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<font size="4">Prayer
and Aspiration</font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span style='font-family:
Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(1)</p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;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'>W<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>HAT</span> you do has an inevitable
and absolute consequence. This is a necessary concept at a given moment of the
evolutionary process. It is meant to prevent men from becoming completely
egoistic or doing what they do in a totally unconscious manner. There are many
who are like that, the majority, I suppose; they follow their impulses and do
not ask what consequences their <span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>actions
</span>will have for themselves and for others. It is good then if someone told
them with a severe air: &quot;Take care, that has consequences which, last
long, very long.&quot; There are religions that<span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
</span>rose to warn you: &quot;You will pay for that in another life,&quot;
&quot;If you commit this sin, you will go into hell for eternity&quot; and so
on. That is, however, a most fantastic story that man has invented; still,
people are frightened and checked in some way. It spares them a moment for
reflection before they run after their impulses, not always, sometimes the
reflection comes after, a little late.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.6pt;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'>In
all religions people who declared that the consequences of Karma are rigorous and
who gave these absolute rules, must <span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>have
</span>done so, I believe, to put themselves in place of Nature, to pull the
strings that move ordinary men. For these rules are mental constructions, more
or less sincere perhaps, cutting things into<span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>
</span>bits and telling you: &quot;Do this, do that; it is not this, it is
that.<span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>&quot; </span>People are
confused, frightened, they do not know what to do at the end.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:7.4pt;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'>What
they must do is to get to an upper floor. And they must be given the key to
open the door. The key is (1) a sufficiently sincere aspiration, or (2) a
sufficiently intense prayer. I said <i>or, </i>but it may not be so; there are
people who like the one and<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 81</span></p>
<hr>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>there are
people who prefer the other. But in both magic power and one must know to use
them.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;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'>There
are some who detest prayers. If they entered d their heart, they would see that
it is pride, even worse than that vanity. There are people who have no
aspiration, they try but they are not able to aspire. They are not able to
aspire, because they have not the flame of the will, nor have they the flame of
humility. Both are necessary. To change one's Karma one needs a great humility
and a great will-power.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;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'>The
Divine Grace counteracts the Karma wholly; the Grace melts Karma, as the sun
melts butter. If you have an aspiration sincere enough, or a prayer intense
enough you can bring down into you something that will change everything.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;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'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(2)</p>

<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'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;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'>I
have already spoken to you of the different plane of consciousness. On the
purely material plane (separating it from the vital), it is all absolutely
mechanistic: there things follow each other in a rigid chain of cause and
effect. If you want to find the cause of a thing, you will have to find the
cause of the cause; and if you want to find the effect of a thing you will have
to find also the effect of the effect. The causes and effects linked together
form a closed ring. Only, into this purely material plane there can intervene
and does intervene the vital plane, as for example, in the vegetable kingdom.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;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'>The
vital plane has a totally different determinism, which is its own. And when you
bring the vital determinism into Physical determinism, that makes a combination
which changes everything.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;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'>Above
the vital plane lies the mental plane. The mental plane too has its own
determinism in which all mental things are chained together in a rigorous
sequence.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:right 249.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Each of these planes
has what may be called a horizontal determinism.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:right 249.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But, as I say, there is also a vertical movement. That is,
the mental descends into the vital and the vital descends into the physical. Thus there are three determinisms
which intervene and produce something that is quite different.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:right 249.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
'>Page – 82</span></p><hr>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;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'>Where
the mind intervenes the determinism will necessarily be different from the
determinism where it does not intervene. In the higher animal life there is
already an intervening mental determinism which is quite different from the
determinism on the vegetable plane. Above these planes there are others up to
the highest. The highest plane is the plane of absolute freedom.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;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'>If
you are capable of traversing all these planes in your consciousness, so to
say, in a vertical line and reach the highest and then, through this joining
up, if you are able to bring down this determinism of perfect freedom into the
material determinism, then you can change everything. And all the intermediaries
also will undergo the change. Because of these changes it will all look like total
freedom. For the intervention or the descent of one plane upon another will
have unforeseen consequences for the lower one. The higher planes may foresee,
but the lower ones cannot. Being unforeseen, things and events have then an air
of the absolutely free and the totally unexpected.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;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 only when you live consciously and constantly on the highest level, that is
to say, the level of the supreme consciousness, that you are able to see that
everything is absolutely determined, but at the same time by the very
complexity of the intermixture of these determinisms everything is absolutely
free. You may call this phenomenon as you like, but it is a kind of absolute
determinism and absolute freedom combined. It is the level where there are no
contradictions, where all things exist and exist in harmony without
contradicting each other.</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'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(3)</p>

<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'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;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'>Everything
is possible. It is a gradual unfolding along a highway, as it were, which is
unknown and unknowable to you. In the universe all will be unfolded. But in what
order and in what way? Everything is there absolutely, eternally but static.
Everything is going to come out into the material world, naturally, more or
less one after another. What course will the unfolding follow?</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;
mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Up there, it is the domain of absolute
freedom. Who tells you that a sufficiently sincere aspiration, a sufficiently
intense prayer cannot change the course of the unfolding? It means everything 
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 83</span><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'>is
possible. This is one wonderful grace that has been granted to human nature. Only
one does not know how to make use of it.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;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'>So,
in spite of the most absolute determinism in the horizontal line, one can, if
one is able to cross it and reach the highest point of consciousness, change
what appears to be absolutely determined.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;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'>All
theories are mere theories, that is to say, mental conceptions which are only
representations or images of the reality, they are not the reality at all. When
you say &quot;determinism&quot; or “liberty”, you utter only words. All that is
a very incomplete, a very feeble description of That which Is, in truth, within
you, around you, everywhere. And if you are even to begin to understand what
the universe is like, you must come out of these mental formulas; otherwise
you will never understand.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;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'>Indeed,
if you live just for a minute only by this absolutely sincere aspiration, this
adequately intense prayer, you will know more things than by meditating for
long hours.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 84</span></p><hr>

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