(1857,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:27','2021-11-23 17:58:27','<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>Faith and Progress</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\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Faith and Progress</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;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\'><i>When one\r\nmakes an effort, makes a little progress, one gets satisfied and is proud of\r\nit. That spoils everything. How to get rid of this fault?<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 style=\'margin-top:0;text-indent:0in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;border:medium none;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>IT is because one looks at\r\noneself while doing a thing. It is the habit of constantly observing oneself as\r\none works or lives. Certainly you must observe yourself; but more than that\r\nyou must be sincere and spontaneous – spontaneous in what you do and not\r\nturning towards yourself all the while, judging, criticising, sometimes even\r\nseverely. That is often as bad as patting oneself with satisfaction.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;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\'>You\r\nmust be sincere in your aspiration, you need not even know that you are\r\naspiring: you should become the aspiration. When you can do that, you feel an\r\nextraordinary strength. One minute of such an experience prepares you for years\r\nof progress. When you are no longer a person, an ego that is always looking at\r\nitself, when you are the very action you do – especially in the act of\r\naspiration – well, I say nothing can be better than that. When it is not a\r\nperson that aspires, when the aspiration shoots up in a concentrated momentum,\r\none can go very far. Otherwise there is a mixture of vanity, self-sufficiency,\r\neven self-pity, all kinds of petty movements which spoil the affair.</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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>What are the conditions\r\nfor a descent of faith?<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n9.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>The most important condition is trust, a childlike trust,\r\nthe candid feeling that knows that needed things will come, that there is no\r\nquestion about it. When the child has need of anything, he is certain that it\r\nis coming. This kind of simple trust or reliance is the most important\r\ncondition.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:140.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One must aspire, it is indispensable; but there are people\r\nwho<span style=\'font-family:Arial\'> \r\n<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:140.6pt;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:12.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 75</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\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\naspire and yet with so much conflict within them, between faith and want of \r\nfaith, trust and distrust, between optimism that is sure of victory and \r\npessimism that is just waiting for the catastrophe to come etc., etc. If such is \r\nthe state of your being, you may aspire but nothing will come out of it. You \r\nsay, &quot;I aspire and I get nothing&quot;; that is because you are demolishing your \r\naspiration all the while by your want of trust. But if truly you have the trust, \r\nthings would be different. Children, for example, when they are left to \r\nthemselves, when they have not been deformed by elderly people, have a great \r\nconfidence that everything will be all right. When they have an accident they \r\nnever think that it will be anything serious. They have the spontaneous \r\nconviction that it will be set right soon and that helps things to get right \r\nsoon. When you aspire for the Force, ask for the Divine\'s help, if you do it \r\nwith an unshakable certitude that the thing will come, in that case, it is \r\nimpossible for it not to come. In fact, as I say, such a conviction is in itself \r\nan inner opening. There are people who are naturally and automatically in this \r\ncondition. Whenever or wherever there occurs an opportunity to receive something \r\nfrom above they are there present. And there are others who always fail to be on \r\nthe spot when there is an occasion for the descent: they close themselves at the \r\nright moment. But they who have the childlike reliance they never miss an \r\nopportunity. It is a very curious phenomenon. Apparently there may not be much \r\ndifference between the two types. Both may have the same goodwill, the same \r\naspiration, the same desire to do one\'s best, but he who has a happy confidence \r\nin him, who does not question, who does not ask if he will have the thing or \r\nnot, whether the Divine will answer or not&nbsp; for, to him\r\nthat is not the question, it is understood and taken for granted: &quot;The\r\nthing I need I shall be given,&quot; he says, &quot;if I pray my prayer will be\r\ngranted, in am in difficulty and I ask for help, the help will come, it will\r\nnot only come but settle everything&quot; – I say, the person who has such a\r\nspontaneous, candid, unquestioning reliance gets the best conditions under\r\nwhich an effective descent can take place; its action then is marvellous.</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;text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It is with your mental contradictions and\r\ndoubts that you spoil everything, with this kind of ideas that enter into you\r\nwhen you are in difficulty: &quot;It is impossible, I shall never come to the\r\nend of it, supposing the situation gets worse, supposing I am to<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;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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 76</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'>roll down etc., etc...\r\n&quot; In this way you build up a wall between yourself and the Force that you\r\nwant to receive.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.8pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\npsychic being has this trust, has it in a wonderful manner, without a shadow,\r\nwithout a question, without contradiction; and when it is there, there is no\r\nprayer that remains unanswered, no aspiration unfulfilled.<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 – 77<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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-026_Faith and Progress','','publish','closed','open','','026_faith-and-progress','','','2021-11-23 17:58:27','2021-11-23 17:58:27','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/026_faith-and-progress/',0,'post','',0),(1858,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:27','2021-11-23 17:58:27','<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>Love and Love</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\">Love and Love</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\'>THE Mother says: there is\r\nonly one Love, there are not two. And it is Divine Love. The difference arises\r\nonly in its expression, in its application. In its essential quality and substance\r\nit is always the same. Take for example human love; stripped of the mere human\r\nelement, love remains the same original thing. Because the old ascetic orders\r\nof spiritual discipline, in the main, considered love essentially and wholly\r\nearthy and human; they rejected this limb altogether, cut it out as undivine.\r\nBut that is an error.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\ndo not regard love, even human love, as an error but a power, a force and\r\nenergy. Love, even human love, is not to be amputated or rooted out but like\r\ngold as ore, it has to be purified. The work is hard but it is worth the\r\ntrouble.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\nAs a matter of fact, however, all the divine qualities – supernals as they have\r\nbeen sometimes called – are of that nature, that is to say, all are universal;\r\nthey are never non -existent, they are never and can never be negatived.\r\nDivine Consciousness, Divine Delight, Divine Power, indeed, Divine Being – they\r\neach and all exist as absolute and unitary realities, that is to say, one\r\nwithout a second. Even like Divine Love, there is only one Divine\r\nConsciousness, one Divine Power, one Divine Bliss, one Divine Being, however\r\nvarious they may appear in outward name and form.</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\'>But\r\nthe physical consciousness, the physical body, this very material frame have\r\nfor us upon earth, a divine significance. They are not to be despised or thrown\r\nout. On the contrary, our object is to take special care of the body, to\r\ncleanse it of its outward dross, make it sound and free from disease, to immortalise\r\nit if possible. And it is possible notwithstanding the old teachings. In their\r\nnature as a matter of fact, the cells of\r\n<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;text-indent:10.55pt;\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 style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 263</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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\'>the body are immortal.\r\nScience today has discovered that each living cell is potentially deathless (a\r\ncorn-seed of the age of the Pharaohs, unearthed from pre-historic tombs, they\r\nhave succeeded in sprouting today). It is their aggregate and their milieu that\r\ncause wear and tear in the cells, exposing them to decay and disintegration.\r\nBut in itself, each cell has an infinite. vitality. Thus the problem is, if one\r\ncell is essentially immortal, then how can they be made, in their collective\r\nlife, to avoid conflict and decay, undergo rejuvenation and youthfulness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Science\r\nin a practical way through material means tries to prolong life as far as\r\npossible, as for us, we are not limited to that necessity. What we have to do\r\nis to clean the energy which is now obscure in the material cell, make it\r\nluminous. The way is the way of consciousness. Every human being has in him the\r\npossibility, the capacity of making his own consciousness come forth, pure,\r\ntransparent, luminous and then in and through that pure light charge the body\r\ntoo with a transfiguring force or energy. This material body of man has the\r\nmarvellous advantage of being united, of being able to unite itself with the\r\nSupreme Consciousness. Indeed as through his consciousness man has the\r\nprivilege of ascending to the supreme consciousness, even so in and through the\r\nsame consciousness, the physical cell also has the privilege of establishing a\r\ncontact with the Supreme Substance. What is true of man\'s mind and life is true\r\nalso of the material cell. Even as life impulses and mental knowings can be\r\nuplifted and transfigured, these physical cells too may achieve the same\r\ntransfiguration because in man all these elements share equally in the Divine\r\nSubstance lodged there. Of the animal, the lower creation, we cannot say the\r\nsame thing for it does not possess overtly the Divine element that dwells in\r\nman. This Divine Element is what we call the psychic consciousness, the Divine\r\nhimself formed secretly or framed in matter. It is that which comes in contact\r\nwith the human mental and the human vital and the human body, and succeeds in\r\nremoulding them in the Supreme Nature.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Of\r\ncourse, there was always in the ancient days also, in some disciplines or\r\nothers, an aspiration, an urge to immortalise the body, but the means they\r\nadopted, the instruments they chose for the operation were indirect and\r\nsecondary. It was either through the force of a luminous mind influencing the</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:11.0pt;\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 style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 264</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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\'>body or through the\r\npressure of concentrated vital force making the body an obedient and docile\r\ninstrument. The former was the process followed by the Vaishnavas who envisaged\r\na luminous body, the second was the aim of the Tantriks who sought to rejuvenate\r\nthe body, possess it youthful and vigorous indefinitely. The Hatha yogis also\r\nin their turn through physico-vital exercises attempted to acquire a new body\r\nchanging the modalities of the old. The ancient alchemists tried more material\r\nmeans, the use of alchemic substances for cleansing the body making it free\r\nfrom disease and, if possible, death. But the secret power lies in the body\r\nitself, that is, in the very self of the body, not anywhere else. The hidden\r\nconsciousness lodged in the cell, the material cell, that is the key to the\r\nproblem, that secret consciousness and its energy asleep in the cell, has to be\r\nawakened and brought into play. When the physical cell itself awakes and\r\ndeclares its purpose, the thing is done.</p>\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\'>This\r\nsecret consciousness-energy appearing as a material form is also intrinsically\r\nthe delight of existence. Its other name is Divine Grace and Love.</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:.15in;\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 style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 265</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-080_Love and Love','','publish','closed','open','','080_love-and-love','','','2021-11-23 17:58:27','2021-11-23 17:58:27','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/080_love-and-love/',0,'post','',0),(1859,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:27','2021-11-23 17:58:27','<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>Spirits in Trees</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\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:14.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Spirits in Trees</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-size:\r\n14.0pt\'><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\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>You told us the other day that there are\r\nspirits who remain bound to trees. How are they to get free?<o:p></o:p></span></i></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\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>WHY should they get free?<o:p></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=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'><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\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>You told us how the spirits in the trees got\r\nfreed when someone was kind to them and prayed on their behalf..</span></i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>...<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>Yes, but that was\r\nin the story. It was a Christian legend and put in that way to illustrate a\r\nlesson. It was to show that if you are wicked you suffer even after death, that\r\nit is a virtuous life that saves you from misery. In reality, however, there is\r\nno question here of sin and punishment, it is not that spirits get attached to\r\ntrees in order to be punished. When a person dies, his vital being leaves the\r\nbody and goes out; but it finds itself in unfamiliar and inhospitable\r\nsurroundings, especially if there is no one, none among his friends and\r\nrelatives upon earth, to help him in the proper way, to guide or protect him in\r\nthe new country where there are hostile beings to harm. In such a situation a\r\ntree is often a very ready shelter, a big old tree with friendly branches\r\nspread out, possessing a strong vitality. It is the sap, the elements of water\r\ncoursing in the substance of the tree, that is to say, the support of its\r\nlife-power, to which the vital being of the dead man is drawn as its physical\r\nsupport and shelter. There is no question of forced imprisonment and a desire\r\nto be freed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'><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\'><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'>Are they not harmful, these spirits?</span></i></p>\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\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>In what way? Usually they do not seem to be\r\nso.</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'><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;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>Page – 28</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</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\'><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'>But we hear stories of people who are possessed by them and troubled\r\nand tortured.</span></i></p>\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\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:6.95pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>Those are of a different kind.\r\nThey are beings belonging to the vital world and are hostile forces. Here we\r\nwere speaking of the remnants of the vital being of a dead man. But even in\r\ncases of possession by hostile forces of beings, the real truth is most often\r\nof another kind. Usually these beings or spirits, as they are called, are\r\nnothing more than creations of men. That is to say, it is fear that produces\r\nthem; it is a mere mental formation which is taken to be a reality. And the\r\ngreater the fear, the more concrete and effective the formation appears to be.\r\nI have had to deal with hundreds of such cases and I have found that there are\r\nvery few which contain anything more than imagination. Some time ago, I was\r\ntold of a tree nearby that was the haunt of a ghost. Our milkmen were afraid of\r\nthe ghost and had seen it! I sent Amrita 1 to burn some incense there and go\r\nround the tree a few times and tell the people it was gone. Well, it was indeed\r\ngone; for it was not a very substantial being. As I said, most of the spirits\r\nare the creations of our fear.<o:p></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=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'><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\'><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'>How long do Spirits of dead people live in their trees?</span></i></p>\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\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n10.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>That depends.\r\nThere are entities that stay or live only for a short time; there are others\r\nthat have a stronger formation and may stay on in their shelter for a thousand\r\nyears, if the trees live up to a thousand years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n10.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'><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\'><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'>Do such spirits go out of animals also and possess trees?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>Not likely. A\r\ncertain growth and organisation of the vital being is necessary to be able to\r\npersist after death. The vital being of an animal is too unformed and fluid,\r\ntoo bound to the body to continue as an independent entity. When an animal dies\r\nits vitality almost immediately disintegrates and merges into the general\r\nforces of Nature. It is only in man where there is a mental being to organise\r\nthe vitality into some sort of an individualised form that the persistence of\r\nthat form is possible after the dissolution of the body.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'><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;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>¹ A disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'><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:14.0pt;\'>Page – 29</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\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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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>','-009_Spirits in Trees','','publish','closed','open','','009_spirits-in-trees','','','2021-11-23 17:58:27','2021-11-23 17:58:27','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/009_spirits-in-trees/',0,'post','',0),(1860,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:27','2021-11-23 17:58:27','<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>Meat- Eating</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\'><font size=\"4\">Meat- Eating</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;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-indent:25pt\'><i>What happens when one\r\neats meat?</i></p>\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\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.25in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>I W<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n12.0pt\'>ILL</span> tell you then a story. I knew a young woman, Swedish, who\r\nwas doing Sadhana. Normally she was a vegetarian, by habit as well as by\r\ninclination. One day she was invited to a dinner. She was given fowl to eat.\r\nShe did not like to make a fuss and quietly ate her fowl. Now at night she\r\nfound herself, in dream of course, in a basket and her head in between two bits\r\nof sticks and being shaken to and fro. She felt very unhappy, very miserable.\r\nAnd then she saw herself head down and legs up in the air and being shaken,\r\nshaken continually. She was thoroughly miserable. All on a sudden she felt she\r\nwas being skinned, flayed and how painful it all was! And then some one came\r\nwith a knife and cut off her head. She woke up at that. She told me the story\r\nand said she had never had such a frightful nightmare in her life. She had\r\nthought nothing of this kind before going to bed; it must have been simply the\r\nconsciousness of the poor chicken that entered into her and she experienced in\r\ndream all the agonies of this creature when it was being carried to the market,\r\nher feathers pulled out and in the end the head severed. That is what happens.\r\nIn other words, along with the meal that you take, you absorb also, in a large\r\nor small measure, the consciousness of the animal whose flesh you swallow. Of\r\ncourse it is nothing serious, but it is not always pleasant. Yet obviously it\r\ndoes not help you to be more on the side of man than on that of the animal\r\nkind. Primitive men, we know, were much nearer the animal level and used to\r\ntake raw meat: that gave them evidently more strength and energy than cooked\r\nmeat. They used to kill an animal, tear it to pieces and bite into the flesh.\r\nThat is how they were robust and strong. Also it was for this reason perhaps that\r\nthere was in their intestines an organ called appendix of a much bigger size\r\nthan it is now: for it had to digest raw\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 73</span></p>\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:5.75pt;text-align:center;\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 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>meat</span>. As men however started cooking their food and found it\r\nmore palatable that way the organ too gradually diminished in size and fell\r\ninto atrophy; now it does not serve any purpose, it is an encumbrance and often\r\na source of illness. This means that it is time to change the diet and take to\r\nsomething less bestial. It depends, however, on the state of the consciousness of\r\neach person. An ordinary man, who leads an ordinary life, has ordinary <span\r\nclass=GramE>aspirations,</span> thinks of nothing else than earning his\r\nlivelihood, keeping good health and rearing a family, need not pick and choose,\r\nexcept on purely hygienic grounds. He may eat meat or anything else that he\r\nconsiders helpful and useful, doing good to him.</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\nif you wish to move from the ordinary life to a higher life, the problem\r\nacquires an interest. And again, for a higher life if you wish to move up still\r\nfarther and prepare yourself for transformation, then the problem becomes very\r\nimportant. <span class=GramE>For there are certain foods that help the body to\r\nbecome more refined and others that keep it down to the level of animalhood.</span>\r\nBut it is only then that the question acquires an importance, not before. Before\r\nyou come to that point, you have a lot of other things to do. It is certainly\r\nbetter to purify your mind, purify your vital before you think of purifying\r\nyour body. For even if you take all possible precautions and live physically with\r\nevery care to eat only the things that help to refine the body, but the mind\r\nand the vital remain full of desire and inconscience and obscurity and all the\r\nrest, your care will serve no purpose. Your body will become perhaps weak,\r\ndisharmonious with your inner life and drop off one day.</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;text-indent:10.55pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You must begin from within. I have said a\r\nhundred times, you must begin from above. You must purify first the higher\r\nregions and then purify the lower ones. I do not mean by this that you should\r\ngive yourself up to all the licences that degrade the body. I do not mean that\r\nat all. I am not advising you not to control your desires. What I mean is this:\r\ndo not try to be an angel in the body before you are already something of the\r\nkind in your mind and in your vital. For that will bring about a dislocation,\r\na lack of balance. And I have always said that to maintain the balance, all\r\nthe parts must progress together. In trying to bring light into one part you\r\nmust not leave another part in darkness. You must not leave any obscure corner\r\nanywhere.<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;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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 74</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-025_Meat_Eating','','publish','closed','open','','025_meat_eating','','','2021-11-23 17:58:27','2021-11-23 17:58:27','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/025_meat_eating/',0,'post','',0),(1861,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:27','2021-11-23 17:58:27','<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>Short Notes</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\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Short Notes</font><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:59.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; 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:59.5pt;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<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:59.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(1)\r\nTHE SENSE OF EARTHLY EVOLUTION</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:59.5pt;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=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>Ignorance\r\nis usually equated with innocence. A child is ignorant, therefore he is\r\ninnocent. Although it is said that ignorance of law is no excuse. Spiritually\r\nhowever, ignorance does not mean innocence. Ignorance or unconsciousness or inconscience – different degrees of the same thing – that is to say lack of\r\nconsciousness, mean, at bottom, falsehood. It is through the ignorance that\r\nMaya, the great illusion, was born. Ignorance is false apprehension, it begins\r\nwith the sense of separation, &quot;I am other than the Divine.