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style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Dante, <span class=GramE>l8ln.,</span>\r\n203, 209 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>– <span class=SpellE>Divina</span>\r\nCommedia, 181n.<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>– <span class=SpellE>Irifemo</span>,\r\n181n.<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Danton, 94</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Da Vinci, Leonardo, 210</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal 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class=Section3>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;\'>Page\r\n– 431<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section4>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Diti<span class=GramE>,46</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Durga, 98</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>EGYPT</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n70, 133, 192, 199-200,419</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Einstein, 274</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>England</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n198</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Esau, 397</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Eucharist, 130</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:place>Europe</st1:place>,\r\n272, 421</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>FRANCE</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n96, 116, 198-9,323-4,355,418</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>France, Anatole, 64</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Franck, Cesar, 393, 424</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>GANDHARVA<span class=GramE>,47</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:place>Ganges</st1:place>,\r\n383</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n133, 199</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>Gita, the, <span\r\nclass=GramE>6n.,</span> </i>9, 21-2, 58, 76-7, 83, 93, 105, 108, 112n., 125n.,\r\n143, 157,160-1</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Great War, the, 323, 355</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n199,214,419,421</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>HAMLET, 79</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Heard, Gerald, 135</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Heraclitus, 305</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Homer, 209</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Horace, 210</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Huxley, Aldous, 136</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>INDIA</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n3, 17<span class=GramE>,21,96,118,137,141,191</span>-2, 199,209,285-6,419-20</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Indo-China, 324</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Indra, 208, 253</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Indus</st1:PlaceName>\r\n <st1:PlaceType>Valley</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, 133</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Ingres, 429</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Inquisitors, the, 99</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Iphigenia, 246</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n46</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Isaie, 394</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>JACOB, 397</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Jagai-Madhai, 65, 73</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Janaka<span class=GramE>,21</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n421</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Jeanne d\'Arc, 116, 118, 198</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Jehovah, 46, 98</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Jung, 134-5, 139, 147 Jupiter,\r\n25</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>KALI, 383</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Kalidasa<span class=GramE>,210</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Kant, 137, 139, 389</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Kanwa, Rishi, 151</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span class=SpellE>Kinnara</span>,\r\n47</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>,\r\n9, 58, 76, 82, 93, 101, 105, 112, 116, 161,317</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Kurukshetra, 66, 109, 116</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span class=SpellE>LAo</span>-\r\nTSE, 134</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:place><span class=SpellE>Laplace</span></st1:place>,\r\n<i>370<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Lazarus, <i>200<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Lenin, 142</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Louis XIV, 209, <i>320, </i>418</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Lucifer, 46, 81</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>MADAGASCAR</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\n323-4</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Macbeth, 93</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>McDougall, 57</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Mahakali, 44, 160, 207-10, 225,\r\n382</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Mahalakshmi, 44, 207, 209-10,\r\n225</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Mahasaraswati, 44, 207-10, 225</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Mahashakti, 67, 198</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Mahavira, 44, 207</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Maheshwari, 44, 207, 209-10,\r\n225</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Manicheism, 127</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Mary, 82</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span class=SpellE>Matariswan</span>,\r\n44</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Michael Angelo, 210</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Middle Ages, the, 134, 139,\r\n149, 421</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:City><st1:place><span\r\n  class=GramE>Milton</span></st1:place></st1:City><span class=GramE>, 156n.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>– </i><st1:place><i>Paradise</i></st1:place><i>\r\nLost, </i>156n</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Mimansakas<span class=GramE>,137</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Mitra, 207</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Morgan, 56-7</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Mother, The, 63, 65-6, <i>270,\r\n282-3n., <span class=GramE>285n.,</span> 289n., </i>29In., 319</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section5>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 432<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section6>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-Prayers and Meditations, </i>266,\r\n270, <i>282-3n., <span class=GramE>285n.,</span> 289n., 291n., </i>336</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Mozart, 427</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Mysteries, 192</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>-Orphic, 192</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>-Eleusinian, 192</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>NAPOLEON,\r\n116,209,406</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>OFFERTORY,\r\nthe, 82</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Olympians,\r\n46, 253</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>PANDAVAS, the, 76</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span class=SpellE>Pani</span>,\r\nthe, 164</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Pantheon, 299</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:City><st1:place>Paris</st1:place></st1:City>,\r\n242, 287, 356, 376</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Pashu, the, 80</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Petrarch, 209</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Pharaohs, the, 200</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Pishacha, the, 80,213</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Plato, 34, 120, 134, 178</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span class=SpellE>Plotinus</span>,\r\n34, 40</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:City><st1:place><span\r\n  class=SpellE>Pondicherry</span></st1:place></st1:City>, 17 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Pradyurnana<span class=GramE>,44,207</span>\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Prudhomme, Sully, 320 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span class=SpellE><i>Puranas</i></span><i>,\r\nthe, </i>46 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Pyramid, the, 200 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Pythagoras, 180</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:City><st1:place>RACINE</st1:place></st1:City>,\r\n210</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Raghus, the, 214</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span class=SpellE>Rakshasas</span>,\r\n46</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Rama, 58</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Ramakrishna, 116, 128, 141,\r\n160, 243, 247,383</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Raphael, 210</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Ravana, 58</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Ravel, 427</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:place>Red Sea</st1:place>,\r\n324</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Ribhus, the, 208</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:City><st1:place>Rome</st1:place></st1:City>,\r\n199,421</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Rudra, 160, 163, 208</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Russell, Bertrand, 56</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Russo-Japanese War, 213</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:place>SAHARA</st1:place><span\r\nclass=GramE>,324</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:City><st1:place>St.\r\n  Augustine</st1:place></st1:City>, 73</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>St. Francis of <st1:City><st1:place>Assisi</st1:place></st1:City>,\r\n243</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:place>St.</st1:place> (<span\r\nclass=GramE>}<span class=SpellE>enevieve</span>, 199</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>St. Matthew, </i>186</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:City><st1:place>St. Paul</st1:place></st1:City>,\r\n73</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>St. Vincent de Paul, 411</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Sankhya<span class=GramE>,45,85</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Satan, 46</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Savitri, 163, 165</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><st1:place>Second Empire</st1:place>,\r\nthe, 418</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Shakespeare, 79, <span\r\nclass=GramE><i>116n.,</i></span><i> </i>406 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-Julius Caesar, 116n. <o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-Hamlet, 72n.<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Shankara, 17, 21, 68, 71,403</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Shelley, 209</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Shiva, 129, 208, 339</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Socrates, 116</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Soma, 70, 208</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Spanish Armada, the, 198</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:17.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%\'>Sri Aurobindo, 3-4, 7-10, 17-19, 22, 25, 27, 29, 34, 36, 44, 59-60, 71, <i>84n.,\r\n</i>85-6,89-91, 95, <i>109n., 117n., </i>125, 127, <i>129n., </i>148, 154, <i>163n.,\r\n</i>225, 288-90, 299-300, 326, 347, 355, 376, 395, 397, 420</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-Collected Poems </i>&amp; <i>Plays,\r\n<span class=GramE>84n.,</span> </i>117n. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span class=GramE>-&quot;The\r\nBird of Fire&quot;, 84n.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span class=GramE>-&quot;In\r\nHoris Aeternum&quot;, 117n.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><i>-Thoughts </i>&amp; <i>Glimpses, 1O9n.<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-The Mother, 1O8n.<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-Essays on the Gita, 22n.<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-Savitri: A Legend </i>&amp;\r\n<i>a Symbol, <span class=GramE>129n.,</span> 163n., 165-6n., </i>225</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Sridhara<span class=GramE>,21</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Sutras, the, 68</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>TAGORE, 209</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>Tamas, the, </i>37,152</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span class=SpellE>Tilak</span>,\r\n<span class=GramE>2 I</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Tintoretto, 210 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Titan<span class=GramE>,45</span>-6,66,80,209,226,253,349\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Titian, 210</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>UDDHAVA,\r\n99, 101 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Ulysses,\r\n293</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section7>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 433<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section8>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:17.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%\'><i>Upanishads, the, </i>10, 13, 29, 57, 63, 68, 71, 74, <span\r\nclass=GramE><i>78n.,</i></span><i> </i>83, 120, 143-4, 180, <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp; </span>207, 225, 263, 305</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-Aitar_a<span class=GramE>,80,83</span>\r\n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-Brihadaranyaka, <span\r\nclass=GramE>71n.,</span> </i>74n. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-<span class=SpellE>Isha</span>,\r\n158n.<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-Katha, <span class=GramE>29n.,</span>\r\n31n., 68n., 78n. <o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-<span class=SpellE>Kena</span>,\r\n<span class=GramE>29n.,</span> 162n. <o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-Mundaka, 68n. <o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-<span class=SpellE>Swetaswatara</span>,\r\n68n.<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>VAIKUNTHA<span class=GramE>,128</span>\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Valmiki<span class=GramE>,209</span>\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span class=SpellE>Varma</span>,\r\n<st1:place><span class=SpellE>Ravi</span></st1:place>, 420 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span class=SpellE>Varona</span>,\r\n207</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>Vedas, the, </i>133, 151,\r\n239</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-Rig Veda, </i>133, <i>160n<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span></i>Vedanta, 85 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Victoria, Queen, 418 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Virgil, 107,203,209 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-Aeneid, </i>1O7n. 154, 178,\r\n207,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Vishnu, 58, 208 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Vivekananda, 141,300 </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Voltaire, 99</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span class=GramE>WORDSWORTH,\r\n119, 132, <i>195n.</i></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-Ode on the Intimations of\r\nImmortality, 119n.<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-Miscellaneous Poems, 132n.<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-&quot;A </i>slumber did my\r\nspirit seal&quot;, <i>132n. <o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span class=GramE>-&quot;We are\r\nSeven&quot;, <i>195n.</i></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>World War, 66-7,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>YAJNAVALKYA<span class=GramE>,21,134</span>\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Yama<span class=GramE>,44</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Yeats<span class=GramE>,84n</span>.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><i>-The Wild Swans at <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Coole</span>, 84n. <o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'><span class=GramE>-&quot;The\r\nPhases of the Moon&quot;, <i>84n.</i></span><i> <o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Yudhisthira, 76-7</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>ZEUS, 25, 98,\r\n253</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section9>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 434<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-125_INDEX','','publish','closed','open','','125_index','','','2021-11-23 17:59:04','2021-11-23 17:59:04','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/125_index/',0,'post','',0),(2117,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:05','2021-11-23 17:59:05','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Sri Aurobindo and his\' School\'</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p class=\"MsoHeading8\" style=\"text-indent:27pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\" align=\"center\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoHeading8\" style=\"text-indent:27pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\" align=\"center\">\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; font-weight:700\'><font size=\"4\">Sri Aurobindo and his \'School\'</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>A </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>CONSIDERABLE</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> amount of vague misunderstanding and misapprehension seems to exist in\r\nthe minds of a certain section of our people as to what Sri Aurobindo is doing\r\nin his retirement at </span><st1:City><st1:place><span lang=EN-GB\r\n  style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Pondicherry</span></st1:place></st1:City><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'>. On the other hand, a very precise exposition, an exact formula of what\r\nhe is not doing has been curiously furnished by a well-known patriot in his\r\nindictment of what he chooses to call the &quot;</span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span\r\n  lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\n  line\'>Pondicherry</span></st1:PlaceName><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:\r\n 12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span\r\n  lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\n  line\'>School</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>&quot;\r\nof contemplation. But he has arrived at this formula by &quot;openly and\r\nfearlessly&quot; affirming what does not exist; for the things that Sri\r\nAurobindo is accused of doing are just the things that he is not doing. In the\r\nfirst place, Sri Aurobindo is not doing &quot;peaceful contemplation&quot;; in\r\nthe second place, he is not doing active propaganda either; in the third place,\r\nhe is not doing <i>pranayama </i>or even <i>dhyana </i>in the ordinary sense of\r\nthe word; and, lastly, he is not proclaiming or following the maxim that\r\n&quot;although action may be tolerated as good, his particular brand of Yoga is\r\nsomething higher and better.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Evidently the eminent politician\r\nand his school of activism are labouring under a Himalayan confusion: when they\r\nspeak of Sri Aurobindo, they really have in their mind some of the old schools\r\nof spiritual discipline. But one of the marked aspects of Sri Aurobindo\'s\r\nteaching and practice has been precisely his insistence on putting aside the\r\ninert and life­-shunning quietism, illusionism, asceticism and monasticism of a\r\nlatter-day and decadent India. These ideals are perhaps as much obstacles in\r\nhis way as in the way of the activistic school. Only Sri Aurobindo has not had\r\nthe temerity to say that &quot;it is a weakness to seek refuge in\r\ncontemplation&quot; or to suggest that a Buddha was a weakling or a Shankara a\r\npoltroon.</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page - 17</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>This much as regards what Sri Aurobindo\r\nis not doing; let us now turn and try to understand what he is doing. The\r\ndistinguished man of action speaks of conquering Nature and fighting her.\r\nAdopting this war-like imagery, we can affirm that Sri Aurobindo\'s work is just\r\nsuch a battle and conquest. But the question is, what is &quot;nature&quot; and\r\nwhat is the kind of conquest that is sought, how are we to fight and what are\r\nthe required arms and implements? A good general should foresee all this, frame\r\nhis plan of campaign accordingly and then only take the field. The\r\nabove-mentioned leader proposes &quot;ceaseless and unselfish action&quot; as\r\nthe way to fight and conquer Nature. He who speaks thus does not know and\r\ncannot mean what he says.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:5.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>European science is conquering Nature in a\r\nway. It has attained to a certain kind and measure, in some fields a great\r\nmeasure, of control and conquest; but however great or striking it may be in\r\nits own province, it does not touch man in his more intimate reality and does\r\nnot bring about any true change in his destiny or his being. For the most vital\r\npart of nature is the region of the life-forces, the powers of disease and age\r\nand death, of strife and greed and lust – all the instincts of the brute in\r\nman, all the dark aboriginal forces, the forces of ignorance that form the very\r\ngroundwork of man\'s nature and his society. And then, as we rise next to the\r\nworld of the mind, we find a twilight region where falsehood masquerades as\r\ntruth, where prejudices move as realities, where notions rule as ideals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>This is the present nature of\r\nman, with its threefold nexus of mind and life and body, that stands there to\r\nbe fought and conquered. This is the inferior nature, of which the ancients\r\nspoke, that holds man down inexorably to a lower <i>dharma, </i>imperfect mode\r\nof life – the life that is and has been the human order till today. No amount\r\nof ceaseless action, however selflessly done, can move this wheel of Nature\r\neven by a hair\'s breadth away from the path that it has carved out from of old.\r\nHuman nature and human society have been built up and are run by the forces of\r\nthis inferior nature, and whatever shuffling and reshuffling we may make in its\r\napparent factors and elements, the general scheme and fundamental form of life\r\nwill never change. To displace earth (and to conquer<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt;\r\nline-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'>Page – 18</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>nature means nothing less than that) and give it\r\nanother orbit, one must find a fulcrum outside earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Sri Aurobindo does not preach\r\nflight from life and a retreat into the silent and passive Infinite; the goal of\r\nlife is not, in his view, the extinction of life. Neither is he satisfied on\r\nthat account to hold that life is best lived in the ordinary round of its\r\nunregenerate dharma. If the first is a blind alley, the second is a vicious\r\ncircle, – both lead nowhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style=\'text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'layout-grid-mode:line\'>Sri Aurobindo\'s sadhana starts from the\r\nperception of a Power that is beyond the ordinary nature yet is its inevitable\r\nmaster, a fulcrum, as we have said, outside the earth. For what is required\r\nfirst is the discovery and manifestation of a new soul-consciousness in man\r\nwhich will bring about by the very pressure and working out of its self-rule an\r\nabsolute reversal of man\'s nature. It is the Asuras who are now holding sway\r\nover humanity, for man has allowed himself so long to be built in the image of the\r\nAsura; to dislodge the Asuras, the Gods in their sovereign might have to be\r\nforged in the human being and brought into play. It<b> </b>is a stupendous\r\ntask, some would say impossible; but it is very far removed from quietism or\r\npassivism. Sri Aurobindo is in retirement, but it is a retire­ment only from\r\nthe outward field of present physical activities and their apparent\r\nactualities, not from the true forces and action of life. It is the retreat\r\nnecessary to one who has to go back into himself to conquer a new plane of\r\ncreative power, – ­an entrance right into the world of basic forces, of\r\nfundamental realities, into the flaming heart of things where all actualities\r\nare born and take their first shape. It is the discovery of a power-house of\r\ntremendous energism and of the means of putting it at the service of earthly\r\nlife.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>And, properly speaking, it is\r\nnot at all a school, least of all a mere &quot;school of thought&quot;, that is\r\ngrowing round Sri Aurobindo. It is rather the nucleus of a new life that is to\r\ncome. Quite naturally it has almost insignificant proportions at present to the\r\noutward eye, for the work is still of the nature of experiment and trial in\r\nvery restricted limits, something in the nature of what is done in a laboratory\r\nwhen a new power has been discovered, but has still to be perfectly formulated\r\nin its process. And it is quite a mistake to suppose that there is a vigorous\r\npropaganda carried on in its behalf or that there is<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page - 19</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'>a large demand for recruits. Only the few, who possess\r\nthe call within and are impelled by the spirit of the future, have a chance of\r\nserving this high attempt and great realisation and standing among its first\r\ninstruments and pioneer workers.</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page – 20<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-003_Sri Aurobindo and his  School','','publish','closed','open','','003_sri-aurobindo-and-his-school','','','2021-11-23 17:59:05','2021-11-23 17:59:05','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/003_sri-aurobindo-and-his-school/',0,'post','',0),(2118,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:05','2021-11-23 17:59:05','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<meta name=ProgId content=>\r\n<meta name=Generator content=\"Namo WebEditor v4.0\">\r\n<meta name=Originator content=\"\">\r\n<link rel=Edit-Time-Data href=\"HTML-FILE/Ever-Green_files/editdata.mso\">\r\n<title>Ever Green</title>\r\n<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\r\n <o:DocumentProperties>\r\n  <o:Author>w4</o:Author>\r\n  <o:Template>Normal</o:Template>\r\n  <o:LastAuthor>w4</o:LastAuthor>\r\n  <o:Revision>1</o:Revision>\r\n  <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime>\r\n  <o:Created>2004-06-22T10:44:00Z</o:Created>\r\n  <o:LastSaved>2004-06-22T10:44:00Z</o:LastSaved>\r\n  <o:Pages>1</o:Pages>\r\n  <o:Words>740</o:Words>\r\n  <o:Characters>4221</o:Characters>\r\n  <o:Company>Aurokruti</o:Company>\r\n  <o:Lines>35</o:Lines>\r\n  <o:Paragraphs>9</o:Paragraphs>\r\n  <o:CharactersWithSpaces>4952</o:CharactersWithSpaces>\r\n  <o:Version>10.2625</o:Version>\r\n </o:DocumentProperties>\r\n</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\r\n <w:WordDocument>\r\n  <w:Compatibility>\r\n   <w:BreakWrappedTables/>\r\n   <w:SnapToGridInCell/>\r\n   <w:WrapTextWithPunct/>\r\n   <w:UseAsianBreakRules/>\r\n  </w:Compatibility>\r\n  <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel>\r\n </w:WordDocument>\r\n</xml><![endif]-->\r\n<style>\r\n<!--\r\n /* Style Definitions */\r\n p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\r\n	{mso-style-parent:\"\";\r\n	margin:0in;\r\n	margin-bottom:.0001pt;\r\n	mso-pagination:widow-orphan;\r\n	font-size:12.0pt;\r\n	font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\r\n	mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\r\n@page Section1\r\n	{size:8.5in 11.0in;\r\n	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;\r\n	mso-header-margin:.5in;\r\n	mso-footer-margin:.5in;\r\n	mso-paper-source:0;}\r\ndiv.Section1\r\n	{page:Section1;}\r\n-->\r\n</style>\r\n<!--[if gte mso 10]>\r\n<style>\r\n /* Style Definitions */\r\n table.MsoNormalTable\r\n	{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\r\n	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\r\n	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\r\n	mso-style-noshow:yes;\r\n	mso-style-parent:\"\";\r\n	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\r\n	mso-para-margin:0in;\r\n	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\r\n	mso-pagination:widow-orphan;\r\n	font-size:10.0pt;\r\n	font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\r\n</style>\r\n<![endif]-->\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0; text-align:center;line-height:150%\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Ever Green!</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"margin:0; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"margin:0; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\">WHEN you have an inner\r\nexperience, there is a natural tendency in you to have it again, to repeat it,\r\nand to repeat it, you go by the same way and in the same manner. When you sit\r\nin meditation, for example, you withdraw yourself from outward contacts and enter\r\ninto a condition with which you have become familiar, which has pleased you and\r\nwhich you consider sufficiently high and a commendable poise of consciousness.\r\nThus whenever you sit down for meditation, you forthwith get into your habitual\r\ncondition automatically, without any effort and you remain there as long as you\r\nlike. Evidently, the experience has become a matter of habit i.e. mechanical\r\nand lifeless, but you do not perceive it, you have become so unconscious. That\r\nmeans you do not progress any more, you have shut yourself, as it were, in a\r\nclosed box. If you continue, you may do so your whole life in that way, but you\r\nwill not have advanced a single step; on the contrary, you will have regressed\r\na good deal.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"margin:0; text-align:justify; text-indent:12.2pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\">The\r\ngreat secret of progress – and also of permanent youthfulness – is to feel at\r\nevery moment that you are just beginning your life and your life experience.