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<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>
<font size="4">&quot;I Have Nothing, I Am Nothing&quot;</font></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>THE state is
that of utter commonplaceness. The feeling that I am doing Yoga, that I am
something and have a special work to do, that something has to be achieved,
that life has a<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>purpose etc., etc. all
that has left and left a blank, a void inside and an absolutely mechanical
automaton outside. I do the most ordinary things of life, as any other common
man, like the routine work of a machine; I know nothing and have no impulse to
know or to plan as to what I should do, how I am to move or why is it all like
this. A great tranquility and silence possess the whole being. There is no “I”,
no person to refer to in the consciousness: individuality has been totally
abolished, a sweep of universality passes through the consciousness and makes
it as it were a no-man’s-land. The mind has laid down its burden and says it is
free now and obedient to the call that may come to it. The vital too submits
its adherence and awaits the order: it has no inclination or choice of its own.
The physical is likewise wholly docile.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This
state of supreme blankness and passivity borders on the experience of illusion
– the illusoriness of the world and the vanity or hollowness of life. Creation
does seem like an empty shell, with no meaning or purpose and no real truth of
existence even: it is a shadow play that rests on nothing and vanishes into
nothing. The great exponents of Illusoriness must have had an experience of
this kind and considered therefore that – Nothing – as the ultimate truth and
mystery of existence.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Now
when all sense of personality – not only the sense but even the fact itself –
totally dissolved, the voice of the Supreme Divine was heard and His impulsion
recorded. The <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Prayers and Meditations</i>
hereafter were written through such an impulsion; </p>

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<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 266<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>it
was truly automatic writing – the instrument did not know what it was writing
and even did not understand the meaning of the recorded words, it was merely a
copyist, it looked at the writing as a third person would.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
whole being in all its parts acted thus like a recording or transmitting
agency. <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>It<b> </b></span>was under such
conditions – at the zero point of human personality and consciousness – that
the instrument which so long lived apart and behind, concerned with itself more
or less, was made to come forward and take up the work that the Divine demanded
of it. The vessel that was completely empty, a universal and transcendental
shape, came gradually to be filled, with the Divine's own will and its own
formations.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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