(2179,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:12','2021-11-23 17:59:12','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n\r\n<title>Second Sight</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Second Sight</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-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>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>WE know\r\nthat animals generally possess sharp senses to an extraordinary degree. They\r\ncan hear and smell at a distance far beyond what is normal to the human sense.\r\nGive a kerchief used by a man to a dog, it will spot the man among a thousand.\r\nAn elephant will take you straight to a place miles away where there is water,\r\nif you happen to be stranded in waterless surroundings. Where there is no\r\nquestion of sight or smell, even then the animals perceive things in a queer\r\nway: an elephant, again, for example, refusing to advance further upon a road,\r\nbecause, as it was discovered later on, the road was hollow inside and would\r\nhave sunk down had the animal walked upon it. There are other countless\r\nphenomena to prove the keenness and subtlety of the animal sense or instinct,\r\nas it is called.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Perception\r\nmeans contact with the object. Now, what is it that contacts? In ordinary\r\nsense-perception, the normal human sense-perception, for example, it is the\r\nphysical vibration emanating from the object that contacts the physical organ:\r\nthe distance at which the vibration can be received depending on the\r\nsensitivity of the recipient nerves. In man the sensitivity is limited, in the\r\nanimal it is highly intense. This is however, only one factor of the\r\nphenomenon. We will explain.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As\r\nit is well known, there are three levels of consciousness: the physical, the\r\nvital and the mental; for the present we leave out of consideration the fourth\r\nor the spiritual (including the psychic). Not only so, in each level or plane\r\nall the others are also involved i.e. lie secreted. Thus, in the mind there is\r\na vital mind and a physical mind, in the vital there is a mental vital and a\r\nphysical vital. So, in the physical too there are these three grades: (l)\r\nphysical physical, (2) vital physical and (3) mental physical.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 292<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We will now\r\nbetter understand the process of contact in sense perception. The purely\r\nmaterial contact, physical vibration touching the physical nerves of the\r\nparticular organ is an instance of the physical physical perception: the dog\r\nsmelling or the elephant hearing at extraordinary distances. We have heard of\r\nmen who, by putting their ear upon the ground, are able to catch sounds coming\r\nfrom a great distance and practically inaudible to others standing by. But\r\nthere is another class where the material vibration is not at issue, it is the\r\nvital vibration in the physical touching the vital physical of the receiver.\r\nThe elephant finding the water or sensing the hollow road is an instance in\r\npoint. The mental physical, the last of the three is a kind of intuition in the\r\nphysical, that is what is usually called &quot;instinct&quot;. A cat, for\r\nexample, put in a sack and banished miles away from its home, will find its way\r\nback; a dog will go round the world almost and find and recognise its master\r\neven many years after (the first to recognise Ulysses was his dog). In man too\r\nthe vital physical, more especially the mental physical not unoften finds room\r\nfor play, although his physical physical i.e. purely material sensibility is\r\nextremely limited. This limitation of the physical sensibility in general, to\r\nwhatever sphere it may belong, is due to the intellectual or rational bias that\r\nhas developed in him. In the more unsophisticated races or types the\r\nsensibility is still maintained. Man can, however, cultivate, consciously\r\ndevelop these faculties: it then becomes what is called a system of Yoga. A\r\nfamiliar example of the mental physical action as cultivated in man is offered\r\nby the water diviner or dowser, as he is called. But, as I have said, the\r\nnormal effect of human rationality is to inhibit the spontaneous action of the\r\nsenses as it is natural with the animal.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nis interesting to note that animals in the wild state maintain intact their\r\ninstinctive capacity, their &quot;second sight&quot;, but begin to lose it when\r\nthey live with men, come under the influence of human mind and reason, become\r\n&quot;domesticated&quot;. A cow habituated to free grazing in the fields will\r\nnever touch the poisonous grass, will always avoid it and take only the\r\nharm-less and healthy variety; but kept within the stable, accustomed to a\r\nclosed life, it loses its natural instinct, gets confused, does not know how to\r\ndistinguish the right from the wrong<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 293<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>food, being\r\nalways given ready-made things by the master.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Human\r\ncontact has thus a harmful effect upon the animal\'s instinctive life. But in\r\nanother way it may have an uplifting influence too. Some of the refined human\r\nsentiments – sympathy, gratitude, faithfulness, self-sacrifice – in a pronounced\r\nhuman way find expression in animals that are domesticated and live close to\r\nman and within the human atmosphere. It is true many of these feelings are not\r\ntotally absent in the animal kingdom (especially in the higher strata) in its\r\nnatural or wild state, but they belong to the level of pure feeling or impulse\r\nand have not risen to the level of sentiments which have a mental element\r\ninfused into their vital stuff. Indeed a strong mental element, a reasoning\r\ncapacity sometimes very clearly develops in the domestic animal.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nanimal acts by instinct, we say; that is to say, it goes straight to the thing\r\nto be done: in order to do a thing it does not make a choice between\r\npossibilities, there is no selective process in its consciousness. It is the\r\nhuman consciousness alone that says, &quot;this is not to be done, but that to\r\nbe done, not this but that&quot; or puts the question, &quot;which one, to be\r\nor not to be?&quot; This is what we mean by discrimination or deliberation.\r\nNormally, this faculty is absent in the animal. We have said of refined\r\nfeelings in man; &quot;refined&quot; here need not mean always ennobled or\r\nmorally elevated; it may mean also more subtle, more complicated and be applied\r\nto some baser – acutely perverse – feelings which are perhaps peculiarly human.\r\nDomestic animals sometimes contract them from men: jealousy, spitefulness,\r\nvengeance, vindictiveness of an extreme degree are likely to be found more\r\namong animals living with men than those that are in the wild state. We have\r\nheard of elephants brooding over a hurt or even an insult for long months and taking\r\nrevenge when occasion presents itself. And we have heard of a cat jumping out\r\nof a window into the street below and killing itself simply because it thought\r\nits mistress showed more love towards another cat.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>humanising</span> of animals\r\nliving with men, through its good and bad effects, has an evolutionary value:\r\nthat is to say, some animals in that way attain almost to a human status in\r\ntheir soul. And occultists state that souls do pass in this manner from the\r\nanimal to the human incarnation.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 294<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-078_Second Sight','','publish','closed','open','','078_second-sight','','','2021-11-23 17:59:12','2021-11-23 17:59:12','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/078_second-sight/',0,'post','',0),(2180,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:13','2021-11-23 17:59:13','<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Soul\'s Odyssey</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><font size=\"4\">The\r\nSoul\'s Odyssey</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Our birth\r\nis but a sleep and a forgetting:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The Soul\r\nthat rises with us, our life\'s Star,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:center 91.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Hath had elsewhere its setting,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:center 91.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>And cometh from afar:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:center 91.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Not in entire forgetfulness,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:center 91.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>And not in utter nakedness,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>But\r\ntrailing clouds of glory do we come<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:22.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>From God, who is our home ¹: </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>. . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:22.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>R</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>ARELY</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> has a\r\npoet – a secular poet, I mean – given utterance to deep spiritual and occult\r\ntruth with such clarity and felicity. It is, however, quite open to doubt\r\nwhether Wordsworth himself was fully cognisant of the truth he expressed; the\r\nwords that were put into his mouth carry <span class=GramE>a significance</span>\r\nand a symbolism considerably beyond what his mind seemed to have received and\r\nunderstood. The passage may be taken as one more illustration of Matthew\r\nArnold\'s characterisation of Wordsworth\'s genius at its best, it is then Nature\r\nherself that takes up the pen and writes for the poet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The deep\r\nspiritual truth we are referring to is the Odyssey of the human soul. And it is\r\nalso an occult phenomenon happening in the world of the inner reality. The\r\nSoul\'s own home is in God, is God; for it is part and parcel of the divine\r\nconsciousness, it is essentially one in being and nature with the supreme\r\nReality. It is a nucleus, a centre of individuation, a projection in a\r\nparticular name and form of the infinite and eternal Being and Consciousness\r\nand Bliss on this side of mani­festation or evolutionary Nature. Being in and\r\nwith the Divine, merged within it, the Soul has, at the same time, its own </span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>¹</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> </span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Wordsworth: <i>Ode\r\non the Intimations of Immortality</i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:142.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-119<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>proper</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> domain, exclusively its own, and its own inalienable\r\nidentity. It is the domain where the Soul enjoys its <span class=SpellE><i>swarajya</i></span><i>,\r\n</i>its absolute freedom, dwelling in its native light and happiness and glory.\r\nBut the story changes, the curve of its destiny takes\r\na sudden new direction when it comes down upon earth, when it inhabits a mortal\r\nbody. Within the body, it no longer occupies its patent frontal position, but\r\nwithdraws behind a veil, as it were: it takes its stand behind or within the\r\ndepth of the heart, as spiritual practice experiences it. It hides there, as in\r\na cavern, closed in now by the shades of the prison-house which its own body\r\nand life and mind build round it. Yet it is not wholly shut out or completely\r\ncut off; for from its secret home it exerts its influence which gradually,\r\nslowly, very slowly indeed, filters through – bathes, clarifies, illumines the\r\nencasement, makes it transparent and docile in the end. For that is the Soul\'s\r\nultimate function and fulfilment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>In the\r\nmeanwhile, however, &quot;our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.&quot; A\r\nphysical incarnation clouds the soul-cons­ciousness and involves loss of memory,\r\namnesia. The soul\'s travail therefore in a physical body is precisely to regain\r\nthe memory of what has been forgotten. Spiritual discipline means at bottom\r\nthis remembering, and all culture too means nothing more than that – that is\r\nalso what Plato thought when he said that all knowledge, all true knowledge\r\nconsists in reminiscence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Man, in\r\nhis terrestrial body, although fallen, because shrouded and diverted from his\r\ncentral being of light and fire, is yet not, as I have said, wholly forsaken\r\nand cut adrift. He always carries within him that radiant core through all the\r\nperegrinations of earthly sojourn. And though the frontal consciousness, the\r\nphysical memory has no contact with it, there is a stream of inner\r\nconsciousness that continues to maintain the link. That is the silver lining to\r\nthe dark cloud that envelops and engulfs our normal life. And that is why at\r\ntimes – not <span class=SpellE>unoften</span>-there occurs a crack, a fissure\r\nin the crust of our earthly nature of ignorance and a tongue of flame leaps out\r\n– one or other perhaps of the seven sisters of which the Upanishad speaks. And\r\nthen a mere man becomes a saint, a seer, a poet, a prophet, a hero. This is the\r\nflaming godhead whom we cherish within, Agni, the leader of our progressive\r\nlife, the great Sacrifice, the child whom we<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-120<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>nourish, birth\r\nafter birth, by all that we experience and do and achieve. To live normally and\r\nnaturally in that fiery element – like the legendary Salamander – to mould\r\none\'s consciousness and being, one\'s substance and constitution, even the\r\nentire cellular organisation into the radiant truth is the goal of man\'s\r\nhighest aspiration, the ultimate end of Nature\'s evolutionary urge and the\r\ncycle of rebirth.</span></span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-121<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"60\" height=\"27\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-024_The Souls Odyssey','','publish','closed','open','','024_the-souls-odyssey','','','2021-11-23 17:59:13','2021-11-23 17:59:13','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/024_the-souls-odyssey/',0,'post','',0),(2181,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:13','2021-11-23 17:59:13','<html>\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<title>Volume - 1</title>\r\n<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"Namo WebEditor v4.0\">\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body bgcolor=\"white\" text=\"black\" link=\"blue\" vlink=\"purple\" alink=\"red\" background=\"_Gif%20file/new%20creation.gif\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b><font size=\"4\">CONTENT</font></b></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">&nbsp;VOLUME - 3</font></b></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>PART ONE</b></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"181\" height=\"25\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-001_A-Yoga-of-the-Art-of-Life\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">A \r\n        Yoga of the Art of Life</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"181\" height=\"25\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-002_Natures-Own-Yoga\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Nature\'s \r\n        Own Yoga</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"197\" height=\"25\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-003_Sri-Aurobindo-and-his--School\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Sri \r\n        Aurobindo and His School</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"166\" height=\"25\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"-004_Sri-Aurobindos-Gita\">Sri \r\n        Aurobindo\'s Gita</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>PART TWO</b></p>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-005_Our-Ideal\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Our \r\n        Ideal</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-006_Lines-of-the-Descent-of-Consciousness\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Lines \r\n        of the Descent of Consciousness</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-007_An-Aspect--of-Emergent-Evolution\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">An \r\n        Aspect of Emergent Evolution</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"100%\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>PART THREE</b></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-008_The-New-year-Initiation\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        New Year Initiation</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-009_Yogic-Initiation-and-Aptitude\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Yogic \r\n        Initiation and Aptitude</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-010_Arjuna-or-The-Ideal-Disciple\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Arjuna \r\n        or The Ideal Disciple </a></font> </p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-011_The-Body-Human\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Body Human</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-012_Some-Conceptions-and-Misconceptions\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Some \r\n        Conceptions and Misconceptions</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"-013_Here-or-Otherwhere\">Here \r\n        or Otherwhere</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-014_The-Sunlit-Path\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Sunlit Path</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-015_The-Spiritual-Outlook\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Spiritual Outlook</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-016_Sectarianism-or-Loyalty\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Sectarianism \r\n        or Loyalty</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-017_Sinceriry\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Sincerity</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-018_True-Humility\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">True \r\n        Humility</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-019_The-Spirit-of-Tapasya\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Spirit of Tapasya</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-020_Dynamic-Fatalism\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Dynamic \r\n        Fatalism</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-021_Mater-Dolorosa\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Mater \r\n        Dolorosa</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-022_Origin-and-Nature-of-Suffering\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Origin \r\n        and Nature of Suffering</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-023_The-Tragic-Spirit-in-Nature\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Tragic Spirit in Nature</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-024_The-Souls-Odyssey\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Soul\'s Odyssey</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"243\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;</font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"100%\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>PART FOUR</b></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"196\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-025_The-Divine-Man\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;The \r\n        Divine Man</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"118\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-026_Human-Progress\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Human \r\n        Progress</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"148\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-027_Consciousness-as-Energy\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Consciousness \r\n        as Energy</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"284\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-028_Evolution-of-the-Spiritual-Consciousness\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Evolution \r\n        of the Spiritual Consciousness</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"196\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-029_The-Freedom-and-the-Force-of-the-Spirit\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Freedom and the Force of the Spirit</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"118\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-030_To-Be-or-Not-To-Be\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">To \r\n        Be or Not To Be</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"148\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-031_Readings-in-Savitri\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Readings \r\n        in &quot;Savitri&quot;</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"284\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;</font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"100%\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>PART FIVE</b></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"181\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-032_At-the-Origin-of-Ignorance\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;At \r\n        the Origin of Ignorance</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"181\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-033_Physician,-Heal-Thyself\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Physician, \r\n        Heal Thyself</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"181\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-034_The-Body-Natural\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Body Natural</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"181\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-035_The-Measure-of-Time\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Measure of Time</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"181\" height=\"21\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-036_Man-the-Prototype\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Man \r\n        the Prototype</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"181\" height=\"21\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-037_The-Role-of-Evil\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Role of Evil</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"181\" height=\"21\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"-038_Man-and-Superman\">Man \r\n        and Superman</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"181\" height=\"21\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-039_True-Charity\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">True \r\n        Charity</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"181\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-040_Varieties-of-Religious-Experience\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Varieties \r\n        of Religious Experience</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"181\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-041_Children-and-Child-Mentality\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Children \r\n        and Child Mentality</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"181\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-042_The-Soul-of-a-Nation\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Soul of a Nation</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"181\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-043_The-Soul-and-its-Journey\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Soul and its Journey</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"100%\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>PART SIX</b></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<div align=\"center\">\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" height=\"0\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-044_The-End-of-a-Civilisation\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;The \r\n        End of a Civilization</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" height=\"0%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-045_Darkness-to-Light\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Darkness \r\n        to Light</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" height=\"0\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-046_Types-of-Meditation\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Types \r\n        of Meditation</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" height=\"0\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-047_The-Conscious-Being\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Conscious Being</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-048_The-Story-of-Creation\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Story of Creation</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-049_Earth-a-Symbol\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Earth \r\n        a Symbol</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-050_Total-Transformation-Demands-Total-Rejection\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Total \r\n        Transformation Demands</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-051_The-Individual-and-the-Collective\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Individual and the Collective</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-052_How-to-Wait\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">How \r\n        to Wait</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-053_Fatigue-and-Work\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Fatigue \r\n        and Work</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-054_The-Steps-of-the-Soul\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Steps of the Soul</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-055_The-Expanding-Body\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Expanding Body-Consciousness</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-056_Body,-the-Occult-Agent\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Body, \r\n        the Occult Agent</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-057_The-Integral-Realisation\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Integral Realisation</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-058_Ever-Green\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Ever \r\n        Green!</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-059_A-Page-of-Occult-History\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">A \r\n        Page of Occult History</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-060_Directed-Change\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Directed \r\n        Change</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-061_Value-of-Gymnastics\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Value \r\n        of Gymnastics - Mental or Other</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-062_Mental-Silence\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Mental \r\n        Silence</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-063_Mind,-Origin-of-Separative-Consciousness\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Mind, \r\n        Origin of Separative Consciousness</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-064_The-Personal-and-the-Impersonal\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Personal and the Impersonal</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-065_I-Have-Nothing\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">&quot;I \r\n        have Nothing, I am Nothing&quot;</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-066_Here-or-Elsewhere\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Here \r\n        or Elsewhere</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-067_When-Imperfection-is-Greater-Than-Perfection\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">When \r\n        Imperfection is Greater than Perfection</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-068_Individual-and-Collective-Soul\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Individual \r\n        and Collective Soul</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-069_The-Wonder-of-It-All\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Wonder of It All</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-070_To-Learn-and-to-Understand\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">To \r\n        Learn and to Understand</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-071_The-Coming-of-Superman\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Coming of Superman</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-072_Towards-Redemption\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Towards \r\n        Redemption</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-073_Sweet-Holy-Tears\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Sweet \r\n        Holy Tears</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-074_Identification-of-Consciousness\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Identification \r\n        of Consciousness</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-075_The-Central-Consciousness\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Central Consciousness</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-076_The-Constants-of-the-Spirit\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Constants of the Spirit</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-077_Selfless-Worker\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Selfless \r\n        Worker</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-078_Second-Sight\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Second \r\n        Sight</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-079_The-Mother-on-Herself\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Mother on Herself</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"100%\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n			<b>PART SEVEN</b></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-080_Realisation,-Past-and-Future\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;Realisation, \r\n        Past and Future</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-081_The-Spiral-Universe\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Spiral Universe</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-082_This-Expanding-Universe\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">This \r\n        Expanding Universe</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-083_The-World-Serpent\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        World Serpent</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-084_This-Mystery-of-Existence\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">This \r\n        Mystery of Existence</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-085_Record-of-World-history\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Record \r\n        of World-History</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-086_Freedom-and-Destiny\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Freedom \r\n        and Destiny</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-087_The-Divine-Truth\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Divine Truth - Its Name </a> </font> </p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-088_The-Symbolic-Ignorance\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Symbolic Ignorance</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-089_Diseases-and-Accidents\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Diseases \r\n        and Accidents</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-090_The--Problem-of-Evil\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Problem of Evil</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-091_This-Ugliness-in-the-World\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">This \r\n        Ugliness in the World</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-092_Divine-Justice\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Divine \r\n        Justice</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-093_The-Divine-Suffering\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Divine Suffering</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-094_Divine-Disgust\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Divine \r\n        Disgust</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-095_Things-Significant-and-Insignificant\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Things \r\n        Significant and Insignificant</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-096_Why-Do-We-Forget-Things\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Why \r\n        Do we Forget Things?</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-097_How-to-get-Rid-of-Troublesome-Thoughts\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">How \r\n        to Get Rid of Troublesome </a> </font> </p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-098_Bad-Thought-formation\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Bad \r\n        Thought-Formation</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-099_Why-are-Dreams-Forgotten\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Why \r\n        are Dream Forgotten?