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<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'>THE Prayers and
Meditations of the Mother. It is Life Divine in song, it is Life Divine set
to music – made sweet and lovely, near and dear to us – a thing of beauty and a
joy for ever.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To
some the ideal has appeared aloof and afar, cold and forbidding. The ascent is
difficult involving immense pains and tiresome efforts. It is meant for the
high-souled ascetic, not for the weak earth-bound mortals. But here in the
voice of the Mother we hear not the call for a hazardous climb to the bare cold
wind-swept peak of the <st1:place>Himalayas</st1:place> but a warm invitation
for a happy trek back to our own hearth and home. The voice of the Divine is
the loving Mother's voice.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Prayers
and Meditations of the Mother are a music, a music of the lyre – I say
lyre, because there is a lyric beauty and poignancy in these utterances. And
true lyricism means a direct and spontaneous outflowing of the soul's intimate
experiences.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.15in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This wonder-lyre has three
strings, giving out a triple note or strain: there is a strain of philosophy,
there is a strain of yoga and there is a strain of poetry. We may also call
them values and say there is a philosophical, a yogic and a poetic value in these
contemplations. The philosophical strain or value means that the things said
are presented, explained to the intellect so that the human mind can seize
them, understand them. The principles underlying the ideal, the fundamental
ideas are elaborated in terms of reason and logical comprehension, although the
subject-matter treated is in the last analysis' beyond reason and logic. For
example, here is true philosophy expressed in a philosophic manner as neatly as
possible.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page
– 224</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>A quoi servirait l'homme s'il n'etait pas
fait pour jeter un pont entre Ce qui est eternellement, mais qui n' est pas
manifest!, et ce qui est manifest<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>, entre toutes les
transcendances, toutes les splendeu-rs de la vie divine et toute l'obscure et
douloureuse ignorance du monde mat<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>riel? L'homme est le lien entre
ce qui doit <span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>é</span>tre et ce qui est; <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>il est la passerelle jet<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>e
sur l' ab£me, il est le grand X en<o:p></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'>croix,
le trait d'union quaternaire. Son domicile v<span style='font-family:
"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>ritable, le si<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>ge
effectif de sa conscience doit <span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>tre dans le monde interm<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>diaire
au point de jonction des quatre bras de la croix, l<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>à</span>,
o<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ù</span>
tout l'infini de l'impensable vient prendre forme pr<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>cise
pour <span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>tre projet<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span> dans l'innombrable
manifestation. .<span style='font-size:8.0pt'>¹<o:p></o:p></span></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'>Or again</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='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Q,ue de degr<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>s dijf<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>rents
dans la conscience! Il faudrait r<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>server ce mot pour ce qui, dans
un <span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>tre,
est illumine<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>par Ta pr<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>sence,
s' est identifi<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>ê</span> <span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>à</span>, Toi et participe <span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>à</span>,
Ta Conscience absolue, ce qui est &quot;paifaitement <span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>veill<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>&quot;,
comme dit le Bouddha.²<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>En dehors
de cet <span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>tal, il y a des degr<span style='font-family:
"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>s infinis ,de
conscience descendant jusqu' <span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>à</span>, l' obscurit<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>
compl<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>te, la<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>v<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>ritable
inconscience qui peut <span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>tre un domaine pas encore
touché<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>par la lumi<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>re
de ton amour (ce qui paraît improbable dans la substance physique), ou bien ce
qui est, pour une raison d'ignorance quelconque, hors de notre r<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>gion
individuelle de perception. ³</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>However,
we note that the philosophical strain merges into the yogic, rather the yogic
strain is already involved in the</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:
8.85pt;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ Of what use would be
man if he was not made to throw a bridge between That which eternally is, but
is not manifested, and that which is manifested; between all the
transcendences, all the splendours of the divine life and all the obscure and
sorrowful ignorance of the material world? Man is the intermediary between that
which has to be and that which is; he is a bridge thrown over the abyss, he is
the great X in the cross, the quaternary link. His true abode, the effective
seat of his consciousness, should be in the intermediate world at the joining
point of the four arms of the cross, where all the infinity of the Unknowable
comes to take precise form for being projected into the multitudinous manifestation.
