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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size="4">A Small Talk</font><o:p></o:p></b></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'>So I am going to tell you
a story or perhaps stories. These stories, many of them, I have narrated on
many occasions to your elders, that is to say, your predecessors who are now
quite grown up and are at present among gentlemen. Here is the story:</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Once
upon a time there was a little girl, quite young, very nice, very pretty, <span
class=GramE>living</span> in her family with her parents, particularly in the
company of her grandfather. This grandfather was rather old but extremely nice
and kind and gentle like <span class=GramE>herself</span>. He loved very much
the child, indeed the grandfather adored his grand-daughter and the child
reciprocated the feeling.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
happened however, that the old man fell ill, very ill. It was quite natural,
for he was an old man. All people, friends and family members alike, came to
see him and gathered in the sick man's room. &quot;How is he now?&quot; The
doctors were there. The little girl stood somewhat away from her grandfather's
sick bed. She was sad, very sad indeed. All on a sudden she looked up towards
her grandfather's bed and saw – strange, strange to say – quite near the bed
another little <span class=GramE>girl standing</span> – a little girl looking
like herself in appearance and every way – her double as it were. She herself was
standing on the other side of her grandfather's bed, a little away. The other
one was standing exactly like herself quite near the bed on the other side. She
was amazed and questioned herself. &quot;What has happened? I am here, but my
image, a reproduction of mine is over there.&quot; She<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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– 29 <o:p></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'><span class=GramE>approached</span>
her grandfather, the image also approached close to him. But nobody else
noticed anything; she only knew it and for others she was alone. She asked:
&quot;But who are you?&quot; The other one answered: &quot;I will tell you
later on.&quot; And she disappeared. Subsequently the old man recovered, and
the little girl also recovered her grandfather as .before. But she continued
wondering and questioning about her queer experience. There was no answer for
sometime. But she was sure that it was due to her double's presence that she
got back her grandfather. The fact could not be doubted. The vision was
absolutely real there could be no question about it.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Later
on and soon enough occasions came when she met again and again the same person
whenever there was any difficulty or danger ahead, to help her out of it. It
was explained to her in course of time that this person who appeared to be
the very image of <span class=GramE>herself</span> was none else but herself,
her real inner person.</p>

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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>

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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>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In
this connection some of you will surely remember the famous poem – &quot;Nuit
de Décembre&quot; – of the famous French poet Alfred de Musset where he speaks
of a strange companion who used to visit him from time to time at critical
moments of his life, come and sit by his side, – some unknown person dressed in
black who however resembled him as though his own twin brother:</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-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><i>Un</i></span><i>
pauvre enfant vêtu de noir<o:p></o:p></i></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>Qui me ressemblait
comme <span class=GramE>un</span> frère<o:p></o:p></i></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></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'>This story of a double
person in oneself, one being the guide and mentor and friend and helper, is a
phenomenon not very rare. Everybody, <span class=GramE>everyone</span> of you
have his companion, this friend who protects you, who loves you indeed. If you
want</p>
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<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 30 </span></p>

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none;tab-stops:158.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>you can
see him, at least feel him, and this person is absolutely like you in
appearance, your own self, the same face and figure as if reflected in a mirror
when you stand before it; and then so real and living. He speaks to you, gives
you good advice, and so loving and adorable! One way of finding him and coming
in contact with him, seeing him and feeling his presence is to be always good,
to be good and do good things, never to have bad thoughts, always to be clean
in mind and decent in behaviour. This will draw your friend to you as if pulled
by a magnet and you will feel him within you, near you, and the hidden comrade
will reveal himself. This hidden friend is the Presence of the <span
class=GramE>Mother,</span> the Mother is always with you, with every one of you
as I have been saying always.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I
may say, each one of you carries three persons in him, you are a triple
personality: first of all your outside appearance, as you stand before the
others, groomed and dressed, hiding as it were within the trappings, your
clothes, but behind you is the bare and naked body, that is, your natural
appearance. You have then quite another character than the former personality
so clothed; but there is something else, very different, also behind that
natural body. The body however includes, or represents indeed the whole of your
present nature: your body, your vital and your mind make one complex – the unit
of your common normal personality. But these two are outer robes, hanging loose
around another person, behind and <span class=GramE>within,</span> hanging
loose and standing aloof even like a clothing enveloping your body. It is that
being which is your true being of whom I was telling you so long, the intimate
brother and friend of yours, indeed your own true self, incarnating the
Mother's presence and the Mother's love. It is only a matter of opening out
your coat or coating!</p>
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