\r\nAlways you start afresh; even if you are on the same path and seem to be moving\r\nin the same direction for the hundredth time, you must feel as if it was for\r\nthe first time that you undertook the journey, it was your maiden attempt\r\ntowards a new discovery. Forget all past ideas, notions, experiences that crowd\r\nupon your mind; sweep away all the accumulated dust that has cumbered your\r\nbrain; make your consciousness as clean and clear as that of a newborn babe – all\r\nstraightened out, with none of the convolutions and wrinkles of an aged\r\ncerebrum. Always you will come into contact with the world and things in all<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"margin:0; text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 249<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin:0; text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>the\r\nsimplicity and spontaneity of a pure consciousness and always the world and\r\nthings will bring to you their unending wonder and beauty and truth.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin:0; text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>Whenever\r\nyou go inside and seek your poise, do not look for your old acquaintances, the\r\nfamiliar experiences, do not carry upon your back the load of the past, but go\r\nahead, as if through a virgin tract, making quite new discoveries, and opening\r\nunexpected vistas at each step. You can make an experiment even on your\r\nphysical body, i.e. take the physical consciousness too to share in your\r\nadventure of ever new discovery. Thus you may, for example, forget your habit\r\nof eating or even walking, truly forget and try to learn over again, even as\r\nyou did for the first time as a child. You have to acquire consciously a\r\ncapacity of the body that has become an almost unconscious reflex action. It is\r\na wonderful and exhilarating experience. Naturally you cannot repeat too often\r\nor carry too far an experiment of this kind on the physical plane. But you can\r\nfreely deal with your inner life and consciousness. You can make your mind and\r\nyour vital a clean slate, as much as you like: not once in your life, but every\r\nmoment of your life. And then see how the world impinges upon your consciousness,\r\nwhat fresh discoveries and awakenings come to you endlessly! You can always rid\r\nyourself of the accustomed vibrations on the normal levels of your existence,\r\nthe physical, vital and mental; and even you can go beyond your psychic\r\nformation and be the wide, the vast, the limitless, the Infinite itself, void\r\nof all name and form. And then with that virgin consciousness drop straight\r\ninto the world of material life and form, into your body and bodily reactions.\r\nThe world will give itself up to you in its pristine purity, its original\r\nbeauty and truth, always luminous and glorious. This experience has to be the\r\nnormal mode of your living, not simply the culmination or acme of your being, a\r\nfixed and stagnant status, even if considered the highest, the <i>summum bonum.\r\n</i>That is how you can keep yourself and the world around you ever fresh and\r\nyoung and new.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin:0; text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>The\r\npreacher who speaks of the truth and delivers it to his hearers is usually\r\neffective for the first time or for a first few occasions only, when he feels\r\nthe truth of his truth and is sincere while delivering. But as time wears on,\r\nhis truth too<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"margin:0; text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 250<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin:0; text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>wears out,\r\nfor it becomes stereotyped, a matter of mere habit. The experience is no longer\r\nlived, but mechanically doled out. You are sincere only when the experience is\r\nnew and fresh and living, it should be made so every moment, otherwise it is\r\ndead letter, letter that killeth.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin:0; text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>That\r\nis the secret of spiritual life and even of normal life. To keep it ever green\r\nyou must know how to pour into it a continuous flow of new sap. Look upon\r\nyourself, look upon the world always with fresh eyes – never burdened or\r\nobscured by the scales that past experiences and acquisitions have collected. Unlearn\r\nthe past, always begin from the beginning as a beginner – every moment a fresh\r\nimpact, a new revelation, an unexpected opening. That is how life remains ever\r\nyoung and ever progressive.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"margin:0; text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 251<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-058_Ever Green','','publish','closed','open','','058_ever-green','','','2021-11-23 17:59:05','2021-11-23 17:59:05','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/058_ever-green/',0,'post','',0),(2119,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:05','2021-11-23 17:59:05','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Music – Indian and European</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Music – Indian and European</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE\r\ndifference is both in regard to the source and the ex­pression and in an\r\ninverse way. In European music a very high – spiritual – inspiration is a rare\r\nthing. The psychic source also is very rare. But if at all, it is a very high\r\nspiritual source, or otherwise it is the vital that is the source. The\r\nexpression is always there, apart from some exceptions naturally, but it is\r\nalmost always vital, because the source is very often purely vital. At times,\r\nas I said, it comes from high above, then it is really marvellous. At times,\r\nmore rarely, it is psychic: something of it was there in the religious music,\r\nbut it is not frequent. Indian music, on the other hand, almost always, that is\r\nto say, when we have good musicians, has a psychic source, the source, for\r\nexample, of the Ragas. It does not come from the top heights, it has rather an\r\ninner and intimate origin. But it has very rarely a sufficient vital body. I\r\nhave heard a good deal of Indian music, quite a good deal indeed. I came across\r\nvery rarely any that has a great vital force, not more than four or five times.\r\nBut I have heard quite often that with a psychic inspiration behind. It is\r\nmusic directly translated from the inner into the physical. To listen you must\r\nconcentrate, as it is something very thin, very fine and tenuous, having\r\nnothing of the vital vibration with its strong intense resonances. You can\r\nglide into it, let yourself be carried along the flow, entering the psychic\r\nsource. It has that effect, it acts something like an intoxication, something\r\nthat takes you into a kind of trance. If you listen well and are attentive and\r\nlet yourself go, you slowly glide and dip, dip into the psychic consciousness;\r\nbut if you remain in the external consciousness, such a thin stream expresses.\r\nitself there that the vital gives no response and finds it extremely flat and\r\nmonotonous. If, however, along with the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 426<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>psychic\r\nvibration there were also a vital force expressing it, the result would be\r\ninteresting indeed.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\nlike this kind of music, with a theme, a single theme moving and developing\r\ngradually with variations: countless variations playing out the same constant\r\ntheme, variations branching out and coming back again to the original basic\r\ntheme. In <st1:place>Europe</st1:place> too there was something of the kind in\r\nits otherwise very different style. Bach had it, Mozart too. In modern times\r\nsome musicians like Debussy, Raval and the Russian Borodine and a few others\r\nhave caught something of it. You take a certain number of notes, in a certain\r\nrelation and upon that scheme you play variations, almost an infinite number of\r\nvariations. It is marvellous: it takes you deep inside and, if you are ready,\r\ngives you the consciousness of the psychic, some­thing that draws you back from\r\nthe external physical con­sciousness and links you with something otherwhere\r\nwithin.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 427<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-123_Music- Indian and European','','publish','closed','open','','123_music-indian-and-european','','','2021-11-23 17:59:05','2021-11-23 17:59:05','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/123_music-indian-and-european/',0,'post','',0),(2120,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:05','2021-11-23 17:59:05','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Psychic Being – Some Mysteries</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The Psychic Being – Some Mysteries</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>Does the psychic being\r\nprogress always?<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THERE are\r\ntwo kinds of progress in the psychic and they are very different. One consists\r\nin its formation and building and organisation; for the psychic begins by being\r\nonly a little divine spark hidden in the inner person and out of this spark\r\ncomes and gradually develops an independent conscious person who has his own\r\nwill and activity. As I say, the psychic being is originally like a spark from\r\nthe divine consciousness: it grows into a conscious individuality through the\r\nexperiences of successive lives. This progress then is like the progress of the\r\ngrowing child. It is a thing in formation and it remains so for a long time in <i>most\r\n</i>human beings. It is not a fully indi­vidualised being there, not fully\r\nconscious and master of itself; it needs many births, one after another, to\r\nbuild itself and become fully conscious. In the end, however, there does come a\r\ntime when it is a completed personality, fully individualised, fully conscious\r\nof itself and its destiny. When such a psychic being incarnates in a human\r\nbeing, it makes a great difference. For the man is born free, so to say, he is\r\nnot bound to his circumstances, his surroundings or his origin or atavism, like\r\nordinary people. When he comes upon earth, he feels he has a work to do in the\r\nworld, he has a mission to fulfil. To that extent then his cycle of progress is\r\ncompleted, that is to say, he has no more need to take birth in a body to make\r\nfurther progress. Till then rebirth is a necessity, it is compulsory; for it is\r\nthrough reincarnation i.e. by taking up a new body that he progresses, develops\r\nand grows. It is in the physical life and in the physical body that the soul\r\nslowly builds itself until it becomes a fully conscious being. But once it is\r\nfully formed,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 398<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>it is free\r\neither to take birth or not to do so at will. There then one kind of progress\r\ncomes to an end. But if the fully formed being now wishes to become an\r\ninstrument for the work of the Divine, if it chooses to be a worker upon earth\r\nto help in the fulfilment of the cosmic purpose of the Divine, instead of going\r\naway and resting in the psychic bliss of its own world, then he has to make a\r\nnew kind of progress, a progress towards capacity to work, to organise and\r\nexecute the work, to express and embody the will of the Divine. As long as the\r\nworld continues, as long as he chooses to work for the Divine, he will continue\r\nto progress. But if he wishes to withdraw into the psychic world and gives up\r\nor refuses to work for the divine Plan, then he can remain in the static state\r\nbeyond the range of progress. For, as I have said, progress exists only upon\r\nearth in the physical world. You cannot progress everywhere. <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>In<b> </b></span>the psychic world there is a\r\nkind of blissful repose. You remain what and where you are without moving.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Everything\r\nupon earth progresses, has to progress. All men, without exception, even those\r\nwho have no sense of the psychic, whether they wish it or not, must progress.\r\nThe psychic progresses in them in spite of themselves and they have to follow\r\nthe curve of its growth and development. That is to say, man ascends in the\r\nscale of life and grows, grows exactly as a child does. <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nbold\'>In<b> </b></span>the process of growth there comes a time when one\r\nreaches the summit and one changes the direction or the plane of progress. At\r\nthe outset there is the purely physical progress, like that of the child; then\r\nthere comes the mental progress, later on the psychic progress and the spiritual\r\nprogress, so that unless progress changes it direc­tion, when it has reached\r\nits limit on a particular level, one has to come down the curve, that is to\r\nsay, instead of progression there will be retrogression, which means in the end\r\ndisintegra­tion and decomposition. Precisely because in the purely physical\r\nworld there cannot be a perpetual and constant progress, there is in this\r\ndomain this curve of growth, apogee, decline and decomposition. All that does\r\nnot advance must recede. This is exactly what happens in the domain of matter.\r\nMatter does not know how to progress indefinitely, it has not learnt it; so\r\nafter a time it is tired of progressing or growing. Given this constitution,\r\none cannot go beyond a limit. But<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 399<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section2>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>there is in man side by\r\nside with his physical growth, a vital growth and a mental growth as well. The\r\nmental especially can progress long after the body has ceased to progress. The\r\nbody does not grow; even when it is declining, the mind still can continue to\r\ngrow, to rise to higher heights. There is a mental ascension contrariwise to\r\nthe physical descent. But they who do Yoga, who become conscious of their\r\npsychic being and are identified with it, who live with its life, never cease\r\nto progress, they move upward till the last breath of their life; even when\r\nthey die their progress does not stop. The body is on the decline, because it\r\ncannot keep pace with the inner march forward, it cannot transform itself and\r\nmould itself into the rhythm of the inner consciousness. The discrepancy\r\nincreases so much between the two, that there is a snap at the end and that is\r\ndeath. However, on the purely spiritual level too there is no progress. The\r\ndomain of the pure spirit means a static condition; there is no progressive\r\nmovement there, for it is beyond the field of progress, beyond all\r\nmanifestation. For when you are merged in the Spirit, you have come out of crea­tion\r\nand there is no question of progress, or even of any move­ment.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>When\r\nthe psychic is about to take rebirth does it choose its form beforehand?<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>It<b> </b></span>depends. As I have told you\r\nnow, there are psychic beings that are just on the way of formation and growth,\r\nthey usually cannot choose at the beginning, they cannot choose very much. But\r\nwhen they have come to a certain degree of development and consciousness, they\r\nmake a choice; generally when they are still in the body, when they have\r\ngathered a certain amount of experience, they decide what is to be their next\r\nfield of experience. I shall give you an illustration, although somewhat\r\nexternal. A psychic being, for example, needed the experience of power, authority,\r\ncommand and wanted to know the reactions of these move­ments and also how to\r\nturn them towards the Divine, to learn, in a word, what these things can teach.\r\nSo the soul took the body of a king (or a queen). When it had the necessary ex­perience,\r\nlearnt what it had to learn, it gave up the body,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 400<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>being no\r\nlonger useful. It is at that moment, when it decides to leave the body, that\r\nthe soul still in the body makes the choice of the next experience. The choice\r\nvery often takes a course of action and reaction. If the soul has experienced\r\nand studied a particular field, its choice falls upon a contrary field on the\r\nfollowing occasion. Thus if the soul has had the ex­perience of a kingly\r\nposition and worked through that to enter into a conscious relation with the\r\nDivine, then at the moment of leaving the body that served with Power and\r\nauthority and command, it perhaps would say: &quot;This time I shall take a\r\nmiddle position, neither high nor low, where there will be no need to lead\r\nmostly an external life, where one is neither in great luxury nor in great\r\nmisery.&quot; With that resolution it returns to the psychic world for the\r\nnecessary rest, for the assimilation of past experiences and preparation for\r\nthe future. When the time comes for return upon earth, for the descent into a\r\nphysical body, it remembers naturally the choice it had made, but from that\r\nhigher and subtler plane at that moment the material world is not seen in the\r\nway we see it, it appears in a different form; still one can notice the\r\ndifferences in the surroundings and activities. One has not the vision of the\r\ndetails, but a total or global vision is there. It can choose an atmosphere, it\r\ncan choose even a particular country. It has in view a certain kind of\r\neducation, civilisation and influence, the kind of life that it wishes to lead.\r\nThen as it comes down and looks about, it distinguishes very clearly the\r\ndifferent kinds of vibrations and makes its way accordingly. It aims, as it\r\nwere, at the place where to drop. But it can hit the target only approximately.\r\nFor there are one or two other factors besides which come into play. For there\r\nis not only its own choice, from above, there must also be a receptivity from\r\nbelow, an aspiration that draws to it the particular being or the particular\r\ntype of being. Usually the call is from a mother, sometimes from both the\r\nparents. If the parent has some aspiration or receptivity, something that is\r\nsufficiently passive and open and looking up towards something higher, in that\r\ncase, the thing appears to the psychic being as a luminous vibration which\r\nbeckons it. It is the answer to its will. It shows the place it is to go to. It\r\ncannot fix the day of its birth. There will naturally be a period of\r\nuncertainty, but that is not expected to go<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 401<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>beyond a\r\nyear. The second factor that somewhat modifies or qualifies his choice comes\r\nfrom the nature of the birth itself. The soul, the conscious being,\r\nprecipitates into the inconscience, for the physical world, even human\r\nconsciousness, at its very best, is an inconscient thing when compared to the\r\npsychic consciousness. It is as though the soul fell head down­-most. That\r\nmakes it dazed and for a long time it does not know what is what. It does not\r\nknow where it is, what it is doing nor why it is there; a complete blank\r\npossesses it. It is unable to express itself, especially as a baby, it has not\r\nthe proper amount of brain to understand or mainfest anything. Very rarely do\r\nchildren show the exceptional being that they have within them. Cases do occur\r\nindeed, but they are very few and far between. Generally it takes time for the\r\nsoul to come to its own. It wakes up but slowly from its numbness, it is only\r\ngradually that it begins to understand that it is there for some reason and by\r\nchoice. This oblivion is occasioned by the presence of the mind and mental\r\neducation which completely shuts off the psychic consciousness. All kinds of\r\ncircum­stances, happenings, experiences – external and emotional – are then\r\nneeded to strike open the doors; within, to bring the memory that one has come\r\nfrom elsewhere and for a very special reason. It is the normal longer process.\r\nBut one may have the chance of meeting early enough some one who knows; then\r\ninstead of groping and fumbling through ignorance and darkness, you get the\r\nlight and the help that give you the swift and straight contact.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\npsychic will and psychic development are things that are completely outside the\r\nrange of common notions. Ideas of justice and reward and punishment have no\r\nplace here at all. _any people come to me and complain: &quot;What have I done\r\nin my past life that I have to be under such difficult conditions now, to\r\nsuffer so much!&quot; I always reply: &quot;But don\'t you see it is a blessing\r\nfor you, the divine grace upon you? In your past life perhaps you yourself\r\nasked for such conditions so that you may make greater progress through\r\nthem!&quot; This way of looking at the thing may seem very novel. But truth\r\nlies that way.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 402<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>How is\r\nit possible for a psychic being once living the life of intelligence and creativity\r\nto enter again into a life of stupidity and ordinariness?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\ndid not say it quite like that. The psychic being is not stupid. What happens\r\nmay be described in this way: for example, suppose the psychic being has had\r\nthe experience of the life of a writer. The function of the writer is to\r\nexpress himself, his perceptions and observations and <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>judgements</span> in words; he has a certain\r\nfield, a certain range of associations and circumstances in which to live and\r\nmove. But there are other fields and ranges beyond and outside of which he has\r\nno experience. So he may say to himself: I have lived with my head, I know\r\nsomething of the intellectual reactions to life: now let me live with my heart\r\nand experience the reactions of feeling and passion. Indeed, sometimes an <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>overactivity</span> of the intellect\r\nimpoverishes the capacities of the heart. So the psychic being, in order to\r\nhave this new kind of experience, abandons his intellectual heights, so to say,\r\nand comes down to the vital plane. He is no longer a creative genius, but an\r\nordinary man, but with a heart enriched or enriching itself with its intense or\r\ngenerous movements. (One can remember in this connection the story of\r\nShankaracharya who being a Sannyasi from boyhood has had no experience of love:\r\nhe entered the body of a king in order to gather this experience.) It is not\r\nrare to see psychic beings that have reached the maximum of their growth in\r\ncertain directions, take up a very modest and ordinary life in some other new\r\ndirection or for some other purpose. One who was a king, for example, as I\r\nalready narrated once, who has had the experiences of power and authority and\r\ndomination, the imperial heights, may choose to descend to ordinary life, to\r\nwork as an obscure person without being troubled by the <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>pomps</span><span lang=EN-GB> </span>of high\r\nposition; he may choose very bourgeois surroundings, very humdrum con­ditions\r\namong humdrum men and things, to procure, so to say, a kind of incognito so\r\nthat he may work in peace and quite. Can you say it is a decline and a fall? It\r\nis only facing life, meeting its problems from another angle, another point of\r\nview. You must know that for consciousness, the true consciousness – the\r\nconsciousness of the psychic – glory and obscurity are the same, success and\r\nfailure are the same. What<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 403<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>is important is the growth\r\nof consciousness. Certain conditions which to your human eye appear <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>favourable</span>, may in reality be\r\nquiet <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>unfavourable</span> for\r\nthe growth of consciousness. With your ordinary thoughts and your ordinary\r\nreactions you judge every­thing according to success and failure. But that is\r\nthe very last way of judging, for it is the most artificial, most superficial\r\nand absolutely contrary to truth. In human life, as it is orga­nised at\r\npresent, it is perhaps only once in a million cases, or even less than that,\r\nthat truth is given the first place; always there is an element of show mixed\r\nup. When a man has success, much success, you may be sure there is mixed up\r\nwith it as much show.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 404<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-116_The Psychic Being','','publish','closed','open','','116_the-psychic-being','','','2021-11-23 17:59:05','2021-11-23 17:59:05','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/116_the-psychic-being/',0,'post','',0),(2121,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:05','2021-11-23 17:59:05','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The  Problem of Evil</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The Problem of Evil</font></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><i><b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>GOD has\r\ncreated the world, the material world as it is? Yes and No, more &quot;No&quot;\r\nthan &quot;Yes&quot;. For he has not created it directly. There have been many\r\ncreators, rather <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>formateurs</span>,\r\nform-makers, in between the world and God, who joined in the work of\r\ncreation. Who are they? They have been given various names. Creation generally\r\nfollows a principle of gradation. It is done step by step, world rising out of\r\nworld successively. Each world is a particular state of being, a particular\r\nmode of consciousness. Each state is inhabited by entities, individualities,\r\npersonalities and each one has created a world around him or assisted in the\r\ncreation of certain types or species upon earth. The last of these creators or\r\nfashioners are those of the vital. At the top are those of what Sri Aurobindo\r\ncalls the Overmind. It was these that created, that is to say, gave the first\r\nforms to earthly beings and things. They sent out their emanations and these\r\nagain theirs in their turn and so on. Thus it was not the Divine Will which\r\nacted directly upon Matter and gave the world the form it could or should have\r\nhad. There are layers and planes, graded intermediaries through which the Will\r\nhas had to act. I spoke of the over-mental and the vital plane. There is also\r\nthe mental plane between them. There are mental beings who are also creators,\r\ngiving form to some beings that have taken body upon earth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thus,\r\nthere is a tradition which says that the world of insects is the outcome of the\r\ncreators of the vital world. That is why when you see the insects under a\r\nmicroscope they take on appearances that are absolutely diabolical. Enlarged on\r\na screen they look like veritable monsters, so terrifying they are. Microscopic\r\nmonsters they are. So it is said, beings of the vital world thought of amusing\r\nthemselves and created these<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 326<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>impossible\r\nbeasts making human existence uncomfortable.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You\r\ncan of course ask how these intermediaries themselves came into being, not out\r\nof the Divine? Intermediaries come out of other still higher and higher\r\nintermediaries till the chain reaches the Supreme. Originally, that is to say,\r\nif you trace back to the original source, there is there, of course, only the\r\nDivine. Then how has the deformation come in? I explained to you once that if\r\nyou do not remain one with the Divine, under his direct influence, do not\r\nfollow the movement of creation or expansion exactly as the Divine wills, this\r\nrupture of contact is sufficient to bring about the greatest evil of all,\r\ndivision. Even the most luminous, the most powerful beings may decide to follow\r\ntheir own movement instead of obeying the divine movement. They may be in\r\nthemselves marvellous beings, and human beings, if they saw them, would take\r\nthem for the Divine himself, yet they can, since they follow their own will and\r\nwork not in harmony with the universe, be the source of the greatest disorders.\r\nThere is nothing that is not the Divine, only there comes about a disorder,\r\nthat is to say, each thing is not in its proper place. The problem is, how this\r\nis to be remedied.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As\r\nto the question why this deviation, this evil at all, I can say, first of all,\r\nwhat you call evil may be only what is not convenient to you, but from the\r\nstandpoint of universal arrangement that may be the most convenient. Secondly,\r\nthe thing might have been just an accident, so to say, in the beginning. And\r\nwhat we are concerned with is not so much its why or even how but with the\r\nremedy to be found for the evil that is there. Viewing philosophically,\r\nhowever, we may note that the universe in which we live is evidently one\r\nmovement out of many (actual and possible), that it follows its own law which\r\nis not the same elsewhere, that if the principle on which this universe has\r\nbeen created is that of free will, then you cannot prevent the disorderly\r\nmovement from taking place until a knowledge comes and illumines the choice. If\r\none is free to choose, one may choose the wrong thing, not necessarily the\r\nright thing, for if it were decided beforehand that the choice must be always\r\ngood and in the right direction, then the choice would no longer be free.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\nin reality these questions cannot be adequately answered<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 327<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>in that\r\nway. It is a problem to which mental answers – of which the mental formulations\r\neven – only serve to diminish the dimensions of the problem; the question\r\nitself reduces the problem to a more or less elementary formula corresponding\r\nonly vaguely and superficially and incompletely to the reality of things.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To\r\nbe able to understand you must become. If you want to understand the why and\r\nthe how of the universe you must identify yourself with the universe. And that\r\nis not easy.