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<font size="4">Go Through</font></b></h2>
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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'>IT is said one must be
free from human love if one is to enjoy Divine Love. But to be free is usually
taken to mean to reject, to reject naturally by force, that is to say, to
coerce, to repress and suppress. &quot;But who can coerce a force of
Nature?&quot; the Gita asks. Indeed a force of Nature like human passion cannot
be dominated or obliterated by force; it is sure to come back with a redoubled <span
class=SpellE>vigour</span>. Nor can such an elemental feeling be overlooked,
side-tracked or by-passed. This way also the element is sure to come back and
catch you from behind.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
best way to tackle the thing is, as the Mother says, to go through it. To go
through means to stand and face it and not run away from it. To go through does
not mean, however, to satisfy or to indulge the urge – that makes you a slave
of it more and more; you get all the more entangled and can never hope to be
free. You stand and face in order to seize the truth, the reality of the thing
you have to deal with. You have to purify it and clean it in order to remove
the dust that covers the gold. If it is human love, to purify means to free it
from selfishness, from egoistic desire, the sense of possession. Instead, you
love simply for the joy of loving without any expectation or demand of return.
You find in the end that this way of loving brings to you a greater delight, a
new thrill and poignancy, proper to a pure feeling.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Indeed
not only love but all human impulses and urges are to be dealt with in the same
way. The Gita furnishes a beautiful and crucial example. The Gita teaches man
to go through the field of activity and not to reject or avoid it. The whole of
the Gita is an ideal lesson in the technique of going through. The Gita says,
do not renounce work but dedicate it– not <span class=SpellE><i>karmatyâga</i></span><i>
</i>but <span class=SpellE><i>karmanyâsa</i></span><i>. </i>What does this
dedication mean? </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'>The first step in the
process of dedication is <span class=SpellE>desirelessness</span> – to do work
without desire. It is usually thought that desire is the source and origin of
work. If you have no desire, you have no need or impulse to work. But this is a
very superficial view of things. The impulse for work springs from elsewhere,
from a deeper and impersonal source. The true spirit in which you should work
is, as the Gita enjoins, to do a work because it is a thing to be done, not
because you desire it. So naturally you <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>do
not hanker for the fruit of your action. <span class=GramE>First then, no
attachment to the action itself, then no attachment to the fruit that it
brings.</span> This can be done only when you are unselfish. Not only
unselfishness but you have to go a step farther, to selflessness. So then there
are these three stages in the process of dedication or purification. <span
class=GramE>First to work without desire, without attachment to the result of
the work.</span> Then you will be able to see that you are an instrument only,
the work is being done through you. At the beginning you are a <span
class=SpellE>desireless</span>, unselfish doer of works, next you see yourself
as a detached witness of your action and finally you see that the action
happening in you is Nature working in you, Nature the instrument of the
Divine. Finally <span class=GramE>yourself</span> is no longer there, it is the
Divine alone that is and acts.</span></p>

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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>What has been said of works is
true of all activities in man, his thoughts, feelings, impulses, physical acts.
It is the process of going through and meeting the reality beyond, which hides,
encloses itself with all its envelopes or coverings which you pass through.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>In fact it is to the Divine that the
dedication has to be made. Dedication means offering. All works, says the Gita,
have to be offered to the Supreme, that is the meaning of sacrifice, the
sacrifice of works (<span class=SpellE>Karmayajna</span>), all works come from
the Divine and they are to go back to Him, that is how they are purified and
through them thus purified and elevated, man attains his goal, union with the
Supreme. However, not works alone but each and every element of the human being
– even love and passion and all the grosser urges – do come from the only one
Source, the Divine. They become impure and distorted, muddy and poisonous when
man seeks to appropriate, that is to say, misappropriate them as his own
personal belongings. To give up the sense of ownership is the core of<span
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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 209</span><span
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class=GramE>dedication</span>. You are not the <span class=GramE>possessor,</span>
the Divine is the only possessor. In fact, you also do not belong to yourself,
you belong to the Divine. That is the ceremony of sacrifice you have to
undertake – install the Divinity in all your parts and functions. That is how
you purify and <span class=SpellE>divinise</span> your human elements. That is
how you go through ignorance and mortality and arrive at knowledge and
immortality.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 210<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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