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<p class="paracenter">THE HOMOGENEOUS BEING
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A thing is homogeneous when all its parts are similar, are <i>like itself; </i>
in other 
words, when the whole being is under the same influence, moved by the same 
consciousness, the same impulsion, the same 
will. 
Normally
a man is formed of 
many kinds of fragments, all
disparate, each 
becoming active in its turn at different moments. 
A part may become active, so different from the previous one, that the 
man 
seems altogether a new 
person. Each element in us has its own nature and activity, demands its own 
fulfilment, acts almost as an independent personality. We are composed indeed of 
multiple personalities.</p>
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Thus, for example, you are now in a very good 
state of consciousness. You have the feeling that you really live for an
 ideal, for the Divine and are happy. Suddenly something happens; you 
meet someone, not very desirable, or you do something, not commendable, 
or you are in the midst of some untoward circumstances and you find you 
have lost your experience, so much so that you may even lose the memory 
of it. You wonder how this could have happened. A submerged part of your
 being has come up, an element that lay aside is now in front: it has 
come overshadowing or pushing the other into the background.
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There are many examples of such double, triple, 
quadruple or multiple personality. The separate personalities are not 
conscious of each other, each acts independently
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<br><p class="pageno">Page-161</p>
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<p class="para">and goes 
its own way. 
They live together, but do not mix or mingle with each other; they are contained 
in the same body, that is the only connection. It is like a sack in which 
pebbles and pearls-if they are indeed real pearls -have been thrown together and 
the only bond of union is the sack. This is not homogeneity; this is called 
heterogeneity.</p>
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I knew a person who had a will, a clarity of 
thought and ideas, who prepared intelligently all that needed to be done
 with regard to a particular work. All on a sudden there was a reversal 
of the whole being. Another person surged up who not only did not 
continue the work of his predecessor, but undid it all. He destroyed in 10 minutes
 what took months for the other to build up. And you can understand the 
dismay of the first person when he came back and saw the havoc done: he 
had to start over again. 
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<p class="para"><i> What then one should do? What is the remedy? 
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<p class="para">You have to find out in you a seat of consciousness, a signpost firmly 
planted, deep inside, which is at the same time a mirror. All things, 
all happenings must pass in front of the mirror; they will be reflected 
there in their true nature, exactly as they are in their truth and not 
as they appear or pretend to be. And according to their nature and 
quality you are to give them places around; the signpost will show where
 each has to go for its place. The Mirror will judge and test each 
sentiment, each impulse, each sensation that comes up. If it is 
pleasant, if it is luminous, if it is what it should be, give it a place
 near the centre. If, on the other hand, it is grey, obscure, </p>
<br><p class="pageno">Page-162</p>
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<p class="para">doubtful, put it away, farther off. If, by 
chance, any of the unpleasant elements has forced its way up and 
occupied a near seat, you must warn it sternly and remove it, give it 
its appropriate seat; when it has recognised itself, changed itself, 
then only it can be allowed within a nearer ring. It is in this way that
 you should arrange and group all the elements of your being, according 
to the value and quality of each one around the central consciousness. 
That is how you organise your being. You build up a pattern of 
concentric rings, the nearer the ring to the centre, the purer must be 
the elements that compose it and therefore of greater value and 
significance. If you can arrange in this way all the parts and parcels 
of your being around the psychic centre, each in its own place according
 to its role and function and all turned towards the central 
consciousness and inspired and moved by it and there is no element which
 sounds a differing note, then you have the perfect homogeneity of your 
nature.
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It is a very interesting exercise in which you 
can engage yourself. If you take it up and follow regularly and 
assiduously, you will amuse yourself immensely and with profit. Time 
will never hang heavy, it will bear golden fruits. At the end, say of 
two or three years, you will see, if you look back, how much you have 
changed, you wonder how you could have thought or acted as you did. You 
find yourself a considerably changed personality. You can start the 
experiment from today itself and see how life becomes more and more 
amusing, interesting and significant.
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<br><p class="pageno">Page-163</p>
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