of activity and the results brought about. For it is indeed an\r\nactual descent that happens: the Divine Light leans down first into the mind\r\nand begins its purificatory work there­ although it is always the inner heart\r\nwhich first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine\r\naction-for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the\r\nordinary human consciousness and receives more easily and readily the Radiances\r\nthat descend. From the Mind the Light filters into the denser regions of the\r\nemotions and desires, of life activity and vital dynamism; finally, it gets\r\ninto brute Matter itself, the hard and obscure rock of the physical body, for\r\nthat too has to be illumined and made the very form and figure of the Light\r\nsupernal. The Divine in his descending Grace is the Master-Architect who is\r\nbuilding slowly and surely the many-chambered and many-storeyed edifice that is\r\nhuman nature and human life into the mould of the Divine Truth in its perfect\r\nplay and supreme expression. But this is a matter which can be closely\r\nconsidered when one is already well within the mystery of the path and has\r\nacquired the elementary essentials of an initiate.<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Another question that troubles and\r\nperplexes the ordinary human mind is as to the time when the thing will be\r\ndone. Is it now or a millennium hence or at some astronomical distance in\r\nfuture, like the cooling of the sun, as someone has suggested for an analogy.\r\nIn view of the magnitude of the work one might with reason say that the whole\r\neternity is there before us, and a century or even a millennium should not be\r\ngrudged to such a labour – for it is nothing less than an undoing of untold\r\nmillenniums in the past and the building of a far-flung futurity. However, as\r\nwe have said, since it is the Divine\'s own work and since Yoga means a\r\nconcentrated and involved process of action, effectuating in a minute what<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;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination: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 lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-5<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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>would perhaps take years to accomplish in the\r\nnatural course, one can expect the work to be done sooner rather than later.\r\nIndeed, the ideal is one of here and now – here upon this earth of material\r\nexistence and now in this life, in this very body – not hereafter or elsewhere.\r\nHow long exactly that will mean, depends on many factors, but a few decades on\r\nthis side or the other do not matter very much.<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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>As to the extent of realisation,\r\nwe say again that that is not a matter of primary consideration. It is not the\r\nquantity but the substance that counts. Even if it were a small nucleus it\r\nwould be sufficient, at least for the beginning, provided it is the real, the\r\ngenuine thing­ </span></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\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'>Swalpamapyasya dharmasya trayate mahato bhayat¹<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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span lang=EN-GB style=\'layout-grid-mode:line\'>Now,\r\nif it is asked what is the proof of it all, how can one be sure that one is not\r\nrunning after a mirage, a chimera? We can only answer with the adage; the proof\r\nof the pudding is in the eating thereof.</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'layout-grid-mode:line\'>3</span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'layout-grid-mode:line\'>I have a word to add finally in justification of\r\nthe title of this essay. For, it may be asked, how can spirituality be con­sidered\r\nas one of the Arts or given an honourable place in their domain?<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>From a certain point of view,\r\nfrom the point of view of essentials and inner realities, it would appear that\r\nspirituality is, at least, the basis of the arts, if not the highest art. If\r\nart is meant to express the soul of things, and since the true soul of things\r\nis the divine element in them, then certainly spiritual­ity, the discipline of\r\ncoming in conscious contact with the Spirit, the Divine, must be accorded the\r\nregal seat in the hierarchy of the arts. Also, spirituality is the greatest and\r\nthe most difficult of the arts; for it is the art of life. To make of life a\r\nperfect work of beauty, pure in its lines, faultless in its rhythm, replete\r\nwith strength, iridescent: with light, vibrant with delight-an embodiment of\r\nthe Divine, in a word-is <span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></p>\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\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:12.45pt 195.8pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><font size=\"2\">¹ The Gita, II. 40</font><o:p></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;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.45pt 195.8pt;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-6</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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'>the highest ideal of spirituality; viewed – the\r\nspirituality that Sri Aurobindo practises – is the <i>ne </i>plus ultra of artistic\r\ncreation.</span><i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone; 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 align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n6.95pt;mso-pagination: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-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-7</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><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\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a><i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>\r\n  <i>\r\n\r\n</i></div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-001_A Yoga of the Art of Life','','publish','closed','open','','001_a-yoga-of-the-art-of-life','','','2021-11-23 17:59:10','2021-11-23 17:59:10','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/001_a-yoga-of-the-art-of-life/',0,'post','',0),(2160,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:10','2021-11-23 17:59:10','<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 Force of Body-Consciousness</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:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The Force of Body-Consciousness</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;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\'>THERE is a\r\nstate of consciousness in which you perceive that the effect of things,\r\ncircumstances, movements, all the activities of life upon yourself depends\r\nalmost exclusively upon your attitude towards them. You become then conscious,\r\nconscious to the extent of <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>realising</span>\r\nthat things in themselves are neither good nor bad, they are so only in\r\nrelation to ourselves: their effect, I say, depends entirely upon the way in\r\nwhich we regard these things. If we take, for example, a circumstance as a gift\r\nfrom God, as a divine Grace, as an outcome of the total har­mony, it will help\r\nus to become more conscious and truer and stronger. The same identical\r\ncircumstance, if we take it diffe­rently, as a blow of Fate, as a bad force\r\nwishing us harm, becomes, on the contrary, a damper on our consciousness, it\r\nsaps our strength, brings obscurity, creates disharmony. And yet in either case\r\nit is altogether the same circumstance. I would like you to have the experience\r\nand make the experi­ment. For your ideal is to be master of yourselves. <span\r\nclass=GramE>But not that only.</span> You should not only be master of your own\r\nselves, but master of the circumstances of your life, the circumstances, at\r\nleast, that immediately surround you and concern you. You must note further\r\nthat it is an experience that is not confined to the mind alone: it need not\r\nhappen in your head <span class=GramE>only,</span> it may and indeed must\r\ncontinue into the body. Certainly, this is a realisation needing great labour,\r\nmuch concentration and self-mastery: you have to force the consciousness into\r\nthe body, into dense Matter. It is the attitude of the body that will in the\r\nend determine everything: shocks and contacts of the outside world will change\r\nits nature according to the way in which they are received by the body. And if\r\nyou attain perfection in that line, you can become even master of accidents.\r\nSuch a<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\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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>thing</span> is possible, not only possible, but it is bound to\r\nhappen, for it is a forward step in man\'s progress. First of all, you have to\r\nrealise the power in your mind to the extent that it can act upon circumstances\r\nand change their effect upon you. Then the power can descend into Matter, into\r\nthe substance, the cells of your body and endow the body with this capacity of\r\ncontrol over things outside and around you.<o:p></o:p></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\'>There\r\nis nothing impossible in the world. We ourselves put the bar: always we say,\r\nthis is possible, that is impossible, one can do this, <span class=GramE>one</span>\r\ncannot do that. Sometimes we admit a thing to be possible but ask who would do\r\nit, so it is impossible and so on. Like slaves, like prisoners we bind\r\nourselves to our limits. You call it common sense, but it is a stupid, narrow\r\nand ignorant sense; it does not truly know the laws of life. The laws of life\r\nare not what we think them to be, what our mind or intellect conceives them to\r\nbe; they are quite other­wise.<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 – 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\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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-114_The Force of Body','','publish','closed','open','','114_the-force-of-body','','','2021-11-23 17:59:10','2021-11-23 17:59:10','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/114_the-force-of-body/',0,'post','',0),(2161,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:10','2021-11-23 17:59:10','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\n\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>Nature\'s Own Yoga</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<h4 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'><font size=\"4\">Nature\'s Own Yoga</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></h4>\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\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\"><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><font size=\"4\">I</font><o:p></o:p></span></h2>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>SRI Aurobindo\'s Yoga is in the direct\r\nline of Nature\'s own Yoga. Nature has a Yoga, which she follows unfailingly,\r\nand inevitably – for it is her innermost law of being. Yoga means, </span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>in essence, a\r\nchange or transformation of consciousness, a heightening and broadening of\r\nconsciousness, which is effected by communion or union or identification with a\r\nhigher and vaster consciousness.<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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>This process of a developing\r\nconsciousness in Nature is precisely what is known as Evolution. It is the\r\nbringing out and fixing of a higher and higher principle of consciousness,\r\nhitherto involved and concealed behind the veil, in the earth consciousness as\r\na dynamic factor in Nature\'s manifest working. Thus, the first stage of\r\nevolution is the status of <span class=SpellE>inconscient</span> Matter, of the\r\nlifeless physical elements; the second stage is that of the semi-conscious life\r\nin the plant, the third that of the conscious life in the animal, and finally\r\nthe fourth stage, where we stand at present, is that of the embodied self-con­scious\r\nlife in man.<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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The course of evolution has not\r\ncome to a stop with man and the next stage, Sri Aurobindo says, which Nature\r\nenvis­ages and is labouring to bring out and establish is the life </span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>now <span\r\nclass=SpellE>superconscious</span> to us, embodied in a still higher type of\r\ncreated being, that of the superman or god-man. The principle of consciousness\r\nwhich will determine the nature and build of this new, being is a spiritual\r\nprinciple beyond the mental principle which man now incarnates: it may be\r\ncalled the Supermind or Gnosis. For, till now Mind has been the last term of the\r\nevolutionary</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<h6 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; font-weight:400\'>Page-8</span></h6>\r\n	<div class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\">\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\'><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>consciousness</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> – Mind as developed in man is the highest instrument built up and\r\norganised by Nature through which the self-conscious being can express itself.\r\nThat is why the Buddha said: Mind is the first of all principles, Mind is the\r\nhi hest of all principles: indeed Mind is the constituent of all principles-<span\r\nclass=SpellE>mana</span> <span class=SpellE><i>puvvangama</i></span><i>\r\ndhamma.¹ </i>The consciousness beyond mind has not yet been made a patent and\r\ndynamic element in the life upon earth; it has been glimpsed or entered into in\r\nvarying degrees and modes by saints and seers; it has cast its derivative\r\nilluminations in the creative activities of poets and artists, in the finer and\r\nnobler urges of heroes and great men of action. But the utmost that has been\r\nachieved, the summit reached in that direction, as exampled in spiritual\r\ndisciplines, involves a withdrawal from the evolutionary cycle, a merging and\r\nan absorption into the static status that is altogether beyond it, that lies,\r\nas it were, at the other ex­treme – the Spirit in itself, Atman, Brahman,\r\nSachchidananda, Nirvana, the One without a second, the Zero without a first.<o:p></o:p></span></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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The first contact that one has\r\nwith this static supra-reality is through the higher ranges of the mind: a\r\ndirect and closer communion is established through a plane which .is just above\r\nthe mind – the Overmind, as Sri Aurobindo calls it. The Overmind dissolves or\r\ntranscends the ego-consciousness which limits the being to its individualised\r\nformation bounded by an outward and narrow frame or sheath of mind, life and\r\nbody; it reveals the universal Self and Spirit, the cosmic godhead and its\r\nmyriad forces throwing up myriad forms; the world-existence there appears as a\r\nplay of ever-shifting veils upon the face of one ineffable reality, as a\r\nmysterious cycle of perpetual creation and destruction – it is the overwhelming\r\nvision given by Sri Krishna to Arjuna in the Gita. At the same time, the\r\ninitial and most intense experience which this cosmic consciousness brings is\r\nthe extreme relativity, contingency and <span class=SpellE>transitoriness</span>\r\nof the whole <span class=GramE>flux,</span> and a necessity seems logically and\r\npsychologically imperative to escape into the abiding substratum, the ineffable\r\nAbsoluteness.<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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>This has been the highest\r\nconsummation, the supreme goal which the purest spiritual experience and the\r\ndeepest as­piration of the human consciousness generally sought to attain.<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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><font size=\"2\">¹ The <span class=SpellE><i>Dhammapada</i></span><i>, </i><st1:place><span\r\n lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>I.</span></st1:place></font><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><font size=\"2\"> 1</font><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoHeading7 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"center\"><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>Page-9</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\">\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\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>But in this view, the world or creation or Nature\r\ncame in the end to be looked upon as fundamentally a product of Ignorance:\r\nignorance and suffering and incapacity and death were declared to be the very\r\nhallmark of things terrestrial. The Light that dwells above and beyond can be\r\nmade to shed for a while some kind of lustre upon the mortal darkness but never\r\naltogether to remove or change it – to live in the full light, to be in and of\r\nthe Light means to pass beyond. Not that there have not been other strands and\r\ntypes of spiritual experiences and aspirations, but the one we are considering\r\nhas always struck the major chord and dominated and drowned all the rest.<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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>But the initial illusory\r\nconsciousness of the Overmind need not at all lead to the static Brahmic\r\nconsciousness or Sunyam alone. As a matter of fact, there is in this particular\r\nprocessus of consciousness a hiatus between the two, between Maya and Brahman,\r\nas though one has to leap from the one into the other <i>somehow. </i>This\r\nhiatus is filled up in Sri Aurobindo\'s Yoga by the principle of Supermind, not\r\nsynthetic-analytic¹ in knowledge like Overmind and the highest mental\r\nintelligence, but inescapably <span class=GramE>unitarian</span> even in the\r\nutmost diversity. Supermind is the Truth-consciousness at once static and\r\ndynamic, self-existent and creative: in Supermind the Brahmic consciousness –\r\nSachchidananda – is ever self-aware and ever manifested and embodied in\r\nfundamental truth-powers and truth-forms for the play of creation; it is the\r\nplane where the One breaks out into the Many and the Many still remain one,\r\nbeing and knowing themselves to be but various self-expressions of the One; it\r\ndevelops the spiritual archetypes, the divine names and forms of all\r\nindividualisations of an evolving existence.<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The Upanishads speak of a solar\r\nand a lunar Path in the spiritual consciousness. Perhaps they have some reference\r\nto these two lines-one through the Mayic consciousness of the Overmind enters\r\ninto the static Bliss, ecstatic Nihil, and the<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><font size=\"2\">¹ The <span class=SpellE>Supennind</span> is not merely\r\nsynthetic. &quot;The Supermind is synthetic only on the lowest spaces of\r\nitself, where it has to prepare the principles of Overmind, – synthesis is\r\nnecessary only where analysis has taken place, <span class=GramE>one</span> has\r\ndissected everything, put in pieces (analysis), so one has to piece together.\r\nBut Supermind is <span class=GramE>unitarian</span>, has never divided up, so\r\nit does not need to add and piece together the parts and fragments. It has\r\nalways held the conscious <span class=GramE>Many</span> together in the\r\nconscious One.&quot;</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;text-indent:.15in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:9.