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<font size="4">Divine Truth – Its Name and Form</font><o:p></o:p></span></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'>THE divine
truth at the heart of things, people have called by all kinds of names,
everyone presenting it from his own angle of experience. But always it is the
one Reality. There are millions of ways leading towards it; but one thing is
certain, you can find it, whatever the way you follow, what-ever the form you
give it: the result is the same, the final experience is identical. If all have
touched the thing, they touch the same thing always. And the proof that they
have touched the thing is that it is the same for all; if it is not the same
thing, then they have not touched it. You can give it any name you like: a name
is only a word.</p>

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is the value of a word, after all? Have you not noticed that there are people
who do not understand you, however clearly you speak to them. There are others
again who understand you if you utter only two words. The external form – the
sound of a word – has a meaning, if there is a force of thought behind; the
greater the force of thought, the more powerful and precise and clear it is,
and greater the chance of people receiving the force and understanding the word
that carries the force. But if someone speaks without thinking, usually it is
impossible to understand him; he would seem to you to make only a noise. You
must have noticed also that people who have lived together and are habituated
to each other's thought and talk, do not require any definition of the words
they use or even a large use to understand each other. There has been a mental
adjustment and the words are only an excuse for the inner contact, the contact
between brain and brain which underlies or even precedes the words.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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'>But when
you meet a new person, it takes you time to adapt and adjust yourself to
understand the words he uses.</p>

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is the meaning, the thought behind the word that is important. When the thought
is powerfully thought, it produces a vibration of which the word is only a
carrier, an intermediary. Indeed, you can develop the thought-power to such an
extent that you are able to establish a direct material contact with the
minimum or even no words at all. Naturally this requires a strong power of
concentration. But you will find that the bodily mechanism is only a mechanical
means; it is an instrument, but not always important or indispensable.</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'><i>When
we are conscious of the Divine, do we see Him in all things in some particular
form?<o:p></o:p></i></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
expect to see a divine form in each and all things? It may happen so. But I am
not sure; I have the impression that there is a large part of imagination in
such experiences. <i>You </i>may, for example, see the form of <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>
or Christ or Buddha in every being or thing. But I say that much of human
conception enters into this perception. Otherwise what I was telling you just
now would not be true. I said all who have the consciousness of the Divine, all
who get the contact with the Divine, wherever one may be, to whatever age or
country he may belong, all have the same essential experience. If it were not
so, the Hindus would always see one of their gods, the Europeans one of theirs,
the Japanese a third variety and so on. This may be an addition of each one's
own mental formation, but it would not be the Reality in its essence or purity
which is beyond all form. One can have a perception of the Divine Presence, a
very concrete perception, one can have even a personal contact with the Divine,
but it need not happen in and through the kind of form you imagine; it is
something inexpressible, beyond all explanation or definition, it is evident
only to one who has the experience. It may be as you are suddenly lifted up
into a peculiar condition, you find yourself in the presence of the Divine
which takes a form familiar to you, a form you have been accustomed to associate
with the Divine, because of your education, your up-bringing and tradition.
But, as I say, it is not the supreme<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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the form gives after all a limitation to the experience, takes away from it its
universality and a large measure of its power.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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