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normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font size="4">Short Notes</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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THE SENSE OF EARTHLY EVOLUTION</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'>Ignorance
is usually equated with innocence. A child is ignorant, therefore he is
innocent. Although it is said that ignorance of law is no excuse. Spiritually
however, ignorance does not mean innocence. Ignorance or unconsciousness or inconscience – different degrees of the same thing – that is to say lack of
consciousness, mean, at bottom, falsehood. It is through the ignorance that
Maya, the great illusion, was born. Ignorance is false apprehension, it begins
with the sense of separation, &quot;I am other than the Divine.&quot; That is
how Jiva is born in or through the ignorance. The world is separate from the
Divine. That is how Matter is born as or in inconscience. And the creation
appears as evil. This sense of separation is a falsehood for in reality nothing
is separate from the supreme Consciousness, all is That.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To regain the Truth-sense,
to move upward in the cycle of ignorance and falsehood towards this Truth-sense
is the world-labour and also human labour.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Even
in the state of separation under conditions of the in conscience and falsehood,
in spite of all appearances the Unity, the Truth-consciousness remains intact
behind. It is never effaced or obliterated.</p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">The sense of earthly evolution is the gradual
unfolding of the Divine, the Supreme Consciousness in and through the
gradations of consciousness from the inconscience through unconsciousness and
consciousness to supra-consciousness – Matter wholly transmuted into Light.</p>

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GOD ABOVE AND GOD WITHIN</p>
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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-bottom:0'>God is not only above or beyond the creation. He is also here<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>within the creation. He is
not only over our head looking down upon us. He is within our heart inspiring
us, enlightening us, loving us. This is the dynamic Divine, the Supreme Consciousness
concealed within the apparent inconscience of the material existence. It is
that which pushes creation upward in its evolutionary course. It is that which
lies behind man's ignorance purifying his obscurity leading him to a more and
more luminous revelation.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In
the Vedic image above shines Surya, here below burns Agni. Both are aspects of
the same Truth.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(3)
EMPTYING AND REPLENISHMENT</p>
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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'>The body is
composed of cells, living cells. These cells from the standpoint of
consciousness are desire-cells, that is to say particles of desire, concrete
and consolidated packets of hunger and thirst. A string of such innumerable
packets of hunger and thirst is life-the Buddha said. The cells are to be
emptied completely. Emptiness of cells is Nirvana.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Not
necessarily. For one may empty the cells of their obscure contents but
replenish them with something of a purer order. This is a possibility we
envisage and which we are working for. The Divine life empties the cells of
desire but fills it with the energy of solar Light.</p>

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line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:141.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (4) EGO</p>
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line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:141.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-indent:14.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'>To
renounce is a greater delight than to enjoy.</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'>To give is
a greater joy than to take.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:14.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To love is
a greater ravishment than to be loved.</p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In one it is
the ego, man's self-centredness that limits, dilutes, and even perverts his
happiness. In the other, it is precisely the egolessness that brings the pure
felicity. For ego is hunger, hunger that is death, says the Upanishad.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
is the ego, the personal shift that cuts the Infinite, obscures the
consciousness which otherwise in its natural condition is always the supreme
bliss and beatitude.</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>It is the ego that turns reality
into unreality, light into darkness, immortality into death.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And whatever the interim
necessity and utility of the ego,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 221</span><span
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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>originally
and also ultimately it has no space or standing. For originally and ultimately
and absolutely, it is the Divine that exists in and through the Divine, moves
in and through the Divine to the Divine.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:14.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It is the
Divine that knows the Divine through the Divine.</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'>It is the
Divine that dynamises the Divine through the Divine.</p>

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text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It is the Divine that enjoys, loves the Divine through
theDivine.</p>

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text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Vedic Rishis declared the same truth, in their
own<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>language and imagery when they said
&quot;The sacrifice is made a sacrifice through the sacrifice&quot;.</p>

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CONSCIOUSNESS AND DIMENSIONS OF VIEW</p>
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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'>The
material world is, as we all know, three-dimensional; it has a length, a
breadth and a depth. In fact every material object is material because it has
these three dimensions. That is what we knew till now. But Einstein has added
another dimension to complete the picture of material reality. He says, time is
the fourth dimension. For along with space, time also is to be taken into
consideration for fixing or situating a physical object. Not space alone with
its three dimensions determines the physical character of an object but time
also has its share. A material object exists in space; it exists also in time.
It occupies a portion of space and it occupies a portion of time. Indeed time,
sometimes, becomes a more important factor; for it brings about a change in the
spatial dimension.</p>

<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">But dimension, in reality, that is to say, the
configuration it gives to an object is a function of consciousness. The four-dimensional
aspect of material reality is given or projected by what we call the physical
consciousness. Material time and material space are the two norms through<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>which the physical
consciousness deploys itself.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But
physical consciousness, the consciousness that plays through the senses is only
one form of it – the lowest, the most material formation. For there is a ladder
of consciousness and in it we rise rung by rung to other– what are known as
higher formulations.</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>As we rise we find that
the dimensions increase in number.<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'>Our
consciousness, our being becomes more and more multiple. In the physical and
material, our perception is limited to the four dimensions because of two
factors – one, things are spaced out that is to say, they are separate and
discrete from one another. We know the law of material space that two things
cannot occupy the same space. Secondly, things or events are separated in time,
that is to say, there is the law of succession. But in the higher regions,
higher or subtler regions, this separation due to time and space loses much of
its exclusive force. Things tend to coalesce, even to get identified with each
other. The obstructions that time and space offer to intercommunication are minimised more and more as our consciousness or being soars up or dives down
into deeper and deeper and higher and higher regions. The dimensions increase
in number; that means we begin to apprehend things from many angles and sides
at the same time, we have more and more a simultaneous view of the total or
global reality of an object. So instead of a four-fold view of things we may
have a fivefold, sixfold, tenfold, hundredfold view of things depending on our
status of consciousness. In the highest status,–we call it Sachchidananda, the
infinite and eternal consciousness-things attain infinite dimensions, all merged
in the Ultimate's unitary consciousness.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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