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In truth,\r\nthe question itself is wrong. It is childish. It presupposes things that are\r\nthemselves questionable. There are certain ideas about creation which have been\r\nalmost universally current, more or less permanently accepted by human thought\r\nduring ages; they are of an astounding simplicity. There is a world here, it is\r\nsaid, and up there somewhere there is a being called God; This person one day\r\nthought of creating some kind of thing, a visible form. The world was the\r\nresult. Evidently we see a lot of mistakes in his work. We conclude the creator\r\nperhaps is a well-meaning benevolent person, but not all-powerful; some other\r\nthing or being there is that contradicts him. Or perhaps he is all-powerful but\r\nthen has no heart and must be cruelty itself – viewing the condition of his\r\ncreation which is a story of sorrow and trouble and misery. Such an idea, I\r\nsay, is simplicity itself, the simplicity of a child brain. When one speaks of\r\nGod the creator as a potter making a pot, one thinks of him as a human being,\r\nonly in bigger proportions. Truly, it is not God who has made man in his image,\r\nit is man who has made God in his image.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As\r\nI say, the question is wrongly put. The very form of the question already\r\nassumes a certain notion about God and creation. Your postulates or axioms\r\nthemselves are vitiated. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nuniverse and its creator are not separate things, they are one and identical in\r\ntheir origin. The universe is God himself projected into Space (and Time). So\r\nthe universe is the Divine in one aspect or another. You cannot divide the two,\r\nmaking one the creator and the other, his work, the watch-maker and his watch.\r\nYou put your idea of the Divine upon him and ask, why he has created such a\r\nnasty world. If the Divine were to answer, &quot;It is not <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>I, </span>it is yourself. Become\r\nmyself again, you will no longer feel and see as you do now.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 328<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>you are not\r\nyourself, therefore your question and your problem!&quot; Indeed, when you\r\nunite your consciousness with the divine consciousness there is no longer any\r\nproblem. Everything appears then natural and simple, and correct and as it\r\nshould be. It is when you cut yourself from your origin and stand outside, in\r\nfront of him and against him that all the trouble begins. Of course you may\r\nask, how is it that the Divine has tolerated a part of himself going out and\r\nseparating itself and creating all this disorder? I would reply on behalf of\r\nthe Divine, &quot;If you want to know, you had better unite yourself with the\r\nDivine, for that is the only way of knowing why he has done so. It is not by\r\nquestioning him by your mind that you will get the answer. The mind cannot\r\nknow. And repeat, when you come to this identification, all problems are\r\nsolved. The feeling, one can explain, that things are not all right, that they\r\nshould be otherwise comes precisely from the fact that there is a divine will\r\nunfolding itself in a continuous progression, that things that were and are\r\nhave to give place to things that shall be and shall be better and better than\r\nthey have been. The world that was good yesterday will no longer be so\r\ntomorrow. The universe might have appeared quite harmonious in some other age\r\nbut now appears quite discordant: it is because we see the possibility of a\r\nbetter universe. If we found it as it should be, we would not do what we have\r\nto do, we would not try to make it better. Even so, we would conceive the\r\nDivine in a very human way; for we remain imprisoned within ourselves, confined\r\nto this conscious-ness of ours which is like a grain of sand in the infinite\r\nimmensity. You want to understand the immensity? That is not possible. It is\r\npossible only under one condition; be one with the immensity. The drop of water\r\ncannot very well ask how the ocean is: it has to lose itself into the\r\nocean.&quot;<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 329<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></b><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-090_The  Problem of Evil','','publish','closed','open','','090_the-problem-of-evil','','','2021-11-23 17:59:05','2021-11-23 17:59:05','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/090_the-problem-of-evil/',0,'post','',0),(2122,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:05','2021-11-23 17:59:05','<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\">\r\n<title>True Humility</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; text-indent:27pt; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">True Humility</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>T</span> is not by repeating <i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>mea culpa ad\r\ninfinitum </span></i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>that one can show </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>one\'s true humility. In owning too much and\r\ntoo often one\'s sins, one may be just on the wrong side of virtue. There lurks\r\na strain of vanity in self-maceration: the sinner in an overdose of self-pity\r\nalmost feels himself saintly. Certainly, one must stand before oneself face to\r\nface, not hide or minimise or ex&shy;plain away one\'s errors and lapses, all one\'s\r\nomissions and commissions. But one need not brood over them, merely re&shy;penting\r\nand repining. One sees steadily, without flinching, what one actually is and\r\nthen resolutely and sincerely takes to the ways and means of changing it,\r\nbecoming what one has to be. A fall, the discovery of a new frailty should be\r\nan occasion not to chastise and punish yourself, thus to depress yourself and\r\nharden your nature, but to enthuse you with a fresh resolution, to rekindle\r\nyour aspiration so that you may take another step forward. And, naturally, this\r\nyou must do not with the sense that you can succeed or move forward by any\r\ninherent capacity of yours â€“ your failures are there always as standing\r\neye-openers to you. No, it is not your self but the Divine Self that will come\r\nto your succour and lift you up&shy; â€“ <i>tameva </i></span><i>e<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:8.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ï ¡</span>a <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>vÅ—Å†ute tanum swam â€“ to </span></i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>him alone it unveils its own body. That is\r\nthe humility to be learnt. But it does not mean that you are to remain merely\r\npassive, inert â€“you cannot but be that if you are only a &quot;weeping\r\nwillow&quot; â€“ a dead-weight upon the force of Grace that would carry you up. Rather\r\nyou should throw your weight, whatever it is, on the side of the Divine. An\r\natmosphere of alacrity and happiness and goodwill goes a long way to the\r\nredemption and regeneration of the consciousness. This is demanded of you; the\r\nrest is the work of the Divine. It is under such conditions that the Divine\'s \r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-104<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>help becomes all the more speedy and\r\neffective. <span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Otherwise, mere contrition\r\nand lamentation and self-torture mean, as I have said, a ballast, a burden upon\r\nthe force of progress and purification; as Sri Krishna says in the Gita, by\r\noppressing .oneself one oppresses only the Divine within. Humility, in .order\r\nto be true and sincere, need not be sour and dour in .appearance or go about in\r\nsack-cloth and ashes. On the .contrary, it can be smiling and buoyant: and it\r\nis so, because it is at ease, knowing that things will be done â€“ some things\r\nnaturally will be undone too â€“ quietly, quickly, if necessary, .and inevitably,\r\nprovided the right consciousness, the right will within is maintained. The humble\r\nconsciousness does not, of course, take credit for what is being done for it,\r\nnor does it .concentrate wholly or chiefly on its utter futility and smallness.\r\nIt feels small or helpless not in the sense as when one one feels weak and\r\nmiserable and almost undone, but as a child feels, naturally and innocently, in\r\nthe lap of it mother: only <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt\'>I </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>perhaps it is more awake and self-conscious\r\nthan the child </span>mentality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Humility is unreservedly humble, as it\r\nenvisages the immensity of the labour the Divine has undertaken, sees the\r\nGrace, infinite and inscrutable, working miracles every moment: and it is full\r\nof gratitude and thanksgiving and quiet trust and hopefulness. Certainly, it\r\nmeans self-forgetful&shy;ness and selflessness, as it cannot co-exist with the\r\nsense of personal worth and merit, with any appreciation of one\'s own tapasya\r\nand achievement, even as it thrives ill upon self-abasement and\r\nself-denigration, for if one is <i>rajasic, </i>the other is <i>tamasic </i>egoism\r\nâ€“ egoism, in any case. Absolute nullity of the egoistic self is the condition\r\nneeded, but any&shy;thing less than that, any lowering of the consciousness beyond\r\nthis zero point means reaffirming the ego in a wrong direction. True humility\r\nhas an unostentatious quietness, as it has a living and secret contact with the\r\ndivine consciousness.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-105</span></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"MsoNormal\">\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>','-018_True Humility','','publish','closed','open','','018_true-humility','','','2021-11-23 17:59:05','2021-11-23 17:59:05','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/018_true-humility/',0,'post','',0),(2123,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:05','2021-11-23 17:59:05','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Symbolic Ignorance</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal; font-weight:700\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The Symbolic Ignorance</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>How can\r\nthere be dark spots in the light of the full consciousness (the Mother\'s\r\nconsciousness)? The darkness is only relative and depends upon the degree or\r\nstatus of conscious-ness. At the outset, on lower and narrower ranges, the\r\nlight is dim and hedged in: it is surrounded by a much greater and denser area\r\nof darkness. As the consciousness grows, that is to say, manifests itself, as\r\nit rises and widens, the obscurity too recedes more and more and slowly fades\r\naway. This consciousness is not personal, but something impersonal. In other\r\nwords, it holds within itself the universe including especially the earth. And\r\nearth is a dark object; it is made of ignorance and unconsciousness. The light\r\nenvelops it and only gradually penetrates and transforms it. The Mother\'s\r\nconsciousness is thus the representative consciousness; it represents all that\r\nis yet unconscious and striving secretly without knowing towards consciousness;\r\nit is also at the same time the light itself that acts and transforms. The\r\ndivine consciousness embodied acting upon itself thus <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>symbolises</span> and embodies its action upon\r\nwhat would be viewed as others.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 319<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-088_The Symbolic Ignorance','','publish','closed','open','','088_the-symbolic-ignorance','','','2021-11-23 17:59:05','2021-11-23 17:59:05','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/088_the-symbolic-ignorance/',0,'post','',0),(2124,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:05','2021-11-23 17:59:05','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>When Imperfection is Greater Than Perfection</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><font size=\"4\">When Imperfection is\r\nGreater Than Perfection</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n89.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A PERFECTED consciousness is attained in the highest\r\nstatus of being, when it is full of light and delight, peace and purity, one\r\nwith the Divine Consciousness. Such a Consciousness, when it comes down upon\r\nearth in its original unmixed clarity, lives as a foreign element and has no\r\nreal contact with the world; it can have only a very indirect influence upon\r\nmen and things. If the perfect, the Divine Consciousness has to be truly\r\neffective, has to change human and world nature, it must put on partially at least\r\nthat nature; it must share in the imperfection of ignorance so that it can show\r\nhow that imperfection can be dealt with and transformed. The Divine has to\r\nbecome human, even the ordinary human, in a sense, in the outward instrumental\r\naspect, to a greater or lesser degree as needed, so that He may come in living\r\ncontact with the obscure lower consciousness and put His light into it and\r\ngradually purify and illumine it. If, however, the consciousness retains its\r\nfullness of power and light makes its appearance as such, it may dazzle and\r\noverwhelm, as a meteor miracle, but leave nothing substantial behind. This is\r\nwhat has happened in the past of man\'s history. The saints and sages, the\r\ngreatest and the most genuine among them, mostly dwelt apart from humanity in\r\nconsciousness and even away from human contact; the earth could not profit\r\nwholly by their example.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Therefore the Mother says\r\nin her <i>Prayers and Meditations </i>that having gone beyond all desires still\r\nshe had to live in the midst of desires; she had no choice of her own, no\r\npreference, no attachment, no need of anything, yet she was put in the\r\nconditions of very ordinary life, the normal human life; she<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 270<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>had\r\nto deal with the common man, handle the small insignificant objects of material\r\nexistence. In one part of her being she had to identify herself with ignorance\r\nand obscurity, so much so that even the distinction between consciousness and\r\nunconsciousness – the <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>conscient</span>\r\nand the inconscient-was for a time obliterated. Naturally, the inmost being in\r\nits inner self remained always calm, luminous, inviolable, but it put around\r\nitself this body of ordinary nature to meet its ordinary reactions and through\r\nthem gradually to uplift and train it to manifest and incarnate the inmost\r\ndivine.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\ngods are perfect; but it is said, they have to become men, come down upon earth\r\nand assume human proportions – that is, imperfections, – if they wish to\r\nprogress further, attain still higher levels of consciousness. For, the gods\r\nare perfect each in his own limited and well-defined and therefore unchangeable\r\ntype; but man means an aspiring soul, that is to say, infinity – his very\r\nimperfection is a sign and symbol of ever greater possibility; the fluidity of\r\nhis nature means an opportunity.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 271<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-067_When Imperfection is Greater Than Perfection','','publish','closed','open','','067_when-imperfection-is-greater-than-perfection','','','2021-11-23 17:59:05','2021-11-23 17:59:05','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/067_when-imperfection-is-greater-than-perfection/',0,'post','',0),(2125,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:06','2021-11-23 17:59:06','<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Yogic Initiation and Aptitude</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; text-indent:27pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><b><font size=\"4\">Yogic\r\nInitiation and Aptitude</font><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;tab-stops:211.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>I</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>N</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> the practice of Yoga a condition precedent is\r\nusually laid down: it is called <i>adhik</i></span><i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>a</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>ra</span></i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>,\r\naptitude, fitness or capacity. Everybody does not possess this aptitude, it is\r\nurged, and; cannot take to a life of Yoga at one\'s sweet will. There must be a\r\npreparation, certain rules and regulations must be observed, some discipline\r\nmust be followed and one must acquire certain qualities or qualifications, must\r\nreach a particular stage and degree, rise to a particular level of life and\r\nconsciousness before one can successfully face the spiritual problem. It is not\r\neveryone that has a <i>laisser-passer</i>, a free pass to enter the city or\r\ncitadel of the spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The Upanishad gives the warning in\r\nmost emphatic terms: This Atman is not to be gained by the weakling&quot;¹ and again\r\nit declared:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>&quot;Nor\r\nto the fickle and the unsteady should this knowledge be given&quot;<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>²</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'> and yet again:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>&quot;Nor\r\ncan one attain the Spirit by discussion and disputation, nor by a varied\r\nlearning nor even by the power of intelligence.&quot;<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>³</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Shankara, at the very outset of his\r\ncommentary on the Sutras, in explaining the very first words, speaks of a\r\nfourfold sadhana to acquire fitness – <span class=GramE>fitness,</span> we may\r\ntake it, for understanding the Sutras and the commentary and naturally for\r\nattaining the Brahman. It seems therefore to be an absolute condition that one\r\nmust first acquire fitness, develop the right and adequate capacity before one\r\nshould think of spiritual initiation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The question, however, can be raised\r\n– the moderns do<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>¹ </span><i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Mundaka</span></i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>, </span><st1:State><st1:place><span\r\n  lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Ill.</span></st1:place></st1:State><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> 2. 4 <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>²</span><i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Swetaswatara</span></i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>, VI. 22</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>³</span><i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Katka</span></i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>, </span><st1:place><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>I.</span></st1:place><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>\r\n2.</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'> 23</span></span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-68<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>raise it and naturally in the present age of science\r\nand universal education-why should not all men equally have the right to\r\nspiritual sadhana? If spirituality is the highest truth for man, his greatest\r\ngood, his supreme ideal, then to deny it to anyone on the ground, for example,\r\nof his not being of the right caste, class, creed, or sex, to keep anyone at a\r\ndistance on such or similar grounds is unreasonable, unjust, reprehensible.\r\nThese notions, however, are born of a sentimental or idealistic or charitable\r\ndisposition, but unfortunately they do not stand the impact of the realities of\r\nlife. If you simply claim a thing or even if you possess a lawful right to a\r\nworthy object, you do not acquire thereby the capacity to enjoy it. Were it so,\r\nthere would be no such thing as mal-assimilation. In the domain of spiritual\r\nsadhana there are any number of cases of defective\r\nmetabolism. Those that have fallen, strayed from the Path, become deranged or\r\neven have had to leave the body, make up a casualty list that is not small.\r\nThey were misfits, they came by their fate, because they encroached upon a\r\nthing they were not actually entitled to, they were dragged into a secret, a\r\nmystery to which their being was insensible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>In a general way we may perhaps say,\r\nwithout gross error, that every man has the right to become a poet, a scientist\r\nor a politician. But when the question rises in respect of a particular person,\r\nthen it has to be seen whether that person has a natural ability, an inherent\r\ntendency or aptitude for the special training so necessary for the end in view.\r\nOne cannot, at will, develop into a poet by sheer effort or culture. He alone\r\ncan be a poet who is to the manner born. The same is true also of the spiritual\r\nlife. But in this case, there is something more to take into account. If you\r\nenter the spiritual path, often, whether you will or not, you come in touch\r\nwith hidden powers, supra-sensible forces, beings of other worlds and you do\r\nnot know how to deal with them. You raise ghosts and spirits, demons and gods –\r\nFrankenstein monsters that are easily called up but not so easily laid. You\r\nbreak down under their impact, unless your </span><span class=SpellE><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>a</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>dh</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>a</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>ra has already been prepared, purified and\r\nstrengthened. Now, in secular matters, when, for example, you have the ambition\r\nto be a poet, you can try and fail, fail with impunity. But if you undertake\r\nthe<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-69</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:27pt;\" width=\"100%\" align=\"left\">\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>spiritual life and fail, then you lose both\r\nhere and hereafter. That is why the Vedic Rishis used to say that the earthen\r\nvessel meant to hold the Soma must be properly baked and made perfectly sound.\r\nIt was for this reason again that among the ancients, in all climes and in all disciplines,\r\ndefinite rules and regulations were laid down to test the aptitude or fitness\r\nof an aspirant. These tests were of different kinds, varying according to the\r\nage, the country and the Path followed – from the capacity for gross physical\r\nlabour to that for subtle perception. A familiar instance of such a test is\r\nfound in the story of the aspirant who was asked again and again, for years\r\ntogether, by his Teacher to go and graze cows. A modern mind stares at the\r\nirrelevancy of the procedure; for what on earth, he would question, has\r\nspiritual sadhana to do with cow-grazing? In defence we need not go into any\r\nesoteric significance, but simply suggest that this was perhaps a test for\r\nobedience and endurance. These two are fundamental and indispensable conditions\r\nin sadhana; without them there is no spiritual practice, one cannot advance a\r\nstep. It is absolutely necessary that one should carry out the directions of\r\nthe Guru without question or complaint, with full happiness and alacrity: even\r\nif there comes no immediate gain one must continue with the same zeal, not\r\ngiving way to impatience or depression. In ancient <st1:country-region><st1:place>Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region> among certain\r\nreligious orders. there was another kind of test. The aspirant was kept\r\nconfined in a solitary room, sitting in front of a design or diagram, a mystic\r\nsymbol (<i>cakra</i>) drawn on the wall. He had to concentrate and meditate on\r\nthat figure hour after hour, day after day till he could discover its meaning.\r\nIf he failed he was declared unfit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Needless to say that these tests and\r\nordeals are mere externals; at any rate, they have no place in our sadhana.\r\nSuch or similar virtues many people possess or may possess, but that is no\r\nindication that they have an opening to the true spiritual life, to the life\r\ndivine that we seek. Just as accomplishments on the mental plane, – keen\r\nintellect, wide studies, profound scholarship even in the scriptures do not\r\nentitle a man to the possession of the spirit, even so capacities on the vital\r\nplane, – mere self-control, patience and forbearance or endurance and\r\nperseverance do not create a claim to spiritual<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-70</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:27pt;\" width=\"100%\" align=\"left\">\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>realisation, let alone physical austerities. In\r\nconformity with the Upanishadic standard, one may not be an unworthy son or an\r\nunworthy disciple, one may be strong, courageous, patient, calm,\r\nself-possessed, one may even be a consummate master of the senses and be\r\nendowed with other great virtues. Yet all this is no assurance of one\'s success\r\nin spiritual sadhana. Even one may be, after Shankara, a <i>mumuksu</i>, that\r\nis to say, have an ardent yearning for liberation. Still it is doubtful if that\r\nalone can give him liberation into the divine life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>What then is the indispensable and\r\nunfailing requisite? What is it that gives you the right of entrance into the\r\ndivine life? What is the element, the factor in you that acts as the &quot;open\r\nsesame&quot;, as a magic solvent?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Only one thing,\r\nrepresented by one small homely word – “Call&quot;. Whatever may be the case with other\r\npaths of sadhana, for Sri Aurobindo\'s Path this is the keynote. Has the call\r\ncome to you, have you received the call? That is everything. If you have this\r\ncall it does not matter in the least whether you have other qualities, be they\r\ngood, be they bad. That serves as proof and pointer\r\nthat you are meant for this Path. If you have this one thing needful you have\r\neverything, and if you have it not, you have nothing, absolutely nothing. You\r\nmay be wise beyond measure, your virtues and austerities may be incalculable,\r\nyet if you lack is, you lack the fitness for Sri Aurobindo\'s Yoga. On the other\r\nhand, if you have no virtues worth the name, if you are uneducated or ill-educated,\r\nif you are weak and miserable, if your nature is full of flaws and lapses, yet\r\nif the call is there in you secreted somewhere, then all else will come to you,\r\nwill be called in as it were inevitably: riches and strengths will grow and\r\ndevelop in you, you will transcend all obstacles and dangers, all your wants\r\nwill be made good, all your wear and tear will be whole. In the words of the\r\nUpanishad: &quot;Sin will not be able to traverse you, you will traverse all\r\nsin, sin will not burn you, you will burn it\r\naway.&quot;<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>¹</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Now what exactly is this wonderful\r\nthing? This power that brings into being the non-being, realises the\r\nimpossible? Whose is this Call, from where does it come? It is none other than\r\nthe call of your own inmost being, of your secret self. It <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>¹Brihadaranyaaka,\r\nIV.</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'> 2. 23</span></span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-71</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:27pt;\" width=\"100%\" align=\"left\">\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>is the categorical imperative of the Divine\r\nseated within your heart. Indeed, the first dawning of the spiritual life means\r\nthe coming forward, the unveiling of this inner being. The ignorant and animal\r\nlife of man persists so long as the inner being remains in the background, away\r\nfrom the dynamic life, so long as man is subject to the needs and impulses of his\r\nmind and life and body. True, through the demands and urges of this lower\r\ncomplex, it is always the inner being that gains and has its dictates carried\r\nout and is always the secret lord and enjoyer; but that is an indirect effect\r\nand it is a phenomenon that takes place behind the veil. The evolution, in\r\nother words, of the inner or psychic being proceeds through many and diverse\r\nexperiences – mental, vital and physical. Its consciousness, on the one hand,\r\ngrows, that is, enlarges itself, becomes wider and wider, from what was\r\ninfinitesimal it moves towards infinity, and on the other, strengthens,\r\nintensifies itself, comes up from behind and takes its stand in front visibly\r\nand dynamically. Man\'s true individual being starts on its career of evolution\r\nas a tiny focus of consciousness totally submerged under the huge surface surge\r\nof mind and life and body consciousness. It stores up in itself and assimilates\r\nthe essence of the various experiences that the mind and life and body bring to\r\nit in its unending series of incarnations; as it enriches itself thus, it increases\r\nin substance and potency, even like fire that feeds upon fuels. A time comes\r\nwhen the pressure of the developed inner being upon the mind and life and body\r\nbecomes so great that they begin to lose their aboriginal and unregenerate\r\nfreedom – the freedom of doing as they like; they have now to pause in their\r\nunreflecting career, turn round, as it were, and imbibe and acquire the habit\r\nof listening to the deeper, the inner voice, and obey the direction, the\r\ncommand of the Call. This is the &quot;Word inviolate&quot; (<i>an</i></span><i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>a</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>hata</span></i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>-<i>v</i></span><i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>a</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>ni</span></i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>) of\r\nwhich the sages speak; this is also referred to as the &quot;still small\r\nvoice&quot;, for indeed it is scarcely audible at present amidst the din and\r\nclamour of the wild surges of the body and life and mind consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Now,\r\nwhen this call comes clear and distinct, there is no other way for the man than\r\nto cut off the old moorings and jump into the shore less unknown. It is the\r\ncategorical demand<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-72</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:27pt;\" width=\"100%\" align=\"left\">\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>of such an overwhelming experience that made the\r\nIndian <span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>spirant declare:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>&quot;The moment you feel you are\r\nnot of the world, loiter no longer in it.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>It is the same experience that\r\nthrobs in the Christ\'s utterance:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>&quot;Follow <span class=GramE>me,</span>\r\nlet the dead bury their dead.