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EN-GB'><font size="4">PART THREE</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<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>

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lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p><font size="4">&nbsp;</font></o:p></span></i></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>1944<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>0 Lord, the world implores Thee to
prevent it from falling back<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

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class=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>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Grant that the mistakes recognised
may never be renewed.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Grant, lastly, that its actions may
be the exact and sincere expression of its</span></i><span lang=EN-GB
style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> <i>proclaimed ideals.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>– THE MOTHER<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>1<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>T</span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>HIS</span><span lang=EN-GB
style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> is the New Year Prayer the Mother has
formulated for our sake. This is the turn <span class=GramE>She</span> would
have us give to our sadhana for the year. What is the special import of this
new orientation? It is, one may say, to direct our efforts towards an objective
expression, towards an application to life on the material plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>One starts on the path of sadhana
with an almost entire unconsciousness – it is so in all evolutionary process. A
goal is there, vague and indistinct, far off. Within him also the sadhaka feels
an equally indefinite and indefinable <span class=GramE>urge,</span> he seems
to move without any fixed aim or purpose, with an urge simply to move and. move
on. This is what he feels as a yearning, as an aspiration – <span class=SpellE><i>caraivete</i></span>,
as the Upanishad says. Then step by step as he progresses, his consciousness
grows <span class=GramE>luminous,</span> the aim also begins to take a clear
and definite shape. The mind is able slowly to understand and grasp what it <span
class=GramE>wants,</span> the heart's yearning and attraction also begin to be
transparent, quiet but deep. Still this cannot be called a change of nature,
let alone transformation. Then only will our nature consent really to change
when we become, when even our sense-organs become subject to our inner
consciousness, when 
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>our actions and activities are inspired, guided
and formed by the power and influence of this inner light.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>In the beginning, the sadhaka finds
himself a divided personality-in his heart there is the awakening of aspiration<span
class=GramE>,.</span> the divine touch, but with all its outward impulses, the
physical consciousness remains subject to the control of old fixed habits under
the sway of the lower nature. Ordinarily, man is an unconscious sinner, that is
to say, he has no sense of the sins. <span class=GramE>he</span> commits. But
he becomes a conscious sinner when he: reaches the level of which we are
speaking. The conflicts<span class=GramE>,.</span> <span class=GramE>fears</span>,
agonies, compunctions in this stage have perhaps been nowhere more evident than
in the life of the Christian seeker. In this state we know what to do but
cannot do it-the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. We want to do the
right thing, we try to do it again and again, yet we fail every time. It is. <span
class=GramE>not</span> that we fail only in respect of the movements of our
heart and mind, in practice also we commit the same stupidities time and again.
These stupidities – and their name is legion-m – are lust, anger, greed, ignorance,
vanity, envy, distrust, disobedience, revolt; repentance, constant repentance
and earnest supplication for the divine grace – that is the remedy, says the
devout Christian.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>But we, for ourselves, do not give
any such supreme place to repentance. For, after all, it is a lower impulse, a
vital impulse: as we call it; it does not allow the memory of the sin to be:
forgotten; rather by dwelling upon it constantly, it keeps it alive, makes the
impression of the sin all the more lurid. And not <span class=SpellE>unoften</span>
does it lead to luxuriating in sinfulness Behind the sense of repentance is
this consciousness, this idea that man is, by nature, corrupt, his sin is
original. That is why the: Christian seeker has accepted sorrow and suffering,
abasement and mortification as the indispensable conditions of his sadhana This
calls to our mind a witty remark of <span class=SpellE>Anatole</span> France,. <span
class=GramE>that</span> prince of humorists, that one could not be a lover of
Christ unless one sinned – the more one sinned, the more: could one grow in
righteousness; the more the repentance, in other words, the more the divine
grace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>We have said that this is not our
path. The divine grace is a fact – without that nothing is possible. From one
point of view, the divine grace is unconditioned. But it does not follow<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>that the precedent of <span class=SpellE>Jagai-Madhai</span>
is the invariable law of spiritual life. The law is rather this that the field
must be ready, the being and the consciousness must get into a certain mould,
attain certain order and disposition so that the descent of the Divine Grace,
its manifestation and play may be possible. For, just as the divine grace is
true, so it is equally true that the individual is essentially one with the
Divine, sin and ignorance are his external sloughs,
identity with the Divine is his natural right. We, therefore, Jay equal stress
on this hidden aspect of man, on the freedom of his will, on his personal
effort which is the determining factor of his destiny. For in the field of
ignorance or half-knowledge, in the nether hemisphere of his consciousness, it
is this power that directly builds up that ordered state of the being with
whose support the divine grace can actualise itself and give a material shape
to the integral fulfilment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Hence the Mother gives the direction