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>SRI\r\nAUROBINDO</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><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<h2 style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;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-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\">\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline; font-weight:400\'>Page – 10</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'color:blue;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p></o:p></span></h2>\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\'><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>other</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> mounts still farther to the solar status which is a mass, a sea, an\r\ninfinity of that light and ecstasy but which can at the same time express and\r\nembody itself as the creative Truth-­consciousness <i>(<span class=SpellE>surya</span>\r\n<span class=SpellE>savitri</span>).<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></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\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>In the Supermind things exist in\r\ntheir perfect spiritual reality; each is consciously the divine reality in its\r\ntranscendent essence, its cosmic extension, its, spiritual individuality; the\r\ndiversity of a manifested existence is there, but the mutually exclusive <span\r\nclass=SpellE>separativeness</span> has not yet arisen. The ego, the knot of <span\r\nclass=SpellE>separativity</span>, appears at a later and lower stage of involu­tion;\r\nwhat is here is indivisible nexus of in <span class=SpellE>dividualising</span>\r\ncentres of the one eternal truth of being. Where Supermind and Overmind meet,\r\none can see the multiple godheads, each distinct in his own truth and beauty\r\nand power and yet all together forming the one supreme consciousness infinitely\r\ncomposite and inalienably integral. But stepping back into Supermind one sees\r\nsomething more – Oneness gathering into itself all diversity, not destroying\r\nit, but annulling and forbid­ding the <span class=SpellE>separative</span>\r\nconsciousness that is the beginning of Ignorance. The first shadow of the\r\nIllusory Consciousness, the initial possibility of the movement of Ignorance\r\ncomes in when the supramental light enters the penumbra of the mental sphere.\r\nThe movement of Supermind is the movement of light without obscurity, straight,\r\nunwavering, unswerving, absolute. The Force here contains and holds in their\r\noneness of Reality the manifold but not separated lines of essential and\r\nunalloyed truth: its march is the inevitable progression of each one assured\r\ntruth entering into and upholding every other and therefore its creation, play\r\nor action admits of no trial or stumble or groping or deviation; for each truth\r\nrests on all others and on that which harmonises them all and does not act as a\r\nPower diverging from and even competing with other Powers of being. In the\r\nOvermind commences the play of divergent possibilities – the simple, direct,\r\nunited and absolute certainties of the supramental consciousness retire, as it\r\nwere, a step behind and begin to work themselves out through the interaction\r\nfirst of separately individualised and then of contrary and contradictory\r\nforces. In the Overmind there is a conscious underlying Unity but yet each\r\nPower, Truth, Aspect of that Unity is encouraged to work out its</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><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<h6 style=\'line-height:150%;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\' align=\"center\">\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line; font-weight:400\'>Page-11</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p></o:p></span></h6>\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\'><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>possibilities</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> as if it were sufficient to itself and the others are used by it for its\r\nown enhancement until in the denser and darker reaches below Overmind this\r\nturns out a thing of blind conflict and battle and, as it would appear, of\r\nchance survival. Creation or manifestation originally means the con­cretisation\r\nor devolution of the powers of Conscious Being into a play of united diversity;\r\nbut on the line which ends in Matter it enters into more and more obscure forms\r\nand forces and finally the virtual eclipse of the supreme light of the Divine\r\nConsciousness. Creation as it descends\' towards the Ignorance becomes an\r\ninvolution of the Spirit through Mind and Life into Matter; evolution is a\r\nmovement back­ward, a return journey from Matter towards the Spirit: it is the\r\nunravelling, the gradual disclosure and deliverance of the Spirit, the\r\nascension and revelation of the involved conscious­ness through a series of\r\nawakenings – Matter awakening into Life, Life awakening into Mind and Mind now\r\nseeking to awaken into something beyond the Mind, into a power of conscious\r\nSpirit.<o:p></o:p></span></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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The apparent or actual result of\r\nthe movement of <span class=SpellE>Nescience</span> – of Involution – has been\r\nan increasing negation of the Spirit, but its hidden purpose is ultimately to\r\nembody the Spirit in Matter, to express here below in cosmic Time-Space the\r\nsplendours of the timeless Reality. The material body came into existence\r\nbringing with it inevitably, as it seemed, mortality; it appeared even to be\r\nfashioned out of mortality, in order that in this very frame and field of\r\nmortality, Im­mortality, the eternal Spirit Consciousness which is the secret\r\ntruth and reality in Time itself as well as behind it, might be established and\r\nthat the Divine might be possessed, or rather, possess itself not in one unvarying\r\nmode of the static conscious­ness, as it does even now behind the cosmic play,\r\nbut in the play itself and in the multiple mode of the terrestrial existence.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.3pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>2</span></p>\r\n	<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.3pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The secret of evolution, I have\r\nsaid, is an urge towards the release and <span class=SpellE>unfoldment</span>\r\nof consciousness out of an apparent unconsciousness. In the early stages the\r\nmovement is very<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<h6 style=\'line-height:150%;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\' align=\"center\">\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line; font-weight:400\'>Page-12<o:p></o:p></span></h6>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>slow</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> and gradual; there it is Nature\'s original unconscious process. In man\r\nit acquires the possibility of a conscious and therefore swifter and concentrated\r\nprocess. And this is in fact the function of Yoga proper, <span class=SpellE>viz</span>,\r\nto bring about the evolution of consciousness by hastening the process of\r\nNature through the self-conscious will of man.<o:p></o:p></span></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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>An organ in the human being has\r\nbeen especially developed to become the effective instrument of this\r\naccelerated Yogic process – the self-consciousness which I referred to as being\r\nthe distinctive characteristic of man is a function of this organ. It is his\r\nsoul, his &quot;psychic being&quot;; originally it is the spark of the Divine\r\nConsciousness which came down and became involved in Matter and has been\r\nendeavouring ever since to release itself through the upward march of\r\nevolution. It is this which presses on continually as the stimulus to the evolu­tionary\r\nmovement; and in man it has attained sufficient growth and power and has come\r\nso far to the front from behind the veil that it can now lead and mould his\r\nexternal consciousness. It is also the channel through which the Divine\r\nConsciousness can flow down into the inferior levels of human nature. It is the\r\n&quot;being no bigger than the thumb ever seated within the heart&quot;, spoken\r\nof in the Upanishads. It is likewise the basis of true individuality and\r\npersonal identity. It is again the reflection or expression in evolutionary\r\nNature of one\'s essential <i>se1f – <span class=SpellE>jivatman</span> – that </i>is\r\nabove, an eternal portion of the <span class=GramE>Divine</span>, one with the\r\nDivine and yet not dissolved and lost in it. The psychic being is thus on the\r\none hand in direct contact with the Divine and the higher consciousness, and on\r\nthe other it is the secret upholder and controller\' <i>(<span class=SpellE>bharta</span>,\r\n<span class=SpellE>antaryamin</span>) </i>of the inferior consciousness, the\r\nhidden nucleus round which the body and the life and the mind of the indi­vidual\r\nare built up and organised.<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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The first decisive step in Yoga\r\nis taken when one becomes conscious of the psychic being, or, looked at from\r\nthe other side, when the psychic being comes forward and takes posses­sion of\r\nthe external being, begins to initiate and influence the movements of the mind\r\nand life and body and gradually free them from the ordinary round of ignorant\r\nnature. The awaken­ing of the psychic being means, as I have said, not only a\r\ndeepening and heightening of the consciousness and its release</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><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<h6 style=\'line-height:150%;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\' align=\"center\">\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line; font-weight:400\'>Page-13<o:p></o:p></span></h6>\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\'><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>from</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> the obscurity and limitation of the inferior <span class=SpellE>Prakriti</span>,\r\nconfined to the lower threefold status, into what is behind and beyond; it\r\nmeans also a return of the deeper and higher consciousness upon the lower\r\nhemisphere and a consequent purification and illumination and regeneration of\r\nthe latter. Finally, when the psychic being is in full self-possession and\r\npower, it can be the vehicle of the direct supramental con­sciousness – which\r\nwill then be able to act freely and absolutely for the entire transformation of\r\nthe external nature, its trans­figuration into a perfect body of the\r\nTruth-consciousness – in a word, its divinisation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></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\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>This then is the supreme secret,\r\nnot the renunciation and annulment, but the transformation of the ordinary\r\nhuman <span class=GramE>nature :</span>– first of all, its <span class=SpellE><i>psychicisation</i></span><i>,\r\n</i>that is to say, making it move and live and be in communion and\r\nidentification with the light of the psychic being, and, secondly, through the\r\nsoul and the <span class=SpellE>ensouled</span> mind and life and body, to open\r\nout into the supramental consciousness and let it come down here below and work\r\nand achieve.<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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The soul or the true being in\r\nman uplifted in the supramental consciousness and at the same time coming\r\nforward to possess a divinised mind and life and body as an instrument and\r\nchannel of its self-expression and an embodiment of the Divine Will and Purpose\r\n– such is the goal that Nature is seeking to realise at present through her\r\nevolutionary <i>élan. </i>It is to this labour that man has been called so that\r\nin and through him the destined transcendence and transformation can take\r\nplace.<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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>It is not easy, however, nor is\r\nit necessary for the moment to envisage in detail what this divinised man would\r\nbe like, externally – his mode of outward being and living, <span class=SpellE><span\r\nclass=GramE><i>kim</i></span><i> asita vrajeta kim, </i>as Arjuna queried – or how the collective life of the new\r\nhumanity would function or what would be the com­position of its social fabric.\r\nFor what is happening is a living process, an organic growth; it is being\r\nelaborated through the actions and reactions of multitudinous forces and\r\nconditions, known and unknown; the precise configuration of the final outcome\r\ncannot be predicted with exactitude. But the Power that is at work is\r\nomniscient; it is selecting, rejecting, correct­ing, fashioning, creating,\r\nco-ordinating elements in accordance</span></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;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 lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-14</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>with</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> and by the drive of the inviolable law of Truth and Harmony that reigns\r\nin Light\'s &quot;own home&quot; <i>– <span class=SpellE>swe</span> dame – the </i>Supermind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>It is also to be noted that as\r\nmind is not the last limit of the march of evolution, even so the progress of evolution\r\nwill not stop with the manifestation and embodiment of the Supermind. There are\r\nother still higher principles beyond and they too presumably await\r\nmanifestation and embodi­ment on earth. Creation has no beginning in time <i>(<span\r\nclass=SpellE>anadi</span>) </i>nor has it an end <i>(<span class=SpellE>ananta</span>).\r\n</i>It is an eternal process of the <span class=SpellE>unraveling</span> of the\r\nmysteries of the Infinite. Only, it may be said that with the Supermind the\r\ncreation here enters into a different order of existence. Before it there was\r\nthe domain of Ignorance, ­after it will come the reign of Light and Knowledge.\r\nMortality has been the governing principle of life on earth till now; it will\r\nbe replaced by the consciousness of immortality. Evolution has proceeded\r\nthrough struggle and pain; hereafter it will be a spontaneous, harmonious and\r\nhappy flowering.<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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Now, with regard to the time\r\nthat the present stage of evolution is likely to take for its fulfilment, one\r\ncan presume that since or if the specific urge and stress has manifested and\r\ncome up to the front, this very fact would show that the problem has become a\r\nproblem of actuality, and even that it can be dealt with as if it had to be\r\nsolved now or never. We have said that in man, with man\'s self-consciousness or\r\nthe consciousness of the psychic being as the instrument, evolution has\r\nattained the capacity of a swift and concentrated process, which is the process\r\nof Yoga; the process will become swifter and more concentrated, the more that\r\ninstrument grows and gathers power and is infused with the divine afflatus. In\r\nfact, evolution has been such a process of gradual acceleration in tempo from\r\nthe very beginning. The earliest stage, for ex­ample, the stage of dead Matter,\r\nof the play of the mere chemical forces was a very, very long one; it took\r\nmillions and millions of years to come to the point when the manifesta­tion of\r\nlife became possible. But the period of elementary life, as manifested in the\r\nplant world that followed, although it too lasted a good many millions of\r\nyears, was much briefer than the preceding period – it ended with the advent of\r\nthe first animal form. The age of animal life, again, has been very</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt;\r\nline-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;<span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-15</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\">\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\'><span class=GramE>\r\n	<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>much</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'> shorter\r\nthan that of the plant life before man came upon earth. </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\n  line\'>And.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'> man is\r\nalready more than a million or two years old-it is fully time that a higher\r\norder of being should be created out of him.</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><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;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; 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margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Identification of\r\nConsciousness</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\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\'><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 Prayers¹\r\nspeak always of the identification of consciousness with the Supreme. There is\r\nalso the other identification of the consciousness, on the other side, namely,\r\nwith things and beings, with the world outside: to that also the Prayers refer\r\nconstantly. In reality, however, there is only one consciousness; it is\r\neverywhere, in all objects, in the universe and beyond. When a limit is put\r\naround it somewhere, a frame is erected, <span class=GramE>then</span> it\r\nbecomes or appears to become an individual conscious-ness. It is man\'s ego, a\r\nspot or point cutting and shutting itself off from the global consciousness,\r\nthat has thus separated itself from the Divine; it is that ego, that separative\r\nconsciousness which is asked to break the limits and regain its natural unity\r\nwith the one consciousness. <span class=GramE>And when it can do so it is said\r\nto have made the identification with the Supreme.</span> Apart from this, however,\r\nwhen the consciousness has separated and individualised itself in different\r\ncentres, even then it exists and acts in hiding in all the multiple varieties\r\nof forms, from the tiniest to the biggest. The same consciousness is alive in\r\nthe atom, the stone, <span class=GramE>the</span> plant, the animal, in the\r\nearth and the sun and the stars, in the universe as a whole. Each object big or\r\nsmall, living or non-living, conscious or unconscious, contains that\r\nconsciousness at its centre and embodies or ex-presses it in various ways.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'>Consider,\r\nfor example, your country, <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>.\r\nWhen you say &quot;<st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>&quot;,\r\nwhat do you mean to convey? Is it the geographical boundary that goes by the\r\nname or the expanse of soil contained within that boundary or its hills and\r\nrivers, forests and fields or the beasts that range in it or its human\r\ninhabitants or all of these together? No, it is something else; it is a centre\r\nof consciousness which has as its bodily frame the particular </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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:11.75pt;\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 The\r\nMother: Prayers and Meditations.</font><o:p><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;</font></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 – 285</span><o:p>&nbsp;</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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>geographical</span> boundary: it is that which dwells in its\r\nmountains and meadows, vibrates in its vegetation, lives and moves in its\r\nanimal kingdom; and it is that which is behind the mind and aspiration of its\r\npeople, animating its culture and civilisation and moving it towards higher and\r\nhigher illuminations and achievements. It is not <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\nalone, but every country upon earth has its consciousness, which is the central\r\ncore of its life and culture. Not only so, even the earth itself, the earth as\r\na whole, has a consciousness at its centre and is the embodiment of that\r\nconsciousness: and earth\'s evolution means the growth and expression of that\r\nconsciousness. Likewise the sun too has a solar consciousness, a solar being\r\npresiding over its destiny. Further, the universe too has a cosmic consciousness,\r\none and indivisible, moving and guiding it. And still beyond there lies the\r\ntranscendental consciousness, outside creation and manifestation.