&quot; That is\r\nhow Jiva is born in or through the ignorance. The world is separate from the\r\nDivine. That is how Matter is born as or in inconscience. And the creation\r\nappears as evil. This sense of separation is a falsehood for in reality nothing\r\nis separate from the supreme Consciousness, all is That.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To regain the Truth-sense,\r\nto move upward in the cycle of ignorance and falsehood towards this Truth-sense\r\nis the world-labour and also human labour.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Even\r\nin the state of separation under conditions of the in conscience and falsehood,\r\nin spite of all appearances the Unity, the Truth-consciousness remains intact\r\nbehind. It is never effaced or obliterated.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">The sense of earthly evolution is the gradual\r\nunfolding of the Divine, the Supreme Consciousness in and through the\r\ngradations of consciousness from the inconscience through unconsciousness and\r\nconsciousness to supra-consciousness – Matter wholly transmuted into Light.</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:56.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(2)\r\nGOD ABOVE AND GOD WITHIN</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:56.7pt;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=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-bottom:0\'>God is not only above or beyond the creation. He is also here<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;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 – 220</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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\'>within the creation. He is\r\nnot only over our head looking down upon us. He is within our heart inspiring\r\nus, enlightening us, loving us. This is the dynamic Divine, the Supreme Consciousness\r\nconcealed within the apparent inconscience of the material existence. It is\r\nthat which pushes creation upward in its evolutionary course. It is that which\r\nlies behind man\'s ignorance purifying his obscurity leading him to a more and\r\nmore luminous revelation.</p>\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\'>In\r\nthe Vedic image above shines Surya, here below burns Agni. Both are aspects of\r\nthe same Truth.</p>\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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:62.6pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(3)\r\nEMPTYING AND REPLENISHMENT</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:62.6pt;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=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>The body is\r\ncomposed of cells, living cells. These cells from the standpoint of\r\nconsciousness are desire-cells, that is to say particles of desire, concrete\r\nand consolidated packets of hunger and thirst. A string of such innumerable\r\npackets of hunger and thirst is life-the Buddha said. The cells are to be\r\nemptied completely. Emptiness of cells is Nirvana.</p>\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\'>Not\r\nnecessarily. For one may empty the cells of their obscure contents but\r\nreplenish them with something of a purer order. This is a possibility we\r\nenvisage and which we are working for. The Divine life empties the cells of\r\ndesire but fills it with the energy of solar Light.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:28.35pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:left;text-indent:28.35pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:141.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (4) EGO</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:left;text-indent:28.35pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:141.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-indent:14.2pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>To\r\nrenounce is a greater delight than to enjoy.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:14.2pt;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 give is\r\na greater joy than to take.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:14.2pt;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 love is\r\na greater ravishment than to be loved.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In one it is\r\nthe ego, man\'s self-centredness that limits, dilutes, and even perverts his\r\nhappiness. In the other, it is precisely the egolessness that brings the pure\r\nfelicity. For ego is hunger, hunger that is death, says the Upanishad.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;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\'>It\r\nis the ego, the personal shift that cuts the Infinite, obscures the\r\nconsciousness which otherwise in its natural condition is always the supreme\r\nbliss and beatitude.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>It is the ego that turns reality\r\ninto unreality, light into darkness, immortality into death.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And whatever the interim\r\nnecessity and utility of the ego,<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;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid 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 – 221</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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\'>originally\r\nand also ultimately it has no space or standing. For originally and ultimately\r\nand absolutely, it is the Divine that exists in and through the Divine, moves\r\nin and through the Divine to the Divine.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:14.2pt;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 is the\r\nDivine that knows the Divine through the Divine.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:13.5pt;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 is the\r\nDivine that dynamises the Divine through the Divine.</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;tab-stops:right 4.1in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It is the Divine that enjoys, loves the Divine through\r\ntheDivine.</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;tab-stops:right 4.1in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Vedic Rishis declared the same truth, in their\r\nown<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>language and imagery when they said\r\n&quot;The sacrifice is made a sacrifice through the sacrifice&quot;.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:7.9pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; 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:45.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(5)\r\nCONSCIOUSNESS AND DIMENSIONS OF VIEW</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:45.35pt;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=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nmaterial world is, as we all know, three-dimensional; it has a length, a\r\nbreadth and a depth. In fact every material object is material because it has\r\nthese three dimensions. That is what we knew till now. But Einstein has added\r\nanother dimension to complete the picture of material reality. He says, time is\r\nthe fourth dimension. For along with space, time also is to be taken into\r\nconsideration for fixing or situating a physical object. Not space alone with\r\nits three dimensions determines the physical character of an object but time\r\nalso has its share. A material object exists in space; it exists also in time.\r\nIt occupies a portion of space and it occupies a portion of time. Indeed time,\r\nsometimes, becomes a more important factor; for it brings about a change in the\r\nspatial dimension.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">But dimension, in reality, that is to say, the\r\nconfiguration it gives to an object is a function of consciousness. The four-dimensional\r\naspect of material reality is given or projected by what we call the physical\r\nconsciousness. Material time and material space are the two norms through<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> </span>which the physical\r\nconsciousness deploys itself.<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\nphysical consciousness, the consciousness that plays through the senses is only\r\none form of it – the lowest, the most material formation. For there is a ladder\r\nof consciousness and in it we rise rung by rung to other– what are known as\r\nhigher formulations.</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\'>As we rise we find that\r\nthe dimensions increase in number.<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;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 – 222</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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\'>Our\r\nconsciousness, our being becomes more and more multiple. In the physical and\r\nmaterial, our perception is limited to the four dimensions because of two\r\nfactors – one, things are spaced out that is to say, they are separate and\r\ndiscrete from one another. We know the law of material space that two things\r\ncannot occupy the same space. Secondly, things or events are separated in time,\r\nthat is to say, there is the law of succession. But in the higher regions,\r\nhigher or subtler regions, this separation due to time and space loses much of\r\nits exclusive force. Things tend to coalesce, even to get identified with each\r\nother. The obstructions that time and space offer to intercommunication are minimised more and more as our consciousness or being soars up or dives down\r\ninto deeper and deeper and higher and higher regions. The dimensions increase\r\nin number; that means we begin to apprehend things from many angles and sides\r\nat the same time, we have more and more a simultaneous view of the total or\r\nglobal reality of an object. So instead of a four-fold view of things we may\r\nhave a fivefold, sixfold, tenfold, hundredfold view of things depending on our\r\nstatus of consciousness. In the highest status,–we call it Sachchidananda, the\r\ninfinite and eternal consciousness-things attain infinite dimensions, all merged\r\nin the Ultimate\'s unitary consciousness.<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 – 223</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-074_Short Notes','','publish','closed','open','','074_short-notes','','','2021-11-23 17:58:27','2021-11-23 17:58:27','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/074_short-notes/',0,'post','',0),(1862,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:27','2021-11-23 17:58:27','<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>Two\r\nEquations</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\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font size=\"4\"> </font> </span><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Two\r\nEquations</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>I<o:p></o:p></span></p>\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<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span class=GramE><i>Einstein\'s equation.</i></span><i><o:p></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\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:64.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>E=mc²</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 class=GramE>that</span> is, Matter becomes\r\nenergy when its mass is multiplied by the square of the velocity of light.</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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>The new equation:<o:p></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\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:64.3pt;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\'>M=mc°°</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 class=GramE>that</span>\r\nis, Matter is transformed into spiritualised energy (not merely mechanical energy\r\nas in Einstein) when its mass is multiplied by consciousness raised to the\r\npower of infinity.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\ntab-stops:14.05pt center 243.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<h4 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"center\"><span style=\'font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>II</span><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></h4>\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>Buddha\'s equation:<o:p></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\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>D°=O</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 class=GramE>that</span>\r\nis, Desire raised to the power zero is zero=Nirvana.</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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 class=SpellE><i>Shankara\'s</i></span><i>\r\nequation:<o:p></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\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:64.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nbold\'>Dº= </span><span style=\'font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>I </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>(<span class=SpellE>S<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>achchidananda</span>)</span></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\'>Note: any quantity raised to the zero power is not\r\nzero but <span style=\'font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>I.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;\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-spacerun:yes\'>&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><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>X</span> ª<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.0pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Ex: xº=xª¯ª = – = <span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:8.0pt\'>I.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.0pt;\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-spacerun:yes\'>&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><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>X</span> ª<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;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.6pt;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;\'>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\n9.6pt;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-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Will and Desire</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-size:\r\n14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></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\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>What is the difference between Desire or Wish\r\nand Will?</span></i></p>\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\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>THEY are not the\r\nsame thing. When, for example, you see that a thing is to be done and that it\r\nis good to do it, then normally your reason decides and judges; then it is your\r\nwill that sets to work and makes you do what is necessary for the work to be\r\ndone. Thus, will is the power of execution which should be at the disposal of\r\nwhat has been decided by you or a higher force. It is a thing co-ordinated and\r\norganised: it acts according to plan and is in full self-control. Wish or\r\ndesire, on the other hand, is an impulse. There are people who are full of\r\ndesires, but have no will; they are eaten up by their desires, as it is said. You\r\ngo nowhere if you have not even the will to fulfil your desires. The little bit\r\nof will most people have is indeed put at the service of their desires. Will is\r\na force capable of deliberation and organisation and can be used for any\r\npurpose in view.<o:p></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:14.0pt\'>When you have the will, it means you have the\r\ncapacity of the stained effort for a definite end. A desire, on the contrary,\r\nis something violent, passionate and momentary; it is very rarely a durable\r\nthing. It has not the stuff, the substance and organisation of a sustained\r\neffort. When desire gets hold of you, it can make you do anything, but in a fit\r\nof impulse, not in a methodical and consistent manner.<o:p></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:14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>Why do children have the habit of always\r\nasking for things – material objects, I mean?</span></i></p>\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\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n10.05pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>Precisely because\r\nthey are full of desires. Perhaps when they were conceived, they were imbued\r\nwith the vibrations of desire, and as they have no control over themselves,\r\nthey give free vent<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n15</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 style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n</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:14.0pt\'>to their feelings. Older people are also full\r\nof desires, but they are too shy to show them. They are ashamed of these\r\nthings, they fear they will be ridiculed and so they hide them. Children are\r\nmore simple and straightforward; when they want anything; they speak out. They\r\ndo not think that it is not proper or wise to betray themselves. They do not\r\nreason in that way. People, of course – ordinary people, I mean – live\r\nconstantly full of desires, only they do not express themselves, sometimes they\r\ndo not even avow it to themselves. But it is always there, this sense of the\r\nneed for things. Directly you see a beautiful object, you are at once seized by\r\nthe idea of possessing it. It is childish, it is even ridiculous. Ninety-nine\r\npersons out of a hundred do not get at all the things they desire. And of the\r\none per cent how many are interested in the thing once they have actually got\r\nit? A child is even more like that. Give him what he wants, a second after he\r\nwill not even look at it.<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:14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>How to help a child to get out of this habit?</span></i></p>\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\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>There are more\r\nthan one method. First of all, it is to be known whether one may not altogether\r\nstop the child from expressing freely what he thinks and feels. People do this\r\nusually and constantly. They scold, they punish and the child takes the habit\r\nof hiding his desires. That does not cure. If you always tell the child,\r\n&quot;No, you won\'t have it&quot;, you simply instal this idea in him:\r\n&quot;Yes, when I am a child, I am not given anything, I must wait till I grow\r\nup; well, when I am a man I shall have all that I want&quot;. So I say it is\r\nnot a cure; it is not an easy task to bring up a child. There is however the\r\nother way of which I spoke, to give him what he wants. But the difficulty is\r\nthat the next moment he will ask for another thing and go on doing without end.\r\nFor it is a law, the law of desire, that it is never satisfied. So you can\r\nchange your method and tell the child, supposing it is intelligent enough:\r\n&quot;You see, you wanted so much to have the thing and now that you have it\r\nyou don\'t care, you ask for something different. You will do the same with\r\nthat also.&quot; But if it is a shrewd child he would reply: &quot;Well, the\r\nbest way to Cure me of my desires is to give what I ask for.&quot;<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:14.0pt\'>Many hold this last idea all their life. When\r\nthey are told to overcome their desires, they answer, &quot;The best way of\r\nover</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'>coming </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:11.25pt;\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 style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt;\'>Page – 16</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'>them is to satisfy them.&quot; But what is needed is not merely\r\nto change the object of desire, but change the impulse, the movement itself.\r\nFor that purpose, a good deal of knowledge and understanding and experience are\r\nrequired. That you cannot expect of young children. First of all, they do not\r\npossess the capacity for reasoning and you cannot explain the matter to them,\r\nthey will not understand, your reasons. It is why the parents have normally no\r\nother way except to cut them short, saying: &quot;Stop, you bother us&quot;. That\r\nis how they get out of the difficulty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;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-size:14.0pt\'>It is not a solution. The task is hard,\r\ndemanding sustained effort and unshakable patience. There are people, a good\r\nmany, who, although no longer children, yet continue to be so all their life:\r\nthey too do not understand reason. If you tell them, they are not reasonable\r\nand that it is not possible to be continually satisfying their desires, they\r\nsimply think: &quot;These people are quite unpleasant, they are not\r\namiable.&quot; That is all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.8pt;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-size:14.0pt\'>What one may try, in respect of a child, is\r\nto turn the direction of his desires, let him desire better things, better\r\nbecause more true and also more difficult to obtain. For example, when you see\r\na child full of desires, put into him a desire of higher quality, that is to\r\nsay, instead of desiring purely material objects which can give only a\r\ntemporary satisfaction, one could awaken in him the desire to know, to learn,\r\nto become great and so on. That would indeed be a very good beginning. As these\r\nthings are more difficult to secure, it will serve to develop, to strengthen\r\nhis will. Even if the difficulty is of a physical kind, if, for example, you\r\ngive the child a doll to prepare, a Chinese puzzle to solve or a game of\r\nPatience, the effort helps in the development of concentration, perseverance,\r\na certain clarity of ideas etc. You can in this way divert the child\'s will\r\nfrom wrong pursuits to right ones. True, it needs constant attendance and\r\napplication on your part, but that seems to be the surest way. It is not easy,\r\nbut it is the most effective.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.8pt;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-size:14.0pt\'>To say &quot;no&quot; does not cure, but to\r\nsay &quot;yes&quot; does not cure either. I knew some persons who allowed their\r\nchildren to do as they pleased. There was one child who tried to eat anything\r\nhe could get hold of. Naturally he fell sick and got disgusted in the end and\r\ncured of the habit. Still the method means risk. For example, a child one day\r\ngot hold of a match-box and as he was \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;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid 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;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>Page – 17<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:14.0pt\'>not prevented, burnt himself in playing with\r\nit, although thereafter he did not touch a match-box any more. The method may\r\nbe even catastrophic. For there are children who are dare-devils –most children\r\nare so – and when a desire possesses them they are stopped by nothing in the\r\nworld. Some are fond of walking along the edge of walls or on house tops; some\r\nhave an impulse to jump into water directly they see it. Even there are some\r\nwho love to take the risk of crossing a road when a car is passing. If such\r\nchildren are allowed to go their way, the experiment may prove fatal sometimes.\r\nThere are people who do allow their children to have this liberty arid take\r\nthe risk. For they say prevention is not a cure. Children who are denied\r\nanything do not usually believe that what is denied is bad, they consider that\r\na thing is called bad simply when one wishes to deny it. So would it not be\r\nbetter, it is argued, to concede the liberty? The theory is that individual\r\nliberty must be respected at all costs. Past experiences should not be placed\r\nbefore beings that are come newly into the world; they must get their own\r\nexperiences, make their own experiments free from any burden of the past. Once\r\nI remonstrated with someone that a child should be forewarned about a possible\r\naccident, I was told in answer it was none of my business. And when I persisted\r\nin saying that the child might get killed, the answer was, &quot;What if? Each\r\none must follow his destiny. It is neither the duty nor the right of anybody to\r\nmeddle in the affairs of others. If one goes on doing stupid things One will\r\nsuffer the consequences oneself and most likely stop doing them of one\'s own\r\naccord – which is hundredfold better than being forced by others to stop.&quot;\r\nBut naturally there are cases when one stops indeed, but not in the way\r\nexpected or wished for.<o:p></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:14.0pt\'>The matter gets difficult and involved, if\r\nyou make a theory and try to follow it. In reality, each case is different and\r\nto be able. to deal with each adequately needs a whole lifetime\'s occupation.</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:14.0pt;\'>Page – 18</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</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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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>','-005_Will and Desire','','publish','closed','open','','005_will-and-desire','','','2021-11-23 17:58:28','2021-11-23 17:58:28','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/005_will-and-desire/',0,'post','',0),(1864,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:28','2021-11-23 17:58:28','<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>The Significance of Dates</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 style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The Significance of Dates</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=\'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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-indent:25pt\'>\r\n<b><i>\r\n<span style=\'font-family:\r\n\"Times New Roman\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>Does </span>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:Times New Roman\'>a particular date or a series </span>\r\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\">£if </font> \r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:Times New Roman\'>dates carry any special significance?</span></i></b></p>\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\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;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-bottom:0\'>THE\r\nway of framing a calendar is a convention. If the convention is made general,\r\nas there is an attempt now to do, it can become a very powerful formation. But\r\nin order to become significant for many, many must first accept it. I mean by a\r\nformation an image infused with a force that makes it something living, an\r\nimage which can be used as a symbol. There are people who may form images and\r\nuse them as symbols, but all is done only for themselves, as in the case of\r\ndream-symbols. These are purely subjective and valid in so far as those people\r\nare personally concerned.