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<b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size="4">Faith and Progress</font><o:p></o:p></b></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'><i>When one
makes an effort, makes a little progress, one gets satisfied and is proud of
it. That spoils everything. How to get rid of this fault?<o:p></o:p></i></p>

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11.75pt;border:medium none;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'>IT is because one looks at
oneself while doing a thing. It is the habit of constantly observing oneself as
one works or lives. Certainly you must observe yourself; but more than that
you must be sincere and spontaneous – spontaneous in what you do and not
turning towards yourself all the while, judging, criticising, sometimes even
severely. That is often as bad as patting oneself with satisfaction.</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'>You
must be sincere in your aspiration, you need not even know that you are
aspiring: you should become the aspiration. When you can do that, you feel an
extraordinary strength. One minute of such an experience prepares you for years
of progress. When you are no longer a person, an ego that is always looking at
itself, when you are the very action you do – especially in the act of
aspiration – well, I say nothing can be better than that. When it is not a
person that aspires, when the aspiration shoots up in a concentrated momentum,
one can go very far. Otherwise there is a mixture of vanity, self-sufficiency,
even self-pity, all kinds of petty movements which spoil the affair.</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>What are the conditions
for a descent of faith?<o:p></o:p></i></p>

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9.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'>The most important condition is trust, a childlike trust,
the candid feeling that knows that needed things will come, that there is no
question about it. When the child has need of anything, he is certain that it
is coming. This kind of simple trust or reliance is the most important
condition.</p>

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text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>One must aspire, it is indispensable; but there are people
who<span style='font-family:Arial'> 
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aspire and yet with so much conflict within them, between faith and want of 
faith, trust and distrust, between optimism that is sure of victory and 
pessimism that is just waiting for the catastrophe to come etc., etc. If such is 
the state of your being, you may aspire but nothing will come out of it. You 
say, &quot;I aspire and I get nothing&quot;; that is because you are demolishing your 
aspiration all the while by your want of trust. But if truly you have the trust, 
things would be different. Children, for example, when they are left to 
themselves, when they have not been deformed by elderly people, have a great 
confidence that everything will be all right. When they have an accident they 
never think that it will be anything serious. They have the spontaneous 
conviction that it will be set right soon and that helps things to get right 
soon. When you aspire for the Force, ask for the Divine's help, if you do it 
with an unshakable certitude that the thing will come, in that case, it is 
impossible for it not to come. In fact, as I say, such a conviction is in itself 
an inner opening. There are people who are naturally and automatically in this 
condition. Whenever or wherever there occurs an opportunity to receive something 
from above they are there present. And there are others who always fail to be on 
the spot when there is an occasion for the descent: they close themselves at the 
right moment. But they who have the childlike reliance they never miss an 
opportunity. It is a very curious phenomenon. Apparently there may not be much 
difference between the two types. Both may have the same goodwill, the same 
aspiration, the same desire to do one's best, but he who has a happy confidence 
in him, who does not question, who does not ask if he will have the thing or 
not, whether the Divine will answer or not&nbsp; for, to him
that is not the question, it is understood and taken for granted: &quot;The
thing I need I shall be given,&quot; he says, &quot;if I pray my prayer will be
granted, in am in difficulty and I ask for help, the help will come, it will
not only come but settle everything&quot; – I say, the person who has such a
spontaneous, candid, unquestioning reliance gets the best conditions under
which an effective descent can take place; its action then is marvellous.</p>

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mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It is with your mental contradictions and
doubts that you spoil everything, with this kind of ideas that enter into you
when you are in difficulty: &quot;It is impossible, I shall never come to the
end of it, supposing the situation gets worse, supposing I am to<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>roll down etc., etc...
&quot; In this way you build up a wall between yourself and the Force that you
want to receive.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
psychic being has this trust, has it in a wonderful manner, without a shadow,
without a question, without contradiction; and when it is there, there is no
prayer that remains unanswered, no aspiration unfulfilled.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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