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'>Consciousness\r\nbeing one and the same everywhere fundamentally, through your own consciousness\r\nyou can identify yourself with the consciousness that inhabits any other particular\r\nformation, any object or being or world. You can, for example, identify your\r\nconsciousness with that of a tree. Stroll out one evening, find a quiet place\r\nin the countryside; choose a big tree – a mango tree, for instance – and go and\r\ntake your seat at its root, with your back resting or leaning against the\r\ntrunk. Still yourself, be quiet and wait, see or feel what happens in you. You\r\nwill feel as if something is rising up within you, from below upward, coursing\r\nlike a fluid, something that makes you feel at once happy and contented and\r\nstrong. It is the sap mounting in the tree with which you have come in contact,\r\nthe vital force, the secret consciousness in the tree that is comforting,\r\nrestful and health-giving. Well, tired <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>travellers</span> sit under a banyan tree, birds rest upon its spreading\r\nbranches, other animals – and even beings too (you must have heard of ghosts\r\nhaunting a tree) – take shelter there. It is not merely for the cool or <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>cosy</span> shade, not merely for\r\nthe physical convenience it gives, but the vital refuge or protection that it\r\nextends. Trees are so living, so sentient that they can be almost as friendly\r\nas an animal or even a human being. One feels at home, soothed, protected,\r\nstrengthened under their overspreading foliage.<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 – 286<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\'>&quot;I\r\nwill give you one instance. There was an old mango tree in one of our gardens –\r\nvery old, leafless and dried up, decrepit and apparently dying. Everybody was\r\nfor cutting it down and making the place clean and clear for flowers or\r\nvegetables. I looked at the tree. Suddenly I saw within the dry bark, at the\r\ncore, a column of thin and <span class=SpellE>and</span> dim light, a light\r\ngreenish in colour, mounting up, something very living. I was one with the\r\nconsciousness of the tree and it told me that I should not allow it to be cut\r\ndown. The tree is still living and .in fairly good health. As a young girl\r\nbarely in my teens I used to go into the woods not far from Paris, Bois de\r\nFontainebleau: there were huge oak trees centuries old perhaps. And although I\r\nknew nothing of meditation then, I used to sit quietly by myself and feel the\r\nlife around, the living presence of something in each tree that brought to me\r\ninvariably the sense of health and happiness.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'>&quot;Another\r\ninstance will show another kind of identification. It is an experience to which\r\nI have often referred. I was seated, drawn in and meditating. I felt that my\r\nphysical body was I dissolving or changing: it was becoming wider and wider,\r\nlosing its human characters and taking gradually the shape of a globe. Arms,\r\nlegs, head were no longer there: it became spherical, having exactly the form\r\nof the earth. I felt I had become the earth. I was the earth <span class=GramE>in\r\n<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>form and substance and all\r\nterrestrial objects were in me, animals and people, living and moving in me,\r\ntrees and plants and even inanimate objects as part of myself, limbs of my\r\nbody: I was the earth-consciousness incarnate.&quot;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\nthe point is to be this individual consciousness anywhere <span class=GramE>I</span>\r\nor everywhere and still to maintain the higher, the universal and transcendent,\r\nthe supreme consciousness, to be simultaneously conscious in both the modes to\r\nthe utmost degree.<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; 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line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">A Page of Occult History</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-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=GramE>AT the\r\nbeginning of creation, four individual formations-the first personalities-made\r\ntheir appearance.</span> There were: (1) a Being of Light or Consciousness, (2)\r\na Being of Truth or Reality, (3) a Being of Love or Ananda and (4) a Being of\r\nLife. And the first law of creation was freedom of decision. These Beings were\r\nmanifestations in the free movement of the Divine; they themselves moved free,\r\naccording to their <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>individualised</span>\r\nconscious will. They stood out, as if in bold relief, on the background of the\r\nDivine Existence. <span class=GramE>For originally, although they\r\ndifferentiated themselves from each other and from the Divine, yet they formed\r\na unified harmony and lived and moved and had their being as different members\r\nof the same divine Body.</span> At first they stood out, but still essentially\r\nand apparently linked on to their fount and origin. Soon, however, they stood\r\nout no longer on the Divine, but moved out of him, away and separate; they\r\nsought to fulfil their individualised will and destiny. The Divine did not\r\nimpose its will or force these individualities to turn round: that would\r\nfrustrate the very purpose of creation. He allowed these independent beings to\r\nenjoy their full independence, although they were born out of him and essential\r\npart and parcel of his own being. They went abroad on a journey of adventure,\r\neach carving out its own line of growth and fulfilment. The first fruit, the\r\ninevitable reaction of freedom was precisely, as is just said, a separation\r\nfrom the Divine, each one encircled within its ego, limited and bound to its\r\nown fund of potency: individualism means limitation. Now, once separated, the\r\nconnection with the source snapped, that is to say in the outward activity, in\r\ndynamic movement or becoming (not in essential being), the Four Independents\r\nlapsed\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 252<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\nclass=GramE>into</span> their opposites: Light changed to Darkness, i.e.\r\nconscious-ness to unconsciousness, Truth changed to Falsehood, Delight changed\r\nto Pain and Suffering, and Life changed to Death. That is how the four undivine\r\n<span class=GramE>principles,</span> the Powers of the Undivine came to rule\r\nand fashion the material creation.<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\'>Into\r\nthe heart of this Darkness and Falsehood and Pain and Death, a seed was sown, a\r\ngrain that is to be the epitome and symbol of material creation and in and\r\nthrough which the Divine will claim back all the elements gone astray, the\r\nprodigal ones who will return to recognise and fulfil the Divine. That was\r\nEarth. And the earth, in her turn, in her labour towards the Divine Fulfilment,\r\nout of her bosom, threw up a being <span class=GramE>who</span> would again <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>symbolise</span> and <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>epitomise</span> the earth and\r\nmaterial creation. That is <st1:State><st1:place>Man.</st1:place></st1:State>\r\nFor, man came with the soul in him, the Psychic Being, the Divine Flame, the\r\nspark of consciousness in the midst of universal unconsciousness, a miniature\r\nof the original Divine Light-Truth-Love-Life. In the meantime, to help the\r\nevolution, to join hands with the aspiring soul in the human being, there was\r\ncreated, on the defection of the First Lords – the Asuric Quaternity – a second\r\nhierarchy of luminous beings – Devas, gods. (Some-thing of this inner history\r\nof the world is reflected in the Greek legend of struggle between the Titans\r\nand the Olympians.) These gods, however, being a latter creation, perhaps\r\nbecause they were young and inexperienced, could not cope immediately with\r\ntheir strong Elders. It is why we see in the mythological legends the gods very\r\noften worsted at the hands of the Asuras: Indra hiding under the sea, Zeus\r\nthreatened often with defeat and disaster. It is only an intervention from the\r\nSupreme (the Greeks called it Fate) that saved them in the end and restored the\r\nbalance.<o:p></o:p></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\'>However,\r\nthe Asuras came to think better of the game and consented to use their freedom\r\non the side of the Divine, for the fulfilment of the Divine; that is to say,\r\nthey agreed to conversion. Thus they took birth as or in human beings, so that\r\nthey may be in contact with the human soul – Psyche – which is the only door or\r\npassage to the Divine in this material world. But the matter was not easy; the\r\nprocess was not straight. For, even agreeing to be converted, even basking in\r\nthe sunshine of the human psyche, these incorrigible Elders<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 253<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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>could</span> not forget or wholly give up their old habit and\r\nnature. They now wanted to work for the Divine Fulfilment in order to magnify\r\nthemselves thereby; they consented to serve the Divine in order to make the\r\nDivine serve them, utilise the Divine End for their own purposes. They wished\r\nto see the new creation after their own heart\'s desire.<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\'>That\r\nis how things have become difficult upon earth and are delaying the ultimate\r\nconsummation which, however, is sure to come about when the wheel of Time or\r\nFate has turned full circle.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 254<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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-059_A Page of Occult History','','publish','closed','open','','059_a-page-of-occult-history','','','2021-11-23 17:59:10','2021-11-23 17:59:10','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/059_a-page-of-occult-history/',0,'post','',0),(2164,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:11','2021-11-23 17:59:11','<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 Spiral Universe</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<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">The Spiral\r\nUniverse</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\'><b><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></b></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\">EVOLUTION does not proceed\r\nin a straight line, but in a spiral. That is to say, it is not a constant\r\nprogress in one direction, but consists of progression, regression and an\r\nultimate progression. The spiral movement means that all things must enter into\r\nthe phenomenon of evolution, so that it is not one thing only that progresses\r\nand others lag behind but that all move forward – all move forward but at\r\ndifferent speeds and also from different starting-points. And they move not\r\nstraight as the crow flies, but in a circle like the soaring eagle. When you\r\nconcentrate upon one point of the circle, you will see relatively to it many\r\nothers not advancing at all but receding and the point itself will seem at\r\ntimes to be going back towards a position already left behind. One goes back to\r\npick up certain elements that have not been included in the progress, not\r\nproperly dealt with. It happens usually that when you progress in one thing,\r\nyou forget another; so you have to turn back and take up the neglected element.\r\nThus you have to go round and round, as it were, until you include the totality\r\nof your being, even embrace the totality of the universe. When you have,\r\nhowever, gathered the by-passed factor and come back to the original position\r\nfrom where you seemed to have regressed, you find that you are not exactly at\r\nthe same point but at a corresponding point on a higher plane. That forms a\r\nspiral, not merely a circle.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:12.95pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">There\r\nare, in the universe, an infinite number of points moving, each forming a\r\nspiral; so there are an infinite number of spirals. And these spirals do not\r\nlie only side by side, but cross each other and thus give an aspect of\r\ncontrariness and contradictoriness. So if you wish to take a total view of the\r\nmovement of universal progress, you will be somewhat puzzled.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 302<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\'>There are\r\nso many lines that advance and there <span class=GramE>are</span> so many which\r\nrecede at the same time. Some come into the <span class=GramE>light,</span>\r\nothers go into the background and none independent or self-sufficient. There is\r\na sort of intermingling, even coordination.</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\'>The\r\nuniverse can thus be conceived as a globe consisting of an infinite number of\r\nintersecting spirals. One can give to each spiral a different colour, each representing\r\none aspect of nature\'s movement. A model globe of this kind may perhaps be\r\nconstructed. A section only of the curve of a spiral is on the <span\r\nclass=GramE>outside,</span> the rest is within the globe and can be seen\r\nbecause of its special colour, provided we consider the globe as something\r\ntransparent. It is these multiple sections outside that form the surface of the\r\nglobe. The inside is of course full of spirals, excepting that section of a\r\nspiral which is outside. And yet though crossing and <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>recrossing</span> they do not form an opaque\r\nmass. One can see through and follow the brilliant lines of various <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>colours</span>. That is how I see\r\nit. You can try to make a geometrical figure of it, if possible.</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\'>Nature\r\nhas a plan of its own. It is not like the coherent rational plan of man.\r\nNature\'s plan is made of an aspiration, a decision and a goal. But the way is\r\nquite fantastic, so it appears to man. Nature seems to move from moment to moment,\r\nunder the stress of the occasion; there are advances, withdrawals, trials,\r\ncontradictions, demolitions of things, laborious building up, and again\r\nthrowing down. It is a complete chaos. She begins a thing, leaves it half done,\r\ntakes up another, rejects one thing altogether, begins anew something left off,\r\nmakes, remakes, unmakes, separates, mixes up. She follows a million lines of\r\nadvance at the same time but not from the same point and each with its own\r\nspeed and rhythm. There is such a tangle that seems to make no sense. Still\r\nthere is a <span class=GramE>plan,</span> she pursues an object which seems to\r\nbe very clear to her, although veiled to the human eye. The spiral globe I\r\nspoke of was meant to give some idea of this complex unity in Nature\'s plan.</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\'>You\r\ncan bring in a better order, with less waste and more efficiency, a more\r\nconscious organisation. But for that man must change his own inner organisation\r\nfirst. In his own consciousness and being he must bring out a new order, a new\r\ncosmos.<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 – 303<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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-081_The Spiral Universe','','publish','closed','open','','081_the-spiral-universe','','','2021-11-23 17:59:11','2021-11-23 17:59:11','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/081_the-spiral-universe/',0,'post','',0),(2165,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:11','2021-11-23 17:59:11','<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\r\n<title>The Constants of the Spirit</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<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\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">The Constants of\r\nthe Spirit</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\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\'><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 Divine\r\nexists in three modes: (I) Existence, (2) Conscious-ness and (3) Bliss. Pure\r\nexistence, pure consciousness and pure bliss – Sat-Chit-Ananda – these are the\r\nthree fundamental elements out of which the world is made; they are everywhere\r\nin all things, in all beings, in all domains and levels of being.\r\nSachchidananda is the supreme reality that is behind all, even here below, behind\r\nthe mind, behind the life and behind the body too and behind each form in each\r\nof these domains. It is that which upholds and sustains everything. Therefore\r\nin order to realise it, it is not necessary to mount up, leaving behind the\r\nmental, the vital and physical existence and go beyond. Usually when one seeks\r\nSachchidananda one looks for it outside the universe, above and beyond the\r\ncreation, in the transcendent. In reality, however, one can meet it from any\r\nplace where one happens to be, either in the mind or in the vital or even in\r\nthe physical; one has only to withdraw and sink down, or get behind: it is\r\nthere always. To meet Sachchidananda in and through the physical existence is\r\nnot very much more difficult or rare a thing than the other ways; it is more\r\ndifficult and rare to maintain it there constantly and consciously, to make of\r\nit a dynamic physical possession. That is the work to be done and for which Sri\r\nAurobindo came.<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 – 290<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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-076_The Constants of the Spirit','','publish','closed','open','','076_the-constants-of-the-spirit','','','2021-11-23 17:59:11','2021-11-23 17:59:11','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/076_the-constants-of-the-spirit/',0,'post','',0),(2166,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:11','2021-11-23 17:59:11','<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>Why are Dreams Forgotten</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<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\">Why are Dreams Forgotten?</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\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\'><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\'>IT is\r\nbecause dreams do not occur always in the same domain. It is not always the\r\nsame part of the being that dreams nor is it the same place where one dreams.\r\nIf one were in conscious communication with all the parts of one\'s being then\r\none would remember all his dreams. But it is only with a few parts of your\r\nbeing that you remain in conscious contact in sleep. For example, you have a\r\ndream in the subtle physical, that is to say, in the domain very near the\r\nphysical. This generally happens towards the end of the night, in the early\r\nhours of the morning just before you get up (say between four and five). Before\r\nrising from bed, if you remain very quiet, without making any movement and\r\nconcentrate a little, you will be able to remember the dreams that you had immediately\r\nbefore: the communication between the physical and the subtle physical being\r\nclose, you would be able to re-member easily enough. Now if you begin from the\r\nbeginning what happens is something like this. As you fall into sleep, the body\r\nbecomes quiet and the vital too goes to rest; but the mind continues to be\r\nactive, it has not gone to sleep. You have now what are called mental dreams\r\nbuilt out of all kinds of ideas and imaginations set free. After a time the\r\nmind gets tired and falls silent; the vital has rested sufficiently and wakes\r\nup in its turn and moves about. Your dreams of the mental domain are pushed\r\nback giving place to vital dreams. When you are active in the vital you very\r\noften go out of your body, visit all kinds of places and get involved in\r\nvarious exploits and adventures. <span class=GramE>If you wake up suddenly\r\nthen, you would remember your vital exploits in sleep.