that though external lapses may be natural to our external nature, now that our
inner consciousness has awakened, the vision and the earnestness to see and
recognise our mistakes have developed – assuming that this much of development
has taken place in us – we must awake to the situation and be on the alert, we
must bring such control to bear upon our vital impulses, upon our nervous
centres as will prevent, for good and all, errors and stupidities from <span
class=SpellE>upsurging</span> again and invading our physical self and our
field of action. When we have reached this stage, we have acquired the capacity
to ascend to another level of consciousness. It is then that we can lay the
foundations of a new order in the world-it is then that along with the
purification, the achievement will begin to take on a material form.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>2<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>The scope of this New Year Prayer does
not limit itself only to our individual sadhana-it embraces also the collective
consciousness which is specially the field of its application. It is the
muffled voice of entire humanity in its secret aspiration that is given
expression here. It is by the power of this <i>mantra</i>, protected by this
invulnerable armour, – if we choose to <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>accept it as such, - that the collective
life of man will attain its fulfilment. We have often stated that the
outstanding feature of the modern world is that it has become a <span
class=SpellE>Kurukshetra</span> of Gods and Titans. It is no doubt an eternal
truth of creation, this conflict between the divine and the anti-divine, and it
has been going on in the heart of humanity since its advent upon earth. In the
inner life of the world this is a fact of the utmost importance, its most
significant principle and mystery. Still it must be said that never in the
annals of the physical world has this truth taken such momentous proportions as
in the grim present. It is pregnant with all good and evil that may make or mar
human destiny in the near future. Whether man will transcend his half-animal
state and rise to the full height of his manhood, nay even to the godhead in
him, or descend back to the level of his gross brute nature – this is the problem
of problems which is being dealt with and solved in the course of the mighty
holocaust of the present World War.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>In her last year's message¹ the
Mother gave a clear warning that we must have no more hesitation, that we must
renounce one side, free ourselves from all its influence and embrace the other
side without hesitation, without reservation. At the decisive moment in the
life of the world and of mankind, one must definitely, irrevocably choose one's
loyalty. It will not do to say, like the over-wise and the over-liberal, that
both sides – the Allies and the Axis Powers - are equal – equally right or
equally wrong - and that we can afford to be outside or above the prejudices or
interests of either. There is no room today for a neutral. He who pretends to
be a neutral is an enemy to the cause of truth. Whoever is Dot with us is
against us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>We who have taken the side that is
for Light and Evolution and the great Future, must be thoroughly alive to the
heavy responsibility that lies on us. The choice of the path is not by itself
sufficient. Next to that, we have to see, at every step, and make sure that we
are really walking straight along the true path, that we do not fall and slip
down, that we do not stray unawares into a wrong track or a blind alley.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>¹</span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>'The hour has come when
a choice has to be made, radical and definitive. Lord, give us the strength to
reject the falsehood and emerge in Thy truth, pure and worthy of Thy victory” –
1943</span></span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>So far as the World War is concerned
all nations and peoples and groups on our side who have felt and proclaimed
that they stand for equality, fraternity and freedom, the priests and prophets
of a new future, of a happier humanity, all such warriors are also facing a
solemn ordeal. For them also the time has come to be on their guard and be
watchful. They must see that they give exact expression in their actions to
what they have thought, felt and proclaimed. They have to prove by every means,
by thought, word and deed, that their entire being is really one, whole and
indivisible, in ideal and in intention.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Today at the beginning of the New
Year we have to bear in mind what aim, what purpose inspired us to enter into
this tremendous &quot;terrible work&quot;, what force, what strength has been
leading us to victory. They who consider themselves as collaborators in the
progressive evolution of Nature must constantly realise the truth that if
victory has come within the range of possibility, it has done so in just
proportion to their sincerity, by the magic grace of the <span class=SpellE>Mahashakti</span>,
the grace which the aspiration of their inner consciousness has called down.
And what is now but possible will grow into the actual if we keep moving along
the path we have so far followed. Otherwise, if we falter, fail and break
faith, if we relapse into the old accustomed track, if under pressure of past
habits, under the temptation of immediate selfish gain, under the sway of
narrow parochial egoism, we suppress or maim the wider consciousness of our
inner being or deny it in one way or another, then surely we shall wheel back
and fall into the .clutches of those very hostile powers which it has been our
determined effort to overthrow. Even if we gain an outward victory it will be a
disastrous, moral and spiritual defeat. That will mean a tragic reversal – to
be compelled to begin again from the very beginning. Nature will not be baulked
of her aim. <span class=GramE>Another travail</span> she will have to undergo
and that will be far more agonising and terrible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>But we do not expect such a
catastrophe. We have hope and confidence that the secret urge of Nature, the
force of the <span class=SpellE>Mahashakti</span> will save man, individually
and collectively, from ignorance and foolishness, vouchsafe to him genuine good
sense and the true inspiration.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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