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<font face="Times New Roman" size=4>II</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman" size=4>OCCULT EXPERIENCES</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">It seems my predecessors were telling you stories—
stories of their own lives, their experiences, so I thought
I should follow in their footsteps. But I am not going to
tell you about my own experiences, I am going to tell a
story, rather a history, that happened in the life of
another person. It will be interesting and also instructive.
So I will begin the story, I am the narrator:</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">I was a traveller, going about from place to place, seeing
all things of interest — especially those of pilgrimage —
and I happened to be in Madras. I was waiting there to
take a bus to the railway-station which was a few miles off.
I saw that there were also many other travellers waiting
to board a bus. A busman was inviting people, so I approached his bus. Suddenly a lady came out of the crowd
and said, &quot;Please don't go there!&quot;&nbsp; She was an elderly
Tamil lady. I was surprised and asked, &quot;Why, why?&quot;
She said, &quot;Well, wait; you'll see,&quot; and I stopped. Then
there were three buses that started — I was in one, the
lady was in another and the third was the one I had
wanted to board.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">The lady's bus came last and the other two were running
very fast — competing as to which should go first. Well,
what happened is quite natural; the bus in which I was</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">to go dashed against a wayside tree and was damaged, and
the passengers were mostly killed or seriously injured.
We reached our destination and naturally I was very eager
to see the lady who had stopped me from boarding the bus.
I asked her, &quot;How did you know it? How did you guess?&quot;
&quot;I'll tell you later on.&quot; So we started again, and went to a
holy place on a hillside. It was a sort of jungle and woodland, full of bushes. The lady and I were walking quietly
together. Then I stepped aside. I wanted to see what was
to my left. Suddenly the lady said, &quot;Please, please don't
go to that side!&quot; Naturally I was surprised and asked her
the reason. Then I saw that behind the bushes was a 200 ft.
deep precipice. If I had taken one step more I would
have gone down! Then I pleaded with the lady: &quot;Please
tell me what it is; how did you see it?&quot; She said, &quot;All
right, I'll tell you the story, let us sit down.&quot; Then she
narrated the story. She said, &quot;When I was young I lived
with my grandfather, and we loved each other exceedingly,
we were very much attached to each other. He used to
tell me stories and pleased me in all ways, so I was with
him almost all the time. Then one day he fell rather
seriously ill. Doctors were called and they couldn't do
anything. Then my grandfather called me and said, 'My
child, go and pray to Shiva' — Shiva was the household
deity. So I went and knelt down before the image of Shiva
and prayed, '0 Shiva, my grandfather is ill, please cure
him.' One or two days I did that. But he continued to be
ill, he became rather worse! Then one day the doctors gave</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">up all hope. I was weeping standing a little away from
him. Suddenly I saw a girl by the side of my grandfather,
and I was astonished, she looked exactly like myself. Then
I asked someone near me if he could see anyone by my
grandfather — 'No, I don't see anybody.' Then I went to
the bedside, and the image and I stood together. Gradually
my grandfather was cured. From that time on, wherever
there is any danger, any difficulty, this image of myself
comes, and helps me. So when you wanted to go in that
bus I saw the same figure coming to me and telling me,
'Beware.' I don't know who she is.&quot;</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">So this is the story. I have brought these books because
some of the poets have had such an experience.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Alfred de Musset says that from his childhood he had a
comrade who was always with him — he was like a brother
to him, he accompanied him in life's joys and sorrows,
in dangers and happiness — he was always with him. I
shall read out some stanzas (Alfred de Musset — <i>Poésies
Choisies,</i> page 38, <i>Nuit de Décembre):</i></font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">'Du temps que j'étais écolier,</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Je restais un soir&nbsp; à veiller </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Dans notre salle solitaire.</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Devant ma table vint s'asseoir</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Un pauvre enfant vêtu de noir,</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Qui me ressemblait comme un frère.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Son visage était triste et beau:</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">A la lueur de mon flambeau,</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dans mon livre ouvert il vint lire.</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;II pencha son front sur ma main,
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<font face="Times New Roman">Et resta jusqu'au lendemain,
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<font face="Times New Roman">Pensif, avec un doux sourire.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Comme j'allais avoir quinze ans,
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<font face="Times New Roman">Je marchais un jour, à pas lents,</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dans un bois, sur une bruyère.
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<font face="Times New Roman">Au pied d'un arbre vint s'asseoir </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Un jeune homme vêtu de noir,</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Qui me ressemblait comme un frère.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Je lui demandai mon chemin;</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">II tenait un luth d'une main,</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">De 1'autre un bouquet d'églantine.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">II me fit un salut d'ami,</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Et, se détournant à demi,</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Me montra du doigt la colline.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Je m'en suis si bien souvenu,
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<font face="Times New Roman">Que je 1'ai toujours reconnu</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;A tous les instants de ma vie.
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<font face="Times New Roman">C'est une étrange vision,
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<font face="Times New Roman">Et cependant, ange ou démon,</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">J'ai vu partout cette ombre amie.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Partout ou. le long des chemins,</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">J'ai posé mon front dans mes mains
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<font face="Times New Roman">Et sangloté comme une femme,
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<font face="Times New Roman">Partout où j'ai, comme un mouton
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<font face="Times New Roman">Qui laisse sa laine au buisson,</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Senti se dénuer mon âme;</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Partout où. j'ai voulu dormir,</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Partout où j'ai voulu mourir,</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Partout où j'ai touché la terre,</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Sur ma route est venu s'asseoir</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Un malheureux vêtu de noir,</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Qui me ressemblait comme un frére.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">'Qui done es-tu, spectre de ma jeunesse,
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<font face="Times New Roman">Pélerin que rien n'a lassé?</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Dis-moi pourquoi je te trouve sans cesse </font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Assis dans 1'ombre ou j'ai passé.
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<font face="Times New Roman">Qui done es-tu, visiteur solitaire,</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Hôte assidu de mes douleurs?'</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
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<font face="Times New Roman">Now this form, that the poet saw, replies:</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;—Ami, notre père est Ie tien.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Je ne suis ni l'ange gardien,</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Ni le mauvais destin des hommes ...</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Le del m'a confié ton coeur.
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<font face="Times New Roman">Quand tu seras dans la douleur,</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Viens à moi sans inquiétude.</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Je te suivrai sur le chemin;</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Mais je ne puis toucher ta main,
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<font face="Times New Roman">Ami, je ne suis que la Solitude.&quot;</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Here is the English translation:</font>