</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\nif your calendar is adopted by almost the whole of mankind, then the symbol is\r\ncapable of acting upon a very wide field. You can act upon the major bulk\r\npopulation through this formation. As it is purely conventional, I repeat, it\r\nis fruitful only in the measure in which it has been accepted. If instead of\r\nmillions of people who are now following the European calendar there were only\r\nthree or four persons, then it would be symbolic only for these few. The thing\r\nitself has no value, its value depends upon the use you make of it.</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\nconventions are useful as symbols, I said, that is, they are a means to put you\r\nin contact with what is more subtle, to put what is material in contact with\r\nthe more subtle. That is their use.</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\ncomes also the error which people make in respect of stars and horoscopes. For\r\nall that is simply a language and a convention. If you accept the convention\r\nyou can use it for a particular world. But it has value and importance only in\r\nproportion to the number of people who believe in it. But if you<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 – 107<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\'>simplify,\r\nthe more you do so the more the thing becomes a superstition. For, what is\r\nsuperstition? It is the abuse of generalisation from a particular.</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\'>I\r\nalways give the example of a person passing under a ladder. A man was working\r\non its top rung and accidentally he dropped his instrument on the person below\r\nwho got his head broken. The witness of this whole incident then made a general\r\nrule that to pass under a ladder was a bad sign. Well, it is superstition pure\r\nand simple.</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\'>In\r\nfact, much of our knowledge originates in the same way. Thus, a certain medicine\r\nis found, because of <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>favourable</span>\r\ncircumstances, to cure a number of people suffering from a particular\r\ndisease. Then it is announced that the medicine is an absolute remedy for that\r\ndisease. But it is not true. If the same medicine is given to a hundred\r\npersons, it will affect them in a hundred different ways: sometimes the\r\nreactions are quite opposite. In no two cases will the result be similar.\r\nTherefore it is not the virtue of the medicine itself that effects that cure.\r\nIt is a superstition to believe in the absolute efficacy of medicines.</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\'>But\r\ngoing further we can say that there is very little difference between science\r\nand superstition! The only difference is in the manner of expressing oneself.\r\nIf you take care to say like the scientists, &quot;it seems it is like that,\r\none might conclude that things appear like that&quot; etc., etc. then it is no\r\nlonger superstition. But if you assert point-blank, &quot;it is like\r\nthat&quot;, then you land in superstition.<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 – 108<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\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-037_The Significance of Dates','','publish','closed','open','','037_the-significance-of-dates','','','2021-11-23 17:58:28','2021-11-23 17:58:28','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/037_the-significance-of-dates/',0,'post','',0),(1865,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:28','2021-11-23 17:58:28','<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>Cling to Truth</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\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Cling to Truth</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 Life Divine is the\r\nlife of Truth. It is based on Truth, it is Truth, body and substance – Truth\r\nabsolute, pure and simple. But it may be asked as we are actually in the\r\nignorant and half-ignorant consciousness, in a world of almost total falsehood,\r\nis it not necessary, is it not inescapable for us to accept the falsehood for\r\nthe moment, in order to be able to work in the world and succeed? We have to\r\nlive in an environment and move in it; if we try to go against it openly, how\r\ncan we do it practically? As individuals we are infinitesimal particles and the\r\nmass of the whole will bear us down each one of us and crush us out of\r\nexistence. Truth is all right, but the approach to it needs to be cautious and\r\ncareful. If falsehood is clever we too have to be clever. In a game where\r\nsuccess is the aim, diplomacy and strategy are not outlawed. You have to\r\naccept certain terms of your enemy in order that certain terms of yours might\r\nbe accepted. You can move to success in this mixed world only through a process\r\nof give and take. An absolute saintly attitude is not a thing of practical\r\npolitics. That is why, to keep their truth unsullied, the ancients abandoned\r\nthis field of practical politics, retired to the forest or into the cosy laps\r\nof the hills.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Beware,\r\nthis is the voice of the adversary trying to tempt you by confusing your mind.\r\nThe path is straight and narrow, it is not wide and comfortable and strewn with\r\nroses. To find the Truth, to live the Truth we must begin by finding it in its\r\npurity and living it. As is the start, so is the end. Our steadfastness, our\r\nfaithfulness must be unalloyed, our sincerity of utmost purity. It is Truth\r\nalone that leads to Truth, a compromise or semblance leads only to the untruth.\r\nYour diplomacy or duplicity may bring you the coveted result or \r\n<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;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 – 192<o:p>&nbsp;</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\'>it may not;\r\nbut surely it will put a layer of soot upon your soul, push you back one step\r\nmore into your inconscience. And if you continue you may become the biggest\r\nsuccess in the eyes of the world, but your soul will be nowhere, leaving behind\r\nperhaps only a hopeless sob in a wilderness. Has not the Mother said,\r\n&quot;Even if there is a particle of falsehood in your expression – In your\r\nword or in your act – how can you hope to express the Supreme Truth?&quot;\r\nRemember also the words of Sri Aurobindo: &quot;Do not imagine that truth and\r\nfalsehood, light and darkness, surrender and selfishness can be allowed to\r\ndwell together in a house consecrated to the Divine. The transformation must be\r\nintegral, and integral therefore the rejection of all that withstands\r\nit.&quot;¹</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\'>You\r\ncannot elude falsehood or cajole or conjure it. You must stand face to face,\r\ngaze with unwinking eyes, the flame of Truth within you constantly ablaze.</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\'>If\r\nyou say you are a small creature and yours a smaller light: your consciousness\r\nhas not the dimensions of a heroic being, your light will be engulfed,\r\nswallowed up and lost in the vast and overwhelming gloom around. Yet small as\r\nyou are, do what you can, the utmost possible for you; do not let your little\r\nflame be tarnished by any contrary or unworthy movement in you: be firm, keep\r\nit bright and trimmed. The surrounding darkness may engulf it but cannot\r\nsmother it; for it is the everlasting, the Divine in you. The body, the flesh\r\nmay not continue but the holy light remains. The outward frame may have to\r\nyield or dissolve in a material surrounding that was unready – not that the\r\ninner consciousness was unready. Indeed the passing body releases the light\r\nand it adds to the growing light in the earth\'s atmosphere. That is the central\r\ncreed of the Christian martyr. The blood of the martyr is the cement of the\r\nChurch. This truth of martyrdom, the sacrifice of the faithful was perhaps a\r\nnecessity at a time when humanity had not risen high enough in consciousness\r\nand the earth\'s atmosphere was more opaque and dull than it is now. The one\r\nthing necessary at that stage was an uncompromising living faith, the pure\r\nlight, the unvacillating flame, a spirit even though small standing against \r\ninsurmountable odds – that was the way, the martyr\'s way to stand against the adversary. </p>\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\'>&nbsp;</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\'>¹ <span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>The Mother</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;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;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\r\n– 293</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\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\">That is why in\r\nthe process the God-Man sacrificed himself.</p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\nare in a somewhat different age under different circumstances. At least our\r\naim is different. We stand firm full square against all temptations, all\r\nleaning towards compromise, in the faith and certainty that we shall conquer,\r\nwe shall not go down but the odds against us shall be pushed back and\r\neliminated. This is the age of Victory.</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\'>For\r\ntwo things have happened – two mighty happenings in earth\'s history, in the\r\ncourse of nature\'s evolution here: two unseen events that have new-oriented\r\nthe destiny of earth and mankind. First of all human consciousness in its\r\nessential achievement has risen to a new level of consciousness, although not\r\nin the mass, nor generally even in individuals, but there has come a common\r\nacquiescence in the being to a higher status of living – proletarianism at its\r\nbest means nothing else. Human nature has shed something of its mediaeval\r\ncrudeness and obscurantism, separatism and selfishness; human mind has been\r\nmore sharpened and polished and widened so as to receive easily the message of\r\nthe cosmic rays. There has dawned in the atmosphere the perception or sense, of\r\na higher, purer, more luminous and enlightened status of existence. That is,\r\none may say, Nature\'s gift, the outcome of the millennial, the aeonic working\r\nof an aspiration inherent in matter towards light and order. That is the first\r\nevent. The second one is more occult but more mighty and even devastating. It\r\nis the descent, the manifestation, the intervention of a new force here below.\r\nThey who have seen it know and there is no question. The Veda has declared long\r\nago: The Unseeing have not the Knowledge, those who have eyes possess the\r\nKnowledge.</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\'>Today,\r\nmore than ever, only a little of this pure consciousness will bring you\r\nvictory, not merely safety <span style=\"background-color: #FFFFFF\">from</span> a great perdition. Against the vast, what\r\nappears as the all-swallowing gloom of the external space, the inner space is\r\nnow luminous, doubly luminous and powerful.<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;text-indent:12.0pt;\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 style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page \r\n      – 294</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  </div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n    <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:12.0pt;\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\'> <span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;color:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span>\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n		</div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-088_Cling to Truth','','publish','closed','open','','088_cling-to-truth','','','2021-11-23 17:58:28','2021-11-23 17:58:28','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/088_cling-to-truth/',0,'post','',0),(1866,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:28','2021-11-23 17:58:28','<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>Divine Living</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\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Divine Living</font></span><span style=\'font-size:18.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'><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-size:\r\n14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></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\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>WE always give the name &quot;Divine&quot; to\r\nall that we are not and want to become, all that seems infinitely higher than\r\nnot only everything we have done but everything we can possibly do, all that is\r\nbeyond our present capacity and conception.<o:p></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:14.0pt\'>I am perfectly sure that if we went back into\r\nthe past a few thousands of years, we would find that when one spoke of the\r\nDivine it was of a being somewhat like one of the &quot;overmental&quot; gods.\r\nBut now, the way of living proper to these overmental divinities who governed\r\nthe earth and created many things upon earth for a very long time, seems to us\r\nvery inferior to what we conceive as the Supramental. This Supramental again\r\nwhich we now call the Divine and which we seek to bring down upon earth will\r\nhave the same effect upon us a few thousand years hence as the Overmental has\r\nupon us now.<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:14.0pt\'>In other words, in the manifestation, in his\r\nSelf-expression the Divine is progressive. Outside and beyond manifestation, He\r\nis something we cannot conceive of. But when He manifests Himself in this\r\nstatus of constant becoming, He manifests more and more of Himself, as if He\r\nhad reserved for the final end the most beautiful things of His being.<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:14.0pt\'>As the world progresses what He expresses of\r\nHimself in the world becomes more and more the Divine.<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>Sri Aurobindo has used the word Supramental\r\nin order to be clear to people who live in the evolutionary external consciousness\r\nand who are aware of the way in which the terrestrial world has developed,\r\ntelling them that it is something greater than the creation of man whom he\r\nalways calls a mental being. He calls it Supramental to say that it is beyond\r\nmind.<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:.2in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>But\r\nwe can also say that it is something more divine than<o:p> </o:p>what has been manifested before. </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;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>Page – 42<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 style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>\r\nFor the Infinity is there; that </span>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'>has no limit. Thus there will always be a growing perfection. What appears\r\nto us as imperfect today must have appeared as something perfect to which\r\ncertain epochs of history yearned and aspired.<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 style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder: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 style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>And\r\nthere is no reason why the movement should stop. If it stopped it would mean an\r\nend of things – a new <i>pralaya. </i></span>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>\r\n<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;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;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Page – 43<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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-015_Divine Living','','publish','closed','open','','015_divine-living','','','2021-11-23 17:58:28','2021-11-23 17:58:28','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/015_divine-living/',0,'post','',0),(1867,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:28','2021-11-23 17:58:28','<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>In these Fateful Days</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\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b><font size=\"4\">In these Fateful Days</font></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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'>&nbsp;</p>\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\'>To destroy is easy; to create, it is difficult.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:11.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The vital force destroys in its <span\r\nclass=GramE>violence,</span> it is the spirit that creates in its energy of\r\nconsciousness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:11.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The vital force is easily available to man.\r\nThe spirit is a far cry.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:11.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And yet there is no other way out: if man is\r\nto be saved, that is the only way left before him.</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\'>If\r\nman\'s destiny is to fulfil – fulfil the purpose of creation, he will have to\r\nfind out the way of the spirit. If in his present mood of perversity, he\r\npursues blindly the urge that has possessed him, he will surely annihilate\r\nhimself – willingly or unwillingly he will commit <i>hara-kiri.<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Fortunately\r\nfor man, souls are there yet upon <span class=GramE>earth who have</span> found\r\nthe truth, souls that have declared unhesitatingly with the Upanishadic Rishi:\r\n&quot;1 know this being luminous as the sun beyond all darkness&quot;; and that\r\ntruth will be out, burst forth and spread abroad. Or in the words of the\r\nBiblical son of man: &quot;I am from above<span class=GramE>..</span> I am not\r\nof this world<span class=GramE>..</span> I am He<span class=GramE>..&quot;</span>¹</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And in the end may it not be that the present ruins and\r\nravages are merely a symptom or a resultant of the pressures that the forces of\r\nthe new creation are exerting from behind or from above? It is always true, it\r\nis a fact that any creation, for that matter, any happening on the material\r\nplane is already prepared or pre-figured within or behind in a subtler region.\r\nWe all know Gita\'s tremendous vision: &quot;all these have already been slain\r\nby <span class=GramE>Me</span>&quot; – the battle is fought, won or lost in\r\nanother world beforehand; what we see on the material level are only the\r\ndebris, <span class=SpellE><i>disjecta</i></span><i> <span class=SpellE>membra</span>,\r\n</i>of forms and limbs thrown down <span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; 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:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ The<i> Bible: </i></span><st1:City><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>St. John</span></st1:place></st1:City><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>.</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:11.75pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace: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 style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 345<o:p>&nbsp;</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>from</span>\r\nthere. Only the sweeping or clearing is being done here for the appearance and\r\nestablishment of what already has been built up unseen behind the material\r\ncurtain. Or as it is sometimes given as an illustration or example, the\r\nbreakage is that of the surface shell due to the pressing emergence of the\r\nfully formed living creature within.</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\'>One\r\ncreates through one\'s consciousness, not through one\'s hands. A true creation\r\nmust have at its origin the true con­sciousness, and a true consciousness has\r\nalways the power to create invincibly; for consciousness is identified with\r\nessential energy. <i>Chit </i>and <i>Tapas </i>are one and the same.</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\nseed of consciousness has to be sown in the field of our being, whether it is\r\nthe individual or the collective being. How is it to be done? And who is to\r\nfind the seed? There must be some one or even a few who are the prophets,\r\npioneers or forerunners, who are the appointed missionaries. You or I may be\r\nelected as one if we choose to be so.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\nvital force can create, but if it is not supported or inspired by something\r\nelse, something inner, deeper and higher, the creation can be only an <i>asuric\r\n</i>(titanic) or <span class=SpellE><i>rakshasik</i></span><i> </i>(demoniac)\r\nor even a <span class=SpellE><i>pishachic</i></span><i> </i>(ghoulish) one, not\r\na thing of light and happiness and harmony, but a thing made of obscurity and\r\nperversion, of pain and suffering: we saw in practice something of it –\r\nfortunately <span class=SpellE>short lived</span> – in the <span class=SpellE>Hitlerian</span>\r\nor <span class=SpellE>Stalinian</span> regime; a soulless mental or vital or\r\nphysical being can create but a chaos.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the\r\ndeluge of Doomsday the Lord himself appears and holds aloft safe the supreme\r\nKnowledge, the matrix of a new creation – the divine <st1:State><st1:place>Ark.</st1:place></st1:State>\r\nIndeed those alone who have souls, who are made of the soul-consciousness, who\r\nare in effect, parts and points, centres of the divine Being, will survive and\r\nform the nucleus of the new humanity – the rest if they cannot be corrected or\r\nconverted will naturally be extirpated annihilated or else relegated to a\r\nstatus of barbarism worse than the animal life. But we expect a better fate for\r\nmankind.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Today\r\nwe call it <i>– <span class=SpellE>à</span> la manière </i>Churchill – our\r\nfinest hour – for it is the hour when we have at our disposal the greatest\r\nopportunity to find our soul – even our God.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page\r\n– 346</span></font></h5>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<o:p><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-102_In these Fateful Days','','publish','closed','open','','102_in-these-fateful-days','','','2021-11-23 17:58:28','2021-11-23 17:58:28','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/102_in-these-fateful-days/',0,'post','',0),(1868,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:28','2021-11-23 17:58:28','<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</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\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><font size=\"4\">Sri Aurobindo</font></b><i><o:p><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:4.3pt;\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 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\'>I</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\'><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\'>From a certain\r\nstandpoint Sri Aurobindo\'s message is very simple, almost self-evident. The sum\r\nand substance of all he says is that man is growing and has to grow in\r\nconsciousness till he reaches the complete and perfect consciousness, not only\r\nin his individual but in his collective, that is to say, social life. In fact,\r\nthe growth of consciousness is the supreme secret of life, the master key to\r\nearthly evolution.</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\'>Sri\r\nAurobindo believes in evolution. Creation, according to him, has a purpose and\r\nman moves to a goal. That is nothing else than the unfolding of consciousness.\r\nOriginally all was Matter, only dead Matter. At a certain stage out of Matter\r\ncame Life: what was or appeared to be dead became alive. Thus the plant world\r\nwas born-the first .primeval stirring of consciousness, a consciousness vague,\r\nblind, practically unconscious, yet moved by a newly acquired or awakened\r\npulsation. There was again a period of gestation and incubation bringing out at\r\nthe end a rudimentary Mind, a first conscious consciousness: so the animal was\r\nborn. Consciousness is clearer and freer here, emerging into formulation: it is\r\nnow instinct or sensibility and in its higher grades infused with a streak of\r\nspontaneous thinking. Sensuous mentality gave birth to Mind proper, that is thought,\r\nreflection and man appeared. A fully awakened consciousness, consciousness that\r\ncan turn round upon itself is the characteristic marking out human consciousness.</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\'>Such\r\nthen are the stages in the progression of consciousness; they are clearly\r\nobservable and admitted practically on all hands. Only Sri Aurobindo points out\r\ntwo crucial characters<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;tab-stops:-9.0pt;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:12.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 351<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:-9.0pt;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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>of this movement. First:\r\nMatter, Life, Mind-Intelligence – these are not distinct or separate entities,\r\none coming after another, the succeeding one simply adding itself to the\r\npreceding, coming we do now know from where. Not so, for something cannot come\r\nout of nothing. If life came out of Matter, it is because life was there hidden\r\nin Matter Matter was secretly housing, was instinct with life. That only can\r\nevolve which was involved. So, again, if Mind came out of life, it is because\r\nMind was involved in life and therefore also in Matter although at a farther\r\nremove. Yet again, vital mind developed into Intelligence and consciousness\r\nproper, and it could be only because that too was its secret nature and hence\r\nthe secret nature of Life and even brute Matter. Thus the whole chain of\r\ngradation is linked together indissolubly and the binding reality that runs\r\nthrough all is consciousness, overt or covert. It is indeed consciousness that\r\nlies at the root of existence – the basic substance, Matter is nothing but\r\nconsciousness become unconscious; and the whole scheme or processus of the\r\ncosmos is the increasing manifestation and expression of that consciousness.