</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-100_On-Occultism\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">On \r\n        Occultism</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-101_Mysticism-and-Occultism\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Mysticism \r\n        and Occultism</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-102_Meditation-and-Some-Questions\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Meditation \r\n        and Some Questions</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-103_Meditation-and-Meditation\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Meditation \r\n        and Meditation</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-104_Prayer-and-Aspiration\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Prayer \r\n        and Aspiration</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-105_Offering-and-Surrender\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Offering \r\n        and Surrender</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-106_Equality-of-the-Body\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Equality \r\n        of the Body</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-107_Personal-Effort-and-Will\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Personal \r\n        Effort and Will</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-108_How-to-Feel-that-we-Belong-to-the-Divine\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">How \r\n        to Feel that we Belong to Divine</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-109_Sincerity-is-Victory\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Sincerity \r\n        is Victory</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-110_Images-of-Gods-and-Goddesses\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Images \r\n        of Gods and Goddesses</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-111_The-Yogic-Centres\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Yogic Centres</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-112_The-Inner-and-the-Outer\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Inner and the Outer</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-113_And-this-Agile-Reason\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">And \r\n        this Agile Reason</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-114_The-Force-of-Body\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Force of Body-Consciousness</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-115_The-Body-and-the-Psychic\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Body and the Psychic</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-116_The-Psychic-Being\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Psychic Being - Some Mysteries</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-117_Past-Lives-and-the-Psychic-Being\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Past \r\n        Lives and Psychic Being</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-118_The-Homogeneous-Being\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Homogeneous Being</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-119_Service-Human-and-Divine\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Service \r\n        Human and Divine</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-120_The-Divine-Family\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Divine Family</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-121_The-Nature-and-Destiny-of-Art\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Nature and Destiny of Art</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-122_Music--its-origine-and-nature\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Music \r\n        - Its Origin and Nature</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-123_Music--Indian-and-European\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Music \r\n        - Indian and European</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"188\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-124_Specialisation\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Specialisation</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"172\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-125_INDEX\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Index</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"177\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;</font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"184\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;</font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; 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margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</i></b><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE\r\nordinary consciousness takes for granted the things that exist as they are. It\r\ndoes not question; it finds everything very natural and as a matter of course.\r\nIt sees and expects to see the same old familiar things repeated and is not\r\nstruck by any extraordinary note in them. That is the unconsciousness of the\r\nordinary consciousness. But when you begin to be conscious, when you look about\r\nand gaze at things, you awake, as it were, from sleep, and begin to question,\r\nto wonder: why is it like this, how is it so, what is it, to what purpose etc.\r\netc. Normally you see the sun rise, rain fall, earth rotate – but you do not\r\nspend a thought over any of these objects or happenings, except so far as they\r\nare useful or simply nuisance. But when there is a light in you and you become\r\nconscious, conscious of yourself and of things around you, everything acquires\r\nan importance, a sense and you are full of wonder, wondering at a wonderful\r\ncreation. The more you advance, the more the light grows in you, all the more\r\nyour wonder increases. As your awareness increases, your interest too\r\nincreases. A new beauty surrounds, flows out of every object and event. You do\r\nnot take things for granted and let them pass mechanically, but greet everyone\r\nof them as a guest, with whom you wish to make acquaintance and be familiar,\r\neach one having a message for you and yourself something to deliver. That is a\r\nsource of inexhaustible delight and of ever increasing knowledge.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 273<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</span><i>\r\n<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</b>\r\n</i></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-069_The Wonder of It All','','publish','closed','open','','069_the-wonder-of-it-all','','','2021-11-23 17:59:13','2021-11-23 17:59:13','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/069_the-wonder-of-it-all/',0,'post','',0),(2183,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:13','2021-11-23 17:59:13','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Personal and the Impersonal</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The Personal and the Impersonal</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As you go\r\nup in your consciousness towards the origin of things you come finally at the\r\nend of things: you are beyond the names and forms that make up the universe,\r\nbeyond even the subtle names and forms at the topmost. You arrive at something\r\nformless, impersonal,\' unthinkable, unique, infinite and eternal. It is at best\r\na vast force or a state of consciousness. When you come in contact with it, you\r\nlose your personal form, your separate individuality and become the featureless\r\nabsolute. Many religions and philosophies consider this status to be the\r\nsupreme, the highest and the origin of things. In reality, however, it is not\r\nthe end of things <span class=GramE>nor</span> the supreme status. You can rise\r\nfurther beyond. Your consciousness enters into the formless and impersonal and\r\nmerges its separate existence there and then emerges again; it envisages a\r\nreality which is not formless but has a form, it is not impersonality but a\r\nPerson, with which or with whom you can have a personal relation unlike the\r\nrelation or lack of relation with the Impersonal. But this form beyond the\r\nformless is not like the forms of the inferior consciousness: it is the Form of\r\nforms. And it is not a person like a human being or even a divine being or god,\r\nbut an essential Personality, the Person of persons. It has not the limitation\r\nor exclusiveness of ego-bounded individuality (even the gods are ego-bounded);\r\nit has a kind of fluid <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>boundedness</span>\r\nor outline which is recognizable as that of a definite Person, but it has not\r\nthe fixity or rigidity of lower forms.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nyet to arrive at this supreme Person, to come in contact with Him, it is\r\nnecessary to pass through and have the experience of the formless impersonal\r\ninfinity. For that breaks the inferior moulds, the narrow egoistic formations\r\nwhich are<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 264<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>only</span> aberrations or obscure images of the true Person. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Somewhat\r\non the same line the vital too has to proceed to transform <span class=GramE>itself</span>.\r\nIt must get rid of its ignorant and violent impulses, its obscure formations:\r\nit must be thoroughly cleansed and purified. For that it must learn to be quiet\r\nand silent – absolutely still and passive; and in that quiet passivity to feel,\r\nto be conscious of the Divine Presence, to be saturated with it. When once that\r\nis done, it is called upon to come out and take part in active life. Normally,\r\nhowever, the tendency is, when one has withdrawn and lived an inward quieted\r\nlife, on coming back to outer life, to turn to the old accustomed ways and\r\nreactions; one falls back into the old groove of the consciousness. The vital\r\nshould then make the experience and the realisation of the Divine Presence\r\ndynamic so that it may be a living reality; the vital must be conscious of it\r\nin the midst of all activities, not merely in the indrawn state. The energy of\r\nthe vital must be put out into a complete and perfected living, but it must not\r\nrun into old moulds and take up the habitual modes; with the constant sense of\r\nthe Divine, the ever present truth and beauty of the Divine\'s consciousness,\r\nthe vital will possess a new life and create a new pattern of living.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 265<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-064_The Personal and the Impersonal','','publish','closed','open','','064_the-personal-and-the-impersonal','','','2021-11-23 17:59:13','2021-11-23 17:59:13','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/064_the-personal-and-the-impersonal/',0,'post','',0),(2184,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:13','2021-11-23 17:59:13','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Sri Aurobindo\'s Gita</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><font size=\"4\">Sri Aurobindo\'s Gita</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>THE supreme secret of the\r\nGita, <i>rahasyam uttamam, </i>has presented itself to diverse minds in diverse\r\nforms. All these however fall, roughly speaking, into two broad groups of which\r\none may be termed the <i>orthodox </i>school and the other the <i>modem </i>school.\r\nThe orthodox school as represented, for example, by Shankara or Sridhara,\r\nviewed the Gita in the light of the spiritual discipline more or less current\r\nin those ages, when the purpose of life was held out to be <i>emancipation </i>from\r\nlife, whether through desireless work or knowledge or devotion or even a\r\ncombination of the three. The </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span\r\n  lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Modern</span></st1:PlaceName><span\r\n lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span\r\n  lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>School</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>, on the other\r\nhand, re­presented by Bankim in </span><st1:place><span lang=EN-GB\r\n style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Bengal</span></st1:place><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'> and more\r\nthoroughly developed and systematised in recent times by Tilak, is inspired by\r\nits own Time-Spirit and finds in the Gita a gospel of life-fulfilment. The\r\nolder interpretation laid stress upon a spiritual and religious, which meant\r\ntherefore in the end an <i>other-worldly </i>discipline; the newer\r\ninterpretation seeks to dynamise the more or less quietistic spirituality which\r\nheld the ground in India of later ages, to set a premium upon action, upon duty\r\nthat is to be done in our workaday life, though with a spiritual intent and\r\nmotive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>This neo-spirituality which\r\nmight claim its sanction and authority from the real old-world Indian\r\ndiscipline – say, of Janaka and Yajnavalkya – labours, however, in reality,\r\nunder the influence of European <i>activism </i>and <i>ethicism. </i>It was\r\nthis which served as the immediate incentive to our spiritual revival and\r\nrevaluation and its impress has not been thoroughly obliterated even in the\r\nbest of our modern exponents. The bias of the vital urge and of the moral\r\nimperative is apparent enough in the modernist conception of a dynamic\r\nspirituality. Fundamentally the dynamism is made to reside in the <i>élan </i>of\r\nthe ethical man, – the spiritual element, as a consciousness of \r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page - 21</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>supreme unity in the Absolute (Brahman) or of love\r\nand delight in God, serving only as an atmosphere for the mortal activity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Sri Aurobindo has raised action completely\r\nout of the mental and moral plane and has given it an absolute spiritual life.\r\nAction has been spiritualised by being carried back to its very source and\r\norigin, for it is the expression in life of God\'s own Consciousness-Energy\r\n(Chit-Shakti).<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The Supreme Spirit,\r\nPurushottama, who holds in himself the dual reality of Brahman and the world,\r\nis the master of action who acts but in actionlessness, the Lord in whom and\r\nthrough whom the universes and their creatures live and move and have their\r\nbeing. Karmayoga is union in mind and soul and body with the Lord of action in\r\nthe execution of his cosmic purpose. And this union is effected through a trans­formation\r\nof the human nature, through the revelation of the Divine Prakriti and its\r\ndescent upon and possession of the inferior human vehicle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Arrived so far, we now find, if\r\nwe look back, a change in the whole perspective. Karma and even Karmayoga,\r\nwhich hitherto seemed to be the pivot of the Gita\'s teaching, retire somewhat\r\ninto the background and present a diminished stature and value. The centre of\r\ngravity has shifted to the conception of the Divine Nature, to the Lord\'s own\r\nstatus, to the consciousness above the three Gunas, to absolute con­secration\r\nof each limb of man\'s humanity to the Supreme Purusha for his descent and\r\nincarnation and play in and upon this human world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The higher secret of the Gita lies really in the\r\nlater chapters, the earlier chapters being a preparation and passage to it or<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>partial and practical application. This has to be\r\npointed out, since there is a notion current which seeks to limit the Gita\'s\r\neffective teaching to the earlier part, neglecting or even discarding the later\r\nportion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The style and manner of Sri\r\nAurobindo\'s interpretation¹ is also supremely characteristic: it does not carry\r\nthe impress of a mere metaphysical dissertation-although in matter it clothes\r\nthroughout a profound philosophy; it is throbbing with the luminous life of a\r\nprophet\'s message, it is instinct with something of the Gita\'s own <i>mantrasakti.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>¹ <i>Essays on the Gita, </i>Sri Aurobindo Ashram,\r\n</span><st1:City><st1:place><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\n  layout-grid-mode:line\'>Pondicherry</span></st1:place></st1:City><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page – 22<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-004_Sri Aurobindos Gita','','publish','closed','open','','004_sri-aurobindos-gita','','','2021-11-23 17:59:13','2021-11-23 17:59:13','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/004_sri-aurobindos-gita/',0,'post','',0),(2185,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:13','2021-11-23 17:59:13','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Nature and Destiny of Art</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">The\r\nNature and Destiny of Art</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>TRUE art means the expression of beauty in the\r\nmaterial world. In a world wholly converted, that is to say, <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>expresssing</span> integrally the divine\r\nreality, art must serve as the revealer and teacher of this divine beauty in\r\nlife. In other words, the artist must be able to enter into communion with the\r\nDivine and receive the inspiration as to what should be the form or forms for\r\nthe material realisation of the divine beauty. At the same time, in expressing\r\ntrue beauty in the physical, he also sets an</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>example, becomes an instrument of education... Art\r\nnot only creates beauty, but educates the taste of people to find true beauty,\r\nthe essential beauty that expresses the divine truth. That is the true role of\r\nart. But between that and what it is now there is a great difference.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The decline comes in the\r\nnormal course of evolution which follows a spiral movement. From the beginning\r\nof the last century to the middle of it, art became totally a debased thing,\r\ncommercial, obscure, ignorant, something very far from its true nature and\r\nfunction. But the spirit of art cannot die; only as it rose as a movement of\r\nprotest or revolt, the forms it chose were equally bizarre. In attempting to\r\ncounteract the general debasing of taste it went to the other extreme, as is\r\nthe charac­ter of all movements of nature. One was a servile copy of nature, it\r\nwas pointed out or not even that. In those days it used to be called\r\nphotographic art, if one were to condemn it: But now it is no longer a term of\r\ncondemnation, for photography has developed into a consummate art. Neither\r\ncould it be truly yalled realism, for there are realistic paintings which\r\nbelong to a very high order. That art was conventional, artificial, I lifeless.\r\nNow the reaction to this movement said: we do not concern ourselves with\r\nphysical life any more, the reality as we<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 417<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>see with\r\noutward eyes is no longer our business; we want instead to express the vital\r\nlife, the mental life. Hence came a whole host of reformers and rebels –\r\ncubists, surrealists, futurists and so on – who sought to create art with their\r\nhead. They forgot the simple truth that in art it is not the head that\r\ncommands, but the feeling of beauty in the heart. So art landed into the most\r\nabsurd, ridiculous and frightful of worlds. Indeed with the two wars behind us\r\nwe have gone further in that direction. Each war has brought down a world in\r\ndecomposition. And now we seem to be in the very heart of chaos.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Perhaps\r\nwe are at the bottom of the curve and it is time to mount up. This\r\ndisintegration is a necessary prelude; it is even from a certain point of view\r\na better condition than that of the epoch of Queen <st1:State><st1:place>Victoria</st1:place></st1:State>\r\nor the <st1:place>Second Empire</st1:place> in <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\nthe age of the practical, successful bourgeoisie, of</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>snug\r\ncontentment and dull mediocrity, of death in life. As I say, the movement of\r\nprogress follows a curve. In a certain epoch some fine things are expressed in\r\na fine way. Then follows an epoch which is tired of the old things, wants to\r\nfind new things and express them in a new way. The age of</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Louis XIV,\r\nfor example, was an age dominated by the sense of artistic creation and it\r\nrepresented the peak of a certain type of the truly beautiful in art and life.\r\nIn the course of social evolution other ideas, other needs appeared – those of\r\na com­mercial age. So the curve took a downward course. For there is nothing so\r\nantagonistic to art as commerce. For the associ­ation of commerce with art\r\nmeans the <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>popularisation</span>\r\nof some­thing which is exceptional: it is putting within the reach of all and\r\nsundry a thing which is understood and appreciated only by the chosen few, the\r\nelite. Perhaps it i_ because of this, because art has no outlet in the world,\r\nit has in these days turned to other directions, into the domains of the mental\r\nand the vital, into sideways and bypaths of consciousness. When, however,\r\nbetter conditions prevail, when instead of the spirit of mercantilism, there\r\nappears upon earth the sense of a more beautiful reality, then art will be\r\nreborn and come to its own. That seems to be still a long way off. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The art of\r\nthis decadent epoch is what I call mushroom art. You know how mushrooms grow?\r\nThey grow anywhere and do not seem to form part, for example, of what you\r\ncultivate<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 418<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>or where you cultivate. Just think of it!\r\nThere is a spot on the wall which becomes humid and you see it soon covered\r\nwith this growth. You have a tree which does not get the sunlight, you will\r\nfind its roots covered with mushrooms. It is a kind of spontaneous growth which\r\nis not linked to the spot where it grows. It is not a limb of its environment,\r\nbut something ex­traneous added to it. Instead of mushrooms I could have spoken\r\nof parasites: they belong to the same category. You have seen parasite plants?\r\nThey grow upon trees, they fix themselves there. They have not their own life and\r\norgans, they do not draw their food directly from earth, as all normal plants\r\ndo; they live upon the life of another, make use of the labour of another.\r\nThere are also animal parasites that live upon another animal, growing and\r\nprofiting by its labour. Parasites or mushrooms have no <i>raison d\'êlre </i>to\r\nbe where they are-they are invaders, interpolators, anomalies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.95pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>In ancient times, in the great ages, in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Greece</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>, for example or even during the Italian\r\nRenaissance, particularly, however, in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Greece</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> and in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Egypt</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>, they erected buildings, constructed\r\nmonuments for the sake of public utility. Their buildings were meant for the\r\nmost part to be temples, sanctuaries to lodge their gods and deities. What they\r\nhad in view was something total, whole and entire, beautiful and complete in\r\nitself. That was the purpose of architecture embodying the harmony of sweeping\r\nand majestic lines: sculpture was a part of architecture supplying details of\r\nexpression and even painting came up to complete the expression: but the whole\r\nheld together in a coordinated unity which was the monument itself. The sculp­ture\r\nwas for the monument, the painting was for the monument; it was not that each\r\nwas separate from the other and existed for itself and one did not know why it\r\nwas there. In </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n  10.0pt\'>India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>, when a temple was being built, for example, what was aimed at was a\r\ntotal creation, all the parts combined to give effect to one end, to make a\r\nbeautiful vesture for God, the one object of their adoration. All the great\r\nepochs of art were of this kind. But in modern times, in the latter part of the\r\nlast century, Art\' became a matter of business. A painting was done in order to\r\nbe sold. You do your paintings, put each one in a frame and place them side by\r\nside or group them, that is, lump them together without much reason. The same\r\nwith</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 419<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>regard to\r\nsculpture. You make a statue and set it up anywhere without any connection\r\nwhatsoever with the surroundings. It is always something foreign, extraneous in\r\nits setting, like a mushroom or a parasite. The thing in itself may not be\r\nquite ugly, but it is out of place, it is not part of an organic whole. We\r\nexhibit art today. Indeed, it is exhibitionism, it is the showing off of\r\ncleverness, talent, skill, virtuosity. A piece of architecture does not incarnate\r\na living force as it used to do once upon a time. It is no longer the\r\nexpression of an aspiration, of something that uplifts the spirit nor the\r\nexpression of the magnificence of the Divine whose dwelling it is meant to be.\r\nYou build houses here and there pell-mell or somehow juxta­posed without any\r\ncoordinating idea governing them, without any relation to the environment where\r\nthey are situated. When you enter a house, it is the same thing. A bit of\r\npainting here, a bit of sculpture there, some objects of art in one corner, a\r\nfew others in another. Yes, it is an exhibition, a museum, a kaleidoscopic\r\ncollection. It gives a shock to the truly sensitive artistic taste.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\ndo not say that a museum is not necessary or useful. It is a good means of\r\neducation, that is to say, getting information about what other people or other\r\nepochs did. It is an aid to the historic knowledge of things. But it is far\r\nfrom being artistic. A museum is not the place where art can find its highest\r\nor its true expression. There is an art which seeks to coordinate, integrate\r\ndistinct, discrete, contrary objects. It is called decorative art. And in so\r\nfar as this art is successful, we are a step forward even in these days towards\r\ntrue art.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Here\r\nin <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> things\r\nare and should be a little different. In spite of the modern European invasion\r\nand in spite of certain lapses in some directions – I may refer to what Sri\r\nAurobindo calls the Ravi Varma interlude – the heart of <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\nis not <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>anglicised</span> or <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Europeanised</span>. The <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Calcutta</st1:PlaceName>\r\n <st1:PlaceType>School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> is a sign – although their\r\nattempt is rather on a small scale – yet it is a sign that <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>\'s\r\nartistic taste, in spite of a modern education, still turns to what is\r\nessential and permanent in her culture and civilisation. You have still before\r\nyou, within your reach, the old temples, the old paintings, to teach you that\r\nart creation is meant to express a faith, to give you the sense of totality and\r\norganisation. You will note in this connection<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 420<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>another\r\nfact which is very significant. All these paintings, all these sculptures in\r\ncaves and temples bear no signature. They were not done with the idea of making\r\na name. Today you fix your name to every bit of work you do, announce the event\r\nwith a great noise in the papers, so that the thing may not be forgotten. In\r\nthose days the artist did what he had to do, without caring whether posterity\r\nwould remember his name or not. The work was done in an urge of aspiration\r\ntowards expressing a higher beauty, above all with the idea of preparing a\r\ndwelling fit for the deity whom one invokes. In <st1:place>Europe</st1:place>\r\nin the cathedrals of the Middle Ages, things were done in the same spirit.\r\nThere too at that time works were anonymous and bore no signature of the\r\nauthor. If any name came to be preserved, it was more or less by accident.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>However,\r\neven the commercialism of today, hideous as it is, has an advantage of its own.\r\nCommercialism means the mixing together of all parts of the world. It effaces\r\nthe distinction between Orient and Occident, brings the Orient near to the\r\nOccident and the Occident near to the Orient. With the exchange of goods, there\r\nhappens an exchange of ideas and even of habits and manners. In ancient days <st1:City><st1:place>Rome</st1:place></st1:City>\r\nconquered <st1:country-region><st1:place>Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\nand through that conquest was herself conquered by the culture and civilisation\r\nof <st1:country-region><st1:place>Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The\r\nthing is happening today on a much greater scale and more intensely perhaps. At\r\none time <st1:country-region><st1:place>Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\nwas educating herself on the American pattern; now that <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\nhas conquered <st1:country-region><st1:place>Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\nphysically, she is being conquered by the spirit of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>;\r\neven in objects manufactured in <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\nyou notice the Japanese influence in some way or other.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 421<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">Freedom\r\nand Destiny</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>FROM a\r\ncertain point of view whatever happens here in the material world is a\r\nreproduction or realisation of whatever has already happened or existed on\r\nanother level of reality. In this world then there would be no free choice,\r\neverything being predetermined. From another standpoint, however, one can say\r\nwith equal truth that the world here is being recreated every moment; it is not\r\na mere replay or Hash-back of a past event, a pre-existent phenomenon, but\r\nsomething ever new and fresh. Take, for instance, a material body, of a particular\r\nchemical composition, having some well-defined properties; it behaves according\r\nto that nature and produces inevitably results deducible from it. Now, if a new\r\nelement is introduced into the thing at any moment, the whole quality of the\r\ncomposition and its <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>behaviour</span>\r\nwill undergo a change. Something like that happens in the universe.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.95pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nuniverse is a huge mass of innumerable elements forming a certain composition and\r\nin accordance with this composition all are organised within itself. But such\r\nan arrangement is not the end or the culmination; it is not static, but moving\r\nforward; it is in the process of development. For at any moment, through the\r\naction of a different kind, one or more new elements can be introduced into the\r\ntotal mass that forms the universe at a given time and that will necessarily\r\nchange the whole inner composition. The universe, the material universe, I\r\nmean, is a <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>concretisation</span>\r\nof a certain aspect or emanation of the Supreme. This <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>concretisation</span> is progressive, not\r\nnecessarily in a constant and regular way, but in answer to a law, with a\r\nsubtle kind or degree of liberty. Thus, in the composition of the universe at\r\neach moment new elements are penetrating and altering the organisation. The<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 313<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>organisation</span> that was perfect in itself and moved and\r\nun-rolled itself according to a definite plan and pattern, suddenly finds\r\nitself changed and the inner relations too are modified and attain a different\r\npoise. That may give the impression of something incoherent or imprecise or\r\nmiraculous, according to the manner in which one looks at the problem. So there\r\nare these two simultaneous facts or factors: there is a determinism which is\r\nabsolute in its way with a complementary movement of liberty, the unforeseen\r\naddition into a fixed existing sum.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This\r\naddition comes from the aspiration for the supreme consciousness. There is\r\nnothing to wonder at the phenomenon. There is <span class=GramE>an aspiration</span>\r\nacting in the world, moving with a certain end in view; the purpose is to bring\r\nback the fallen and obscured consciousness to its original and normal state of\r\nthe divine consciousness. Each time that this aspiring consciousness meets an\r\nobstacle in its working, a new resistance to conquer or to <span class=GramE>transform,</span>\r\nit calls for a new Force. And this new Force is a kind of new creation. In the\r\nhuman being, too, there are different domains in obedience to a law of\r\ncorrespondence; in each there is for him a different destiny and each is\r\nabsolute in its line. But there is also in him, through his aspiration, a\r\ncapacity to enter into relation with a domain higher than where he happens to\r\nbe and bring down an action of this higher domain into the lower determinism.\r\nSo we can say that there is a horizontal determinism in each domain, absolute\r\nin its normal working; but there is also a vertical intervention from other\r\nhigher domains or even from the highest and then the lower determinism is\r\nchanged completely. Thus every human being is at once a sum of various\r\ndeterminisms, absolute in their way, and there is also an absolute liberty that\r\ncan intervene by bringing down other forces into the apparently rigid frame of\r\ndestiny of the lower worlds and alter it. That is how things in the world give\r\nthe impression of the unforeseen, the incalculable, <span class=GramE>the</span>\r\nmiraculous.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You\r\nmay call this intervention Grace; for without the Divine Grace this could not\r\nhappen. There is a consciousness and a vision of things where all are brought\r\nback to this single source; Grace only exists, nothing else is there. That does\r\neverything. But as you have not risen to that summit, not have<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 314<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=GramE>had</span>\r\nthat extreme realisation, you have to take into account your own person, your\r\npersonal aspiration, the thing that calls for the Grace and to which the Grace\r\nresponds. The two are needed here. Both are ultimately ways of viewing the same\r\ntruth. The mind, however, finds it difficult to conceive both in a simultaneous\r\nmovement. The rigid distinctions it makes take away much from the supple and\r\nsubtle and integral truth of a total experience.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 315<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-086_Freedom and Destiny','','publish','closed','open','','086_freedom-and-destiny','','','2021-11-23 17:59:13','2021-11-23 17:59:13','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/086_freedom-and-destiny/',0,'post','',0),(2187,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:13','2021-11-23 17:59:13','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; 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margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Divine Justice</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-family:\r\n\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>Why\r\ndo people receive force from the Divine even when He knows that they are not\r\nsincere?<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Yau must\r\nunderstand once for all that the Divine, when he acts is not moved by human\r\nnotions. Possibly he does things even without what we call reason. In any case\r\nthe reasons are not of the human kind; above all, the Divine has not that sense\r\nof justice which man has. For example, when you see a man full of greed for\r\nmoney, trying to cheat people just for the sake of getting a few rupees, your\r\nidea of justice cries out that such a man should be deprived of all money, he\r\nmust be reduced to poverty. But actually you find things happening to the\r\ncontrary. Although that is only the appearance of the situation; behind there\r\nis an altogether different picture. The greedy gets the object of his greed,\r\nbut he has to make an exchange, give up some other possibilities. He gets money\r\nbut he loses in his consciousness. And then it also happens very often that\r\nwhen he does get what he desired so much, he finds himself not so happy,\r\ngenerally he is even less happy than before: he is tormented by the wealth he\r\nhas gained. You must not judge things by apparent success or by apparent\r\nfailure. One can say, on the whole, that the Divine gives what one asks for and\r\nthat is the best way in which one gets his lesson. If your desire is ignorant,\r\nunconscious, obscure, selfish, you increase in yourself ignorance,\r\nunconsciousness, obscurity and selfishness, that is to say, you move away more\r\nand more from truth and consciousness and happiness, in other words, away from\r\nthe Divine. For the Divine, however, there is only one thing which is true, the\r\nDivine Consciousness, the Divine Union. Each time you put material things in\r\nfront of you, you\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 333<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>become more\r\nand more material, you push behind more and more the Divine. To the eye of the\r\nignorant you may have all the appearance of wonderful success, but this\r\nsuccess, from the standpoint of truth, is a terrible defeat, you have bartered\r\ntruth for falsehood.