.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>² How many and different are the degrees of
consciousness! This word should be reserved for that which, in a being, is
illumined by Thy Presence, identifies itself with Thee and participates in Thy
absolute Consciousness, for that which has knowledge, which is &quot;perfectly
awakened&quot; as says the Buddha.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>³Outside this state, there are infinite degrees of
consciousness descending down to the complete darkness, the veritable
inconscience which may be a domain not yet touched by the light of Thy divine
love (but that appears improbable in physical substance), or which is by reason
of some ignorance, outside our individual region of<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>perception.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 225</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</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'>philosophical.
Here is an obvious and clear expression of this strain:</p>

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<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'>Il faudrait que chaque
jour, chaque instant, soil l'occasion d'une consécration nouvelle et plus
compl<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>te; <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>et
non pas une de ces cons<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>crations enthousiastes et tr<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>pidantes,
suractives, Pleine de l'illusion de l'muvre, mais une cons<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>cration
profonde et silencieuse qui n' est pas forc<span style='font-family:
"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>ment apparente,
mais qui p<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>n<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>tre et transfigure toute action
Il faudrait que notre esprit paisible et solitaire repose toujours en Toi, et
que de ce pur sommet il ait la perception exacte des r<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>alit<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>s,
de la R<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>alit<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>unique et <span style='font-family:
"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>temelle, derri<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>re
les instables et fugitives apparences¹<o:p></o:p></p>

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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;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>We
are given all the disciplines necessary for the growth of the spiritual life:
the processes, the procedures that have to be followed – object-Lessons are
given even for the uninitiated and for the very beginner, as well as
instructions for those who aim at the highest heights thus:</p>

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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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Il est<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>toujours bon de regarder de temps en temps en
soi et de voir qu'on<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>n'est<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>et ne peut rien, mais il faut en suite
tourner son regard vers Toi en sachant que Tu es tout et que Tu peux tout.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Tu
es la<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>vie de notre<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>vie et <o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:.45in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>la lumière de notre être,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Tu es
le maître de nos destinées.²<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='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;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Indeed
philosophy and yoga go hand in hand. Yoga is applied. philosophy. What is at
first mentally perceived and recognised, what is accepted by the reason is made
active and dynamic in life. The character embodies the abstract and general
principles, the vital energy executes them, that is yoga. Philosophy brings in
the light of consciousness, yoga the</p>

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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;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ Each day, each moment, must be an occasion for a new
and completer consecration;and not one of those enthusiastic and trepidant
consecrations, overactive, full of the illusion of the work, but a profound
and<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>¹ Each day, each moment, must be an
occasion for a new and completer consecration; and not one of silent
consecration which need not be apparent, but which penetrates and transfigures
every action. Our mind, solitary and at peace, must rest always in Thee, and
from this pure summit it must have the exact perception of realities, of the
sole and eternal Reality, behind unstable fugitive appearances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.1pt;mso-line-height-alt:
7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>² It is always good to look within ourselves from time
to time and see that we are nothing and can do nothing, but we must then turn
our look towards Thee, knowing that Thou art all and that Thou canst do all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Thou art the
life of our life and<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:99.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><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; </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>the light of our being,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Thou art the
master of our destiny.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>energy of
consciousness. Here we have an expression of what may be caned &quot;yogic
philosophy&quot;.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;
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>

<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'>II faut <span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>à</span>
chaque moment secouer le passé comme une poussière qui tombe, afin qu' elle ne
salisse pas le chemin vierge qui, <span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>à</span> chaque moment aussi, s' ouvre
devant nous.¹<o:p></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'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.0pt;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'>Once again
we see emerging the third note, the note of poetry. <b>I</b>n<b> </b>fact the Prayers
and Meditations abound in the most beautiful poetry, what can be more
beautiful, even more poetically beautiful than these cadences!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='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=MsoBodyTextIndent style='line-height:150%;tab-stops:.5in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;
</span>Ta 'voix est si modeste, si impartiale, si sublime de patience et de
miséricorde qu' elle ne se fait entendre avec aucune auto rité, aucune
puissance de volonté, mais comme une brise fraîche, douce et pure, comme un
murmure cristallin qui donne la note d' harmonic dans le concert discordant.
