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style='font-size:10.0pt'>HERE</span> is no difference in the end between the
two if the goal to be attained is the Impersonal Divine, that is to say, if you
want to unite and identify yourself with the Impersonal Divine, merge into it.
But if your aspiration is to reach what is beyond, what Sri Aurobindo calls the
supramental Reality, then there comes in a difference, a difference in. the
goal as well as in the way. For the way to the supramental realisation is
essentially the way of surrender. It is a question of temperament perhaps. And
if One has the temperament, the disposition, the path of surrender is
infinitely more easy: three-fourths of your trouble and diffi­culty are got rid
of automatically. But it may prove hard going for some.</p>

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as regards the result, in one case, I may say, it is linear, it ends at a
point, as it were; in the other case, the path is spheri­cal and ends in a
totality. Each one individually can reach his origin and the optimum of his
being; the origin and the opti­mum of one's being is the same as the Eternal,
the Infinite, the Supreme. If you reach your origin, you reach the Supreme, but
you reach along a single line – do not take the image literally, it is only a
description to make the thing easy to understand. So it is, I say, a linear
realisation terminating at a point and this point is one with the Supreme, your
maximum possibility. By the other way, you arrive at, what I call, a spherical
realisation; for it gives you the idea of something that contains all, it is
not a point but a totality that excludes nothing.</p>

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relation of the whole and its part does not hold good here; for there is no
longer any division. The very quality of the approach is different. Can you say
that a perfect identification with one drop of water would give you the
knowledge of what the sea is? And here the perfect identification in question
is not<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>merely with
the ocean but with all possible oceans. And yet the perfect identification with
one drop of water does give you the knowledge of the ocean in its essence; but
in the other way you know the ocean not merely in its essence but in its
totality. It is however very difficult to express the reality of the truth.
What can be said to put it as clearly as possible is this: in the line of
personal effort, when one depends solely upon one's personal strength, all that
has been individualised maintains the virtues of individuality and hence also,
in a certain sense, all the limi­tations necessary for this individuality. In
the other case, when you have surrendered your individuality, you not only enjoy
the virtues of individuality but also you are not subject to its limitations.
It is almost high philosophy, I am afraid. It is not clear therefore. But that
is all I can say.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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