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To judge by\r\nappearances, by apparent success is an act of complete ignorance. Even in the\r\ncase of a person hardened to the core, who has apparently the utmost success,\r\nthere is a counterpart: exactly this hardening, this evil that is put up\r\nthicker and thicker between the outer consciousness and the inner truth becomes\r\nalso more and more unbearable. The outer success has to be paid for very\r\ndearly. One must be very great, very pure, one must have a very high, very\r\nunselfish spiritual consciousness to be able to succeed and yet not be\r\naffected. There is nothing so difficult to bear than success. That is the true\r\ntest in life. When you are not successful, you turn very naturally to yourself,\r\ngo within you, seek there comfort for the outer failure. And they who have the\r\nFlame within them and the Divine helping them truly, that is to say, if they\r\nare mature enough to get the help, if they are ready to follow the path, must\r\nexpect blows coming upon them one after another, because that helps. Indeed\r\nthat is the most powerful, most direct and most effective help. But if you have\r\n\'Success, take care! Ask yourself, at what price you have had it? What is the\r\nthing you have paid for the success? Of course, there are people of a different\r\nkind. They who have gone beyond, who are conscious of their soul, who are\r\nentirely surrender they can succeed and success does not touch them. But one\r\nhas to rise very high to be able to shoulder the burden of success. It is\r\nperhaps the last and final test that the Divine puts to anyone. He says:\r\n&quot;Now that you are noble and high and unselfish, you belong to Me alone. I\r\nshall make you triumph. We shall see if you can bear the blow!&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To\r\nthe Asuras too the Divine gives what they ask for. Generally it is in that way\r\nthat their end comes all the sooner. An Asura is a conscious being. He knows\r\nthat he has an end. He knows that the attitude he has taken in this universe\r\nwill necessarily destroy him after a time. Of course the Asura\'s time is much\r\nlonger than human time. Even then he knows that there will come an end for him,\r\nfor he has cut himself<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 334<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>from\r\nEternity. What he seeks is to carry out his desires to the utmost extent\r\npossible till the day of his doom, when the final defeat comes. And very\r\npossibly if he is allowed his way the defeat will be hastened. That is why\r\nexactly when great things are about to happen, at that moment the adverse forces\r\nbecome the most active, most violently active and apparently the most\r\nsuccessful. 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\">\r\n<title>Readings in “Savitri”</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><st1:City><st1:place>\r\n<span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:17.0pt;\'><b><font size=\"4\">Readings</font></b></span></st1:place></st1:City><font size=\"4\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:17.0pt;\'><b> in </b></span>\r\n</font>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;\'><b><font size=\"4\">“Savitri”</font></b></span></p>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:6.7pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>1<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>A guardian of the unconsoled abyss<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Inheriting the long agony of the globe,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>A stone-still figure of high and godlike Pain\r\nStared into space with fixed regardless eyes<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>That saw grief\'s timeless depths but not\r\nlife\'s goal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:236.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Afflicted by his\r\nharsh divinity,</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:6.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Bound to his throne, he waited unappeased<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The daily oblation of her unwept tears.¹<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>THE deepest and the most\r\nfundamental mystery of the human consciousness (and in fact of the earth\r\nconsciousness) is not that there is an unregenerate aboriginal being there as\r\nits bed-rock, a being made of the very stuff of ignorance and I inconscience\r\nand inertia that is Matter: it is this that the </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n4.0pt\'>I </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>submerged being is not\r\nmerely dead matter, but a concen­trated, a solidified flame, as it were, a\r\nsuppressed aspiration that burns inwardly, all the more violent because it is\r\nnot articulate and in the open. The aboriginal is that which </span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>harbours</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> in its womb the original being. That is the\r\nInconscient Godhead, the Divinity in <i>pain – Mater Dolorosa ­</i>the Divine\r\nBeing who lost himself totally when transmuted into Matter and yet is harassed always\r\nby the oestrus of a secret flame driving it to know itself, to find itself, to\r\nbe itself again. It is Rudra, the Energy coiled up in Matter and forging ahead\r\ntowards a progressive evolution in light and conscious­ness. That is what\r\nSavitri, the universal Divine Grace become material and human, finds at the\r\ncore of her being, the field <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt\'>¹ Sri Aurobindo: <i>Savitri –\r\nA Legend and a Symbol. </i>Book 1, Canto 1<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n163<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>and centre of concentrated struggle, a\r\nmillennia1 aspiration petrified, a grief of ages congealed, a divinity lone and\r\nbe­numbed in a trance. This divinity has to awake and labour. The god has to be\r\ncruel to himself, for his divinity demands that he\r\nmust surpass himself, he cannot abdicate, let Nature go her own way, the\r\ninferior path of ease and escape. The godhead must exercise its full authority,\r\nexert all its pressure upon <i>itself – <span class=SpellE>tapas</span> <span\r\nclass=SpellE>taptva</span> – and </i>by this heat of incubation release\r\nthe energy that leads towards the light and the high fulfilment. In the\r\nmeanwhile, the task is not easy. The divine sweetness and solicitude lights\r\nupon this hardened divinity: but the inertia of the Inconscient, the \'<span\r\nclass=SpellE>Pani</span>\', hides still the light within its rocky cave and\r\nwould not deliver it. The Divine Grace, mellow with all the tears of love and\r\nsympathy and tenderness she has gathered for the labouring godhead, has pity\r\nfor the hard lot of a humanity stone-bound to the\r\nmaterial life, yet yearning and surging towards freedom. The godhead is not\r\nconsoled or appeased until that freedom is achieved and light and immortality\r\nreleased. The Grace is working slowly, laboriously perhaps but surely to that\r\nend: the stone will wear down and melt one day. Is that fateful day come?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>That is the meaning of human life, the\r\nsignificance of even the very ordinary human life. It is the field of a\r\n&quot;dire debate&quot;, &quot;a fierce question&quot;, a constant struggle\r\nbetween the two opposing or rather polar forces, the will or aspiration\r\n&quot;to be&quot; and the will of inertia &quot;not to be&quot; – the friction,\r\nto use a Vedic image, of the two batons of the holy sacrificial wood, <span\r\nclass=SpellE><i>arani</i></span><i> </i>out of which the flame is to leap\r\nforth. The pain and suffering men are subject to in this unhappy vale of tears­\r\nphysical illness and incapacity, vital frustration or mental confusion – are\r\nsymbols and expressions of a deeper funda­mental Pain. That pain is the pain of\r\nlabour, the travail for the birth and incarnation of <span class=GramE>a\r\ngodhead</span> asleep or dead. Indeed, the sufferings and ills of life are\r\nthemselves powerful instru­ments. They inevitably lead to the Bliss, they are\r\nthe fuel that kindles, quickens and increases the Fire of Ecstasy that is to\r\nblaze up on the day of victory in the full and integral spiritual\r\nconsciousness. The round of ordinary life is not vain or meaning­less: its\r\npetty innocent-looking moments and events are the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 164<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>steps of the marching Divinity. Even the commonest\r\nlife is the holy sacrificial rite progressing, through the oblations of our\r\nexperiences, bitter or sweet, towards the revelation and estab­lishment of the\r\nimmortal godhead in man.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>2<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Savitri, the Divine Grace in human form, is\r\nupon earth. The Divine Consciousness has abandoned its own supreme\r\ntranscendental status to enter into the human consciousness and partake of the\r\nearthly life: it has taken up a mortal frame, to live and dwell here below.\r\nOnly thus she can trans­form the lower animal nature into the divine nature,\r\nraise man to godhead, make of earth heaven itself:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>A prodigal of her rich divinity,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Her self and all she was she had lent to men,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Hoping her greater being to implant<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>That heaven might native grow on mortal soil.¹<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>But the task is not easy. The flesh is weak:\r\nit is incapable of holding or receiving the breath of immortality. Not only so,\r\nit has a positive aversion, a bad will: it is refractory, anti­pathetic to the\r\ntouch of the spirit. Matter is dull and dumb, dark and obdurate: mortality\r\nloves and clings jealously and exclusively to its mortal home. The earthly\r\nbeing does not <span class=GramE>know,</span> cannot appreciate the gift, the\r\nboon that is brought to him, to his very door: he has only to receive and\r\naccept in order to be saved out of all ignorance and grief, impotence and\r\ndeath. The Divine Mother has forgotten herself, has made herself as small and\r\nas close and native to earth as any earthly creature, like anyone of us, taken\r\nupon herself all limitations and indignities, the entire burden of an earthly\r\nlife, graced with her presence this mortal atmosphere. But<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Hard is it to persuade earth-nature\'s change;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Mortality bears ill the eternal\'s touch:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>It fears the\r\npure divine intolerance<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n8.0pt\'>¹Op. cit. Book 1, Canto 1<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;\'>Page – 165<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.2pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>Of that assault of ether and of fire;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>It </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>murmurs at its <span class=SpellE>sorrowless</span> happiness,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>Almost with hate repels the light it brings<span class=GramE>;.</span>\r\n. .¹<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>As, however, &quot;mortality bears ill the\r\neternal\'s touch&quot;, the eternal too is intolerant of the mortal nature – only\r\nit is in­tolerant not in the ignorant blind squeamish weak human way, but in a\r\ndivine way, for it is armed with weapons of light and knowledge, it assaults\r\nwith its luminous force, the energy of ether and fire, the higher and nobler\r\nelements as against the dense dark dumb earth, the lowest element that clothes\r\nthe human consciousness. Indeed, mortality is </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>en­amoured</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> of the tangled beam of joy and sorrow, of\r\nlaughter and tears, of light and shadow and cannot contemplate the unalloyed\r\nsheer delight in Eternity. <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>It<b> </b></span>is\r\nout of breath in the serene rarefied air of immortality; it pines for the <i>terra\r\nfirma, </i>the mud and slime. The human consciousness has been fleeing the\r\nHound of Heaven down the corridors of Time, and yet it will be caught in the\r\nend and wholly transmuted in the divine embrace into the substance of the\r\nDivine Himself. All the unwillingness and protestation and revolt are meant to\r\nforge and hammer the final union into something perfect, faultless, absolute.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>¹ Op. cit. Book1, Canto 1<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 166<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-031_Readings in Savitri','','publish','closed','open','','031_readings-in-savitri','','','2021-11-23 17:59:14','2021-11-23 17:59:14','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/031_readings-in-savitri/',0,'post','',0),(2189,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:14','2021-11-23 17:59:14','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Mysticism and Occultism</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Mysticism and\r\nOccultism</font></span></b></p>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-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>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>MYSTICISM\r\nis more or less an emotional relation with what one feels to be a Divine Power –\r\nit is a relation very intimate, emotive and intense with something invisible\r\nwhich one takes for the Divine.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Occultism\r\nis the knowledge of invisible forces and the power to handle them. It is a\r\nscience, altogether a science. I always compare occultism with chemistry or\r\nphysics; for occult knowledge is very much like scientific knowledge, only\r\nscience deals with material objects and forces, while occultism deals with invisible\r\nentities and energies, their potentials of combination and association. And as\r\nby your chemical or physical knowledge you control material phenomena, in the\r\nsame way by the occult knowledge you control subtle phenomena, make them active\r\nand effective. The procedure also is quite scientific. It is to be learnt\r\nexactly as you do a science. It is not a matter of feeling or emotion: it is\r\nnothing vague or uncertain. You must work as in a laboratory. You have to learn\r\nthe laws of action and reaction and apply them. Only there are not many people\r\nto teach you. Also it is not without danger. There are in <span class=GramE>this\r\nfield combinations</span> as explosive as any chemical combination.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nis a thing, however, that can be learnt. But one must have the aptitude. If you\r\nhave the power latent in you, you can develop it by practice; but if you have\r\nnot, you can try for 50 years, it will come to nothing. Everybody cannot have\r\nthe occult power; it is as if you said that everybody in the world could be a\r\nmusician or a painter or a poet. There are people who can and there are those\r\nwho cannot. Usually, if you are interested in the subject, unless it is a mere\r\nidle curiosity, it is a sign that you have the gift. You then try. But, as I\r\nsay, it is to be done with great precaution.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 358<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thus, for\r\nexample, when one goes out of the body – I have often spoken to you of this\r\nphenomenon-even if it be just to a little extent, even if only mentally – then\r\nwhat goes out is a part of the consciousness that controls the normal\r\nactivities of the body, what remains is the portion that is automatic,\r\nproducing the spontaneous involuntary movements such as blood circulation or\r\nsecretion etc., also other nervous or automatic thought movements; this region\r\nis no longer under the control of the conscious thinking part. Now, there is\r\nalways in the atmosphere around you a good number of small entities, quite\r\nsmall often, that are generally formed out of the disintegrated remains of a\r\ndead human being: they are like microbes, the microbes of the vital. They have\r\nforms and can be visible and they have a will of their own. You cannot say they\r\nare always wicked, but they are full of mischief, that is to say, they like\r\namusing themselves at the cost of human beings. &amp; soon as they see that\r\nsomeone is not sufficiently protected, they rush in and take possession of the\r\nmechanical mind and bring about all kinds of disagreeable happenings – nightmares,\r\nvarious physical disturbances – you feel choked, bite or swallow your tongue\r\nand even more serious things. When you wish to go into trance, to have the\r\nexperience of being outside the body, you must have someone by your side, not\r\nonly to keep watch on your physical body, but also to prevent the vital\r\nentities from getting possession of the nerve centres which, as I said, are no\r\nlonger under the control and protection of the conscious intelligence. There is\r\na still greater danger. When one goes out of the body in a more or less concrete\r\nor material way, retaining only a thin and fragile contact – a thread of light,\r\nas it were – with the body, this thread of contact must be protected, for the\r\nattack of the hostiles may come upon it and cut it; if it is cut one can no\r\nlonger return into the body, and that means death.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\nAll that signifies that occultism is not a joke or a mere play; you cannot take \r\nto it simply to amuse yourself. It must be done as it ought to be done, under \r\nproper conditions and with great care. The one thing absolutely essential is, I \r\nrepeat once more, to be totally fearless. If you happen to meet in your dreams \r\nterrible scenes and are frightened, then you must not approach occultism. If, on \r\nthe contrary, you can remain per<span\r\nclass=SpellE><span class=GramE>fectly</span> </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 359<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nclass=SpellE>tranquil in the face of the\r\nmost frightful menaces, they simply amuse you; if you can handle such\r\nsituations safely and successfully, that would show that you have some capacity\r\nand then you can try seriously. There are people who are real fighters in their\r\nsleep; if they meet an enemy they can face him, they can not only defend themselves,\r\nbut can attack and conquer.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 360<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-101_Mysticism and Occultism','','publish','closed','open','','101_mysticism-and-occultism','','','2021-11-23 17:59:14','2021-11-23 17:59:14','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/101_mysticism-and-occultism/',0,'post','',0),(2190,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:14','2021-11-23 17:59:14','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Measure of Time</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">The Measure </font> </span></b><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">of Time</font></span></b><b><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:6.0pt;color:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:133.65pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:6.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>WHEN it is said that the Realisation is\r\ndecreed, is it meant also that the time for it has been fixed? If so, all\r\nindividual effort and freedom of action seem to go out of the picture, being\r\nirrelevant-neither hastening nor retarding the process. The fact is somewhat\r\ndifferent, not so simple and trenchant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>There is very little sense in the common\r\nnotion that every­thing is predetermined as to the time when it will happen,\r\nthat the universal scheme has been all unalterably arranged and mapped out from\r\nbeforehand, that nothing can change it, all goes according to plan. This is\r\nonly a human concep­tion, a construction of the mind, a wrong translation in\r\nthe brain of some fact which is otherwise and elsewhere. The mind divides where\r\nthere is no division, puts things against each other where there is perfect\r\ncompatibility and harmony. Determinism and Indeterminism, Free-Will and\r\nMechanism are contradictions set up by the mind and have no real objec­tive\r\nexistence. From a certain view-point, on a certain level of consciousness\r\nthings appear to move in a rigid frame of mechanistic determinism; from another\r\nview-point, on another level, things seem to possess absolute freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Looked at from the higher source of things,\r\nthe time-factor itself appears as an illusion. What is true is a certain set of\r\nconditions in which forces work themselves out. And in this pattern of\r\nconditions, time (along with space) does not give the absolute and fixed frame\r\nof reference, as is usually taken for granted, but is a varying background,\r\neven if it is not a side-issue or a by-product. The conscious force at work in\r\nthe world aims at a change in the conditions; it is a work pri­marily of\r\nrearrangement and order. The state of Nature, of actuality – of ignorance and\r\ninertia – is one of chaos. What<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 176<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>the Divine Will behind, the Consciousness\r\nstanding over, does is to develop a cosmos out of that chaos. Things are placed\r\nwrongly, at random, pell-mell: they have to be assorted, arranged, docketed,\r\neach item in its own place. We know, for example, of the material particle in\r\nwhich the atoms are huddled together, each pointing to a different direction,\r\nbut when they are arranged in such a way that one half\r\npoints in one way and the other half the contrary way, we have what is called a\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>magnetised</span> body.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>It is when things are arranged in this\r\nmanner, the right thing in the right place, that divine perfection, the\r\nRealisation in the material, is attained. And for this consummation <i>to </i>come\r\nabout, the process that is followed is a greater and greater infiltration of\r\nhigher and higher forces into the field <i>of </i>disorder, of our normal life\r\nand consciousness. The time taken simply indicates that the process is being\r\nworked out; it is an expression of the rhythm of procedure. But to the Divine;\r\nthe Supreme Consciousness that works, time <span class=GramE>itself</span> has\r\nno separate meaning or intrinsic value; for it a thousand or a million years do\r\nnot mean more than what is one moment for us. Indeed, the slowness of time\r\nsimply marks the steps of events in the lower ranges of creation: as we rise\r\nhigher and higher, forces from there come down into the lower field, and the\r\ntempo of events quickens; finally, when the highest peak is attained and its\r\nforces descend and <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>interevene</span>\r\nin the ordering of the lowest levels, then the change, the arrangement that is\r\nbeing worked out, is accomplished immediately and without delay: the time lag\r\nis abolished altogether. Time may be compared to a kind of elastic bond\r\nconnecting the highest and the lowest and running through the intermediate\r\nzones. It contracts as one moves upward and is telescoped, as it were, at the\r\ntop.</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:423.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 177<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.75pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; 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line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Man the Prototype</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n15.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>THE earth has been created for a special purpose; it has a divine role\r\nto fulfil. And so there is only one earth and not many, in spite of what the\r\nscientists may say. The earth is not a mass of dead matter, not merely the\r\ndwelling-place of<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>the growths that have occurred upon it, of\r\nplants and animals and men. She is the home and she is the mother of them all.\r\nShe has a consciousness and a personality, the outer form that we see is only\r\nher body.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Indeed, all the luminaries of heaven have\r\neach <span class=GramE>its</span> con­scious personality, the planets, the moon\r\nand above all the great sun. It is not a fancy or idle imagination that made\r\nthe astrologers ascribe definite influences to these heavenly bodies. In Hindu\r\nastrology, for example, they are considered as real persons, each with a\r\ndefinite form and character, a <span class=SpellE><i>dhyana</i></span><i> <span\r\nclass=SpellE>rupa</span>. </i>The so-called Nature-gods in the Vedas or in\r\nancient<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>mythology generally are in the same way not creations\r\nof mere poetic imagination: they are realities, more real in a sense than the\r\nreal objects that represent and incarnate them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Not only so. Our limited mind and senses are\r\naccustomed to view and recognise individuals alone as persons. But there are\r\ngroup personalities too. Thus each species has a generic personality, a\r\nconsciousness and an ideal or intrinsic form also: the individuals on the physical\r\nplane are its various incarnations, projections and formations. Old Plato was\r\nnot so naive, as we of today are apt to believe, when he spoke of the real\r\nreality of general ideas. The attributes, qualities and functions of the\r\ngeneric personality are the source and pattern of what the individuals that\r\nform the group actually are. The group person is the <span class=GramE>king,</span>\r\nhe is also the body of the Dharma ruling the domain. Any change in the law of\r\nbeing of the group person is necessarily translated in a similar change in<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 178<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>the nature and activity of the individuals of\r\nthe species. What evolutionists describe as sudden variation or mutation and\r\nwhose cause or genesis they are at a loss to trace, is\r\nprecisely due to an occult change in the consciousness and will of the group\r\nsoul.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Man too as a species has a generic\r\npersonality, his proto­type. Only, in opposition to the scientific view, that\r\nis an earlier phenomenon belonging to the very origin of things. Man in his\r\nessential form and reality is found at the source and beginning of creation.\r\nWhen the unmanifest Transcendent steps forward to manifest, when there is the\r\nfirst expression <span class=GramE>of<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>typal\r\nvariations in the infinite as the basis of physical creation, then and there\r\nappears Man in his essential and eternal divine form. He is there almost as a\r\nsentinel, guarding the passage from the formless to form. Indeed, he is the\r\nfirst original form of the formless. A certain poet says that man is the\r\narchetype of all living forms. A bird is a flying man, a fish a swimming man, a\r\nworm a crawling man, even a plant is but a rooted man. His form belongs to a\r\nregion beyond even the first principles of creation. The first principles that\r\nbring out and shape and uphold the manifested universe are the trinity: Life,\r\nLight and Delight-in other terms, Sachchidananda. The whole complex of the\r\nmanifest universe is re­solvable into that unity of triple status. But behind\r\neven this supernal, further on towards the final disappearance into the\r\nabsolute Unmanifest-summing up, as it were, in him the whole\r\nmanifestation-stands this original primordial form, this first person, this\r\narchetypal <st1:State><st1:place>Man.</st1:place></st1:State><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The essential appearance of Man is, as we\r\nhave said, the prototype of the actual man. That is to say, the actual man is a\r\nprojection, even though a somewhat disfigured projection, of the original form;\r\nyet there is an essential similarity of pattern, <span class=GramE>a\r\ncommensurability</span> between the two. The winged angels, the cherubs and\r\nseraphs are reputed to be ideal figures of beauty, but they are nothing akin to\r\nthe Prototype, they belong to a different line of emanation, other than that of\r\nthe human being. We may have some idea of what it is like by taking recourse to\r\nthe distinction that Greek philosophers used to make between the formal and the\r\nmaterial cause of things. The prototype is the formal reality hidden and imbed</span><span\r\nclass=SpellE><span class=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>ded </span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 179<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nclass=SpellE><span class=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>in the material reality of an object. The\r\nessential form is made of the original configuration of primary vibrations that\r\nlater on consolidate and become a compact mass, arriving finally at its end\r\nphysico-chemical composition. A subtle yet perfect harmony of vibrations\r\nforming a living whole is what the prototype essentially is. An artist perhaps\r\nis in a better position to understand what we have been labouring to describe.\r\nThe artist\'s eye is not confined to the gross physical form of an object, even\r\nthe most realistic artist does not hold up the mirror to Nature in that sense:\r\nhe goes behind and sees the inner contour, the subtle figuration that underlies\r\nthe external volume and mass. It is that that is beautiful and harmonious and\r\nsignificant, and it is that which the artist </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>endeavours</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> to bring out and fix in a system or body of\r\nlines and </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>colours</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>. That inner form\r\nis not the outer visible form and still it is that form fundamentally,\r\nessentially. It is that and it is not that. We may add another analogy to\r\nillustrate the point. Pythagoras, for example, spoke of numbers being\r\nrealities, the real realities of all sensible objects. He was evi­dently\r\nreferring to the basic truth in each individual and this truth appeared to him\r\nas a number, the substance and relation that remain of an object when\r\neverything concrete and super­ficial is extracted – or abstracted – out of it.\r\nA number to him is a quality, a vibration, a quantum of wave-particles, in the\r\nmodern scientific terminology, a norm. The human proto­type can be conceived as\r\nsomething of the category of the Pythagorean number.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The conception of the <span class=SpellE>Purusha</span>\r\nat the origin of things, as the very source of things, so familiar to the\r\nIndian tradition, gives this high primacy to the human figure. We know also of\r\nthe cosmic godhead cast in man\'s mould – although with multiple heads and feet\r\n– <span class=SpellE>visioned</span> and hymned by sages and seers. The gods\r\nthemselves seem to possess a human frame. The Upanishads say that once upon a\r\ntime the gods looked about for a proper body to dwell in, they were\r\ndisappointed with all others; it is only when the human form was presented that\r\nthey exclaimed, &quot;This is indeed a perfect form, a perfect form indeed.&quot;\r\n<span class=GramE>All that indicates the feeling and perception that there is\r\nsomething eternal and transcendent in the human body-frame.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 180<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><font size=\"4\">Consciousness\r\nas Energy</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>1<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>A </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>LIVE wire – through\r\nwhich an electric current, say of several thousand volts, is passing – looks\r\nquite innocent, motionless, inactive, almost inert. The appearance, needless to\r\nsay, is deceptive. Even so the <i>still life </i>of a Yogin. Action does not\r\nconsist merely in mechanical motion visible to the eye: intra-atomic movements\r\nthat are subtle, invisible, hard to detect even by the most sensitive\r\ninstruments, possess a tremen­dous potency, even to unimaginable degrees.\r\nLikewise in man, the extent of muscular flexions does not give the measure or\r\npotential of his activity. One cannot say that the first-line infantryman who\r\nrushes and charges, shoots, bayonets, kills and is killed is more active and\r\ndynamic than the general who sits quiet behind in a cabin and merely sends out\r\norders. Vivekananda wandered about the whole of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>, crossed\r\nthe seas, traversed continents, undertook whirlwind campaigns – ­talking,\r\ndebating, lecturing: it was a life superbly rich in muscular movements. By his\r\nside, Ramakrishna would appear quite tame – inactive, &quot;introvert&quot;:\r\nfewer physical displace­ments or muscular exercises marked his life. And yet,\r\nask anyone who is in touch with the inner life of these great souls, he will\r\ntell you, Vivekananda is only a spark from the mighty and concentrated Energy\r\nthat Ramakrishna was.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>What is\r\nthis spiritual or Yogic Energy? Ordinary people, people with a modern mind,\r\nwould concede at the most that there are two kinds of activity: (1) real\r\nactivity – physical action, work, labour with muscle and nerve, and (2) passive\r\nactivity – activity of mind and thought. According to the pragmatic standard\r\nespecial, if not entire, importance is given<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page –\r\n141<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>the the\r\nfirst category; the other category, &quot;sicklied o\'er with the pale cast <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>of thought&quot;, is held at a discount. The <i>thoughtful\r\n</i>people are philosophers at the most, they are ineffectual angels in this\r\nworkaday world of ours. We need upon earth people of sterner stuff, dynamic\r\npeople who are not thought­-bound, but know how to apply and execute their\r\nideas, whatever they may be. Lenin was great, not because he had revolutionary\r\nideas, but because he gave a muscular frame to them. Such people alone are the\r\npragmatic, dynamic, useful category of humanity. The others are, according to\r\nthe more radical leftist view, merely parasitic, and according to a more\r\ngenerous liberal view, chiefly decorative elements in human society.