</span> Some people train\r\nthemselves to get up at fixed hour of the night. They thus bring to memory the\r\ndreams they had just before<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 – 351<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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>waking</span>. Now the vital too after having been sufficiently\r\nactive gets tired and goes to rest. Yet another part of the being now re-places\r\nthe vital and comes forward. It may be the turn of the subtle physical to enter\r\nthe arena. The vital is pushed back and you lose contact with it.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'>To\r\nbecome conscious of all the various movements of your nights, to recover them\r\nin your memory, some sort of training is necessary. The different states of the\r\nbeing in which you roam at night are, as you have seen, usually separate from\r\neach other. There is a gap in between two states; you jump from one to the\r\nother. There is no highway passing through all the domains of your\r\nconsciousness connecting them without break or interruption. That means\r\nforgetfulness. When you leap from one into the other, you push back, that is <span\r\nclass=GramE>forget</span>, the one you leave behind. So you have to construct a\r\nbridge and very few people know how to do it; it requires more engineering\r\nskill than to build a material bridge. You may have very wonderful experiences\r\nin sleep, but you forget them all; perhaps you remember, as I have said, the\r\nlast one, the one nearest to the physical mind. The best way then to remember\r\nand become conscious of the whole night is to begin at the end and go backward.\r\nCatch hold of the last image that still persists in your memory, like the loose\r\nend of a thread and then pull, pull slowly, till image after image comes back:\r\nit is something like the unrolling of a cinema film in the reverse direction.\r\nWhen you lose trace, stop and concentrate a little; try to call back whatever\r\nstray bit or faint impression still persists or can be more easily revived and\r\nthen again pull slowly, gently, pick up whatever shows itself, try to join the\r\nbits. In this way, after some trial and training you will be able to recover a\r\ngood part of the lost underworld.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'>There\r\nare, however, many ways of setting about the thing. For you must know that your\r\nnights are not all the same. Each one is different and brings its own kind of\r\nsleep and dream. As each day is different having its own particular kind of\r\nactivity, each night too likewise comes with its peculiar experiences. You may\r\nthink that one day is more or less exactly like the previous day, that you are\r\ndoing the same thing from day to day; but it is not so. Outwardly the\r\nactivities may appear to be the same, but really their nature and significance\r\nvary from</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 – 352<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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>one</span> day to another. No two moments are alike in the\r\nuniverse. Your night too is <span class=GramE>an</span> universe of its own\r\nkind. Each night brings its own problem and needs its own solution.<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 – 353<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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-099_Why are Dreams Forgotten','','publish','closed','open','','099_why-are-dreams-forgotten','','','2021-11-23 17:59:11','2021-11-23 17:59:11','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/099_why-are-dreams-forgotten/',0,'post','',0),(2167,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:11','2021-11-23 17:59:11','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns:st1=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; 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margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">Images of Gods\r\nand Goddesses</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\'><b><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></b></p>\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\'>Are the usual images \r\nof gods and goddesses true to\r\nreality?</p>\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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\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\'>WELL when a little child draws a picture of an\r\nobject, is there any likeness? It is about the same or even worse here. For the\r\nchild is simple and sincere, while the image-maker is full of prejudices and\r\npreconceived ideas, stuffed with things he has heard or read. And he is tied to\r\nhis constructions. But at times, here and there, very rarely indeed, artists\r\nappear with an inner vision, with a great aspiration and a great purity of soul;\r\nthey do things that are acceptable. But they are exceptions, the contrary is\r\nthe rule.</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\'>I have seen some of these\r\nforms in the vital world and also in the mental world; they are truly creations\r\nof man. There is a Power from beyond that manifests, but in this triple world\r\nof Ignorance man creates God Himself in his own image and beings that appear\r\nthere are more or less the outcome of the creative human thought. So at times\r\nwe do have things that are truly frightful. I have seen formations that are so obscure,\r\nso <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>ununderstandable</span>, so\r\ninexpressive! There are some divine beings that are treated worse than the\r\nothers. Take, for example, this poor Mahakali. What has man made of her, wildly\r\nterrible, a nightmare beyond imagination! Such crea­tions however live in a\r\nvery inferior world, in the lowest vital world; and if there is anything there\r\nof the original being, it is such a far off reflection that it is hardly <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>recognisable</span>. And yet it is\r\nthat which is pulled by the human consciousness. When, for example, an image is\r\nmade and installed and the priest calls down into it a form, an emanation of a\r\ngod, through an inner invocation – there is usually a whole ceremony in this\r\nconnection – if the priest is someone having the power<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\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 382<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:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>of evocation, then the thing succeeds (what\r\nRamakrishna did in the Kali temple). But generally priests are people with the\r\ncommonest ideas and the most traditional training and education; when they\r\nthink of the gods they give them attri­butes and appearances which are popular,\r\nwhich belong normally to entities of the vital world, at best to mental\r\nformations but which do not represent in any way the truth of the beings\r\nbehind. All the idols in temples or the household gods worshipped by the many\r\nare inhabited by beings who know only how to lead you to unhappiness and\r\ndisaster. They are so far away from the divinity that one means to worship.\r\nThere are certain family Kalis that are real monsters. I have even advised some\r\nto throw such an image into the <st1:place>Ganges</st1:place> to get rid of the\r\nevil influence emanating from it. But of course it is always the fault of man\r\nand not of the divinity. For man wishes so much to make his gods in his own\r\nimage.<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;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 383<o:p></o:p></span></i></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\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a><i><o:p></o:p></i></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</div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-110_Images of Gods and Goddesses','','publish','closed','open','','110_images-of-gods-and-goddesses','','','2021-11-23 17:59:11','2021-11-23 17:59:11','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/110_images-of-gods-and-goddesses/',0,'post','',0),(2168,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:11','2021-11-23 17:59:11','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\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<meta name=ProgId content=>\r\n<meta name=Generator content=\"Namo WebEditor v4.0\">\r\n<meta name=Originator content=\"\">\r\n<link rel=Edit-Time-Data href=\"HTML-FILE/Bad-Thought_files/editdata.mso\">\r\n<title>Bad Thought-Formation</title>\r\n<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\r\n <o:DocumentProperties>\r\n  <o:Author>w4</o:Author>\r\n  <o:Template>Normal</o:Template>\r\n  <o:LastAuthor>w4</o:LastAuthor>\r\n  <o:Revision>1</o:Revision>\r\n  <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime>\r\n  <o:Created>2004-06-24T04:54:00Z</o:Created>\r\n  <o:LastSaved>2004-06-24T04:54:00Z</o:LastSaved>\r\n  <o:Pages>1</o:Pages>\r\n  <o:Words>1439</o:Words>\r\n  <o:Characters>8207</o:Characters>\r\n  <o:Company>Aurokruti</o:Company>\r\n  <o:Lines>68</o:Lines>\r\n  <o:Paragraphs>19</o:Paragraphs>\r\n  <o:CharactersWithSpaces>9627</o:CharactersWithSpaces>\r\n  <o:Version>10.2625</o:Version>\r\n </o:DocumentProperties>\r\n</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\r\n <w:WordDocument>\r\n  <w:Compatibility>\r\n   <w:BreakWrappedTables/>\r\n   <w:SnapToGridInCell/>\r\n   <w:WrapTextWithPunct/>\r\n   <w:UseAsianBreakRules/>\r\n  </w:Compatibility>\r\n  <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel>\r\n </w:WordDocument>\r\n</xml><![endif]-->\r\n<style>\r\n<!--\r\n /* Style Definitions */\r\n p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\r\n	{mso-style-parent:\"\";\r\n	margin:0in;\r\n	margin-bottom:.0001pt;\r\n	mso-pagination:widow-orphan;\r\n	font-size:12.0pt;\r\n	font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\r\n	mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\r\n@page Section1\r\n	{size:8.5in 11.0in;\r\n	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;\r\n	mso-header-margin:.5in;\r\n	mso-footer-margin:.5in;\r\n	mso-paper-source:0;}\r\ndiv.Section1\r\n	{page:Section1;}\r\n-->\r\n</style>\r\n<!--[if gte mso 10]>\r\n<style>\r\n /* Style Definitions */\r\n table.MsoNormalTable\r\n	{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\r\n	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\r\n	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\r\n	mso-style-noshow:yes;\r\n	mso-style-parent:\"\";\r\n	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\r\n	mso-para-margin:0in;\r\n	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\r\n	mso-pagination:widow-orphan;\r\n	font-size:10.0pt;\r\n	font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\r\n</style>\r\n<![endif]-->\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\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Bad Thought-Formation</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'>A\r\nBAD thought is a bad act. You may not know it, but an evil thought is truly an\r\nevil act. If you think ill of a man and wish him ill, you are responsible for\r\nthe mishaps that may befall him to the same degree as when you do him an ill\r\nturn. Unfortunately, an evil thought is not a recognised crime and nobody\r\nintervenes when you think ill. Not only so, there are a good many people who\r\nconsider it a play to excite wicked thoughts in others. They do so (innocently,\r\nthey think) sometimes through sheer stupidity, more often through vanity,\r\nthrough an air of self-importance for having said something interesting. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'>When\r\nyou have a bad thought, you make an evil formation and you carry it about you\r\nor throw it out. It happens some-times that when you pass by a man, you\r\nsuddenly feel unwell, you may not connect the two and you may know nothing of\r\nthe matter, but in fact the man may have been entertaining an evil thought and\r\nit has pounced upon you.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'>When\r\nyou find out the cause, then what you have to do is to chase it away, as if it\r\nwere a fly. The flies are sometimes very troublesome, the more you drive them\r\naway the more they come and take it as an amusing game. But if you are serious\r\nand have the will, you succeed in driving them out. In the same manner when an\r\nevil formation seeks to possess or touch you, push it away immediately, push it\r\naway again and again till it disappears.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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:13.5pt;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\'><i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>Why should there be a bad will at all, you\r\nask?<o:p></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\'><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\'>You go into\r\nthe very origin of things. Why are there inconscience, ignorance and obscurity?\r\nYou ask for the why and wherefore of the universe. Why is creation like this\r\nand not<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>otherwise? </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 – 346<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\'>Everyone has explained in his own way. The philosophers have done so, the\r\nscientists have done so on different lines. But, none has found the way out.\r\nYou ask why there is bad will, but the truly interesting and important thing is\r\nto find a means whereby there would be no bad will. What is the use of asking\r\nwhy there is pain and suffering and misery, unless it is to find out the\r\nremedy? If you look for the why, you may find as many explanations as you like,\r\neach may be useful in a way, but none leads you anywhere, except into a blind\r\nalley.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'>There\r\nare many things in the world you do not approve of. Some people who, as they\r\nput it, wish to have the knowledge, want to find out why it is so. It is a line\r\nof knowledge. But I say it is much more important to find out how to make\r\nthings otherwise than they are at present. That is exactly the problem Buddha\r\nset before himself. He sat under a tree and continued till he found the\r\nsolution. The solution, however, is not very satisfactory: &quot;You say, the\r\nworld is bad, let us then do away with the world&quot;; but to whose profit, as\r\nSri Aurobindo asks very pertinently? The world will no longer be bad, since it\r\nwill exist no more. The world will have to be rolled back into its origin, the\r\noriginal pure existence or non-existence. Then man will be, in Sri Aurobindo\'s\r\nwords, the all-powerful master of something that does not exist, an emperor\r\nwithout an empire, a king without a kingdom. It is a solution. But there are\r\nothers, which are better. We consider ours to be the best. There are some who\r\nsay, like the Buddha, evil comes from ignorance, remove the ignorance and evil\r\nwill disappear. Others say that evil comes from division, from separation; if the\r\nuniverse were not separated from its origin, there would be no evil. Others\r\nagain declare that it is an evil will that is the cause of all, of separation\r\nand ignorance. Then the question is, where does this bad will come from? If it\r\nwere at the origin of things, it must have been in the origin itself. And then\r\nsome question the bad will itself, – there is no such thing, essentially,\r\nfundamentally, it is pure illusion.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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:13.5pt;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\'><i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>Do animals have a bad will?<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'><i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'>I\r\ndo not think so. Things spoken of in relation to animals 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 – 347<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\'>\r\nmonstrous are not really due to a bad will. Let us take for example the insect \r\nworld. Of all animals it is this species which seems to have most the attribute \r\nof wickedness, something akin to a bad will. It may, however, be simply that we \r\nare applying our own mode of consciousness to theirs, we impute bad will to an \r\naction which is not really of the kind. For example, there are insects whose \r\nlarva can live only upon a living being; they have to feed upon a living \r\ncreature, they do not get nourishment from dead flesh. So the parent insect before\r\nlaying the eggs that are to become larvae first prepares the ground: it finds\r\nanother insect or a small animal, stings into a nerve centre and paralyses it;\r\nthen safely lays eggs in that <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>paralysed</span>\r\nbody, which not being dead feeds the larvae when they come out of the eggs. All\r\nthis looks very much <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>machiavellian</span>.\r\nBut nothing is reasoned out there, it is pure instinct. Would you call it bad\r\nwill? It is simply the will to propagate. You can say perhaps that these\r\ninsects are moved by a spirit of the species which is conscious and has a\r\nconscious will and that this will is an evil will. These beings that create or\r\nform the various species of the insect world – many working in a much more\r\nmonstrous way than the example I have given – must then truly be frightful, inspired\r\nby a perverse and diabolic imagination. Quite possible. For it is said that the\r\norigin of the insect world is in the vital; the builders of that world belong\r\nto the vital and not to the material plane of consciousness; in other words,\r\nthey not only symbolise, but they represent and live the evil will. They are \r\nfully conscious of their evil will and they exercise that will deliberately and \r\nwith a set purpose. Man\'s bad will is often only a reflection, an imitation of \r\nthe bad will of vital beings which is a will clearly hostile to created world \r\nand whose express intention it is to make things as painful, as difficult, as \r\nugly, as monstrous as possible. It is these beings, some say, that have created \r\nthe insects. Even then, the insects cannot be described as representing the evil \r\nwill, since they do not do mischief purposely, they are moved by an unconscious \r\nwill in them. The bad will is really that will which does evil for the sake of \r\ndoing evil, which seeks to destroy for the sake of destroying, that takes \r\npleasure in doing wrong. In the animal I do not think there is this kind of evil \r\nwill, especially in the higher species. What is there is the instinct </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 – 348<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\'>of\r\nself-preservation, obscure and violent reactions, but not the kind of evil that\r\nhuman will shows in the perverse human mental. I believe it is the human mind\r\nunder the direct influence of vital beings that begins to work in the perverse\r\nway. Titans, Asuras are the beings of ill-will, they belong totally to the\r\nvital world and when they manifest themselves in this world of ours, they mean\r\nmischief, they do evil for the sake of doing evil, they destroy for the sake of\r\ndestroying, they have the delight of negation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'>What\r\nis instinct exactly? It is Nature\'s consciousness. Nature is conscious of her\r\naction; it is not an individual consciousness. It is a global or collective\r\nconsciousness. There is also a consciousness of the species. Each species has\r\nits consciousness which is called sometimes the spirit of the species, that is\r\nto say, a conscious being presiding over a particular species. Nature is\r\nconscious in the sense that she knows what she wants, she knows her whither and\r\nher how, her end and the way to go towards it. To man much of Nature seems incoherent,\r\nbecause his consciousness is narrow and he has not an overall vision. When you\r\nlook at the small details, the little fragments, you do not understand; you do\r\nnot find any link, sequence, sense. But Nature has a conscious will, she is a conscious\r\nbeing. Perhaps the word &quot;being&quot; is too human. When we speak of\r\nNature\'s being, we naturally think of the human being, only a little bigger, or\r\nperhaps much bigger but working more or less in the same way. But it is not so.\r\nInstead of the word &quot;being&quot;, I would prefer the word &quot;entity&quot;.