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<p class="paracenter">MIND, ORGAN OF SEPARATIVE 
CONSCIOUSNESS
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<p class="para"> The
world is one, indissolubly and solidly 
one: no part can be separated from any other. Any action any­where affects the 
whole and nothing can be moved even a hair's breadth without changing the entire 
balance. Each element literally lives, moves and has its being in every other 
and the totality is a rigidly unified mass.</p>
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<p class="para"> If it is so, then there arises a 
difficulty, a dilemma. For the world to progress at all, under the 
circumstances, it must progress as a whole, en masse; it cannot progress 
piecemeal. The totality must advance in order that each element may progress and 
each element must advance so that the totality may progress. Perhaps this is 
what is happening actually in the world : but the result, if nothing else, has 
been rather slow. It will take not only millenniums but aeons for humanity to 
make any progress worth the name.
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<p class="para"> It need not be so however. Man is 
solidly one with the universe, true; but he has a faculty in him by which he can 
separate, isolate himself from the rest of the world. It is the mind's power of 
self-division and dissociation. Through this faculty man can put the world
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<br><p class="pageno">Page-70</p>
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<p class="para">aside and outside himself (for a time, at least), cut away from 
it and concentrate upon his own being, his inner truth, in other words, make the 
progress in himself, as quickly as possible, independently, without waiting for 
others or the world to progress in any degree. And then when once he has made 
the progress himself, achieved a new higher status, he can turn back upon the 
world and bring to bear upon it the force of his progress and establish the 
progress more generally.
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<p class="para"> This power which in the inferior 
human consciousness appears as mind or mental discernment is the image or 
delegate here below of that very force of consciousness that originally 
separated the world from the Divine, created the ego and placed it as an 
objective reality against itself. It was a force of dividing consciousness, of 
exclusive concentration, that created the fission in the original unitary status 
of the Divine: it was that that precipitated the world of negation, of ignorance 
and inconscience, out of the supreme Light and Reality.
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<p class="para"> It was a power of denial that 
severed the world from its pure source: the same power can now be utilised for 
the return back for the reintegration. The power that separated from the Divine 
is capable of separating from the world; the consciousness that moved away from 
the One Divine can move away also from the Multiple Ignorance. As the 
individualised element isolated itself
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<br><p class="pageno">Page-71</p>
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<p class="para">from the unitary consciousness of the Divine, in the same way 
the individualised element in man can stand aloof from the unitary being of the 
world: as it came down the ladder of consciousness from the supreme light of the 
spirit into the lowest depth of unconscious dead matter, the same path it can 
take in the opposite way and from the unconsciousness rise into the fullness of 
the original light. The soul has freely chosen the bondage, he is free too to 
choose his freedom again. That is what the Upanishad meant when it said: <i>
avidyay</i>&#257;<i> m</i>&#7771;<i>tyum t</i>î<i>rtw</i>&#257;<i>, </i>by the Ignorance he 
shall cross death.
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<br><p class="pageno">Page-72</p>
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