\r\nMind-energy can draw dream pictures, beautiful perhaps, but inane; it is only\r\nmuscular energy that gives a living and material body – a local habitation and\r\na name­ – to what otherwise would be airy nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Energy,\r\nhowever, is not merely either muscular (physical) or cerebral. There are\r\nenergies subtler than thought and yet more dynamic than the muscle (or the\r\nelectric pile). One such, for example, is vital energy, although orthodox bio­-chemists\r\ndo not believe in any kind of vitalism that is some­thing more than mere\r\nphysico-chemical reaction. Indeed, this is the energy that counts in life; for\r\nit is this that brings about what we call success in the world. A man with push\r\nand go, as it is termed, is nothing but a person with abundant vital energy.\r\nBut even of this energy there are gradations. It can be deep, controlled,\r\norganised or it can be hectic, effusive, confused: the latter kind expresses\r\nand spends itself often in mere external, nervous and muscular movements.\r\nThose, however, who are known as great men of action are precisely they who are\r\nendowed with life energy of the first kind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The Yogi –\r\nthe Hatha Yogi, the Raja Yogi, the Tantrik – seeks consciously to master this\r\nlife energy, to possess and use it as he wills. The Yogi, the true Yogi, aims\r\nat a higher quality, a deeper potentiality of the life energy: it may be called\r\nthe Inner Life Energy. This inner life energy is in a line with, is one with\r\nthe universal life energy; therefore it is said when one possesses and controls\r\nthis power one has command over the universal power. All other energies – visible,\r\ntangible, concretised and canalised – are particular formations and<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>Page-142<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>e</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>mbodiments of till,\r\nmother energy. Even the mo&quot;, physical </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>and material energies\r\n– mechanical, electrical, nervous, etc. ­</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>-are all derivatives\r\nand lesser potentials of this fount and origin. The mastery of the inner vital\r\nenergy is the whole secret of what is known as occultism, even magic, black or\r\nwhite, spell and other allied powers or miracles. The eight <i>siddhis </i>well\r\nknown to the Yogis are the natural results of this mastery. With such a mastery\r\nthe Yogi controls and guides his own destiny; he can also in the same way\r\ncontrol and guide the destiny of others, even of peoples and humanity at large.\r\nThat is the deeper meaning the great phrase of the Gita­ – <i>lokasamgraha – carries.\r\n</i>Indeed, great souls are precisely they who move with the upward current of\r\nNature, in and through whom Nature works out vast changes, prepares the steps\r\nof evolution in the world and humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>But what\r\nagain is this universal vital energy? This also is an instrument, not the\r\nultimate agent. After all, vital energy is blind by itself; it moves\r\ninstinctively or intuitively, as Bergson would say; it does not know\r\nconsciously beforehand the next step it is going to take. Consciousness then is\r\nthe secret. This is &quot;the power behind the throne&quot;, it is this to\r\nwhich the Upanishad refers in its analysis of the ultimate dynamics of things\r\nas the life of Life, <i>pranasva pranah.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>It is the\r\naim of all Yoga, spiritual discipline, finally to arrive at this consciousness,\r\nthis supreme reality which is behind all existence, which is the source and the\r\nsubstance of all. It is in this Consciousness that the whole creation is rolled\r\nup and it is from this that it is rolled out. Only there are some paths of\r\nspiritual discipline that prefer and follow the move­ment of in-rolling and\r\nothers that seek the one of out-rolling: the former is the path of <i>nivrtti, </i>the\r\nlatter that of <i>pravrtti.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Thus\r\nconsciousness is not merely a status of being, but also a force of becoming.\r\nAll that is to take form and be active, whether in the grossest, the material\r\nmode or in the most subtle, the ideative mode is originally a seed, a stress, a\r\npoint of concentration of this consciousness. The Yogi becomes potentially\r\nall-powerful, because he is one with the All-Power, the Mother Consciousness.\r\nThe perfect spiritual man not merely dwells with or is close to the Divine <i>(salokya),\r\n</i>he is not merely made in the image of the Divine <i>(sarupya), </i>and\r\nagain<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page-143<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>he is not\r\nmerely unified and one with the Divine <i>(sayujya) </i>but what. is most\r\nmarvellous, he has the same nature, that is to say, he has the same powers and\r\ncapacities as the Divine <i>(sadharmya)</i></span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:17.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The\r\ndynamic becoming, becoming a power and personality of the omnipotent Divine, is\r\na secret well known to the Yogis and mystics. Only it has not been worked out\r\nin all its impli­cations, not given the full value and importance rightfully\r\ndue to it. The reason is that although the principle was dis­covered and\r\nadmitted, the proper key had not been found that could release and manipulate\r\nthe Energy at its highest potential and largest amplitude. Because the major\r\ntendency in the spiritual man till now has been rather to follow the path of <i>nivrtti\r\n</i>than the path of <i>pravrtti, </i>this latter path being more or less\r\nidentified with the path of Ignorance. But there is a higher line of <i>pravrtti\r\n</i>which means the manifestation of the Divine, not merely the expression of\r\nthe inferior Nature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>2</span></b></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>The force\r\nof consciousness is not simply the force an idea or thought may have. The\r\ndistinction between the two is not usually understood. In reality, however,\r\nthought or idea is a form of energy-action in the mind and mind is only one\r\nfield or grade – not the most dynamic nor direct or immediate­ – among many for\r\nthe play of consciousness, as I have already said. Mind energy, life energy,\r\nphysical or material energy are various forms and stages in the expression of\r\nconsciousness­ energy (Chit-Tapas). The nature and function of conscious­ness-energy\r\nwe may elucidate and understand in another way, by following a different line\r\nof its <i>modus vivendi.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Consciousness\r\nhas a fourfold potential. The first is the normal consciousness, which is\r\npredominantly mental; it is the sphere comprising movements of which man is\r\nusually and habitually aware. It is what the Upanishad <i>names Jagrat </i>or\r\n<i>jagaritasthana </i>and characterises as <i>bahihprajña: </i>it is\r\nthe waking state and has cognition only of external things. In other words, the\r\nconsciousness here is wholly objectivised, externalised – “extrovert&quot;: it\r\nis also a strongly individualised formation, the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page –\r\n144<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>consciousness\r\nis hedged in, isolated and contoured by a protective ring, as it were, of a\r\ncharacteristically separative personality; it is a surface formation, a web\r\nmade out of day-­to-day sensations and thoughts, perceptions and memories,\r\nimpressions and associations. It is a system of outward actions and reactions\r\nagainst or in the midst of one\'s actual environment. The second potential is\r\nthat of the Inner Consciousness: its characteristic is that the consciousness\r\nhere is no longer trenchantly separative and individual, narrowly and rigidly\r\negoistic. It feels and sees itself as part of or one with the world\r\nconsciousness. It looks upon its individuality as only a wave of the universal\r\nmovement. It is also sometimes called the subliminal consciousness; for it\r\nplays below or behind the normal surface range of consciousness. It is made up\r\nof the residuary powers of the normal consciousness, the abiding vibrations and\r\nstresses that settle down and remain in the background and are not immediately\r\nrequired or utilised for life purposes: also it contacts directly energies and\r\nmovements that well out of the universal life. The phenomena of clair­voyance\r\nand clairaudience, the knowledge of the past and the future and of other worlds\r\nand persons and beings, certain more dynamic movements such as distant\r\ninfluence and guidance and controlling without any external means, well known\r\nin all yogic disciplines, are various manifestations of the power of this Inner\r\nConsciousness. But there is not only an outward and an inner consciousness;\r\nthere is also a deeper or nether consciousness. This is the great field that\r\nhas been and is being explored by modern psychologists. It is called the\r\nsubconscious, sometimes also the unconscious: but really it should be named the\r\ninconscient, for it is not altogether devoid of consciousness, but is conscious\r\nin its own way – the consciousness is involved or lost within itself or lies\r\nburied. It comprises those movements and impulsions, inclinations and\r\ndispositions that have no rational basis, on the contrary, have an irrational\r\nbasis; they are not acquired or developed by the individual in his normal\r\ncourse of life experience, they are ingrained, lie imbedded in man\'s nature and\r\nare native to his original biological and physical make-up. As the human embryo\r\nrecapitulates in the womb the whole history of man\'s animal evolution, even so\r\nthe normal man, even the most<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page –\r\n145<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>civilised\r\nand apparently the farthest from his ancient moorings and sources, enshrines in\r\nhis cells, in a miraculously living manner, the memory of vast geological\r\nepochs, the great struggles and convulsions through which earth and its in­habitants\r\nhave passed, the basic urges of the crude life force, its hopes, fears,\r\ndesires, hungers that constitute the rudimental and aboriginal consciousness,\r\nthe atavism that links the man of today not only to his primitive ancestry but\r\neven to the plant world – even perhaps to the mineral world – out of which his\r\nbody cells have issued and evolved. Legends and fairy tales, mythologies and\r\nfables are a rationalised pattern and picture of the vibrations and urges that\r\nmoved the original consciousness. It was a collective – a racial – and an\r\naboriginal </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>consciousness. The same lies </span><i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>chromosomic,</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'> </span></i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>one can almost say, </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>in the constitution\r\nof the individual man of today. This region of the unconscious (or the\r\ninconscient) is a veritable field of force: it lies at the root of all surface\r\ndynamisms. The surface consciousness, <i>jagrat, </i>is a very small\r\nportion of the whole, it is only the tip of the pyramid or an iceberg, the\r\nmajor portion lies submerged beyond our normal view. In reflex movements, in\r\nsudden unthinking outbursts, in dreams and day-dreams, this undercurrent is\r\nsilhouetted and made visible and re­cognisable. Even otherwise, they exercise a\r\nprofound influence upon all our conscious movements. This underground con­sciousness\r\nis the repository of the most dark and unenlightened elements that grew and\r\nflourished in the slime of man\'s original habitat. They are small, ugly,\r\nviolent, anti-social, chaotic forces, their names are cruelty, lust, hunger,\r\nblind selfishness. Nowhere else than in this domain can the great Upanishadic\r\ntruth find its fullest application – Hunger that is Death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>But this\r\nis the seamy side of Nature, there is also a sunny side. If there is a nadir,\r\nthere must be a corresponding zenith. In the Vedic image, if man is born of the\r\nDark Mother, he is also a child of the White Mother <i>(krsna and\r\nsveti). </i>Or again, if Earth is our mother, the Heaven is our <i>father\r\n– dyaur me pita mata p</i></span><i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>r</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>thivi iyam. </span></i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>In other words,\r\nconsciousness extends not in depth alone, but in height also – it is vertically\r\nextended, infinite both ways. As there is a subconsciousness or unconscious­ness,\r\nso also there is at the other end superconsciousness.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page –\r\n146<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Now this\r\nsuperconsciousness is the true origin of creation, although the apparent and\r\nobjective creation starts with and is based upon Unconsciousness. All norms and\r\narchetypes belong to the superconsciousness; for the sake of material creation\r\nthey are thrown down or cast as seed into the Un­conscious and in this process\r\nthey undergo a change, a defor­mation and aberration. All the major themes of\r\ndream myths and prehistoric legends which the psychologists claim to have found\r\nimbedded in man\'s subconscient consciousness are in fact echoes and mirages of\r\ngreat spiritual – superconscient ­realities reflected here below. The theme of\r\nthe Hero of the Dual Mother (Dark and Fair), of Creation and Sacrifice, these\r\nare, according to Jung, dramatisations of some funda­mental movements and urges\r\nin the dark subconscient nature. lung, however, throws a luminous suggestion in\r\ncharacterising the nature of this vast complex. The general sense, Jung says;\r\nis that of a movement forward, of a difficult journey, of a pull backward and\r\ndownward, of yawning abysses that call, .of a light that beckons. It is an\r\neffort, a travail of what lies imbedded and suppressed to come out into the\r\nopen, into the normal consciousness and thus release an unhealthy tension,\r\nrestore a balance in the individual\'s system. Modern psycho­logy lays great\r\nstress upon the integration of personality. Most .of the ills that human nature\r\nsuffers from, they say, are due to this division or schism in it, a suppressed\r\nsubconsciousness and an expressed consciousness seeking to express a negation\r\nof that subconsciousness. Modern psychology teaches that one should dive into\r\nthe nether regions and face squarely whatever elements are there, help these to\r\nfollow their natural bent to come up and see the light of the day. Only thus\r\nthere can be established a unitary movement, an even consistency and an\r\nequilibrium throughout the entire consciousness and being.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>So far so\r\ngood. But two things are to be taken note of. First of all, the resolution of\r\nthe normal conflict in man\'s consciousness, the integration of his personality,\r\nis not wholly practicable within the scope of the present nature and the field\r\nof the actual forces at play. That can give only a shadow .of the true\r\nresolution and integration. A conscious envisaging of the conflcting forces, a\r\ncalm survey of the submerged or side-tracked <i>libidos </i>in their true\r\nnature, a voluntary acceptance, </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page –\r\n147<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>of\r\nthese dark elements as a part of normal human nature, does not automatically\r\nmake for their sublimation and purification or transformation. The thing is\r\npossible only through another force and on another level, by the inter­vention\r\nand interfusion precisely of the superconsciousness. And here comes the second\r\npoint to note. For it is this super­consciousness towards which all the strife\r\nand struggle of the under-consciousness are turned and directed. The yearning\r\nand urge in the subconsciousness to move forward, to escape outside into the\r\nlight does not refer merely to the march towards normal awareness and\r\nconsciousness: it has a deeper direction and a higher aim – it seeks that of\r\nwhich it is an aberration and a deformation, the very origin and source, the\r\nheight from which it fell.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>This\r\nsuperconsciousness has a special mode of its quin­tessential energy which is\r\nomnipotent in action, immediate in effectivity. It is pure as the purest\r\nincandescent solar light and embodies the concentrated force of consciousness.\r\nIt is the original creative vibration of the absolute or supreme Being. Sri\r\nAurobindo calls this supreme form of superconscient con­sciousness-energy, the\r\nSupermind. There are of course other layers and strata of superconsciousness\r\nleading up to the super-mind which are of various potentials and embody\r\ndifferent degrees of spiritual power and consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>We have\r\nspoken of the Inner Consciousness. But there is also, we must now point out, an\r\nInmost Consciousness. As the Superconsciousness is a consciousness-energy in\r\nheight, the Inmost Consciousness is a consciousness-energy in depth, the\r\ndeepest depth, beyond or behind the Inner Consciousness. If we wish to put it\r\ngeometrically, we can say, the vertical section of consciousness represents the\r\nline from the super­consciousness to the subconscious or vice versa; the\r\nhorizontal section represents the normal waking state of consciousness; and\r\nthere is a transverse section leading from the surface first to the Inner and\r\nfinally to the Inmost. This inmost con­sciousness – the consciousness most\r\nprofound and secreted in the cave of the heart, <i>guhahitam gahvarestham,\r\n– is </i>the conscious­ness of the soul, the Psychic Being, as Sri Aurobindo\r\ncalls it: it is the immortal in the mortal. It is, as has often been des­cribed,\r\nthe nucleus round which is crystallised and organised<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page –\r\n148<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>the triple\r\nnature of man consisting of his mind and life and body, the centre of dynamic\r\nenergy that secretly vivifies them, gradually purifies and transforms them into\r\nhigher functions and embodiments of consciousness. As a matter of fact, it is\r\nthis inmost consciousness that serves as the link, at least as the most\r\npowerful link, between the higher and lower forms of consciousness, between the\r\nSuperconscient and the Subsconscient or Inconscient. It takes up within itself\r\nall the elements of consciousness that the past in its evolutionary career from\r\nthe very lowest and basic levels has acquired and elaborated, and by its\r\ninherent pressure and secret gestation delivers what was crude and base and\r\nunformed as the purest luminous noble substance of the perfectly organised\r\nsuperconscient reality. Indeed, that is the mystic alchemy which the\r\nphilosophers experimented in the Middle Ages. In this context, the Inner\r\nConsciousness, we may note, serves as a medium through which the action of the\r\nInmost (as well as that of the Uppermost) takes place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>We can\r\npicture the whole phenomenon in another way and say in the devotional language\r\nof the Mystics that the Inmost Consciousness is the Divine Child, the\r\nSuperconscient is the Divine Father and the Inferior Consciousness is the Great\r\nMother <i>(Magna Mater): </i>the Inner and the Outer Consciousness are the\r\nfield of play and the instrument of action as well of this Divine Trinity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Man, we\r\nthus see, is an infinitely composite being. We have referred to the four or\r\nfive major chords in him, but each one has again innumerable gradations of\r\nvibration. Man is a bundle or dynamo of energy and this energy is nothing but\r\nthe force of consciousness. To different modes or potentials of this energy\r\ndifferent names are given. And what makes the thing still more complex is that\r\nall these elements exist simultaneously and act simultaneously, although in various\r\ndegrees and stresses. They act upon each other, and severally and collectively\r\nimpress upon the nature and charac­ter of the individual being and mould and\r\ndirect his physical status and pragmatic life. A man can, however, take cons­ciously\r\na definite position and status, identify himself with a particular form and\r\nforce of consciousness and build his being and life in the truth and rhythm of\r\nthat consciousness. Naturally<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page –\r\n149<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>the limits\r\nand the limitation of that consciousness mark also the limits and limitation of\r\nthe disposition he can effect in his life. When it is said that the spiritual\r\nforce is not effective on the physical plane in mundane affairs – Buddha, it is\r\nsaid, for example, has not been able to rid the earth <i>or </i>age, disease\r\nand death (although it was not Buddha\'s intention to do so, his purpose was to\r\nshow a way of escape, of bypassing the ills of life, and in that he wholly\r\nsucceeded) – it only means that the right mode or potential of spiritual energy\r\nhas not been found; for that matter even the mightiest mundane forces are not\r\nsovereignly effective in mundane affairs, otherwise the Nazi-Force would have\r\nbeen ruling the world today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Still it\r\nmust be remembered that all these apparently diverse layers and degrees of\r\nbeing or consciousness or energy form essentially one indivisible unity and\r\nidentity. What is called the highest and what is called the lowest are not in\r\nreality absolutely disparate and incommensurable entities: everywhere it is the\r\nhighest that lies secreted and reigns supreme. The lowest is the highest itself\r\nseen from the reverse side, as it were: the norms and typal truths that obtain\r\nin the superconsciousness are also the very guiding formulas and principles in\r\nthe secret heart of the Inconscience too, only they appear externally as\r\ndeformations and caricatures of their true reality. But even here we can tap\r\nand release the full force of a superconscient energy. A particle of dead\r\nmatter, we know today, is a mass of stilled energy, electrical and radiant in\r\nnature; even so an apparently inconscient entity is a packet of\r\nSuperconsciousness in its highest potential of energy. The secret of releasing\r\nthis atomic energy of the Spirit is found in the Science of Yoga.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Page –\r\n150<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-027_Consciousness as Energy','','publish','closed','open','','027_consciousness-as-energy','','','2021-11-23 17:59:14','2021-11-23 17:59:14','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/027_consciousness-as-energy/',0,'post','',0),(2193,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:14','2021-11-23 17:59:14','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Rôle of Evil</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The Rôle of Evil</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n16.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>THE advent or the presence of evil upon earth\r\nhas introduced certain factors in human life that have enriched it, increased\r\neven its value. Certain experiences would not have been there, intimate and\r\nrevelatory experiences, but for this Dark Shadow. One can, of course, conceive\r\na line of growth and development in which it is all light and delight, everything\r\nis good and for the good. But then a whole domain of ex­perience and\r\nrealisation would have been missed. There are certain experiences that one\r\nwould not like not to have had at all, even though that may mean paying and\r\npaying heavily.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Evil is evil, no doubt; it is not divine and\r\nit is not an illusion. It is a real blot on the fair face of creation. Its\r\nexistence can­not be justified in the sense that it is the right thing and has\r\nto be welcomed and maintained, since it forms part of the universal symphony.\r\nNot even in the sense that it is a test and a trial set by the Divine for the\r\nrighteous to prove their merit. It has not been put there with a set purpose,\r\nbut that once given, it has been the occasion of a miracle, it offered the\r\nopportunity for the manifestation of something unique, great and grandiose,\r\nmarvellous and beautiful. The presence of evil moved the Divine – <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Giustizia</span> masse <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>il</span>\r\nmio alto Fattorel¹ – and Grace was born. He\r\ndescended, the Aloof and the Transcend­ent, in all his love and compassion down\r\ninto this vale of tears: he descended straight into our midst without halting\r\nanywhere in the infinite gradation that marks the distance between the highest\r\nand the lowest, he descended from the very highest into the very lowest,\r\ndemanding nothing, asking for no condition whatsoever from the soul in\r\nIgnorance, from<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt\'>¹ Dante: <span style=\"font-size:10pt;\">Divina\r\nCommedia, Inferno, Canto III. 4<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>&quot;Justice\r\nmoved my great maker&quot;<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;\'>Page – 181<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>the earth under the grip of evil. Thus it was\r\nthat Life lodged itself in the home of death, Light\r\nfound its way into the far cavern of obscurity and inconscience, and Delight\r\nbloomed in the core of misery. Hope was lit, a flame rising from the nether\r\ngloom towards the Dawn. But for the spirit of denial we would not have seen\r\nthis close and intimate figure of the gracious Mother.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>This is the divine miracle that has been\r\nvouchsafed to man, the spectacle of the Divine himself becoming an earthly\r\ncreature, wearing as his own body of flesh and blood this mortal frame of pain\r\nand suffering and ignorance, of obs­curity and incapacity and falsehood. This\r\nis the <span class=SpellE>calvary</span> he has accepted, the sacrifice of his\r\ndivinity he agreed to in order that the undivine too may gracefully serve the\r\nDivine, be taken up and transmuted into the reality from which it fell, of\r\nwhich it is an aberration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The glory and beauty of this gesture one\r\nwould not like not to have witnessed and experienced and shared.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.75pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 182<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-037_The Role of Evil','','publish','closed','open','','037_the-role-of-evil','','','2021-11-23 17:59:14','2021-11-23 17:59:14','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/037_the-role-of-evil/',0,'post','',0),(2194,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:14','2021-11-23 17:59:14','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Integral Realisation</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; text-indent:11.25pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">The Integral Realisation</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-size:\r\n18.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>ENDLESS are\r\nthe ways to the Divine. Each one followed with sincerity and earnestness and\r\npersistence to the end leads to the same goal. Now, if the end were solely to\r\nreach the highest summit, the point beyond, the transcendent God and settle\r\nthere, anyone line would be quite sufficient for the purpose. And even if\r\nseveral or all were tried, as Ramakrishna did, that would be only to prove the\r\nfact and to encourage each and everyone to pursue his own path and not get\r\ndiscouraged if others did not subscribe to it or even denied it. At the most it\r\nwould be a richer experience in the sense that the same truth is tasted and\r\nenjoyed in various ways.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\nsuch is not the character of the supramental or Integral Yoga. This Yoga does\r\nnot aim at kicking the ladder of existence down once you are up beyond. It\r\nseeks to integrate the Beyond and the Here-Below, make of the mundane an\r\nexpression and embodiment of the Spirit. In this view the approaches to the\r\nDivine are not mere interim truths but facets of one organic total reality incarnating\r\nthe divine consciousness in a divine life.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nother ways that lead to an escape, you reach a state where you are happy and\r\nsatisfied, you feel you have attained the highest, the utmost worth attaining\r\nand you need not move further or look for anything else. The integral yogi is\r\nnot so bound by one experience. He will find himself always getting away from\r\nthe already attained status, however high it may be, and ranging beyond. Even\r\nif he tries to repeat an experience which he cherishes and considers worth\r\nrepeating and so goes through the usual steps to recover it, he may find that\r\ninstead of the experience wanted he is given quite a new experience.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 247<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The problem for him is not\r\nto reject or minimise any experience or stick to some only as valuable but\r\nembrace all and to put them together, make a synthesis out of them. This\r\nsynthesis is the very character of the Integral Yoga. And it can be reached\r\nonly by rising beyond the experiences given for synthesis. A higher poise of\r\nconsciousness only can find the point of union among different elements and the\r\nfunction and role of each one in a composite harmony. The supramental status is\r\nthe highest synthetic centre; here all experiences and <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>realisations</span> rise into their original\r\nand true reality and find their perfect expression.<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 248<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-057_The Integral Realisation','','publish','closed','open','','057_the-integral-realisation','','','2021-11-23 17:59:14','2021-11-23 17:59:14','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/057_the-integral-realisation/',0,'post','',0),(2195,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:14','2021-11-23 17:59:14','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The World Serpent</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The World Serpent</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE\r\nuniverse is often conceived as a serpent coiling round and eating itself, the\r\nhead turning about and swallowing the tail. The image is that of a sphere or\r\nglobe enclosing the whole existence and that of something without end or\r\nbeginning, infinite. It also gives the idea of a perpetual lengthening out,\r\nthat is, constant creation, but at the same time of a turn back: the unrolling\r\nof the universe is not in a straight line, but .circular.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nuniverse is however a complex entity. It is not made (<span class=GramE>)f</span>\r\nonly one plane, but consists of many planes superimposed upon each other. Thus\r\nat the bottom as the basis is the physical – matter – and at the top as the\r\nacme is the most subtle, the Spiritual: in between there; are gradations whose\r\nnumber varies according to the mode of the outlook.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Reverting\r\nto the image of the serpent, one can say that its head represents the spirit,\r\nthe supreme consciousness, and the tail the other end, matter or supreme\r\nunconsciousness. The image, furthermore, gives a graphic picture of the great\r\ntruth that the extremes <span class=GramE>meet,</span> the head bends round and\r\ncatches the tail. Psychologically this means that if one rises higher and\r\nhigher in consciousness, starting from the body consciousness, traversing Life\r\nand Mind and Overmind and reaches the very source, the head and front of \r\nconsciousness, then, curious to say, one finds oneself all on a sudden landed in \r\nthe heart of matter. In the occult language this is expressed by saying that the \r\nconsciousness that shines on the highest peak, is imbedded also here below in \r\nthe cavern of dead matter. If one rises sufficiently high, rung by rung, to the \r\nextreme end of the ladder, one comes round exactly at the point from where one \r\nstarted without having to pass through all the rungs. Con<span class=SpellE><span\r\nclass=GramE>versely</span> </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 307<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span class=SpellE>too if one probes sufficiently deep into the\r\nfarthest corner of matter, the last limit of inconscience, one comes out into\r\nthe blaze of the same infinity that covers above and below and around.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One\r\ncan recall here the curious conclusion reached by some modern scientists in\r\nregard to the spherical character of the universe that the universe being an\r\nendless bounded plane it is quite likely that a particular star you see in\r\nfront of you may not at all be situated direct against you, but that it might be\r\nsending out rays that have come round the whole sphere and taken you, as it\r\nwere, from behind!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 308<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-083_The World Serpent','','publish','closed','open','','083_the-world-serpent','','','2021-11-23 17:59:14','2021-11-23 17:59:14','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/083_the-world-serpent/',0,'post','',0),(2196,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:15','2021-11-23 17:59:15','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Past Lives and the Psychic Being</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Past Lives and the Psychic Being</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><i>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">MOST\r\npeople are not at all conscious of what is happening in them. Their\r\nconsciousness or being is a mixture of mental, vital and physical elements, a\r\nkind of hotchpotch. There are a few, very few indeed, who are conscious –\r\nconscious of what is beyond the three, viz, their psychic being. For it is only\r\nthat element which endures, persists through successive lives. Certain people\r\nhave known or learnt some rudiments of the matter – who believe in rebirth, but\r\nconceive it in the most childish manner. Their idea is as if the person changed\r\nhis body like a robe. There are persons even who have written books describing\r\nseriously all the lives they had passed through since the time they were\r\nmonkeys! As I have said, it is the psychic element alone that persists after death,\r\nall the rest gets dissolved. And in 999 cases out of 1,000, the psychic is a\r\nvery small formation lying behind and taking little part in the actual life of\r\nthe person. I speak of the average man, not of the Yogi, that is to say, one\r\nwho has a developed psychic being to the extent that it is capable of\r\ncontrolling and guiding the outer life. How often does an ordinary man get in\r\ncontact with his psychic being? Years and years pass for many or most to have\r\njust a passing taste of this movement. <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>It<b>\r\n</b></span>is this moment that abides and is carried over to the next life, all\r\nother things are simply effaced. At a given point of our life, there comes a\r\nspecial circumstance, there is a call within, an absolute inner necessity that\r\nbrings forward the psychic and the contact is made perhaps for an instant. That\r\nexperience is preserved in the psychic memory. More than the outer\r\ncircumstances and the physical events, however, what is cherished in the\r\nconsciousness is the intimate emotion, the vibration that accompanied the\r\nperception at the time. At the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>most, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 405<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>a\r\nword said, a phrase heard, just a passing scene is all that is stored, net and\r\nclear, engraved as it were. But above all it is the soul\'s state that is the most\r\nimportant thing. I t is these scattered elements that serve as stepping-stones\r\nor sign-posts on the soul\'s forward journey. They are the constants that build\r\nup the personality of a man. On rare occasions there is a larger clearing, the\r\ncircumstances preserved are sufficiently definite to point to a date and a\r\nhistorical person. Usually, however, one cannot say, &quot;I was such a person,\r\nI lived in such a country or did such things.