\r\nThe conscious entity that is Nature has a conscious will and it does things\r\nmuch more deliberately and purposively than map, and it has formidable forces\r\nat its disposal. Man speaks of blind and violent Nature. But it is man who is\r\nblind and violent, not nature. You say an earthquake is a terrible affair.\r\nThousands of houses crash into dust, millions of people are killed, whole\r\ncities devastated, entire portions of earth are swallowed up etc., etc. Yes,\r\nfrom the human point of view Nature seems monstrous. But what has she done\r\nafter all? When you get a knock on your body somewhere there appears a blue\r\npatch. Are you worried about it? Your earthquake is nothing more than a\r\nreshuffling of a cell in your body. You destroy thousands of cells every moment\r\nof your life. You are monstrous! That is<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 – 349<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\'>the\r\nrelative proportion. And consider, we are speaking of earth alone and earthly\r\nevents. But what is this earth itself in the bosom of the universe? A point, a\r\nzero. You are walking on the ground and are not looking down. You place one\r\nstep forward and then another and you trample thousands of innocent ants under\r\nyour feet. If you were an ant you would have cried out, what a cruel and stupid\r\nforce! Imagine other forces stalking about much bigger than yourself and under\r\ntheir casual steps millions of creatures like you are crushed, continents are\r\npressed down and mountains kicked up. They .do not even notice such\r\ncatastrophic happenings! The only difference between man and ant is that man\r\nknows what happens to him and the ant does not. 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It has been created for concentrating\r\nthe force that is to transform Matter. It is the symbol of the divine\r\npotentiality in Matter. As we have said, the earth was created through a direct\r\nintervention of the Divine Consciousness: it is on the earth alone that there\r\nis and can be the direct contact with the Divine. The earth absorbs and\r\ndevelops and radiates the divine light; its radiation spreads through space and\r\nextends wherever there is Matter. The material universe shares, to some extent,\r\nthe gift that the earth brings – the light and harmony of the Divine\r\nConsciousness. But it is upon the Earth alone that there is the full and final\r\nflowering of that consciousness.<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\'>The\r\npsychic being is found on the earth alone, for it is a product of the earth: it\r\nis the touch of the Divine upon Matter. The psychic being is a child of the\r\nEarth: it is born and grows upon <span class=GramE>Earth,</span> it is native\r\nto nowhere else. Still when it develops sufficiently and becomes an adult\r\nindividuality, it can go to other physical domains, visit other planets, for\r\nexample.<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 – 228<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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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_Earth a Symbol','','publish','closed','open','','049_earth-a-symbol','','','2021-11-23 17:59:11','2021-11-23 17:59:11','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/049_earth-a-symbol/',0,'post','',0),(2170,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:11','2021-11-23 17:59:11','<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 Homogeneous Being</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:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The Homogeneous Being</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;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\'>A THING is\r\nhomogeneous when all its parts are similar, are <i>like itself; </i>in other\r\nwords, when the whole being is under the same influence, moved by the same\r\nconsciousness, the same impulsion, the same will. Normally a man is formed of\r\nmany kinds of fragments, all disparate, each becoming active in its turn at\r\ndifferent moments. A part may become active so different from the previous one\r\nthat a man seems altogether a new person. Each element in us has its own nature\r\nand activity, demands its own fulfilment, <span class=GramE>acts</span> almost\r\nas an independent personality. We are composed indeed of multiple\r\npersonalities.<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\'>Thus,\r\nfor example, you are now in a very good state of consciousness. You have the\r\nfeeling that you really live for an ideal, for the Divine and are happy.\r\nSuddenly something happens; you meet someone, not very desirable or you do\r\nsomething, not commendable, or you are in the midst of some untoward\r\ncircumstances and you find you have lost your experience, so much so that you\r\nmay even lose the memory of it. You wonder how this could have happened. A sub­merged\r\npart of your being has come up, an element that lay aside is now in front; it\r\nhas come overshadowing or pushing the other into the background.<o:p></o:p></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\'>There\r\nare many examples of such double, triple, quadruple or multiple personalities.\r\nThe separate personalities are not conscious of each <span class=GramE>other,</span>\r\neach acts independently and goes its own way. They live together, but do not\r\nmix or mingle with each other; they are contained in the same <span\r\nclass=GramE>body, that</span> is the only connection. It is like a sack in\r\nwhich pebbles and pearls­ – if they are indeed real pearls – have been thrown\r\ntogether and the only bond of union is the sack. This is not homogeneity; this\r\nis called heterogeneity.<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 – 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\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;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I knew a person who had a will, <span class=GramE>a\r\nclarity</span> of thought and ideas, who prepared intelligently all that needed\r\nto be done with regard to a particular work. All on a sudden there was a\r\nreversal of the whole being. Another person surged up <span class=GramE>who</span>\r\nnot only did not carry on the work of his predecessor, but undid it all. He\r\ndestroyed in 10 minutes what had taken months for the other to build up. And\r\nyou can understand the dismay of the first person when he came back and saw the\r\nhavoc done: <span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp; </span>he had to start all over\r\nagain.</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;tab-stops:.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>What then should one do? What is the remedy?</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;tab-stops:.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You have to find out in you a seat of consciousness, a\r\nsignpost firmly planted, deep inside, which is at the same time a mirror. All\r\nthings, all happenings must pass in front of the mirror; they will be reflected\r\nthere in their true nature, exactly as they are in their truth and not as they\r\nappear or pretend to be. And according to their nature and quality you are to\r\ngive them places around; the signpost will show where each has to go for its\r\nplace. The Mirror will judge and test each sentiment, each impulse, <span\r\nclass=GramE>each</span> sensation that comes up. If it is pleasant, if it is\r\nluminous, if it is what it should be, give it a place near the centre. If on\r\nthe other hand, it is grey, obscure, doubtful, put it away, farther off. If, by\r\nchance, any of the unpleasant elements has forced its way up and occupied a\r\nnear seat, you must warn it sternly and remove it and give it its appropriate\r\nseat; when it has recognised itself, changed itself, then only can it be\r\nallowed a place within a nearer ring. It is in this way that you should arrange\r\nand group all the elements of your being, according to the value and quality of\r\neach one around the central consciousness. That is how you organise your being.\r\nYou build up a pattern of concentric rings, the nearer the ring to the centre,\r\nthe purer must be the elements that compose it and therefore of greater value\r\nand significance. If you can arrange in this way all the parts and parcels of your\r\nbeing around the psychic centre, each in its own place according to its role\r\nand function and all turned towards the central consciousness and inspired and\r\nmoved by it and there is no element which strikes a discordant note, then you\r\nhave the perfect homogeneity of your nature.<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\'>It\r\nis a very interesting exercise in which you can engage yourself. If you take it\r\nup and follow it regularly and <span class=SpellE>assi</span><span class=GramE><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>duously</span>, </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 – 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\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-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span class=GramE>you will\r\namuse yourself immensely and with profit. Time will never hang heavy, it will\r\nbear golden fruits. At the end, say of two or three years, you will see, if you\r\nlook back, how much you have changed; you wonder how you could have thought or\r\nacted as you did. You find yourself a considerably changed personality. You can\r\nstart the experiment from today itself and see how life becomes more and more\r\namusing, interesting and significant.</span></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\"><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 – 410<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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-118_The Homogeneous Being','','publish','closed','open','','118_the-homogeneous-being','','','2021-11-23 17:59:11','2021-11-23 17:59:11','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/118_the-homogeneous-being/',0,'post','',0),(2171,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:11','2021-11-23 17:59:11','<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 Tragic Spirit in Nature</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<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; font-weight:700\'><font size=\"4\">The\r\nTragic Spirit in Nature</font><o:p></o:p></span></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 lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>T</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>HE</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> wages of\r\nsin, it is said, is death. Well, it can, with equal if not greater truth, be\r\nsaid that the wages of virtue too is death! It seems as though on this mortal\r\nearth nothing great or glorious can be achieved which is not marred somehow or\r\nother, sometime or other. The blazon of virtue goes very rarely without a bar\r\nsinister branded across. Some kind of degradation, ignominy or frustration\r\nalways attends or rounds. <span class=GramE>off</span> the spectacle of wonder.\r\nIn the moral world too there seems to exist an inexorable law that action and\r\nreaction are equal in degree and opposite in kind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The\r\nglorious First Consul and Emperor did not end in a­blaze of glory: he had to\r\nlive and die as the commonest of prisoners. Even his great prototype, the\r\nmighty Caesar, did not meet a different fate – he too fell – </span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>\r\n<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\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>0, what a\r\nfall was there, my countrymen!<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Then I,\r\nand you, and all of us fell down, ¹<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>A Jeanne <span\r\nclass=SpellE>d\'Arc</span>, another glorious creature, Deliverer of France, the\r\nsweetest thing that ever put on a human body, was burnt as a witch. Socrates\r\nhad to drink the hemlock for having brought down heavenly knowledge upon earth.\r\nThe Christ, God\'s own son and beloved, perished on the Cross. <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>, the\r\nAvatara, was killed by a chance arrow; and Arjuna, the peerless hero of <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Kurukshetra</span>, <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>\'s\r\nfavourite, had to see days when he could not even lift his own bow with which\r\nhe once played havoc. And in our own days, a Rama­krishna, who could cure <span\r\nclass=GramE>souls</span> could not cure his own cancer.<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 lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:1.8in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>¹ Shakespeare: <i>Julius Caesar, </i>Act III, Sc. II <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>\r\n<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-line-height-alt:\r\n2.4pt;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 lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>­Page-116<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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>This is\r\nthe &quot;tears of things&quot; – spoken of by a great poet – the tragedy that\r\nis lodged in the hearts of things.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;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\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>There runs\r\na pessimistic vein in Nature\'s movement. Due to the original Inconscience out\r\nof which she is built and also because of a habit formed through millenniums it\r\nis not possible for her to expect or envisage anything else than decay, death\r\nand frustration in the end or on the whole. To every rise there must be a fall,\r\na crest must end in a trough. Nature has <span class=GramE>not the courage nor</span>\r\nthe faculty to look for any kind of perfection upon earth. Not that within her\r\nrealm one cannot or should not try for the good; the noble, even the perfect,\r\nbut one must be ready to pay the price. Good there is and may be, but it is\r\nsuffered only on payment of its <span class=SpellE>Danegeld</span> to Evil.\r\nThat is the law of sacrifice that seems to be fundamental to Nature\'s\r\ngovernance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;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\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The Evil,\r\nwe have said, is nothing else than the basis of unconsciousness or Inconscience\r\nin Nature. It is this which pulls the being – whatever structure of\r\nconsciousness can be reared upon it-down to decay and frustration. It is the\r\nforce of gravitation or inertia. Matter is unconsciousness; the body, formed\r\nbasically of matter, is unconsciousness too. The natural tendency of Matter is\r\ntowards disintegration and dissolution; the body, therefore, is <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>mortal <i>– <span class=SpellE>bhasmantamidam</span>\r\n<span class=SpellE>sariram</span>. </i>The scope and range of\r\nmortality is measured by the scope and range of unconsciousness. Matter is the\r\nmost concrete and solid form of unconsciousness; but it casts its shadow upon\r\nthe higher levels too – life and mind always lie in the penumbra of this\r\noriginal evil.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:14.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>A great personality means a great rise in\r\nconsciousness, therefore it means also a strain upon the normal consciousness\r\nand hence a snap or scission sometime and somewhere. As the poet describes the\r\ntragic phenomenon –</span></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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><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\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>– poised\r\non the unreachable abrupt<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:37.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>snow-solitary</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> ascent<o:p></o:p></span></span></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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Earth\r\naspiring lifts to the illimitable Light,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:37.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>then</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> ceases broken and\r\nspent, ¹…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:37.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The\r\ntragedy can happen in either of two ways. The in-<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>¹ Sri Aurobindo:\r\n&quot;In <span class=SpellE>Horis</span> <span class=SpellE>Aeternum</span>&quot;,\r\n<i>Collected Poems </i>&amp; <i>Plays</i></span><i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></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\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-117</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=SpellE><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>individual\'s</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> own unconsciousness can reach and overthrow and spoil\r\nhis higher poise, or the collective unconsciousness too can invade and\r\noverwhelm the individual in his high status, who is declared, not unoften, the highbrow, an enemy of the people – although\r\natonement is sometimes attempted at a late period (as in the case of the Christ\r\nor Jeanne d\'Arc). A way, however, was discovered in <st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> by which\r\none could avoid this life\'s inevitable tragic denouement. It was very simple, viz, to rise up from the inert ignorant unconsciousness,\r\nrise sufficiently high and fly or shoot into the orbits of other suns from\r\nwhere there is no more <span class=GramE>downfall</span>, being totally free\r\nfrom all earthly downpull.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;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\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>But this\r\nneed not be the only solution. Matter (the basic unconsciousness) was the\r\nmaster in this material world <span class=GramE>because,</span> it was not\r\nproperly faced and negotiated. One sought to avoid and bypass it. It was there\r\nSphinx-like and none stopped to answer its riddle. The mystery is this. Matter,\r\nmaterial Nature that is dubbed unconsciousness is not really so. That is only\r\nan appearance. Matter is truly <i>inconscient, </i>that is to say, it has an\r\ninner core of consciousness which is its true reality. This hidden flame of\r\nconsciousness should be brought out from its cave and made manifest, dynamic on\r\nthe surface. Then it will easily and naturally agree to submit to the higher\r\nlaw of Immortality. This would mean a reconditioning, a trans­mutation of the\r\nvery basis of mind and life. The material foundation, the body conditions thus\r\nchanged will bring about that status of the wholeness of consciousness which\r\nholds and stabilises the Divine in the human frame, which never suffers from\r\nany scar or diminution even in its terrestrial embodiment.