Seulement, pour celui qui sait écouter la note, respirer la brise, elle
contient de tels trésors de beauté, un tel parfum de pure sérénité et de noble
grandeur, que toutes les folles illusions s' évanouissent ou se transforment
dans une joyeuse acceptation de la merveilleuse vérité entrevue.²<o:p></o:p></span></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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Or more beautiful than the
beautiful simplicity of these lines!</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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Comme une flamme qui
brûle silencieusement, comme un parium qui monte tout droit, sans vaciller, mon
amour va<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>vers Toi. .³</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;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
If one asks for a classical perfection, here is a line that is on a par with a 
Racinian verse </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.5pt;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>

<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'>Mon coeur s'est
endormi<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>jusqu'au<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>tréfonds de l'être. .<span
style='font-size:8.0pt'>4</span></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'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:
8.6pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:8.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ We must at each moment shake off the past like
falling dust, so that it may<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>not
soil the virgin path which, also at each moment, opens before us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.35pt;mso-line-height-alt:
8.4pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>² Thy voice is so modest, impartial, sublime in its
patience and its mercy that it does not make itself heard with any authority,
any potency of will; it is like a cool, soft and pure breeze; it is like a
crystalline murmur that imparts a note of harmony to a discordant concert. Only
for him who knows how to listen to that note, how to breathe that breeze, it
contains such a treasure of beauty and such a perfume of pure serenity and
noble grandeur, that all extravagant illusions vanish or are transformed into a
joyful acceptance of the marvellous truth that has been glimpsed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span style='font-weight:normal'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>³Like a flame that burns in silence, like a
perfume that rises straight upward without wavering, my love goes to Thee. .<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:8.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:8.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>4<span
style='font-size:10.0pt'> My heart has fallen asleep, down to the very depths
of my being.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;border:medium none;
mso-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
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 227<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
here is a line flowing with all the milk and honey of the Romantic muse<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:
10.8pt;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>

<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'>Et les heures
s'evanouissent comme des rêves invécus. .¹</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'>which
possesses furthermore the magic of an indefinable mysticism so rare in the
French language. The mystic element gives a special grace and flavour, a
transcendent significance serving as an enveloping aura to the whole body of
these Prayers and Meditations.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
One cannot, for example, but be bewitched by the mystic grandeur of this image :</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;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'><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'>0
Conscience immobile et sereine, Tu veilles aux confins dumonde comme un sphinx
d' <span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>ternit<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>ê</span>.
Et pourtant <span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>à</span> certains Tu livres Ton secret.²<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In
fact three notes blend together indissolubly and form what we call 'mantra' –
even like the triple mystic syllable <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>AUM<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:13.65pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Once,
in connection with Shakespeare, I said that a poet's language, which is in
truth the poet himself, may be considered as consisting of unit vocables,
syllables, that are as it were fundamental particles, even like the nuclear
particles, each poet having his own type of particle, with its own charge and
spin and vibrations. Shakespeare's, I said, is a particle of Life-energy, a
packet of living blood-vibration, pulsating as it were, with real heart.- beat.
Likewise in Dante one feels it to be a packet of Tapas – of ascetic energy, a
bare clear concentrated flame-wave of consciousness, of thought-force. In the Prayers
and Meditations the fundamental unit of expression seems to be a packet of
gracious light – one seems to touch the very hem of Mahalakshmi.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
voice in the Prayers and Meditations is <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>'s
flute calling the souls imprisoned in their worldly household to come out into
the wide green expanses of infinity, in the midst of the glorious herds of
light, to play and enjoy in the company of the Lord of Delight.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹
And the hours pass like dreams unlived. .<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoBodyText3 style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">² 0 serene and immobile Consciousness, Thou watchest on
the boundaries of the world like a sphinx of eternity. And yet to some Thou
givest out Thy secret.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(2)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;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;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>We
have spoken of the three notes or strains in the Prayers and Meditations. Apart
from this triple theme which after all means mode or modulation in expression,
there is a triplicity in depth. Along with the strains, there are strands.