\r\nSecondly, the other character is that at each cross-over, there is not only a\r\nrise in consciousness but also a reversal of consciousness, that is to say, the\r\nlevel attained turns back upon the preceding levels, influencing and moulding\r\nthem as far as possible in its own mode and law of existence. When life\r\nappeared in Matter, wherever there was material life, the matter thus taken up\r\nby life behaved differently from dead matter: an organic body does not not\r\nfollow the strict mechanicallaws of inanimate bodies. Likewise a life endowed\r\nwith mind has a different functioning than mere life. And a body which houses a\r\nlife and mind, which has, as it were, flowered into life and mind moves and\r\nacts in another way than an inert body or even a vitalised body. Man\'s\r\nintelligence and reason have reoriented or tend to reorient his vital instincts\r\nand reactions, even his bodily functions and forms. A conscious regulation,\r\neven refashioning of his life and body is the very essence of human\r\nconsciousness, the urge of his nature, instead of a spontaneous <i>laissez-faire\r\n</i>movement of pure vitality or the mechanical go-round of the material base.\r\nThese three major provinces or layers of consciousness – Matter, Life and Mind – \r\nman has taken up into himself and in the light of his consciousness</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 – 352</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\'>&nbsp;– his<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>Intelligence – has studied and\r\nclassified them arranging them serially as the well-known sciences of Physics\r\nBiology and Psychology.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </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\'>Now,\r\nSri Aurobindo says, evolution marches onward and will rise beyond mind to\r\nanother status of consciousness which he calls Supermind. <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>In<b> </b></span>the earthly scheme there\r\nwill thus manifest a new type, a higher functioning of consciousness and a new\r\nrace or species will appear on earth with this new consciousness as the ruling\r\nprinciple. Out of the rock and mineral came the plant, out of the plant the\r\nanimal, out of the mere animal man has come and out of man the Superman will\r\ncome inevitably.</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\'>Standing\r\non the mental plane, immured within the dimensions of Reason and mental\r\nintelligence, it is not easy to contemplate the type of consciousness that will\r\nbe; even as it was difficult for the ape to envisage the advent of his\r\nsuccessor, man. But certain characteristic signs, rudimentary or fragmentary\r\nmovements of the higher status are visible in the mental consciousness even as\r\nit is: the ape likewise was not without a glimmer of Reason and logic, even the\r\nfaculty of ratiocination that seems to be the exclusive property of man. There\r\nis, for example, a movement we call Intuition, so different from Reason to\r\nwhich even Scientists and Mathematicians acknowledge their debt of gratitude\r\nfor so many of their discoveries and inventions. There is also the other\r\nanalogous movement called Inspiration that rules the poet and the artist\r\ndisclosing to them a world of beauty and reality that is not available to the\r\nnormal human consciousness. Again, there is yet another group of human beings\r\nat the top of the ladder of evolution – mystics and sages – who <i>see </i>the\r\ntruth, possess the truth direct through a luminous immediacy of perception,\r\ncalled Revelation. Now, all these functionings of consciousness that happen\r\nfrequently enough within the domain of normal humanity are still expressions of\r\na higher mode of consciousness: they are not the product or play of Reason or\r\nlogical</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\'>intelligence which marks the\r\ncharacter, the differentia of human consciousness.</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\'>But,\r\nas at present, these are mere glimmers and glimpses from elsewhere and man has\r\nno command or control over them. They are beyond the habitual conscious will,\r\nthey come and go as<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 – 353<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\'>they like, happy\r\nvisitations from another world, they do not abide our question and are not at\r\nour beck and call. The Supermind, on the contrary, is in full possession of\r\nthat consciousness of which these are faint beginnings and distant echoes. The\r\nSuperman will be born when man has risen above his mind and emerged into the supramental consciousness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One\r\nthing needs to be pointed out here: it is that man is expected to consciously\r\ntranscend himself and deliver this supermanhood, for it is to be a conscious\r\nprocess, a labour of the wakeful will. That is the great difference which the\r\nnew transition has brought in. So long evolution was a spontaneous and\r\napparently unconscious process, moving slowly and inadvertently as things in\r\nnature normally move. Man rose out of the animal: he simply found himself man\r\none day, there was no conscious effort, no previous knowledge of the change on\r\nthe part of the animal undergoing the change Likewise the animal came out of\r\nits plant origin spontaneously and unwittingly: the plant too evolved out of\r\nthe inert and inanimate matter through a natural process of slow mutation. But\r\nnow at the stage of manhood consciousness has become fully conscious,\r\nself-conscious, and therefore its further ascension cannot but be conscious,\r\never more conscious, the result of deliberate energising. This is a process of\r\nself-transformation. It has. a method, a technique, a whole system of its own.\r\nThe growth of consciousness, its culture and transformation is the end and\r\npurpose of all true education: its highest consummation, its supreme\r\nperfection is what is intended by Yoga, the mystic\'s system of inner\r\ndiscipline.</p>\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\'>We say,\r\nthen, supramentalisation of consciousness is the goal Nature is aiming at and\r\nman striving for: it is the next step that earth and man are taking in their\r\nevolutionary urge. Man, however, represents a very crucial stage – he is the\r\ndividing line between two hemispheres – two modes of consciousness, two types\r\nof creation. As I have said, up to man it is a natural spontaneous unreflecting\r\nunconscious evolution: with man it is conscious, deliberate, wilful evolution.\r\nWhat was being done behind the veil in ignorance will now be done openly in\r\nfull knowledge. The very first result will be the shortening of the time\r\nfactor. The conscious process increases the tempo, telescopes into decades or\r\nyears a process or development 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;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\'>would take centuries or\r\nmore otherwise; in man a growth is achieved in one life that would normally\r\nneed several lives. The other characteristic result is that when the Supermind\r\nestablishes itself, there is no more ignorance, it is all light and knowledge.\r\nTill the mental range, even at its highest heights it is a mixture of light and\r\ndarkness, of knowledge and ignorance: there is always an element of doubt,\r\nuncertainty or partial perception: there is a groping, a trial and one moves at\r\nbest from greater darkness to lesser shade. With the Supermind all that\r\nchanges: the Superman lives always in the full daylight, in the zenith\r\nconsciousness, in the plenitude of knowledge. He moves from light to light,\r\nknowledge to knowledge, no longer bound to the division and duality inherent in\r\nthe present human consciousness. It may be that man may not at a bound reach\r\nthe peak of the Supermind: for there are<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;\r\n</span>lower ranges, voluntary limitations of the Light, less absolute\r\nformulations of the perfect being through which man will have to pass for a\r\ngreater enrichment of his nature and for the establishment of other orders of\r\nluminous existence upon earth. Sri Aurobindo has, in this connection, spoken of\r\nthe Overmind and the Mind of Light. But these too lie beyond the border of\r\nmental twilight and are domains of Light, own delegates of Supermind. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nmay not be out of place here just to mention a few characters proper to this supramental over-border consciousness. First of all, it is the seat and organon\r\nof complete knowledge: knowledge here is not the result of the deductive and\r\ninductive process of reason, it does not balance pros and cons and out of\r\nuncertain possibilities strike out an average probability: it is direct,\r\nstraight, immediate, certain and absolute. Knowledge here comes by identity –\r\nthe knower and the known are one<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>and\r\nwhat is known is therefore self-knowledge, Secondly, the will too is not an\r\neffort or striving and struggling, but the spontaneous expression of the\r\nself-power of the consciousness; willing means achieving, one wills the\r\ninevitable truth for, knowledge and will too are one. Thirdly, it is the status\r\nof perfect delight, for one has passed beyond the vale of tears and entered the\r\npeace that passeth understanding, one has found that Joy is the source of\r\ncreation and the truth of existence is held in Ecstasy.\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 – 355<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:14.85pt;\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=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:13.9pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:200.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>It is in other words at bottom the Vedantic status of\r\nSat-chitananda (perfect Being, Consciousness-energy and Beatitude), but\r\nindividualised serving as the basic reality of the world-life and existence: it\r\nis this that seeks to manifest and embody itself in its own dharma-supreme\r\nlaw-in and through the physical forms and modes of that life and existence.\r\nBeyond this it is not possible here to enter into the further mysteries of the\r\nArcanum.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:dashed 12.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lastly, another point and we have done. It is that all\r\nhuman efforts in the past in any realm or domain towards a higher life has been\r\ncontributory to this supreme consummation that Sri Aurobindo envisages as\r\ncoming or sure to come. It is very often asserted that human nature is\r\nirremediable and although we may try at a little amelioration of his\r\ninstinctive life, especially as a social being, there can be no permanent or\r\nradical cure of the original sin of Ignorance and Inconscicnce with which his\r\nearthly nature is branded. Reformers, idealists, even saints and sages have\r\nseen and sought to counter the evil – some tried to get rid of it, others round\r\nit: but it is still there, as rampant as ever, apparently with no effect upon\r\nit. For one thing, evil was sought to be cured by its opposite, the good, but\r\nthe good that belongs to the level of consciousness to which evil too belongs.\r\nIn other words, we tried to deal with the world and treat it with the force of\r\nthe Mind, even though in some cases, the mind was a high or even the highest\r\nspiritual mind. To touch the roots of the malady that extend into our deepest\r\nfibres, our most material being, dead inconscience, one must rise to the very\r\nsource of consciousness, the creative truth-consciousness: the Supermind alone\r\ncan transform the earth, transfigure the earthly life. In the second place, the\r\npast attempts did not all go in vain: they were preparations, the first\r\nground-work, on various levels and in various domains of human life and\r\nconsciousness where the light infiltrated, to whatever extent it may be and\r\nthings, and forces were shaken and reshuffled to admit of other forces and\r\ninspirations; if nothing else, at least the possibility was created.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sri\r\nAurobindo\'s aim, we have said, is not an individual fulfilment, however\r\nglorious and successful it might be, and not merely the fulfilment of one limb\r\nonly of the individual however deep and high. Sri Aurobindo embraced the whole<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;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\'>man and the whole society.\r\nA fulfilled life in society upon earth – the highest and completest life\r\npossible, not only possible but inevitable to the human being-that is the work\r\nfor which he laboured. Man\'s mind and intelligence, his life energy, his\r\nbody-form are all taken up, purified of the lower<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>formulation, remoulded into the mode and\r\npattern of the supramental truth-consciousness: he becomes a complete, integral\r\nperfect being expressing and embodying in all his limbs and movements the\r\nsupreme reality made of utter truth<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>and\r\nknowledge and power and delight. This being his individual life, his collective \r\nor social life too would figure the same pattern. A new society in which men \r\nhave found their soul and soul function is a harmonious, a unitary body, com<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>posed of individuals who by\r\nliving each one in his self live in<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>all\r\nand living in all each one lives in his self. Likewise, an aggregate of such\r\nsocieties – a society of nations, as it is already called somewhat in a\r\nprophetic vein, – will also be an inherently harmonious and unified, even a\r\nunitary body too, since all these larger units will express through their\r\ncorporate life each in its own special way the glory and greatness of the<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Divine Consciousness. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nthis global reconstitution of the earth life, Sri Aurobindo gives India a great\r\nrole – a mighty destiny and a heavy responsibility. For he considers India as\r\nthe repository of the spiritual consciousness, the Guardian of Truth, as the\r\nVeda says, and in the new age of world unification her national being will act\r\nas the spearhead breaking into the old-world formations and signalling the\r\nshape of things to come.</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>II</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&quot;The poet of\r\npatriotism, the prophet of nationalism and the lover of humanity&quot; he was,\r\nin the famous words of his advocate and friend and follower who stood for him before\r\nthe bar of History for his cause, and not merely before a British Court of<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Justice. Indeed he was all that, but today\r\nwe have to add another epithet and complete the description. For he is now the\r\nbuilder of the Life Divine. This was indeed the secret Truth that worked in him\r\nfrom behind and gave to these</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 – 357<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\'>earlier preoccupations the\r\nreality and the beauty they attained and the fullness of their significance. He\r\nworked for human evolution, that was his life\' mission. He thus formulates the\r\nstages of human evolution:</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&quot;Family, nationality, humanity are Vishnu\'s three\r\nstrides from an isolated to a collective unity. The first has been fulfilled,\r\nwe yet strive for the perfection of the second, to wards the third we are\r\nreaching out our hands and the pioneer work is already attempted&quot;.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; 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:10.05pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\nthe supreme secret lies in Vishnu\'s fourth stride, from humanity to divinity.\r\nThat is the goal of the evolution and that furnishes also the key to the\r\nsolution of the problem. Whether in the matter of the family or the nationality\r\nor humanity in general there has been a stalemate, a stagnation, even a\r\nfrustration; an effort towards progress seemed to lead more towards conflict,\r\ndisharmony, away from what is beautiful and good and happy. That is bound to\r\nbe. Man must reach his very highest and deepest, his absolute itself before he\r\ncan arrive at perfection in the lower and the relative. Man must exceed himself\r\nif he is to fulfil himself. A new connotation has to be found for family and\r\nnationality and even humanity. That connotation, Sri Aurobindo says, is\r\ndivinity.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.8pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\nmust understand however that there is divinity and divinity. There is a\r\ndivinity that suffers, supports and transcends all that is existent. For it is\r\nthe all-reality, all-consciousness, the ever-present and omnipresent Immutable\r\nbehind the mutabilities of creation. That does not take part in the cosmic\r\nstruggle, the universal urge of progress forward. Apart from the divinity that\r\nsuffers, there is a divinity that shapes – and is shaped at the same time,\r\nshapes from behind and is shaped itself in front. This dynamic Divine Sri\r\nAurobindo calls the supramental Divine or the incarnate Divine Mother.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nthe inevitable course of evolution man is something that will be surpassed, not\r\nin the sense that he will be rejected and thrown out as an unnecessary element,\r\nlike some of the prehistoric animals, no, he will still be at the head of\r\nearthly creation, but undergo a sea-change, as it were, and be transmuted into\r\na divine creature.</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;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=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>As at present man is a mental being, that is to say,\r\nit is his mind – his reason and intellect – that governs him and it is through\r\nthat faculty that he governs the world. But mind is not the highest or the most\r\npowerful faculty in him, nor the last term of his consciousness. Beyond the\r\nmind there rise other powers of consciousness, tier upon tier, and man can go\r\nthere, live there or bring them down into his normal life and change it into\r\ntheir pattern. The highest of these Sri Aurobindo calls the plane of\r\nTruth-Consciousness, the Supermind. It is the supreme luminous Power – the\r\nLight of lights – towards which the creation moves and by which the creation is\r\nmoved in secret. It is the heart-centre of fulfilled harmony.</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\'>Man\r\nhas been striving through his lesser powers, through the grace of the lower\r\ngods since his advent upon earth to arrive at a reconstruction of his life and\r\nsurroundings. That is why he has never attained the full measure of success.\r\nIndeed a period of success or progress was always followed by a period of\r\ndecline and retrogression, a so-called golden age by an age of iron. As a\r\nmatter of fact today humanity finds itself terribly enclosed in a cage of iron\r\nas it were. The earth has become too small for his soaring capacities and multitudinous\r\nnecessities – he is already thinking of a place in the moon! That is only the\r\nsign and symbol of an inner impasse to which he has arrived. The anguish of the\r\nhuman soul has reached its acme: the problems, social, political, educational,\r\nmoral it is facing have proved themselves to be totally insoluble. Yes, he has\r\nrun into a cul-de-sac, where he is caught as in a death-trap. No ordinary\r\nrational methods, half-way nostrums can deliver him any more. All the outer\r\ndoors and issues are now closed for him; the only way is to turn inward, there\r\nlies the open road to freedom and fulfilment. That is the way to transcendence\r\nand surpassing. To attempt any other way is not only to try the impossible but\r\nto head straight towards doomsday.</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\ntime then is now, for the time is ripe. It will not do to say that the way\r\nproposed is beyond the reach of the common man. He has neither the capacity nor\r\nthe knowledge nor even the inclination or impulse to surpass himself, to do\r\nanything non-human. First of all, as I said, if man is to survive in any form,\r\nthis is the only way and there is no second. Next, what do we know of the\r\ncapacity and impulsion even of the common<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 – 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\'>man? Even in\r\na smaller scale and on the material level, have we not seen to what tremendous\r\nacts of heroism he can rise automatically, through what travails – tapasya – of\r\nconcentrated effort he agreed to pass, simply because the occasion demanded\r\nit? Man\'s secret soul is greater than all the limitation of his outward frame.</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\'>That\r\ndoes not mean that the entire human race will wholly change over to the new\r\nlife. All, without exception, are not expected to come up to the highest level\r\nof fulfilment. <i>But </i>that is not required, for the beginning at least. It\r\nis always the few pioneers, a select group of forerunners that form the\r\nfoundation of a new creation A first snowball perhaps, but it moves and gathers\r\nothers on the way and builds up larger and larger collectivities. At all crises\r\nof evolutionary cycles such beings inevitably appear, they are thrown up by\r\nNature or they tome down from above and incarnate; especially it is so when\r\nNature proposes to take a leap and not merely trudge and crawl.</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;tab-stops:127.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It is the fulfilment of Nature that has to happen and is\r\nhappening, the fulfilment of the inferior Nature in and through the higher\r\ndivine Nature. Here we come perhaps to the very heart of the mystery. For till\r\nnow, till almost yesterday, we may say in a general way, the spiritual life,\r\nany kind of divine life was considered possible only through battling with\r\nNature, through a struggle upstream against the current of Nature. Indeed\r\nNature was despised, feared, rejected as an enemy of the Spirit. But today the\r\nwheel seems to have turned full circle. The Spirit recognises the body as its\r\ncounterpart and visible form, welcomes the body as its earthly figure and\r\nexpression. The old antinomy has become obsolete, because the body too on its\r\nside recognises that it has not the structure and character that millennial\r\nignorance gave it. The material particles that constitute the physical body are\r\nfound to be after all not inert masses but quantas of energy, of luminous\r\nenergy. The spiritual Light above demands nothing better for its earthly home.</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\'>This\r\nis symbolical of the collaboration that Nature is now offering to the Spirit. A\r\nnew substance, made of light-energy emanating from Consciousness-Force, is now\r\nslowly-permeating the earth atmosphere, as the Mother declares and it is this<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 style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>that will\r\nserve as the basis of the new creation and give it its law and constitution. A\r\nnew world built out of knowledge and vision and luminous power is destined to\r\ncome, for man is no longer in love with his ignorance, but a divine afflatus is\r\npossessing him.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:258.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The new world has to be based on new foundations. The old\r\nworld was built from outside with superficial cheap elements that lower Nature\r\noffers easily and profusely. It is body\'s needs, vital hungers assembled and\r\narranged according to a plan supplied by mind\'s ideas and notions under the\r\ndirective and compulsion of the ego, the sense or consciousness of one\'s\r\nseparate individual existence as against others. The new world will start from\r\nthe soul, the luminous divine element in man which is one with all and grow\r\nfrom within outward. It is as if the foundations are laid not below, but above\r\n– the tree of existence would branch out not from below upwards, but from above\r\ndownward, in the image given by the ancient Rishis of India. The individual will\r\ntherefore be not primarily a body housing secondary – or as it is sometimes\r\ncalled epiphenomenal – movements such as those of the mind and the vital\r\nlimited and largely conditioned by it. The individual will primarily be a\r\nconsciousness, a focus of energy-consciousness existing and acting in union and\r\ncommunion with all other similar individual foci, for all form one single\r\nundivided entity. The body and life and mind are moulded in the substance and\r\nrhythm of that sovereign consciousness. The hard egoism or self-centred ness,\r\nthe gross animality that seem to be the very constitution of the human\r\nindividual are dissolved into the soul\'s radiant urges. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:258.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The individual can be and is to be fulfilled in and\r\nthrough his soul – the presiding consciousness that has at its disposal the\r\nmind, the vital and the body as its instruments and means of expression, but\r\nwhich till now, because of an evolutionary necessity of growth and development,\r\nacted more as an obstruction or a veil than as an aid or a channel. When in\r\nthe new consciousness the individual attains its soul-status, in other words,\r\nits divinity, then a reshaping and recasting of the lower limbs becomes\r\npossible and even inevitable. The soul-status means freedom, harmony, purity,\r\nknowledge, power, delight and immortality, absolute and inalienable.<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;tab-stops:258.75pt;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:12.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 361<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;tab-stops:258.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\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:12.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As\r\nindividuals grow in this line, the social structure too is altered and\r\ntransmuted. The harmony and fullness that individuals present are automatically\r\nrepresented in the collective grouping. Instead of a battling competitive\r\nsociety we have not merely a cooperative but a unitive community striving in a\r\ncommon aspiration towards a single unique achievement. For all individuals know\r\nand feel that they are but various limbs of the same organism, luminously and\r\nunfailingly functioning each in its and for its own appointment-expressing\r\ndifferently the one Light supreme.</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\'>And\r\nnations that are finding so difficult, almost impossible, to form a comity,\r\nthat are in their disparate tendencies driving towards a catastrophe, perhaps\r\nannihilation, shall undergo a sea-change. The nation, the national being is\r\nalso a reality, a divine reality that has to come to its own – that is to say,\r\nits own soul. For there is a collective soul, as well as an individual soul. It\r\nis the presiding deity, the norm of consciousness and being that works out the\r\ngrowth and evolution of a collectivity that has found a common life. This\r\ncollectivity is also enlarging itself in wider and wider commonalty. As we see\r\nactually today the nation is tending towards and growing into the supranation\r\nor Commonwealth or Federation as it is termed politically.