<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;text-indent:27.0pt;\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 lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-118<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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"61\" height=\"28\" 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_The Tragic Spirit in Nature','','publish','closed','open','','023_the-tragic-spirit-in-nature','','','2021-11-23 17:59:11','2021-11-23 17:59:11','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/023_the-tragic-spirit-in-nature/',0,'post','',0),(2172,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:12','2021-11-23 17:59:12','<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>Some Conceptions and Misconceptions</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<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; text-indent:27pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><font size=\"4\">Some\r\nConceptions and Misconceptions</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>A </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>QUESTION</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> is asked, where, at what stage or\r\nlevel of Involution does the principle of exclusive concentration (the\r\nprinciple of Ignorance) come in? If, as Sri Aurobindo says, it comes\r\nsubsequently at a later stage, where was it then before? Was it not in the\r\nAbsolute Reality itself? There can be nothing that is not inherent in the\r\nAbsolute Reality. We all know, nothing comes out of nothing. Then, if it is in\r\nthe original Reality already, why should it come out at a later stage and not\r\nbe active from the very beginning? This standpoint seems to have been\r\nanticipated by some schools (Visishtadwaita Vedanta, for example) who describe\r\nin consequence the Reality (Brahman) as consisting, when viewed as a totality,\r\nof both Knowledge and Ignorance – <i>cit – acit</i>; the Ignorance is a sort of\r\nperipheral reality not touching or affecting the Knowledge, but connected with\r\nor depending upon the nuclear reality, something like the physical body\r\ncoexisting with and depending on the soul or self. One can also remember in\r\nthis connection the Purusha-Prakriti relation in Sankhya. Such a standpoint, I\r\nsuppose, is the precursor or philosophical background of what is well known as\r\nthe Manichean principle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Sri Aurobindo\'s view is different. It\r\nis something like this – I am putting the thing as simply as possible, without\r\nentering into details or mysteries that merely confuse the brain. The Absolute\r\nReality contains all, nothing can be outside it, pain and sin and all; true.\r\nBut these do not exist as such in the supreme status, they are resolved each\r\ninto its ultimate and fundamental force of consciousness. When we say I all\r\nthings, whatever they are, exist in the Divine Consciousness, the <o:p></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;text-indent:27.0pt;\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\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Page-85<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Absolute, we have an idea that they exist there\r\nas they do here as objects or entities; it goes without saying, they do not.\r\nNaturally we have to make a distinction between things of Knowledge and things\r\nof Ignorance. Although there is a gradation between the two – Knowledge rolls\r\nor wraps itself gradually into Ignorance and Ignorance unrolls or unfolds\r\nitself slowly into Knowledge – still in the Divine Consciousness things of\r\nKnowledge alone exist, things of Ignorance cannot be said to exist there on the\r\nsame title, because, as I have said, the original truths of things alone are\r\nthere – not their derivations and deformations. One can say, indeed, that in\r\nthe supreme Light darkness exists as a possibility; but this is only a figure\r\nof speech. Possibility does not mean that it is there like a seed – or even a\r\nchromosome rod – to sprout and grow. Possibility really means just a chance of\r\nthe consciousness acting in a certain way, developing in a particular direction\r\nunder certain conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Matter exists in the absolute\r\nConsciousness, not as Matter but as its fundamental substratum, as that radical\r\nmode of being or consciousness which by the devolution of consciousness and the\r\ninteraction of Knowledge and Ignorance in the end works itself out as Matter.\r\nSo also with regard to Life and with regard to Mind. If things are to exist in\r\nthe highest status of consciousness, the Divine Consciousness, exactly as they\r\nexist now, there would be no point or meaning in creation or manifestation.\r\nManifestation or creation does not mean merely unveiling or unrolling in the\r\nsense of unpacking. It means a gradual shift in the stress of consciousness,\r\ngiving it a particular mode of action.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The unrolling or Involution is the\r\npath traced by consciousness in its changing modes of concentration. The\r\nprinciple of concentration is inherent in consciousness. Sri Aurobindo speaks\r\nof four modes or degrees of this concentration: (I) the essential, (2) the\r\nintegral, (3) the total or global and (4) the separative. The first is &quot;a\r\nsole in-dwelling or an entire absorption in the essence of its own being&quot;\r\n-it is the superconscient Silence, at one end, and the Inconscience, at the\r\nother. The second is the total Sachchidananda, the supramental concentration;\r\nthe third, multiple or totalising overmental awareness; the fourth is the\r\nconcentration of Ignorance. All the four,</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:27.0pt;\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 lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-86<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:4.5pt;text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>however, form the integral play of\r\none indivisible consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Here we come to the very heart of\r\nthe mystery. As we have put it thus far, the process of Involution would appear\r\nas a series of stages in a descending order, a movement along a vertical line,\r\nas it were, one stage following another, more or less separate from each other,\r\nthe lower being ever more ignorant, more separative, more exclusive. But this\r\nis not the whole picture. At each lower stage the higher is not merely high\r\nabove, but also comes down and stands behind or becomes immanent in the lower.\r\nAlong with the vertical movement there is also a horizontal movement. In other\r\nwords, even when we are sunk in the lowest stratum of Ignorance – in the domain\r\nof Matter – we have also there all the other strands behind, even the very\r\nhighest, not merely as passive or neutral entities, but as dynamic agents\r\nexerting their living pressure to the full. Indeed the Ignorance is not mere\r\nIgnorance, but Knowledge itself, the very highest Knowledge, but in a\r\nparticular mode of activity. What appears ignorant is full of a secret\r\nKnowledge – it is just the outer surface, the facet that appears as its\r\nopposite because of a particular manner of concentration, a total\r\nself-abandonment in the object of Knowledge. That Knowledge stands revealed if\r\nthe mask is put away, that is to say, if we get behind, If we <i>release</i>\r\nthe exclusiveness of the concentration. This release or getting behind does not\r\nmean necessarily the dissolution of the status itself-for it is the pressure\r\nfrom behind, the concentration of the hidden consciousness that creates the\r\nstatus and its truth-forms; with the exclusiveness goes away only the twist,\r\nthe aberration produced by it. When the consciousness withdraws from its mode\r\nand field of exclusive concentration, it need not concentrate again on the\r\nwithdrawal only, it can be an inclusive concentration also embracing both the\r\nstatus-the frontal and the behind. Both can be held together in one single\r\nmovement of consciousness possessing the double function of projection and\r\ncomprehension – <i>praj</i></span><i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>ñ</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>ana</span></i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> and <i>vij</i></span><i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>ñ</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>ana.</span></i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Such a synthetic poise is not a mere\r\ntheoretical possibility: it is an actuality and is being demonstrated by the\r\nfact of evolution. The partial release of the absolutely exclusive\r\nconcentration of consciousness in Matter has given rise to Life</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:27.0pt;\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 lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-87<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>which is a double poise: Life plays in and\r\nthrough Matter and has not dissolved Matter. Likewise a further release of\r\nconcentration has given birth to Mind which still bases itself upon and is\r\nwoven into Life and Matter. The change-over from unconsciousness to\r\nconsciousness and from consciousness to super-consciousness is the movement of\r\nconsciousness from a unilateral towards an ever widening multiple poise and\r\nfunctioning of concentration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The exclusive concentration was the\r\nlogical and inevitable final term of a movement of separativity and\r\nexteriorisation. It had its necessity and utility. Its special function was\r\nutilised by Nature for precision and perfection in details of execution in the\r\nmost material order of reality. Indeed, what can be more exact and accurate\r\nthan the laws of physics, the mathematical laws that govern the movements of\r\nthe material particles? Furthermore, if we look at the scientist himself, do we\r\nnot find in him an apt image of the same phenomenon? A scientist means a\r\nspecialist – the more specialised and restricted his view, the surer he is\r\nlikely to be in his particular domain. And specialised knowledge means a\r\nwithdrawal from other fields and viewpoints of knowledge, an ignorance of them.\r\nLikewise, a workman who moulds the head of a pin is all concentrated upon that\r\nsingle point of existence – he forgets the whole world and himself in that act\r\nwhose perfect execution seems to depend upon the measure of his self-oblivion.\r\nBut evidently this is not bound to be so. A one-pointed self-absorption – that\r\nis Ignorance – is certainly an effective way of dealing with material objects –\r\nthings of Ignorance; but it is not the only way. It is a way or mechanism\r\nadopted by Nature in a certain status under certain conditions. One need not\r\nalways forget oneself in the act in order to do the act perfectly. An\r\nunconscious instinctive act is not always best done-it can be done best\r\nconsciously, intuitively. A wider knowledge, a greater acquaintance with\r\nobjects and facts and truths of other domains too is being more and more\r\ninsisted upon as a surer basis of specialisation. The pinpointed (one might\r\nalmost say geometrically pointed) consciousness in Matter that resolves itself\r\ninto unconsciousness acts perfectly but blindly; the vast consciousness also\r\nacts there with absolute perfection but consciously-conscious in the highest\r\ndegree.</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><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;text-indent:27.0pt;\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 lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-88<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>As we have said, super-consciousness does not\r\nconfine itself to the supreme status alone, to the domain of pure infinity, but\r\nit comes down and embraces the most inferior status too, the status of the\r\nfinite. Precisely because it is infinity, it is not bound to its infinity but can\r\nexpress its infinity in and through infinite limits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>2</span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The principle of &quot;exclusive\r\nconcentration&quot; does not by itself really create the &quot;objects&quot; of\r\nthe material world; it creates the perception-the illusory perception – of\r\nseparativeness, that objects are more or less closed systems, distinct and\r\nisolated from one another. The sense of limitation – and hence actual\r\nlimitation, not however real or essential limitation – comes out of the\r\nexclusive concentration. This does not mean that the limitation or discreteness\r\nof objects is merely <i>psychological</i> (mental), not <i>ontological</i>, as\r\none may say. In Sri Aurobindo\'s outlook the distinction between psychological\r\nand ontological is not trenchant and absolute. For, &quot;psychological&quot;,\r\naccording to him, does not mean merely &quot;mental&quot; but also\r\n&quot;relating to consciousness&quot;; and although mind does not create\r\nmaterial objects, consciousness may do so – indeed it is the force of the\r\noriginal consciousness, which is the force of being, that has created the\r\nphysical plane of multiplicity. This creative power is the self-projecting\r\nenergy of consciousness – <i>praj</i></span><i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>ñ</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>ana</span></i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>. It is,\r\nin other words, the force of individuation inherent in the play of\r\nconsciousness. Now, as I have already said, at a certain stage, under certain\r\nconditions, through a gradation of stages, this force of individuation\r\noriginally and intrinsically existing and working in and through unity and\r\nintegration, is possessed or veiled by or &quot;devolves&quot; into a force of\r\nlimitation, meaning separateness and exclusion. What would otherwise be an\r\nensemble, an organism of individualities held together and moving as various\r\nforms or lines of force of one and the same reality, is now broken up and\r\nbecomes a conglomeration of isolated entities. Unity is transformed into\r\nmultiplicity, solidarity is lost in plurality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>We can, however, make a distinction\r\nbetween &quot;limitation&quot; and &quot;delimitation&quot; or individuation.\r\nLimitation is a movement<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;text-indent:27.0pt;\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 lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-89<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>of Ignorance: it is the result of exclusive\r\nconcentration. It creates separateness, forgets the unity. Delimitation, on the\r\ncontrary, is a movement of knowledge, of pure consciousness dynamic. It creates\r\ndiversity, multiplicity maintained in unity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>It is to be added that the\r\nlimitation in Ignorance is after all apparent; that does not mean it is unreal\r\nor illusory, in the sense of Mayavada. Here is the distinction: Mayavada holds\r\nall formation as <i>maya</i>, illusory, makes no difference between limitation\r\nand delimitation: according to it, all delimitation is ignorant and illusory\r\nlimitation; none has real or essential existence. In Sri Aurobindo\'s view\r\nlimitation is real, as also delimitation: only the former is a temporary\r\nreality, it is the latter itself but under certain conditions. Again, Mayavada\r\nspeaks of the Brahman, the Absolute or Transcendent as the sole and true\r\nreality: it is the Stable, the Unmoving, the utter Unity cancelling, negating\r\nall movement and multiplicity. Sri Aurobindo views the highest reality as\r\ndynamic also, permeating the multiplicity and becoming the multiplicity, becoming\r\nor existing as the multiplicity in a movement of Knowledge, becoming and\r\nappearing also at<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>first in a movement and mode of Ignorance as\r\nthe material multiplicity but gradually transmuting this ignorant multiplicity\r\ninto a movement and embodiment of Knowledge. For the Knowledge was always there\r\nin and behind the Ignorance, secretly informing and guiding, moulding and\r\ntransforming it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Thus, for example, we would not say\r\npain is an illusion, because Ananda is the root of all and is the All. We say\r\npain is also a reality: it is a temporary and localised form of Ananda, Ananda\r\nmuted and deformed, under certain stresses and conditions. Ananda is there\r\nalways but not away and aloof from pain; it is not the opposite or the negation\r\nof pain. Nor is pain a superimposition, as something foreign, upon Ananda, so\r\nthat when it passes away, like a cloud, Ananda appears automatically in its\r\nfull glory. We consider pain as a formation of Ananda, it is the first result\r\nof an effort of consciousness to hold Ananda in and through a form, but it need\r\nnot and cannot be the last consummation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>In fact, the Mayavadin ascribes true\r\nreality (<i>paramarthika</i>) to the transcendental alone; even when that\r\nreality is spoken of as within and behind – and not merely beyond – the world</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><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;text-indent:27.0pt;\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 lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-90<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>and the individual, he takes it to mean as\r\nsomething away and aloof from the appearances, unmixed and untouched by these,\r\nand hence practically transcendent. Sri Aurobindo gives full and independent value\r\nto each of these triple states which, united and fused together, form the true\r\nand total reality. The transcendent reality is also immanent in the cosmos as\r\nthe World-Power and the World-Consciousness and the creative Delight: it is\r\nalso resident in the individual as the individual godhead – <i>antaryamin</i> –\r\nthe conscious Energy that informs, inspires, drives and directs all local\r\nformations towards a divine fulfilment in time and in this physical domain. In\r\nthis view nothing is illusory – even though some may be temporary – they are\r\nall contributory to thy Divine End and take their place there in a transfigured\r\nform and rhythm. We are here far from being such stuffs as dreams are made of.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>One must not forget, however, that\r\nthe principle of exclusive concentration cannot be isolated I from the total\r\naction of consciousness and viewed as functioning by itself at any time. We\r\nisolated it for logical comprehension. In actuality it is integrated with the\r\nwhole <i>nisus</i> of consciousness and operates in conjunction with and as\r\npart of the total drive. That total drive at one point results in the multiple\r\nrealities of Matter. 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margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Fatigue and Work</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\'><b><i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:20.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></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\">FATIGUE, it is said, comes\r\nfrom overwork. The cure for fatigue is therefore rest, that is, do-nothing. But\r\nthe truth of the matter is that most often fatigue is due not to too much work,\r\nbut rather too little work, in other words, laziness or boredom. In fact,\r\nfatigue need not come too soon or too easily, provided one knows how to set about\r\nhis work. If you are interested in your work, you can continue for a very long\r\ntime without fatigue; and precisely one of the means of recovering from fatigue\r\nis not to sit down and slip into lethargy and <i>tamas, </i>but to take up a\r\nwork that rouses your interest. Work done in joy and quiet enthusiasm is tonic:\r\nit is dynamic rest. A work done without interest, as a sort of duty or task,\r\nwill naturally tire you soon. The remedy therefore against fatigue is to keep\r\nthe interest awake. Now, there is a further mystery. Interest does not depend\r\nupon the work: any work can be made interesting and interesting to a supreme\r\ndegree. There is no work which is by itself dull, insipid, uninteresting. All\r\ndepends upon the value you yourself put upon it; you can choose to make it as\r\nattractive as a romance, as significant as a symbol.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:10.3pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">How\r\nto do it? How to find interest in any thing or all things? Is there not a work\r\nthat conforms to your nature, adapted to your character and capacity? And are\r\nthere not works that are against the grain with you that lie outside your scope\r\nand province?<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:.15in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">The\r\nquestion is not about your scope and capacity. All depends upon your attitude,\r\nthe consciousness with which you approach a work, especially when you are a\r\nsadhak. When a work comes to you or when you have to do a work, you must take\r\nit up as a thing worth doing. Whatever the value given to it normally or you\r\noften put upon it, you should not neglect<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 235<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\'>or merely\r\ntolerate it, but welcome it and set about it with the utmost conscientiousness\r\npossible. Even if it were a trifling insignificant thing, a menial affair, for\r\nexample, do not consider it as mean or beneath your dignity. Directly you begin\r\nto do a thing in the right spirit, you will find it becoming miraculously\r\ninteresting. Try to bring perfection even in that bit of insignificance. Do it\r\nwith a goodwill, even if it is scrubbing the floor, telling yourself: &quot;I\r\nmust do it as best I can, that is to say, this too I shall do even better than\r\na servant, I shall make the floor look really neat and clean and\r\nbeautiful.