Besides the value or quality of the things, the thing itself is a composite
reality containing different levels. It is not a single, unilateral,
one-dimensional world, but it is multi-dimensional consisting of many worlds,
one within another, all telescoped as it were, to form a single indivisible
whole.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Now
these prayers – who prays? And to whom? These meditations – who meditates? And
who is the object of the meditation? First of all there is the apparent obvious
meaning, that is on the very surface. It is the Mother's own prayers offered to
her own beloved Lord. It is her own personal aspiration, the preoccupation of
the individual human being that she is. It is the secret story, the inner
history of all that she desires, asks for, questions, all that she has
'experienced and realised and the farther more that she is to achieve, the
revelations of a terrestrial creature of the particular name and form that she
happens to possess. Thus for example, the very opening passage of these
prayers:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;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'>Quoique
tout mon être Te soit<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>th<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>oriquement<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>consacr<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>,<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>, ô Maître Sublime, qui est la<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>vie, la lumière et I' amour de toute chose j'
ai peine encore â appliquer cette cons<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>cration dans les d<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>tails.l1
m'<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>a fallU<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>Plusieurs semaines pour savoir que la raison
de cette m<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>é</span>ditation <span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>crite, sa l<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>gitimation,
r<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>side
dans Ie fait de Te l' adresser quotidiennement. Ainsi je mat<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>rialiserai
chaque jour un pen de la conversation que j' ai si fr<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>quemment
avec Toi,. je Te ferai de mon mieux ma corifession. .¹</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-1.4pt;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'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But
we notice immediately that these are not -exclusively personal, absolutely
individual assertions. While speaking of</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:
8.6pt;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹Although my whole being is
in theory conscrated to Thee, O Sublime Master, who art the life, the light and
the love in all things, I still find it hard to carry out this consecration in
detail. It has taken me several weeks to learn that the reason for this written
meditation, its justification lies in the very fact of addressing it daily to
Thee. In this way I shall put into material shape each day a little of the
conversation I have so often with Thee; I shall make my confession to Thee as
well as it may be--..</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p>

<div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in'>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;border:medium none;
mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 229</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>herself,
spontaneously she seems to be speaking on behalf of all men. The words that she
utters come as it were, from the lips of all mankind. She is the representative
human being. She gives expression to all that man feels or might feel but is not
able or does not know how to express and articulate. Her<span style="background-color: #FFFFFF">e i</span>s how she describes her function as a representative person – so 
beautifully, so poignantly</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;
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>

<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'>Alors
j'ai pensé à<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>tous ceux qui veillaient
sur le bateau pour assurer et protéger noire route, et avec reconnaissance,
dans leur C(Eur, j' ai voulu faire naêtre et vivre Ta Paix,. puis j'
ai pensé a tous ceux qui, confiants et sans souci, dormaient du sommeil de
l'inconscience, et avec sollicitude pour leurs misères, pitié pour leur
souffrance latente s' éveillant en eux en même temps que leur réveil, j' ai
voulu qu'un peu de Ta Paix habite leur cæur, et fasse naêtre en eux la vie de
l'esprit, la lumière dissipant l'ignorance. Puis j'ai pensé, à tous les
habitants de cette vaste mer, les visibles et les invisibles, et j' ai
voulu que sur eux s' étende Ta Paix. Puis j' ai pensé à ceux que nous
avions laissé au loin et dont l' affection nous accompagne, et avec une grande
tendresse, pour tux j' ai voulu Ta Paix consciente et durable, la
plenitude de Ta Paix proportionnée à leur capacité de la recevoir. Puis j' ai
pensé à tous ceux vcrs qui nous allons, que des préoccupations erfantines
agitent et qui se battent pour de mesquines compétitions d'intérêt<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>dans l'ignorance et l'égoïsme,. et avec
ardeur, dans une grande aspiration, pour eux, j' ai demandé la pleine
lumiére de Ta Paix. Puis j'ai pensé à tous ceux que nous connaissons, à tous
ceux que nous ignorons, à toute la vie qui s' élabore, à tout ce qui a changé
de forme, à tout ce qui n' est pas encore en forme, et pour tout cela, ainsi
que pour ce à quoi je ne puis penser, pour tout ce qui est présent à ma mémoire
et pour tout ce que j'oublie, dans un grand recueillement et une muette
adoration, j'ai imploré Ta Paix,¹<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;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'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ I then thought of all those who were watching over