&quot; These psychic flashes, more\r\nin some cases, less in others, are the only genuine and authentic records of\r\nthe story of a person\'s lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nis a being who is completely identified with his psychic, who has organised his\r\nwhole person, in all its parts, around this centre, in fact, a being of one\r\npiece, entirely and solely turned to the Divine that can alone remember or hold\r\nin his consciousness something like a totality of his personal history. For in\r\nhis case even when the body drops, the other parts being integrated and taken\r\nup into the soul substance main­tain their individual existence; the\r\npersonality formed around the psychic continues to exist with its memory\r\nintact: even it can pass from one life to another without losing the conscious­ness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\npsychic memory has a very definite character; it has a wonderful intensity. It\r\nstores the unforgettable moments of life, those when the consciousness was most\r\nluminous, most powerful, most active. They are the happiest and the most\r\nfortunate moments of life. But they cannot be spoken about.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There\r\nare people who say and perhaps believe too that they were such and such persons\r\nand even give a detailed description of their past lives. There are also the\r\nwell-known sprit communications through a medium at <i>spirit sitting. </i>Some­one\r\ncomes and tells you he was Napoleon, another was Shakes­peare and so on. How\r\nmany <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Shakespeares</span> and\r\nNapoleons and Caesars have manifested in this way, there is no counting! There\r\nare spirits who are extremely talkative and bewitch you with extraordinary\r\nstories, many that seem so true and genuine on the face, many others, of\r\ncourse, full of the grossest self-contradictions. The fact, however, is that\r\nusually these spirits are small beings of the vital, often remnants of a dead<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 406<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">person, broken bits of his\r\ndecomposed personality, desires that have persisted, coagulated imaginations\r\nset free that move about and seek to possess and settle upon a living person.\r\nThe small spirits of the vital are often not of good disposition; they amuse\r\nthemselves at the cost of the gullible human being, making a fool of him. <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>In<b> </b></span>that world it is easy to\r\nread the mind of others: the spirit sees clearly what is there in your head\r\neven if you do not speak it out. That is how it reveals secrets known to you\r\nalone, even secrets you have totally forgotten. They can imitate other personalities.\r\nThey know many other small tricks to confuse or astound you.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 407<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n</div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-117_Past Lives and the Psychic Being','','publish','closed','open','','117_past-lives-and-the-psychic-being','','','2021-11-23 17:59:15','2021-11-23 17:59:15','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/117_past-lives-and-the-psychic-being/',0,'post','',0),(2197,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:15','2021-11-23 17:59:15','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>This Ugliness in the World</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">This Ugliness in the World</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>EVERYTHING\r\nin the world has at its source a supreme <span class=GramE>truth,</span> how is\r\nit then that the world has become ugly in its expression? Why are things at all\r\nugly? <span class=GramE>Because there are other things that intervene between\r\nthe Source and the manifestation.</span> For example, if I asked you: &quot;Do\r\nyou know your true being?&quot; what would you say? You do not know; it would\r\nbe wonderful if you did. It is the same with all beings and things. And yet you\r\nare already a sufficiently developed being, a thinking being, and have gone\r\nthrough many stages of refinement; you are not quite the lizard crawling on the\r\nwall! Still you cannot tell what <span class=GramE>is the truth of your being</span>.\r\nThat is the secret of the deformation in the world. It is because there is all\r\nthe unconsciousness – the Inconscient – that has been created by the fact of\r\nseparation from one\'s origin. It is this inconscience which prevents the Source\r\nfrom manifesting in its own nature, although it is there always. It is there,\r\ntherefore that all things exist, the world exists; but in its expression it is\r\ndeformed, because it has to manifest itself through inconscience, through\r\nignorance and obscurity. But how did it come about? The will to create was\r\noriginally a will that projected itself towards individual formation; what it\r\narrived at, however, was not the true individual (or <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>individualisation</span>) but a breaking up of\r\nthe solid unity into infinitesimal fragments. The original indivisible unity\r\nbecame a sum of infinitely divided unities. These unities or units were\r\nindividualisations of things separate and feeling and acting as such. It is\r\nprecisely the feeling of separation from others that gives you the impression\r\nthat you are an individual. Otherwise you would feel that you were only a fluid\r\nmass. That is to say, you are no longer conscious simply of your rigid outer\r\nform and all that cuts you off from\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 330<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>others and\r\nmakes of you a separate individual, you are conscious of the vital forces that\r\nmove about everywhere, of the inconscient that is the foundation of all, you\r\nhave the impression that you are a moving mass with all kinds of contradictory\r\nmovements in it, which cannot be separated from each other. You would not have\r\nthe impression that you are an individual being, but that you are something\r\nlike one note or vibration in a whole complex. The original will was to form\r\nindividual beings capable of becoming conscious again of their divine origin.\r\nThis process of individualisation created the necessity that to be an\r\nindividual one must feel on self separate: that is why one is cut off from the\r\noriginal consciousness, at least apparently, and is fallen into inconscience.\r\nFor the Life of life is the Origin alone and if it is separated from that\r\nsource, consciousness naturally turns into unconsciousness and you lose trace\r\nof the truth of your being. That is the process of the creation or formation of\r\nthe world by which the pure origin does not manifest directly in its essence\r\nand purity, but through deformation, that is to say, unconsciousness and\r\nignorance. That is how ugliness came in, death and disease, wickedness and\r\nmisery and all. It is the movement, I say, brought in by the necessity of\r\nindividual formation that has produced these things, each and every one of <span\r\nclass=GramE>them, that</span> is the one source of the multiple evil in all its\r\nmodes and vibrations. I do not say this was indispensable – that problem I may\r\ntake up later on. But for the moment I direct you to the source in order to\r\nshow the remedy. And there is no point in questioning why it is so. As I said,\r\nthe only way to settle the world problem is to be conscious again, to recover\r\nthe lost consciousness. Of course, if you say like some religions that good is\r\ngood and evil is evil and they will always remain so, then there is no longer\r\nany problem. An eternal struggle binds the two together and whichever wins for\r\nthe moment will make the world a little better at one moment and a little worse\r\nat another. But the two exist, continue to exist eternally and indissolubly\r\nintertwined. But you have seen it is not like that; one can come out of the\r\ntangle into the perfect unity of the truth, for it is that which <span\r\nclass=GramE>is the only and original source</span>.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nis this perfect truth, let me repeat, that has scattered itself abroad, into\r\nthese innumerable little atoms, into these<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 331<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>insignificant</span>\r\nbrain cells which, in spite of all their ignorance, are still moved by a secret\r\nstir of consciousness: these little specks of darkness reach out towards light\r\nwhich they can find, for it is within them. They will arrive at what they seek.\r\nIt may take time more or less, but they will reach in the end. That is then the\r\nremedy: it lies in the very heart of evil itself.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 332<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-091_This Ugliness in the World','','publish','closed','open','','091_this-ugliness-in-the-world','','','2021-11-23 17:59:15','2021-11-23 17:59:15','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/091_this-ugliness-in-the-world/',0,'post','',0),(2198,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:15','2021-11-23 17:59:15','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Towards Redemption</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Towards Redemption</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-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>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As I have\r\noften said, creation is the self-objectivisation of the Supreme Divine; it is\r\nthe supreme consciousness putting itself lout of itself so that it may look at\r\nitself. In so doing – in self-objectifying and self-dividing – it scattered\r\nitself abroad: the one infinite multiplied itself into infinite atoms. Not only\r\nso, in detaching itself from itself the consciousness became the very opposite\r\nof itself: consciousness became unconsciousness, spirit became matter, delight\r\nbecame pain, knowledge\' became ignorance, and light became darkness. Boundless\r\nuniversality was the essential nature of the Divine, now it got clotted into\r\nthe knots of egoism upon which is based this inconscient creation. In the midst\r\nof this utter negation, this denial by the universe of its origin, the Divine\r\nLove descended and lodged itself in order to bring back the erring creation to\r\nits lost home. The Divine Love became involved and entangled in the\r\nInconscient, became one with it; only so could she (it was indeed the Divine\r\nMother in her Grace) suffuse the inconscient universe with her own substance\r\nand transmute it into its original nature. The first effect or visible sign of\r\nthis descent or divine infusion is the emergence of the psychic or the soul\r\nelement in the material body: it is the speck of consciousness imbedded in\r\nmatter, inhabiting the apparently dead particle or aggregate of particles,\r\nwhich continually grows in and through its relation of action and reaction with\r\nits surrounding unconsciousness, and at the same time extending its light into\r\nthat darkness transforms it gradually into what it was originally at its\r\nsource.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-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>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\norigin of creation is an <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>individualisation\r\n</span>– the manifestation \r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 279<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>or emanation of many, as units, out of the undivided and indivisible Single. It\r\nmeant freedom for each unit to choose: the individual became, so to say, a unit\r\nof freedom. The immediate result, however, was not very successful, apparently,\r\nthat is to say. For the individual unit chose to follow a path exactly opposite\r\nto its. origin: the <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>individualisation</span>\r\nhappened as if an element shot out of the infinite unity and flung itself in\r\nits momentum, as far away as possible, to the other pole. That is how the one\r\nspirit became the infinite particles of inconscient matter. The purpose and\r\nproblem then set was to bring back the straying elements to their source and\r\norigin. The work was long travail. It took and it is taking even now ages for\r\nthe one Being who could do the thing to prepare slowly, mount the steps\r\ngradually along which creation slid down, recover the ground painfully and\r\nachieve the hidden purpose, vindicating amply the deviation and the fall.\r\nThrough devious ways, long, winding, arduous marches the spirit of evolution <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>laboured</span> through millenniums;\r\nit was the instrument utilised by the Divine Grace.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\noriginal individual was a hard concentrated point of ego, concerned wholly and\r\nabsolutely with itself. So a situation of give and take was brought about so\r\nthat even to exist meant to exist through others. Human society began in this\r\nway. The solitary human animal for its own sake had to come out of its\r\nsolitariness, take to a mate and thus gradually bring up a family. The wall of\r\negoism was broken to that extent, its scope extended. The enlargement of the\r\nego continued – still continues – increasing the content of the unity. From the\r\nfamily the human ego enlarged into the tribe, and the tribal ego has now\r\nenlarged into the nation. Larger and larger aggregates are being formed in\r\nplace of the original individual unities. The nations too are now approaching\r\nand interpenetrating each other and in many ways the whole of humanity has been\r\nmoving as an aggregate. The individual has thus learnt to find himself in the\r\nlife of humanity as a whole. He has to look up – or will soon have to look up –\r\nto the whole creation as one existence in and through which he has to exist.\r\nThus the universe is recovering its original indivisible unity, but having\r\ngained something in the process; for it is now no longer. the featureless unity\r\nat the source but an enriched and multiple<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 280<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>unity in\r\nexpression. Furthermore the individual can proceed yet beyond. He has to and now\r\nis able to, not only in his individual but in his collective consciousness – turn\r\nback and move straight to its original unity: he can establish direct contact,\r\ncommune and unite with the Divine Himself from whom it I came and drifted away.\r\nThe ranges of ascent are within him I and are in line with those outside which\r\nthe universe is traversing in the path of evolution. Such is the process the\r\nDivine I Grace has undertaken to fulfil the Divine\'s purpose in creation.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-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>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nearliest sense of &quot;ego&quot; or &quot;I&quot; is limited and confined to\r\none\'s own self as against others and other things. It is then I that one has\r\nthe feeling of want and asks for things he has not. I He has shut out from his\r\nwing-spread men and things, of his I own accord, to enjoy his individual free\r\nwill: he is now compelled to ask of them materials to enjoy, to grow and\r\nincrease, I even to exist. On the other hand, if you enlarge yourself, I if you\r\nidentify yourself with all, then you find all things I within yourself, you\r\nhave no need to go out and seek for them, you have no feeling of want. Whatever\r\nis needed to be brought and utilised for a definite purpose or in a particular\r\ncircumstance, at a certain time or place, is automatically presented then and\r\nthere. You do not, however, lose your real &quot;I&quot;. Your &quot;I&quot;\r\nfinds its &quot;I&quot; in all other &quot;I&quot;s and all other\r\n&quot;I&quot;s in the &quot;I&quot; you call yourself. You have lost your old\r\nego, the small narrow person, and transcended and transmuted it into the cosmic\r\nand transcendental ego. The Divine is that ego and that individual person. In\r\nreality it is the Divine alone who is that, in the supreme and truest sense.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 281<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-072_Towards Redemption','','publish','closed','open','','072_towards-redemption','','','2021-11-23 17:59:15','2021-11-23 17:59:15','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/072_towards-redemption/',0,'post','',0),(2199,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:15','2021-11-23 17:59:15','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Mother on Herself</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The Mother on Herself</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THERE are\r\ntwo things that should not be confused with each other, namely, what one is and\r\nwhat one does, what one is essentially and what one does in the outside world.\r\nThey are very different. I know what I am. And what others think or say or\r\nwhatever happens in the world, that truth remains unaffected, unaltered, a\r\nfact. It is real to itself and the world\'s denial or affirmation does not\r\nincrease or diminish that reality. But being what I am, what I do actually is\r\naltogether a different question: that will depend upon the conditions and\r\ncircumstances in which things are and in and through which I am to work. I know\r\nthe truth I bring, but how much of it finds expression in the world depends\r\nupon the world itself. What I bring, the world must have the capacity and the\r\nwill to accept: otherwise even if I bring with me the highest and the most\r\nimperative truth, it will be, absolutely as it were, non-existent for a\r\nconsciousness that does not recognise or receive it: the being with that\r\nconsciousness will not profit a jot by it.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You\r\nwill say if the truth I bring is supreme and omnipotent, why does it not compel\r\nthe world to accept it, why can it not break the world\'s resistance, force man\r\nto accept the good it refuses? But that is not the way in which the world was\r\ncreated nor the manner in which it moves and develops. The origin of creation\r\nis freedom: it is a free choice in the consciousness that has projected itself\r\nas the objective world. This freedom is the very character of its fundamental\r\nnature. If the world denies its supreme truth, its highest good, it does so in\r\nthe delight of its free choice; and if it is to turn back and recognise that\r\ntruth and that good, it must do so in the same delight of free choice. If the\r\nerring world was ordered to turn right and immediately did so, if things were\r\ndone in a trice, through<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 295<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>miracles,\r\nthere would be then no point in creating a world. Creation means a play of\r\ngrowth: it is a journey, a movement in time and space through graded steps and\r\nstages. It is a movement away – away from its source – and a movement towards:\r\nthat is the principle or plan on which it stands. In this plan there is no\r\ncompulsion on any of the elements composing the world to forswear its natural\r\nmovement, to obey to a dictate from outside: such compulsion would break the\r\nrhythm of creation.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nyet there is a compulsion. It is the secret pressure of one\'s own nature that\r\ndrives it forward through all vicissitudes back again to its original source.\r\nWhen it is said that the Divine Grace can and should do all, it means nothing\r\nmore and nothing less than that: the Divine Grace only accelerates the process\r\nof return and recognition. But on the side of the journeying element, the soul,\r\nthere must be awakened a conscious collaboration, an initial consent and a\r\nconstantly renewed adhesion. It is this that brings out, at least helps to establish\r\noutside on the physical level, the force that is already and has always been at\r\nwork within and on the subtler and <i>higher </i>levels. That is the pattern of\r\nthe play, the system of conditions under which the game is carried out. The\r\nGrace works and incarnates in and through a body of willing and conscious\r\ncollaborators; these <i>become themselves part </i>and parcel of the Force that\r\nworks.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\ntruth I bring will manifest itself and will be embodied upon earth; for, it is\r\nthe earth\'s and world\'s inevitable destiny. The question of time is not\r\nrelevant. In one respect the truth which I say will be made manifest is already\r\nfully manifest, is already realised and established: there is no question of\r\ntime there. It is in a consciousness timeless or eternally present. There is a\r\nprocess, a play of translation between that timeless poise and the poise in\r\ntime that we know here below. The measure of that hiatus is very relative,\r\nrelative to the conscious-ness that measures, long or short according to the yardstick\r\neach one brings. But that is not the essence of the problem: the essence is\r\nthat the truth is there active, in the process of <i>materialisation, </i>only\r\none should have the eye to see it and the soul to greet it.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 296<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-079_The Mother on Herself','','publish','closed','open','','079_the-mother-on-herself','','','2021-11-23 17:59:15','2021-11-23 17:59:15','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/079_the-mother-on-herself/',0,'post','',0),(2200,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:15','2021-11-23 17:59:15','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Spirit of Tapasya</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h1 align=\"right\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">The\r\nSpirit of Tapasya</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>T</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>APASYA</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> (Asceticism) is usually understood to mean\r\nthe capacity to undergo physical discomfort and suffering. We are familiar with\r\nvarious types of Tapasya: sitting in summer with blazing fire all around and\r\nthe fiery noonday sun overhead (Panchagnivrata), exposing one\'s bare limbs to\r\nthe cold biting blasts among the eternal snows, lying down on a bed of sharp\r\nnails, betaking oneself to sack-cloth and ashes, fasting even to the point of\r\ndeath: there is no end to the variety of ways and means which man\'s ingenuity has\r\ninvented to torture himself. Somehow the feeling has grown among spiritual,\r\nreligious and even moral aspirants as well that the body is the devil that has\r\nto be curbed and controlled with bit and bridle and whip. Indeed the popular\r\nview measures the greatness of a saint by the amount of his physical\r\nprivations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>One seems not to know that the devil cannot\r\nbe so easily checkmated or beguiled. For, indeed, it is easy for the body to\r\ntake punishment, to submit to all kinds of rigours, yet feel as if it was making\r\nample amends and atonement in that way rather than really give up its\r\naboriginal instincts and impulses. Often one deceives oneself, succeeds in\r\nhiding, in secretly preserving one\'s unsaintliness behind a smoke-screen of the\r\nutmost physical tapasya.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Real Tapasya, however, is not in relation to\r\nthe body and its comforts and discomforts; it is in relation to the inner\r\nbeing, the consciousness and its directives and movements. Tapasya, austerity,\r\nconsists in reacting to the downward pull of the ordinary consciousness,\r\nturning and attuning it to the rhythm of higher levels. To oppose the force of\r\ngravitation, to move ceaselessly towards purer and luminous heights of being\r\nand consciousness, that is Tapasya, Askesis, true asceticism.</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-106<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Virgil, the great poet of a diviner order in\r\nhuman life, expressed the idea most beautifully and aptly in those well-known\r\nlines, one of the characteristic passages showing his genius at its best:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>. . . s<i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>uperasque evadere ad auras</i>,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Hoc\r\nopus, hic labor est.</i>¹<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>. . . to move out into the higher spaces, <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>This is work, here is labour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Heroism consists in this untiring march\r\nupward to more and more rarefied heights. That means the growth of\r\nconsciousness, its uplifting and expansion, freeing it from the limitations of\r\nthe ignorant egoistic movements, pressing it forward to the domains of higher\r\nilluminations, towards spiritual consciousness and soul-knowledge, towards\r\ncommunion with the Divine, the cosmic and the transcendent Reality. That is the\r\nreal work and labour. Bodily suffering is nothing: it is neither a sign nor a\r\ntest of the ardours of consciousness thus seeking to uplift itself. Indeed,\r\nTapas, the word from which tapasya is derived, means energy of consciousness,\r\nand Tapasya is the exercise, the utilisation of that energy for the ascent and\r\nexpansion of the consciousness. It is this inner athleticism that is the thing\r\nneedful, not its vain physical simulacrum-not the one which is commonly\r\nworshipped.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>¹ Virgil<i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>: Aeneid</i>, VI. 128<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-107<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-019_The Spirit of Tapasya','','publish','closed','open','','019_the-spirit-of-tapasya','','','2021-11-23 17:59:15','2021-11-23 17:59:15','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/019_the-spirit-of-tapasya/',0,'post','',0),(2201,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:15','2021-11-23 17:59:15','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Meditation and Some Questions</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Meditation and\r\nSome Questions</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-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>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-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>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>Why am I unable to meditate?<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-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>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>BECAUSE you have not learnt it.</span> A sudden fancy seizes you\r\nand you say, &quot;Now I will sit down and meditate&quot;. But to sit down\r\ncross-legged, cross-armed, eyes closed is not doing meditation. You have to\r\nlearn how to meditate, even as you learn to do mathematics or play on the\r\npiano. There are regular courses of meditation given by all teachers in all\r\nages and countries. There are so many rules and regulations. There are all\r\nkinds of instructions, such as, to keep the mind quiet, to be silent and not to\r\nthink, to gather all your thoughts and concentrate them, etc., etc. You have\r\nbeen taught how to sit, stand, walk and eat: you do not remember the method and\r\nthe discipline, because you did that when you were very young. In the same way\r\nif you were taught how to meditate in your childhood, you would not find it\r\ndifficult to do today. Unfortunately you were not taught. You are not taught\r\nthings of that kind. You are not taught even how to sleep. You think that going\r\nto bed and lying down anyway is the way to sleep. <span class=GramE>Not at all.</span>\r\nYou are to learn to sleep exactly in the same way as you learn how to walk or\r\neat. You do not learn so many things, you are not taught. As you grow in years,\r\nslowly, laboriously through unpleasant experiences, through suffering and\r\nblundering, in the end you come to know of certain fundamental things. And when\r\nyou are old, and your hairs are grey, you see you are beginning to learn\r\nsomething, when, that is to say, it is too late. Instead of that, if your\r\nparents, the people who looked after you, took the trouble of teaching you what\r\nyou have to do, to do it well – to act well, to think well, to feel well, in\r\nthe correct manner – then you could avoid all the blunders</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 361<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>you</span> have been making all your life. You are surprised when\r\nyou fall ill, when you feel tired and exhausted. For you know nothing. It\r\nrequires years to learn something, to learn even the most elementary things\r\nsuch as to be clean.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To\r\nlive as one should, in the right way, is a very difficult art. It requires\r\nstudy, it requires practice. Try simply to keep the body healthy, the mind\r\nquiet, and the heart full of good will-these are some of the indispensable\r\nelements for the basis of decent living; you will see the thing is not easy.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;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>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>Is some kind of work necessary for us to do,\r\nover and above our studies?<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That\r\ndepends upon you, upon your aim. If you wish to do Sadhana, you should\r\nnaturally give at least some time to a work that is not selfish, that is not\r\ndone for the sake of yourself. Study is very good, very necessary, <span\r\nclass=GramE>even</span> indispensable; precisely because it is just one of the\r\nthings I referred to a little while ago, which you should learn when you are\r\nyoung, it becomes difficult when you are grown up. There may come, of course,\r\nan age when you have done the basic studies and when you have the urge to do\r\nSadhana. Then you must take up something which is not exclusively personal. You\r\nmust do something disinterested, not concerned with yourself. If you are concerned\r\nwith yourself only, you shut yourself within a kind of shell and you are not\r\nopen to the universal forces. An unselfish movement, an unselfish action,\r\nhowever small, opens the door to something other than your little self. Normally\r\nyou are imprisoned in your shell and you know of the existence of other similar\r\nshells only when you knock against them. But to be aware of the one Force that\r\npervades all, of the mutual dependence of things and beings is quite another\r\nmatter: it is the indispensable basis for Sadhana.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;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>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>But cannot one study for the sake of the\r\nDivine, to prepare oneself for the divine work?<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One\r\ncan. But that requires quite a different attitude. You have to study in an\r\naltogether different spirit. First of all, there would be no subject that\r\npleases you, none that displeases<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 362<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>you</span>, neither a class that bores you, nor one that amuses\r\nyou. There would be <span class=GramE>no difficult lessons nor</span> easy\r\nlessons, neither would there be a teacher who is unpleasant nor another who is\r\npleasant. All such likes and dislikes, prejudices and preferences disappear.\r\nYou are in a condition when you begin to learn from everything that you meet\r\nwith, everything is an occasion for an experience, <span class=GramE>a\r\nknowledge</span>: everything prepares you for the divine work, everything is\r\ninteresting. If you study in that spirit, it is quite all right.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-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>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>How is it that so much money is allowed to\r\nbe wasted here? People entrusted with a work seem to spend lavishly according\r\nto their whims!<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Money\r\nis not the only thing that is wasted. The Energy, the Consciousness is wasted a\r\nthousand times more, infinitely more than money. There is not a second when\r\nthere is no wastage, sometimes worse things are there. There is a habit, I hope\r\nit is unconscious, to take in as much energy, as much consciousness as one is\r\ncapable of and then use it for one\'s personal gratification. It is a thing\r\nhappening every minute. If all this energy, all this consciousness that is\r\nbeing ceaselessly poured upon you, all were used for the right purpose, that is\r\nto say, for the divine work, for preparing the divine work, we would have gone\r\nby now far on the road, much farther than where we are at present. But\r\nunfortunately everyone, if not consciously, at least instinctively, absorbs as\r\nmuch as possible this divine gift and misuses it for selfish ends.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who\r\nthinks of <span class=GramE>it ?</span> – that this Force is there which is infinitely\r\ngreater, infinitely more precious than all money power, this force is there and\r\nis being given consciously, constantly, with an endless patience and\r\nperseverance, with a single end in view, that of accomplishing the divine work –\r\nI say, who thinks of not wasting it? Who recollects that it is a sacred duty\r\nfor all to progress, to prepare <span class=GramE>themselves</span> so that\r\nthey may understand better and live better? It is because \'you live by the\r\ndivine energy and the divine consciousness that you are able to live upon them,\r\nspend them for your own self\'s sake. People are shocked when they see a few\r\nthousand rupees wasted, but they do not notice that a whole flood of\r\nconsciousness and knowledge is being turned aside from its true direction.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 363<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If one\r\nwants to do a divine work upon earth, one must come there with tons of patience\r\nand endurance, one must be able to live in eternity and wait till consciousness\r\nawakes in every one, the consciousness of true honesty.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; 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margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; font-weight:700\'><font size=\"4\">Dynamic\r\nFatalism</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The\r\nsupramental change is a thing decreed and inevitable</span></i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>¹.