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<font size="4">To </font> </b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><font size="4">Melt into the Divine</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-indent:25pt'><b><i>How to melt into the Divine? That is to say, how to get dissolved in
the Divine, lose one's ego?</i></b></p>
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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'>F<span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>IRST</span> of all, one must wish for it, will for it,
aspire for it with perseverance. Every time the ego shows itself, you must give
it a blow on the nose, until it receives so much of it that it gets tired and
gives up. Generally, however, one does not administer the blow but cherishes
the miscreant, justifies its presence. When it shows itself one says, &quot;After
all it is right&quot;; although in most cases, one does not even know it is the
ego, one takes it for one's self. The first condition then is to consider it
essential that one should have no more ego. You must understand what is meant
when you say you no longer want it. It is not so easy. For while in your brain
you turn and turn the idea 'I do not want ego, I do not want to be separate from
the Divine', in life it has no effect; when actually you do a selfish or
egoistic act, you find it quite natural; it does not even give a shock to you.</p>

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must begin by understanding what the thing really means. There are many stages
or steps in it. First of all, you must distinguish between two things (1)
selfishness and (2) egoism. Selfishness is a crude form and it should not be
very difficult to get rid of it, at least a good part of it. You can get over
it simply by having a sense of the ridiculous. You do not see how absurd a
selfish man is. He always thinks of himself, bringing everything round to
himself, ruled by considerations of his small person, putting himself at the
centre of the universe and trying to organise the universe, including God,
around himself, as if he was the most important item of the universe. Now, if
you just try to look at yourself from outside in a dispassionate way, see
yourself as in a mirror, you immediately recognise how ridiculous your
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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person is. I remember I read in French, translated of course, a line from
Tagore which amused me very much. It was about a little dog. The dog was seated
in the lap of its mistress and considered itself to be the centre of the
universe. Yes, the picture stuck in my mind. I knew actually a little dog who
was like that. There are many of the kind, perhaps all: they want that
everybody should be busy with them and they succeed in doing so.</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
have to go a long way before you can think of merging your ego, your self in
the Divine. First of all, you cannot merge your ego or your self until you are
a completely individualised being. And do you know what does that mean – 'to be
completely individualised'? It means one capable of resisting all external
influences. The other day I received a letter from someone who says that he
hesitates to read books; for he has a very strong tendency to identify himself
with what he reads; if he reads a novel or a drama he becomes the character
pictured and is possessed by the feelings and thoughts and movements of the
character. There are many like that. If they read something, while they read
they are completely moved by the ideas and impulsions and even ideals they read
about and are totally absorbed in them and become them, without their knowing
it even. That is because ninety-nine per cent of their nature is made of butter
as it were: if you press your finger it leaves a mark. That is the ordinary
man's character. One takes in, as one comes across it, a thought experienced by
another, a phrase read in a book, a thing observed or an incident the eyes fall
upon, a will or wish of a neighbour, all that enters pell-mell intermixed –enters
and goes out, others come in – like electric currents. And one does not notice
it. There is a conflict, a clash among these various movements, each trying to
get the upper hand. Thus the person is tossed to and fro like a piece of cork
upon the waves in the sea.</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'>Instead
of this unformed and unconscious mass, one has to become conscious, cohesive,
individualised, that which exists by itself and in itself, independently of its
surroundings, that which can hear, read, see anything and will not change
because of that. It receives from outside only what it wishes to receive. It
rejects automatically what does not agree with its purpose: nothing can leave
any impression upon it, unless it wishes to<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 97<o:p></o:p></span></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'>have the
impress. It is thus that one begins to be individualised. And when one is an
individual, then only can one make a gift of it, for unless you possess a thing
you cannot give it; when you have nothing or are nothing you can give nothing.
So in order that the separate ego may disappear, one must be able to give oneself
wholly, totally without restrictions. And to be able to give, one must exist
and to exist one must be an individual. If your body were not rigid as it is – the
body is indeed terribly rigid – if it were not something quite fixed and if you
had not this solid skin around the skeleton, if you were the exact expression
of what you are vitally and mentally, it would be worse than the gelatinous
jelly fish. All would enter and melt into one another, what a chaos and
confusion would it be! That is why a rigid form is given at the outset. And you
complain: the physical is so fixed, it lacks plasticity, suppleness – it lacks
the fluidity that enables one to melt into the Divine! But it was a necessity.
For if you were out of your body and entered into the regions behind –the
vital, – you would see how things stand there: things get mixed, separated,
intertwined, all kinds of vibrations, currents, forces that come and go,
struggle and fight, seize each other, absorb each other, repulse each other!
Very difficult to find a personality in all that. It is only forces, movements,
impulsions, desires. Not that there are not individualities and personalities
there too! But they are Powers. They who have individualised themselves in such
a world are either heroes or demons!</p>