the ship to safeguard and protect our route, and in gratitude, I willed
that Thy peace should be born and live in their hearts; then I thought of all</span>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>those who, confident and carefree, slept the
sleep of inconscience and, with solicitude for their miseries, pity for their
latent suffering which would awake in them in their own waking, I willed that a
little of Thy Peace might dwell in their hearts and bring to birth in them the
life of the Spirit, the light which dispels ignorance. I then thought of the
dwellers of this vast sea, visible and invisible, and I willed that over them
might be extended Thy Peace. I thought next of those whom we had left far away
and whose affection is with us, and with a great tenderness I willed for them
Thy conscious and lasting Peace, the plenitude of Thy Peace proportioned to
their capacity to receive it. Then I thought of all those to whom we are going,
who are restless with childish preoccupations and fight for mean competitions
of interest in ignorance and</span></p>
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<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'>or again: </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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Ce que j'ai voulu pour
eux,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>avec Ta<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>volont<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>, auxû moments où j'ai pu être
en communion v<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>é</span>ritable avec Toi, permets qu'ils l'aient reçu<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>en ce jour où, tâchant d'oublier les
contingences ext<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>é</span>rieures, its se sont tourn<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>s
vcrs leur pens<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>é</span>e la plus noble, vcrs leur sentiment le meilleur.
Q,ue la suprême s<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>é</span>r<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>nit<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>
de Ta sublime Pr<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>é</span>sence s' <span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>veille en eux.¹<o:p></o:p></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;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But
the .Mother is not merely a representative, she has become all men, the entire
humanity itself. She has identified herself with each person<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>in her being and consciousness, she is one
with all, all are merged in her. Her voice utters the cry of the human collectivity.
Mother's Prayers and Meditations are the prayers and meditations of man.
Thus again:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;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='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>. . il
m' a sembl<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>é</span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>que j' adoptais
tous les habitants de ce bateau, que je les enveloppais tous dans un <span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>gal<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>amour, et qu' ainsi en chacun d' eux<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>quelque chose de Ta conscience s' <span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>veillerait.
²</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;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;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>She
has so clearly and unequivocally expressed her oneness with all men. She
mentions specially the miserable, the poor and afflicted mankind:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;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'>Lorsque j'
<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>tais
enfant – vers l' âge de treize ans et pendant un an environ – tous les soirs d<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>s
que j' <span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>tais
couch<span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>é</span>e, il me semblait que je sortais de mon corps et que
je m' <span style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Lucida Console"'>é</span>levais tout droit au-dessus de la maison, puis de la
ville, irès haul. Je me voyais alors vêtue d'une<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>magnifique robe dor<span
style='font-family:"Lucida Console";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lucida Console"'>é</span>e,
plus longue que moi;. et a mesure que je<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.9pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-1.9pt;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'>____________:<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>egoism and ardently, in a great aspiration for them I
asked for the plenty light of Thy Peace.I next<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>thought of all those whom we know, of all those whom
we do not know, of all the life that is working itself out, of all that has
changed its form and all that is not yet in form, and for all that, and also
for all of which I cannot think, for all that is present to my memory and for
all that I forget, in a<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:280.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>great eg ingathering and mute adoration, I
implored Thy Peace.<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:8.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ What I willed for them, with Thy will, at the
moments when I could be in a true communion with Thee, grant that they may have
received it on the day when, striving to forget external contingencies, they
turned towards their noblest thought, towards their best feelings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>May
the supreme serenity of Thy sublime Presence awake in them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:8.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>².