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The inner soul – the psychic – very\r\noften undergoes a secret preparation, develops and comes forward but just\r\nwaits, as it were, behind the thin though opaque screen; and because of that it\r\ngives no objective indication of its growth and readiness. We see no patent\r\nsign of what is usually known as fitness or aptitude or capacity. <span\r\nclass=GramE>Otherwise how to explain the conversion of a profligate and\r\ndilettante like Augustine, or of a rebel like Paul, or of scamps like\r\nJagai-Madhai.</span> Often the purest gold hides in the basest ore, the diamond\r\nis coal turned, as it were, inside out. This, one would say, is the Divine\r\nGrace that blows where it lists – makes of the dumb a prattler, .of the lame a\r\nmountain-climber. Yet, but what is this Divine Grace and how does it move and\r\nact? It does not act on all and sundry, it does not act on all equally. What is\r\nthe reason? Appearances often belie the reality: a contrary mask is put .on, it\r\nwould appear, deliberately, with a set purpose. The: sense and significance of\r\nthis mystery? The hard, obscure, obstinate, rebel outer crust may continue long\r\nbut it is corroded from within and one day, all on a sudden, it crumbles and\r\ndissolves and becomes in a new avatar the vehicle and receptacle of the very\r\nthing it opposed and denied.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Virtues are not indications of the\r\nfire of the inner soul, nor are vices irremediable obstacles to its growth. The\r\ninner soul, we have said, feeds upon all – it is indeed fire, the omnivorous .<i>sarvabhuk,</i>\r\n– virtues and vices and everything else and gather strength from everywhere.\r\nThe mystery of miracles, of a sudden change or reversal or revolution in\r\nconsciousness and way of life lies in the <span class=SpellE>omnipotency</span>\r\nof the psychic being. The psychic being has the power of making the apparently\r\nimpossible, for this reason that it is a portion of the almighty<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-73</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:27pt;\" width=\"100%\" align=\"left\">\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Divine, it is the supreme Conscious-Power\r\ncrystallised and canalised in a centre for the sake of manifestation. It is a.\r\nparticle from the Being, a spark of the Consciousness, a ripple from the\r\nDelight cast into the fastnesses of Matter and the, material body. Now, it is\r\nthe irresistible urge of this particle<span class=GramE>,.</span> this spark,\r\nthis ripple to grow and expand, to become in the end the Vast – the Ocean and\r\nthe Sun and the sphere of Infinity-to become that not merely in an essential\r\nstatus but in a dynamic and apparent becoming also. The little soul, originally\r\nno bigger than a thumb, goes forward through one life after another enlarging\r\nand intensifying itself till it recovers and establishes its parent reality in\r\nthis material body here below, till it unveils what is latent within itself, what\r\nis its own, what is itself, – its integral self-fulfilment, the Divine\r\nintegrality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Here in his inner being, as part and\r\nparcel of the Divine, man is absolutely free, has infinite capacity and\r\nunbounded aptitude; for here he is master, not slave of Nature, and it is\r\nslavery to Nature, that limits and baulks and stultifies man. So does the\r\nUpanishad declare in a magnificent and supreme <span class=GramE>utterance:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>&quot;It is he in whom the soul,\r\nsunk in the impenetrable cavern of the body, darkened by dualities, has\r\nawakened and become vigilant, he it is who is the master of the universe and\r\nthe master of all, yea, his is this world, he is this world.&quot;¹<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>In the practice of Yoga the fitness\r\nor capacity that the inner being thus lends is the only real capacity that a\r\nsadhaka possesses; and the natural, spontaneous, self-sufficing initiation\r\nderiving from the inner being is the only initiation that is valid and\r\nfruitful. Initiation does not mean necessarily an external rite or ceremony, a <i>mantra</i>,\r\nan auspicious day or moment: all these things are useless and irrevelant once\r\nwe take our stand on the authentic self-competence of the soul<span\r\nclass=GramE>..</span> The moment the inner being has taken the decision that\r\nthis time, in this life, in this very body, it will manifest itself, take possession\r\nof the body and life and mind and wait no more, at that moment itself all <i>mantra</i>\r\nhas been uttered and all </span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>¹ </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Brihadaranyaka, IV. 4. 13<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-74</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:27pt;\" width=\"100%\" align=\"left\">\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>initiation taken. The disciple has made the\r\nfinal and definitive offering of his heart to his Guru - the psychic Guru – and\r\nsought refuge in him and the Guru too has definitely accepted him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Mantra</span></i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> or initiation, in its essence, is nothing else\r\nthan contacting the inner being. In our Path, at least, there is no other rite\r\nor rule, injunction or ceremony. The only thing needed is to awake to the\r\nconsciousness of the psychic being, to hear its call – to live and move and act\r\nevery moment of our life under the eye of this indwelling Guide, in accordance\r\nwith its direction and impulsion. Our initiation is not therefore a one-time\r\naffair only; but at every moment, at each step, it has to be taken again and\r\nagain, it must be renewed, revitalised, furthered and strengthened constantly\r\nand unceasingly; for it means that at each step and at every moment we have to\r\nmaintain the contact of our external consciousness with the inner being; at\r\neach step and every moment we have to undergo the test of our sincerity and loyalty\r\n– the test whether we are tending to our inner being, moving in its stream or,\r\non the contrary, walking the way of our external animal nature, whether the\r\nmovements in the mind and life and body are controlled by their habitual\r\ninferior nature or are open to and unified with their hidden divine source.\r\nThis recurrent and continuous initiation is at the secret basis of all\r\nspiritual discipline-in the Integral Yoga this is the one and all-important\r\nprinciple.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-75</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<hr align=\"left\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; text-indent:27pt; padding:0in; border-style:none;\" width=\"100%\">\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-009_Yogic Initiation and Aptitude','','publish','closed','open','','009_yogic-initiation-and-aptitude','','','2021-11-23 17:59:06','2021-11-23 17:59:06','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/009_yogic-initiation-and-aptitude/',0,'post','',0),(2126,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:06','2021-11-23 17:59:06','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Specialisation</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Specialisation</font></span><span style=\'font-size:18.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You must\r\nextend, enlarge, enrich your mind. It must be full of thoughts and ideas. It\r\nmust be stored with the results of your observation and study. It must not be a\r\n&quot;poor mind&quot;, a mind, that is to say, that has not many ideas nor the\r\ncapacity of reasoning and argument. Your mind must be capable of thinking of\r\nmany different things, gathering knowledge of different kinds, considering a\r\nproblem from many different sides, not following only a single line or track:\r\nit must be somewhat like a Japanese fan opening out full circle in all\r\ndirections.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You\r\nhave, for example, several subjects to learn at school. Well, learn as many as\r\npossible. If you study at home, read as many varieties as possible. I know you\r\nare usually asked and advised to follow a different way. You are to take as few\r\nsubjects as possible and <i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>specialise</span>.\r\n</i>Yes, that is the general ideal: <i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>specialisation</span>, </i>to be an expert in one thing. If you wish to\r\nbe a good philosopher, read philosophy only; if you wish to be a good chemist,\r\ndo only chemistry; and even you should concentrate upon only one problem or\r\nthesis in philosophy or chemistry. In sports you are asked to do the same.\r\nChoose one item and fix your attention upon that alone. If you want to be a\r\ngood tennis player, think of tennis alone. However, I am not of that opinion.\r\nMy experience is different. I believe, there are general faculties in man which\r\nhe should acquire and cultivate more than <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>specialise</span> himself. Of course, if it is your ambition to be a\r\nMonsieur or Madame Curie who wanted to discover one particular thing, to find\r\nout a new mystery of a definite kind, then you have to concentrate upon the one\r\nthing in view. But even then, once the object is gained, you can turn very well\r\nto other things. Besides,<font face=\"Times New Roman\"> it is not</font><span style=\'font-family:Arial\'> </span>an\r\nimpossibility <span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:Arial\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 428<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>in the midst of the one-pointed pursuit to find occasions and opportunities to\r\nbe interested in other pursuits.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>From\r\nmy childhood I have been hearing of the same lesson; I am afraid it was taught\r\nalso in the days of our fathers and grandfathers and great grandfathers,\r\nnamely, that if you wish to be successful in something you must do that only\r\nand nothing else. I was rebuked very much because I was busy with many\r\ndifferent things at the same time. I was told I would be in the end good for\r\nnothing. I was studying, I was painting, I was doing music and many other\r\nthings. I was repeatedly warned that my painting would be worthless, my music\r\nwould be worthless, my studies would be incomplete and defective if I had my\r\nway. Perhaps it was true; but I found that my way, too, had its advantages – precisely\r\nthe advantages I was speak­ing of at the outset, namely, it widens and enriches\r\nthe mind and consciousness, makes it supple and flexible, gives it a\r\nspontaneous power to understand and handle anything new presented to it. If,\r\nhowever, I had wanted to become an <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>executant</span> of the first order and play in concerts, then of course\r\nI would have had to restrict myself. Or in painting if my aim had been to be\r\none of the great artists of the age, I could have done only that and nothing\r\nelse. One understands the position very well, but it is only a point of view. I\r\ndo not see why I should become the greatest musician or the greatest painter.\r\nIt seems to me to be nothing but vanity.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:lined 218.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But it is a very natural and spontaneous movement in\r\nman to change from one work to another in order to maintain a kind of balance.\r\nChange also means rest. We have often heard of great artists or scholars\r\nseeking for rest and having great need for it. They find it by changing their\r\nactivity. For example, Ingres was a painter; painting was his normal and major\r\noccupation. But whenever he found time he took up his violin. Curiously, it was\r\nhis violin which interested him more than his painting. He was not very good at\r\nmusic, but he took great pleasure in it. He was sufficiently good at painting,\r\nbut it interested him less. But the real thing is that he needed a stable poise\r\nor balance. Concentration upon a single thing is very necessary, I have said, if\r\none aims at a definite and special result; but one can follow a different line\r\nthat is more subtle, more comprehensive and complete. Naturally, there is a<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:lined 218.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 429<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:lined 218.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>physical\r\nlimit somewhere to your comprehensiveness; for on the physical plane you are\r\nconfined in respect of time and space; and also it is true that great things\r\nare difficult to achieve unless there is a special concentration. But if you\r\nwant to lead a higher and deeper life, you can command capacities which are\r\nmuch greater than those available to the methods of restriction and limitation\r\nbelonging to the normal con­sciousness. 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margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Individual and Collective Soul</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-family:\r\n\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE\r\nindividual has a soul. Likewise a collection of individuals, a group too has a\r\nsoul. When persons habitually meet together for a certain purpose, they form a\r\nset or society and gradually tend to develop a common consciousness which is\r\nthe beginning of a soul. At school, they who read together, the class, they who\r\nplay together, the team, all who live and move together inspired by the same or\r\nsimilar impulses and ideas possess a rudimentary soul. In the same way, a\r\nbigger group, the nation has also a soul, each its own according to its nature,\r\ntradition and culture. Even a continent has a soul. One can speak of the soul\r\nconsciousness of <st1:place>Europe</st1:place>, of <st1:place>Asia</st1:place>\r\nor of <st1:place>Africa</st1:place>. Indeed each cell of an organism has a\r\nconsciousness of its own; it may be said to be the unit individual\r\nconsciousness. Many such cells combine to form the organism, the individual\r\n(who in this way may be viewed as a composite or collective being). Many\r\nindividuals form the family – each family with its group consciousness (whence\r\nthe idea of <i>kuladharma, </i>the genius of the family or the tradition and\r\nstamp of a Royal House). Many families formed the tribe, here too each with its\r\nparticular consciousness. And then families and tribes have formed the modern\r\nnation, each one a distinct and almost a well-developed soul. The grouping\r\ncontinues to enlarge and we have the many nations combining to form the human\r\ngroup as a whole; humanity too has its own consciousness and its own soul.\r\nThere is no limit to the volume or dimension of the group. The earth has its\r\nsoul consciousness, even as the sun or a star or any other planet. The solar\r\nsystem or a galactic system too is moved by its own secret consciousness.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 272<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-068_Individual and Collective Soul','','publish','closed','open','','068_individual-and-collective-soul','','','2021-11-23 17:59:06','2021-11-23 17:59:06','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/068_individual-and-collective-soul/',0,'post','',0),(2128,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:06','2021-11-23 17:59:06','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Physician, Heal Thyself</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Physician, Heal Thyself</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n17.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>IT is not that\r\nhumanity does not know or feel the need of a radical change in itself.\r\nEverywhere man </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>recognises</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>\r\nthat </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>if the problems and\r\ndifficulties that face him have to be solved satisfactorily, there must be a\r\nthorough overhauling of his outlook and nature; no mere tinkering with the\r\nsuperficial signs and symptoms of an organic disease by means of pallia­tives\r\nand expediencies and nostrums, but a major operation. Indeed, if he wishes to\r\nbe cured, he must transcend his present nature and be something else.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>And yet he does not change. He has not the\r\nsincere will to change. At least he takes the wrong way about it. And the\r\nreason is that he does not whole-heartedly adopt the course which he knows to\r\nbe the only right thing. He is divided in his being: one part knows indeed, but\r\nanother, the larger, the dynamic part does not profit by that knowledge,\r\nignores it and pursues a contrary path, the accustomed groove of ignorance and <i>laissez-faire.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>He consoles and comforts himself, lays the\r\nflattering unction to his soul by taking to a less exacting ideal, a substitute\r\nwith­out tears, as it were. Therefore he looks outside, seeks to reform society,\r\nchanging its laws and constitution, and wants to believe that in that way\r\nsociety can be remodelled and mankind transformed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>It should have been proved beyond doubt by\r\nnow that the fact is not so. The only way to cure the world outside is to cure\r\noneself first inside. The ancient proverb still holds good: the macrocosm is\r\nonly an enlargement of the <span class=GramE>microcosm,</span> the microcosm is\r\nthe macrocosm in miniature. The universe is a transcript, a projection on a\r\nlarge scale of the individual nature within. What is there is here and what is\r\nnot here is not found<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 171<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>there. When we see some wrong in the world,\r\nsomething that has got to be set right, instead of rushing out and trying to\r\ntackle it in the external field, if one were to hold oneself back </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>and look within, one would surely find,\r\nperhaps to his surprise </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt\'>I </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>and enlightenment, a very similar movement,\r\noften an exact </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:6.0pt\'>I </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>replica in one\'s own consciousness and\r\ncharacter of what one finds in the larger anonymous movements of nature and\r\nsociety. Now it may be admitted that one has no control or almost none over\r\none\'s nature; the outside world is beyond our reach and we cannot order or\r\nmould it as we like. But the smaller world which is ourselves is not too far or\r\ntoo great for us; our own individual nature and character is ours and we have\r\nbeen given sufficient freedom and power to reform, renew and remake it. That is\r\nthe secret, although it seems to be a very simple truth, almost a truism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>And if we cannot correct and mould as we wish\r\nthe little world within which is our own, how can we expect to correct or\r\nchange the vaster outer world? To leave oneself to be as one is and to try to\r\nmake others change is evidently an absurd and self-contradictory proposition.\r\nOn the other hand, if the first thing that one does is to correct oneself, then\r\none will find, much to one\'s surprise and satisfaction, that there is very\r\nlittle to correct in the world, everything has been already corrected\r\nautomatically.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Each man is given his little domain within him\r\nand he is master of that domain. Nobody is given more (or less even) than what\r\nhe can successfully manage: the charge is accu­rately measured according to\r\ncapacity. One can be indeed a <span class=SpellE><i>roi</i></span><i> fainéant,\r\n</i>if one chooses to be so; but that is not man\'s inevitable destiny; he can\r\ntruly be the ruling king and ex­ercise, to the full, his authority. It is a\r\nsimple truth that man has a will and can wield it. This will he can consciously\r\ndevelop, increase and enlarge, make it an extremely powerful, if not\r\ninvincible, instrument for action.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Will is a twofold power: it is energy and it\r\nis light. True will, will in essential purity, that is to say, when one is\r\nperfectly sincere and determined to follow up one\'s sincerity, impels rightly\r\nand impels infallibly. The consciousness is there of the right thing to do and\r\nthe energy is also there inherent in that consciousness to work it out\r\ninevitably. There is a will be<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 172<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>longing to a lower level, to the mind which is only\r\na variant of wish, and in reference to that only it is said that even if the\r\nspirit is willing, the flesh is weak. This will is a light, but<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>without</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'> the fire that vivifies: and that is because there is a division in the\r\nconsciousness, &quot;one can love and yet one can betray,&quot; in the words of\r\na famous novelist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>But as we have already said, man is not\r\ncondemned to this malady of schizophrenia: he is not by nature a Manichean\r\ncreature. He is whole and entire in his inner reality and true consciousness\r\nand he can assert his integrality, he has the freedom and the power to do so-he\r\nhas to and will do so, since it is not merely a possibility but an\r\ninevitability that is to come about in the course of his growth and evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.8pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>And when he has done so,\r\nwhen he has salvaged himself, by that he will have salvaged the world too\r\naround him. The measure\r\nof the success within will be the measure of the success without.</span></span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:9.8pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 173<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:9.8pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-033_Physician, Heal Thyself','','publish','closed','open','','033_physician-heal-thyself','','','2021-11-23 17:59:06','2021-11-23 17:59:06','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/033_physician-heal-thyself/',0,'post','',0),(2129,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:06','2021-11-23 17:59:06','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Sincerity is Victory</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">Sincerity is\r\nVictory</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To be sincere and to be candid are not the same\r\nthing. To be candid means a simplicity based, in a large measure, upon an\r\nignorance of things. A child is candid, because he is simple and ignorant and\r\nhides nothing; he is incapable of it and has no will to deceive anyone. But sincerity\r\nis different.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sincerity is a most\r\ndifficult thing to have, but it is also the most effective of things. If you\r\nhave sincerity, you are sure of victory. But it must be true sincerity.\r\nSincerity means that all the elements of your being, all its movements, each\r\nand every one, from the most spiritual to the most physical, from the inmost to\r\nthe outermost, from the top-most to the bottom-most, all parts, severally and\r\nwholly and equally are turned to the Divine,\' they ask for nothing else than\r\nthe Divine, they live for and by the Divine.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And it is not an easy\r\nthing. To be sincere in a part, to be sincere on the whole, to be sincere at\r\nmoments is easy enough; everybody can have or achieve that much. It is within\r\nthe capacity of any human being with normal good will, to be sincere in his\r\npsychic movements, even if these are rare. But to be sincere in every cell of\r\nyour physical body is a still rarer and arduous achievement. To make the body\r\ncells so one-pointed that they too feel they cannot live but for the Divine and\r\nin and through the Divine. That is true sincerity and that is what you must\r\nhave.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>First you must observe\r\nthat there is not a day in your life, not an hour, not even a minute when you\r\nhave not got to rectify or intensify your sincerity. I do not say that you\r\ndeceive the Divine. None can deceive the divine, not even the greatest of the\r\nAsuras. When you have understood that, still then you will always find moments\r\nin your everyday life when you try\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 379<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section2>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>to deceive\r\nyourself. Almost automatically you bring forward reasons in favour of whatever\r\nyou do. I do not speak of grosser things as when you have quarrelled with a\r\nperson, for example, and in your anger throw the whole blame upon him. I knew a\r\nchild who gave a good blow to the door, because it thought the door was at\r\nfault. It is always the other party who is in the wrong. But even when you have\r\npassed beyond this baby stage, when you are supposed to be a little more reasonable,\r\nyou do the stupidest of things and produce reasons in self-justification. The\r\nreal test of sincerity, the very minimum of true sincerity lies here; in your\r\nreaction to a given situation whether you can take automatically the right\r\nattitude and do exactly the thing to be done. When, for example, one speaks\r\nangrily to you, do you catch the contagion and become angry on your side also\r\nor are you able to maintain an unshakable calm and lucidity, see the other\r\nman\'s point or behave as one should?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This\r\nis, I say, the very beginning of sincerity, its rudiments. And if you look into\r\nyourself with keener eyes, you will discover thousands of insincerities, more\r\nsubtle, none the less <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>seizable</span>.\r\nTry to be sincere, occasions will multiply when you catch yourself insincere:\r\nyou will know how difficult a thing it is. You say you belong to the Divine, to\r\nthe Divine alone and to nothing or to nobody else; &quot;it is the Divine who\r\nmoves me and does everything in me.&quot; And then you do whatever pleases you;\r\nyou use the Divine as a cloak to cover your indulgence of desires and passions.\r\nThis also is a gross insincerity and it should not be difficult for you to\r\ndetect it. Although this is a very common deception, more perhaps to deceive\r\nothers than to deceive oneself. The mind catches hold of an idea, &quot;all\r\nthis is Brahman,&quot; &quot;I am Brahman&quot;, – and you believe or pretend\r\nto believe that you have realised it and you can do nothing wrong. There are,\r\nhowever, subtler movements of insincerity or want of sincerity, even when you\r\nhave not put on the divine cloak as the cover for your lapses. Even when you\r\nthink you are sincere there may be movements which are not quite straight,\r\nbehind which, if you probe unflinchingly, you will find lurking something\r\nundesirable. Look to the little movements, thoughts, sensations and impulses,\r\nthat crowd the margin of your daily life; how many of them are solely turned to\r\nthe Divine, how many of them are fired with an<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 380<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>aspiration\r\ntowards something higher? You should consider yourself fortunate if you find a\r\nfew of the kind.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>When\r\nI say that if you are sincere you are sure of victory, I mean that kind of\r\nsincerity, whole and undivided: the pure flame that burns like an offering, the\r\nintense joy of existing for the Divine alone where nothing else exists, nothing\r\nhas any meaning or reason for existence but in the Divine. Nothing has value or\r\ninterest if it is not this call, this aspiration, this opening to the supreme\r\ntruth; all this that we call the Divine. You must serve the only reason for which\r\nthe universe exists: take it away, all disappears.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 381<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section2>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n</div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-109_Sincerity is Victory','','publish','closed','open','','109_sincerity-is-victory','','','2021-11-23 17:59:06','2021-11-23 17:59:06','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/109_sincerity-is-victory/',0,'post','',0),(2130,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:06','2021-11-23 17:59:06','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Soul of a Nation</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The Soul of a Nation</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n15.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'>A </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>NATION is a living\r\npersonality; it has a soul, even like a human individual. The soul of a nation\r\nis also a <i>psychic </i>being, that is to say, a conscious being, a formation\r\nout of the Divine Consciousness and in direct contact with it, a power and\r\naspect of Mahashakti. A nation is not merely the sum total of the individuals\r\nthat compose it, but a collective personality of which the individuals are as\r\nit were cells, like the cells of a living and conscious organism. The psychic\r\nbeing or soul of a nation is indeed conscious; it knows its <i>raison d\'être, </i>its\r\nlife purpose, its destiny, the role it has to play in the divine scheme as the\r\ndivine instrument. And its will – for it has a will, the expression of its\r\nconsciousness, the Divine\'s impulse in and through it – is inevitable, sooner\r\nor later it will fulfil itself. Even like the soul of a man, the nation\'s soul\r\nis behind all the movements that form its external life, supporting, building,\r\nguiding its political, economic, social or cultural make-up. The individual can\r\nknow of and come in contact with the nation\'s soul in and through his own soul.\r\nWhen one becomes conscious of his psychic being then only one is in a condition\r\nto be conscious of the psychic being of the collective person of his nation or\r\nthe nation with which he has inner affinity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.5pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>There are periods in the life cycle of a\r\nnation, critical moments, when it is in deadly peril, when its very existence\r\nis threatened, attacked by enemy forces either from within or from without.