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<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font size="4">The Test of Truth</font><o:p></o:p></span></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'>THE test of Truth is its
impossibility. I believe because it is impossible; <span style='font-family:
"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Credo <span style="font-family:'Arial Narrow';">quia impossibile. That is <st1:City><st1:place>Saint
  Augustine</st1:place></st1:City>.</span></span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There
is a grain, why a grain, quite a lump of truth in this well-known saying of a
great seeker of Truth. &quot;Truth shall prevail? Is this true? Can it be true?
It is impossible.&quot; There­fore it must be true. &quot;God exists: is it <span
class=GramE>an impossibility</span>?&quot; Therefore God does exist.
&quot;Shall we ever come out of the present darkness? Impossible!&quot; We
shall, therefore, come out, surely.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
possible, to our senses, is what is happening, now: the present fact is the
truth and what is in absolute agreement with the present is the possible or the
probable truth. Anything going against or not consonant with the actual is a
doubtful or even a negative quantity, but in fact at every moment everywhere
there are <span class=SpellE>upsettings</span> of the apparently sure present:
unnatural things do happen more often than not. But we do not <span
class=SpellE>pay or</span> do not want to pay as much attention to these.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>W</span>ho believed that <st1:country-region><st1:place><span
  style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>I</span>ndia</st1:place></st1:country-region>
would be free and <st1:country-region><st1:place>Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>
go out lock, stock and barrel? <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>W</span>ho
believe that the <span class=SpellE><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>C</span>zardom
would disappear for ever? <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>A</span>nd
the <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>H</span>ohenzollerns and the <span
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>H</span>apsburgs, where are they now? <span
class=GramE>And the great <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>H</span>itler?
<span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>E</span>ven a few years ago who would
have believed that man would walk on the moon? <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>A</span>nd can you believe now that matter can exist and does exist as
anti-matter? <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>N</span>ot in vain has the
mad, bad and sad poet sung: Mais ou sont done les neiges d' antan?¹<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
physical mind has to be taught, it must learn its lesson, that at every step
something new, something unforeseen un­predicted and unpredictable is waiting
in front to confound it. And it must gain the perception, the discrimination to
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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ Villon: Where, 0 where are the snows of yesteryear?</span></p>
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page
– 338</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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class=GramE>recognise</span> it, never to say, &quot;Oh, it is natural,
inevitable what is happening, there is nothing to wonder and dismiss the
novelty of the thing as an illusion.&quot; </p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'>The
spiritual realities are at your door: they are neither non-existent nor too
distant. Freedom, Peace, Calm, Happi­ness, Delight, Joy, Health are all there
as self-existent realities. You have only to turn – or tilt as the Mother says
– your consciousness a little and you are in the very midst of the thing.
Doubt, hesitation, merely casts a veil and blurs or blocks the view. God, Soul,
Immortality, even these are equally available to the human consciousness in the
same way. These are existen­ces of daily use, so to say, of &quot;common
neighbourhood,&quot; in the words of the poet – home truth.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A
faith, necessarily a blind faith in these <span class=SpellE>impossibles</span>
is its own authenticity, for it brings you immediately in direct contact with
those apparently unseen intangible realities. It gives you automatically a
sense of certainty, a radiant clarity in the <span class=GramE>consciousness,
that</span> no other approach to Truth or Reality can give you. You feel, you
know it is the truth, there is no shadow of any questioning anywhere, <span
class=GramE>it</span> is self-luminous. &quot;Is it not self-hypnotism?&quot; a
scoffer might allege. Self-hypnot­ism is a name: it is the power of
consciousness to concentrate itself to such a degree that it can be changed
into anything even into its opposite. Self-absorbed consciousness in one form
at one extreme is the inconscient, at the other extreme it is the supra <span
class=SpellE>conscient</span> Brahman. Consciousness is the power of being and
it can give any form or name to the being – <span class=SpellE>yo</span> <span
class=SpellE>yatsraddha</span> <span class=GramE>sa</span> eva <span
class=SpellE>sah</span>. One becomes whatever one's conscious­ness wants to
become.</p>

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ultimate verities are there indeed existing in themselves and the mind's
attempt to question them, discuss them, judge them, doubt them, deny them is
ludicrous. Even the mind's attempt to affirm them, assert them or seize them is
equally vain and ludicrous. The Upanishadic seer declares clearly and
unequivocally: <span class=SpellE>tato</span> <span class=SpellE>vacha</span>
<span class=SpellE>nivartante</span> <span class=SpellE>aprapya</span> <span
class=SpellE>manasa</span> <span class=SpellE>saha</span> – the word
with all its effort cannot seize it, the mind cannot reach there, <span
class=GramE>it</span> turns back hopelessly. Therefore the seeker of the Truth
is always advised from the very beginning and through­out to keep his mind
quiet, vacate it, install there the simple faith, to wait and let the thing
come of <span class=GramE>itself</span>. These realities<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<span class=GramE>are</span> not acquisitions
or possessions or even achievements, they are living entities, personalities.
At the right time they come to you, they enter into you and possess you. You do
not reach out <span class=GramE>and<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;
</span>possess them. Even so, it was said of <span class=SpellE>Nachiketas</span>
that faith entered into him, and therefore he could meet Death and become his
friend and confidant. The Upanishad finally says: it is when the Truth
discloses its own body to the seeker, then only can
the seeker see the Truth in its truth.</span></p>
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<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Mind's conceptions of the ultimate
realities are very far from the actual truth. The mind has a conception of
freedom or delight or even of consciousness; it has a conception of God and
immortality, of infinity and eternity. But they are all <span class=GramE>its own</span>
creations more or less. The highest summits of the mind may get a glimpse or a
reflection of those <span class=SpellE>supernals</span> but even as such they
come only as an echo, an image, a faint replica of the actual thing. Freedom as
it is in the Divine or with the Divine, Delight or Consciousness as they are of
the Divine have an altogether different quality, a different mode of vibration
from that which is available to mind on its lower levels. What the mind
receives is a re-formation, more often a deformation of the original as you go
farther down the scale. Only if the mind itself is changed in its substance,
regains a translucent passivity then only can it see and see something of the
secret glory of the higher realities.<span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
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