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>I</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>F</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> it is so, then what is the necessity at all\r\nof work and labour and travail – this difficult process of sadhana? The question\r\nis rather naive, but it is very often asked. The answer also could be very\r\nsimple. The change decreed is precisely worked out through the travail: one is\r\nthe end, the other is the means; the goal and the process, both are decreed and\r\ninevitable. If it is argued, supposing none made the effort, even then would\r\nthe change come about, in spite of man\'s inaction? Well, first of all, this is\r\nan impossible supposition. Man cannot remain idle even for a moment: not only\r\nthe inferior Nature, but the higher Nature too is always active in him – remember\r\nthe words of the Gita – though behind the veil, in the inner consciousness.\r\nSecondly, if it is really so, if man is not labouring and working and making\r\nthe attempt, then it must be understood that the time has not yet come for him\r\nto undergo the change; he has still to wait: one of the signs of the imminence\r\nof the change is this very intensity and extensiveness of the labour among\r\nmankind. If, however, a particular person chooses to do nothing, prefers to wait\r\nand see – hopes in the end to jump at the fruit all at once and possess it or\r\nhopes the fruit to drop quietly into his mouth – well, this does not seem to be\r\na likely happening. If one wishes to enjoy the fruit, one must share in the\r\neffort to sow and grow. Indeed, the process itself&quot; of reaching the higher\r\nconsciousness involves a gradual heightening of the consciousness. The means is\r\nreally part of the end. The joy of victory is the consummation of the joy of\r\nbattle.</span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ </span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>Sri\r\nAurobindo: <i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>The Mother</i></span></p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-108<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Man can help or retard the process of Nature,\r\nin a sense. If his force of consciousness acts in line with Nature\'s secret\r\nmovement, then that movement is accelerated: through the soul or self that is\r\nman, it is the Divine, Nature\'s lord and master who drives and helps Nature\r\nforward. If, on the contrary, man follows his lesser self, his lower ego,\r\nrajasic and tamasic, then he throws up obstacles and barriers which hamper and\r\nslow down Nature\'s march.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>In a higher sense, from a transcendental\r\nstandpoint, however, this too is only an appearance. In reality man neither\r\nhelps nor hinders Prakriti. For in that sphere the two are not separate\r\nentities. What is viewed as the helping hand of man is really Nature helping\r\nherself: man is the conscious movement of Nature. In that transcendent status\r\nthe past and the future are rolled together in the eternal present and all\r\nexist there as an accomplished fact: there is nothing there to be worked out\r\nand achieved. But lower down there is a play of forces, of conflicting possibilities\r\nand the resultant is a balance of these divergent lines. When one identifies\r\noneself with the higher static consciousness one finds nothing to be done, all\r\nis realised –&quot;the eternal play of the eternal child in the eternal\r\ngarden&quot;.¹ But when one lives in the Kurukshetra of forces, one cannot\r\nthrowaway one\'s Gandiva and say, &quot;I will not fight”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹Sri Aurobindo: <i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>Thoughts\r\nand Glimpses</i></span></p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page - 109<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-020_Dynamic Fatalism','','publish','closed','open','','020_dynamic-fatalism','','','2021-11-23 17:59:16','2021-11-23 17:59:16','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/020_dynamic-fatalism/',0,'post','',0),(2203,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:16','2021-11-23 17:59:16','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; charset=windows-1252\">\r\n<title>The Individual and the Collective</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The Individual and the Collective</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>AN integral\r\nsadhana cannot. be confined to the individual alone; an element of collectivity\r\nmust enter into it. An individual is not an isolated being in any way. There\r\nare, of course, schools of Yoga and philosophy that seek to isolate the\r\nindividual, consider him as an entity hemmed in by his own consciousness;\r\nindeed they view the individuals as all distinct and separate, each a closed\r\ncircle or sphere, they may barely touch each other but never interpenetrate or\r\ninter-communicate. Each stands as a solitary island, all together forming the\r\nvast archipelago of the universe. This is a position; no doubt, that can be\r\nacquired by a kind of discipline of the consciousness, though not to a great\r\nperfection; but it is not a natural or necessary poise. Normally, individuals\r\ndo merge into each other and form one weft of give and take. A desire, an\r\nimpulse, even a thought that rises in you, goes out of you, overflows you and\r\nspreads around even to the extreme limit of the earth, like a <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>Hertzian</span> wave. Again, any movement in\r\nany person anywhere in the world would come to you, penetrate you, raise a\r\nsimilar vibration in you, even though you may not so recognise it but consider\r\nit as something exclusively personal to you. You send out vibrations into the\r\nworld and the world sends out vibrations into you. Individual life is the\r\nmeeting-ground of these outgoing and incoming forces. It is precisely to avoid\r\nthis circle or cycle of world-vibrations that the older Yogis used to <i>leave\r\nthe world, </i>away from society, retire to mountain-tops, into the virgin\r\nforest where they hoped to find themselves alone and aloof, to be single with\r\nthe Single Self. This is a way out, but it is not the only or the best\r\nsolution. It is not the best solution, for although apparent-ly one is alone on\r\nthe hill-top, in the desert crypt, or the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 231<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>forest\r\nwomb, one always carries with oneself a whole world within, the normal nature\r\nwith all its instincts and impulses, reactions, memories and hopes: you cut\r\naway the outside, run away from it, but what about the outside that is within\r\nyou? The taste for a tasty thing does not drop with the removal of the object.\r\nSecondly, such an individual solution, even if it were possible, would still be\r\na purely personal matter and, in the ultimate analysis, egoistic. It is why the\r\nBuddha refused to enter definitely into Nirvana and withdrew from the brink to\r\nwork among men. Indeed, the real solution is else-where. It is not to withdraw\r\nor go away but to find within the orbit here a centre, a focus of consciousness\r\nwhich is not controlled by the outside forces but can control them, which is\r\nnot co loured by them but can lend them its own luminosity. That is the soul or\r\nthe psychic centre.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nthis centre is not an isolated entity in its nature: it is, as it were, a\r\nuniversal centre, that is to say, it links itself indissolubly in a secret\r\nsense of identity with all other centres. For this self is only one of the\r\nselves through which the One Self has multiplied itself for a varied\r\nself-objectification. The light that shines here, the fire that burns here and\r\nthe delight that flows here illumine, purify and <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>revitalise</span> not only the individual in\r\nwhich it dwells, but move abroad and extend into the other individuals with\r\nwhich it lives in spiritual identity.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 232<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><a\r\nhref=\"-01-index\"><span style=\'text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\'>\r\n</span><span style=\'text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\'>\r\n</span><span style=\'text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\'>\r\n<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img\r\nborder=0 width=53 height=23 id=\"_x0000_i1027\" src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\"></a></span></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-051_The Individual and the Collective','','publish','closed','open','','051_the-individual-and-the-collective','','','2021-11-23 17:59:16','2021-11-23 17:59:16','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/051_the-individual-and-the-collective/',0,'post','',0),(2204,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:16','2021-11-23 17:59:16','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Why Do We Forget Things</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Why Do We Forget\r\nThings?</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-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>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THERE are\r\nmany reasons, of course. First and the most important is that we use the\r\nfaculty of &quot;memory&quot; in order to remember. Memory is a mental\r\ninstrument depending upon the formation and growth of the brain. Your brain is\r\ndeveloping constantly unless, of course, it is already degenerating; the\r\ndevelopment can continue for a long time, longer than that of the body. In the\r\nprocess there are necessarily things replaced by others; and as the instrument\r\ngrows, elements that were useful in one state are no longer so in a subsequent\r\nstate and have to give place to others more suitable. The net result of our\r\nacquisitions remains there in essence, but all that had led to it, the\r\nintermediary steps are suppressed. Indeed, a good memory means nothing more\r\nthan that – that is to say, to remember the results only, so that the fundamentals\r\nare sifted and stored, namely, those alone that are useful for further\r\nconstruction. This is more important than just trying to retain some particular\r\nitems in a rigid manner.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There\r\nis another thing. Apart from the fact that memory by itself in its very nature\r\nis a defective organ, there is the other fact that I there are different states\r\nof consciousness one following another. Each state faithfully records the phenomena\r\nof that moment, whatever they may be. Now, if your mind is calm and clear, wide\r\nand strong, you can by concentrating your consciousness on that moment bring\r\nout of it and recall in your present active state what is recorded there of\r\nyour movements then; you can, that is to say, go back to the particular state\r\nof consciousness at a given moment and live it again. What is registered in\r\nyour consciousness is never obliterated and hence not really forgotten. You can\r\nlive a thousand years and you will not have forgotten that. Therefore,\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 342<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>if\r\nyou do not want to forget a thing, you must retain it through your\r\nconsciousness, and not through your mental memory. As I have said, the mental\r\nmemory fades away, new things, things of today replace old things, things of\r\nyesterday. But that of which you are conscious in your conscious-ness, you can\r\nnever forget. It lies somewhere in the background, returns to you at your\r\nbidding. You have only to withdraw to that state of the consciousness where it\r\nlies imbedded. In this way you can recall things that you knew perhaps\r\ncenturies ago. It is how you remember your past lives. For, a movement of consciousness\r\nnever dies out, it is only the impressions on the surface brain-mind that are\r\nfugitive. What you have learnt with this superficial instrument laboriously – only\r\nread, heard, noted, underlined – leaves no lasting mark, but what is imbibed,\r\nbreathed in into the stuff of consciousness remains. The brain is being\r\nconstantly renewed and reformed. Old cells, cells that have become weak and\r\natrophied are replaced by younger and stronger ones or the old cells combine\r\ndifferently or enter into other <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>organisations</span>.\r\nThus the old impressions or memories they carried are obliterated.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nis, as I say, by entering into a previous state of consciousness where you experienced\r\na thing that you can always call back the thing. Only you must know how to get\r\nat the point, submerged somewhere in the depths. The body, after death,\r\ndissolves, the greater part of the vital and the mind dissolves also – only a\r\nsmall portion that has been well organised, given a compact cohesive form\r\nendures. Such an achievement is a rare phenomenon. But it is otherwise with the\r\nconsciousness. Consciousness is eternal. If you contact the consciousness you\r\ndiscover the whole mystery of the earth and creation. It is consciousness that\r\ncan create.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 343<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-096_Why Do We Forget Things','','publish','closed','open','','096_why-do-we-forget-things','','','2021-11-23 17:59:16','2021-11-23 17:59:16','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/096_why-do-we-forget-things/',0,'post','',0),(2205,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:16','2021-11-23 17:59:16','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>On Occultism</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">On Occultism</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-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>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>IT has been\r\noften said and it is very true that as soon as you enter the domain of the\r\ninvisible, the very first things you meet are literally frightful. If you have\r\nno fear, then alone you are safe; but the least fear means the utmost peril. It\r\nis for this reason that in ancient days the aspirant had to pass through a\r\nsevere discipline for a long time precisely with the object of getting rid of\r\nfear and therefore of all possibility of danger before he was permitted to\r\nstart on the way.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That\r\nis why till now I have not spoken to you of it. But if any of you feel you have\r\na disposition for such things, or some special aptitude in this direction and\r\nare ready to surmount all weaknesses, well, I am at your disposal, ready to\r\nhelp you and initiate you into the mysteries. But I am afraid you have still to\r\ngrow a little more, become more mature before I can take up the charge.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Of\r\ncourse, age is really no bar. I was doing occultism when I was twelve years old.\r\nBut I must tell you I had no fear, I had fear of nothing. Here you come out of\r\nthe <span class=GramE>body,</span> you are connected with the body by the very\r\ntiniest, almost imperceptible, bit of thread, as it were. If the thread snaps,\r\nthere is an end of it all, the end of your life. So you come out into another\r\nworld and begin to look about and see what kind of world it is. Generally, the\r\nfirst things you see, as I said, are absolutely terrifying. In your normal\r\nview, the air about you is empty; there is nothing – you see the blue of the\r\nsky or the white cloud or the sunshine and everything is beautiful. But when\r\nyou have the other sight, the picture is quite different. You see that the\r\nwhole atmosphere is filled with a multitude of small formations, which are the\r\nremains of desires and mental deformations and they crowd about you in such a\r\nway that<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 354<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> whole thing gives you a very disagreeable impression.\r\nIndeed, it is positively ugly more often than not. They come near you, attack\r\nyou, press upon you and you fear and tremble. Then they assume formidable\r\nproportions. But if you are not shaken, if you can look with the eye of a calm curiosity,\r\nyou will find then there is nothing so very terrifying. Things are not\r\nbeautiful perhaps, but they are not frightful either.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\nshall tell you a story to illustrate my point. I knew a Dane who was a painter,\r\na painter of some talent.\' He was interested in occultism. Some of you might\r\nhave heard of him. He had come here and met Sri Aurobindo. He did a portrait\r\ntoo of Sri Aurobindo. It was the first Great War. He returned to <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\nand saw me. He asked me to teach him this science. I taught him how to come out\r\nof the body, how to maintain control, etc., etc. I told him especially, what I\r\ntell you now, not to have fear. Now he came to me one day and narrated his\r\nexperience of a night. He had a dream; but of course it was not a dream: he\r\nknew how to come out of the body and was out consciously. Once out he was\r\ntrying to find where he was. Suddenly he saw moving towards him a tiger, huge\r\nand formidable, evidently with dire intentions. He remembered, how-ever, my\r\nadvice. So he kept calm and quiet and said to himself: &quot;There is no\r\ndanger, I am protected, <span class=GramE>nothing</span> can happen to me, I am\r\nsurrounded by the power of protection.&quot; And he looked straight at the\r\nanimal calmly and fearlessly. As he kept on gazing, strange to say, he saw the\r\ntiger diminishing in size, shrinking and shrinking, till at last it turned into\r\na small harmless cat!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>What\r\ndid the tiger represent? I told the painter that perhaps in the course of the\r\nday or at some time he was angry with some one and indulged in violent\r\nthoughts, wishing him harm, etc. Now as in the physical world, so too in the\r\noccult world there is a law of action and reaction or return movement. You\r\ncherish a bad thought; it returns upon you as an attack from outside. So the\r\ntiger might have represented some bad thought or impulse in him which came back\r\nupon him, like, as it is said, a boomerang. It is exactly one of the reasons\r\nwhy one should have control over one\'s thoughts and feelings and sensations.\r\nFor if you think ill of a person, wish unpleasant things for him, <span\r\nclass=GramE>then</span> in your dream you are likely to see the person<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 355<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>coming</span> to attack you, more violently perhaps than you\r\nthought of doing. In your ignorance and impulse of self-justification you say,\r\n&quot;Just see, was I not right in my feeling towards this man, he wanted to\r\nkill me!&quot; In point of fact, however, the contrary is the truth. It is a\r\ncommon law in occultism that if you make a formation – a mental formation, for\r\nexample, to the effect that an accident or some unpleasant thing should happen to\r\na person and you send out the formation to do its work, then, if it so happens\r\nthat the person concerned is on a higher level of consciousness, that is to\r\nsay, if he wishes harm to none, is quite disinterested and indifferent in the\r\nmatter, then the formation approaches him but does not enter into his\r\natmosphere or touch him, it rebounds upon the sender. In that case a serious\r\naccident may happen to the sender of the formation: if one wishes death to\r\nanother, death may come to himself. That is often the result of black magic\r\nwhich is a de-formation of occultism.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Formations\r\nare of many kinds. A formation is made for a particular work. When the work is\r\ndone, the formation too dissolves. But it is a huge and complex subject. You\r\ncannot learn the whole of chemistry in one hour. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\nshall tell you another story in this connection, for it has an occult bearing. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There\r\nwas a very well-known scientist in <st1:City><st1:place>Paris</st1:place></st1:City>.\r\nHe has written the story in a book of his. He wanted to know to what extent\r\nman\'s reason can affect or influence his reflex movements, how far one can\r\ncontrol one\'s instinctive or subconscious impulsions by the force of conscious\r\nintelligence. So one day he went to the Zoo. Among the animals there were huge\r\nsnakes, one was particularly notorious for its vicious character, <span\r\nclass=GramE>that</span> is to say, it could be easily excited and enraged. It\r\nwas a very big animal, black but beautiful. The serpents were of course kept\r\nwithin glass cases, the glass being sufficiently thick to prevent any\r\npossibility of accident. He came before meal-time, when it was hungry; for\r\nafter food they go to sleep. He stood before the glass-pane, quite near, and\r\nbegan teasing and <span class=SpellE>and</span> exciting the animal. I do not\r\nremember exactly what he did to rouse the animal, but there it was wild with\r\nanger; it shot out like a spring and darted at the face of the gentleman who\r\nwas just on the other side of the glass almost touching it.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 356<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He knew\r\nvery well that nothing could happen to him, the barrier was sound and secure\r\nand yet each time the snake darted at him, he leaped back to avoid the blow as\r\nit were. The thing repeated itself continually and however much he repeated to\r\nhimself all the reasons of his safety and security, the reflex gesture could\r\nnot be controlled.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Only\r\nthe scientist did not know one thing – an element of occult knowledge escaped\r\nhim. The physical movement of the serpent was accompanied by a considerable\r\namount of a vital projection of its nervous energy. It was that which struck\r\nhim with an irresistible force. It was almost like a violent physical shock and\r\nmere reason has no power to control it. 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The first and the easiest way <span\r\nclass=GramE>is</span> to think of something else. Concentrate your attention\r\nupon a subject which has nothing to do with what troubles you. You can read\r\nsomething interesting or take up a work that demands care and consideration.\r\nSomething creative would be more effective; writers and artists, for example,\r\nwhen they are engaged in their particular occupation forget everything else,\r\ntheir whole mind is engrossed in that one matter. But, of course, once the work\r\nis done, the trouble begins again, if one has not learnt to control the\r\nt40ughts in the meanwhile. <span class=GramE>So there is the&quot; second\r\nmethod which is a little more difficult.</span> You have to learn a movement of\r\nrejection. As you reject or throwaway a physical object, even so you must\r\nthrowaway and reject the thought. It is more difficult, but if you succeed, it\r\nis more effective. You have to <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>practise</span>\r\nand continue the endeavour, repeat and persevere and there is no reason why you\r\nshould not succeed, if you are <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>thoroughly</span>\r\nsincere and serious.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There\r\nis a third method. It is to bring down from above a greater light which is in\r\nits nature the very opposite of the thoughts you are dealing with, opposite in\r\na very radical and deep sense; that is to say, if the thoughts that trouble you\r\nare obscure and ignorant, especially if they happen to rise from the\r\nsubconscient or the inconscient, supported by the mere instincts, then, by\r\ncalling down the light from above and turning it upon the dark thoughts you can\r\nsimply dissolve them or transform them, wherever possible. It is the supreme\r\nmeans, but perhaps not within the easy reach of all. But if\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 344<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>you</span> succeed in it, not only the thoughts do not come, their\r\nvery cause is removed. The first method is to turn aside, the second to face\r\nand fight, the third to rise above and transform. 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It cannot be so: it is a comfortable doctrine\r\nputting a premium on laziness and inertia.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There\r\nis no necessity for all men turning into supermen, the normal human race\r\ndisappearing altogether. Mankind need not become extinct like the ancient\r\nMammoth and Mastodon in order to give place to Superman. Both the races can\r\ndwell together; earth is wide enough. Man has appeared; for that reason the ape\r\nhas not disappeared, although it is said man came out of the ape genus. The superman\r\nwill come and live with his new law of life; man too will continue with his\r\nhuman dharma. Not only so, they need not be separated into watertight\r\ncompartments, there may be interaction or interchange between the two. With the\r\ncoming of Superman there will naturally be a descent of harmony and peace and\r\nhappiness and goodwill into the earth\'s atmosphere and mankind is likely to be\r\nbenefited by it. The conditions of life will be changed and will affect man\'s\r\nlife too. An element of light and joy and tranquillity will enter into\r\nhumanity\'s normal dealings. And man, on his side, may offer his services as the\r\nrecruiting ground of the super-race. Furthermore, the whole of Nature being a\r\nunified movement, no level of creation being totally separate from others, the\r\nchange may very well touch the animal and even the vegetable kingdom. The plant\r\nmay put on, for example, a luminous or greener tint and the animal may develop\r\na happier and livelier spring.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 277<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There may\r\nbe less scarcity, dearth, aridity, fewer convulsions and catastrophes on earth.\r\n<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Always,\r\nhowever, exceptions are possible. Even now, where conditions of life are\r\nhappier and things are expected to be more smooth and harmonious, there exist\r\npeople who are by nature so obscure, quarrelsome and turbulent that they are\r\nnot touched at all and go on in their way finding always occasions to quarrel\r\nand fight and create trouble. They will be in the midst of the new humanity as\r\nHottentots or Head-hunters – aborigines and savages – are today in the eyes of <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>civilised</span> humanity.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 278<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-071_The Coming of Superman','','publish','closed','open','','071_the-coming-of-superman','','','2021-11-23 17:59:16','2021-11-23 17:59:16','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/071_the-coming-of-superman/',0,'post','',0),(2208,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:16','2021-11-23 17:59:16','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>To Be or Not To Be</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1> \r\n\r\n<p align=right style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">To Be or Not To Be</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:17.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>A </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>MORAL problem, <i>un cas de </i></span><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n9.0pt\'>conscience</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'> </span></i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>(a\r\ncase of conscience), </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>as they say\r\nin French. To defend yourself against your attacker and kill him who comes to\r\nkill you or stand disarmed and let yourself be killed-which is better, which\r\nhas the greater moral value? To fight your enemy is normal, is human. To\r\npreserve yourself, that is to say, your body, is the very first injunction of\r\nNature. That is Nature\'s primary and funda­mental demand. And to preserve one\'s\r\nlife one has to take others\' life. That is also Nature. But then, it is said,\r\nman is meant to rise above Nature, live (even if it means to die) according to\r\na higher law – not the biological law, the law of tooth and claw. The higher\r\nlaw is for the preservation of life indeed, but others\' life, not one\'s own, if\r\nit comes to that; it is not self-</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>centred</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>, but wholly other-regarding, it is for harmony, for peace and amity,\r\nnot violence and battle. If one demurs and points out that it requires two to\r\nbe friends and at peace, the answer is that one side must begin, and the merit\r\ngoes to him who begins. One need not worry about the other side, which may be\r\nleft to follow its own law of life, which, however, can be gained over only in\r\nthis way and not by compulsion or coercion or violence. <i>Na hi vairena\r\nvairani samyantiha kadacana. </i>Never by enmity is enmity appeased, says the\r\nDhammapada.¹<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>This is a way of cutting the Gordian knot.\r\nBut the problem is not so simple as the moralist would have it. Resist not\r\nevil: if it is made an absolute rule, would not the whole world be filled with\r\nevil? Evil grows much faster than good. By not resisting evil one risks to\r\nperpetuate the very thing that one fears; it deprives the good of its chance to\r\napproach or get a <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n8.0pt\'>¹Canto I 5<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;\'>Page – 159</span></p><hr>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>foothold. That is why the Divine Teacher\r\ndeclares in the Gita that God comes down upon earth, assuming a human body,¹to\r\nprotect the good and slay the wicked,² slay not metaphori­cally but actually\r\nand materially, as he did on the field of the Kurus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>It is a complex problem and the solution too\r\nis complex. The Gita – Hinduism generally – does not posit a univer­sal <i>dharma,\r\n</i>but a hierarchy of dharmas. Men have different natures; so their duties,\r\ntheir functions and activities, their paths of growth and development must\r\nnaturally be different. A rigid rule does not fit in with the facts of life,\r\nand the more absolute it is, the less efficacy it possesses as a living\r\nreality. Therefore in the Indian social scheme, there is one dharma for the\r\nBrahmin and another for the Kshatriya, a third for the Vaishya and a fourth for\r\nthe Shudra.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The Brahmin is he who represents in his\r\nnature and charac­ter the principle and movement of knowledge, of compre­hension\r\nand inclusion, of peace and harmony – all the qualities that are termed <i>sattwic.\r\n</i>A Brahmin does not fight, the very build of his consciousness prevents him\r\nfrom wounding and hurting; he has no enemy; even if he is attacked or killed,\r\nhe does not raise his arm to protect himself (although Rama­krishna would\r\nprescribe even for him a modified or mollified mode of resisting the evil,\r\nhissing at least if not biting). The Biblical injunction, we know, is to\r\npresent the other cheek too to the smiter. This is for those who follow the\r\nBrahminical discipline. But a Kshatriya, who in his nature and cons­ciousness\r\nis a warrior, has another dharma; he is the armed guard of knowledge and truth,\r\nhe is strength and force. He has to resist the evil in the name of the Lord, he\r\nhas to raise his arm to strike. He is the instrument of Rudra and Mahakali.\r\nDoes not the mighty goddess declare - I draw the bow for Rudra, I hurl the\r\narrow to slay the hater of the truth&quot;?³ If the Kshatriya does not follow\r\nhis own dharma, but seeks to imitate the Brahmin, he brings about a confusion\r\nliable to disintegrate the society, he is then un-Aryan, inglorious, unworthy\r\nof heaven, deserving all the epithets which Sri </span><st1:place><span\r\n style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Krishna</span></st1:place><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> heaped upon the dejected, </span></p>\r\n	<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt\'>¹ <i>Manusim tanu asritam, </i>IX.\r\n11<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt\'>² <i>ParitraNaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam, </i>IV.\r\n8<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt\'>³ <i>Aha rudraya dhanurakanomi brahmadiswe saprobes\r\nkantaba u<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt\'>-Rig Veda, </span></i><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt\'>IX. 126<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;\'>Page – 160<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n	<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n	<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> depressed and\r\nconfused Arjuna. So long as the world is held by brute force, so long as there\r\nis the sway of evil power over the material earth and the physical body, there\r\nwill be the need to resist it physically: if I do not do it, other instruments\r\nwill be found. I may say like Arjuna, overwhelmed with pity and grief, &quot;I\r\nshall not fight&quot;, but God and the cosmic deities may refuse my refusal and\r\ncompel me to do what in my ignorance and wrong ­headedness I would not like to\r\ndo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Here lies the secret and the solution of the\r\nproblem. It is, indeed, the solution given for all ages by the Gita. There will\r\nalways be a problem, a difficult decision to make – a division in the\r\nconsciousness – so long as one is in the realm of dualities, in one\'s mental\r\nbeing and consciousness, ruled by relativities and contingencies. There one\r\ncannot but have a divided loyalty. A part of you, for example, is loyal to your\r\nfamily, another to your country, a third to yourself or to some ideal which you\r\nhave set up. And naturally man feels confused in the midst of their conflicting\r\nclaims and is at a loss to choose. Therefore, the Gita says, the highest law,\r\nthe supreme code of conduct, is the Divine Will. And the only work and labour\r\nfor man is to discover and identify oneself with this Divine Will.\r\n&quot;Abandon all other standards of conduct, take refuge in Me alone.&quot;¹\r\nThat is the supreme secret of human life – as well as of the Life Divine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>To know the Divine Will and to be one with it\r\nis not easy, to be sure. But that is the only radical solution. That has got to\r\nbe done, if one is to come out of the chaos he is in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Once in this status of the divine\r\nconsciousness, one passes beyond the three Gunas. That is to say, one bids\r\ngood-bye to one\'s (the human sense of) freedom and option or choice. One can\r\nsay no longer, I cannot do it, for it seems immoral, I have to do that, because\r\nthat seems good. One goes beyond good and bad and awaits the divine command.\r\nOne does what one is ordered to do from above, what is needed to fulfil the\r\nCosmic Purpose. You do not act then, it is the Divine who acts in you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:13.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><b><span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></b><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>It may be asked\r\nif even then there are not some types of activity and impulsion that\r\nare intrinsically evil, undivine –­<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>\r\n\r\n	<b>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:13.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n	</b>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n13.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'><font size=\"2\">¹ The Gita, XVIII.66</font></span><b><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p></b>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\ntab-stops:13.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nbold\'>Page –161<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n	<b>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:13.