\r\nSuch was the case when, for example, </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Britain</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> was invaded by the Spanish Armada or when </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>France</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> was being subjugated by </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>England</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>. Those were very anxious times, but in each\r\ninstance the soul of the nation came for­ward and inspired the nation to react\r\nand go through the ordeal and survive. Jeanne d\'Arc may be considered as the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; text-indent:11.5pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 198<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>embodiment of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>France</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>\'s national soul, as on a still earlier\r\noccasion that same soul embodied itself in St. Genevieve. But a nation may fall\r\non much more evil days, namely, when it loses contact with its very soul, goes\r\nastray, its life movement taking a wrong curve. A\r\nnation can deny its soul, even as an individual may and the result is disaster.\r\n<st1:country-region><st1:place>Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region> is a terrible example of such a tragedy in\r\nour own day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n  10.0pt\'>India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'> is offering a spectacle, of another tragedy. What is happening here is\r\nthe attack of a disease that is convulsing the body politic: it seems to be a\r\ncancerous disease, the limbs seeking to grow independently at the expense of\r\neach other. The patient is passing through a very critical period and it is\r\nindeed a question of life and death. But we hope – we <span class=GramE>are <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:18.0pt\'>:</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n18.0pt\'> </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>sure – that the soul of\r\nthis ancient nation will assert itself and </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n7.0pt\'>I </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>through whatever\r\nvicissitudes re-establish health and har­</span>mony: for that soul\'s mission is yet to be done.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:22.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Like the individual a nation too dies.\r\nAncient </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n  10.0pt\'>Greece</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'> and </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>Rome</span></st1:City><span\r\n style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>, </span><st1:country-region><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>Egypt</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'> and </span><st1:City><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>Babylon</span></st1:place></st1:City><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'> and </span><st1:place><span\r\n style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>Chaldea</span></st1:place><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'> are no more. What </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:17.0pt\'>I </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>has happened to their souls, it may be asked. Well, what </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>happens to the soul of the individual when\r\nthe body falls away? </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The soul\r\nreturns to the soul-world. Like the individual Psyche </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>the collective Psyche too goes and retires\r\ninto the womb of </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>peace and light\r\nwith all its treasures, its beauty and glory </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>gathered in, like a bird that goes to sleep within its <span\r\nclass=GramE>folded <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt\'>: </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>wings.\r\nWhat the Greek culture and civilisation was still continues to exist in its\r\nquintessential reality in a world to which one has access if one has the\r\nrequisite kinship of consciousness and psychic opening. That soul lives in its\r\nown domain, with all the glory of its achievement and realisation at their\r\npurest; and from there it sheds its <span class=SpellE>lustre</span>, exerts\r\nits <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>influence, acts as living leaven in the world\'s cultural heritage and spiritual growth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>When however the soul withdraws, when a\r\nnation in a particular cycle of its soul manifestation has fulfilled its role\r\nand mission, the body of the nation falls gradually into de­cadence. The\r\nelements that composed the organic reality, the living consistency of national\r\nlife disintegrate, lose their energy and cohesive capacity; they die out and\r\nare dispersed or persist for a time as a confused mixture of disconnected </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>and mechanically moving cells. But it may\r\nhappen too that<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\'>Page – 199<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>in an apparently dying or dead nation, the\r\nsoul that retired comes back\' again, not in its old form and mode of life – for\r\nthat cannot be – Egypt, if it lives again today cannot repeat the ages of the\r\nPharaohs and the Pyramids-but in a new personality, with a fresh life purpose,\r\nIn such a case what happens is truly a national resurrection – a Lazarus coming\r\nback to life at the touch of the Divine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>We do not believe that </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> was ever completely dead or hopelessly\r\nmoribund: her soul, although not always in front, was ever present as a living\r\nforce, presiding over and guiding her destiny. That is why there is a perennial\r\ncapacity for renewal in her and the capacity to go through dire ordeals. And to\r\nlive up to her genius, she too must know how to march with the time, that is to\r\nsay, not to cling to old and past forms – to be faithful to the ancient soul\r\ndoes not mean </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>eternising</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>\r\nthe external frames and formulas that expressed that soul one time or another.\r\nIndeed the soul becomes alive and vigorous when it finds a new disposition of\r\nthe life plan which can embody and translate a fresh creative activity, a new\r\nfulfilment emanating from the depths of the soul.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; text-indent:.15in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 200<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Divine Disgust</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>IT is a\r\n&quot;disgust&quot; filled with all compassion. It is something which takes\r\nupon itself the wrong vibrations in others to cure them. Instead of throwing a\r\nwrong movement back upon the wrong doer in a spirit of cold justice, it draws\r\nit within itself, absorbs it in order to eliminate it or transform it, reducing\r\nas much as possible its material consequences. You know the ancient legend of\r\nShiva who has a dark patch upon his throat, because he swallowed all the poison\r\nof the world: it is a figure of divine disgust.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Naturally,\r\nthe poison will not have the same effect upon the Divine as upon man. For there\r\nis an essential difference between a state of ignorance and a state of\r\nknowledge. Something untoward happens to you in your normal state of ignorance,\r\nit has a certain character and brings mentally certain results: but the same\r\nthing happening to you in a state of knowledge will not carry the same effect.\r\nFor example, take a very material thing, a blow, a right royal physical blow,\r\nwell, if you are in a state of inconscience and ignorance, as you usually are,\r\nyou will have to suffer the full consequence which in its turn depends wholly\r\nupon the force of the blow, who or what gave the blow and the helplessness of\r\nthe object. But the the same blow delivered in the same way by the same agent\r\nbut upon a being who is conscious and full of knowledge, will produce instantly\r\na reaction reducing the natural consequences to a minimum, even annulling the\r\nconsequences altogether; for the reaction here is a reaction of knowledge, of\r\nlight and not that of ignorance, of obscurity. On the moral level the action\r\ncan be clearly noticed. For example, you can receive an emotional shock, not in\r\negoistic blindness, that is to say, identifying yourself with it or drowned in\r\nit; you can hold it<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 339<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>away from\r\nyou, look at it in an objective manner, see what it is, note the nature of its\r\nvibration, etc., etc., and then you put the light of your knowledge, the\r\nultra-violet ray, as it were, of truth upon it. As a result, there comes a new\r\ndisposition, the shock loses its effectivity. Even so, the physical result of a\r\nphysical blow can be obviated. If that were not possible what would be the\r\nutility of the Divine taking upon himself the evil thing. Evil would continue\r\nin the same way and the world continue suffering in the same way. Precisely\r\nbecause the obscure vibrations are transformed into vibrations of light in the\r\ndivine consciousness that the Divine takes upon and within himself all the ills\r\nof the world.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nthe case of the physical occurrence, the knowledge I speak of is the inner\r\nknowledge of the body cells, their existence, composition, distribution and the\r\nknowledge of the consequences of the blow, its natural and expected effects.\r\nAlso at the same time there should be the knowledge of what the cells should be\r\nlike, how they ought to react to the blow. And the procedure adopted too is\r\nquite different from that of physical Nature which takes hours, days, months to\r\nrepair a damage; the inner knowledge can do the thing immediately. This inner\r\nknowledge can be brought down from its highest source. Instead of the mere\r\npsychological knowledge, one can call down the supramental knowledge and focus\r\nit upon the part of the body endangered. If the elements of the body, the cells\r\ncome under the influence of the force of truth and receive it, then there can\r\nbe an immediate new ordering of the elements according to the higher law. That\r\nwill bring about not only the cure from the blow received, the mending of the\r\naccident, but initiate a big progress in the general consciousness. This power\r\nto command the consciousness has no limit. If</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>you\r\nhave committed an error, even a grave error, and if you can yet call upon the\r\nconsciousness of truth, this power of the supramental and allow it to work, it\r\nwill give you an occasion to make a formidable progress. In other words, never\r\nbe discouraged if you have blundered, blundered even more than once. Only you\r\nmust keep your will firm, and take sometimes the unshakable resolution not to\r\nrepeat. Rest assured you will in the end triumph over your difficulty.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 340<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-094_Divine Disgust','','publish','closed','open','','094_divine-disgust','','','2021-11-23 17:59:06','2021-11-23 17:59:06','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/094_divine-disgust/',0,'post','',0),(2132,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:06','2021-11-23 17:59:06','<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Sectarianism or Loyalty</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; text-indent:27pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><b><font size=\"4\">Sectarianism\r\nor Loyalty</font><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>M</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>ODERN</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> culture demands that one should not be bound\r\nto one creed or <span class=GramE>dogma,</span> swear by one principle or rule\r\nof life or be led blindly by one man. Truth, it is said, has many facets and\r\nthe human being is also not a Cyclops, a one-eyed creature. To fix oneself to one\r\nmode of seeing and believing and even behaving is to be narrow, restricted,\r\nsectarian. One must be able to see many standpoints, appreciate views of variance\r\nwith one\'s own, appraise the relativity of all standards. Not to be able to do\r\nso leads to obscurantism and fanaticism. The Inquisitors were monomaniacs,\r\nobsessed by an <i>idée fixe</i>. On the other hand, the wisest counsel seems to\r\nhave been given by Voltaire who advised the inquirers to learn from anywhere\r\nand everywhere, even Science from the Chinese. In our Indian legends we know\r\nthat Uddhava did not hesitate to accept and learn from more than a dozen Gurus.\r\nThat is as it should be if we would have a mind and consciousness large and\r\nvast and all-encompassing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>And yet there is a question. While\r\nattempting to be too liberal and catholic one may happen to turn a dilettante.\r\nDilettante is one who takes an interest, an aesthetic, a dispassionate and\r\ndetached interest in all things. His interest is intellectual, something\r\nabstract and necessarily superficial; it is not a vital interest, not a\r\nquestion of his soul, an urgent problem of his living.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>A spiritual interest is nothing if it is not in\r\nthis way a question that touches life to its core. That means a definite goal\r\nand appropriate means to reach that goal, and that again necessarily involves a\r\nchoice, a process of acceptance and rejection. The goal is also called the <span\r\nclass=SpellE><i>ista</i></span>, the godhead that one seeks, the\r\nDivine that is fulfilled in oneself. Being a personality,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\">\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-99<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>an individual, one has to choose, one can best\r\nfollow the line of evolution and growth and fulfilment of that personality and\r\nindividuality – that is the call of the Psyche, the direction of the Jiva. In\r\nother words, one has to be loyal and faithful to one\'s nature and being. That\r\nis why it is said: Better to perish while fulfilling one\'s own law of life than\r\nto flourish by fulfilling another\'s law. By being curious about another\'s\r\nDharma – it is this kind of curiosity that led to the original fall of man, according\r\nto the Bible – that is to say, if one is vitally curious, allows oneself to be\r\ninfluenced and so affected and diverted by what is an outside and foreign\r\nforce, because not in the line of one\'s own truth and development, one asks for\r\na mixture and intervention which bring confusion, thwart the growth and\r\nfulfilment, as that falsifies the nature.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>It is not only bad influences that\r\naffect you badly, even good influences do so – like medicines that depend upon\r\nthe particular constitution for their action. In ancient times this was called <i>var</i></span><i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>n</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>asankara </span></i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>or <i>dharmasankara</i>, as for example,\r\nwhen a Kshatriya sought to follow the rule of life of a Brahmin or vice versa.\r\nThis kind of admixture or <i>mésalliance </i>was not favoured, as it was likely\r\nto bring about an obscurity in the consciousness and in the end frustration in\r\nthe spiritual life. That was the original psychological reason why heresy was\r\nconsidered such a dangerous thing in all religions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>It is not sufficient to say that God\r\nis one and therefore wherever He is found and however He is found and whoever\r\nfinds Him one must implicitly accept and obey and follow. God is one indeed:\r\nbut it is equally true that he is multiple. God is not a point, but a limitless\r\ninfinity, so that when one does reach Him one arrives at a particular spot, as\r\nit were, enters into only one of his many mansions. Likewise, God\'s\r\nmanifestation upon earth has been infinitely diverse, his Vibhutis, Avataras,\r\nhis prophets and viceregents have been of all sorts and kinds. Precisely\r\nbecause God is at once one and infinitely multiple and because human nature\r\nalso is likewise, if one in essence, infinitely multiple in expression, each\r\none, while seeing and finding the one God, seeks and finds him in and through a\r\nparticular formulation. That is the original meaning, the genesis and\r\njustification of creeds<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-100<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>and dogmas. Only, it must be borne in mind, that\r\none can be faithful even to a particular creed and dogma and yet transcend it,\r\nlive a particular mode of life and yet possess at the back of it and as its\r\nsupport the very sense and consciousness of infinity itself. Where there is\r\nthis synthetic and transcendent experience dogmatism has no place, nor conflict\r\nbetween creed and creed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>One can be as catholic and boundless\r\nas infinity, still one can and has to bow down to a special figure of it, since\r\nor if one who approaches it has a figure of his own. Just in the same way as\r\nwhen one is in the body, one has to live a particular life framed by the body,\r\neven the mind as well as the life are canalised in the mould of the body\r\nconsciousness, and yet at the same time one can live in and through the inner\r\nconsciousness immeasurably, innumerably in other bodies, in the unbarred\r\nexpanse of the cosmic and the transcendent. The two experiences are not\r\ncontradictory, rather they reinforce each other.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Uddhava might have had numberless\r\nteachers and instructors, but the Guru of his soul was Sri Krishna alone, none\r\nother. We may learn many things from many places, from books, from nature, from\r\npersons; intuitions and inspirations may come from many quarters, inside and\r\noutside, but the central guidance flows from one source only and one must be\r\ncareful to keep it unmixed, undefiled, clear and pure. When one means nothing\r\nmore than playing with ideas and persons and places, there is no harm in being\r\na globe-trotter; but as soon as one becomes serious, means business, one\r\nautomatically stops short, finds and sticks to his Ishta, even like the Gopis\r\nof Sri Krishna who declared unequivocally that they would not move out of\r\nBrindaban even by a single step.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-101<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Directed Change</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">NEVER to be bound by the\r\nexperiences of the past, never to try to recover and stick to the knowledge or\r\nrealisation gained, even though it may appear particularly precious or unique.\r\nThis is a motto you should always keep before your mind. When you try to repeat\r\nwhat you have once said, done or experienced, you are sure to find very soon\r\nthat the thing is becoming more and more lifeless, mechanical, a matter of routine\r\nand therefore perfectly useless. The soul has disappeared, the skeleton\r\nremains. You must live the word you utter at the time of uttering it, you must\r\nlive the experience that you wish to recall or express. It is only thus that\r\ntruth becomes living, possesses its force and light and gains its full value.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.75pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">In\r\npoint of fact, however, no two succeeding moments, whether in your\r\nconsciousness or in the world movement, are exactly the same. Even if you try\r\nseriously and sincerely, you can never recapture a thing of the past as it was\r\nor as it came to you, not, that is to say, in the same exact manner. For you\r\nare no longer the same nor is the world. The world is a continuous flow, it has\r\nbeen very often declared: but it is not a continual repetition or recurrence, a\r\nmere cyclic order. On the other hand, constant renewal is the very character of\r\nthe change. At every moment something new is coming down on the scene,\r\nsomething that was not surges out: Nature is bringing out at every step\r\nsomething that was hidden or latent in her secret depth, something is dropped\r\nfrom above into her normal movement, something unforeseen and unexpected. The\r\nmarch of time means evolution, that is to say, the addition of a new factor to\r\nthe existing factors, making manifest some-thing that was <i>unmanifest – <span\r\nclass=SpellE>mrtam</span> <span class=SpellE>kañcana</span> <span class=SpellE>bodhayanti</span>,\r\n</i>as the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 255<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Vedic Rishi\r\nsays. Even if to an apparent sight everything seems to. <span class=GramE>remain</span>\r\nthe same, yet it is not so in reality; always a new element is being poured\r\ninto the existing circumstances, always an additional spark or influence enters\r\ninto actual play of forces. It is the accumulated pressure of all the variables\r\nthat brings about the great changes upon earth and in humanity which are summed\r\nup in the word evolution – changes cosmological and psychological.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You\r\nhave to accept this principle of change and move on – to be one with the cosmic\r\nspirit, – never to stand still or turn back, but look forward and forge ahead.\r\nTo be stagnant means to die and be fossilised. Now, if things change continually,\r\nit means things can change and must be changed. Only, one must see to the\r\ndirection in which the change occurs. A change can be, after all, for better or\r\nfor worse. And you have the power, if you are conscious with the right\r\nconsciousness, to direct the change and even to initiate one of the right <span\r\nclass=GramE>order</span>. Have you ever climbed a hill? There are many ways,\r\npaths, issues leading towards the top, some more or less direct, some zigzag,\r\nothers winding or taking a long round. This does not matter, provided you look\r\nupward, have the sense of direction to the summit, <span class=GramE>then</span>\r\nyou mount up. Otherwise if you have your face downward or look below, you move\r\ndownward away from the top. In the same way changes that happen will be\r\ndirected according to the direction of your look. And there is only one\r\ndirection towards which you must turn your look: towards the summit, towards\r\nthe highest goal. It is to grow conscious, to grow more and more conscious-to\r\nbe conscious of yourself, to be conscious of the universe and to be conscious\r\nof the Divine who dwells in you and permeates the world and then to manifest\r\nthe Divine, in your physical life and in the physical life of the world.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 256<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-060_Directed Change','','publish','closed','open','','060_directed-change','','','2021-11-23 17:59:07','2021-11-23 17:59:07','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/060_directed-change/',0,'post','',0),(2134,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:07','2021-11-23 17:59:07','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<meta name=ProgId content=>\r\n<meta name=Generator content=\"Namo WebEditor v4.0\">\r\n<meta name=Originator content=\"\">\r\n<link rel=Edit-Time-Data href=\"HTML-FILE/Body_files/editdata.mso\">\r\n<title>Body, the Occult Agent</title>\r\n<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\r\n <o:DocumentProperties>\r\n  <o:Author>w4</o:Author>\r\n  <o:Template>Normal</o:Template>\r\n  <o:LastAuthor>w4</o:LastAuthor>\r\n  <o:Revision>1</o:Revision>\r\n  <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime>\r\n  <o:Created>2004-06-22T10:36:00Z</o:Created>\r\n  <o:LastSaved>2004-06-22T10:36:00Z</o:LastSaved>\r\n  <o:Pages>1</o:Pages>\r\n  <o:Words>448</o:Words>\r\n  <o:Characters>2558</o:Characters>\r\n  <o:Company>Aurokruti</o:Company>\r\n  <o:Lines>21</o:Lines>\r\n  <o:Paragraphs>5</o:Paragraphs>\r\n  <o:CharactersWithSpaces>3001</o:CharactersWithSpaces>\r\n  <o:Version>10.2625</o:Version>\r\n </o:DocumentProperties>\r\n</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\r\n <w:WordDocument>\r\n  <w:SpellingState>Clean</w:SpellingState>\r\n  <w:GrammarState>Clean</w:GrammarState>\r\n  <w:Compatibility>\r\n   <w:BreakWrappedTables/>\r\n   <w:SnapToGridInCell/>\r\n   <w:WrapTextWithPunct/>\r\n   <w:UseAsianBreakRules/>\r\n  </w:Compatibility>\r\n  <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel>\r\n </w:WordDocument>\r\n</xml><![endif]-->\r\n<style>\r\n<!--\r\n /* Style Definitions */\r\n p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\r\n	{mso-style-parent:\"\";\r\n	margin:0in;\r\n	margin-bottom:.0001pt;\r\n	mso-pagination:widow-orphan;\r\n	font-size:12.0pt;\r\n	font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\r\n	mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\r\nspan.GramE\r\n	{mso-style-name:\"\";\r\n	mso-gram-e:yes;}\r\n@page Section1\r\n	{size:8.5in 11.0in;\r\n	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;\r\n	mso-header-margin:.5in;\r\n	mso-footer-margin:.5in;\r\n	mso-paper-source:0;}\r\ndiv.Section1\r\n	{page:Section1;}\r\n-->\r\n</style>\r\n<!--[if gte mso 10]>\r\n<style>\r\n /* Style Definitions */\r\n table.MsoNormalTable\r\n	{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\r\n	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\r\n	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\r\n	mso-style-noshow:yes;\r\n	mso-style-parent:\"\";\r\n	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\r\n	mso-para-margin:0in;\r\n	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\r\n	mso-pagination:widow-orphan;\r\n	font-size:10.0pt;\r\n	font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\r\n</style>\r\n<![endif]-->\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0; text-align:center; line-height:150%\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Body, the Occult Agent</font></b></p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0; text-align:right; line-height:150%\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin:0; text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%\'>THE body\r\nhas an individuality of its own. It is an organised formation and acts as a\r\nwhole in each and all its parts. The human body is, <i>par excellence, </i>such\r\na formation; for it is moved and controlled by the consciousness which\r\novershadows or informs it, which is its master, whose will it executes scrupulously.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nbody is an epitome of the world. It encases within its frame the whole world,\r\nparticularly the earth – earth itself being an epitome of the world – on a\r\nminiature scale, the <i>mikros </i>reproducing all the features and characters\r\nof the <i>makros. </i>Such being the case, a wholly conscious body governed and\r\ninspired by the supreme Consciousness lives and moves in the cosmic rhythm: not\r\nonly does it register in itself the world happenings, but also possesses an\r\nactive power to control and even to change those happenings by its individual\r\nmovement. We may imagine the body to be a kind of map or chart of the earth.\r\nEach spot on the earth is represented by a particular spot – a certain group of\r\ncells, for example – in the body. If the consciousness ruling the body\r\nconcentrates itself upon that point and induces a change there, a corresponding\r\nchange can be brought about automatically on a larger scale in the part and\r\nconditions of the earth with which it is connected. Thus without going out and\r\nmoving about, without being the &quot;man on the spot&quot; to know things &quot;at\r\nfirst hand&quot;, one can, sitting, in one\'s room, by switching on a key, as it\r\nwere, in one corner of the body, set in movement a whole process of happenings\r\nin a particular region of the earth. By a conscious re-disposition of a few\r\ncells in your body, you can bring about a desired change in world circumstances.\r\nThe body is thus a<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-left:11.0pt;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n245<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>control</span> room for the consciousness in respect of happenings\r\nupon earth. Naturally, any body cannot do that, but only a body destined and\r\ntrained for that purpose.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\nbody, in this way, becomes the instrument, a lever for producing mighty changes\r\nand creations upon earth. This conception of the occult potency of the body is\r\nat the basis of the rite or institution of sacrifice that was a characteristic\r\nfeature of the old-world society. Iphigenia was offered as a victim to avert\r\nthe wrath of the gods and bring victory to the Greeks. Sometimes an animal\r\nreplaced the human victim and served the same purpose and in the same way. And\r\nin a higher sense – indeed in the highest sense – a body can sacrifice itself\r\nin such a way – wholly and integrally – as to bring about a corresponding\r\nintegral reversal or revaluation in the physical world. A human being that\r\nmakes of himself a holocaust – burns himself out at the altar of the Divine – keeping\r\nnothing for his own sake, living for the Divine alone, by calling down the\r\ndivine will in himself, brings into the earthly life too a divine presence and\r\ntransformation. A total physical sacrifice results inevitably into a total\r\nexpression and embodiment of the Divine in the Physical world.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 246<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-056_Body, the Occult Agent','','publish','closed','open','','056_body-the-occult-agent','','','2021-11-23 17:59:07','2021-11-23 17:59:07','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/056_body-the-occult-agent/',0,'post','',0),(2135,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:07','2021-11-23 17:59:07','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Mental Silence</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Mental Silence</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'margin-right:.5in;text-align:right;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:17.25pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:bar 5.25in;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:18.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>NORMALLY\r\nthe mind is in turmoil; it is eagerly active. First of all it is preoccupied\r\nwith its problems and wants their solution. It knows only to think, to see pros\r\nand cons, weigh, reason, deduce; it arrives at some kind of conclusion which\r\nbrings success or failure almost at random. Apart from this conscious or\r\nvoluntary activity there is in the mind a whole region of involuntary activity;\r\nthat is to say, it is assailed on all sides by a hundred thoughts, ideas and\r\nnotions that come from outside and fill your brain cavity and over which you\r\nhave no control. Each one tries to push forward, secure a place for itself,\r\nclaim satisfaction and fulfilment. They are all moving at cross purposes and\r\nthe mind knows no peace or issue.