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<font size="4">Being
or Becoming and Having</font></b><font size="4"> </font></p><BR>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><FONT SIZE=3>AGAIN,
in this ceaseless continuity of progression it is indeed not
necessary at all to stop a while or somewhere and become something
for one's perfection or fulfilment. The normal ideal that is placed
before man or which he himself seeks is that he should become
something, a definite pattern of some particular achievement, and
possess something in the sense of an acquisition. An ordinary man
must have an occupation and even an extraordinary man, the saint or
the sage, must embody, that is to say, enchain himself in the name
and form of a particular realisation – a <I>siddh<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">Ä</FONT>nta
</I>or a <I>siddhi. </I>A man has to be -a soldier, a merchant, a
politician or a poet, a philosopher: even so he has to be a <I>bhakta
</I>or a <I>jn<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">Ä</FONT>ni, </I>a <I>mauni </I>or
a <I>v<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">Ä</FONT>ksiddha. </I>Each human being
should have a ticket and a roll number, an identity card. Now, for
the soul of man none of these or other adjuncts are necessary: its
progress and its growth are independent of such auxiliaries or
correlates. A soul can be and even express itself perfectly at the
highest point of its being without formulating itself, binding itself
in a scheme of some external achievement or functioning. The soul
need not possess any of the <I>glories – ai<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">ś</FONT>waryas
– to </I>realise itself, in order to be the abode of the Divine.
Its very existence is full to the brim of the substance of the truth
and its simple living marks the law or rhythm of that Truth.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>A soulful man, whatever he says, thinks, feels or acts,
always embodies wholly the Divine. Not that because he says, acts,
thinks or feels in a certain manner that he has attained perfection
or is in dynamic union with the summit a d integral consciousness. As
the Mother brings out the distinction, although in a somewhat
different context, the perfect soul-existence .cannot be judged by
the forms it takes, the forms themselves have to be judged by the
soul-existence.</FONT><BR>
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