. it seemed to me that I adopted all the inhabitants of this ship, and
enveloped them in an equal love, and that so in each one of them, something of
Thy consciousness would awake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 231</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<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'>montais,
cette robe s' allongeait en s' étendant circulairement autour<o:p></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'>de moi
pour former comme un toil immense au-dessus de la ville. Alors je vqyais de
taus côtés sortir des hommes, des femmes, des enfants, des vieillards, des
malades, des malheureux; its s' assemblaient sous la robe étendue, implorant
secours, racontant leurs misères, leurs souffrances, leurs peines. En réponse,
la robe, souple et vivante, s' allongeait vers eux individuellement, et dès
qu'ils l' avaient touchée, its étaient consolés ou guéris, et rentraient dans
leurs corps plus heureux et plus forts qu' avant d' en être sortis.¹<o:p></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'><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'>But her
being and consciousness are not limited to mankind alone. She has identified
herself with even material objects, with all the small insignificant physical
things which our earthly existence deals with. This is how she takes leave of
the house where she had lived, and the things it had sheltered, on the eve of a
long journey:</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'>Je les
remercie avec reconnaissance de tout le charme qu'ils ant su donner
extérieurement à noire vie; je souhaite que, s'il est dans leur destinée de
passer pour plus ou mains longtemps en d' autres mains que les nôires, ces
mains leur soient douces et sachant tout le respect que l' on doit à ce que Ton
divin Amour, Seigneur, a fait surgir de l' obscure inconscience du chaos. ²</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'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
is to be noted how even a material object is taken up, purified and transformed
almost into a living being by the Mother's loving touch.</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'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The same feeling of unity and oneness
extends to the dumb</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;text-indent:10.05pt;mso-line-height-alt:
7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ When I was a child – about the age of thirteen and
for about a year – every night as soon as I was in bed, it seemed to me that I
came out of my body and rose straight up above the house, then above the town,
very high. I saw myself then, clad in a magnificent golden robe, longer than
myself; and as I rose, that robe lengthened, spreading in a circle around me to
form, as it were, an immense roof over the town. Then I would see coming out
from all sides, men, women, children, the old, the sick, the unhappy; they
gathered under the outspread robe, imploring help, recounting their miseries,
their sufferings, their pains. In reply, the robe, supple and living, stretched
out to them individually, and as soon as they touched it, they were consoled or
healed, and entered back into their body happier and stronger than they had
ever been before coming out of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.1pt;mso-line-height-alt:
7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>²I thank them with gratitude for all the charm they
have been able to impart from the outside to our life; I wish, if they are
destined to pass for a long or a brief period into other hands than ours, that
these hands may be gentle to them and may feel all the respect that is due to
what Thy divine Love, O Lord, has made to emerge from the dark inconscience of
chaos. (3.3.1914)<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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'>Page – 232 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>
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<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'>plant world also: It is
oneness not partial or vague but total and absolute:</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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Une grande
concentration s' est emparée de moi et je me suis aperçue que je
m'identijiais avec une fleur de cerisier; puis à travers cette fleur avec
toutes les fleurs de cerisier; puis descendant plus profondément dans la
conscience, en suivant un courant de force bleutée, je devins tout à coup le
cerisier lui-même, dressant vcrs le ciel, comme autant de bras, ses
innombrables branches chargées de leur offrande fleurie. J' entendis
alors distinctement la phrase suivante:<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&quot;Ainsi
tu t' es unit à<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>l' âme des
cerisiers et tu as pu de la sorte constater que c' est le Divin qui fait au
ciel l' offrande de cette prière de fleurs.&quot; Lorsque je l'eus écrit,
touts’effaça ;; mais main tenant le sang du cerisier coule dans mes veines, et
avec lui une paix et une force incomparables; quelle différence y a-toil entre
le corps humain et le corps d'un arbre? Aucune vraiment, et la conscience qui
les anime est bien identiquement la même.¹<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
-.45pt;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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Indeed the Mother's voice
is the voice of all men, all creatures, all beings, all things. She stands for
the entire earth, not only so, she is the Earth itself; the total terrestrial
being is embodied in her, earth's aspiration, and pain and yearning find
utterance in her.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Le monde douloureux s'
est agenouillé devant Toi, Seigneur, en muette supplication la matiére torturée
se blottit à Tes pieds, son demier, son unique refuge; et en T'implorant ainsi,
elle T'adore,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:1.4pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Toi
qu' elle ne connait ni ne comprend! Sa prière s' élève comme le cri d'un
agonisant; ce qui disparait sent confusément la possibilité<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:7.9pt;mso-line-height-alt:
8.4pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:7.9pt;mso-line-height-alt:
8.4pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ A deep concentration seized on me, and I perceived
that I was identifying myself with a single cherry-blossom, then through it
with all cherry-blossoms, and as I descended deeper in the consciousness,
following a stream of bluish force, I became suddenly the cherry-tree
itself, stretching towards the sky like so many arms its</span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>innumerable
branches laden with their sacrifice of flowers. Then I heard distinctly this
sentence:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:8.6pt;mso-line-height-alt:
7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>&quot;Thus hast thou made thyself one with the soul of
cherry-trees and so thou canst take note that it is the Divine who makes the
offering of this flower-prayer to heaven.&quot; <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:8.6pt;mso-line-height-alt:
7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>When I had written it, all was effaced; but now the
blood of the cherry-tree flows in my veins and with it flows an incomparable
peace and force. What difference is there between the human body and the body
of a tree? In truth there is none, the consciousness which animates them is
identically the same.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 233</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:1.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.25pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>de
revivre en Toi,. la terre attend Ton arrêt dans<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;
</span>une grandiose<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>prosternation. .
¹</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:1.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.25pt;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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;
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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This
is the second status of the Mother's being, the first is the personal and
individual, the second is this collective and universal being. But she is not
merely the universe, she is the Mother of the universe. Hers is not merely
earth's prayer, but the prayer of the Mother of the earth. It is not merely the
prayer of the universe but the prayer of the Universal Mother to the Supreme
Lord for the deliverance of the universe, for the re-creation of the earth –
Indeed, for the deliverance of herself for the re-creation of herself out of
the present ignorant manifestation:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.65pt;text-indent:-1.65pt;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='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>0 Mère, douce Mère que je suis, Tu es à<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>la<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;
</span>fois ce qui détruit et ce qui érige.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>L'univers entier vie dans Ton sein de sa vie
innombrable et Tu<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>vis dans Ie moindre de ses atomes immensément.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Et I' aspiration de Ton
infinitude se tourne vcrs Cela qui n' est point manifesté, afin d'implorer
toujours une plus compléte et plus parfaite mainifestation. &quot;²</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.65pt;text-indent:-1.65pt;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='margin-left:1.65pt;text-indent:-1.65pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Or
again:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.65pt;text-indent:-1.65pt;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='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Je suis les bras puissants de Ta miséricorde. Je
suis la vaste poitrine de Ton amour sans limites.. Les bras one enveloppé la /
terre douloureuse et la pressent tendrement sur Ie cmur généreux,. et
lentement un baiser de suprême bénédiction<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;
</span>est<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>posé sur cet atome en
conjlit.. Ie baiser de la Mère qui console et guéfrit. . ³</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.65pt;text-indent:-1.65pt;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='margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:8.4pt;
mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ This sorrowful world
kneels before Thee, 0 Lord, in mute supplication; this tortured Matter nestles
at thy feet, its last, its sole refuge; and so imploring Thee, it adores Thee,
Thee whom it neither knows nor understands! Its prayer rises like the cry of
one in a last agony; that which is disappearing feels confusedly the
possibility of living again in Thee; the earth awaits Thy decree in a grandiose
prostration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:8.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>²<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp; </span>Mother,
sweet Mother, who I am, Thou art at once the destroyer and the builder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:8.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The
whole universe lives in Thy breast with all its life innumerable and Thou
livest in Thy immensity in the least of its atoms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.1pt;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:8.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And
the aspiration of Thy infinitude turns towards That which is not manifested to
cry to it for a manifestation ever more complete and more perfect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:8.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:
8.4pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>³ I am Thy puissant arms of mercy. I am the vast bosom
of Thy limitless love. The arms have enfolded the sorrowful earth and tenderly
press it to the generous heart; slowly a kiss of supreme benediction settles on
this atom in conflict: the kiss of the Mother that consoles and heals.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:1.65pt;text-align:center;
