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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 PERFECTED consciousness is attained in the highest
status of being, when it is full of light and delight, peace and purity, one
with the Divine Consciousness. Such a Consciousness, when it comes down upon
earth in its original unmixed clarity, lives as a foreign element and has no
real contact with the world; it can have only a very indirect influence upon
men and things. If the perfect, the Divine Consciousness has to be truly
effective, has to change human and world nature, it must put on partially at least
that nature; it must share in the imperfection of ignorance so that it can show
how that imperfection can be dealt with and transformed. The Divine has to
become human, even the ordinary human, in a sense, in the outward instrumental
aspect, to a greater or lesser degree as needed, so that He may come in living
contact with the obscure lower consciousness and put His light into it and
gradually purify and illumine it. If, however, the consciousness retains its
fullness of power and light makes its appearance as such, it may dazzle and
overwhelm, as a meteor miracle, but leave nothing substantial behind. This is
what has happened in the past of man's history. The saints and sages, the
greatest and the most genuine among them, mostly dwelt apart from humanity in
consciousness and even away from human contact; the earth could not profit
wholly by their example.</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Therefore the Mother says
in her <i>Prayers and Meditations </i>that having gone beyond all desires still
she had to live in the midst of desires; she had no choice of her own, no
preference, no attachment, no need of anything, yet she was put in the
conditions of very ordinary life, the normal human life; she<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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to deal with the common man, handle the small insignificant objects of material
existence. In one part of her being she had to identify herself with ignorance
and obscurity, so much so that even the distinction between consciousness and
unconsciousness – the <span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>conscient</span>
and the inconscient-was for a time obliterated. Naturally, the inmost being in
its inner self remained always calm, luminous, inviolable, but it put around
itself this body of ordinary nature to meet its ordinary reactions and through
them gradually to uplift and train it to manifest and incarnate the inmost
divine.</p>

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gods are perfect; but it is said, they have to become men, come down upon earth
and assume human proportions – that is, imperfections, – if they wish to
progress further, attain still higher levels of consciousness. For, the gods
are perfect each in his own limited and well-defined and therefore unchangeable
type; but man means an aspiring soul, that is to say, infinity – his very
imperfection is a sign and symbol of ever greater possibility; the fluidity of
his nature means an opportunity.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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