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<font size="4">A Sign and A Symbol</font></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
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style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>It is said that if
you see a shooting star and make a vow at that time, the vow is sure to be
fulfilled. Is it true?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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.25in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>IT means that you must be able to formulate your aspiration during the
time the star is visible, that is to say, a very short time. Now, if an
aspiration can be formed and formulated in such a short time, it shows that the
aspiration is there all the while quite at the front of your consciousness. Of
course, the thing is true of the spiritual aspiration only: it is not
applicable to matters of ordinary life. So I say that if you are capable of
articulating your aspiration in a split second, it means that the object of
your aspiration lies in front and dominates your consciousness. And necessarily
whatever dominates your . consciousness is likely to be quickly realised.<o:p></o:p></span></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'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>I had the occasion
to make the experiment and have had the experience. It happened exactly as you
say. I saw a shooting star and as it passed, at the precise moment, leaped out
of my consciousness the words: To realise for my body union with the Divine.
And before the year ended, it was done.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Obviously, the
star was not the cause. It was because the thing dominated my consciousness, I
thought of nothing but that, I willed nothing but that, I acted only for that.
Usually, it seems, it takes a whole lifetime to have the realization – the
minimum is thirty-five years, it is said. But it was done in my case within
twelve months.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>It was because I was wholly concentrated upon the aspiration that I
could formulate it in the twinkling of an eye that the passage of the star
represents – not as a mere vague impression – but in clear precise words: To
realise for the body union with the Divine. What is important is not the star,
but the aspiration.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Page – 19<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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style='mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>There is no need
of a shooting star to be there in order to have the experience quickly, what is
needed is that the whole being must concentrate its will upon one point.</span><b
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