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<p class="paracenter">Section 
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	To the Children of the Ashram</p><hr>
<p class="paracenter">THE TRUE TEACHING
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<p class="para"> You must have observed that my 
way of talking to you is not always the same. I don't know whether you are very 
sensitive to the difference, but for me it is considerable.
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<p class="para"> Sometimes, on rare occasions, 
because of something read or for another reason, there comes to me in the wake 
of a question what is called an experience but what is simply the fact of 
entering into a certain state of consciousness and, having entered into it, 
describing that very state. In such a case, the Force, the Consciousness that 
express themselves pass across the individual mind, use it like a store-house of 
words and draw from it by a sort of affinity the words necessary for the 
expression. This is the true teaching, the teaching that is difficult to find in 
books. It can be there, but one must be oneself in that state of consciousness 
to be able to discover it, whereas, with the spoken word, the sound-vibration 
transmits at least something of the experience and this can be contagious for 
all who are sensitive.
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<p class="para"> On other occasions, the questions 
posed and
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<p class="para">the subject chosen are conveyed by the mind to the higher 
Consciousness. The mind receives a response from that Consciousness and conveys 
it through the word. This is what generally happens in all teachings, provided 
that the one who teaches has the capacity to pass the question on to the higher 
Consciousness—a capacity not always present. 
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<p class="para"> I should tell you that the second 
method does not interest me much. Very often, when the question or the subject 
fails to give me the possibility of entering into a state of consciousness that 
interests me, I far prefer to keep silent. And it is, as it were, a sense of 
duty that makes me talk.
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<p class="para"> I am informing you in advance, 
because in the past I have cut short the conversation and passed abruptly into 
meditation.
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