text-indent:-1.65pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
'>Page – 234</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.65pt;text-indent:-1.65pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
once more:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.65pt;text-indent:-1.65pt;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'>Toute la
terre est dans nos bras comme un enfant malade qu'il faut guérir et pour lequel
on a, ài cause même de sa faiblesse, une tendresse toute spéciale.¹<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
triple status of the Mother, the individual, the collective and the
transcendental (or, in other words, the personal, the universal and the
supra-personal) has been condensed and epitomised in the magical note
describing her first meeting with the Lord:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;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-indent:10.55pt;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='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Peu<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>importe
qu'il y ait<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>milliers d'êtres plongés
dans la plus épaisse ignorance, Celui que nous avons vu hier est sur terre,. sa
présence suffit à<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>prouver qu'un jour
viendra où, l'ombre sera<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>trans- . formée<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>en lumière, et où, effectivement, Ton règne
sera instauré sur la terre.²<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='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;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;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
And the reality that Their manifestation upon earth has to establish, the 
supreme achievement of Their terrestrial existence is chanted, as it were, in 
these wonderfully mystic<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>Sibylline-lines:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;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;text-indent:8.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:
7.9pt;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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='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'>La mort a passé<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>vaste et solennelle et tout s' est tu
religieusement durant son passage. Une beauté surhumaine a pam sur la terre.
Q,uelque chose de plus merveilleux que la plus merveilleuse félicité fait
pressentir sa Présence.³<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='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'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(3)</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;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I
have spoken of the triple status, the three levels of her ascending reality,
these are in view of her manifestation of</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;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;text-indent:8.15pt;mso-line-height-alt:
7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ All the earth is in our arms like a sick child who
must be cured and for whom one has a special affection because of his very
weakness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:8.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:
7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>² It matters not if there are hundreds of beings
plunged in the densest ignorance. He whom we saw yesterday, is here on earth;
His presence is enough to prove that a day shall come when darkness shall be
transformed into light, when Thy reign shall be indeed established upon earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>.³<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>Death has passed, vast and solemn, and all
fell into a religious silence during its passage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>A
superhuman beauty has appeared on the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Something
more marvellous than the most marvellous bliss has made felt the impress of its
Presence.<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-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
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 2 35<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<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'>world-labour. There is
however, yet another status beyond – beyond the beyond – It is the relation
between the Supreme Lord and the Divine Mother in itself apart from their work,
their purpose in manifestation, it is their own 'Lila' between themselves,
exclusively their own. The delight of this exclusively personal play behind and
beyond the creation sheds a secret aroma in and through all this existence here
and it is also the source of the hidden magic that these utterances of the Prayers
and Meditations contain, it is to this status surpassing all wonder that
Sri Aurobindo refers so wistfully and so sweetly in those famous opening lines,
in &quot;A God's Labour':¹</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-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I have gathered my dreams
in a silver air</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Between the gold
and the blue</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And wrapped them softly
and left them there</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>My jewelled dreams
of you.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>


<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 15.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The delight of delights, the
purest delight that exists up there in its self-sufficiency overflows, spills
as it were, and a drop of that nectar of immortality is what constitutes these
universes here below.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;
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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 236</span></p>

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