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<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font size="4">Cling to Truth</font><o:p></o:p></span></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'>THE Life Divine is the
life of Truth. It is based on Truth, it is Truth, body and substance – Truth
absolute, pure and simple. But it may be asked as we are actually in the
ignorant and half-ignorant consciousness, in a world of almost total falsehood,
is it not necessary, is it not inescapable for us to accept the falsehood for
the moment, in order to be able to work in the world and succeed? We have to
live in an environment and move in it; if we try to go against it openly, how
can we do it practically? As individuals we are infinitesimal particles and the
mass of the whole will bear us down each one of us and crush us out of
existence. Truth is all right, but the approach to it needs to be cautious and
careful. If falsehood is clever we too have to be clever. In a game where
success is the aim, diplomacy and strategy are not outlawed. You have to
accept certain terms of your enemy in order that certain terms of yours might
be accepted. You can move to success in this mixed world only through a process
of give and take. An absolute saintly attitude is not a thing of practical
politics. That is why, to keep their truth unsullied, the ancients abandoned
this field of practical politics, retired to the forest or into the cosy laps
of the hills.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Beware,
this is the voice of the adversary trying to tempt you by confusing your mind.
The path is straight and narrow, it is not wide and comfortable and strewn with
roses. To find the Truth, to live the Truth we must begin by finding it in its
purity and living it. As is the start, so is the end. Our steadfastness, our
faithfulness must be unalloyed, our sincerity of utmost purity. It is Truth
alone that leads to Truth, a compromise or semblance leads only to the untruth.
Your diplomacy or duplicity may bring you the coveted result or 
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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>it may not;
but surely it will put a layer of soot upon your soul, push you back one step
more into your inconscience. And if you continue you may become the biggest
success in the eyes of the world, but your soul will be nowhere, leaving behind
perhaps only a hopeless sob in a wilderness. Has not the Mother said,
&quot;Even if there is a particle of falsehood in your expression – In your
word or in your act – how can you hope to express the Supreme Truth?&quot;
Remember also the words of Sri Aurobindo: &quot;Do not imagine that truth and
falsehood, light and darkness, surrender and selfishness can be allowed to
dwell together in a house consecrated to the Divine. The transformation must be
integral, and integral therefore the rejection of all that withstands
it.&quot;¹</p>

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cannot elude falsehood or cajole or conjure it. You must stand face to face,
gaze with unwinking eyes, the flame of Truth within you constantly ablaze.</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'>If
you say you are a small creature and yours a smaller light: your consciousness
has not the dimensions of a heroic being, your light will be engulfed,
swallowed up and lost in the vast and overwhelming gloom around. Yet small as
you are, do what you can, the utmost possible for you; do not let your little
flame be tarnished by any contrary or unworthy movement in you: be firm, keep
it bright and trimmed. The surrounding darkness may engulf it but cannot
smother it; for it is the everlasting, the Divine in you. The body, the flesh
may not continue but the holy light remains. The outward frame may have to
yield or dissolve in a material surrounding that was unready – not that the
inner consciousness was unready. Indeed the passing body releases the light
and it adds to the growing light in the earth's atmosphere. That is the central
creed of the Christian martyr. The blood of the martyr is the cement of the
Church. This truth of martyrdom, the sacrifice of the faithful was perhaps a
necessity at a time when humanity had not risen high enough in consciousness
and the earth's atmosphere was more opaque and dull than it is now. The one
thing necessary at that stage was an uncompromising living faith, the pure
light, the unvacillating flame, a spirit even though small standing against 
insurmountable odds – that was the way, the martyr's way to stand against the adversary. </p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>The Mother</span></p>
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the process the God-Man sacrificed himself.</p>
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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>We
are in a somewhat different age under different circumstances. At least our
aim is different. We stand firm full square against all temptations, all
leaning towards compromise, in the faith and certainty that we shall conquer,
we shall not go down but the odds against us shall be pushed back and
eliminated. This is the age of Victory.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>For
two things have happened – two mighty happenings in earth's history, in the
course of nature's evolution here: two unseen events that have new-oriented
the destiny of earth and mankind. First of all human consciousness in its
essential achievement has risen to a new level of consciousness, although not
in the mass, nor generally even in individuals, but there has come a common
acquiescence in the being to a higher status of living – proletarianism at its
best means nothing else. Human nature has shed something of its mediaeval
crudeness and obscurantism, separatism and selfishness; human mind has been
more sharpened and polished and widened so as to receive easily the message of
the cosmic rays. There has dawned in the atmosphere the perception or sense, of
a higher, purer, more luminous and enlightened status of existence. That is,
one may say, Nature's gift, the outcome of the millennial, the aeonic working
of an aspiration inherent in matter towards light and order. That is the first
event. The second one is more occult but more mighty and even devastating. It
is the descent, the manifestation, the intervention of a new force here below.
They who have seen it know and there is no question. The Veda has declared long
ago: The Unseeing have not the Knowledge, those who have eyes possess the
Knowledge.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Today,
more than ever, only a little of this pure consciousness will bring you
victory, not merely safety <span style="background-color: #FFFFFF">from</span> a great perdition. Against the vast, what
appears as the all-swallowing gloom of the external space, the inner space is
now luminous, doubly luminous and powerful.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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