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nis possible to put a violent pressure upon oneself and forcibly push out all\r\nthis confused movement and make the mind vacant. But the effect of mental will\r\nupon mind cannot be perfect or enduring. Besides it is not that, the absolute\r\nvacancy, that is our goal. Some other way and manner has to be found for\r\nstilling the mind\'s activities.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nis to call in the peace that is beyond, that is already there somewhere. It\r\nhappens, with a sincere demand or aspiration in the consciousness, a certain\r\nreadiness in the being. When that happens (something in the manner of the Upanishadic\r\n<i>vivrnute tanum svam – </i>he<i> </i>unveils himself his own body), you\r\nfeel as if a sheer blank, even a black void has entered into you and captured\r\nyou. In the very midst of whirlwind activity comes a dead stop. Nothing is\r\nthere now, no idea, no thought, no notion, no motion even – an immense\r\nemptiness has eaten up, engulfed everything. Keep steady and await. In that\r\nstillness something rises up – up and up – and goes out beyond, \r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 259<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>a tranquil\r\nbeam of consciousness. And then something descends, from afar – a peace, luminousness,\r\nauthentic and absolute in its reality. It comes down, enters into you, possesses\r\nyour brain and body. It has, you find, resolved all problems, harmonised all\r\ncontraries and conflicts; for it comes from the home of mother truth. Now you\r\ndo not strive, but you know, you do not grope, for you are led. You await and\r\nat each moment you receive the direction as to what is to be done; you have no\r\nthought or preoccupation, the inspired movement happens automatically and infallibly.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.95pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sometimes\r\nit happens, too, that the sudden silence or inner immobility causes a\r\nbewilderment and you are seized by a fear that you are losing all bearings,\r\nthat you are turning into an absolute idiot or something worse. Some in a panic\r\nhave let go the grace that came. In such a condition one has to be firm and\r\nsteady and continue.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\nhave said normally you are assailed by all kinds of thought. They come into\r\nyour brain from all quarters and demand audience and satisfaction. Thoughts\r\nneed come into the brain, because actions become possible through them, they\r\ngive the form and frame to your action. But the difficulty is that the thoughts\r\nare not only various but almost always contrary to each other; we see man so\r\noften moving in contrary directions and contradicting himself at each step. It\r\nis bound to be so if the doors of the mind are left wide open. Sometimes,\r\nhowever, or in some persons, one dominant thought takes possession of the mind\r\nand drives out all others. In such a case, when a single idea rules, one is\r\nlikely to cut oneself down, narrow oneself and force the being into a\r\nstrait-jacket, to move in a closed groove. The being in its entirety does not\r\nfind self-expression or self-fulfilment. Thus you may have the idea, the fixed\r\nidea, that the world is irrevocably miserable and incorrigible and therefore\r\nyou will naturally plan your whole life to that end, all your occupation and\r\npreoccupation will be how to get away from this world, you will seek a far solitude,\r\ninner and outer, seek release from existence and merge into the Transcendent or\r\nthe Void. On the other hand, if <i>you </i>have the idea that in spite of all\r\nappearances to the contrary the world is remediable and reclaimable, then your\r\nlife takes on a different pattern. It will seek to find out ways \r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 260<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>and means\r\nof the remedy and to what degree the possibility goes.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\nNow, the value of an idea cannot be determined by the idea itself. Usually one \r\nchooses because of some external reason or other: one\'s education, environment, \r\none\'s personal temperament, likes and dislikes go a long way in determining\r\none\'s choice. So the first thing you have to do is not to allow the thoughts to\r\ncome in pell-mell, as and when they like. Thoughts must come only when you\r\nchoose them and only those that you choose. There must be a conscious\r\nselection. How to proceed in this work? As your own thoughts cannot choose\r\nthemselves, what you have to do at the outset is to call for a higher guidance\r\nand let yourself be absolutely impartial and passive in its hands.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\nblankness is needed, a white emptiness somewhere behind – even if it does not\r\ncome and occupy the front too. Give up personal choosing and wait for the\r\nHigher Direction – the Divine – to do with you whatever it wills. Given the\r\nrequisite silence and reliance, the decision comes inevitably and you are moved\r\nto do automatically what is required to be done from moment to moment. At first\r\nyou may not get the knowledge of the why and the wherefore of your action, you\r\nact merely as an automaton but with the luminous silence within and a tranquil\r\naspiration attending. When once you have been trained in this unquestioning\r\ndocility, then knowledge will be given to you gradually, at first only of a few\r\nsteps ahead, later on for a fuller and completer perspective.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 261<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"64\" height=\"29\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-062_Mental Silence','','publish','closed','open','','062_mental-silence','','','2021-11-23 17:59:07','2021-11-23 17:59:07','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/062_mental-silence/',0,'post','',0),(2136,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:07','2021-11-23 17:59:07','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns:st1=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; 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margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><font size=\"4\">Human Progress</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>C</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>REATION</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> has evolved.\r\nThat is to say, there has been a growth and unfoldment and progress. From\r\nnebulae to humanity the march cannot but be called an advance, a progress, in\r\nmore senses than one. But the question is about man. Has man advanced,\r\nprogressed since his advent upon earth? If so, in what manner, to what extent?\r\nMan has been upon earth for the last two million years, they say. From what has\r\nhappened before him in the course of Nature\'s evolution, it is legitimate to\r\ninfer that man too, in his turn, has moved forward in the line towards growth\r\nand development. In fact, if we admit that man started life as a savage or\r\njungle-man or ape-man, and look at him as he is today, we have perforce to\r\nacknow­ledge that he has not merely changed but progressed too. The question to\r\nbe answered is in what sense this progress has been made.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Modern\r\nknowledge has taught us that what marks the growth of man is his use of tools.\r\nAn animal has nothing else than its own limbs as its all-serving tool. Man emerged\r\nas man the day he knew how to use tools as an extension of his limbs. And the\r\ncycles of human growth have, in consequence, been marked off by the type of\r\ntools used. As we all know, anthropologists tell us, there have been four such\r\ncycles or ages: (1) the Old Stone Age, (2) the New Stone Age, (3) the Bronze\r\nAge and (4) the Iron Age.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>In the\r\nfirst age, which is by far the longest period, a period of slow and difficult\r\npreparation, man had his first lessons in a conscious and victorious dealing\r\nwith Nature. The day when he first started chipping a stone was a red-letter\r\nday for him; for, by that very gesture be began shredding his purely animal\r\nvesture. And when he not only chipped but succeeded in </span></p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page – 131<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>grinding\r\nand polishing a piece of stone, he moved up one step further and acquired\r\ndefinitely his humanity. Again, ages afterwards when his hand could wield and\r\nmanipulate as it liked not only a stone but a metal, his skill and dexterity\r\nshowed a development unique in its kind, establishing and fixing man\'s manhood\r\nas a new emergent factor. In this phase also there was a first period of\r\ntraining and experiment, the period of craftsmanship in bronze; with the age of\r\niron, man\'s arms and fingers attained a special deftness and a conscious control\r\ndirected from a cranium centre which has become by now a model of rich growth\r\nand complex structure and marvel­lous organisation. The impetus towards more\r\nand more effi­ciency in the making and handling of tools has not ceased: the\r\ncraftsmanship in iron soon led to the discovery of steel and steel industry.\r\nThe temper and structure of steel are symbolic and symptomatic of the temper\r\nand structure of the brain that commands the weapon-strong, supple, resistant,\r\nresilient, capable of fineness and sharpness and trenchancy to an ex­traordinary\r\ndegree.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>This\r\ngrowing fineness and efficiency of the tool has served naturally to develop and\r\nenrich man\'s external possession and dominion. But this increasing power and\r\ndominion over Nature is not the most important consequence involved; it is only\r\nindicative of still greater values, something momentous, something subjective,\r\npregnant with far-reaching possibilities. For the physical change is nothing\r\ncompared with the psychological change, the change in the consciousness. In\r\ntaking up his tool to chip a stone man has started hewing out and mould­ing\r\nentire Nature: he has become endowed with the sense of independence and agency.\r\nAn animal is a part and parcel of Nature, has no life and movement apart from\r\nthe life and movement of Nature – even like Wordsworth\'s child of Nature­ –<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:13.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Rolled round in earth\'s diurnal course,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:13.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>With rocks, and stones, and trees.¹<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:13.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>An animal\r\ndoes not separate itself from Nature, exteriorise it and then seek to fashion it\r\nas he wants, try to make it yield things he requires. Man is precisely man\r\nbecause he has just <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:5.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>¹ &quot;A slumber\r\ndid my spirit seal&quot;, <i>Miscellaneous Poems</i></span></p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nmso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Page-132</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>this sense\r\nof self and of not-self and his whole life is the conquest of the not-self by\r\nthe self: this is the whole story of his evolution. In the early stages his\r\nsense of agency and selfhood is at its minimum. The rough-hewn flint\r\ninstruments are symbolic of the first attempts of the brain to set its impress\r\nupon crude and brute nature. The history of man\'s artisan­ship, which is the\r\nhistory of his civilisation, is also the history of his growing\r\nself-consciousness. The consciousness in its attempt to react upon nature\r\nseparated itself from Nature, and at first stood over against it and then\r\nsought to stand over and above it. In this process of extricating itself from\r\nthe sheath in which it was involved and fused, it came back upon itself, became\r\nmore and more aware of its freedom and indi­vidual identity and agency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The\r\nquestion is now asked how far this self-consciousness – given to man by his\r\nprogress from stone to steel – has advanced and what is its future. The crucial\r\nproblem is whether man has progressed in historical times. Granted that man\r\nwith an iron tool is a more advanced type of humanity than man with a chipped\r\nstone tool, it may still be enquired whether he has made any real advance since\r\nthe day he learnt to manipulate metal. If by advance or progress we mean\r\nefficiency and multi­plication of tools, then surely there can be no doubt that\r\nGermany of today (perhaps now we have to say Germany of yesterday and America\r\nof today) is the most advanced type of humanity-indeed they do make the claim\r\nin that country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>So it is argued that man may have built up more\r\nand more efficient organisation in his outer life, he may have learnt to wield\r\na greater variety and wealth of tools and instruments in an increasing degree\r\nof refinement and power; but this does not mean that his character, his nature\r\nor even the broad mould of his intelligence has changed or progressed. The\r\nrecords and remains of Pre-dynastic Egypt or of Proto-Aryan Indus valley go to\r\nshow that those were creations of civilised men, as civilised as any modern\r\npeople. The mind that produced the Rig Veda or the Book of the Dead or\r\nconceived the first pyramid is, in essential power of intelligence, no whit\r\ninferior to any modern scientific brain. Hence a distinction is sometimes made\r\nbetween culture and civilisation; what the moderns have achieved is progress\r\nwith regard to civilisation,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-133</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>that is to\r\nsay, the outer paraphernalia; but as regards culture a Plato, a Lao-tse, a\r\nYajnavalkya are names to which we still bow down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>One can\r\nanswer, however, that even if in the last eight or ten thousand years which, they\r\nsay, is the extent of the present cycle, the civilised or cultural life of\r\nhumanity has not changed much, this does not mean that it cannot, will not\r\nchange. The paleolithic age, it appears, covered a period of thirty to forty\r\nthousand years; the neolithic age also must have lasted some fifteen thousand\r\nyears. The metal age is now not more than ten thousand years. So it does not\r\nseem to be too late; perhaps it is just time for another radical and crucial\r\nchange to come as the chronological scheme would seem to demand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>We\r\npropose, however, to reopen the question and enquire if there has not been some\r\nkind of radical change or progress in the make-up of human nature and\r\ncivilisation even within the span of historical times. This reminds us of the\r\nremarkable conclusion or discovery made by the much maligned and much adulated\r\nPsycho-analysts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>J</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>ung speaks\r\nof two kinds or grades of thinking: (1) the directed thinking and (2) the\r\nwishful thinking; one conscious and objective, the other automatic and\r\nsubjective. The first is the modern or scientific thinking, the second the\r\nold-world mythopoeic thinking. These two lines of mental movement mark off two\r\ndefinite stages in the cultural history of man. Down to the Middle Ages man\'s\r\nmental life was moved and coloured by his <i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>libido\r\n</i>– desire soul; it is with the Renascence that he began to free his mind\r\nfrom, the libido and transfer and transform the libido into non-egoistic and\r\nrealistic think­ing. In simpler psychological terms we can say that man\'s\r\nmentality was coloured and modulated by his biological make-up out of which it\r\nhad emerged; the age of modernism and scientism began with the development of a\r\nrigorous rationalism which means a severance and transcendence of the\r\nbiological antecedent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>In other\r\nwords, it can be said that the older humanity was intuitive and instinctive,\r\nwhile modern humanity is rational­istic. Now it has been questioned whether\r\nthis change or re­orientation is a sign of progress, whether it has not been at\r\nthe most a mixed blessing. Many idealists and reformers frankly<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>Page-134</span></p><hr>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>view the\r\nmetamorphosis with anxiety. Gerald Heard vehe­mently declares that the\r\nrationalism of the modern age is a narrowing down of the consciousness to a\r\nsuperficial move­ment, a foreshortening, and a top-heavy specialisation which\r\nmeans stagnation, decay and death. He would rather release the tension in the\r\nstrangulation of consciousness, even if it means a slight coming down to the\r\nanterior level of instinct and intuition, but of more plasticity and less specialisation:\r\nit is, he says, only in conditions of suppleness and variability, of life\r\norganised yet sufficiently free that the forces of evolution </span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>can act\r\nfruitfully. It has also been pointed out that </span><i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>homo sapiens</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> </span></i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>is not a direct descendant of </span><i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>homo</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>neanderthalis </span></i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>who was </span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>already a\r\nfar too specialised being, but of a stock anterior to it which was still\r\nuncertain, wavering, groping towards a definite emergence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Now, these\r\ntwo positions – of Jung and of Heard – offer us a good basis upon which we can\r\ntry to estimate the nature of man\'s progress in historical times. Both refer to\r\na crucial change in human consciousness, a far-reaching change having no\r\nparallel since it invented the metal tool. The change means the appearance of\r\npure intelligence in man, a change, as we may say, in modern terms, in the\r\nsystem of reference, from biological co-ordinates to those of pure reason. Only\r\nJung thinks that the reorganisation of the human consciousness is to happen\r\nprecisely round the focus of pure reason, while Gerald Heard is doubtful about\r\nthe efficacy of this faculty – ­of &quot;directive thinking&quot;, as Jung puts\r\nit-if it is to lead to overspecialisation, which means the swelling of one\r\nmember and atrophy of the rest; a greater and supreme direction he seeks\r\nelsewhere in a transcendence of intelligence and reason which, besides, is\r\nbound to happen in the course of evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>We\r\ncharacterise the change as a special degree or order of self-consciousness.\r\nSelf-consciousness, we have seen, is the </span><i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>sine </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>qua non </span></i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>of humanity. It is the faculty or power by and\r\nwith </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>which man appears on earth and maintains himself as such, as a distinct\r\nspecies. Thanks to this faculty man has become the tool-making animal, the <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>artisan <i>– homo faber. </i></span>But on\r\nemer­ging from the original mythopoeic to the scientific status man has become\r\ndoubly self-conscious. Self-consciousness means to be aware of oneself as\r\nstanding separate from and against the</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>Page-135</span></p><hr>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>environment\r\nand the world and acting upon it as a free agent, exercising one\'s deliberate\r\nwill. Now the first degree of self-consciousness displayed itself in a creative\r\nactivity by which consciousness remained no longer a suffering organon, but\r\nbecame a growing and directing, a reacting and new-creating agent. Man gained\r\nthe power to shape the order of Nature according to the order of his inner will\r\nand consciousness. This creative activity, the activity of the artisan,\r\ndeveloped along two lines: first, artisanship with regard to one\'s own self,\r\none\'s inner nature and character, and secondly, with regard to the external\r\nnature, the not-self. The former gave rise to mysticism and Yoga and was\r\nespecially cultivated in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>, while\r\nthe second has led us to Science, man\'s physical mastery, which is the especial\r\nfield of European culture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Now the\r\nsecond degree of self-consciousness to which we </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>referred is the\r\nscientific consciousness </span><i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n9.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>par </span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>excellence.\r\n</span></i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>It can </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>be described also as the spirit and power of\r\nexperimentation, or more precisely, of scientific experimentation: it involves\r\ngenerically the process with which we are familiar in the domain of industry\r\nand is termed &quot;synthetic&quot;, that is to say, it means the skill and\r\ncapacity to create the conditions under which a given phenomenon can be\r\nrepeated at will. Hence it means a perfect knowledge of the process of things –\r\nwhich again is a dual knowledge: (1) the knowledge of the steps gradually\r\nleading to the result and (2) the knowledge that has the power to resolve the\r\nresult into its antecedent conditions. Thus the knowledge of the <i>mechanism, </i>the\r\ndetailed working of things, is scientific knowledge, and therefore scientific\r\nknowledge can be truly said to be mechanistic knowledge, in the best sense of\r\nthe term. Now the knowledge of the ends and the knowledge of the means (to use\r\na phrase of Aldous Huxley) and the conscious control over either have given\r\nhumanity a new degree of self-consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nbold\'>It<b> </b></span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>can be mentioned here that there can be a knowledge of\r\nends without a corresponding knowledge of means, even there can be a control\r\nover ends without a preliminary control over means-perhaps not to perfection,\r\nbut to a sufficient degree of practical utility. Much of the knowledge –\r\nespecially secular and scientific – in ancient times was of this order; what we\r\nmean to say is that the knowledge was more instinctive</span></p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-136<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>or\r\nintuitive than rational or intellectual. In that know­ledge the result only,\r\nthe end that it to say, was the chief aim and concern, the means for attaining\r\nthe end was, one cannot perhaps say, ignored, but slurred or slipped over as it\r\nwere: the process was thus involved or understood, not expressed or detailed\r\nout. Thus we know of some mathematical problems to which correct solutions were\r\ngiven of which the process is not extant or lost as some say. Our suggestion is\r\nthat there was in fact very little of the process as we know it now – the\r\nsolution was reached <i>per saltum, </i>that is to say, somehow, in the same\r\nmanner as we find it happening even today in child prodigies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>One can\r\npoint out however that even before the modern scientific age, there was an\r\nepoch of pure intellectual activity, as represented, for example, by\r\nscholasticism. The formal intellectualism which was the gift of the Greek\r\nsophists or the Mimansakas and grammarians in ancient </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> has to be\r\nre­cognised as a pure mental movement, freed from all life value or biological\r\nbias. What then is the difference? What is the new characteristic element\r\nbrought in by the modern scientific intellectualism?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The old\r\nintellectualism generally and on the whole, was truly formal and even to a\r\ngreat extent verbal. In other words, it sought to find norms and categories in\r\nthe mind itself and impose them upon, objects, objects of experience, external\r\nor internal. The first discovery of the pure mind, the joy of indulging in its\r\nown free formations led to an abstraction that brought about a cleavage between\r\nmind and nature, and when a harmony was again attempted between the two, it\r\nmeant an imposition of one (the Mind) upon another (Matter), a subsumption of\r\nthe latter under the former. Such scholastic formalism, although it has the\r\nappearance of a movement of pure intellect, free from the influence of\r\ninstinctive or emotive reactions, cannot but be, at bottom, a mythopoeic\r\noperation, in the Jungian phraseology; it is not truly objective in the\r\nscientific sense. The scientific procedure is to find Nature\'s own categories –\r\nthe constants, as they are called – and link up mind and intellect with that\r\nreality. This is the Copernican revolution that Science brought about in the\r\nmodern outlook. Philosophers like Kant or Berkeley may say<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-137<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>another\r\nthing and even science itself just nowadays may appear hesitant in its\r\nbearings. But that is another story which it is not our purpose to consider\r\nhere and which does not change the fundamental position. We say then that the\r\nobjec­tivity of the scientific outlook, as distinguished from the abstract\r\nformalism of old-world intellectualism, has given a new degree of mental growth\r\nand is the basis of the &quot;mechan­istic&quot; methodology of which we have\r\nbeen speaking.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\'<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Indeed,\r\nwhat we .lay stress upon is the methodology of modern scientific knowledge –\r\nthe apparatus of criticism and experimentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>We have\r\nsaid that this &quot;methodologism&quot; – the knowledge of means and the\r\nconsequent control over means – the hall-mark of modern scientific knowledge –\r\nis a new degree of self-consciousness which is the special characteristic of\r\nthe human consciousness. Put philosophically, we can say that the discovery of\r\nthe <i>subject </i>and its growing affirmation as an independent factor in a\r\nsubject-object relation marks the evolutionary course of the human\r\nconsciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>A still\r\nfurther unveiling seems to be in progress now. The subject has discovered\r\nitself as separate from the observed object and still embracing it: but a given\r\nsubject-object re­lationship in its turn again is being viewed as itself an\r\nobject to another subject consciousness, a super-subject. That way lie the ever\r\nwidening horizons of consciousness opened up by Yoga and spiritual discipline.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nbold\'>In<b> </b></span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>other words, the self-consciousness which marks off\r\nman as the highest of living beings as yet evolved by Nature is still not her\r\nhighest possible instrumentation. As has been ex­perienced and foreseen by\r\nYogins in all ages and climes and as it is being borne in upon the modern mind\r\nmore and more imperatively, this self-consciousness has to be consciously\r\ntranscended, lifted, transmuted – worked out into the superconsciousness. Such\r\nis Nature\'s evolutionary <i>nisus </i>and such is the truth and fact man is\r\nbeing driven to face in his inner individual consciousness as well as outer\r\ncollective life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>We can\r\nthus note, broadly speaking, three stages in the human cycle of Nature\'s\r\nevolution. The first was the period of emergence of self-consciousness and the\r\ntrials and experiments it went through to establish and confirm itself. The\r\nancient<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>Page-138<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>civilisations\r\nrepresented this character of the human spirit. The subject freeing itself more\r\nand more from its environ­mental tegument, still living and moving within it\r\nand dyna­mically reacting upon it – this was the character we speak of. Next\r\ncame the period when the free and dynamic subject feeling itself no more tied\r\ndown to its natural objective sphere sought lines of development and adventure\r\non its own account. This was the age of speculation and of scholasticism in\r\nphilo­sophy and intellectual inquiry and of alchemy in natural science – a\r\nperiod roughly equated with the Middle Ages. The Scientific Age coming last\r\nseeks to re-establish a junction and co-ordination between the free and dynamic\r\nself-consciousness and the mode and pattern of its objective field, involving a\r\ngreater enrichment on one side – the subjective consciousness – and on the\r\nother, the objective environment, a correspond­ing change and effective\r\nreorganisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The\r\npresent age which ushers a fourth stage – significantly called <i>turiya </i>or\r\nthe transcendent, in Indian terminology – is pregnant with a fateful crisis.\r\nThe stage of self-consciousness to which scientific development has arrived\r\nseems to land in a cul-de-sac, a blind alley: Science also is faced, almost\r\nhelp­lessly, with the antinomies of reason that Kant discovered long ago in the\r\ndomain of speculative philosophy. The way out, for a further growth and\r\ndevelopment and evolution, lies in a supersession of the self-consciousness, an\r\nelevation into a superconsciousness – as already envisaged by Yogis and Mystics\r\neverywhere – which will give a new potential and harmony to the human\r\nconsciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>This super\r\nconsciousness is based upon a double movement of sublimation and integration\r\nwhich are precisely the two things basically aimed at by present-day psychology\r\nto meet the demands of new facts of consciousness. The rationalisation,\r\nspecialisation or foreshortening of consciousness, mentioned above, is really an\r\nattempt at sublimation of the consciousness, its purification and ascension\r\nfrom baser – animal and vegetal – confines: only, ascension does not mean\r\nalienation, it must mean a gathering up of the lower elements also into their\r\nhigher modes. Integration thus involves a descent, but it has to be pointed\r\nout, not merely or exclusively that, as Jung and his school seem to say.