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<font size="2" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</font><font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;A DECEMBER NIGHT</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">In the days when I was a schoolboy</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">One evening I kept awake</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">In my lonely room.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">In front of my table there came and sat</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">A poor child robed in black</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Who looked like me even as a brother.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">His face was sad and beautiful:</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">In the light of my lamp</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">He came to read in my open book.</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">He bent his head upon my hand
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<font face="Times New Roman">And waited till the morn</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">Musing with a sweet smile.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">When I was about to be fifteen years old</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">I was walking one day leisurely</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">In a woodland upon the heath,</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">At the foot of a tree there came and sat</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">A young man robed in black</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Who looked like me even as a brother.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">I asked him my way;</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">He held a lute in one hand,.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">And in the other a bouquet of eglantine.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">He gave a friendly salute to me</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">And, half turning,</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">With his finger pointed to the hillock.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">I remember him so well,</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">I have recognised him always</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">At every moment of my life.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">It was a strange vision,</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">And yet, angel or demon,</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">I saw everywhere this friendly shadow.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Wherever all along my way
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<font face="Times New Roman">I held my forehead in my hands</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;And sobbed like a woman;</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Wherever, like a lamb</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">That leaves his wool in the bush,</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">I felt my soul being shed;</font>

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&nbsp;<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">Wherever I sought to sleep,
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<font face="Times New Roman">Wherever I sought to die,</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Wherever I touched the earth
</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">On my road came and sat</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;A miserable one robed in black,</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Who looked like my own brother.</font>

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&nbsp;<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Who art thou, phantom of my youth,
</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Pale pilgrim whom nothing fatigues?
</font>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">Tell me, why do I find thee constantly,
</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Seated in the shadow I have passed through?
</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Who art thou, lonely visitor,</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Tireless guest of my pain?&quot;</font>

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&nbsp;<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Friend, our father is also thine,&nbsp;</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;I am neither the guardian angel
</font>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">Nor the evil destiny of men...</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Heaven has entrusted thy heart to me.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">When thou art in pain</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">Come to me carefree,</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">I shall follow thee on thy way;</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:200px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">But I cannot touch thy hand,
</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Friend, I am Solitude.&quot;</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">The poet thinks that it is the personification of solitude,
but it is something more than that. As I said, it is your
other self, your subtle self. The body, the personality
that you see externally is only a reflection of the inner
being that you are. I don't mean your spiritual personality, but your subtle material self—which is physically
your true personality. And that is inspired by something
greater which you all know — your true individuality —</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">your psychic being. But that being can only be perceived,
seen and experienced and heard in solitude, in loneliness
— what you call calmness and quietness and detachment.
This vision here, this being of Alfred de Musset says: &quot;I
can approach you but I cannot touch you, there is a separation between the two. We can touch only when there
are some conditions fulfilled in the physical body.&quot;</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">Another French poet speaks of a similar experience. He
speaks of it in a jocular way, in a funny way. He says that
this inner self sees things in a quite different way than the
external being does. Sometimes it does quite the opposite.
While the physical eye says 'It is this', the other says 'No,
it is that'. Different values and perceptions — what we
see externally is only Maya. There is only a rope, but you
see a snake there — that is Maya.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">He is a modern French poet, Supervielle. The poem
is amusing:</font>