</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\nconception of the <st1:country-region><st1:place>United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\nof the world is taking possession of the human mind; it is being applied and\r\nlarger and more integrated collective groupings than the nation are developing;\r\nthey may ere long become familiar realities. Such formations moving towards and\r\neffectuating the one indivisible humanity open out the possibility towards a\r\nsuperhumanity which will have to base itself on a new principle of organisation;\r\nfor that must be a new mode of consciousness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Even\r\nthe family, the first unit of collective formation in humanity that has\r\nattained a fulfilled status, is yet capable of a remodelling, a transmutation\r\nin the higher supramental consciousness. The family instead of being built upon\r\nblood-relationship may surely have a different foundation in soul-kinship, in\r\naffinity of consciousness, comradeship in life-work. It means a total\r\nrevolution, a reversal of nature, the roots being above instead of being below,\r\nas already referred to.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Such\r\nfar-reaching changes may well be called for and inevitable if mankind is to be\r\nradically cured of all the illnesses of<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;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\'>which it is\r\ntill now a natural prey The full health of a divine body in its individual as\r\nwell as its collective and global functioning is assured only when the human\r\nbeing is lifted out of its mental sheath and established in the supramenal\r\nstatus.</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\'>It\r\nis an adventure for the heroic soul, for the vanguards of humanity; but its\r\nfruition will spread abroad a benefit that even the common level shall share,\r\neven those that denied shall offer their accession and adhesion.<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 align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-104_Sri Aurobindo','','publish','closed','open','','104_sri-aurobindo','','','2021-11-23 17:58:28','2021-11-23 17:58:28','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/104_sri-aurobindo/',0,'post','',0),(1869,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:28','2021-11-23 17:58:28','<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>Buddha and Shankara</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\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Buddha and Shankara</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;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n16.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></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\'>(1)</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'>To\r\nescape from life is a teaching based on the view that life is an illusion. The\r\nteaching began with Buddha. Buddha said that life or existence is the fruit of\r\ndesire and that there was only one way of getting out of the misery, namely, to\r\ngo out of existence. Shankara continued in that line. He added, however, that\r\nexistence was not merely the fruit of desire, but that it was altogether an\r\nillusion and that so long as one lives in that illusion, one cannot realise the\r\nDivine. For him the Divine – the Supreme Divine – did not exist. I believe his\r\nview was something to that effect. In any case, for the Buddha there was no\r\nGod.</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\'>Both\r\nof them came in contact with something true and real. Buddha had surely an\r\ninner contact with something which, in relation to the outer life, appeared to\r\nhim as non-existence and in this non-existence all the consequences of\r\nexistence disappeared. There is indeed such a state. And it is said that if\r\nyou remain in that state for more than twenty days, you are sure to lose your\r\nbody. I believe it is so, if the condition becomes exclusive. But also it can\r\nbe an experience that remains behind, exists in a conscious way and yet not\r\nexclusively. In other words, the contact with the world and the outer\r\nconsciousness is maintained and supported by something which is independent of\r\nthem and free. It is a state in which you can make truly a great progress in\r\nyour external consciousness; for then you can detach yourself from everything\r\nand act without attachment, without preference, in an inner freedom that\r\nexpresses itself in the outer life. Once you have attained the inner freedom,\r\nthis conscious contact with the eternal and the infinite, you must return to\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.5pt;\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 style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n104<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\'>action\r\nwithout losing that consciousness and allow it to influence the whole of the\r\nconsciousness turned to action.</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\'>That\r\nis what Sri Aurobindo calls bringing down the Force from above. That way lies\r\nthe only chance of changing the world; for you seek there a new Force, a new\r\ndomain, a new consciousness and you put that in contact with the external\r\nworld. Its presence and its action will bring changes inevitably, a total\r\ntransformation, we hope, in the external world.</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\'><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\'>(2)</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'>There\r\nis no doubt that Buddha had the first part of the experience; but he never\r\nthought of the second part, for it was contrary to his own theory. That theory\r\nwas that one must escape. And it is obvious that there is only one way of\r\nescaping and that is to die. And yet, as he had said it himself very well, one\r\nmay die and yet remain attached to life and continue to be in the cycle of\r\nrebirths without having the liberation. As a matter of fact, it is through the\r\nsuccessive sojourns upon earth that one grows till one arrives at this liberation.\r\nFor him the ideal is that where the world exists no longer. It is as if he\r\naccused God of having committed an error by creating a world and the only thing\r\nto be done is to repair the error by annulling it. Naturally, being thoroughly\r\nreasonable and logical, he did not admit the existence of God. But then by whom\r\nwas the error committed? When and how did it come about? He never answered\r\nthese questionings. He simply said that the world began with desire and with\r\nthe end of desire it must end.</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\'>He\r\nwas on the verge of saying that the world was purely subjective, that is to\r\nsay, a collective illusion, and if the illusion ceased the world would also\r\ncease. But he did not go so far. It was Shankara who took up the line and\r\ncompleted the teaching.</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;tab-stops:106.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the more ancient wisdom, however, if one goes back to\r\nthe teaching of the Vedic Rishis, for example, one finds no idea of escape from\r\nthe world; they sought a realisation upon earth and they even conceived of a\r\ngolden age when this realisation would be achieved.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </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\'>\r\nIt is without doubt since the teaching of Buddha that the idea of escape came \r\nin; and that has gradually undermined the vitality\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 – 105<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 the country for it\r\nmeant an endeavour to cut oneself away from life. The outward reality became a\r\nfalse illusion and one should have nothing to do with it. The natural result\r\nwas that one cut oneself away from the universal energy and so vitality went on\r\ndiminishing, and with diminishing vitality, all possibility of terrestrial realisation also diminished.</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\'><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\'>(3)</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'>Some\r\nsay that the Buddha was an Avatar, others say he was not.</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\'>To\r\nuse the names as known in India, I think it is the Avataras of Vishnu (the\r\naspect of the Divine that builds and preserves), who come to prove that the\r\nDivine can live upon earth; whereas, each time that Shiva has manifested (the\r\naspect that works to transform and destroy), it was in persons who have tried\r\nto fight against illusion and demolish what existed.</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\'>I\r\nhave reasons to think that \'the Buddha manifested something of the Shiva\r\npower. It was the same compassion and comprehension of all misery and it was\r\nthe same force that destroys, evidently with the intention of transforming, but\r\ndestroying more than constructing.</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\'>His\r\nwork does not seem to have been very constructive indeed. It was necessary to\r\ngive a practical training to man not to be egoistic. In that way it proved to\r\nbe useful.</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\ntaken in its fundamental principle it has not helped much in the transformation\r\nof earth and earthly life. It has not encouraged the descent of a higher\r\nConsciousness into earthly life; instead it has very strongly encouraged the\r\nseparation of the Consciousness, which he said was the only truth, from all\r\nexternal expression.</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\'>And\r\nas to the existence or manifestation of the Divine upon earth, they who\r\nbelieved in Buddha have now made him a God. You have only to look at the\r\nBuddhist temples and all their divinities to know that human nature has always\r\nthe tendency to deify what it admires.<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 – 106<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>\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a>&nbsp;</o:p></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','-036_Buddha and Shankara','','publish','closed','open','','036_buddha-and-shankara','','','2021-11-23 17:58:28','2021-11-23 17:58:28','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/036_buddha-and-shankara/',0,'post','',0),(1870,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:29','2021-11-23 17:58:29','<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 Test of Truth</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\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">The Test of Truth</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\'>&nbsp;</p>\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 test of Truth is its\r\nimpossibility. I believe because it is impossible; <span style=\'font-family:\r\n\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>Credo <span style=\"font-family:\'Arial Narrow\';\">quia impossibile. That is <st1:City><st1:place>Saint\r\n  Augustine</st1:place></st1:City>.</span></span></p>\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\'>There\r\nis a grain, why a grain, quite a lump of truth in this well-known saying of a\r\ngreat seeker of Truth. &quot;Truth shall prevail? Is this true? Can it be true?\r\nIt is impossible.&quot; There­fore it must be true. &quot;God exists: is it <span\r\nclass=GramE>an impossibility</span>?&quot; Therefore God does exist.\r\n&quot;Shall we ever come out of the present darkness? Impossible!&quot; We\r\nshall, therefore, come out, surely.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\npossible, to our senses, is what is happening, now: the present fact is the\r\ntruth and what is in absolute agreement with the present is the possible or the\r\nprobable truth. Anything going against or not consonant with the actual is a\r\ndoubtful or even a negative quantity, but in fact at every moment everywhere\r\nthere are <span class=SpellE>upsettings</span> of the apparently sure present:\r\nunnatural things do happen more often than not. But we do not <span\r\nclass=SpellE>pay or</span> do not want to pay as much attention to these.</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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>W</span>ho believed that <st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>I</span>ndia</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\nwould be free and <st1:country-region><st1:place>Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\ngo out lock, stock and barrel? <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>W</span>ho\r\nbelieve that the <span class=SpellE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>C</span>zardom\r\nwould disappear for ever? <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>A</span>nd\r\nthe <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>H</span>ohenzollerns and the <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>H</span>apsburgs, where are they now? <span\r\nclass=GramE>And the great <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>H</span>itler?\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>E</span>ven a few years ago who would\r\nhave believed that man would walk on the moon? <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nbold\'>A</span>nd can you believe now that matter can exist and does exist as\r\nanti-matter? <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>N</span>ot in vain has the\r\nmad, bad and sad poet sung: Mais ou sont done les neiges d\' antan?¹<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nphysical mind has to be taught, it must learn its lesson, that at every step\r\nsomething new, something unforeseen un­predicted and unpredictable is waiting\r\nin front to confound it. And it must gain the perception, the discrimination to\r\n</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;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:12.45pt;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\'>¹ Villon: Where, 0 where are the snows of yesteryear?</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;tab-stops:139.9pt;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 style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 338</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;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-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>recognise</span> it, never to say, &quot;Oh, it is natural,\r\ninevitable what is happening, there is nothing to wonder and dismiss the\r\nnovelty of the thing as an illusion.&quot; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;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-bottom:0\'>The\r\nspiritual realities are at your door: they are neither non-existent nor too\r\ndistant. Freedom, Peace, Calm, Happi­ness, Delight, Joy, Health are all there\r\nas self-existent realities. You have only to turn – or tilt as the Mother says\r\n– your consciousness a little and you are in the very midst of the thing.\r\nDoubt, hesitation, merely casts a veil and blurs or blocks the view. God, Soul,\r\nImmortality, even these are equally available to the human consciousness in the\r\nsame way. These are existen­ces of daily use, so to say, of &quot;common\r\nneighbourhood,&quot; in the words of the poet – home truth.</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\'>A\r\nfaith, necessarily a blind faith in these <span class=SpellE>impossibles</span>\r\nis its own authenticity, for it brings you immediately in direct contact with\r\nthose apparently unseen intangible realities. It gives you automatically a\r\nsense of certainty, a radiant clarity in the <span class=GramE>consciousness,\r\nthat</span> no other approach to Truth or Reality can give you. You feel, you\r\nknow it is the truth, there is no shadow of any questioning anywhere, <span\r\nclass=GramE>it</span> is self-luminous. &quot;Is it not self-hypnotism?&quot; a\r\nscoffer might allege. Self-hypnot­ism is a name: it is the power of\r\nconsciousness to concentrate itself to such a degree that it can be changed\r\ninto anything even into its opposite. Self-absorbed consciousness in one form\r\nat one extreme is the inconscient, at the other extreme it is the supra <span\r\nclass=SpellE>conscient</span> Brahman. Consciousness is the power of being and\r\nit can give any form or name to the being – <span class=SpellE>yo</span> <span\r\nclass=SpellE>yatsraddha</span> <span class=GramE>sa</span> eva <span\r\nclass=SpellE>sah</span>. One becomes whatever one\'s conscious­ness wants to\r\nbecome.</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\nultimate verities are there indeed existing in themselves and the mind\'s\r\nattempt to question them, discuss them, judge them, doubt them, deny them is\r\nludicrous. Even the mind\'s attempt to affirm them, assert them or seize them is\r\nequally vain and ludicrous. The Upanishadic seer declares clearly and\r\nunequivocally: <span class=SpellE>tato</span> <span class=SpellE>vacha</span>\r\n<span class=SpellE>nivartante</span> <span class=SpellE>aprapya</span> <span\r\nclass=SpellE>manasa</span> <span class=SpellE>saha</span> – the word\r\nwith all its effort cannot seize it, the mind cannot reach there, <span\r\nclass=GramE>it</span> turns back hopelessly. Therefore the seeker of the Truth\r\nis always advised from the very beginning and through­out to keep his mind\r\nquiet, vacate it, install there the simple faith, to wait and let the thing\r\ncome of <span class=GramE>itself</span>. These realities<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;text-indent:11.0pt;\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 style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 339</span></p><hr>\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;tab-stops:.5in;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span class=GramE>are</span> not acquisitions\r\nor possessions or even achievements, they are living entities, personalities.\r\nAt the right time they come to you, they enter into you and possess you. You do\r\nnot reach out <span class=GramE>and<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;\r\n</span>possess them. Even so, it was said of <span class=SpellE>Nachiketas</span>\r\nthat faith entered into him, and therefore he could meet Death and become his\r\nfriend and confidant. The Upanishad finally says: it is when the Truth\r\ndiscloses its own body to the seeker, then only can\r\nthe seeker see the Truth in its truth.</span></p>\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;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Mind\'s conceptions of the ultimate\r\nrealities are very far from the actual truth. The mind has a conception of\r\nfreedom or delight or even of consciousness; it has a conception of God and\r\nimmortality, of infinity and eternity. But they are all <span class=GramE>its own</span>\r\ncreations more or less. The highest summits of the mind may get a glimpse or a\r\nreflection of those <span class=SpellE>supernals</span> but even as such they\r\ncome only as an echo, an image, a faint replica of the actual thing. Freedom as\r\nit is in the Divine or with the Divine, Delight or Consciousness as they are of\r\nthe Divine have an altogether different quality, a different mode of vibration\r\nfrom that which is available to mind on its lower levels. What the mind\r\nreceives is a re-formation, more often a deformation of the original as you go\r\nfarther down the scale. Only if the mind itself is changed in its substance,\r\nregains a translucent passivity then only can it see and see something of the\r\nsecret glory of the higher realities.<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></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 0in 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 340</span><i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></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\"><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-099_The Test of Truth','','publish','closed','open','','099_the-test-of-truth','','','2021-11-23 17:58:29','2021-11-23 17:58:29','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/099_the-test-of-truth/',0,'post','',0),(1871,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:29','2021-11-23 17:58:29','<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 Mind’ s Bazaar</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\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:14.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">The </font> </span></b><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Mind’ s Bazaar</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-size:\r\n14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></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\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>You can\'t imagine what a bazaar there is in\r\nthe head. It is something terrible. If you look truly objectively at what\r\npasses there you will be shocked. You have then to put it in order, see into it\r\nclearly and arrange, you have to note that two contradictory ideas do not run\r\nconcurrently on parallel lines.<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:14.0pt\'>I know a considerable number of persons who\r\nshelter in their head contrary ideas, not at all synthesized – there is no\r\nquestion of synthesis here – but dwelling together like two brothers engaged in\r\neternal quarrels and contradictions, that is to say, the two ideas cannot get\r\non together, unless you lift them up and reconcile and unify them in a higher\r\nand wider view; but that means work of a superior kind. People often do not\r\neven perceive that they are contradicting themselves with their conflicting\r\nideas, they are not disturbed in any way. If I should give you examples – they\r\nare innumerable – you would laugh at the ridiculousness of incompatible ideas\r\nassociating together.<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:14.0pt\'>I propose to give you a task. You have ideas\r\non things. You must surely have ideas on the world, life, the why of existence\r\nand the whence and the whither, wherefore we are here, our present occupation,\r\nour future realisation, etc., etc. Now try to put all these ideas in front of\r\nyou and then arrange them. Will you find it easy? Surely it will amuse you and\r\nyou will discover amazing things. First of all, the very work itself of\r\nexposition, that is to say, simply placing the ideas side by side in front\r\nof you, all the ideas that you have on a given subject, as if you were writing\r\nout a composition given in your class, will bring to you funny revelations. If\r\nyou did not already have the habit of holding to a central idea, a central\r\nimmutable truth, if that were possible, around which you arranged all the\r\ncollateral ideas, organised them in a logical order, if, I say, you did not do\r\nanything </span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:14.0pt\'>\r\n<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:14.0pt;\'>Page – 25</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</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\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>like that before, you would find\r\nyourself, if not in a sad, at least in a comic situation. You can\'t imagine how\r\nmany contradictory thoughts you are thinking in the course of an hour without\r\nthe least surprise! For example, take this subject: &quot;what is the goal\r\ntowards which life is moving?&quot; or &quot;why do men take birth only to\r\ndie?&quot; – take a subject a little general and even somewhat abstract like\r\nthis and not the problem of why football today and not basket-ball – things can\r\nbe easily explained away there-and then try to line up all your ideas on the\r\nmatter; you will see how queer the affair is.<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:14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>How to distinguish between an idea that is\r\none\'s own and an idea coming from elsewhere (a book or a person)</span></i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>?</span></p>\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\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>There is\r\nnothing like an idea belonging to oneself and an idea belonging to others. No\r\none has an idea exclusively his own. There is an immensity out of which one can\r\ndraw according to one\'s personal affinity. Ideas are a collective possession, a\r\njoint property. Only there are different stages. There is the most common or\r\ncommonplace stage where all of us have our brain sunk in a crowded mass of\r\nimpersonal notions. It is the stage of Mr. Everybody. The next stage is a\r\nlittle higher, that of thinkers, as they are called. There are other stages\r\nfurther up, many others, some beyond the domain of words, others still within\r\nthe domain of ideas. Those who can mount sufficiently high are able to catch\r\nsomething that looks like light and bring it down with its packet of ideas or\r\nits bundle of thoughts. An idea brought down from a higher region </span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>organises</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'> itself, </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>crystallises</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'> itself into a variety of thoughts that are\r\ncapable of expressing the idea in different ways. Then, if you are a writer, a\r\npoet or an artist and bring it further down into more concrete forms, then you\r\ncan have all kinds of expressions, infinite ways of presenting a single idea, a\r\nsingle small idea perhaps, but coming down from a great height. If you can do\r\nthat, you know also how to distinguish between the pure idea and the manner of\r\nexpressing it. If you are unable to do it by yourself, you can take the help of\r\nothers, you can learn from persons and books. You can, for example, note how\r\none particular idea has been given so many different forms by different poets.\r\nThere is the pure or essential idea, then there is the typal or generic idea\r\nand then the many formulations. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n26</span></p>\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\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>You can exercise your mind in this\r\nway, teach it suppleness, subtlety, strength and other virtues.<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:14.0pt\'>In fact, if you wish to be truly intelligent,\r\nyou must learn a bit of mental gymnastics, even as you have to do physical\r\ngymnastics if you wish to have a strong powerful body. People who have never\r\ndone mental gymnastics have a small elementary brain; all their life they think\r\nlike children. Mental exercise means that you must know how to do it and do it\r\nseriously. First of all, it means that you must not have fixed convictions,\r\nnamely, that this idea is right and that one is wrong, this formulation is\r\ncorrect, the other one is inexact or that this religion is true, the other is\r\nfalse and so on. If you go on in that train you become very soon stupid, a\r\nblockhead. What you have to do, say, in the matter of religion, is to take up\r\nall the religions one by one and see how all have expressed the same human\r\naspiration for the Absolute of some kind. You can compare and contrast, understand,\r\nweigh and balance, the game will be extremely interesting. Now, when you have\r\nmastered all the ideas, seized all the modes of expression, you can try to go\r\nbeyond, look at them and smile at the eternal wranglings mankind indulges in.