\r\nCertainly one has to see and recognise<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>Page – 139<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>the aboriginal, the\r\ninfra-rational elements imbedded in our nature and consciousness, the roots and\r\nfoundations that lie buried under the super-structure that Evolution has\r\nerected. But that recognition must be accompanied by an upward look and sense:\r\nindeed it is healthy and fruitful only on condi­tion that it occurs in a\r\nconsciousness open to an infiltration of light coming from summits not only of\r\nthe mind but above the mind. If we go back, it must be with a light that <i>is </i>ahead\r\nof <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>us;<i> </i></span>that <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>is<i> </i></span>the sense of evolution.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>Page – 140<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-026_Human Progress','','publish','closed','open','','026_human-progress','','','2021-11-23 17:59:07','2021-11-23 17:59:07','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/026_human-progress/',0,'post','',0),(2137,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:07','2021-11-23 17:59:07','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\">\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<b>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><font size=\"4\">Lines of the Descent of Consciousness</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>1<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>T</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>HE</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> world has been created by a descent of consciousness; it maintains\r\nitself, it proceeds and develops through a series of descents. In fact,\r\ncreation itself is a descent, the first and original one, the descent of the\r\nsupreme Reality into Matter and as Matter. The supreme Reality â€“ the fount and\r\norigin of things and even that which is beyond â€“ although essentially something\r\nabsolute, indescribable, ineffable, indeterminable, has been, for purposes of\r\nthe human understanding, signalised as a triune entity of Existence,\r\nConsciousness and Bliss. That is to say, first of all, it is, it exists always\r\nand for ever â€“<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>invariably, in unbroken\r\ncontinuity; secondly, it exists not unconsciously, but consciously, in and as\r\nfull consciousness; thirdly, it exists in delight-through delight and for and\r\nas delight; it has no other reason for existence but the pleasure and joy of\r\nsimply existing. This primal, this original truth or reality transcends\r\ncreation and is beyond and antecedent to it. What then is creation, what is its\r\nnature and character? Strange to say, it is the very opposite of the primal\r\nreality. First of all, it is not really existent: its existence is only another\r\nname for non-existence, as, in its phenomenal constitution, it is variable,\r\nephemeral, transient and fragmentary or even seems made, as it were, of the\r\nstuff of dream. Secondly, it is not conscious; on the contrary, it is\r\nunconsciousness. And lastly it is not delight; there is an original\r\ninsensibility and much undelight, grief and sorrow. That is the actual physical\r\ncreation; or so, at least, it appears to be. How is this paradox to be\r\nexplained? What is the significance of this riddle?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Descent is the master-key that\r\nunravels the mystery â€“ that <span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page â€“ 32<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>is to say, the descent of the delightful conscious\r\nexistence as the material world. But why this descent at all? What was the\r\nnecessity? What was the purpose? The why of a thing is always difficult, if not\r\nimpossible, to gauge. But we shall try to understand the <i>how</i> of the\r\nphenomenon, and in so doing perhaps we may get at the why of it also. At\r\npresent let us content ourselves by saying that such was His will <i>â€“ La sua\r\nvoluntade</i> â€“ such was His wish â€“ <i>sa aicchat</i>. For once perhaps instead\r\nof saying, &quot;Let there be light&quot;, He (or something in Him) must have\r\nsaid, &quot;Let there be darkness&quot;, and there was Darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>But the point is, this darkness\r\ndid not come all on a sudden but arrived gradually through a developing process\r\nâ€“ we do not refer to physical time here but something antecedent, something\r\nparallel to it in another dimension. Let us see how it all came about.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The absolute in its triple or\r\ntriune status (not in its supreme being but as we see it prior to\r\nmanifestation) is in essence and principle an infinity and unity. Indeed, it is\r\n<i>the </i>infinite unity, and its fundamental character is a supreme and utter\r\nequality â€“ <i>samam brahma</i>. It is then a status or <i>statis</i>, that is\r\nto say, a state of perfectly stable equilibrium in which there is no movement\r\nof difference or distinction, no ripple of high and low or ebb and flow, no\r\nmark of quantity or quality. It is a stilled sea of self-identity, a vast\r\nlimitless or pure consciousness brooding in trance and immobility. And yet in\r\nthe bosom of this ineffable and inviolable equality, in the very hush and lull\r\nthere lies secreted an urge, a pressure, a possibility towards activity,\r\nvariation and even an eventual inequality. For the presence and possibility of\r\ndynamism is posited by the very infinity of the Infinite, since without it, the\r\nInfinite would be incapable of motion, expression and fulfilment of its Force.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>There is thus inherent in the\r\nvast inalienable equality of the absolute Reality, a Force which can bring out\r\ncentres of pressure, nuclei of dynamism, nodes of modulation. It is precisely\r\nround these centres of precipitation that the original and basic unity\r\ncrystallises itself and weaves a pattern of harmonious multiplicity.\r\nConsciousness, by self-pressure, â€“ <i>tapas taptvÄ </i>â€“ turns its even and\r\nundifferentiated pristine equanimity into ripples and swirls, eddies and\r\nvortices of delight, matrices of creative activity. Thus the One becomes </span></p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-33<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Many by a process of self-concentration and\r\nself-limitation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>At the very outset when and where\r\nthe Many has come out into manifestation in the One here â€“ also it must be\r\nremembered that we are using a temporal figure in respect of an extra-temporal\r\nfact â€“ there and then is formed a characteristic range of reality which is a\r\nperfect equation of the one and the many: that is to say, the one in becoming\r\nmany still remains the same immaculate one in and through the many, and\r\nlikewise the many in spite of its manifoldness-and because of the special\r\nquality of the manifoldness-still continues to be the one in the uttermost\r\ndegree. It is the world of fundamental realities. Sri Aurobindo names it the\r\nSupermind or Gnosis. It is something higher than but distantly akin to Plato\'s\r\nworld of Ideas or Noumena (<i>ideai, nooumena</i>) or to what Plotinus calls\r\nthe first divine emanation (<i>nous</i>)<i>.</i> These archetypal realities are\r\nrealities of the Spirit, Idea-forces, truth-energies, the root\r\nconsciousness-forms, <i>Å—ta cit</i>, in Vedic terminology. They are\r\nseed-truths, the original mother-truths in the Divine Consciousness. They\r\ncomprise the fundamental essential many aspects and formulations of an infinite\r\nInfinity. At this stage these do not come into clash or conflict, for here each\r\ncontains all and the All contains each one in absolute unity and essential\r\nidentity. Each individual formation is united with and partakes of the nature\r\nof the one supreme Reality. Although difference is born here, separation is not\r\nyet come. Variety is there, but not discord, individuality is there, not\r\negoism. This is the first step of Descent, the earliest one-not, we must remind\r\nourselves again, historically but psychologically and logically-the descent of\r\nthe Transcendent into the Cosmic as the vast and varied Supermind â€“ <i>citrah</i>\r\n<i>praketo ajanista vibhwÄ </i>â€“ of the Absolute into the relational manifestation\r\nas VidyÄsakti (Gnosis).<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The next steps, farther down or\r\naway, arrive when the drive towards differentiation and multiplication gathers\r\nmomentum becomes accentuated, and separation and isolation increase in degree\r\nand emphasis. The lines of individuation fall more and more apart from each\r\nother, tending to form closed circles, each confining more and more exclusively\r\nto itself, stressing its own particular and special value and function, in\r\ncontradistinction to or even against other lines. Thus<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-34</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\">\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>the descent or fall from the Supermind leads, in\r\nthe first instance, to the creation or appearance of the Overmind. It is the\r\nlevel of consciousness where the perfect balance of the One and the Many is\r\ndisturbed and the emphasis begins to be laid on the many. The source of\r\nincompatibility between the two just starts here as if Many is not â€“ One and\r\nOne is not Many. It is the beginning of Ignorance, Avidya, Maya. Still in the\r\nhigher hemisphere of the Overmind, the sense of unity is yet maintained, although\r\nthere is no longer the sense of absolute identity of the two; they are\r\nexperienced as complementaries, both form a harmony, a harmony as of different\r\nand distinct but conjoint notes. The Many has come forward, yet the unity is\r\nalso there supporting it-the unity is an immanent godhead, controlling the\r\npatent reality of the Many. It is in the lower hemisphere of the Overmind that\r\nunity is thrown into the background half-submerged, flickering, and the\r\nprinciple of multiplicity comes forward with all insistence. Division and\r\nrivalry are the characteristic marks of its organisation. Yet the unity does\r\nnot disappear altogether, only it remains very much inactive, like a sleeping\r\npartner. It is not directly perceived and envisaged, not immediately felt but\r\nis evoked as reminiscence. The Supermind, then, is the first crystallisation of\r\nthe Infinite into individual centres, in the Overmind these centres at the\r\noutset become more exclusively individualised and then jealously self-centred.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The next step of Descent is the\r\nMind where the original unity and identity and harmony are disrupted to a yet\r\ngreater degree, almost completely. The self-delimitation of consciousness â€“\r\nwhich is proper to the Supermind and even to the Overmind, at least in its\r\nhigher domains â€“ gives way to self-limitation, to intolerant egoism and\r\nsolipsism. The consciousness withdraws from its high and wide sweep, narrows\r\ndown to introvert orbits. The sense of unity in the mind is, at most, a thing\r\nof idealism and imagination; it is an abstract notion, a supposition and a\r\ndeduction. Here we enter into the very arcana of Maya, the rightful possession\r\nof Ignorance. The individualities here have become totally isolated and\r\nindependent and mutually conflicting lines of movement. Hence the natural incapacity\r\nof mind, as it is said, to comprehend more than one object simultaneously. The\r\nSuper<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-35<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:widow-orphan; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>mind and, less absolutely, the Overmind have a global\r\nand integral outlook: they can take in each one in its purview all at once the\r\ntotal assemblage of things, they differentiate but do not divide-the Supermind\r\nnot at all, the Over mind not categorically. The Mind has not this synthetic\r\nview, it proceeds analytically. It observes its object by division, taking the\r\nparts piecemeal, dismantling them, separating them, and attending to each one\r\nat a time. And when it observes it fixes itself on one point, withdrawing its\r\nattention from all the rest. If it bas to arrive at a synthesis, it can only do\r\nso by collating, aggregating and summing. Mental consciousness is thus narrowly\r\none pointed: and in narrowing itself, being farther away from the source it\r\nbecomes obscurer, more and more outward gazing </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:9.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>(</span><i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>parÄ</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>&ntilde;</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>ci</span></i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> <i>khÄni</i>) and\r\nsuperficial. The One Absolute in its downward march towards multiplicity, fragmentation\r\nand partiality loses also gradually its subtlety, its suppleness, its\r\nrefinement, becomes more and more obtuse, crude, rigid and dense.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Between the Overmind and the\r\nMind proper, varying according to the degree of immixture of the two, according\r\nto the degree of descent and of emergence of one and the other respectively,\r\nthere are several levels of consciousness of which three main ones have been\r\nnamed and described by Sri Aurobindo. The first one nearest to the Overmind and\r\nthe least contaminated by the Mind is pure Intuition; next, the intermediary\r\none is called the Illumined Mind, and last comes the Higher Mind. They are all\r\npowers of the Overmind functioning in the Mind. The higher ranges are always\r\nmore direct, intense, synthetic, dynamic than the lower ones where\r\nconsciousness is slower, duller, more uncertain, more disintegrated. The lower\r\nthe consciousness descends the more veiled it becomes, losing more and more the\r\ndirectness, the sureness, the intensity and force and the synthetic unity native\r\nto the highest ranges of our consciousness and being.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>A further descent into obscurity\r\noccurs when consciousness passes from Mind to Life. Darkness is almost visible\r\nhere: there is a greater withdrawal on the part of each unit from its\r\nsurrounding reality, a narrower concentration upon one\'s own separative\r\nexistence-shades of the prison-house have gathered close around. The light,\r\nalready dulled and faint in<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-36<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'>the mind, has become a lurid glare here. Passion has arisen and desire\r\nand hunger and battle and combat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Here also in the vital three\r\nranges can be distinguished the lower becoming more and more turbid and\r\nturbulent and fierce or more and more self-centred and selfish. These levels\r\ncan best be seen by their impact on our vital being and formations there. The\r\nfirst, the highest one, the meeting or confluence of the Mind and the Vital is\r\nthe Heart, the centre of emotion, the knot of the external or instrumental\r\nvehicle, of the frontal consciousness, behind which is born and hides the true\r\nindividualised consciousness, the psyche. The mid-region is the Higher Vital\r\nconsisting of larger (egoistic) dynamisms, such as high ambition, great\r\nenterprise, heroic courage, capacity for work, adventure, masterfulness, also\r\nsuch movements as sweeping violences, mighty hungers, and intense arrogances.\r\nThe physical seat of this movement is, as perhaps the <i>Tantras</i> would say,\r\nthe domain ranging between the heart and the navel. Lower down ranges the Lower\r\nVital which consists of small desires, petty hankerings, blind cravings-all\r\nurges and impulses that are more or less linked up with the body and move to\r\ngross physical satisfactions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>But always the Consciousness is\r\ndriving towards a yet greater disintegration and fragmentation, obscuration and\r\ncondensation of self-oblivion. The last step in the process of transmutation or\r\ninvolution is Matter where consciousness has wiped itself out or buried itself\r\nwithin so completely and thoroughly that it has become in its outward form\r\ntotally dark, dense, hard, pulverised into mutually exclusive grains. The\r\nsupreme luminous Will of Consciousness in its gradual descent and self â€“\r\nobliteration finally ends in a rigid process of mere mechanised drive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>This is, so far then, the original\r\nand primal line of descent. It is the line down which the absolute Reality, the\r\nabsolute Consciousness and the absolute Delight have turned into unreality and\r\nunconsciousness and un delight. But it is not all loss and debit. There is a\r\ncredit side too. For it is only in this way, viz, by the manifestation of utter\r\nIgnorance, that the supreme Absolute has become concrete, the Formless has\r\nentered into form, the Bodiless has found a body: what was originally an\r\nindeterminate equal Infinity of pure conscious<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-37<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>ness, has become determinate and dynamic in the\r\nindividual multiplicity of corporeal consciousness. What is the sense in all\r\nthat, what is the gain or upshot? We shall presently see.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>When consciousness has reached\r\nthe farthest limit of its opposite, when it has reduced itself to absolutely\r\nunconscious and mechanical atoms of Matter, when the highest has descended into\r\nand become the lowest, then, by the very force of its downward drive, it has\r\nswung round and begun to mount up again. As it could not proceed farther on the\r\ndownward gradient, having reached the extreme and ultimate limit of\r\ninconscience, consciousness had to turn round, as it were, by the very pressure\r\nof its inner impetus. First, then, there is a descent, a gradual involution, a\r\nveiling and closing up; next, an ascent, a gradual evolution, unfoldment and\r\nexpression. We now see, however, that the last limit at the bottom â€“ Matter â€“\r\nalthough appearing to be unconscious, is really not so: it is inconscient. That\r\nis to say, it holds consciousness secreted and involved within itself; it is,\r\nindeed, a special formulation of consciousness. It is the exclusive\r\nconcentration of consciousness upon single points in itself: it is\r\nconsciousness throwing itself out in scattered units and, by reason of\r\nseparative identification with them and absorption into them, losing itself,\r\nforgetting itself in an absolute fixation of attention. The phenomenon is very\r\nsimilar to what happens when in the ordinary consciousness a worker, while\r\ndoing a work, becomes so engrossed in it that he loses consciousness of\r\nhimself, identifies himself with the work and in fact becomes the work, the\r\nvisible resultant being a mechanical execution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Now this imprisoned\r\nconsciousness in Matter forces Matter to be conscious again when driven on the\r\nupward gradient. This tension creates a fire, as it were, in the heart of\r\nMatter, a mighty combustion and whorl in the core of things, of which the\r\nblazing sun is an image and a symbol. All this pressure and heat and concussion\r\nand explosion mean a mighty struggle in Matter to\' give birth to that which is\r\nwithin. Consciousness that is latent must be made patent; it must reveal itself\r\nin Matter and through Matter, making Matter its vehicle and embodiment. This is\r\nthe mystery of the birth of Life, the first sprouting of consciousness in\r\nMatter. Life is half-awakened consciousness, consciousness yet in a dream\r\nstate. Its earliest<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-38<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>and most rudimentary manifestation is embodied in\r\nthe plant or vegetable world. The submerged consciousness strives to come still\r\nfurther up, to express itself to a greater degree and in a clearer mode, to\r\nbecome more free and plastic in its movements; hence the appearance of the\r\nanimal as the next higher formulation. Here consciousness delivers itself as a\r\npsyche, a rudimentary one, no doubt, a being of feeling and sensation, and\r\nelementary mentality playing in a field of vitalised Matter. Even then it is\r\nnot satisfied with itself, it asks for a still more free and clear articulation:\r\nit is not satisfied, for it has not yet found its own level. Hence after the\r\nanimal, arrives man with a full-fledged Mind, with intelligence and\r\nself-consciousness and capacity for self-determination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Thus we see that evolution, the\r\nunfolding of consciousness follows exactly the line of its involution, only the\r\nother way round: the mounting consciousness re-ascends step by step the same\r\ngradient, retraces the same path along which it had descended. The descending\r\nsteps are broadly speaking (I) Existence â€“ Consciousness â€“ Bliss, (2) Supermind\r\nand its secondary form Overmind, (3) Mind â€“ (i) mind proper and (ii) the\r\nintermediary psyche, (4) Life, (5) Matter. The ascending consciousness starting\r\nfrom Matter rises into Life, passes on through Life and Psyche into Mind,\r\ndriving towards the Supermind and Schchidananda. At the present stage of\r\nevolution, consciousness has arrived at the higher levels of Mind; it is now\r\nstriving to cross it altogether and enter the Overmind and the Supermind. It\r\nwill not rest content until it arrives at the organisation in and through the\r\nSupermind: for that is the drive and purpose of Nature in the next cycle of\r\nevolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Physical Science speaks of\r\nirreversibility and entropy in Nature\'s process. That is to say, it is stated that\r\nNature is rushing down and running down: she is falling irrevocably from a\r\nhigher to an ever lower potential of energy. The machine that Nature is, is\r\ndriven by energy made available by a break-up of parts and particles\r\nconstituting its substance. This katabolic process cannot be stopped or\r\nretraced; it can end only when the break-up ceases at dead equilibrium. You\r\ncannot lead the river up the channel to its source, it moves inevitably,\r\nunceasingly towards the sea in which it exhausts itself and finds its last\r\nrepose and-extinction. But whatever<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-39<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>physical Science may say, the science of the\r\nspirit declares emphatically that Nature\'s process is reversible, that a\r\ngrowing entropy can be checked and countermanded: in other words, Nature\'s\r\ndownward current resulting in a continual loss of energy and a break-up of\r\nsubstance is not the only process of her activity. This aspect is more than\r\ncounterbalanced by another one of upward drive and building up, of\r\nre-energisation and re-integration. Indeed, evolution, as we have explained it,\r\nis nothing but such a process of synthesis and new creation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Evolution, which means the\r\nreturn movement of consciousness, consists, in its apparent and outward aspect,\r\nof two processes, or rather two parallel lines in a single process. First,\r\nthere is the line of sublimation, that is to say, the lower purifies and\r\nmodifies itself into the higher; the denser, the obscurer, the baser mode of\r\nconsciousness is led into and becomes the finer, the clearer, the nobler mode.\r\nThus it is that Matter rises into Life, Life into Psyche and Mind, Mind into\r\nOvermind and Supermind. Now this sublimation is not simply a process of\r\nrefinement or elimination, something in the nature of our old Indian <i>nivÅ—tti</i>\r\nor <i>pratyÄhÄra</i>, or what Plotinus called <i>epistrophe</i> (a turning\r\nback, withdrawal or reabsorption): it includes and is attended by the process\r\nof integration also. That is to say, as the lower rises into the higher, the\r\nlower does not cease to exist thereby, it exists but lifted up into the higher,\r\ninfused and modified by the higher. Thus when Matter yields Life, Matter is not\r\ndestroyed: it means Life has appeared in Matter and exists in and through\r\nMatter and Matter thereby has attained a new mode and constitution, for it is\r\nno longer merely a bundle of chemical or mechanical reactions, it is instinct\r\nwith life, it has become organic matter. Even so, when Lire arrives at Mind, it\r\nis not dissolved into Mind but both Life and Matter are taken up by the mental\r\nstuff, life becomes dynamic sentience and Matter is transformed into the grey\r\nsubstance of the brain. Matter thus has passed through a first transformation\r\nin Life and a second transformation in Mind; it awaits other transformations on\r\nother levels beyond Mind. Likewise, Life has passed through a first\r\ntransformation in Mind and there are stages in this transformation. In the\r\nplant, Life is in its original pristine mode; in the animal, it has become\r\nsentient and centralised<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-40<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>round a rudimentary desire-soul; in man,\r\nlife-force is taken up by the higher mind and intelligence giving birth to\r\nidealism .and ambition, dynamisms of a forward-looking purposive will.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>We have, till now, spoken of the\r\nevolution of consciousness as a movement of ascension, consisting of a double\r\nprocess of sublimation and integration. But ascension itself is only one line\r\nof a yet another larger double process. For along with the visible movement of\r\nascent, there is a hidden movement of descent. The ascent represents the\r\npressure from below, the force of buoyancy exerted by the involved and secreted\r\nconsciousness. But the mere drive from below is not sufficient all by itself to\r\nbring out or establish the higher status. The higher status itself has to\r\ndescend in order to be manifest. The urge from below is an aspiration, a\r\nyearning to move ever upward and forward; but the precise goal, the status to\r\nbe arrived at is not given there. The more or less vague and groping surge from\r\nbelow is canalised, if assumes a definite figure and shape, assumes a local\r\nhabitation and a name when the higher descends at the crucial moment, takes the\r\nlower at its peak-tide and fixes upon it its own norm and form. We have said\r\nthat all the levels of consciousness have been created-loosened -out-by a\r\nfirst Descent; but in the line of the first Descent the only level that stands\r\nin front at the outset is Matter all the other levels are created no doubt but\r\nremain invisible in the background, behind the gross veil of Matter. Each\r\nstatus stands confined, as it were, to its own region and bides its time when\r\neach will be summoned to concretise itself in Matter. Thus Life was already\r\nthere on the plane of Life even when it did not manifest itself in Matter, when\r\nmere Matter, dead Matter was the only apparent reality on the material plane.\r\nWhen Matter was stirred and churned sufficiently so .as to reach a certain\r\ntension and &quot;saturation, when it was raised to a certain degree of\r\nmaturity, as it were, then Life appeared: Life appeared, not because that was\r\nthe inevitable and unavoidable result of the churning, but because Life\r\ndescended from its own level to the level of Matter and took Matter up in its\r\nembrace. The churning, the development in Matter was only the occasion, the\r\ncondition precedent. For, however much one may shake or churn Matter, whatever\r\nchange one may create in it by a shuffling and reshuffling of<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-41<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>its elements, one can never produce Life by that\r\nalone. A new and unforeseen factor makes its appearance, precisely because it\r\ncomes from elsewhere. It is true all the planes are imbedded, submerged,\r\ninvolved in the complex of Matter; but, in point of fact, all planes are\r\ninvolved in every other plane. The appearance or manifestation of a new plane\r\nis certainly prepared, made ready to the last â€“ the last but one â€“ degree by\r\nthe urge of the inner, the latent mode of consciousness that is to be; still\r\nthe actualisation, the bursting forth happens only when the thing that has to\r\nmanifest itself descends, the actual form and pattern can be imprinted and\r\nestablished by that alone. Thus, again, when Life attains a certain level of\r\ngrowth and maturity, a certain tension and orientation â€“ a definite vector, so\r\nto say, in the mathematical language â€“ when it has, for example, sufficiently\r\norganised itself as a vehicle of the psychic element of consciousness, then it\r\nbuds forth into Mind, but only when the Mind has descended upon it and into it.\r\nAs in the previous stage, here also Life cannot produce Mind, cannot develop\r\ninto Mind by any amount of mechanical or chemical operations within itself, by\r\nany amount of permutation and combination or commutation and culture of its\r\nconstituent elements, unless it is seized on by Mind itself. After the Mind,\r\nthe next higher grade of consciousness shall come by the same method and process,\r\nviz,. first by an uplifting of the mental consciousness â€“ a certain widening\r\nand deepening and katharsis of the mental consciousness â€“ and then by a\r\ndescent, gradual or sudden, of the level or levels that lie above it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>This, then, is the nature of creation\r\nand its process. First,. there is an Involution, a gradual foreshortening-a\r\ndisintegration and concretisation, an exclusive concentration and self-oblivion\r\nof consciousness by which the various levels of diminishing consciousness are\r\nbrought forth from the plenary light of the one supreme Spirit, all the levels\r\ndown to the complete eclipse in the unconsciousness of the multiple and\r\ndisintegrate Matter. Next, there is an Evolution, that is to say, embodiment in\r\nMatter of all these successive states,. appearing one by one from the down most\r\nto the topmost; Matter incarnates, all other states contribute to the incar</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>nation and uphold it, </span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-42</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>the higher always\r\ntransforming the lower in a new degree of consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Creation, the universe in its\r\nactivity, is thus not simply a meaningless play, a pointless fancy. It has a\r\npurpose, an end, a goal, a fulfilment, and it follows naturally a definite\r\npattern of process. The goal is the concretisation, the materialisation (which\r\nincludes, of course, vitalisation and mentalisation) of the Spirit and the\r\nspiritual values. It means the establishment of divine names and forms in\r\nterrestrial individuals leading a divine life, individually and collectively\r\nhere below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>2</span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>We have so far spoken of two\r\nlines of descent. But in either case the descent was of a general and\r\nimpersonal character. Consciousness was considered as a mere force, movement or\r\nquality. There is another aspect, however, in which the descent is of a\r\nparticular and personal character and consciousness is not force or status only\r\nbut conscious being or Person.