&quot; That is the crux of the matter. You should try to bring out\r\nthe best in you and put it into your work. In other words, the work becomes an\r\ninstrument of progress. The goodwill, attention, concentration,\r\nself-forgetfulness and the control over yourself, over your organs and nerves –\r\nthe &quot;smaller&quot; the work the more detailed is the control gained – all\r\nwhich are involved in doing a work perfectly, with as much perfection as it is\r\npossible for you to command, are elements called forth in you and help to make\r\nyou a better man. Indeed a work for which you have no preferential bias, to\r\nwhich you are not emotionally attached, even indifferent normally, may be of\r\nespecial help, for you will be able to do it with less nervous disturbance,\r\nwith a large amount of detachment and disinterestedness.<o:p></o:p></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\'>Man\r\nusually chooses his work or is made to choose a work because of a vital\r\npreference, a prejudice or notion that it is the kind in which he can shine or\r\nsucceed. This egoistic vanity or opportunism may be necessary or unavoidable in\r\nordinary life; but when one wishes to go beyond the ordinary life and aspires\r\nfor the true life, this attachment or personal choice is more an impediment\r\nthan a help to progress, towards finding the way to the true life. The Yogic\r\nattitude to work therefore is that of absolute detachment, not to have any\r\nchoice, but to accept and do whatever is given to you, whatever comes to you in\r\nyour normal course of life and do it with the utmost perfection possible. It is\r\nin that way and that way alone that all work becomes supremely interesting, and\r\nall life a miracle of delight.<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\'>This\r\ndoes not mean, however, that there is no work natural to you, for which you\r\nhave a special aptitude, in and through<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 236<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\'>which your\r\nsoul, the Divine, can express itself fully and wholly in a special manner. But\r\nwhat is that work? The <i>kartavyam karma – the </i>work that demands to be\r\ndone – deriving from your <i>swadharma – your </i>self-nature? Evidently, it is\r\nnot that of your superficial nature, which the mind chooses, the vital prefers\r\nand the body finds convenient. To come by your true or soul work, you have to\r\npass through a considerable discipline, a rigorous training.<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\'>You\r\ncannot throw off this work and that at random declaring they are not the work\r\nfit for you or jump at anything that your fancy <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>favours</span>. Indeed, you cannot give up\r\nanything, cast out anything, simply because it is unpleasant or not\r\nsufficiently pleasant. The more violently you try to shake off a thing, the\r\nmore it will try to stick to you. Instead of that, you must know how to let a\r\nthing drop of itself, quietly, automatically and definitively. That is the only\r\nway of getting rid of an unwanted or an unnecessary thing. Before all, be\r\nsincere to yourself: that is to say, try to follow the highest light and\r\naspiration in you each moment, and be faithful to that and that alone. Never\r\nallow yourself to be shaken or moved by the likes and dislikes of your mind or\r\nheart or body. Do even what goes against the grain of your body or heart or\r\nmind, if it is presented to you as the thing to be done; do it as calmly,\r\ndispassionately and as perfectly as it is possible for you to do and leave the\r\nrest to your higher destiny. If you belong all to your soul, if you are\r\nobedient to the Divine alone, then as this consciousness and poise grow clearer\r\nand steadier in you, you will find things that are not consonant with it\r\ndropping off from you quietly and without any effort or reaction from you, like\r\nautumn leaves from branches that supply the sap no more. Your work is changed,\r\nyour circumstances are changed, your relation with things and per-sons are\r\nchanged automatically and inevitably in accordance with the need and demand of\r\nyour soul-consciousness.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 237<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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; 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line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Darkness to Light</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\n18.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></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:237.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE Darkness is the measure of the Light. The world as it is <span\r\nclass=SpellE>is</span> exactly the opposite of what it has to be and shall be.\r\nAnd in order to be what it shall be it had to become what it is now, just not\r\nthat which it will be. The antipodes go together unavoidably: the depth of the\r\nprecipice is the precise measure of the height. Man\'s fall represents the\r\nascent he has to make, he is destined to make.<span style=\'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; </span>.<o:p></o:p></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\'>Hurdles\r\nand obstacles are put there in the way: not merely to test your strength, but\r\nto train it, to increase it, to discipline it. Difficulties abound precisely\r\nbecause by overcoming them you attain to the fullness of your perfection. You\r\nhave been built with elements and forces that are exactly in keeping with what\r\nyou are expected to do with them: you are placed in the midst of conditions and\r\ncircumstances that are absolutely in proportion to what you have to realise.\r\nIndeed you carry within yourself all the difficulties that are necessary to\r\nmake your realisation perfection itself.</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\'>When\r\nyou receive a blow, do not draw back or blink and sink down: hold up your head\r\nwith courage and fortitude and say to yourself, here is another opportunity\r\ngiven to take another step forward. The blow is a finger of light pointed\r\ntowards a dark spot to be illumined, a weak link that has to be forged anew. In\r\nmeeting and surmounting a difficulty you add another degree to your ascension,\r\nanother sinew as it were to your muscle. Remember a difficulty is never out <span\r\nclass=GramE>of <span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>proportion to your\r\nstrength: it comes in the exact measure of your power to face it. It is your\r\nmind, your notion that makes the contrary suggestion, a kind of illusion\r\npossesses you that you are beyond your depth and must go adrift.</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\'>\r\nYou may not be able to do the ideal things at a given mo<span class=GramE>ment</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 – 218<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-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">You may not command the perfect gesture that is expected of you in a set of\r\ncircumstances; the Divine may seem to be veiled from you and you do not hear\r\nthe direct voice. But it does not matter. What is expected of you is to do your\r\nbest, do the best\' that you are capable of at that moment. That highest that is\r\npresent to you, the summit available for the time and under the circumstances –\r\nthat should be the source and inspiration of your act. Act on the heights where\r\nyou stand and aspire for still higher heights.<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 – 219<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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-045_Darkness to Light','','publish','closed','open','','045_darkness-to-light','','','2021-11-23 17:59:12','2021-11-23 17:59:12','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/045_darkness-to-light/',0,'post','',0),(2175,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:12','2021-11-23 17:59:12','<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>This Mystery of Existence</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:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">This Mystery of Existence</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;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 you\r\never asked yourself why there is this universe at all, at least this earth with\r\nwhich we are so much concerned and which seems to us so real, so authentic? It\r\nwould perhaps be very wise on your part if you did not! I have often spoken to\r\nyou of Theon. He was truly a sage in his own way. People used to come to him\r\nand ask questions. Many asked why there was a universe. He would answer,\r\n&quot;But what is that to you?&quot; Some would ask, &quot;Why is the universe\r\nlike this?&quot; To that ht would say, &quot;It is what it is, how <span\r\nclass=GramE>does it matter</span>?&quot; Others again would remark, &quot;I do\r\nnot consider the world a satisfactory affair.&quot; There, we begin to come more\r\nto the point. To those who find the world unsatisfactory I would say, &quot;Get\r\nto work, try to change it. Find a way that it may be otherwise, that it may be\r\nmade better.&quot; Things are what they <span class=GramE>are,</span> it is no\r\nuse speculating over that and getting worried. Seek for the means of remedy, so\r\nthat things may be made what they should be. Why are things what they are? <span\r\nclass=GramE>Not that one cannot know the reason, although one may not always be\r\nsure of it.</span> The best thing to do is to take whatever is as it is and try\r\nto change it towards that which it ought to be. Now the wonder of it is that if\r\nyou are sincere, if you want to know sincerely and work sincerely, you will\r\ncome to know why things are what they are – the cause, the origin and the\r\nprocess, for they are all one. There is one truth at the base of things; if\r\nthat were not there, nothing would be. If you seize that truth, you seize at\r\nthe same time the origin of the creation and the means of changing it as well.\r\nIn other words, if you are in contact with the Divine – for the Divine is that\r\nbase – you are in possession of the key to all things, you know the why, the\r\nhow and the process for change. One thing to do then is to start doing the\r\nthing.<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 – 309<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\'>But you\r\nmight say, it is too much, too difficult, too big for you – to work in the\r\nworld or for the world. Well then, start with yourself. You are a little mass\r\nof substance, a symbol or representative of the universe. Let your work then be\r\nto form and refashion that particle. Concentrate upon it, go within – even\r\nwithin that little person of yourself you will find the long looked-for key.<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 – 310<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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-084_This Mystery of Existence','','publish','closed','open','','084_this-mystery-of-existence','','','2021-11-23 17:59:12','2021-11-23 17:59:12','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/084_this-mystery-of-existence/',0,'post','',0),(2176,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:12','2021-11-23 17:59:12','<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>Service Human and 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\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Service Human and Divine</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=\"mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">To wish to serve humanity, to do <span class=GramE>good</span>\r\nto it shows ambition and egoism? How?<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-indent:11pt; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">Why do you wish to serve\r\nhumanity? What is your purpose? What is your motive? Do you know in what <span\r\nclass=GramE>consists</span> the good of humanity? And do you know better than\r\nhumanity itself what is good for it? Or do you know it better than the Divine?\r\nYou say the Divine is everywhere, so if you serve humanity, it is the Divine\r\nwhom you serve. Well, if the Divine is every­where, he is in you too; so the\r\nbest and the most logical thing should be to begin by serving yourself.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:12pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">Is\r\nthere then no need for service to humanity? Hospitals, nursing <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>organisations</span>, charitable\r\ninstitutions have not been useful to humanity? Has not the spirit of\r\nphilanthropy mended and improved the conditions of human life?<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:12pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">Has\r\nit, I ask? You have tried to help a few people here and there. But what does it\r\namount to compared to what needs to be done? The proverbial drop in the ocean\r\nor less than that even. You remember the story of St. Vincent de Paul? He began\r\ngiving alms to the poor. On the first day there were ten, on the second some\r\ntwenty, on the third more than fifty and the number went on swelling in more\r\nthan geometrical pro­gression. <span class=GramE>And then?</span> Colbert, the\r\nKing\'s Minister, remarked seeing the plight of the saint: &quot;Our brother\r\nseems to be giving birth endlessly to his poor people&quot;.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:12.7pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">I do\r\nnot think that the spirit of charity has in any way improved human conditions.\r\nI do not see that men have become either more or less subject to disease and\r\nindigence than before. Charity was always there and misery has coexisted with\r\nit ever. I do not think the ratio between the two has diminished in any way.\r\nYou remember the ironical but<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 411<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\nclass=GramE>pertinent</span> remark of someone who said in view of science\'s\r\nattempts to cure and remove misery: &quot;Poor philanthropists would be in a\r\nsad plight, their occupation will go!&quot; The true reason why one wishes to\r\ndo charity is elsewhere, it is to please oneself, <span class=GramE>it</span>\r\nis for self-satisfaction. It amuses you to do the thing: it gives you the sense\r\nthat you are doing something, that you are a valuable member of humanity, not\r\nlike the others, that you are somebody. What else all that is except that you\r\nare vain, full of self-importance, full of yourself? That is what I meant when\r\nI said that it is ambition or egoism that makes you humanitarian. Of course, if\r\nit pleases you to do the work, if you feel happy in doing it, you are at\r\nperfect liberty to do the work and continue. But do not imagine that you are\r\ndoing any real or effective service to humanity; particularly do not imagine\r\nthat by that you are serving God, leading a spiritual life or doing Yoga.<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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Just an illustration of the quality of the spirit that animates\r\nhumanitarianism.</span> A charitable man will give generously for a thing that\r\nis known, recognised, appreciated; he will be liberal if he finds his name\r\nattached to the work, announced and pronounced, if there is fame for him in it.\r\nBut ask him a dole for something genuine, comparatively modest or out of the\r\nway, something that is truly spiritual and divine, you will find his\r\npurse-strings tightened, his heart closed up. A gift that bears no value to the\r\ngiver does not tempt the ordinary humanitarian. There is indeed another\r\ndifferent category of<o:p></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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>givers</span>, of the opposite kind, who want precisely to remain\r\nanonymous: they would be displeased if their names were an­nounced. But the\r\nmotive here too is not very different; in fact it is the same motive acting <span\r\nclass=SpellE><i>à</i></span><i> </i><span class=SpellE><i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>rebours</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>, </span></i>backward\r\nas it were. Here there is an additional element of self-glorification: one\r\ngives and people do not know who he is; it is something all the more to be\r\nproud of.<o:p></o:p></span></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\'>You\r\nmust look into yourself, question yourself before&quot; you do a thing and not\r\ndo it simply because it is the thing normally done and it is how things are\r\nnormally done. You can do <span class=GramE>good</span> to others, if you know\r\nwhat is that good and if you possess that in yourself. If you wish to help\r\nothers, you must be on a higher level than that of theirs. If you are one with\r\nthe others, level with them in nature and consciousness, what can you do but<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 412<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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>share</span> in their ignorance and blind movements and perpetuate\r\nthem? So it happens really that the first thing to do is to serve yourself.<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\'>You\r\nwill make a remarkable discovery as you proceed to know what you are and who\r\nyou are. That is how you should begin. &quot;I want to serve humanity. How can\r\nI serve? Who is this \'I\' that wants to serve?&quot; You say, &quot;I am such a\r\nperson, this form and this name.&quot; But the form you have now was not there\r\nwhen you were a baby: it has been changing cons­tantly <span class=GramE>All</span>\r\nthe elements of your body are being renewed totally. Neither are your sensations\r\nand feelings those you had a few years ago. Your thoughts and ideas have\r\nundergone revolu­tions. The &quot;I&quot; covers a sum of ever-changing\r\nfactors. There is nothing particularly to be called &quot;I<span class=GramE>&quot;\r\n:</span> it is only a ring of changes. An empty name seems to be the only\r\nconstant thing. One element at a time comes forward – an idea, a feeling, an<o:p></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\'>Impulse – and\r\nthat is your &quot;I&quot; for the moment. At another moment another element\r\ncomes up and becomes your &quot;I&quot;. You are not one &quot;I&quot; but a\r\ncrowd of many &quot;<span class=SpellE>I&quot;s</span>. So what is the value of\r\nthe declaration of one of the 1\'s that it has found the goal, the truth, <span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> duty you have to follow? <span class=GramE>Thus if you\r\nproceed further, questioning and <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>analysing</span> yourself thoroughly and sincerely, you will stumble\r\nupon the reality. You will find that &quot;I&quot; does not exist at\r\nall. What exists is something else: it is the one indivisible reality, the\r\nDivine alone.<o:p></o:p></span></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\'>It\r\nis this self-discovery that will give you the basic knowledge, the foundation\r\nof your life, the discovery that <span class=GramE>your</span> self as yourself\r\ndoes not exist, you are indeed nothing. This sense of nothingness must pervade\r\nyour being, fill all the elements of your being before the truth can dawn upon\r\nyou and the Divine Presence can be felt. And what you have been doing all along\r\nis the very contrary thing, asserting your egoism, your vanity­ – pretending\r\nthat you were somebody, you could do <span class=GramE>something, that</span>\r\nthe world needed your help and you could give that help. <span class=GramE>Nothing\r\nof the kind.