\r\nYou are then master of your mind and no longer subject to what seems to be the\r\ncommonest habit of mankind – getting into a fury simply because someone else\r\ndoes not happen to think like you.</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;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>Page – 27<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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-008_The Mind_s Bazar','','publish','closed','open','','008_the-mind_s-bazar','','','2021-11-23 17:58:29','2021-11-23 17:58:29','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/008_the-mind_s-bazar/',0,'post','',0),(1872,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:29','2021-11-23 17:58:29','<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 Divine Grace and Love</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<h2 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The\r\nDivine Grace and Love</font><o:p></o:p></b></h2>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n17.25pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt\'><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\'>THE MOTHER says that there\r\ncan be Love without Grace as there can also be Grace without Love, although the\r\ntwo are essentially one and the same.</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\'>Grace\r\nmeans gift, it is a gesture of the giving of boon from the Divine. The Divine\r\ngives out of His Plenitude what we want, what we need, what we should have,\r\nnaturally as per His choice. The most obvious, the most external, superficial\r\nand concrete form of gift is what meets our physical material need. And\r\nprotection is the most appreciated and the most readily available treasure.\r\nProtection in its larger sense, includes all kinds and modes of welfare from\r\nthe most physical to the utmost spiritual. When the aspirant prays: \'Lead us\r\nnot to temptations, give us purity and peace and truth,\' God\'s answer is His\r\nGrace.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\ninstead of giving any boon, any treasure physical or material or even\r\nspiritual, however precious, instead of giving anything the Divine may give\r\nHimself to one who approaches Him; then it becomes something more than the\r\nGrace, it is Love, the Divine\'s Love –<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;\r\n</span>His<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>own Self. It is His own\r\nsubstance, His own delight of being that He gives, not anything external or\r\nextraneous. One remembers the story of Arjuna and Duryodhana. Duryodhana\r\napproached <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place> and thought the utmost, the best that\r\nhe could secure from <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place> was <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>\'s\r\nbattalions, for that seemed to him the most precious gift of all, for that is\r\nthe thing he would need most in the coming battle. Arjuna asked for nothing\r\nelse but Krishna Himself.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Grace\r\nis of Maheshwari, that is to say, it is the special attribute, a particular\r\nemanation of her own<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">self, it is a form of herself in an attitude that belongs\r\nparticularly to her. Love is of Mahalaxmi it is her own<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>special form and gesture. Or, </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:78.7pt 273.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace: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 style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 206</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>varying the\r\nimage we may say Grace is Shiva, the benign white radiance on the supreme\r\nheights enveloping the creation in its calm immutable compassion; while <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>\r\nis Love, the immortal delight dwelling in the heart of mortality.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 207</span></p><hr>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-068_The Divine Grace and Love','','publish','closed','open','','068_the-divine-grace-and-love','','','2021-11-23 17:58:29','2021-11-23 17:58:29','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/068_the-divine-grace-and-love/',0,'post','',0),(1873,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:29','2021-11-23 17:58:29','<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</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<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">Meditation</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><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>COLLECTIVE meditation, of which the most external form is\r\ncollective prayer, has been practised since ancient times for different\r\nreasons, in different ways, and with different purposes.</span> Groups of persons,\r\nwhether belonging to the same Church or not, come together to express a common\r\nfeeling; in certain cases, it is to sing together in praise of God, to chant a\r\nhymn of gratitude, expressing love, adoration, thankfulness. <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>In<b> </b></span>other cases, there are many\r\nhistorical examples of this – people gather together for a common invocation,\r\nto ask something from the Divine in the hope that a prayer done collectively\r\nwill have more effect than an individual prayer. Thus, in <st1:place>Europe</st1:place>\r\nprophets announced that in the year one thousand of grace there would be the\r\nend of the world; everywhere crowds assembled to implore the divine protection\r\nand to pray that the catastrophe might be averted. More recently in modern\r\ntimes, when the king of England, George <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>VI,<b>\r\n</b></span>had an attack of pneumonia and was almost on the point of death,\r\nthe British people gathered not only in churches but even in the streets in\r\nfront of the royal palace, to pray in common and to ask God to save their king.\r\nThis is of course a most external form, I could say, a most worldly meditation\r\nin community. Besides, in all groups of Initiation, in all spiritual schools of\r\nancient times and naturally in modern times also, meditation in community has\r\nalways been practised; here the purpose is evidently very different. People\r\ngather together to make a collective progress, to open themselves to a force, a\r\nlight and an influence; it is somewhat like that which we all try to do here.\r\nThere are two ways to proceed, and both are excellent. For individual\r\nmeditation, first of all, one must prepare to meditate, that is to say, after\r\nsitting down in a posture, at the same time comfortable enough not to be too<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 – 117<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\'>cramped, – and\r\nnot too comfortable either lest you should fall asleep, one establishes the\r\ncalm and the silence, not only externally but internally and then one gathers\r\nas far as possible one\'s consciousness which is generally dispersed in all\r\nkinds of thoughts and preoccupations. One brings back the consciousness as completely\r\nas one can, and concentrates it in the region of the heart, towards the solar\r\nplexus, so that all the active energies which are in the head, all which make\r\nthe brain active are turned and concentrated on this point. This may be done\r\nin a few seconds, or in a few minutes. It depends upon each one; when you have\r\nprepared yourself in this way, you have the choice between two attitudes:\r\nactive and passive.</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\'>What\r\nI call an active attitude is to concentrate on the person who guides the\r\nmeditation with the will to open yourself to receive what is being given to you\r\nor to the force with which you are put in contact. It is active, because here\r\nthere is a will which acts and an active concentration to open yourself to\r\nsomeone or something.</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\npassive attitude is simply this: after having concentrated in the way I told\r\nyou, to open yourself as one opens the door: imagine that in the centre of the\r\nheart there is a door, then you open the door and remain still and silent in\r\nexpectation, Naturally, you may use any other similar image; for example, the\r\nimage of a book that you open completely, a book with all the pages white, that\r\nis to say, very peaceful and then wait for what happens.</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\'>These\r\ntwo attitudes are equally effective; you may adopt one or the other, according\r\nto the day, according to the occasion, according to the mood you feel disposed\r\nto. Or you may adopt one and hold to it if it is easier for you and if it is\r\nmore advantageous.</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\'>Now,\r\nin our special case, I will tell you what I am trying to do.</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\'>It\r\nis now nearly one year that we had one Wednesday the Manifestation of the\r\nSupramental Force. Since that moment the Power is working very actively, even\r\nif very few people are able to perceive it; and I think that the time has come\r\nnow to help it as much as we can by making an effort towards collective\r\nreceptivity. Of course, the Force is not only acting in the Ashram, it is\r\nacting in the whole world and everywhere;\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 – 118<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>wherever</span>\r\nthere is receptivity it is working; the Ashram does not have exclusive monopoly\r\nor receptivity in the world. But as we are all here, knowing more or less what\r\nhas happened, we can collectively, – individually I hope everyone is doing his\r\nbest to profit by the circumstances – facilitate its action by trying to unify\r\nthe ground, produce a particularly fertile soil, so that the maximum of\r\ncollective receptivity may be obtained and that there be the least possible\r\nwastage of time and energy.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now\r\nthat you have been warned, it is for you to make an effort in this 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 – 119<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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-040_Meditation','','publish','closed','open','','040_meditation','','','2021-11-23 17:58:29','2021-11-23 17:58:29','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/040_meditation/',0,'post','',0),(1874,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:29','2021-11-23 17:58:29','<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>Poetry and Poetic Inspiration</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\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:14.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Poetry and Poetic Inspiration</font></span><span style=\'font-size:18.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'><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-size:\r\n14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></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\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>I HAVE said: &quot;Poetry is sensuality of\r\nthe mind&quot;. How is it so? It is because poetry is in relation with the\r\nforms and images of ideas – forms, images, sensations, impressions, emotions\r\nattached to ideas are the sensual or, if you prefer to call it, the sensuous\r\nside of things. All such relations are sensuousness. And poetry concerns itself\r\nwith this idea of mind and thought. It approaches the world of ideas through\r\ntheir appearances, through the play of sensations and emotions around them. It\r\nis not like philosophy or metaphysics which <span class=SpellE>endeavours</span>\r\nto look into the inside of ideas. Poetry, on the other hand, cannot be poetry\r\nunless it evokes, that is to say, unless it gives a form, a sensuous form to\r\nthe idea. I have used an epigrammatic phrase to express this truth and even\r\nchosen the stronger word to give an edge to it. People are called sensual when\r\nthey are occupied solely with the sensations of the physical life, with the\r\nforms and formations and movements of the material world, when they live with\r\ntheir senses and enjoy the things of the senses. The same tendency instead of going\r\nout towards the external life, the physical world, when it turns towards\r\nobjects of the mind, towards ideas gives rise to poetry. Poetry is a world\r\nunder the aspect of the beauty of form. It expresses the beauty of an idea, the\r\nharmony or rhythm of a thought, giving all that a concrete shape or image: it\r\nbecomes a play of images, a play of sounds, <span class=GramE>a</span> play of\r\nwords. Thus instead of a sensuality of matter, we have a sensuality of the\r\nmind. I have not taken the word in a pejorative sense, nor in a moral sense; <span\r\nclass=GramE>it is</span> simply descriptive.<o:p></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:14.0pt\'>I do not mean, in other words, that such a\r\nview, the poetic view, necessarily prevents you from seeing the truth of\r\nthings. It only describes the way of the poet\'s approach as poet. Indeed, if it\r\nwere a choice between reading a book of good poetry and reading\r\n</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:14.0pt;\'>Page – 40<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.05pt;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>a book of metaphysics, personally I would\r\nprefer poetry, for that is less arid! My definition of poetry, I assure you, is\r\nnot a condemnation, it is only a description, a statement of fact, namely, that poetry is the sensual or sensuous approach to\r\ntruth. It is perhaps a somewhat paradoxical way of putting the thing: it is\r\nmeant to strike the thought, to awaken it to the perception of a reality which\r\nis usually obscured by the habitual, traditional or &quot;classical&quot; way\r\nof thinking.<b><o:p></o:p></b></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\'>If you mean by inspiration that the poet does\r\nnot think when he writes a poem, that is to say, he has gone beyond all\r\nthought, has made his mind silent, silent and immobile, has opened himself to\r\ninner or higher regions and writes almost automatically, well, such a thing\r\nhappens perhaps once a thousand years. It is not a common phenomenon. A Yogi\r\nhas the power to do that. What you normally mean, however, by an inspired poet\r\nis something quite different. People who have some kind of genius, who have an\r\nopening into other and higher regions are called &quot;inspired&quot; ;\r\npersons who have made some discovery are also included in that category. Each\r\ntime you are in relation with a thing belonging to a domain superior to the\r\nnormal human consciousness, you are inspired. And when you are not totally\r\nbound to the very ordinary level you do receive &quot;inspirations&quot; from\r\nabove. It is the same in the case of a poet. The source of his creation is\r\nelsewhere up above the ordinary mind; for that he need not possess an empty\r\nvacant mind. <b>\r\n\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</b>\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:14.0pt;\'>Page – 41<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;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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</b></div><b>\r\n\r\n</b></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-014_Poetry and Poetic Inspiration','','publish','closed','open','','014_poetry-and-poetic-inspiration','','','2021-11-23 17:58:29','2021-11-23 17:58:29','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/014_poetry-and-poetic-inspiration/',0,'post','',0),(1875,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:29','2021-11-23 17:58:29','<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>Order and Discipline</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\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Order and Discipline</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 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\'>1</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\'>You\r\nmust become conscious of yourself, conscious in every detail. You must organise what you call yourself around the psychic centre, the divine centre\r\nof your being so that you can possess a single, cohesive, fully conscious\r\nbeing: as this centre is wholly consecrated to the Divine, if all the elements\r\nare organised harmoniously around it, they too get consecrated to the Divine.\r\nThus, when the Divine wills it, when the time comes, when the work of\r\nindividualisation is complete, then the Divine permits you to let your ego melt\r\nin Him, so that you may exist for the Divine alone. But it is the Divine that\r\ntakes the decision. You should have done the whole preliminary work first,\r\nbecome a conscious being, solely and exclusively <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>centred</span> around the Divine and governed\r\nby Him. When your ego has served its purpose in forming a complete individual\r\nout of you, when that work has been perfectly, fully achieved, then you can say\r\nto the Divine, &quot;Here, I am ready now; do you want me?&quot; The Divine\r\ngenerally says, &quot;Yes&quot;. Then everything is worked out, everything\r\naccomplished. You become a true instrument for the Divine\'s work. But the\r\ninstrument must be built up first.<o:p></o:p></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\'>You\r\nare sent to school, you are asked to do <span class=GramE>exercises</span>\r\n(both mental and physical); do you think it is just to put you to trouble? No,\r\nit is because a surrounding is absolutely necessary where you can learn to form\r\nyourself. If you tried by yourself this work of individualisation, integral\r\nformation, all alone in one corner, you would be asked nothing till you have\r\ndone it; but you are not likely to do it, not a single child would do it, he\r\nwould not even know how to do it or where to begin. If a child is not taught\r\nhow to live, he would not be able to live, he would not.</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:.15in;\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 style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 7<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>know</span>\r\nhow to do anything. The most elementary movements it is not able to do unless\r\nit is taught. Therefore if every one were to go through the whole experience,\r\nunaided, in the matter of forming his individuality, he would be dead long\r\nbefore he could begin to exist even. That is the utility of the experiences of\r\nothers, accumulated through centuries, of those who have had the experience\r\nand who tell you, &quot;If you want to go quick, and learn in a few years what\r\nneeded centuries to learn-well, do this, do that, this way, that way, read,\r\nstudy, attend to your lessons at school, in the playground.&quot; Once you are\r\non the way, you can find your own method if you are a genius. But in the\r\nbeginning you must know from others how to stand on your legs and walk. It is\r\nnot easy to go all by <span class=GramE>oneself</span>. That is why one needs\r\neducation.<o:p></o:p></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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'>2</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\'>There\r\nare children who are very disorderly. They do not know how to keep things tidy.\r\nThey do not know even how to keep things. They lose or spoil them. There are\r\nseveral reasons for it. First of all, very often it means that the child lacks\r\nsufficient vitality. The vital is not strong enough to take care of external\r\nobjects. Another reason may be that he does not find interest in the physical\r\nlife; his interest may lie in the direction of mental occupation, imagination\r\nor dreaming etc. Or again it may be a lack of self-control and discipline.<o:p></o:p></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\'>Anyway\r\nthe result is the same. <span class=GramE>That is to say, confusion.</span>\r\nThere are children who, when they undress, throw their clothing right and\r\nleft or, when they have done their task, do not know where they put their books\r\nand paper, pencil, or ink pot; it takes a lot of trouble to find them again or\r\nbring them together. In reality, all this shows an undisciplined nature, a\r\ncharacter that is not methodical; it shows that not only in the outside but\r\ninternally too the person is disorderly. There are people, perhaps considering\r\nthemselves big, who even have <span class=GramE>a contempt</span> for physical\r\nobjects. But Sri Aurobindo says<span class=GramE>,</span> people who cannot\r\ntake care of things do not deserve to have them, have no right to ask for them.\r\nAs I say, it shows a kind of acute egoism, much inner confusion.<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;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid 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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page - 8<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\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\'>There\r\nare people who live in rooms apparently clean and tidy. But open a cupboard,\r\npull out a drawer, you will find there a battlefield: all is mixed up. They\r\nhave a head too that is very much like that-a poor small head where ideas are\r\nin the same condition as the objects outside in the cupboard. They have not\r\norganised them, put them in order. You may take it as an absolute rule. I have\r\nnever seen a man who keeps things in a disorder and yet possesses a logical\r\nbrain. In him ideas like the objects are thrown together pell-mell, the most\r\ndissimilar and contradictory ideas form a jumble, they are not organised, harmonised\r\ninto a higher synthesis.<o:p></o:p></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\'>Hence,\r\nto know a man\'s character you need not spend your time in talking to him, you\r\njust go and open a drawer of his or open his almirah, you will know. But I may\r\nspeak of someone – I shall tell you presently who it is – who used to live in\r\nthe midst of heaps of books and papers. You enter into his <span class=GramE>room,</span>\r\nyou find piles of them everywhere. But if by chance, you were, to your\r\nmisfortune, to displace a single sheet of paper, he would know perfectly well\r\nand would ask immediately who <span class=GramE>was it that had disturbed the\r\npapers</span>. There were masses of <span class=GramE>things,</span> on your\r\nentering you would not find your way. But each thing had its place – notes,\r\nletters, <span class=GramE>books</span>, all in order and you could not\r\nmishandle them without his knowing it. Well, it was Sri Aurobindo. In other\r\nwords, you must not confuse orderliness with poverty. Naturally if you have a\r\nfew things – a dozen books and a limited number of objects – it is easier to\r\nhave them properly arranged. But what is to be aimed at is a logical order, a\r\nconscious intelligent order among a multiplicity of objects. That requires a\r\ncapacity for organisation. It is a capacity which every one must acquire and\r\npossess, unless of course you are physically disabled – when one is ill or\r\nsickly or maimed and has not the required strength: even then there is a limit.\r\nI know of sick people who could tell you: &quot;Open me that drawer, you will\r\nfind on the right or on the left or at the bottom such and such a thing.&quot;\r\nThey could not themselves move and handle the things but knew where they were.\r\nApart from such cases, the ideal must be one of order, organisation, like that\r\nof a library for example, where you have thousands and thousands of books that\r\nare yet all arranged, classified, docketed and you have only to name a title\r\nand in a few minutes the book is in your hand of<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;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid 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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 9<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>course</span>, it is not the work of a single person; even then,\r\nthe pattern is there as an example to follow.<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\'>You\r\ntoo must organise your affairs in the same way. You need not follow another\'s\r\nmethod or system. You have your own rule, that which is convenient and true for\r\nyou – but it must be well planned and properly laid out.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.0pt;\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 – 10<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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-002_Order and Discipline','','publish','closed','open','','002_order-and-discipline','','','2021-11-23 17:58:29','2021-11-23 17:58:29','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/002_order-and-discipline/',0,'post','',0),(1876,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:29','2021-11-23 17:58:29','<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>Regarding the Body</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<h1 style=\"line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\" align=\"center\"><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Regarding\r\nthe Body</font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>\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\'>T<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>HE</span> fatigue of the\r\nbody comes from an inner disharmony. There may be many other apparent reasons,\r\nbut all amount to that fundamental circumstance viz. a want of balance among\r\nthe different parts of the being. That may occur on a day when, for example,\r\nyou had a lot of energy and you spent too much. But such is usually not the\r\ncase with children. They spend and go on spending till they are not able to do\r\nany more. A child is very active till the last moment when it drops dead\r\nasleep. A minute before it was moving about, running, shouting, all on a sudden\r\nit falls down into deep sleep. And that is how they grow and gain strength. So\r\nthe trouble does not lie in spending. Spending is easily repaired by necessary\r\nrest. Fatigue and lethargy come from a different source.</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\'>People\r\nthink they have only to continue to do what they do everyday, perform the same\r\nwork, with the same state of consciousness regularly and everything will be\r\nall right. But things do not happen that way. All on a sudden in the midst of\r\nthe regular movement, you do not know why or how, a part of your being – some\r\nfeeling, or thought – makes a progress, discovers a new thing, receives a light\r\nor a higher impulsion. That part shoots ahead, as it were, and goes forward:\r\nthe other parts remain behind. That brings about a disharmony and it is quite\r\nsufficient to cause fatigue, even much fatigue. Truly, however, this is not\r\nfatigue, but a desire to keep quiet, to concentrate, to remain within oneself\r\nand build a new harmony between the disparate parts. And such a state or period\r\nis quite necessary which is a period of assimilation of what one has learnt, of harmonisation of all the limbs.