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then in the mind, if you become conscious only of the physical mind, apart from
what belongs to the brain, independent of the head, you will see that it is
really a market place, as it has been called: everything enters here, all kinds
of ideas and notions cross and recross and move about, jostle one another,
knock against each other – there are even accidents sometimes. There you can
search, but search in vain to find where your own mind lies.</p>

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needs years of labour – organising, selecting, building up very diligently,
very carefully, very rationally, very cohesively, in order simply to form
oneself: to form this simple thing, for example, to think in one's own way. You
believe you think in your own way, you do not know how much you depend for your
thoughts upon the people you speak to, upon the books that you read, upon your
varying moods; yes, it depends<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'>not unoften 
upon your good or bad digestion, upon the fact of your being closed in a room or 
free in the open air, upon the scenery around you, upon sun or shower. You do 
not notice it, but you think of different things in different ways according to 
conditions or situations which have nothing to do with your own self. So, I say, 
to have your thoughts coordinated, cohesive, logical, you would need a
long, very long work in minute details. And then, that is the most important
part of the thing, when you have come to a beautiful mental structure,
well-shaped, very strong, very powerful, the first thing you will be told to do
is that you must break it up, if you wish to be united with the Divine! And
unless and until you have done that first part you cannot do the second part,
unless you form yourself you cannot give yourself, you would have nothing to
give to the Divine. You are nothing more than a mass of inchoate things which
are not yourself. First you must exist, you must be, before you can give
yourself.</p>

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the present moment in the actual state of things what one can give to the
Divine is one's body. But that is precisely the thing that one does not give.
Yes, try to consecrate your work, your bodily labour; even there, there are so
many things that are not true or correct.</p>

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may naturally ask how to melt the body in the Divine? You say you understand
somewhat melting the mind, melting the vital, thoughts and emotions, ideas and
aspirations into the Divine, but the body? It cannot be melted as in a
cauldron! And yet that is the only thing upon which you can put your personal
name – although that too is only a convention – and say this is I. Of course if
you look at yourself in a mirror, you see clearly you are not what you were
twenty years ago, you are now quite different, quite unrecognisable. Still you
have the perception that it is the same person, yourself. You can begin your
giving by that which is most formed, most known to you as yourself.</p>

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do not mean to confront you with complicated movements. What I say is this that
if you speak of melting into the Divine or uniting with the Divine, you must
first of all know what you are. You are apparently the ego. It is there. The
ego is meant to make you conscious, an independent, individualised being – that
is to say, you must not be a market place where all kinds of movements </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'>mingle and jostle; you must be able to exist in yourself. The ego is for that
and that is why you have a skin, to form a closed circle (allowing, of course,
things to infiltrate through its pores, so to say, but it must be at your will
and bidding).</p>

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must form yourself, you must be conscious of yourself – not in a general way
but in every detail. Every detail of what you call yourself must be organised
around one centre, your true self, the divine being in you, so that the whole
may be a cohesive organised entity. When thus wholly conscious, harmoniously
organised around the divine centre, then it can be wholly consecrated, united
with the Divine: then the time comes, the Divine permits the true union to be
made. When the individualisation is complete then He lets you merge your ego
into the Divine, you live and exist for the Divine alone.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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