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<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'><font size="4">How
to Feel that we Belong to the Divine</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>How to feel that we
belong to the Divine and that the Divine is acting in us </i>?</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>NOT with the head, although one can always begin by
it; for the light touches the head first. One must feel with one's sensation,
that is, sense it in a flaming aspiration that seeks to realise. For example,
as it may happen sometimes to an athlete: supposing you are trying to lift a
heavy weight and are intensely concentrated upon it. Suddenly you feel without
your knowing it how, that another Force is lifting it up, some­thing has taken
hold of your hands and is making them do the impossible. The body seems to be
inexistent at that moment. Many writers too have the same experience. Something
in them which is not their own self thinks, sees much more clearly, is
infinitely more conscious, which <span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>organises</span> the thoughts and the words. It is not the writer that
writes but this something else. At such times the small person which struggles
and attempts is no longer there. Indeed, for the experience to be complete and
not to disturb it, the physical person must keep quiet as much as possible.</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To have such an
experience, you must first have the will for it; you must will and aspire, try
to be less and less an egoist, to have less and less the feeling of being a
particular person. You must have then within you this flame, this ardent
yearning, this need of union. It is a kind of luminous enthusiasm that
possesses you, an irresistible necessity of your being to dissolve in the
divine and not to be separate. True, it is a state that does not last long – in
the beginning – you have the contrary experience immediately after. But if you
continue,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 375<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>persist in your will and aspiration, the other state
will come again. The two alternate for a time till the complete fusion is
achieved. Finally there is no longer the distinction of your personal being and
the Divine Being, the two are one. There is no more the state of yearning
towards an ecstatic sense of submission in which the two are still separate. The
state of fusion and mingling, of complete identity is extremely simple and
supremely spontaneous. I heard once from an Indian Sufi at <st1:City><st1:place>Paris</st1:place></st1:City>
of this state of consciousness. They too know of it.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;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-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>Is that then the final stage, no more progress
after that?<o:p></o:p></i></p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;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'>There
is no end to progress. For, this perfect union can happen before the
transformation of the body. The union is a thing of the consciousness. There is
a great difference between even physical consciousness and physical matter. The
most advanced mystic may get to the realisation in the physical consciousness,
but that does not include physical matter. The transformation of the material
body has not been done nor even attempted perhaps in the past. It can be done
only if life is sufficiently prolonged; you do not leave the body unless you
will it so and thus have the necessary time at your disposal to bring about the
change. Sri Aurobindo once said – and he said it without the least hesitation –
that it will take about three hundred years to do it and I can add that it will
be from the time when the last stage of union with the Divine I have described
has been achieved.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Three
hundred years is the minimum, I should say. You must realise what it means to
transform the body. The body with all its organs and <span lang=EN-GB
style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>functionings</span> works automatically with­out
the intervention of your consciousness, and is built upon an animal plan. If
your heart stops for the hundredth part of a second, your body goes off. You
cannot do without a single one of your organs and you must keep watch over
their proper functioning. Transformation means the replacement of this purely
material arrangement by a systematic concentration of forces. You must bring
about an arrangement of forces, accord­ing to a certain kind of vibration,
replacing each organ by a centre of self-conscious energy which governs through
the con­centration of a higher force. There will no longer be a stomach,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 376<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>no more a
heart even. These things will give place to a system of vibrations which represent
what they really are. The material organs are symbols of energy centres; they
are not the essential reality, they only give a form or figure to it under
certain circumstances. The transformed body will function through its real
energy centres, not through their representatives as developed in an animal
body. For that you must first of all be conscious of these centres and their
functionings; instead of an unconscious automatic movement there has to be a
move­ment of conscious control. Thus one will have at his disposal not physical
animal organs but the symbolic vibrations, the symbolic energies. This does not
mean that there will not be any definite recognizable form. The form will be
built up with qualities rather than with solid (dust) particles. It will be, so
to say, a practical or pragmatic form: it will be supple and mobile, unlike the
fixed grossly material shape. As the expression of your face changes with your
feeling, impulsion, even so the body will change according to the need of the inner
movement: have you never had this kind of experience in your dream? You rise up
in the air and you give as it were a push with your elbow in one direction and
your body extends that way; you give a kick with your foot and you land
somewhere else: you can be transparent at will and go easily through a solid
wall! The transformed body will behave somewhat in the same way, it will be
light, luminous, elastic. Lightness, luminosity, elasticity will be the very
fundamental qualities of the body.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;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'>To
prepare such a body 300 years is nothing; even a thousand years will not be too
much. Naturally, I am speaking of the same body. If you change your body in
between, it will no longer be the same body. At 50 the body already begins to
wear out. But, on the contrary, if you have a body that goes on perfecting
itself; if each passing year represents a step in pro­gress, then you can
continue indefinitely: for after all, you are immortal.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There
is another difficulty one has to face in the work of transformation. A particular
body cannot change unless there is some sort of a corresponding change in the
surrounding bodies and in the surroundings generally also; for one lives and
moves through mutual interchange in the midst of others.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 377<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A collective change takes more time than individual
change. So it is no longer an individual consciousness, but the collective
consciousness that has to do the work.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The world progresses. And
being in the world you too must progress. It is a progress, however, which the
Divine effects in you without your knowledge or collaboration. The progress is
therefore very slow; Nature does not calculate the time she takes for her work,
she has eternity before her and she is not in a hurry. Centuries and
millenniums are mere instants in her march forward. One day she will arrive at
the goal she has fixed for her, even at the complete transformation of the body
and the advent of the superman. But the work will be hastened if there is
conscious collaboration from man. Most people, by far the largest majority
indeed, are not conscious of the action of the Divine in them. To be conscious
means to be attentive to what is being done, to be receptive and to be passive
to its influence. The more you give yourself and the more sincere you are, the
swifter and the more assured is your realisation. You can do in a few moments
what would other­wise take years. That is the aim of Yoga.</p>

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