</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\'>With\r\nregard to their physical being, men live in a formidable ignorance. How many of\r\nyou know the exact quantity of food \r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<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:12.0pt;\'>Page – 62</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\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\'>and the\r\nkind of food the body requires? Yes, simply this, how much to take and when to\r\ntake? You do not know. You are taught all kinds of things. You learn why and\r\nhow this earth moves or the sun does not, why or how the triangle consists of\r\ntwo right angles: your faculties of imagination and discrimination are set to\r\nthe task and get sharpened. But this little bit of exact knowledge you do not\r\nhave – the quantity of food you must take and the hour when the body needs it.\r\nIt may be you are not unaware at times of this exact need. But to know properly\r\ndemands a discipline, continuous labour for years perhaps. Years indeed you\r\nrequire when it is a matter of control over your mind, of attaining a\r\nconsciousness subtle enough to enable you to come in contact with the elements\r\nof transformation and progress, to know how to regulate for your body the exact\r\namount of physical effort, material activity, expenditure and reception of\r\nenergy, how to secure the proportion between what is received and what is given\r\nout, how to utilise energy to re-establish the equilibrium that was broken in\r\norder to push forward new cells that were lagging behind and then how to build\r\nup conditions for a further step in upward progress to be possible etc., etc.\r\nThe task is formidable. And yet that is the thing to be done if you want the\r\nbody to be transformed. First of all, you must bring the body into complete\r\nharmony with the inner consciousness. That means a work in each cell of the\r\nbody, in each small activity, in each movement of the organs. Only that and\r\nnothing more can keep you busy day and night with no other thing to look to. It\r\nis not easy to maintain the effort, the concentration, the inner vision in a\r\ncontinuous manner.</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;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You have to enter into the disposition of\r\nthe cells, your inner physical organisation, if the body is to answer to the\r\nforce that descends. First of all, you must be conscious of your physical\r\ncells, you must know their different functions, the degree of receptivity in\r\neach, which of them are in good condition and which are not. Even the simple\r\nthing you do not know whether you are tired or not, not to speak of why you are\r\ntired. You do not know if you have a pain somewhere, and why it is there. It is\r\nexactly for this reason that you run to the doctor. For you have the illusion\r\nthat the doctor would know better how to look into what is there inside your\r\nbody and what is happening there. That does not seem to be quite rational, but\r\nthere is the habit.<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;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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 63</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\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;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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who\r\ncan look into oneself so precisely, accurately, positively, as to know exactly\r\nwhat is out of order, why it is out of order, how it has come to be so? All\r\nthat is a matter of pure observation. And then only arises the problem of doing\r\nthe thing that will bring about a new order which is a much more difficult\r\naffair. And yet this is only the ABC of body-transformation.<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;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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 64</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-022_Regarding the Body','','publish','closed','open','','022_regarding-the-body','','','2021-11-23 17:58:29','2021-11-23 17:58:29','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/022_regarding-the-body/',0,'post','',0),(1877,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:29','2021-11-23 17:58:29','<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>Beyond Love and Hate</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<h2 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Beyond Love and Hate</font><o:p></o:p></b></h2>\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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt\'><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\'>THE MOTHER says Love and\r\nHate are at bottom the same thing. At the centre there is the same substance in\r\nboth, it is the obverse and reverse of the same stuff. It is a vibration, it is\r\na unique vibration, a vibration of extreme intensity, of extreme intimacy. At\r\nthe centre there is this one single movement although at the periphery it\r\nbecomes different, even contradictory. As the movement starts from the centre,\r\nand proceeds outward it differentiates itself, becomes more and more different,\r\ncontrary, even contradictory to what it was at its origin. Hatred with all its\r\nmost ugly features appears in the place of what was once a smiling beauty.\r\nIndeed, Love itself as we know it, as it is at the outside on the periphery, is\r\nequally a deformation and aberration like Hatred. Hatred kills but Love\r\ndevours, vitally in man, literally in some of the lower species of animals.\r\nHuman love and human hatred are both perversions, falsified expressions of\r\nanother truth behind. It is human ignorance and prejudice that appreciates one\r\nand deprecates the other. Yet both have the same root, the flowering of the\r\nsame seed or it is somewhat like the two opposite kinds of electricity –\r\npositive and negative. The two charges have opposite signs but they attract\r\neach other and although in the expression and action they are contradictory,\r\nthey are both charges of electrical energy and therefore substantially they are\r\none and the same.</p>\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\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We\r\nmay extend this viewpoint and find the resolution of all contrariness and\r\ncontradictoriness. Paradoxically one may say then all contradictions are an\r\napparent illusion, all contradictions naturally and inevitably mean an inmost\r\nunity and identity. Even so the Brahman and the world or the Purusha and the\r\nPrakriti are apparent negations to each other, the duality is in the ordinary\r\nignorant consciousness, but the two are one in the supreme indivisible\r\nconsciousness.<span style=\'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;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 – 205</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-067_Beyond Love and Hate','','publish','closed','open','','067_beyond-love-and-hate','','','2021-11-23 17:58:29','2021-11-23 17:58:29','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/067_beyond-love-and-hate/',0,'post','',0),(1878,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:30','2021-11-23 17:58:30','<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>India, the World and the Ashram</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\"><st1:country-region><st1:place><b\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">India</font></span></b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">, the World and the Ashram</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=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\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\'>\r\n<st1:country-region>\r\n<st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\nhas become the symbol representing all the difficulties of modern humanity.</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\'><st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\nwill become the land of the world\'s resurrection <span class=GramE>–<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>the resurrection of a higher and\r\ntruer life.</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<font size=\"2\">1.2.1968</font><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;</font>&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;&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;<font size=\"2\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></span><font size=\"2\">THE \r\n    MOTHER</font></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;\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:11.0pt;\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=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>A great revelation of a great truth\r\nthat concerns the whole world.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We know also that the\r\nearth is the symbol of the cosmic evolution. What creation means has been\r\nepitomised in earth\'s history: the earth has been chosen as the field and means\r\nof working out a cosmic plan. As the earth is the representative of the world,\r\nso <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region> is the\r\nrepresentative of the earth. For the evolution of the earth, <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\nhas been chosen as the channel and the laboratory; all problems confronting\r\nhumanity are found as if gathered here. All that is solved here will be solved\r\nalmost automatically in the world and the how of it will be shown. All\r\ndifficulties are concentrated here because here there is a living consciousness\r\nwhich alone can solve them.</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\'>In\r\nthe same way it may be said that our Ashram here is the symbol of all the\r\ndifficulties that humanity faces, difficulties psychological and material,\r\nnational and social. All varieties of contradictions and contraries, obstacles\r\nand impediments, ignorances and prejudices are here that confuse the issue and\r\nseek to delay the journey as much as possible, towards progress and new\r\ncreation. This is because it is a place where there is behind the surface\r\nmovements of negation, an aspiration and a supporting consciousness supreme in\r\npower and effectivity. The individuals here have to meet all kinds of\r\ndifficulties so\r\n<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 – 269</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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;tab-stops:210.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>that</span> a way out of them may be discovered both in the\r\nindividual nature and in collective achievement.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\nhave here in the Ashram varieties of races and religions, all social types,\r\nsamples of humanity as it were, each represent­ing a particular facet of human\r\nnature, a particular possibility and its own field of work. Not only with\r\nregard to outward work or enterprise, each one carries his own inner nature\r\ndifferent from everybody else\'s, each one has his own psycho­logical assets and\r\nliabilities. In other words, each one under­takes the yoga of, understanding\r\nand purifying himself and finding out his particular role. Apart from that,\r\nhere each one is not exclusively for <span class=GramE>himself</span>, in fact,\r\nhe is not himself only but is part and parcel of a living unity, in a larger\r\nwhole.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Man carries the burden of his own sins, in a way;\r\nbut in a truer sense he carries the burden of all. It is one single burden that\r\nlies equally upon everybody everywhere. Thus the burden of the universal\r\nmovement is shared by all collectively in equal measure.<sup>l</sup> This is true of\r\nmankind in general; but it becomes dynamically true here among us where there\r\nis a conscious effort on the part of individuals to uplift and change the human\r\nconsciousness. It is however the privilege of each individual to deal with\r\none\'s share in the whole in one\'s own way, that is to say, the individual has\r\nbeen given the freedom and the capacity to make the burden light or let it remain\r\nor grow <span class=GramE>more heavy</span>. It must be remembered that behind\r\nthe individual a greater conscious personality has emerged and taken its place\r\nto help, to guide and fulfil the individual\'s divine destiny: even so, behind\r\nthe universal effort there is a divine helping hand growing more and more\r\npowerful and effective in its manipulation of earthly forces and events. The\r\nsolution of the difficulties will come from there and that can be the only\r\nsolution.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We,\r\nwho are here, living under the very eye of the supreme transfiguring force and\r\nconsciousness that is working out inexorably the destinies of the individual\r\nbeing, the national being and the being of humanity to their divine fulfilment,\r\nwe who have the privilege of not merely witnessing but </p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;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=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:8.6pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ Sri Aurobindo says,\r\n&quot;Even if our personal deliverance is complete, still there is the\r\nsuffering of others, the world-travail, which the great of soul cannot regard\r\nwith indifference. There is unity with all beings which something within us\r\nfeels, and the deliverance of the others must be felt as intimate to its own\r\ndeliverance.&quot;</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=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:8.6pt;mso-line-height-alt:8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace: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-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 270</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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\'>colla<span class=GramE>borating</span>\r\nin the mighty labour, however little it may be in our way, we can only bow down\r\nin thankfulness and grateful­ness in the silence of our hearts.<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;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid 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 – 271</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-082_India the World and the Ashram','','publish','closed','open','','082_india-the-world-and-the-ashram','','','2021-11-23 17:58:30','2021-11-23 17:58:30','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/082_india-the-world-and-the-ashram/',0,'post','',0),(1879,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:30','2021-11-23 17:58:30','<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>PART TEN</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=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><font size=\"4\">PART TEN</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:21.35pt;\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=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right 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<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;font-style:italic\'><font size=\"4\">Cycles of Creation</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\n14.0pt\'><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\'>&nbsp;</p>\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\'>THE present cycle of creation has for its\r\ngoal the advent of the Supermind, the coming of a supramental race of beings.<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\'>The world, it seems, moves in cycles. There\r\nare periods of creation with a hiatus or a gap in between of dissolution.\r\nPresent-day science too speaks of the universe proceeding in pulsations, that\r\nis to say, alternate expansion and contraction. Indian mythology speaks of\r\nalternate \'Pralaya\' and \'Srishti\'. The Indian system speaks also of \'Mahapralaya\',\r\nutter dissolution or \'Yoganidra\' of the Supreme. In other words, there\r\nare periods when the universe retires altogether into its origin and when it\r\ncomes out it manifests itself in an entirely new way. In a given creation\r\nbetween two major dissolutions, \'Mahapralaya\', that is to say, in a major\r\ncycle, there are minor cycles (epicycles) marked by minor dissolutions, \'Khan</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>dapralaya\'.<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 present major cycle aims, as I have said,\r\nat the manifestation of the Supermind and the installation of the supramental\r\nrace. The cycle started, one does not know when, billions of years ago perhaps,\r\nbut the principle of the creation seems to be clear enough. It has matter for\r\nits base, earth as its centre and man as its dynamic agent. For all we know\r\nthere may be, there are other principles and modalities of creation. One may\r\nwell conceive of air, for example, as the basis of creation and some other\r\nheavenly body, an airy globe in a far-off galaxy, for example, being the basis\r\nof creation and an airy creature as the vehicle for the play based upon that\r\nprinciple. Even fire may be the basic principle of another creation and\r\nsalamander-like beings its natural inhabitants. There may be quite other\r\nprinciples or modes of creation conceivable or inconceivable by the human mind.\r\nHowever,<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 – 177<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><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>we</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'> speak now of the present terrestrial creation of which we human beings\r\nare representative participants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The present cycle, the great <span\r\nclass=GramE>cycle that is to say, has, as I have said, for its ultimate motive\r\nand purpose</span> the advent and reign of the Supermind. But this proceeds\r\nthrough stages, each stage forming a minor or lesser cycle. The stages of these\r\ncycles are the different degrees of what is called evolution. The evolution\r\nstarts upon the basis of an apparently simple substance and goes on unfolding\r\ngradually an inherent complexity. As we know, the different cycles of evolution\r\nin the past were at the outset a purely material universe of inorganic\r\nelements, then came the cycle of organic combinations, then the manifestation\r\nof life and next the mind and at present the mind at its peak capacity, which\r\nmeans the advent of the strange creature that has a miraculous destiny to\r\naccomplish. And that is to bring forth out of him the achievement and fulfilment of the next cycle. <span class=GramE>For the mind is there to bring\r\nforth, to usher in the Supermind and man is there as the laboratory and the\r\nvanguard as well of the Supermind.</span><o:p></o:p></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>At the present time the human consciousness\r\nin general has been so prepared and its dwelling and playfield the earth consciousness\r\nmade ready to such a degree that it has been possible for the still secreted\r\nhigher perfection to enter into the arena. The evolution, the growth has been a\r\ngradual expression and revelation of the light, the consciousness in a higher\r\nand higher degree of purity and potency through an encasement hard and\r\nresistant at first but gradually yielding to the impact of the higher status\r\nand even transforming itself so as to become its instrument and embodiment. We\r\nspeak of the present situation, we are concerned with man and what he is to\r\ngrow into or bring out of himself. Here also there seem to be stages or cycles\r\nof creation leading to the final achievement. The whole burden of the present endeavour is how to transcend, transform or modify the animalhood which is the\r\nbasis of humanity even now and in and through which man is growing and seeking\r\nto manifest and incarnate his superior potencies. Man\'s supramental destiny\r\nmeans that he totally outgrows the animal, outgrows even his manhood in so far\r\nas it is merely human; for he has to incorporate the principle of the\r\nsupramental which wholly transcends the mental.</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;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: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\'>The first step in this momentous movement has\r\nbeen taken, the first act achieved, for the supramental is now here established\r\nin the earth\'s atmosphere and is already percolating into general human\r\nconsciousness. It is no longer a far-off object residing away in its own home,\r\nits higher transcendent status, but a concrete reality as something like\r\nearth\'s own. It is at work in this material envelope, this animal encasing of\r\nhumanity and is vigorously transforming, demolishing and building, preparing\r\nthe new structure.<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\'>The embodiment of the supramental, the\r\nsupramental consciousness in its supramental body is indeed even now rather a\r\nfar-off event. But the beginning of a supramentalised humanity, a section of it\r\nas the spearhead is quite a possibility in a comparatively near future. A race\r\nof elite in whom the grosser elements of humanhood, its physical animality and\r\nmentality have been purified of their dross, refined into something of the\r\npure luminous reflection of the higher consciousness – that is the immediate\r\nend for which the new force seems to be labouring. And the consequence too of\r\nthis achievement is expected to be also very considerable. The whole human race\r\nor even a majority of it is not likely to be transfigured into the elite, the\r\nrace of the pioneers just referred to. The advent or the preparation of such a\r\nbody will in its turn naturally influence the rest of mankind and act so\r\neffectively and largely that the human race in general will put on a different\r\naspect, the aspect of <span class=GramE>a humanity</span> not of the Kaliyuga\r\nbut of the Satyayuga. That is what the general human mind has been aspiring\r\nfor and calling &quot;Ramarajya&quot;. A humanity with a radiant mind, a\r\npurified, generous, unegoistic, yet creative vital and a physical consciousness\r\nenjoying, revealing, building forms of true beauty seems to be a nearer and\r\nintermediary probability – and animal-born humanity retaining its normal\r\nanimal structure, still outgrowing its grosser movements and instincts,\r\ncontrolling and guiding, modifying and utilising them to higher purposes\r\n(Pashupati) may well be a happy stage towards the final appearance of the\r\nsupramental race wholly transcending the frame of animality, born and existing\r\nin the purely supramental way.<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\'>A supramentalised material universe or rather\r\nphysical earth may itself put on a different, a radiant appear</span><span class=GramE><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>ance</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'> </span></span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>\r\n<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 – 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;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=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'> and also the beings and creatures of the other levels of life and\r\nphysical existence may also undergo a sea change, but of that nothing need be\r\nor can be previewed at present.</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;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;line-height:12.45pt;\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>\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a>&nbsp;</o:p></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','-057_Cycles of Creation','','publish','closed','open','','057_cycles-of-creation','','','2021-11-23 17:58:30','2021-11-23 17:58:30','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/057_cycles-of-creation/',0,'post','',0),(1880,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:30','2021-11-23 17:58:30','<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>Notes on Freedom</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\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Notes on Freedom</font></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\'>\r\n<i>\r\n<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\'>MAN is born free, – in his\r\nspirit, not in his body. The body is bound and all that is there in its frame\r\nof reference – the life and even the mind with their multiple movements. The\r\nspirit alone is free with all else that is there in its frame of reference. The\r\nmind and the life bound normally, because tied to the body-scheme attain the\r\nfreedom of the spirit when linked to the spirit. The body is bound because it\r\nis bound to the ignorant material nature. The body too can attain freedom, the\r\nfreedom of the spirit, when submitted to the spirit.<o:p>&nbsp;</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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\'>Freedom\r\nis a divine quality; it belongs to the Divine Consciousness. Nothing below\r\nthat status is free or can be free – all are bound to the Cosmic Law, the\r\ninexorable law of Karma, the chain of global Causation. You are free when you\r\nare out of it and dwell with and in the Master of the causal ring.</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\'>God\r\nalone is free. You are free only when you are united with God and your will\r\nmerges in His Will and His Will manifests in yours.</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Freedom\r\ndoes not consist in doing as one likes but in doing what the Divine likes. In\r\nfollowing your will you follow nature\'s will – nature\'s determinism; being part\r\nof nature in following nature\'s will you have an illusion that you are\r\nfollowing your will and that you are freely choosing, whereas in following\r\nGod\'s Will you follow truly your own will, for in God you are one with God – His\r\nWill your will, your will His.<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 – 395<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:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Man\r\nbecomes the bodily creature when he cuts himself off from his spiritual nature\r\nwhich is his true nature. In isolating himself from the Master of nature, man\r\nbecomes a slave of nature, this ignorant external nature. To attain freedom is\r\nto rise out of this lower status into the domain of the higher status which is\r\nman\'s own true nature, the Divine nature.</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\'>The\r\nbody can be remoulded and reconstituted by the soul and self; the inferior\r\nnature can be rebuilt into the mode\' of the higher nature; when this is done\r\nthere is the reign of Supreme Liberty. The body\'s domain then in its formation\r\nbecomes a free expression of the soul, the Divine Himself.</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\'>It\r\nis the freedom of the inner being that brings about the freedom in the outer\r\nlife. The deeper the inner freedom, the truer and the more real is the outer\r\nfreedom.