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n	</b>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>they can under no\r\ncircumstances be godly or God\'s instruments, they have to be rejected, cast\r\naside in the very begin­ning, also in the middle and naturally in the end. But\r\nit must be remembered that the human mind cannot be the judge of what is divine\r\nor undivine, there are things the Divine may sanction which the mental being\r\nfights shy of. It must leave into the Divine to choose His instrument and His\r\nmode of activity – it is sufficient if the mental being knows by whom it is\r\nimpelled and. where it fallsas an arrow shot to its mark:</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>kenesitampatati</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>presitam.¹<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>Yes, there is one\r\nthing intrinsically evil and undivine and that has to be rejected and cast aside\r\nruthlessly – that is nothing else than the egoistic consciousness. It is this\r\nthat has passions and prejudices, likes and dislikes, ideas and ideals,\r\nformations of its own, other deities installed in place of the Divine Truth and\r\nReality. The ego goes, indeed, and with it also those rhythms and stresses,\r\nlines and shades germaneto it that bar the free flow of the Supreme Breath. But\r\nthe in­strument remains and the arms and the weapons-they are cleansed and\r\nsanctified: instead of the Asura wielding them, it is now the gods, the Divine\r\nHimself who</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'> possess</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'> and use them.</span></p>\r\n	<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:17.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nbold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><font size=\"2\">¹Kena<b> </b>Upanishad,I.1</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:17.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Page – 162<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n	<b>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:23.25pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n	</b>\r\n\r\n</span></div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-030_To Be or Not To Be','','publish','closed','open','','030_to-be-or-not-to-be','','','2021-11-23 17:59:16','2021-11-23 17:59:16','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/030_to-be-or-not-to-be/',0,'post','',0),(2209,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:17','2021-11-23 17:59:17','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\n\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Music – Its Origin and Nature</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Music – Its Origin and Nature</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>MUISIC, you must remember,\r\nlike any other art, is a means for expressing something-some idea, some\r\nfeeling, some emotion, a certain aspiration and so on. There is even a domain\r\nwhere all these movements exist and from where they are brought down under a\r\nmusical form. A good composer with some inspiration would produce good music;\r\nhe is then called a good musician. A bad musician can have also a good inspira­tion,\r\nhe can receive something from the higher domain, but possessing no musical\r\ncapacity, he would produce only what is very commonplace, very ordinary and\r\nuninteresting. How­ever, if you go beyond, precisely over to this place where\r\nlies the origin of music, get to the idea, the emotion, the inspiration behind,\r\nyou can then taste of these things without being held back by the form. Still\r\nthis musical form can be joined on to what is behind or beyond the form; for it\r\nis that which originally inspired the musician to compose. Of course, there are\r\ninstances where no inspiration exists, where the source is only a kind of sound\r\nmechanics, which is not, in any case, always interesting. What I mean is this\r\nthat there is an inner state in which the outer form is not the most important\r\nthing: there lies the origin of music, the inspiration that is beyond. It is\r\ntrite to say, but one often forgets that it is not sound that makes music, the\r\nsound has to express something.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There\r\nis a music that is quite mechanical and has no inspira­tion. There are\r\nmusicians who play with great virtuosity, that is to say, they have mastered\r\nthe technique and execute faultlessly the most complicated and rapid movements.\r\nIt is music perhaps, but it expresses nothing; it is like a machine. It is\r\nclever, there is much skill, but it is uninteresting, soulless. The most\r\nimportant thing, not only in music, but in all human<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 422<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>creations,\r\nin all that man does even, is, I repeat, the inspiration behind. The execution\r\nnaturally is expected to be on a par with the inspiration; but to express truly\r\nwell, one must have truly great things to express. It is not to say that technique\r\nis not necessary; on the contrary, one must possess a very good technique; it\r\nis even indispensable. Only it is not the one thing indispensable, not is it as\r\nimportant as the inspiration. For the essential quality of music comes from the\r\nregion where it has its source.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Source\r\nor origin means the thing without which an object would not exist. Nothing can\r\nmanifest upon earth physically unless it has its source in a higher truth. Thus\r\nmaterial existence has its source and inspiration in the vital, the vital in\r\nits turn has behind it the mental, the mental has the overmental and so on. If\r\nthe universe were a flat object, having its origin in itself, it would quickly\r\ncease to exist. (That is perhaps what Science means when it postulates the\r\nimpossibility of perpetual motion). It is because there is a higher source\r\nwhich inspires it, a secret energy that drives it towards manifestation that\r\nLife continues: otherwise it would exhaust itself very soon.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There\r\nis a graded scale in the source of music. A whole category of music is there\r\nthat comes from the higher vital, for example: it is very catching, perhaps\r\neven a little vulgar, something that twines round your nerves, as it were, and\r\ntwists them. It catches you somewhere about your loins – navel centre – and charms\r\nyou in its way. As there is a vital music there is also what can be called\r\npsychic music coming from quite a different source; there is further a music\r\nwhich has spiritual origin. In its own region this higher music is very\r\nmagnificent; it seizes you deeply and carries you away some­where else. But if\r\nyou were to express it perfectly – execute it – you would have to pass this\r\nmusic too through the vital. Your music coming from high may nevertheless fall\r\nabsolutely flat in the execution, if you do not have that intensity of vital\r\nvibration which alone can give it its power and splendour. I knew people who\r\nhad very high inspiration, but their music turned to be quite commonplace,\r\nbecause their vital did not move. Their spiritual practice put their vital\r\nalmost completely to sleep; yes, it was literally asleep and did not work at\r\nall. Their music thus came straight into the physical. If you could<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 423<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>get behind\r\nand catch the source, you would see that there was really something marvellous\r\neven there, although exter­nally it was not forceful or effective. What came\r\nout was a poor little melody, very thin, having nothing of the power of harmony\r\nwhich is there when one can bring into play the vital energy. If one could put\r\nall this power of vibration that belongs to that vital into the music of higher\r\norigin we would have the music of a genius. Indeed, for music and for all\r\nartistic creation, in fact, for literature, for poetry, for painting, etc. an\r\nintermediary is needed. Whatever one does in these domains depends doubtless\r\nfor its intrinsic value upon the source of the inspira­tion, upon the plane or\r\nthe height where one stands. But the value of the execution depends upon the\r\nstrength of the vital that expresses the inspiration. For a complete genius\r\nboth are necessary. The combination is rare, generally it is the one or the\r\nother, more often it is the vital that predominates and overshadows.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>When\r\nthe vital only is there, you have the music of <i>cafè concert </i>and cinema.\r\nIt is extraordinarily clever and at the same time extraordinarily commonplace,\r\neven vulgar. Since, how­ever, it is so clever, it catches hold of your brain,\r\nhaunts your memory, rings in (or wrings) your nerves; it becomes so difficult\r\nto get rid of its influence, precisely because it is done so well, so cleverly.\r\nIt is made vitally with vital vibrations, but what is behind is not, to say the\r\nleast, wholesome. Now imagine the same vital power of expression joined to the\r\ninspiration coming from above, say, the highest possible inspiration when the\r\nentire heaven seems to open out, then it is music indeed; Some things in <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>César</span> Franck, some in\r\nBeethoven, some in Bach, some in some others possess this sovereignty. But\r\nafter all it is only a moment, it comes for a moment and does not abide. There\r\nis not a single artist whose whole work is executed at such a pitch. The\r\ninspiration comes like a flash of lightning, most often it lasts just long\r\nenough to be grasped and held in a few snatches.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Something\r\nsimilar to that experience may happen to you when your consciousness is all\r\nattentive and concentrated; you feel suddenly that you are being carried aloft,\r\nthat all your energies are gathered and lifted up, as if your head has opened\r\nout and you are thrown into the free air, into the far spaces<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 424<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>of extraordinary heights\r\nand magnificent lights. The experience gives you in a few seconds what one may\r\nin the normal course of things achieve after many years of difficult yoga. Only\r\nimmediately after the experience you drop down below upon the earth, because\r\nthe basis has not been built; even you may begin to doubt whether you really\r\nhad the experience. Still the consciousness has been prepared, something\r\ndefinitive has been done and remains.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 425<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"62\" height=\"28\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-122_Music- it_s origine and nature','','publish','closed','open','','122_music-it_s-origine-and-nature','','','2021-11-23 17:59:17','2021-11-23 17:59:17','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/122_music-it_s-origine-and-nature/',0,'post','',0),(2210,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:17','2021-11-23 17:59:17','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Yogic Centres</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The Yogic Centres</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">THERE are, of course, the\r\nseven well-known yoga-centres in the human body. They are, beginning from\r\nbelow, (1) the end of the spine, (2) the lower abdomen, (3) the navel, (4) the\r\nheart, (5) the throat, (6) between the eyebrows and (7) the crown of the head.\r\nBut there are others extending from below the spine which are not so well\r\nknown. It is true, however, that the centres in the individual being end with\r\nthe spine; what is below belongs more to the universal nature. There is a\r\ncentre above and beyond the crown; there is also, on the other side, a centre\r\nbelow and away from under the feet. The yoga-centres are centres of consciousness\r\nand energy; they are the sources of the various types and qualities of\r\nconsciousness and energy – they indicate the many planes of consciousness­-energy.\r\nThere are people who actually feel that their force and strength come from\r\nbelow, as if these stream into them like a spring from under the feet. This\r\nregion from below the <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>spine­-end</span>\r\nto the feet is that of the subconscient and what extends further down is the\r\ndomain of the inconscient. We may distin­guish five more centres in this lower\r\nor infra-spinal region apart from the spine-end itself <i>(muladhara)\r\n</i>(1) the knee, (2) the leg, (3) the feet, (4) the sole of the foot and (5)\r\nbelow the feet. That would make the total number of centres as twelve-the\r\nmystic number for completeness or integrality.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:13.5pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">The\r\ncentre at the bottom of the spine, which is the basis of the individual\r\nconsciousness is seen as a serpent – a serpent coiled up and asleep, with\r\nperhaps just the head sticking up in a very somnolent manner. It represents the\r\nnormal human consciousness, bottled up, narrow, ignorant, asleep; human energy,\r\ntoo, at this level is obscure and mechanical, extremely limited. The whole\r\nenergy potential, the consciousness-force is<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 384<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">locked up in the physical\r\nbody consciousness. Now the serpent does not remain asleep forever. It has to\r\nwake up, it wakes up. That is to say, man\'s consciousness awakes, grows and\r\nrises upward. The serpent one day shakes its head, lifts it up a little more,\r\nbegins to sway its hood, as if trying to throw off the sleep and look about. It\r\nslowly uncoils itself and rises more and more. It rises and passes through the\r\ncentres one by one, becomes more and more awake, gathers new light and potency\r\nat each centre. Finally, fully awakened, it rises to its full height, erect,\r\nstraight like a rod, its tail-end at the bottom of the spine and its hood\r\ntouching the crown of the man\'s head. The man is then the fully awakened, the\r\nperfectly self-conscious man. The movement does not stop there, however; for\r\nthe serpent presses further on, it strikes with its hood the bottom of the\r\ncrown and in the end breaks through and passes beyond like a flash of\r\nlightning. One need not fear the break through, there is no actual, physical\r\nbreaking or fracture of the skull. Although it is said that once you have gone\r\nover and beyond your head, you are not likely to return, you go for good. In\r\nother words, the body does not hold together very long after the experience; it\r\ndrops and dies. And yet it need not be so, it is not the whole truth. For when\r\nyou have gone beyond, you can come back too, carrying the superconscient light\r\nwith you. That is to say, the serpent, now luminous, – pure and free energy – can\r\nenter the body again, this time with its head down and the tail up. It enters\r\nblazing, illumining with its superconscient light the centres one by one,\r\ngiving man richer and richer consciousness, energy and life, transforming the\r\nbeing more and more. The Light comes down easily enough to the heart region;\r\nthen the difficulty begins, the regions below gradually become darker and\r\ndenser and it is hard task for the Light to penetrate as it goes further down.\r\nIf it succeeds in reaching the bottom of the spine, it has achieved something\r\nmiraculous. But there is a further progress necessary, if man – and the world\r\nwith him – is to realise a wholly transformed <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>supraconscient</span> life. In other words, the\r\nLight must touch and enter not only the physical stratum of our being but the\r\nothers too that lie below, the subconscient and inconscient. That has been till\r\nnow a sealed dungeon, something impossible to approach and tackle.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:13.5pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">And\r\nyet it is not an impossibility. Not only is it not impossible,\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 385<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>we have to make it possible. Not only so, man\'s destiny demands that it should\r\nbe inevitable. If man is to be a transformed being, if he is to incarnate here\r\nbelow some­thing of the Divine Reality, if his social life on earth is to be\r\nthe expression of the light and harmony of the Spirit Conscious­ness, then he\r\nhas to descend into these nether regions, break open the nethermost as he has\r\ndone in regard to the uppermost and unite the two.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Here\r\nis a curious story about man and his destiny. What is he, the normal man? He is\r\na slave, a bond slave. He may have the illusion that he has ideas and\r\nmovements, his own, he has even free scope to put them to execution. But it\r\nwill not take long to discover that it is an illusion, a great deception. His\r\nplans do not mature, his efforts beat an iron wall. The more he observes and\r\nsees things squarely he finds that he is bound hand and foot. He is driven by\r\nforces and things over which he has no control <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>whatsover</span>. He is a slave to\r\ncircumstances; he is checked by the will of others. His own will has no power\r\nor scope; it is wholly ineffectual. He feels more and more a great burden\r\npressing upon the back of the head bending it down, a heavy weight lies upon\r\nhis shoulders. He somehow trudges on like a beast of burden. He has no free\r\nchoice or will; his wishes and desires are not consulted. He is driven\r\nhelplessly on.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\nthe story does not end here. Man can, if he chooses, alter the situation, turn\r\nthe tables. He has in him the source of freedom – what he vaguely feels in his\r\nouter consciousness; there is a centre from where he is capable of reacting and\r\nreasserting. It is the centre where lies his <i>dharma, </i>the law of his\r\nbeing. It is his soul. If he once comes in contact with that, makes that the\r\nbase of his life, from that moment he is free. He holds his head erect. He is\r\nno longer bent down. The burden of inexorable circumstances weighs no more on\r\nhim. He has transcended the circumstances, he stands over them, looks over\r\nthem. He is now the master and they obey him, he has not to obey them.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This\r\nconsummation is supremely effected when there is the double breaking of the\r\nbarrier I was speaking about. The first is the piercing of the veil above, when\r\nthe conscious­ness rises into the superconscient, takes the human being into<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 386<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">the divine being; the\r\nsecond is the rending of the lower veil and the descent of the divine\r\nconsciousness into the most material, the subconscient and the inconscient, <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>realising</span> the divine life on\r\nearth.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 387<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\">\r\n<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-111_The Yogic Centres','','publish','closed','open','','111_the-yogic-centres','','','2021-11-23 17:59:17','2021-11-23 17:59:17','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/111_the-yogic-centres/',0,'post','',0),(2211,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:17','2021-11-23 17:59:17','<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>PART TWO</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p class=\"MsoHeading9\" align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; font-weight:700\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">PART\r\nTWO</font></span></p>\r\n<hr class=\"MsoHeading9\">\r\n		<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoHeading8 style=\'mso-line-height-alt:17.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\">\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; font-weight:700\'><font size=\"4\">Our Ideal</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>O</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>UR</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> ideal – the ideal of Sri Aurobindo – we may say without much ado, is to\r\ndivinise the human, immortalise the mortal, spiritualise the material. Is the\r\nideal possible? Is it practicable? Our task will be precisely, first of all, to\r\nshow that it is possible, next that it is probable and finally that it is\r\ninevitable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Now to\r\nthe first question.</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'> It is usually contended that\r\nthe ideal is </span><span class=GramE style=\"font-size:12pt;\">an impossibility<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>, a chimera, since it\r\ninvolves on the face of it a self-contradiction. For, is not divinity the very\r\nopposite of humanity, immortality that of mortality and Matter that of the\r\nSpirit? These pairs, all of them, are formed of two mutually exclusive terms.\r\nThis is what </span>Mayavada<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'> posits. But need it be\r\nnecessarily and inevitably so? What is affirmed is after all a postulate and\r\none can start from other postulates as well. The truth, of course, is that all\r\ntheories or views of existence are centrally formulations of an experience; and\r\neach experience has its own postulate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><span class=GramE><span class=GramE style=\"font-size:12pt;\">\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>To begin with, we refuse to\r\nadmit or recognise that there is or <span lang=EN-GB style=\"font-size:12pt;\">is bound to be a\r\ncontradiction or opposition between Matter and Spirit, between body and soul or\r\nbetween the human and the divine. We start with an experience, a realisa­tion\r\nwhich declares the essential unity and identity of the duality. That is the\r\nthing that has to be posited first clear and nett.\r\nThe question next arises how the two are one and identical; this demands some\r\nclarification. For, is it meant that they are one and the same in the sense\r\nthat Zeus and Jupiter are the same or that water and H<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:7.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>2</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'>O are the same? Apart from any barren theorising, is it not a universal\r\nand eternal and invariable experience that to attain to the Divine one must\r\nleave behind the human, to become the immortal one must cease to be a mortal\r\nand to live in the Spirit </span>one<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\"font-size:12pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; layout-grid-mode:line\">\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.55pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page – 25<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>has</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> to deny Matter? The real answer, however, is that it is so and it is not\r\nso. The dilemma is not </span>so<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> trenchant as it has been\r\nmade out to be.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>To the regard of one line of\r\nexperience, Matter seems opposed to Spirit only so far as the actual and outer\r\nfor­mulation of Matter is concerned: even then the opposition is only apparent\r\nand relative. This is the very crux of the problem. For, to such a regard\r\nSpirit becomes Matter also, it is also Matter – </span><span\r\n  class=SpellE><st2:country-region><st2:place><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\n  mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>annam</span></st2:place></st2:country-region><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> </span><span\r\n  class=SpellE style=\"font-size:12pt;\">brahma<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> </span>eva<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'>. Spirit is consciousness, cit; and Matter, it is said, is\r\nunconsciousness, </span>act<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'>. But\r\nunconsciousness need not be and is not, in our view, the absolute negation or\r\nutter absence of </span>consciousness,<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> it is only an involved\r\nor </span>involute<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> consciousness. If consciousness is\r\nwakefulness, un­consciousness is nothing more than forgetfulness: it is only an\r\nabeyance or suspension of consciousness, not annihilation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><span\r\n  class=SpellE><span\r\n  class=SpellE style=\"font-size:12pt;\">\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Thus the spiritualisation of\r\nMatter becomes possible simply because Matter and Spirit are not absolutely\r\ndifferent, con­tradictory or incommensurable entities; they are one and the\r\nsame reality, in different modes – even as water or water vapour and ice are in\r\nsubstance one and identical, although different in appearance. Spirit has\r\nbecome Matter and Matter at heart is Spirit. Spirit is latent in Matter, as\r\nMatter itself is a possible formulation involved in Spirit. Matter has come out\r\nof Spirit as Spirit pressed upon itself and gradually con­densed and\r\nconsolidated into the concrete material reality. Spirit has become Matter by a\r\nprocess of crystallisation, of self-limitation and exclusive concentration. The\r\nmovement follows a definite line of self-modification, along a downward\r\ngradient till it is consummated: it is one among an infinite variety of possible\r\nself-modifications, chosen and exclusively developed with a special purpose and\r\na definite fulfilment In view.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>A movement of involution through\r\na series of terms – of consciousness – of gradually diminishing facial value\r\nhas made the Spirit terminate in Matter. If it is so, it stands to reason that\r\na movement of evolution, a return journey would make Matter culminate in\r\nSpirit. Thus the very fact of Spirit having become Matter, of Matter being a\r\nmode of the Spirit, at once creates the possibility of Matter being transmuted\r\ninto Spirit. Now even granting such a possibility, it may be argued</span></p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page - 26</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>yet</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> that the thing achieved is a resolution of Matter into Spirit; it means\r\nthe destruction of the characteristic form and consistency that is called Matter.\r\nWe know, thanks to modern Science, that Matter can be transmuted into pure\r\nenergy, but then it loses its materiality, it is dematerialised.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>That is what some of the old\r\nspiritual disciplines taught. Even if there is no unbridgeable gulf between\r\nSpirit and Matter, they said, even if they are not incommensurables but form\r\none reality, Spirit is the reality in essence, Matter is an inferior\r\nformulation. Matter has unrolled itself out of the infinite, it can only be and\r\nit has got to be rolled back again into the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Here comes the second cardinal\r\nprinciple in Sri Aurobindo\'s vision of the reality, <span lang=EN-GB style=\"font-size:12pt;\">viz,\r\nthat an &quot;inferior&quot; formulation of the Spirit, an involute\r\non a &quot;lower&quot; plane is not essentially or truly, even in its outer and\r\ndynamic nature and character, a mere temporary or by-the-way reality, an\r\n&quot;epiphenomenon&quot;; its sole function is not simply to impede, diminish\r\nand obscure the real reality so that it has to be gradually rejected and eli­minated\r\non the way back to the source. As a matter of fact, an inferior formulation has\r\na double function; in the line of descent it limits, obscures, deviates and in\r\nthe end falsifies the higher reality; at the same time, however, it\r\nconcretises, energises, incarnates what it obscures.\r\nBut in the ascending line, that is to say, in the movement of reversal from the\r\ninferior to the superior, the movement need not be always that of disincarnation and dissolution, it may be that of\r\npurification and illumination and fulfilment. The analogy will not be, then,\r\nthat of Matter being dematerialised into pure energy but that of Matter being\r\ntransformed into a radiant substance, not losing itself in the process of\r\nradiation, being wholly made of the undying luminous stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Such a movement of transforming\r\nevolution is not merely a possibility or a probability: it is a fact of Nature.\r\nIndeed, natural evolution means nothing less than that. First of all, evolution\r\nmeans the reversibility of Nature; for, it is the back­ward movement of an <span lang=EN-GB style=\"font-size:12pt;\">involutionary process. We have said that the supreme truth\r\nand reality – sat-cit-ananda, as it is\r\ncalled – ­multiplied and concretised itself gradually through various steps and\r\nstages of a diminishing power of expression or an <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page – 27<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>increasing</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> entropy of self-concealment: the main grades being the Supermind, the\r\nOvermind, the Higher Mind, the Mind, Life and lastly the body or Matter. Having\r\narrived at the extreme end that Matter represents, – the farthest apparently\r\nfrom the original source,-the movement turns round and seeks to go up the\r\nladder through the same gradations it has traversed. But this process of\r\nreversal is not merely a resolution and </span>dissolution,<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'>\r\nit is a process of greater fulfilment and </span>synthe­tisation<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'>,\r\nof sublimation as well as of integration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Matter is the starting-point of <span lang=EN-GB style=\"font-size:12pt;\">evolution, it is there merely a physico-chemical entity. But\r\nit undergoes a change, the first of its kind, a transmutation when it is taken\r\nup by life, when it becomes the basis and receptacle of a living organism:\r\nvitalised Matter behaves differently from physico-chemical Matter. A farther\r\nand greater change is brought about in Matter when it is raised still higher\r\nand taken up by the mind, when it answers to the vibrations of a mental\r\norganism: mentalised Matter has yet a third norm of\r\nbehaviour. The\' transformation of Matter in slow degrees towards a greater\r\nplasticity and spontaneity, a growing sentiency and luminosity is evident as\r\none proceeds up the rungs of natural evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>This drive of evolution is a\r\nconstant and permanent fact of Nature and she is in travail to bring about\r\nhigher and higher stages of material transformation. It may not be easy to\r\nforecast from the present status what the future mode or modes of Matter would\r\nbe like, even as it was surely impossible to forecast <span lang=EN-GB style=\"font-size:12pt;\">mentalised\r\nMatter or living Matter, but that does not make the thing less inevitable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>The inevitability arises from\r\nthe very fact of this evolution­ary urge that a stage will come when Matter\r\nwill undergo another, more radical and crucial change; it will be taken up by a\r\nhigher reality than mind and suffused with a light and power belonging to that\r\nreality: a spiritual consciousness will emerge and with it spiritualised\r\nMatter, even as a mental consciousness emerged and <span lang=EN-GB style=\"font-size:12pt;\">mentalised\r\n(however inadequately) Matter, and yet anterior to that a vital consciousness\r\nemerged and vitalised Matter. There cannot be a limit to the degree of\r\nspiritualisation also; for the degree of the Spirit that Nature manifests in an\r\nearthly body will also be the measure to which the body itself is\r\nspiritualised. A perfectly dynamic spiritual<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.75pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page – 28<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>consciousness</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'> will have the power to\r\nperfectly spiritualise the body and life and mind. And this grade and power of\r\nthe supreme Spirit Sri Aurobindo calls the Supermind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>We will try to understand the\r\nnature of sublimation and transformation by analogy and illustration. Mind, for\r\nexample, we know, is an instrument which by itself is incapable of attaining to\r\nthe knowledge of the Spirit or the consciousness of the Truth. As it is\r\nconstituted at present, it is <span lang=EN-GB style=\"font-size:12pt;\">not only not capable of that\r\nknowledge and consciousness, but is an obstacle to them. Its vibrations\r\nand formulations disturb and vitiate the higher rhythm. That is why it is\r\nrepeated so often in the Upanishads:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Naisa tarkena matirapaneya</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'>¹<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>or</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> <span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span>Yan<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> </span>manasa<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> na manute²<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:12.45pt;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>or</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> again <span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Na </span>manasa<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> </span>praptum<span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'>\r\nsakyah³<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>and</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> so on. Yet the same mind when it is not independent and master but\r\nsubservient and obedient to the higher light becomes a channel for its dynamic\r\nembodiment, a conduit for its canalisation and expression in earthly life.\r\nTherefore the Upanishad says also,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'>Manasaivedamaptavyam</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:8.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'>4</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>A mind that is not rigidly\r\nlimited to the <span lang=EN-GB style=\"font-size:12pt;\">ratiocinative process, but has been\r\nremoulded in the light and rhythm of inspiration and intuition and revelation\r\nand other higher sources still beyond becomes at once a transfigured vessel, an\r\napt instrument to incarnate and dynamise in the\r\nphysical and material field truths and realities that normally lie far and\r\nabove. Something of the kind, though in a small measure, happens, for example,\r\nin a poet or an artist. A poet who moves by vision and inspiration is not, at\r\nleast need not be, devoid of mind: the mind in ills case is not annihilated or\r\neven kept in abeyance, but sublimated, undergoing a reorientation and\r\nreorganisation, acquiring a new magnitude. Even if there is<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</span></span></span></span><span\r\n  class=SpellE>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; layout-grid-mode:line\">\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><font size=\"2\">¹This wisdom is not to be had by reasoning.-Katha, 1. 2.