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<font size="4">Sadhana
Must be Done in the Body</font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>
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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'><i><span style='font-family:
"Arial Narrow"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>

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border:medium none;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>THERE are people who are disgusted
with life. They want to go away in the hope that it will be better the next
time. But we tell you: It is no use running away from your body, it will not be
easier without a body. On the contrary, it will be much more difficult. The
body is meant for you to do Yoga. We are upon earth here and it is precisely
during the period of our life upon earth that we can make progress.</p>

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border:medium none;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You cannot progress outside the
life on earth. The terrestrial life, the material life is essentially the life
for progress. It is here that we develop and advance. Outside the earthly life
you take rest, or else you remain unconscious. You can have this period of
assimilation, period of rest or period of inconscience elsewhere. But for
periods of progress you must come to the earth and in the body. So when you
take a body it is for making progress and when you leave it the period of
progress ends.</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'>Now
true progress means Sadhana, in other words the most conscious and the most
rapid progress. Otherwise there is a progress with the march of Nature and that
takes centuries and centuries, hundreds of centuries to move just a little
forward.</p>

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mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>True progress is done by Sadhana. By Yoga
you can do a thing in a brief space that would otherwise take a long, interminable
period. But it is always upon earth and with the body that this can be done,
not elsewhere. So that is why while you&nbsp; are in the body you must profit by it
and not lose time, nor to say, 'later on, later on.' It is much better to do
the thing forthwith. Years that you pass without making progress are years
wasted, you can only regret it afterwards.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'>Every human being here upon earth, whoever he is and
whatever he is, has within him a psychic Being, only in various degrees of
evolution. An embodied person possesses many other things e.g. states and forms
of consciousness. His task upon earth is to transform these elements which
form, as it were, the part of the universe given to him for his work of
transformation. And even if he has a vaster mission beyond his own person, he
cannot do that unless he has done the personal work first. You cannot change
the outside world unless you have begun changing your own self. It is the first
and indispensable condition and it is true for all, young or old, small or big.
It is for this reason that life has been given to the psychic being: it is
man's opportunity for progress. The span of earthly life is the time for
progress. Outside earthly life there is no progress. The possibility and the
means for the progress are only there in earthly life. So one must begin with
oneself. When the work has been done with regard to oneself then only one can
begin elsewhere. But first, work at home.</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'>You
go to kill yourself when you are a coward. The psychic comes with a definite
aim to gather a certain sum of experiences, to learn, to make progress. If you
go away before the work is done, you have to come back and do it over again but
in circumstances much more difficult than before. Whatever you avoided in one
life, you will find reappearing in a more difficult form. Without going very
far, take for example this small difficulty in your life, the examination you
have to pass. If you do not go through it, if you turn your back, you will have
to pass it, another time and that time it will be more difficult.</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:
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mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Men are so ignorant. They think that there
is life and that there is death, life is a bundle of troubles, death brings
about peace. But it is not at all like that. Generally, when one goes out
unnaturally, in a fit of ignorant and obscure passion, one enters straight into
a vital world, made of all these passions and ignorant movements. The trouble
they want to avoid they meet again but without having the protection that the
body gives them. For if ever you had had a nightmare – i.e. a bold promenade
into the vital world, you must have known that you came out of it by waking up,
in other words, by rushing into your body. But when you have wilfully destroyed
the body, you have lost your protective armour. You have to live in<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 66<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>a continual nightmare. It is
not very pleasant. </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'>To
avoid a nightmare you have to be in your psychic consciousness; for when you
are in that consciousness nothing troubles you or brings you anxiety. It is
only when you are in a movement of ignorance that you do not have the courage
or the strength to face a danger.</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'><i>What is the <span
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>source </span>of cowardice?</i></p>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

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line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-bottom:0'>Ignorance is the source. Ignorance is the cause of all evil. I think,
however, that one becomes a coward when one is tamasic i.e. one fears to make
an effort.</p>

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