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The various movements or forces\r\nof consciousness that play in the various fields or levels of creation are not\r\nmerely states or degrees and magnitudes, currents and streams of consciousness:\r\nthey are also personalities with definite forms and figures-not physical\r\nindeed, yet very definite even when subtle and fluidic. Thus the supreme\r\nReality, which is usually described as the perfect status of Existence â€“\r\nConsciousness â€“ Bliss, is not merely a principle but a personality. It is the\r\nSupreme Person with his triune nature (Purushottama). It is the Divine as the\r\nsupreme Knower and Doer or Creator and Lover. The creation in or from that\r\nstatus of consciousness is not simply a play or result of the force of\r\nconsciousness, it is even more truly the embodiment of a conscious Will; it is\r\nthe will of the Divine Father executed by the Divine Mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Now, as the Reality along with\r\nits consciousness, in the downward involutionary course towards materialisation,\r\nhas been gradually disintegrating itself, multiplying itself, becoming more and\r\nmore obscure and dense in separated and isolated. units, even so the Person too\r\nhas been following a parallel course of disintegration and multiplication and\r\nobscuration<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-43<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:121.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>and isolation. At the origin\r\nlies, as we have said, the Perfect Person, the Supreme Person, in his dual\r\naspect of being and nature, appearing as the supreme <i>puru</i></span><i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>ï ¡</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'>a</span></i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'> and the supreme <i>prakrti</i>, our Father and\r\nour Mother in the highest heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Next is the domain of the\r\nSupermind with which the manifestation of the Divine starts. We have said it is\r\nthe world of typal realities, of the first seed-realities, where the One and\r\nthe Many are united and fused in each other, where the absolute unity of the\r\nSupreme maintains itself in undiminished magnitude and expresses and formulates\r\nitself perfectly in and through the original multiplicity. Here take birth the\r\nfirst personalities, absolute truth-forms of the Divine. Here are the highest\r\ngods, the direct formations of the Divine himself. Here are the Four Powers and\r\nPersonalities of <i>iswara</i> whom Sri Aurobindo has named after the Vaishnava\r\nterminology: (i) Mahavira, embodying the Brahmin quality of Knowledge and Light\r\nand wide Consciousness, (ii) Balarama, embodying the Kshatriya quality of Force\r\nand intense dynamism, (iii) Pradyumna, embodying the quality of love and beauty\r\nâ€“ the Vaishya virtue of mutuality and harmony and solidarity, and (iv)\r\nAniruddha, embodying the Sudra quality of competent service, of organisation\r\nand execution in detail. Coriesponding with these Four there are the other Four\r\nPowers and Personalities of the Divine Mother â€“ <i>&iacute;Å›wari&iacute;</i> (i) Maheshwari,\r\n(ii) Mahakali, (iii) Mahalakshmi and (iv) Mahasaraswati. Next in the downward\r\ngradient comes the Overmind where the individualised powers and personalities\r\nof the Divine tend to become self-sufficient and self-regarding; their absolute\r\nunity is loosened and the lines of multiplicity begin to be more independent of\r\neach other, each aiming at a special fulfilment of its own. Still the veil that\r\nis being drawn over the unity is yet transparent which continues to be\r\nsufficiently dynamic. This is the abode of the gods, the true and high gods: it\r\nis these that the Vedic Rishis appear to have envisaged and sought after. The\r\nall gods (<i>viÅ›ve devÄh</i>) were indeed acknowledged to be but different\r\nnames and forms of one supreme godhead (<i>devÄ</i>) it is the one god, says\r\nRishi Dirghatamas, who is called multifariously whether as Agni or Yam a or\r\nMatariswan; it is the one god, again, who is described as having a thousand\r\nheads and a thousand feet. And yet they are separate entities,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-44<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>each has his own distinct and distinctive\r\ncharacter and attribute, each demands a characteristic way of approach and\r\nworship. The tendency towards an exclusive stress is already at work on this\r\nlevel and it is the perception of this truth that lies behind the term\r\nhenotheism used by European scholars to describe the Vedic Religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The next stage of devolution is\r\nthe Mind proper. There or perhaps even before, on the lower reaches of the\r\nOvermind, the gods have become all quite separate,-self â€“ centred, each bounded\r\nin his own particular sphere and horizon. The overmind gods â€“ the true gods â€“\r\nare creators in a world of balanced or harmoniously held difference; they are\r\npowers that fashion each a special fulfilment, enhancing one another at the\r\nsame time (<i>parasparam bhÄvayantah</i>). Between the Overmind and the Mind\r\nthere is a class of lesser gods-they have been called <i>formateurs</i>; they\r\ndo not create in the strict sense of the term, they give form to what the\r\nanterior gods have created and projected. These form-makers that consolidate\r\nthe encasement, fix definitely the image, have most probably been envisaged in\r\nthe Indian <i>dhyÄnam&ucirc;rtis</i>. But in the Mind the gods become still more\r\nfixed and rigid, &quot;stereotyped&quot;; the mental gods inspire exclusive\r\nsystems, extreme and abstract generalisations, theories and principles and\r\nformulae that, even when they seek to force and englobe all in their cast-iron\r\nmould, can hardly understand or tolerate each other.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Mind is the birth-place of\r\nabsolute division and exclusivism â€“ it is the &quot;own home&quot; of egoism.\r\nEgoism is that ignorant mode-a twist or knot of consciousness which cuts up the\r\nuniversal unity into disparate and antagonistic units: it creates isolated,\r\nmutually exclusive whorls in the harmonious rhythm and vast commonalty of the\r\none consciousness or conscious existence. The Sankhya speaks of the principle\r\nof ego coming or appearing after the principle of vastness (<i>mahat</i>). The\r\nVast is the region above the Mind, where the unitary consciousness is still\r\nintact; with the appearance of the Mind has also appeared an intolerant\r\nself-engrossed individualism that culminates, as its extreme and violent expression,\r\nin the <i>asura </i>â€“ Asura, the mentalised vital being.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The Asura or the Titan stands\r\nwhere consciousness descends</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-45<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>from the Mind into the Vital or Life â€“ Force. He\r\nis the personification of ambition and authority and arrogance, he is the intolerant\r\nand absolute self-seeker â€“ he is Daitya, the son of division. The Asura belongs\r\nto what we call the Higher Vital; but lower down in the Mid Vital, made wholly\r\nof unmixed life impulses, appear beings that are still less luminous, less\r\ncontrolled, more passionate, vehement and violent in their self-regarding\r\nappetite. They are the Rakshasas. If the Asura is perverse power, the Rakshasa\r\nis insatiate hunger.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>All the ancient legends about a\r\nprinciple-and a personality â€“ of Denial and Ignorance, of an Everlasting Nay â€“\r\nrefer to this fact of a descending consciousness, a Fall. The Vedantic <i>mÄyÄ</i>,\r\nspoken of sometimes as the Dark Mother, seems to be the personification of the\r\nlower Overmind, Jehovah and Satan of the Hebrews, Olympians and Titans of the\r\nGreeks, Ahriman and Ahura Mazda of old Iran, the sons of Diti and Aditi the\r\nIndian Puranas speak of, are powers and personalities of consciousness when it\r\nhas descended entirely into the mind and the vital where the division is\r\ncomplete. These lower reaches have completely lost the unitary consciousness;\r\nstill there are beings even here that have succeeded in maintaining it as a\r\nmemory or an aspiration, although in a general way the living reality of the\r\noneness is absent. It is significant that the term asura which came to mean in\r\nclassical and mythological ages a + sura, not â€“ god, the Titan, had originally\r\na different connotation and etymology, asu + ra, one having force or strength,\r\nand was used as a general attribute of all the gods. The degradation in the sense\r\nof the word is a pointer to the spiritual Fall: Satan was once Lucifer, the\r\nbringer or bearer of light. We may mention in this connection that these beings\r\nof which we are speaking, dwelling in unseen worlds, are of two broad\r\ncategories - (l) beings that are native to each plane and immutably confined\r\nand bound to that plane, and (2) those that extend their existence through many\r\nor all planes and assume on each plane the norm and form appropriate to . that\r\nplane. But this is a problem of individual destiny with which we are not\r\nconcerned at present.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>We were speaking of the descent\r\ninto the Vital, the domain of dynamism, desire and hunger. The Vital is also\r\nthe field of some strong creative Powers who follow, or are in secret<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-46</span></p>\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>contact with the line of unitary consciousness,\r\nwho are open to influences from a deeper or higher or subtler consciousness.\r\nAlong with the demons there is also a line of <i>daimona</i>, guardian angels,\r\nin the hierarchy of vital beings. Much of what is known as aesthetic or\r\nartistic creation derives its spirit from this sphere. Many of the gods of\r\nbeauty and delight are denizens of this heaven. Gandharvas and Kinnaras are\r\nhere, Dionysus and even Apollo perhaps (at least in their mythological\r\naspect-in their occult reality they properly belong to the Overmind which is\r\nthe own home of the gods), many of the angels, seraphs and cherubs dwell here.\r\nIn fact, the mythological heaven for the most part can be located in this\r\nregion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>All this is comprised within\r\nwhat we term the Higher or the Middle Vital. In the lower vital, we have said,\r\nconsciousness has become still more circumscribed, dark, ignorantly obstinate,\r\ndisparately disintegrated. It is the seed-bed of lust and cruelty, of all that\r\nis small and petty and low and mean, all that is dirt and filth. It is here\r\nthat we place the <i>pi</i></span><i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Å›</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:\r\n12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Äcas</span></i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'>, djinns, ghouls and ghosts, and vampires, beings who possess the\r\n&quot;possessed&quot;.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Further down in the scale where\r\nlife-force touches Matter, where Life is about to precipitate as Matter, appear\r\nbeings of a still lower order, of smaller dimensions and magnitudes â€“ Imps,\r\nelfs, pixies, goblins, gnomes, fairies or dryads and naiads. There are even\r\ncreatures or entities so close to Matter that they come into being and pass\r\naway with the building up and breaking of a definite pattern of material\r\norganisation. This individualisation of consciousness as beings or persons\r\nseems to disappear altogether when we enter the strictly material plane. There\r\nIS here only an agglomeration of uniform dead .particles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>We have thus far followed the\r\ncourse of the break-up of Personality, from the original one supreme Person,\r\nthrough a continuous process of multiplication and disintegration, of\r\nparcellation and crystallisation into more and more small self-centred units, until\r\nwe reach the final pulverisation as purely material physico-chemical atoms. Now\r\nwith the reversal of consciousness, in its return movement, we have again a\r\nprocess of growth and building up of individuality and personality, with the\r\nawakening and ascension of consciousness from level<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-47<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>to level on the physical plane and in the material\r\nembodiment,. there occurs too an evolution of the personal aspect of the\r\nreality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>We say that at the lowest level\r\nof involution, in Matter,. where consciousness has zero magnitude, there is no\r\npersonality or individuality. It is all a mechanical play of clashing particles\r\nthat constantly fly apart or come together according to the force or the\r\nresultant of forces that act upon them. An individuality means a bounded form\r\nas its basis of reaction and a form that tends to persist and grow by\r\nassimilation; it means. a centre of a definite manner and pattern of reaction.\r\nIndividuality, in its literal sense, designates that which cannot be divided (<i>in\r\n+ dividus</i>). Division is only another name for death for the particular\r\nentity. Even in the case of cell-division or self-division of some lower\r\norganisms, in the first instance the original living entity disappears and,\r\nsecondly, the succeeding: entities, created by division, always re-form\r\nthemselves again into integral wholes. A material particle, on the other hand,\r\nis. divisible <i>ad infinitum.</i> We have been able to divide even an atom\r\n(which means also <i>that which cannot be divided</i>) to such an extent as to\r\nreduce it to a mere charge of energy, nay, we have sublimated it to a\r\ngeometrical point. Individualisation starts with the coming of life. It is a\r\nganglion of life -force round which a particular system of action and reaction\r\nweaves itself. The characteristic of individuality is that each one is. unique,\r\neach relates itself to others and to the environment in its own way, each\r\nexpresses itself, puts forth its energy,. receives impacts from outside in a\r\nmanner that distinguishes. it from others. It is true this character of\r\nindividuality is not very pronounced in the earlier or rudimentary forms of\r\nlife. Still it is there: it grows and develops slowly along the ladder of\r\nevolution. Only in the higher animals it attains a clear and definite norm and\r\nform.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>In man something else or\r\nsomething more happens. For man is not merely an individual, he is also a\r\npersonality. He is the outcome of a twofold growth and revelation. He has\r\noutgrown the vital and climbed into Mind, and he has dived into the Heart and\r\ntouched his inner soul, his true psychic centre. It is this soul that is the\r\nsource of his personality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The formulation or revelation of\r\nthe Psyche marks another<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-48<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>line of what we have been describing as the\r\nDescent of Consciousness. The phenomenon of individualisation has at its back\r\nthe phenomenon of the growth of the Psyche. It is originally a spark or nucleus\r\nof consciousness thrown into Matter that starts growing and organising itself\r\nbehind the veil, in and through the movements and activities of the apparent\r\nvehicle consisting of the triple nexus of Body (Matter) and Life and Mind. The\r\nextreme root of the psychic growth extends perhaps right into the body,\r\nconsciousness of Matter, but its real physical basis and tenement is found only\r\nwith the growth and formation of the physical heart. And yet the psychic\r\nindividuality behind the animal organisation is very rudimentary. All that can\r\nbe said is that it is there, in <i>potentia</i>, it exists, it is simple <i>being</i>:\r\nit has not started <i>becoming</i>. This is man\'s speciality: in him the\r\npsychic begins to be dynamic; to be organised and to organise, it is a psychic\r\npersonality that he possesses. Now this flowering of the psychic personality is\r\ndue to an especial Descent, the descent of a Person from another level of\r\nconsciousness. That Person (or Superperson) is the <i>j</i></span><i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:ls;mso-bidi-font-family:ls;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Ä«</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>vatman,</span></i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> the Individual Self, the central being of each individual formation. The\r\nJivas are centres of multiplicity thrown up in the bosom of the infinite\r\nConsciousness: it is the supreme Consciousness eddying in unit formations to\r\nserve as the basis for the play of manifestation. They are not within the frame\r\nof manifestation (as the typal formations in the Supermind are), they are above\r\nor beyond or beside it and stand there eternally and invariably in and as part\r\nand parcel of the one supreme Reality â€“ Sachchidananda. But the Jivatman from\r\nits own status casts its projection, representation, delegated formulation -\r\n&quot;emanation,&quot; in the phraseology of the neo-Platonists â€“ into the\r\nmanifestation of the triple complex of mind, life and body, that is to say,\r\ninto the human vehicle, and thus stands behind as the psychic personality or\r\nthe soul. This soul, we have seen, is a developing, organising focus of\r\nconsciousness growing from below and comes to its own in the human being: or we\r\ncan put it the other way, that is to say, when it comes to its own, then the\r\nhuman being appears. And it has come to its own precisely by a descent of its\r\nown self from above, in the same manner as with the other descents already\r\ndescribed. Now, this &quot;coming to its own&quot; </span>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-49<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>means that it begins henceforth to exercise its\r\nroyal power, its natural and inherent divine right, viz, of consciously and\r\ndirectly controlling and organising its terrestrial kingdom which is the body\r\nand life and mind. The exercise of conscious directive will, supported and\r\nillumined by a self-consciousness, I that occurs with the advent of the Mind is\r\na function of the I Purusha, the self-conscious being, in the Mind; but this\r\nself-conscious being has been able to come up, manifest itself and be active,\r\nbecause of pressure of the underlying psychic personality that has formed here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Thus we have three\r\ncharacteristics of the human personality accruing from the psychic\r\nconsciousness that supports and inspires it: - (I) self-consciousness: an\r\nanimal acts, feels and even knows, but man knows that he acts, knows that he\r\nfeels, knows even that he knows. This phenomenon of consciousness turning round\r\nupon itself is the hallmark of the human being; (2) a conscious will holding\r\ntogether and harmonising, fashioning and integrating the whole external nature\r\nevolved till now; (3) a purposive drive, a deliberate and voluntary orientation\r\ntowards a higher and ever higher status of individualisation and\r\npersonalisation, - not only a horizontal movement seeking to embrace and\r\norganise the normal, the already attained level of consciousness, but also a\r\nvertical movement seeking to raise the level, attain altogether a new poise of\r\nhigher organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>These characters, it is true,\r\nare not clear and pronounced, do not lie in front, at the beginning of the\r\nhuman personality. The normal human person has his psyche very much behind; but\r\nit is still there as <i>antaryÄmin,</i> as the secret Inner Controller. And\r\nwhatever the vagaries of the outer instruments or their slavery to the mode of\r\nIgnorance, in and through all that, it is this Inner Guide that holds the reins\r\nand drives upward in the end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Thus naturally there appear gradations\r\nof the human personality; as the consciousness in the human being rises higher\r\nand higher, the psychic centre organises a higher and higher â€“ a richer, wider,\r\ndeeper â€“ personality. The first great conversion, the first turning of the\r\nhuman personality to a new mode of life and living, that is to say, living even\r\nexternally according to the inner truth and reality, the first attempt at a<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page-50<a\r\nname=sk></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>conscious\r\n</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>harmonisation</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt\'> of the psychic consciousness with its surface agents and\r\nvehicles is what is known as spiritual initiation. This may happen and it does\r\nhappen even when man lives in his normal mental consciousness. But there is the\r\npossibility of growth and evolution and transformation of personality in higher\r\nand a higher spiritual degree through the upper reaches of the higher Mind, the\r\nvarying degrees of the Overmind and finally the Supermind. These are the\r\nspheres, the fields, even the continents of the personality, but the stuff, the\r\nsubstance of the personality, the inner nucleus of conscious&shy;ness-force is\r\nformed, first, by the flaming aspiration, the upward drive within the\r\ndeveloping and increasing psychic being itself, and secondly, by the descent,\r\nto a greater and greater degree, of the original Being from which it emanated.\r\nThe final coalescence of the fully and integrally developed psychic being with\r\nthe supreme splendour of its very source, the Jivatman, occurs in the\r\nSupermind. When this happens the supramental personality becomes incarnate in\r\nthe physical body: Matter in the material plane is transformed into a radiant\r\nsubstance made of pure consciousness, the human personality becomes a living\r\nform of the Divine. Thus the wheel comes full circle: creation returns to the\r\npoint from which it started but with an added significance, a new fulfilment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n12.0pt\'>The mystery of rebirth in the evolution of the human per&shy;sonality is\r\nnothing but the mystery of the developing psyche. At first this psyche or soul\r\nis truly a being: &quot;no bigger than the thumb&quot; â€“ it is the hardly\r\naudible &quot;still small voice&quot;. The experiences of life â€“ sweet or\r\nbitter, happy or unhappy, good or bad, howsoever they may appear to the outward\r\neye and perception â€“ all the dialectics of a terrestrial existence contri&shy;bute\r\nto the growth and development of the psychic conscious&shy;ness. Each span of life\r\nmeans a special degree or mode of growth necessitated by the inner demand and\r\ndrive of the divine Individual seated within the heart. The whole end in view\r\nof this secret soul is to move always towards and be united again with its\r\nOversoul, its original and high archetype in the Divine Consciousness: the\r\nentire course of its earthly evolution is chalked out and patterned by the\r\nexact need of its growth. Whatever happens in each particular life, all the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.55pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Page-51<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>currents\r\nof all the lives converge and coalesce, and serve the psychic consciousness to\r\nswell in volume and intensity and be one with the Divine Consciousness. Or, in\r\na different imagery, one can say that the multifarious experiences of various\r\nlives are as fuel to the Inner Fire â€“ this Psychic Agni which is just a spark\r\nor a thin tongue at the outset of the human evolu&shy;tionary course; but with the\r\naddition of fuel from life to life this Fire flames up, indeed, becomes\r\nultimately a conflagration that bums and purifies the entire outer vehicle and\r\ntransforms it into radiant matter â€“ a fit receptacle, incarnation of the\r\nsupernal Light. The mounting Fire (the consciousness-energy secreted in the\r\nearth-bound heart of Matter) finally flares up, discloses itself in its full\r\namplitude and calls and attracts into it the incandescent supramental Solar\r\nSphere which is the type and pattern it has to embody and express. This is the\r\nmarriage of Heaven and Earth, of which the mystics all over the earth in all\r\nages spoke and sang â€“ to which the Vedic Rishi refers when he declares:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>Dyaur me </span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>pitÄ</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>\r\n</span><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>mÄtÄ</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>\r\n</span><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>prthiv</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:li;mso-bidi-font-family:li\'>Ä«</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>\r\niyam, </span><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>&sup1;</span><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n12.0pt\'>The supramentalisation of the personality which means the perfect\r\ndivinisation of the personality is yet not the final end of Nature\'s march. Her\r\npath is endless, since she follows the trail of infinity. There are still\r\nhigher modes of consciousness, or, if they cannot properly be called higher,\r\nother modes of consciousness that lie in waiting to be brought out and placed\r\nand established in the front of terrestrial evolution. Only, supramentalisation\r\nmeans the definite crossing over from Ignorance, from every trace and shadow of\r\nIgnorance, into the abiding and perennial Knowledge and Freedom. Thence&shy;forward\r\nthe course of Nature\'s evolution may be more of the kind of expression than\r\nascension; for, beyond the Supermind it is very difficult to speak of a higher\r\nor lower order of con&shy;sciousness. Everything thereafter is in the full perfect\r\nlight - &shy; the difference comes in the mode or manner or stress of ex&shy;pression.\r\nHowever, that is a problem with which we are not immediately concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n12.0pt\'>We have spoken of four lines of Descent in the evolution </span></p>\r\n		<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>\r\n<font size=\"2\">&sup1;</font></span><font size=\"2\">The\r\nHeaven is my Father and this Earth my Mother.</font><o:p><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.7pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Page-52<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>and\r\norganisation of consciousness. There yet remains a fifth line. It is more\r\noccult. It is really the secret of secrets, the </span><span style=\'font-size:\r\n12.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>Supreme </span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>Secret. It is the descent of the Divine himself. The\r\nDivine, the supreme Person himself descends, not indirectly through emanations,\r\nprojections, partial or lesser formula&shy;tions, but directly in his own plenary\r\nself. He descends not as a disembodied force acting as a general movement,\r\npossessing, at the most, other objects and persons as its medium or instru&shy;ment,\r\nbut in an embodied form and in the fullness of his con&shy;sciousness. The Indian word\r\nfor Divine Incarnation, avatÄra, literally means he who has descended. The\r\nDivine comes down himself as a terrestrial being, on this material plane of\r\nours, in order to raise the terrestrial and material Nature to a new status in\r\nher evolutionary course â€“ even so He incarnated as the Great Boar who, with his\r\nmighty tusk, lifted a solid mass of earth from out of the waters of the Deluge.\r\nIt is his purpose to effect ascension of consciousness, a transmutation of\r\nbeing, to establish a truly New Order, a New Dharma, as it is termed â€“\r\ndharmasamsthÄpanÄrthÄya. On the human level, he appears as a human person â€“ for\r\ntwo purposes. First of all, he shows, by example, how the ascension, the\r\ntransmutation is to be effected, how a normal human being can rise from a lower\r\nstatus of consciousness to a higher one. The Divine is therefore known as the\r\nLord of Yoga â€“ for Yoga is the means and method by which one consciously\r\nuplifts oneself, unites oneself with the Higher Reality. The embodied Divine is\r\nthe ideal and pattern: he shows the path, himself walks the path and man can\r\nfollow, if he chooses. The Biblical conception of the Son of God â€“ God made\r\nflesh â€“ as the intermediary between the human and the Divine, declaring,\r\n&quot;I am the Way and the Goal&quot;, expresses a very similar truth. The\r\nDivine takes a body for another â€“ occult â€“ reason also. It is this: Matter or\r\nterrestrial life cannot be changed â€“ changed radically, that is to say,\r\ntransformed â€“ by the pure spiritual consciousness alone, lying above or within;\r\nalso it is not sufficient to bring about only that much of change in\r\nterrestrial life which can be effected by the mere spiritual force acting in a\r\ngeneral way. It looks as if the physical transformation which is what is meant\r\nby an ascension or emergence in the evolutionary gradient were possible only by\r\na physical impact embodying</span><i><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>Page-53<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>and\r\ncanalising the spiritual force: it is with his physical body that the Divine\r\nIncarnation seems to push and lift up physical Nature to a new and higher\r\nstatus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>The occult seers\r\ndeclare that we are today on the earth at such a crisis of evolution. Earth and\r\nMan and man\'s earthly life need to be radically transfigured. The trouble and\r\nturbulence, the chaos and confusion that are now overwhelming this earth,\r\nindicate the acute tension before the release, the d</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:li;mso-bidi-font-family:li\'>&eacute;</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>tente of a NEW MANIFESTATION.</span><i><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>Page-54<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>&nbsp;</i><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-006_Lines of the Descent of Consciousness','','publish','closed','open','','006_lines-of-the-descent-of-consciousness','','','2021-11-23 17:59:07','2021-11-23 17:59:07','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/006_lines-of-the-descent-of-consciousness/',0,'post','',0);