</span> When you discover this truth and accept it, when you are\r\nhumbled and in true humility you approach life and reality, you will find your\r\nreal career and vocation.<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\'>In\r\na deeper sense it is indeed by serving yourself that you serve others best.\r\nWhen you discover a dark spot in you, a grain of egoism, ambition, selfishness,\r\nwhen you do not yield<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 413<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\'>to its\r\nimpulsion but surmount it, when you thus conquer in yourself a movement that\r\nleads you astray, in the same gesture you make the conquest for the sake of\r\nothers too, you create the same possibility in others. There can be nothing\r\nmore dynamic than this setting of personal example. It is not that others\r\nobserve you and imitate you; the influence is more subtle and more powerful.\r\nYou create the opportunity, make an opening, bring into active play the force\r\nof your realisation, even without the knowledge of others; the others are only\r\nbenefited by the invisible help that is lent to them. But you must be on your\r\nguard here too. You must not say, &quot;1 will help others, so let me improve\r\nmyself&quot;. There should not be any such spirit of barter or bargain. Confine\r\nyourself to your own business; how others are affected or not affected is not\r\nyour concern. If you entertain that kind of idea, you invite the same vanity\r\nand egoism, by the back door. Yours should be like the blooming of a flower; it\r\nblooms out of its own joy and delight of self-fulfilment; in the process, by\r\nits very existence it spreads its perfume all around, fills the surroundings\r\nwith its glad vibration, but that simply happens, it does not do all that\r\npurposely or intentionally. Even so the soul that perfects <span class=GramE>himself</span>:\r\nthe victory he wins for himself is contagious and extends automatically.<o:p></o:p></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\'>I\r\nhave said your ego is an illusion. Your &quot;I&quot; does not exist at all.\r\nThere is nothing like separate, distinct individualities and individual fulfilment. The Divine alone exists and the Divine\'s Will. He is the single and\r\nunique and all-embracing reality. What then is the source of this variety and\r\ndiversity of existence? What is the significance, if any, of the <span\r\nclass=GramE>many individualities</span> and personalities, their appearance and\r\nplay on the world-stage?</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\'>That\r\nis another story. I leave it for a future occasion.<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 – 414<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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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','-119_Service Human and Divine','','publish','closed','open','','119_service-human-and-divine','','','2021-11-23 17:59:12','2021-11-23 17:59:12','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/119_service-human-and-divine/',0,'post','',0),(2177,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:12','2021-11-23 17:59:12','<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 SEVEN</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\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><font size=\"4\">PART</font></span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><font size=\"4\"> </font> </span></b><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">SEVEN</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\'>\r\n<b><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:20.6pt;\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\'>\r\n<b><i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">Realisation, Past\r\nand </font> </span></i></b><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\"><b>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>F</span></b></font><span\r\nstyle=\"mso-bidi-font-style:italic\"><b><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">uture</font></span></b><span\r\nstyle=\"background-color:blue; mso-bidi-font-style:italic\"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><b><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;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</i></b></div><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\nTHE whole material and\r\nphysical world, the whole earth – I mention earth, because we are concerned\r\ndirectly and much more with it than other regions – has been till now governed\r\nby forces of consciousness that come from what Sri Aurobindo calls the Overmind.\r\nEven the thing man has named God is a force, a power in the Overmind. The\r\nentire universe has been, so to say, under the domination of this status of\r\nconsciousness. Even then, you have to pass through many intermediary grades, or\r\nlevels to arrive at the Overmind and when you reach there the first impression\r\nis that of a dazzling light that almost blinds you. But one can and has to\r\npress on and go beyond. Sri Aurobindo says, the rule of the Overmind is\r\nprecisely coming to its end and the rule of the Supermind will replace it. All\r\nthe past spiritual experiences were concerned with the Overmind: so it is a\r\nthing known to all who have found the Divine and are identified with Him. What\r\nSri Aurobindo says is this that there is something more than the Overmind,\r\nsomething that lies a step higher and that it is now the turn of this higher\r\nstatus to come down and reign. We need not talk much of Overmind, because all\r\nthe saints and seers, all religions and spiritual disciplines, scriptures and\r\nphilosophies have spoken about it at length. All the gods known and familiar to\r\nmen are there in its Pantheon. What we want, what is needed at present is a new\r\nrevelation, a manifestation in a new manner of which very few were conscious in\r\nthe past. <span class=GramE>Weare not here merely to repeat the past.</span></b></i></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:13.5pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\nBut\r\nit is so difficult. It is difficult for people to come out of experiences they\r\nhave had, of what they have heard and read about always and everywhere. It is\r\ndifficult for them not to think of the Supermind in terms of the Overmind, not \r\nto con<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>fuse</span> \r\n\r\n</span>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></i></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\nPage – 299</span></span><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</span><b>\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</b>\r\n</i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style: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\'>\r\nthe Supermind with the Overmind. They are unable to\r\nconceive of anything beyond or different. Sri Aurobindo used to say always that\r\nhis Yoga Began where all the past Yogas ended: in order to realise his Yoga one\r\nmust have already arrived at the extreme limit of what the ancients realised.\r\nIn other words, one must have had already the perception of the Divine, the\r\nunion and identification with the Divine. This divinity, Sri Aurobindo says, is\r\nthe Divine of the Overmind which is itself something quite unthinkable for the\r\nhuman consciousness, and even to reach there one has to rise through many\r\nplanes of consciousness and, as I said, one gets dazzled and dazed even at this\r\nlevel.</b></i><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\'>There\r\nare beings of the vital world who, whenever they appear to man, are taken by\r\nhim for the supreme godhead. You may call it a disguise, but it is a very\r\nsuccessful disguise, for people who see it most often get thoroughly convinced\r\nthat what they see is indeed God himself. And yet such a god is only a vital\r\nbeing. Even so, the beings of the Over mind are stupendous in comparison with\r\nus, human beings, who are truly bewildered whenever we come in contact with\r\nsuch entities. And Supermind and supramental beings are yet beyond. So you\r\nrealise the distance to be covered.<i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><b><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</b>\r\n</i>\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\'>But\r\nthere is a kind of Grace that comes to your help. If a scientist had again to\r\ngo over all the experiments that have been done, all that others have found in\r\nthe past in his line in order to make a further progress, to come to a new\r\ndiscovery, then he will have to pass his whole life in repeating the past and\r\nwill have no time left for anything else. The scientist just opens instead a\r\nbook or consults another person who is conversant with the past and gets all\r\nthe knowledge he re-quires of it. Sri Aurobindo wanted to do something like\r\nthat in the spiritual domain. He asks you to gather the experience of <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>the past, – it <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>is all there recorded in earth\'s history, and\r\npass on; basing yourself upon that, you rise up to still higher ranges.<o:p></o:p></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\'>You\r\nmay pertinently ask, however, why we have not started with overmental beings;\r\nwe should have had here, say, Vivekanandas only and not ordinary frail human\r\ncreatures.</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\'>You\r\nthink the work would have been easier? Such beings, on the contrary, would have\r\nbeen less manageable and malleable.<b><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n</i>\r\n</b>\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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 300<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</span><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n\r\n<b>\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</b>\r\n</i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style: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\'>For what is\r\nmost difficult is to convince someone who has had already a realisation. He\r\nbelieves he has reached the goal and no further progress is necessary for him.\r\nIt generally happens especially to men who have made effort and realised the\r\nobject of the effort that, they stop with that, because they feel they have\r\nreached their final goal. They get settled and fixed there. It was their\r\npersonal goal and they have got it. Their brain gets <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>crystallised</span> and their consciousness\r\nfossilised. They will live there all their life and will never know how to\r\nmove. So I <span class=GramE>say,</span> those who have had an experience or a\r\nrealisation in themselves are not: necessarily the most advanced. Such a person\r\nlacks an element of simplicity, modesty, plasticity that spontaneously come to\r\none who feels that he has not grown fully and has to develop further.</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\'>A\r\n&quot;realised person&quot;, if I may say so graphically and somewhat strongly,\r\nis a finished product to be kept in a glass-case for show in a museum. He is a\r\nsample showing what has been done and what could be done. But you do not have\r\nthere the stuff to do more. I would prefer for my work to have someone who may\r\nhave little knowledge, but who has much goodwill, a great aspiration, who feels\r\nwithin him this flame, this need to go on. I say, he may know little, he may\r\nhave realised even less, but here is good material with which one can go far,\r\nvery far. Besides, there is another point to note. As in mountain-climbing a\r\nguide is very useful, even indispensable, who can show you the proper way and\r\nmake it easy for you to climb higher and higher altitudes, so in spiritual\r\nascension, a guide, if you have the good fortune to meet one, will help you to\r\nrise much higher than you could do yourself with your own personal strength and\r\nyour own personal view of a fixed goal – you are not proud of your discovery\r\nand you do not waste time or energy in useless searches and enquiries.</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\'>That\r\nis why I prefer children – children in body or in soul – and fear grown-ups\r\nsteeped in erudition and realisation.<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 – 301<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<b><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\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%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" 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</i>\r\n</b>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-080_Realisation, Past and Future','','publish','closed','open','','080_realisation-past-and-future','','','2021-11-23 17:59:12','2021-11-23 17:59:12','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/080_realisation-past-and-future/',0,'post','',0),(2178,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:12','2021-11-23 17:59:12','<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>Prayer and Aspiration</title>\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=\"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\">Prayer and Aspiration</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; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">THERE are many kinds of\r\nprayers. There is one external and physical, that is to say, simply words\r\nlearnt by rote and re­peated mechanically. It does not mean much. It has\r\nusually one result, however, making you quiet. If you go on repeating a few\r\nwords or sounds for some time, it puts you into a state of calmness in the end.\r\nThere is another kind which is the natural expression of a wish; you want a\r\nparticular thing and you express it clearly. You can pray for an, object or for\r\na circumstance, you can pray also for a person or for yourself. There is still\r\nanother kind in which the prayer borders on aspiration and the two meet: it is\r\nthe spontaneous formulation of a living experience; it shoots out of the depth\r\nof your being, it is the utterance of something lived within: it wants to\r\nexpress gratitude for the experience, asks for its continuation or seeks an\r\nexplanation. It is then, what I said, almost an aspiration. Aspiration,\r\nhowever, does not necessarily formulate itself in words; if it uses words at\r\nall, it makes of them a kind of invocation. Thus, you wish to be in a certain\r\ncondition. You have, for example, found in you something which is not in\r\nharmony with your ideal, a movement of obscurity or ignorance or even bad will.\r\nYou wish to see it changed. You do not express the thing in so many words, but\r\nit rises up in you like a flame, an ardent offering of the experience itself\r\nwhich seeks increase and greatening to be made more clear and precise. It is\r\ntrue all this is capable of being expressed in words, if one tries to recall\r\nand note down the experience. But the experience, the aspira­tion itself is, as\r\nI say, like a flame shooting up and contains within it the very thing it asks\r\nfor. I say &quot;asks for&quot;, but the movement is not at all that of a\r\ndesire; it is truly a flame, the flame of purifying will carrying at its centre\r\nthe very object which it wished to be realised. The discovery of a fault in you<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 368<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</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section2>\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 class=GramE>impels</span>\r\nyou to make it an occasion for more progress, for greater self-discipline, for\r\nfurther ascension towards the Divine. It opens out a door upon your future,\r\nwhich you wish to be clearer, truer, <span class=GramE>intenser</span>; all\r\nthat gathers in you like a con­centrated force and tosses you up in a movement\r\nof ascension. It needs no expression in words. It is indeed a flame that leaps up.\r\nSuch is true aspiration. Prayer usually is something much more external; it is\r\nabout a very precise object. It is always formulated; for the formulation <span\r\nclass=GramE>itself</span> makes what a prayer is. You may have an aspiration\r\nand you can transcribe it into a prayer, but the aspiration itself exceeds the\r\nprayer. It is some­thing much more intimate, much more self-forgetful, living\r\nonly in the object it wishes to be or the thing to do, almost identified with\r\nit. A prayer can be of a very high quality. Instead of being a request for a\r\nfulfilment of your particular desire, it may express your thankfulness and\r\ngratefulness for what the Divine has done and is doing for you. You are not\r\nbusy with your little self and its egoistic interests, you ask for the Divine\'s\r\nways in you and in the world. This leads you to the border of aspiration. <span\r\nclass=GramE>For aspiration too has many degrees and it is expressed on many\r\nlevels.</span> But the core of aspiration is in the psychic being, it is there\r\nat its purest, for there is its origin and source. Prayers come from the other,\r\nthe lower or secondary levels of being. That is to say, there are physical or\r\nmaterial prayers, asking for physical or material things, vital prayers, <span\r\nclass=GramE>mental</span> prayers; there are psychic prayers and spiritual\r\nprayers too. Each has its own character and its own value. I say again there is\r\na certain type of prayer which is so spon­taneous and so disinterested, more\r\nlike an appeal or a call, generally not for one\'s own sake, but acting\r\nsometimes like an intercession with the Divine on behalf of others. Such a\r\nprayer is extremely powerful. I have seen innumerable cases where such a prayer\r\nhad brought about its immediate fulfilment. It means a great faith, a great <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>fervour</span>, a great sincerity\r\nand also a great simplicity of heart, something which does not calculate, which\r\ndoes not bargain or barter, does not give with the idea of receiving. The\r\nmajority of prayers are precisely made with the idea of giving so that one may\r\nreceive. But I was speaking of the rarer variety which also does exist, which\r\nis a kind of thanksgiving, a canticle or a hymn.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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: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; text-indent:11.25pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">To\r\nsum up then it can be said that a prayer is always formed of words. Words have\r\ndifferent values, according to the state of consciousness of the person when he\r\nformulates it. But always prayer is a formulated thing. But one can aspire\r\nwithout formulating. And then, prayer needs a person to whom one prays. There\r\nis, of course, a certain class of people whose con­ception of the universe is\r\nsuch that there is no room in it for the Divine (the famous French scientist\r\nLaplace, for example). Such people are not likely to favour the existence of\r\nany being superior to themselves to whom they can appeal or look up for\r\nguidance and help. There is no question of prayer for them. But even they,\r\nthough they may not pray, may aspire. They may not believe in God, but they may\r\nbelieve, for example, in progress. They may conceive of the world as a\r\nprogressive movement, that it is becoming better and better, rising higher and\r\nhigher, growing constantly to a nobler fulfilment. They can ask for, will for,\r\naspire for such progress; they need not look for the Divine. Aspiration\r\nrequires faith, certainly, but not faith necessarily in a personal God. But\r\nprayer is always addressed to a person, a person who hears and grants it. There\r\nlies the great difference between the two. Intellectual people admit\r\naspiration, but prayer they consider as something inferior, fit for <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>unintellectual</span> persons. The\r\nmystics say, aspira­tion is quite all right, but if your aspiration is to be\r\nheard and fulfilled, you must also pray, know how to pray and to whom­ – who\r\nelse but the Divine? The aspiration need not be towards any person; the\r\naspiration is not for a person, but for a state of consciousness, <span\r\nclass=GramE>a knowledge</span>, a realisation. Prayer adds to it the relation\r\nto a person. 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