\r\n9</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</span><span\r\n  class=SpellE style=\"font-size:12pt;\">\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\"font-size:12pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; layout-grid-mode:line\">\r\n\r\n<span class=GramE style=\"font-size:12pt;\">\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; layout-grid-mode:line\">\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><font size=\"2\">²That which thinks not by\r\nthe mind.-Kena, 1. 4</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><font size=\"2\">³Not with the mind has one the power to obtain\r\nit.-Katha, II. 3. 12</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><font size=\"2\">4</font><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><font size=\"2\"> By the mind too this has\r\nto be seized.-Ibid, II. 2. 23</font></span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></span></p></span>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page – 29<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>a suspension of the ratiocinative\r\nfaculty, it would not mean a suspension of the mental power in itself, but\r\nrather an enhancement in a new degree. The same may happen to the other parts\r\nand planes of human consciousness and existence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Of course, if one chooses, one\r\ncan sidetrack these intervening ranges of consciousness between the Spirit and\r\nMatter, and strike something like a chord line between the two; but also one\r\nneed not follow this bare straight ascetic line of ascension; one can pursue a\r\nwider, a circular or global movement which not only arrives but fulfils. The\r\nlatter is Nature\'s method of activity, Nature being all reality. The exclusive\r\nline is meant for individuals, and even as such it has a value and sense in the\r\nglobal view, for this too is contributory to the total urge and its total\r\nconsummation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>We have seen that\r\nspiritualisation of Matter is an inevitable consummation that is being worked\r\nout by evolutionary Nature. We can go now still further and say that it is not\r\nmerely a far-off inevitability that will come about some day or other, but a\r\nmore or less imminent certainty. For Nature\'s evolutionary <span lang=EN-GB style=\"font-size:12pt;\">dynamise\r\ns not the only agent at work, it is not the only assurance of the grand finale\r\nenvisaged. The Divine himself descends and meets and takes up the evolutionary\r\nforce: he comes down as a dynamic conscious force in the terrestrial movement\r\ncarrying the truth that is to be established here and now, acts and drives,\r\nfirst from above and then in and through the level actuality, and thus speeds\r\nup and fulfils within a brief span what Nature left to herself would perhaps\r\ntake aeons – Brahmic Yugas – to accomplish. Indeed Nature\'s evolutionary\r\ncrises, where she had to effect a transcendence from one plane of creation to\r\nanother, are always worked out swiftly by such a descent which imposes an\r\ninexorable physical pressure as it were upon an earthly material which\r\notherwise is slow to move and change.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Even of this descent of the\r\nDivine Consciousness, however, there are varying degrees, in accordance with\r\nthe nature of the work it has got to do. In the inferior ranges of evolutionary\r\nNature – the lower hemisphere, as it is called, of Mind, Life and\r\nMatter-Descent is partial and indirect and relative, the aim being a more or\r\nless reconditioning of Matter, not its thorough transformation: this becomes\r\npossible when Nature</span></p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Page - 30<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>has</span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'> risen to Mind and has\r\nprepared herself to take the further, the crucial leap into the higher\r\nhemisphere, the sphere of dynamic spiritual truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>Nature\'s attempt at the transcendence\r\nof Mind opens the door for a more and more direct and integral descent of the\r\nDivine Consciousness, and in its highest degrees – the degrees of the Supermind\r\n– the Descent means a reversal of the normal values, a swift and total\r\ntransfiguration of earthly life into the mould of supernal spiritual realities.\r\nAn absolute degree of the Descent, an irruption of the Divine Consciousness in\r\nits supreme purity and fullness becomes inevitable in the end: for that alone\r\ncan bring about the fulfilment that Nature ultimately has in view. Matter will\r\nyield completely, and life power too, only to the direct touch and embrace of\r\nthe Divine\'s own self.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'>In this age we stand at some\r\nsuch critical juncture in Nature\'s evolutionary history. Its full implications,\r\nthe exact degree of the immediate achievement, the form and manner of the\r\nDescent are things that remain veiled till the fact is accomplished. Something\r\nof it is <span lang=EN-GB style=\"font-size:12pt;\">revealed, however, to the eye of vision and\r\nthe heart of faith, something of it is seized by those to whom it chooses to\r\ndisclose itself<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:line\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;\r\nlayout-grid-mode:line\'>Yamevaisa vrnute tena labhyah</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;layout-grid-mode:\r\nline\'>¹<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; 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margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">Children and\r\nChild </font> </span></b><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">Mentality,</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n15.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>CHILDREN are often found to be very cruel to\r\nanimals. Why is it so? Their treatment of birds especially is notorious. To\r\nseek out nests and pull them down, to capture nestlings and put them to all\r\nkinds of torture, to pick up eggs and dash them to pieces are for children most\r\ninteresting games. They seem to take particular delight in varying and\r\nenhancing as much as possible the torture they can inflict. One reason that can\r\nbe adduced for the callousness of a child\'s sensibility is his\r\nself-centredness: he is wholly himself, isolated from others, <span\r\nclass=GramE>has</span> not yet learnt the social needs and virtues. All he does\r\nand feels is for himself, for his own pleasure and free self-assertion. His\r\ngrowing individuality, in order to grow, cuts itself aloof from others and\r\nloses the sense of others having the same value as itself. Being\r\nself-regarding, to that extent he ceases to be other-regarding. Fellow-feeling\r\nis a sentiment that grows later on, as the result of shocks in mutual\r\ninterchange. Real sympathy is a movement of mature consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The inquisitiveness that so strongly\r\npossesses a child is also the drive of an awakening and growing consciousness.\r\nHe indulges in breaking, tearing, ripping because of this curiosity, <span\r\nclass=GramE>this</span> keen edge of a developing and experimenting conscious­ness.\r\nIt seems to be hard and unfeeling, even an aberration, precisely because of the\r\negocentric nature of the child cons­ciousness yet unfamiliar with values normal\r\nto age and experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>But if it is nature to a certain extent that\r\nmakes the child so apathetic, self-regarding and cruel, it is not the only\r\ncause and it is not the whole story. There are other very active factors in\r\nlife that affect and mould the child\'s consciousness from the very beginning.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 194<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The child, we can take, comes into the world\r\nwith a more or less clean slate to record the reactions of life. In the early\r\nperiod he is still nearer his psychic being which is not yet thrown back or\r\ncovered over by the impacts and impressions of the world. The first conscious\r\ncontacts with the world are not generally happy for the child. He meets things\r\nall around that go against the grain of his still sensitive psychic cons­ciousness.\r\nThe first quarrel he witnesses between his parents, the first rough </span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>behaviour</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> or movement of an elder that shakes his\r\nattention, the first lie that he hears uttered by his teacher, act almost as\r\nshellshocks to his nerves. And as he grows, lessons like these are showered\r\nupon him from all sides and no wonder if his consciousness very soon gets\r\nwarped and <span class=GramE>twisted,</span> he too begins his own game in the\r\nline he observes and experiences. Only, not being guided or controlled by\r\nreason and experience, he overdoes the thing, and because of his age, what in\r\nan adult is a matter of course, trivial and insignificant, looms large and\r\nominous in his case. The sur­roundings in which a child lives and grows form\r\nthe atmosphere which he breathes in at every moment and if there is poison in\r\nit, he inhales and imbibes the poison which becomes part of his substance and\r\nnature. A pure environment is needed for a pure life impulse to shape <span\r\nclass=GramE>an</span> develop itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.15in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>***<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>What is the very central character of the\r\nchild conscious­ness? It is confidence in life, the surety that nothing can\r\nbaulk the fulfilment of life\'s purpose, the trust that overrides all set-backs\r\nand stumbles, gaily passes through dangers and difficulties. This confidence,\r\nthis assurance the very body shares in and impels it to movements of daring and\r\nadventure. It is this that is the cause of the body\'s growth, and so long as it\r\nis maintained, keeps the body young. So the poet says:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>A – A simple child<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>That lightly draws its breath,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>And feels its life in every limb,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>What should it know of <span class=GramE>death\r\n?¹</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.15pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.15pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt\'>¹ Wordsworth: &quot;We Are\r\nSeven&quot;<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt;\'>Page – 195<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Age sets in precisely when there is a fall in\r\nthis self-confidence and assurance of the body consciousness, when the body\r\nbegins to fear, becomes too cautious and apprehensive. A wound, a cut, even a\r\nbroken limb would not stop a child normally to go forward with the same dash\r\nand carelessness. And that character is the source not only of his physical\r\nfitness and growth, but also that of a mental alacrity and soundness which is\r\nan inestimable possession of the child consciousness. The wisest teacher is he\r\nwho does not teach too much the wisdom of prudence and moderation, but\r\nencourages this <i>élan vital, </i>the life urge, in the child and yet seeks to\r\n</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>organise</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> and </span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>canalise</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> it, as an efficient instrument of high ideals\r\nand purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>***<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>There are two failings which a teacher must\r\nguard against – to which he is usually prone – if he wishes to secure respect\r\nand obedience and trust from children: (I) telling a lie and (2) losing temper.\r\nA child can easily find out whether you are spinning a long yarn or not. He is\r\ninquisitive, </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>irrepressively</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'> curious and, above all, he has his own manner and angle of looking at\r\nthings. He puts questions about all things and subjects and in all ways that\r\nseem queer to an adult view. His answers too to questions, his solutions of\r\nproblems are very unorthodox, bizarre. But it is all the more the task of the\r\nelder not only to put up with all these vagaries, but also with great sympathy\r\nand patience to appreciate and understand what the child attempts to express.\r\nIf you get irritated or angry and try to snub or brush him away, it would mean\r\nthe end of all cordial relation between you and him. Or, again, if you try to\r\nhoodwink him, give a false answer to hide your ignorance, in that case too the\r\nchild will not be deceived, he will find you out and lose all respect for you.\r\nIt is far better to own your ignorance, saying you do not know than to pose as\r\na knowing man; although that may affect to some extent his sense of\r\nhero-worship and he may not entertain any longer the </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>unspoilt</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> awe and esteem with which he was accustomed\r\nto look up to you, still you will not lose his affection and confidence.\r\nInfinite patience and a temper that is never frayed or ruffled are demanded of\r\nthe teacher and the parent</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 196<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=GramE><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>who</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'> wish to guide and control successfully and happily a child. With that\r\nyou can mould in the end the most refrac­tory child, without that you will fail\r\neven with a child of goodwill.</span></span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 197<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; 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line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-weight:700\'><font size=\"4\">An Aspect of Emergent Evolution</font><o:p></o:p></span></h1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;tab-stops:387.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>T<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>HE</span> theory of Emergent Evolution should be\r\nconsidered no longer as a theory, but as a statement of fact. The fact, at its\r\nbarest, stripped of all assumptions and even <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>generalisations</span>, is the fact observed and implicit in all\r\nevolution, which can be denied only by the perverse and purblind. It is this,\r\nthat at each crucial step Nature undergoes a sudden and total change, brings\r\nforth a new element which was not there before and which could not be foreseen\r\nor foretold by any process of deduction from the actual factors in play. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>At the very\r\noutset of the evolutionary march, when material Nature meant only a mass or\r\nmasses of incandescent gaseous elements, the first miracle that happened was\r\nthe formation, the advent of water. There was Hydrogen and there was Oxygen\r\nexisting and moving side by side, for millions of years perhaps, but only at a\r\ngiven moment did an electric current happen to pass through a certain mixture\r\nof the two elements somewhere, and behold, a liquid drop was the product, an\r\nabsolutely new, unforeseen, unpredictable and wonderful object! Examples can be\r\nmultiplied.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The fact is\r\nadmitted, on the whole, unless one is a Fundamentalist and prefers still to\r\nlive in the consciousness of a bygone century. Difference comes in when the\r\nquestion of explanations and of viewpoints regarding them is raised. A\r\nmaterialist like Professor Broad would consider Mind and Life as fundamentally\r\nformations of Matter, however different they might seem from each other and\r\nfrom the latter. Water, the so-called miracle product of Oxygen and Hydrogen,\r\naccording to him, is as material as these two; even so Life and Mind, however\r\nmiraculously produced, being born of Matter, are nothing but the same single\r\nreality, only in different</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:13.5pt;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-55<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>forms. Others, who are more or\r\nless idealists, Alexander and Lloyd Morgan, for example (some of them call\r\nthemselves neo-realists, however), would not view the phenomenon in the same\r\nway. Alexander says that Matter and Life and Mind are very different from each\r\nother; they are truly <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>emergents</span>,\r\nthat is to say, novelties; but how the thing has been possible, one need not\r\ninquire; one should accept the fact with &quot;natural piety.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Morgan proffers\r\nan explanation. He says that whatever there is, exists in God who is the all-continent.\r\nIn fact, everything that is or was or shall be is in Him. And the evolutionary\r\ngradation expresses or puts in front, one by one, all the principles or types\r\nof existence that God holds in Himself. The explanation hardly explains. It\r\nsimply posits the existence of Matter and Life and Mind and whatever is to come\r\nhereafter in the infinity of God, but the passage from one to another, the\r\nconnecting link between two succeeding terms, and the necessity of the link,\r\nare left as obscure as before. Life is tagged on to Matter and Mind is tagged\r\non to Life in the name of the Lord God.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Bertrand\r\nRussell made a move in the right direction with a happy suggestion which\r\nunhappily he had not the courage to follow up. Mind (and Life), he says, are\r\ncertainly emergents out of Matter; that is because the reality is neither, it\r\nis a neutral stuff out of which all emergents issue. The conclusion is logical\r\nand sensible. But as he was initially bound to his position of scientific\r\nscepticism, he could not further question or probe the &quot;neutral&quot; and\r\nstopped on the fence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:22.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The problem in\r\nreality, however, is simple enough, if we allow the facts to speak for\r\nthemselves and do not hesitate to accept the conclusions to which they\r\ninevitably lead. After Matter came Life; that is to say, out of Matter came\r\nLife, and that can only be because Life was involved in Matter. And if such a\r\nconclusion makes of Matter a potentially living thing, we shall have to accept\r\nthe position. In the same way, Mind that followed Life came out of Life,\r\nbecause Mind was involved in Life; and if that means endowing Life with a\r\nsecret mentality, well, there is no help for it. And if, as a natural\r\nconsequence of the two premises we have to admit the existence of some kind of\r\nmind or consciousness secreted in Matter<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:22.5pt;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-56</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>­- a minimal psychic life,\r\naccording to McDougall – that would be but what the Upanishads always declared:\r\nCreation -is a vibration of consciousness, and all things and all kinds of\r\n.existence are only forms and modalities of consciousness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:22.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>However, we\r\nthus arrive at Mind in following the evolutionary process. Now after Mind there\r\nemerges another principle which has been termed Deity. By Deity the emergent\r\nevolutionists mean the embodiment of the religious feeling – piety, charity,\r\nworship, love of God or of God\'s creatures. Indeed, saints and prophets are\r\nvisible deities, embodiments of the Deity in the making. These represent\r\nanother element in the evolutionary process – a new evolute.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:22.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Does this\r\npoint to the emergence of a new type of superhuman beings forming a class or a\r\nspecies by themselves? The possibility has been envisaged by some of the\r\nprotagonists of emergent evolution, but has not been sufficiently examined - or\r\nconsidered. . Philosophers seem to walk in this region with caution and\r\nincertitude, as if on quicksand and quagmire. :But in this connection we are\r\nfaced with a problem which Morgan had the happy intuition to seize and to bring\r\nforward. It is our purpose to draw attention to this matter.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:22.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Professor\r\nAlexander spoke of the emergence of deities who would embody emergent\r\nproperties other than those manifest in the Mind of man. Morgan asks whether\r\nthere is not also a Deity – or <i>the</i> Deity – in the making. He establishes\r\nthe 1ogical necessity of such a consummation in this way: the evolutionary urge\r\n(or <i>nisus</i>, as it has been called) in its upward drive creates and throws\r\nup on all sides, at each stage, forms of the new property or principle of\r\nexistence that has come into evidence. These multiple forms may appear anywhere\r\nand everywhere; they are strewn about on the entire surface of Nature. These\r\nare, however, the branchings of the evolutionary nisus which has a central line\r\nof advance running through the .entire gradation of emergents; it is, as it\r\nwere, the central pillar round which is erected a many-storeyed edifice. The\r\ninteresting point is this, that at the present stage of emergence, what the\r\ncentral line touches and arrives at is the Deity. Or, again, the thing can be\r\nviewed in another way. At the bottom the evolutionary movement is broad-based\r\non Matter but as it proceeds upward its extent is gradually narrowed down;<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;border:medium none;\r\nmso-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\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-57<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Life is less extensive than\r\nMatter and Mind is still less extensive than Life. Thus the scheme of the movement\r\ncan be figured as a pyramid-the base of the pyramid represents Matter, but the\r\napex where the narrowing sides converge is what is called the Deity.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>What\r\nis the implication of such a conclusion? It comes. perilously near the Indian\r\nconception of Avatarhood! The central line of evolutionary nisus is the line of\r\nAvatarhood. At each point of the line, on the level of the newly emerged\r\nprinciple, there is a divine embodiment of that principle. The esoteric\r\nsignificance of the graded scale of Avatarhood, as illustrated in Vishnu\'s ten\r\nForms, has long ago been pointed out, by some thinkers, in this light.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The principle\r\nof Avatarhood stands justified in this scheme as a necessary and inevitable\r\nelement in the terrestrial evolutionary movement. An Avatar embodies a new\r\nemergent property: he incarnates a new principle of being and consciousness, he\r\nmanifests-unfolds from below or brings down from above upon earth--a higher and\r\ndeeper principle of organisation. He is the nucleus round which the new\r\norganisation crystallises. A Rama comes and human society attains a new status:\r\nagainst a mainly vitalistic and egoistic organisation whose defender and\r\nprotagonist is Ravana, is set up an ideal of sattwic humanity. A <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>\r\nappears and human consciousness is lifted, potentially at least, to a still\r\nhigher level of spiritual possibility. The Avatar following, rather tracing,.\r\nin his upward movement the central line of the evolutionary nisus, cuts a path,\r\nas it were, in the virgin forest of a realm of consciousness still unknown and\r\nforeign to human steps. As the Avatar presses and passes on, the way is cleared\r\nfor other, ordinary human beings to come up and naturalise themselves in a new\r\ncountry promising a higher destiny which He discovers and conquers-for them.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now at this\r\npoint we reach the crux of the problem, the supreme secret – <i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>rahasyam</i> <i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nnormal\'>uttamam </i>– as the Gita would say. For the apex of the pyramid, the\r\ncrown of evolution, the consummation of the central line of emergence would\r\nthen be nothing less than the manifestation, the terrestrial incarnation of the\r\nSupreme Divine. The Deity thus fully emerged would embody the truth and play of\r\ncreation in its widest scope and<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;border:medium none;\r\nmso-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\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-58</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>highest elevation; it would mean\r\nthe utter fulfilment of human destiny and terrestrial Purpose.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In Indian\r\nterminology, it would be the advent of the Purna Bhagavan in the human body <i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>– m<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>a</span>nus</i><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>i</span>m tanu</i><i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>a</span>sritam</i>.\r\nAll previous Avatars are only a preparation for the coming of this Supreme\r\nDivine. It is said also that the present epoch marks a crucial turn and\r\ntransition. We await the Kalki Avatar who will wipe off the past, the Iron Age,\r\nand bring in the Golden Age, Satya Youga.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A question\r\ninevitably arises here – what next? Once the evolutionary movement has reached\r\nthe apex, does it stop there? After the apex, the Void? I t need not be so. The\r\ncompletion of the pyramid would mean simply the end of a particular order of\r\ncreation, the creation in Ignorance. This is, indeed, what Sri Aurobindo\r\nenvisages in his conception of the creation in supramental Gnosis. The\r\nevolutionary nisus, on its arrival at the apex, according to him crosses a\r\nborderland, leaps into another order of the world, of infinite\r\nTruth-Consciousness. Thereafter another new creation starts the building\r\nperhaps of another pyramid (if we want to continue the metaphor). The\r\nprogression &quot;Of the evolutionary course is naturally expected to be an\r\nunending series. The pyramids rise tier upon tier <i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nnormal\'>ad infinitum</i>. Only it is to be noted that in the basic pyramid the\r\nevolution starts from inconscience and moves from more ignorance to less\r\nignorance through a gradually lessening density of darkness until the apex is\r\nreached where all shade of darkness is eliminated for ever. Beyond there is no\r\nmixture, however thin and diluted: it is a movement from light to light, from\r\none expression of it to another, perhaps richer, but of the same quality. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This, however,\r\nis an aspect of the problem with which we are not immediately concerned. There\r\nis one question with which we have omitted to deal but which is nearer to us\r\nand touches present actualities. We spoke of the emergence of the Deity -<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>and of the Supreme Deity <i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>– after</i> Mind. The question is, how long\r\nafter? I do not refer to the duration of time needed, but to the steps or the\r\nstages that have to be passed. For between Mind and Deity, certainly between\r\nMind and the Supreme Deity (Purushottama, as we would say), there may\r\npresumably still lie a course of graded emergence. In fact, Sri<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Aurobindo </p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;border:medium none;\r\nmso-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\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-59<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>speaks of the Overmind\r\nand the Supermind, as farther steps of the evolutionary progress coming after\r\nMind. He says that Mind closes the interior hemisphere of man\'s nature and\r\nconsciousness; with Overmind man enters into the higher sphere of the Spirit.\r\nIn this view, the religious feeling or perception or conduct would be but an\r\nintermediary stage between Mind and Overmind. They are not really emergent\r\nproperties, but reflections, faint echoes and promises of what is to come,\r\nmixed up with attributes of the present mentality. The Overmind brings in a\r\ntrue emergence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Still\r\nOvermind – whose characteristic is a cosmic consciousness and a transcendence\r\nof all ego-sense – is not the firm basis on which a new terrestrial\r\norganisation can stand and endure. It is still a basis of unstable equilibrium.\r\nFor it is not the supernal light and, although it transcends all ignorance, yet\r\ndoes not possess that absolute synthetic unity, that transcendent power of\r\nconsciousness which is at once the cosmic and the individual. That is the\r\ndomain of the Supermind.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The whole urge\r\nof evolutionary Nature today is to bring out first the Overmental principle and\r\nthen through it the Supramental which will establish and fix upon earth the\r\nprinciple of Deity and the Supreme Divine.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;border:medium none;\r\nmso-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\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-60<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20file/shome.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-007_An Aspect  of Emergent Evolution','','publish','closed','open','','007_an-aspect-of-emergent-evolution','','','2021-11-23 17:59:17','2021-11-23 17:59:17','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/007_an-aspect-of-emergent-evolution/',0,'post','',0),(2214,1,'2021-11-23 17:59:17','2021-11-23 17:59:17','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>This Expanding Universe</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">This Expanding Universe</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE universe is a\r\nmanifestation, that is to say, the unfolding of infinite possibilities. The\r\nunfolding has not stopped, it is continuing and will continue, throwing out or\r\nbringing into physical expression all that lies behind and latent. The universe\r\nmay be considered as a sphere or a globe, a totality or assemblage containing\r\neverything that exists here and is being manifested. Beyond and outside, as it\r\nwere, this circle of creation lies the transcendent, the Supreme Divine, in his\r\nown status. The transcendent means the unmanifest. It does not mean, however,\r\nthe void; for it contains all that is to be manifested, each and everything in\r\nits potentiality, its essence, in a seed form. All is there as a latent\r\npossibility, a fundamental truth of being – all is there not simply as a\r\ngeneral idea, but in every detail, though as it were on a microscopic scale,\r\nsomething like the chromosomes in life <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>plasm</span>. The transcendent is beyond time and space. Manifestation\r\nor creation begins with the formulation of time and space, the frame in which\r\nwhat lay latent is gradually brought out and displayed. The transcendent is\r\nconsciousness absorbed in itself, identified with itself; manifestation is\r\nconsciousness waking and looking at itself as its object <i>(La prise de\r\nconscience objective de soi).<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.95pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now,\r\none can be seated or fixed exclusively in the status of the unmanifest; to such\r\na one the infinite and eternal is an everpresent reality, there is nothing like\r\npast or future, every-thing is. One knows and is in the presence of a fixed\r\nactuality; whatever happened, whatever will happen-as it seems to us- all are\r\nthere realised on the same plane and at the same moment (although the terms\r\nplane and moment do not quite apply there). It is the world or status of the\r\nabsolutely determined. Free choice or indeterminacy, the unexpected and the\r\nunforeseen have no place here.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 304<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>On\r\nthe contrary, the sphere of manifestation is precisely the field of the sudden\r\nand the incalculable, that is to say, of free will. Things appear here that\r\nwere not before, forces come into play that were not expected or even imagined.\r\nThey all move along lines that shift and change continually. This is the status\r\nof <i>becoming – sambhuti, </i>as designated by the Upanishad and described by\r\nthe Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, in the words, <i>panta reei, </i>everything\r\nflows on. Here, often a certain disposition that seems quite stable or\r\npredictable is upset all of a sudden by the irruption of a new and novel factor\r\nfrom somewhere else.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\nin between the two, on the borderland, as it were, there is a poise of\r\nconsciousness which combines both in an integral perception, it is a single\r\nmovement of both being and becoming. It is the Supermind. It is the point where\r\nwhat is or exists in the unmanifest just <i><span style=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>becomes </span></i>in the manifest, the\r\npure truth or reality above at standstill stirs and begins to come out or\r\ndisengage itself through a play of possibles. It is like a cinema film that is\r\nrolled up and kept in a spool till it is put on the projector and rolled out\r\ngradually upon the screen of life and in life-size\' presentation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\ntranscendent then is an integral reality, for it contains all and the whole,\r\nbut it is of fixed <i>dimension – avyaya, </i>it neither increases, nor\r\ndecreases: it is the Stable, the Stagnant <i>– sthanuracaloyam. </i>The\r\ncosmos, on the other hand, is not only moving and changing, but also ever\r\nincreasing or expanding. For new possibles are becoming reals here and adding\r\nto the sum of its factors. Out of the transcendent, the unmanifest, are\r\nconstantly shooting down potentials and becoming dynamic in the universe making\r\nit richer and ever richer.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Furthermore,\r\nthis expansion is not merely accretion but a growth, that is to say, it is\r\ndirected and has a sense and purpose and end in view. In fact all the possibles\r\nthat find play, the elements that enter here below are necessary inasmuch as\r\nthey contribute to the meaning of the Play, to the working out of the\r\ndenouement. We can take again the analogy of the cinema film and say that the\r\nunrolling film is interesting because it has a continuous and developing story\r\nto tell, with a beginning, a middle and an end. Likewise, the manifestation too\r\ntells a connected story – it is not a drivel, but has a\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 305<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>goal; <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>it<b> </b></span>is a process elaborated by a\r\n<i>final cause. </i>Even like an individual being <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nbold\'>it<b> </b></span>is an organism, ever growing and bringing out its latent\r\npossibilities, moving towards a high fruition of its aspiration and destiny.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>In<b> </b></span>this sense manifestation is\r\na more complete – and more and more complete – reality than the non-manifest\r\nSupreme. 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