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<b>
<font face="Times New Roman" size=2>ALTER EGO<sup>1</sup></font></b><p align=justify style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;In my outward experience I see a mouse running away.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Une souris s'échappe&quot;</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;(A mouse runs out)
</font>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">But the other person says:</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;ce n'en était pas une&quot;</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;(It was not there)</font></td>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size=2><sup>&nbsp;1</sup> <i>Translated by James Kirkup (New Direction).</i></font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">The outward person says:</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Une femme s'éveille&quot;</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">(A woman wakes)</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;The other says:</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Comment Ie savez-vous?&quot;</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">(How do you know?)</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;And then my outward sense says:</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Et la porte qui grince&quot;</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">(And the squeaking door)</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;On 1'huila ce matin&quot;</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">(It was oiled this morning)
</font>
		<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">But if it was oiled this morning, how can it make&nbsp;
noise?</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Près du mur de clôture&quot;</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">(Near the cloister wall)</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Le mur n'existe plus&quot;</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">(There is now no wall)</font>

		<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
&nbsp;<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Ah! je ne puts rien dire&quot;</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">(Oh! I can't say a thing)         </font>
		<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;Because you always say the contrary.</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;The inner being says:</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">(Eh bien, vous vous taisez!)</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">(Well, now you'll be quiet!)
</font>
		<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">The outward person says: I can't walk</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Je ne puts pas bouger&quot;,</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">(I cannot move)</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Vous marchez sur la route&quot;</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">(You're walking along the road)</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">The outer questioning mind says:</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Où allons-nous aussi?</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;(Does all this get us anywhere?)
</font>
		<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;C'est moi qui Ie demande&quot;</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;(I am asking you)</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">I think:</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Je suis seui sur la Terre&quot;</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;(I am alone on Earth)</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">The other person says:</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Je suis là près de vous&quot;
</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">(I am here beside you)</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">The outer person says:</font>

<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Peut-on être si seui?&quot;
</font>
		<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">(Can one be so alone?)</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&quot;Je Ie suis plus que vous&quot;</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;(I am more alone than you)
</font>
		<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Je vois votre visage&quot;
</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">(I can see your face)
</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;Nul ne m'a jamais VU&quot;</font><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:25px" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;(No one has ever seen mine).</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">'I see you but nobody has seen me' — that is the inner
personality.</font>

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<font face="Times New Roman">These outer personalities — there is not one, there are
many — you consider this body of yours as your only
form, but you have many. Each level has its own individual form and a recognisable one. Each one has special</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">eyes, nose, ears, so this inner personality also has recognisable features. If you know, you can even name them — it
is this person, that person. The subtle physical is more
concrete. Only the physical form, the material form does
not change much. It changes, yes, according to your age,
slowly but for sometime you are the same. These inner
forms are changeful; they are not restricted to one rigid
figure. Still they are recognisable. There is a plasticity
which is very natural; according to the situation, according to your mood, according to your feeling, they change.
But the most important, the most original form is your
psychic being — your true being — that which we must
strive to realise and attain. As the Mother says: It is the
Divine personality in each one of us. Your outer personality is sometimes only a caricature, but still it tries to
reflect, though with difficulty, something of the needs and
urges of this inmost reality of yours. Someone has asked
me: &quot;How to find, how to know this inner being, the true
being in me?&quot; For, as the poet here says, he can't touch
you and you can't touch him, but what you want is to
touch that person. The fact is that it is not so altogether
out of contact, not altogether — unless a man is a total
villain, which is very rare. You can't obliterate that true
existence of you, it is there. It expresses itself in all the
movements that are good and noble and selfless. Whenever you see something beautiful or do something nice,
be sure that it is your psychic being that sees or does it.
The psychic being in you is the Mother — for it is an</font>
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<font face="Times New Roman">emanation of Herself that She has put in you, in order to
protect you. When you see the sunset and feel happy,
it is the psychic being in you that sees it. It is a
small beginning but it is a beginning. Let your psychic
being guide your acts. The only thing necessary is to be
sincere. You have to be sincere. First day you will find
it very difficult, second day you will find it easier, third
day it will become still easier and then on the fourth day
it will become your nature. It is not easy, but if you try
you will be able to do it.</font>
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