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<b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size="4">The World Tragedy</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>SHAKESPEARE in giving
expression to a most poignant experience of human life says – we all know the
most familiar and famous lines – in a most poignant manner:</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The time is out of joint: O
cursed spite, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That ever I was born to
set it right! – ¹</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The poignancy comes not so
much from the fact that this is a &quot;naughty world,&quot; a cruel world, an
unending sea of troubles which you have to brave and bear and fight constantly
against: it is not merely that the world is painful and dolorous and even
wicked but that it wants to remain so; even if you want to lift it up, out of
its maladies, it sinks down back again into its familiar mud, and brings down
with it the daring physician. The world does not tolerate its saviour: for this
crime it retaliates</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>upon</span>
whoever seeks to meddle in its affairs, brands him as an enemy of the people,
puts him on the cross. The old law must continue, the wrongs must be preserved,
and whatever good happens in spite of eveything must also be doomed and swallowed
up by the wrong. The great poet declares again:</p>
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0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>The evil that men do lives
after them;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The good is oft interred
with their bones<span class=GramE>;²</span></p>

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none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the end all traces of good
are wiped away: it is sheer black, bleak, cursed track, this creation.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Yes,
if you want to cure this ailing and insane world, if you have the ambition to
strike a wholesome light in this</p>

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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>¹ <span class=GramE><i>Hamlet</i></span><i>, </i>Act
I, Sc. V.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>² <i>Julius <span class=SpellE>Caeser</span>, </i>Act
III, Sc. II.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 386<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>dismal
darkness, if you exert yourself a little to turn it and set it on the right
path, pour a little of goodwill in the mephistophelian stuff that the world
is, well, your fate is Hamlet's – you create a yet greater desolation around
you. That is the way out of this tragedy.</p>

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

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

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:13.2pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A
celebrated scientist elated with the wonderful discoveries of modern science
and its more wonderful promises of the future seems to have said that if he
could get a foothold just outside the earth, he meant perhaps outside its
gravitational field, he could as it were, twirl the earth upon his finger, with
a little push dislodge it from its orbit and its axis. Well, what he said is
true and prophetic but the foothold outside has to be outside the gravitational
field, not of his physical existence, (the astronauts are trying it today), but
outside his physical or normal consciousness. He has to rise above the
physical, material status of his being. There is the error that Hamlet
committed in spite of his cultured and enlightened mind: not through the
enlightened mind alone but through the enlightened heart, through the
enlightened vital, even through an enlightened physical consciousness, the
remedy of the earthly malady has to be sought, not to meet violence with
violence, not to be resentful, not to retaliate-that is what the Bible means
when it says, &quot;Resist not evil&quot; – but rise in one's consciousness,
above the dualities as the eastern wisdom says, seek a higher source from where
springs the infallible energy of a purer light. <span class=GramE>The higher
the consciousness, the more effective its action.</span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Rise
in your being and consciousness and by your aspiration and realisation and
contagion make others too <span class=GramE>rise</span>. Then the world will
find naturally and spontaneously <span class=GramE>its lever to shift its old
and unhappy basic stand</span> to something higher, greater – diviner.</p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
complete life is a full <span class=GramE>circle,</span> one half only is
visible to us, real to us: the other half is invisible like the far side of the
moon. The ancients used to call these halves, one the higher half (Parardha)
and the other the lower half (Aparardha)<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 387<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'>The lower
half is the domain of death, the Upanishads declare, the higher half is the
domain of immortality. As we start our journey upon earth we begin with the
ordinary life, the life of death, and we pass through it gaining experience,
growing in consciousness; and then when we have crossed the stage we enter into
the domain beyond death and begin to learn, to partake of the life immortal.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Dante,
the great Christian poet speaks likewise of a life in Hell and a life in <st1:place>Paradise</st1:place>,
first, the tragedy, the life of sorrows, transmuted in the end into the Divine
Comedy, the life of happiness and bliss. There is an intermediary passage in between
through which the poet leads us from the one to the other: the transition is
spoken of as a stage of purification through which one has to pass to shake off
the human dross from his nature and put on and become in substance the noble
metal.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
is to be noted that death does not mean literally or exclusively the physical
event, disintegration and disappearance of the body: it is rather the symbol of
the corrosive consciousness of the ordinary ignorant life. There is the
ignorant consciousness making up the lower half circle of the integral life and
there is the luminous consciousness making up the higher half circle. In
between there is, as I have said, a border range which partakes of the nature
of both. In psychological terms, the lower is the predominantly vital and
physical ranges with a modicum of the mental shading into the higher mental. Up
till here it is more or less the region of ignorance. Then comes the higher
mind with its aspiring will: this is the purificatory agent – the purgatory – the
crucible where forces are generated to stir and change and renovate the
inferior sphere of our life. Indeed it is the region of the <span class=SpellE><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>ajña<span style='mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>-cakra</span></i><i> </i>in Tantric terminology: in modern terms
you may call it the control-room, or in most modern lunar vocabulary, the
command-module. It is from here that the first changes towards a higher and
purer functioning are initiated in our lower limbs, the body, the vital and
even the lower mental. Beyond <span class=GramE>is</span> the overhead and overmental
– and still higher ranges. The luminous consciousness, the touch of immortality
begins with the overhead and the overmental. As we enter the overhead, we shake
off the shadow of death upon us and our mortal nature. The Upanishad</span></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 388<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>speaks</span>
of two kinds of knowledge that have to be known, two forms of consciousness
that have to be acquired in order to become the full integral Divine being.
First you have to know, to become aware of the existence of ignorance, the
primal or primitive nature and through that awareness or knowledge probe into
its character and movement and destiny. Ignorance, pure ignorance leads towards
disintegration and death, but to be a ware of the ignorance is already a step
towards enlightening the ignorance and redeeming it into knowledge. By this
knowledge of the ignorance you release it from the grip of death; when you have
the full consciousness of the ignorance you transcend the region of death, and
free from death, free from ignorance you have the knowledge of knowledge and
with the knowledge of knowledge, that is to say, with the full revelation of it
you are one with Truth that is Immortality. The delight of immortality is love;
<span class=GramE>love's</span> own status and home is <st1:place>Paradise</st1:place>.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The <st1:place>Paradise</st1:place>,
the <i>svargyam lokam<span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Arial Narrow"'> </span></i>of the Upanishads is not necessarily utterly afar
and aloof, sundered from this world. The kingdom of heaven instead of being
wholly within and absolutely beyond can be and has to be brought out and down upon
and into earth, established here below in the fullness of its own glory. That
is the material epiphany, the transformation of the physical nature, the
ultimate and inevitable destiny of earth and mankind.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Such
is the full cycle of human life – in the beginning the birth in mortality and
in ignorance, then a process of developing and purificatory consciousness, and
then the entry into the full blaze of light and force of Consciousness leading
to a rebirth and re-embodiment in immortality, transforming the ignorant
death-bound body into the glorious luminous body upon material earth, the
embodiment of love Divine.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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