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<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span lang=EN-GB><font size="4">Twin Prayers</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:27.0pt;text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>Lord, this morning Thou hast given me the assurance that Thou
wouldst stay with us until Thy work is achieved, not only as a consciousness
which guides and illumines but also as a dynamic Presence in action. In
unmistakable terms Thou hast promised that all of Thyself would remain here and
not leave the earth-atmosphere until earth is transformed. Grant that we may be
worthy of this marvellous Presence and that henceforth everything in us be concentrated
on the one will to be more and more perfectly consecrated to the fulfilment of
Thy sublime Work.</span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>THE Mother's
prayer to Sri Aurobindo – so beautiful, so poignant and so true – we, her
children, now turn round and readdress to Her own sweet self. .</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>The new creation that the Mother embodied is not lost, it is not
wiped out with the disappearance of the material body. It has been a true
creation and is indelibly implanted in the earth-atmosphere and will remain
there for eternity. And it is not merely a static structure, it is a living and
growing entity. It is not in the earth's atmosphere a mere image or a lifeless
picture transfixed there as on a canvas strip. It is living and growing –
living and growing not only in itself and for itself, but making its habitat
the atmosphere also live and grow in new dimensions, that is to say,
transforming it in accordance with its own developing truth and reality. It is
growing and characteristically growing downwards, that is to say, extending
itself more and more towards an earthly manifestation or incarnation. It is
like the ashwattha tree spoken of by the rishis of old that stands upside down,
the roots upward and the branches spreading out downwards – indeed it is
growing downward – drawing its life-<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – </span>
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'>95<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>sap from above. The
physical embodiment, the materialisation of the inner formation will happen in
course of time inevitably. It will touch the ground, the very ground of the
earth and stand as its marvel-creation – through a process of calamities and
catastrophes perhaps – which may indeed be minimised if circumstances permit
and the Grace admits; but however the process, the end is decreed, for the
decree is that of the Divine and it is the destiny of earth-consciousness.</span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>(2)</span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB>This is however
the Mother's part of the work and she is doing it perfectly, on her side. But
what about ourselves? What is our share of the work? For it is intended that
we, her children, should be collaborators in her work, so that we too may be
integrated into the Divine realisation. The Mother herself has indicated the
line of service we can render to her in the communication I just read out to
you:</span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>. . . henceforth everything in us be concentrated on the one will to
be more and more perfectly consecrated to the fulfilment of Thy sublime Work.</span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB>The situation has somewhat changed since then and has become more
difficult. On the departure of Sri Aurobindo, sometime after, Mother gave us a
message, an admonition, pointing to us the difficulty:</span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span
lang=EN-GB>Pour suivre Sri Aurobindo dans la grande aventure de son yoga
intégral, il fallait toujours être guerrier; mais maintenant qu'il nous a
quitté physiquiment, il faut être un héro.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>To follow Sri Aurobindo in the
great adventure of his integral yoga, one needed always to be a warrior; but
now that he has physically left us, one needs to be a hero.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.5in;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><st1:date
Year="1952" Day="24" Month="11"><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-bidi-font-style:
 italic'>24-11-1952</span></st1:date><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB
style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>At present when the Mother too is no more
there – apparently – we seem to be abandoned children, what are we to do or
be? It is no longer sufficient to be a warrior, not sufficient<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic'>Page – 96<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span lang=EN-GB
style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>even to be a hero. What should we be?
Something greater than the hero. One must be a Yogi. The yogi is one who has
the Divine Consciousness or the Mother's consciousness. If you find that it is
not so easy for one to be a yogi, even if one tries sincerely, I suggest to you
another alternative. It is to leap into another dimension: to be a child, a
child of the Mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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lang=EN-GB style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>I give you this subject for
meditation: on becoming. . . a child, an ideal child of the Mother.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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