</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\'>The\r\nouter freedom does not mean the power to do whatever one chooses to do. True\r\nouter freedom means to be able to choose the right thing to do. It means\r\nfinding the Truth and following the rhythm of the Truth. When one is the Truth\r\nin one\'s being and infallibly expresses the Truth in becoming, when one is\r\nidentified with Satyam and Ritam, there is founded the true freedom and its\r\nsupreme status.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Freedom\r\ntherefore is utter self-discipline; for it means following the rhythm of the\r\nTruth. To follow the rhythm of the Truth is to follow the Divine. In being\r\nobedient to the Divine Will one acts absolutely freely, for obedience here\r\nmeans complete identification with the Master.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; 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:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nbeing one with the Divine Being, the consciousness one with the Divine\r\nConsciousness, the will one with the Divine Will – such is the condition and\r\nstatus of the perfect, absolute Freedom.</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 – 396<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n  <hr>\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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-112_Notes on Freedom','','publish','closed','open','','112_notes-on-freedom','','','2021-11-23 17:58:30','2021-11-23 17:58:30','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/112_notes-on-freedom/',0,'post','',0),(1881,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:30','2021-11-23 17:58:30','<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>Beyond Vedanta</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:14.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Beyond Vedanta</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\n14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></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\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>THE first step in the spiritual life is the Vedantic experience that\r\nthe world is an illusion, an absolute illusion. Rather it is the Buddhist\r\nexperience of <i>nihil, </i>nothingness, extinction that is the first step, the\r\nvery basic realisation of all spiritual life. It is not the summit – the <i>nee\r\nplus ultra</i></span><i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\r\n\"Arial Narrow\"\'>, </span></i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>beyond\r\nwhich there is nothing – but it is the very foundation, the absolute minimum </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>of spirituality – sine </span><i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>qua non,</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'> </span></i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>without which it is not. The one </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>experience with which you start your spiritual journey is the total\r\nnegation of whatever exists, reducing existence to zero: world-existence being equated\r\nwith Ignorance. Life is a <span class=GramE>false­hood,</span> one has to\r\nreject it outright. The next step in Vedanta would be, when you have eliminated\r\neverything, reduced all to zero, to contemplate, to find what remains, the\r\nirreducible reality – the unity, the One, Sat, Brahman.<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>First, then, the total and absolute\r\ndissolution of this creation of ignorance, the Creation which is ignorance, and\r\nattaining a status of nothingness, absolute annihilation, then in that blank\r\nvoid emerges the Residue, the One True Reality – a silent, infinite eternal\r\nimmobility, a pure Existence. In the beginning the Non-Existence (<span\r\nclass=GramE>Asat</span>), then there arises the Pure Existence (Sat). That pure\r\nExistence is gradually found to possess or be Delight also. As <span\r\nclass=GramE>Being</span> is not the being in creation even so the Consciousness\r\nis not the normal or mental consciousness, and Delight too is not the joy of life;\r\nthey are all of quite another quality and category.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>In other words Purusha is given the exclusive\r\nreality, while Prakriti is negated, being identified with unconsciousness and ignorance,\r\nis relegated to a status of relative reality. Prakriti is considered as <i>maya,\r\n</i>the illusory consciousness, the ignorance.</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;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 – 181<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\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>Purusha is the Brahman, the Conscious Being, <span class=GramE>the</span>\r\nOne Absolute Pure Reality.<o:p></o:p></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The Tantra comes next in the scale. Tantra\r\ndoes not consider Prakriti as absolutely separate from Purusha and opposite in\r\ncharacter. Prakriti is not unconsciousness (Achit); it is instinct with\r\nconsciousness. Indeed Prakriti as conceived by Sankhya or Mayavada is only a\r\nlower formulation, an inferior aspect of the higher Prakriti which is one with\r\nthe higher Purusha, Purushottama. Tantra worships the higher Prakriti as Para­shakti,\r\nthe Divine Mother who holds in herself the supreme Purusha. The world is\r\ncreated and exists not by the power of Maya but by the formative power of the\r\nMother, which was the original meaning of the word \'maya\', the Divine Maya. The\r\nDivine Mother creates the world and maintains the world in the Delight of her\r\nConscious Existence. She is the Supreme Consciousness (Chinmayee)<span\r\nclass=GramE>,</span> she is the Power of Delight (Hladini Shakti).<o:p></o:p></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The whole bifurcation between Tantra and\r\nVedanta hinges upon one point. The Vedanta overlooked one term of the Truth and\r\nmissed thereby a whole world of experience and reality. The central term of\r\nVedanta is taken as Consciousness, Consciousness pure and simple. It omitted\r\nthe fact that Con­sciousness is also Energy. That Chit is Tapas is the central\r\nprinciple in Tantra. The exclusive stress on Chit, Pure Consciousness, led to\r\nthe realisation of the Pure Purusha as mere Witness, Observer, <span\r\nclass=GramE>a</span> passive consciousness. Subsequently it was also added that\r\nthe Purusha is not merely a Witness, <i>(saksi), </i>but the Upholder\r\n<i>(bharta), </i>even Enjoyer <i>(bhokta) </i>of the world and\r\ncreation; finally it was added also that the Purusha may be a creator also <i>(karta),\r\n</i>but all this is somewhat outside the pale of orthodox Vedanta, Mayavada.\r\nTantra equated Consciousness with Energy; for it Conscious Energy or\r\nConsciousness-Energy is the indivisible Mother-Reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The Vedanta ends in <span class=GramE>Ananda,</span>\r\nit is a static unitary Ananda. The Tantra posits a dynamic Ananda, a <i>dual </i>Ananda\r\nbetween Ishwara and Ishwari, Shiva and Shakti. The Vaishnava takes a further\r\nstep and transmutes Ananda into Love, a terrestrial humanised love.<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>An earlier form of this humanised love was\r\ngiven in Buddha\'s Compassion. The transcendent Delight (Ananda)</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;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 – 182<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\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>was</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'> made terrestrial and human in Buddha. But Buddha\'s compassion was a\r\nuniversal feeling and had no personal frame as it were. Vaishnavism gave it a\r\npersonal frame and a human form. Radha and </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\'> are not figures of an allegory but concrete\r\nrealities. Vrindavan is not merely the land of heart\'s desire, a garden of\r\nparadise but real habitation in a real and concrete consciousness and life. The\r\nhuman frame assumed by Radha and </span><st1:place><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n 10.0pt\'>Krishna</span></st1:place><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'> is\r\nnot merely an assumption, an illusion but an eternal reality in an eternal\r\ndomain. The gradation of the spiritual domains is thus sometimes given as (1)\r\nBrahmaloka of the Vedantin, (2) Shivaloka of the Tantrik and finally (3) Goloka\r\nof the Vaishnava.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>The relation between the Supreme (over and\r\nabove the creation) and the individual in the creation representing the\r\ncreation is sometimes described in human terms to give it a concrete and\r\ngraphic form. This relationship characteristically indicates the fundamental\r\nnature of the Reality it deals with. Thus in the Vedantic tradition the Supreme\r\nis worshipped as the Father <i>(pita no <span class=GramE>asi</span>). </i>It\r\nis also a relation of Master and disciple, the leader and the led. <i>Ii </i>brings\r\nout into prominence the Purusha aspect of the Reality. In the Tantra the\r\nrelation is as between Mother and child. The supreme Reality is the Divine\r\nMother holding the universe in her arms. The indi­vidual worships and adores\r\nthe Supreme Prakriti as a human child does. The Vaishnava makes the relation as\r\nbetween the lover and the beloved, and the love depicted is intensely vital and\r\neven physical, as intense and poignant as the ordinary ignorant human passion.\r\nIt is to show that the Love Divine can beat the human love on its own ground,\r\nthat is to say, it can be or it is as passionately sweet and as intensely\r\nintimate as any human love. It is why Bhakta Prahlad said to his beloved Vishnu\r\n&quot;O Lord, what ordinary men feel and enjoy in and through their physical\r\nsenses, may I <span class=GramE>have</span> the same enjoyment in and through\r\nThee.&quot;<o:p></o:p></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Still the Vaishnava love in its concrete\r\nreality is a mani­festation in a subtle world, the world of an inner physical\r\nconsciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Therefore one more step has to be taken when\r\nthe Divine Love will incarnate in its integral and absolute reality upon this\r\nphysical earth in a concretely material frame.</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;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 – 183<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>\r\n	<a href=\"-000_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"></a>&nbsp;</o:p></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','-058_Beyond Vedanta','','publish','closed','open','','058_beyond-vedanta','','','2021-11-23 17:58:30','2021-11-23 17:58:30','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/058_beyond-vedanta/',0,'post','',0),(1882,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:30','2021-11-23 17:58:30','<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>Transfiguration</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:13.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Transfiguration</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\n13.0pt;font-family:Arial\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></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\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>THE Divine attributes – such as Peace and Joy, Consciousness and Power,\r\nFreedom, etc. – each and all of them are self-existent realities, existing by\r\nthemselves in their fullness and perfection. They are not mere qualities that\r\nare acquired by effort through gradual culture and development, they are not\r\nacquired piecemeal as other human possessions, material or mental. They are\r\nthere near us, about us in their fullness and wholeness. We do not see them or\r\nseize them as there happens to be a veil in between. We need not strain and\r\nstruggle, labour and sweat, go through all the pains of the world in order to\r\nfind them, realise them. It is, as I say, a veil interfering. Remove the veil\r\nor even shift it a little, you have a glimpse of them in their full glory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;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-size:10.0pt\'>Brahman, the supreme Reality, is said to be\r\nof the same nature and its relation to the world is also of the same kind.\r\nBrahman is not there because the world is there. Brahman is not realised\r\nthrough a long process of negating experiences; it is not the sum of all\r\nnegations, it is an immediate and absolute realisation. When the vision of the\r\nworld-maya is not there, Brahman stands self-revealed in its absoluteness, then\r\none realises that Brahman only exists, has existed and will exist; there is no\r\nmaya, it not only does not exist, it never existed. Brahman alone is there\r\nalways.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:179.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>That is what the\r\nUpanishad also says. This experience cannot be acquired by mental knowledge\r\nand argumentation or study of books. Only when it reveals its own body then one\r\n</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt\'>stands before it face to face.</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>As of the Brahman, even so of the Brahman\'s\r\nqualities. They are various aspects, living aspects or personalities of the One\r\nDivine. The Vedas therefore consider them as Gods and</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;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 – 188<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\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Goddesses and give each one a name and a\r\nform. They are adored and worshipped as such so that they may enter into the worshipper\r\nand transmute him into something of His image. The Gods bring riches to man.\r\nBut these riches are they themselves. Vasu is the richness of their substance,\r\nRatna is the wealth of their delight.<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\'>Agni is the energy of consciousness, Varuna\r\nis the vastness of consciousness, Mitra is the harmony. Ila is the revelation,\r\nSaraswati inspiration, Bharati is the Goddess of the Divine Word.<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\'>In the mental world we meet abstractions,\r\nlifeless ideas, forms without a soul. In reality, however, all movements in\r\nman, all forces in nature are more than mere movements and forces, they are personalities,\r\nembodiments of conscious beings. Indeed the Puranic tradition has elaborated\r\nthis conception almost to its extreme limit. Those people crowded the world\r\nwith an infinite number of Gods and Goddesses. They speak of 33 crores of Gods.\r\nThe earth is the playfield of all godlings.<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:13.2pt;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\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>In\r\nthis way we come very far from the Supreme Brahman, the Mayavadin\'s inane\r\nUnity. The Puranic multiplicity is perhaps a corrective of the Vedantin\'s empty\r\nAbsolute.<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\'>The Vedantin\'s negation of the world for the\r\nrealisation of the Brahman, the Supreme Consciousness, is an effective way so\r\nfar as it goes but it does not really negate the world. One only turns one\'s\r\nback to the world and says, &quot;It is not there&quot;. We face the Sun and\r\ncast our shadow behind. The real solution is not to cut away or wipe off the\r\nshadow but instead of an obscure formulation, to make of it a luminous radiant\r\nimage. The world is not abolished or eclipsed by the Sun but IS made luminous,\r\nin every particle a radiant and glorious body.<o:p></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\'>This transfiguration is possible, nay,\r\ninevitable, because the higher realities, the truth-expressions of the Supreme\r\nConsciousness are there always self-existent in their total purity and\r\npressing down upon earth and displacing the lower mayic shadow-realities. We\r\nneed not seek to pull down what is already descending of itself. One must be\r\nopen and receptive and welcoming in tranquillity the descending Godheads.<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 – 189<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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-060_Transfiguration','','publish','closed','open','','060_transfiguration','','','2021-11-23 17:58:30','2021-11-23 17:58:30','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/060_transfiguration/',0,'post','',0),(1883,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:30','2021-11-23 17:58:30','<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>Education as the Growth of Consciousness</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:14.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Education as the Growth of Consciousness</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\n14.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></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\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>ALL knowledge is within you. Information you get from outside, but the\r\nunderstanding of it? It is from within. The information from outside gives you\r\ndead matter. What puts life into it, light into it is your own inner light.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;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-size:10.0pt\'>All education, all culture means drawing this\r\ninner light to the front. Indeed the word \'education\' literally means, \'to\r\nbring out.\' Plato also pointed to the same truth when he said that education is\r\nremembrance. You remember what is imbedded or secreted with <span class=GramE>in,</span>\r\nyou bring to the light, the light of your physical mind, what you have within,\r\nwhat you already possess in your being and inner consciousness. Acquisition is\r\nnot education. Indeed a miser is not a rich man, rich is he who knows how to <span\r\nclass=SpellE>utilise</span> his wealth, even so a possessor of much information\r\nis only a carrier of loads.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>True education is growth of consciousness. It\r\nis consciousness that carries the light and the power of the light. We are born\r\nupon earth with this consciousness at the centre of our being. And a growing\r\nchild is nothing but a growing consciousness. Growth of consciousness means an\r\nincreasing intensity and an increasing amplitude or wideness of the light.\r\nUnfortunately, placed as we are under the circumstances of life as it is, this light\r\nof consciousness is not allowed to grow in its natural and normal way. The\r\nexternal demands of life and the world put a pressure upon it which turns it\r\naway from its straight path. Things are demanded of this light or <span\r\nclass=GramE>consciousness which do</span> not belong to its nature, which are\r\nnot an expression of its nature. As though it is twisted, tortured or smothered\r\nunder utilitarian necessities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:10.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The\r\nbrain should be a flowering of this consciousness, a developing vehicle for the\r\nexpression of the increasing con</span><span\r\nclass=SpellE><span class=GramE>sciousness</span>. </span>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>\r\n<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:10.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 201<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;tab-stops:10.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\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>For that guidance is\r\nneeded so that one may always turn within and look for that consciousness, feel\r\nit growing, and with one\'s will and thought and act help its growth and development.\r\nA brain is not developed by the mass of information that may be pressed into\r\nit. Informations are necessary but they should be presented in such a way that\r\nthey serve as fuel, helpful fuel to the mounting fire; they must not be merely\r\npiled up upon and around the fire or be as so many wet faggots crushing it down\r\nwith their weight. A true learner is one who seeks sincerely this inner\r\nconsciousness which is one\'s own; the true teacher is one who knows how to\r\nlead the learner towards this inner light.</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;tab-stops:264.2pt;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 style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-\r\n202<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%20Image/shome.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"26\" 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','-065_Education as the Growth of Consciousness','','publish','closed','open','','065_education-as-the-growth-of-consciousness','','','2021-11-23 17:58:30','2021-11-23 17:58:30','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/065_education-as-the-growth-of-consciousness/',0,'post','',0),(1884,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:30','2021-11-23 17:58:30','<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>NEW TRANSLATIONS WITH ORIGINAL TEXTS</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\" 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:\r\n12.0pt;\'>NEW TRANSLATIONS WITH ORIGINAL TEXTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\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\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:20.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n12.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></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\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>MA non so qual divin romor\r\nbenigno</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;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-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>vada tonando nei mortali cuori</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>come canta divinamente il\r\ncigno,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;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-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>lasciando il suo corpo nei freschi\r\nfiori.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Puri pensieri, d\'un gran\r\nimpeto il segno,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>speranze\r\nbenvenute, come cori</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>di voci amabili, fan\r\nl\'uomo degno</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'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; </span><st1:State><st1:place>del</st1:place></st1:State>\r\nciel, vincendo peccati e timori.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:left;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:5\'>&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;&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>Sri\r\nAurobindo<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;tab-stops:21.35pt;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:12.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n62<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n12.95pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;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=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n12.95pt;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 style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n12.0pt\'>AN ITALIAN STANZA</span></b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:67.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I KNOW not what godly\r\nblissful sound</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:67.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Goes thundering in mortal\r\nhearts</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:67.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Like the swan singing\r\ndivinely</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:67.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>When it leaves its body\r\namongst fresh flowers.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:67.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:67.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:67.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Pure thoughts, mark of a\r\ngreat urge, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:67.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Welcome hopes, like a\r\nchorus of kindly voices, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:67.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Make man worthy of heaven,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:67.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Conquering all sin and\r\nfear.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:67.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:247.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n4.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sri Aurobindo<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 – 63<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;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</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n		<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n		<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n12.0pt\'>FORWARD</span></b></p>\r\n		<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\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=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>FORWARD! ... March on, ever forward!</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mother\'s army we are! On to the battle for her final self-revealing!</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If ourselves we do not fall back,</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who can stop our drive?</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We are the bridge between earth and heaven, God\'s\r\nlabour fulfilled.</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Hard is the path, ever harder, but on we go with\r\nenergy undaunted:</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\'We shall seize the all-swallower and lay him low at\r\nthe feet of the All-victorious!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:103.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We shall never fail,</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We spring from the Mother\'s Force:</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>On we drive over towering boulders of danger and\r\ndifficulty!</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mother is our Home of Joy, Mother our Mantra;</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Victory is <span class=GramE>ours,</span> sleepless\r\nwe shall battle and bring to Her the Victory.</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We hurl our darts into the heart of age and death, </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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>With steps unfaltering we march onward,</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>High we hoist the Mother\'s Flag, victorious and flaming\r\nover the world!</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>Dhammapada</b></p>\r\n<div align=\"right\">\r\n    <table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\r\n        <tr>\r\n            <td width=\"23\">\r\n                <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><a href=\"#1\">1</a></p>\r\n            </td>\r\n            <td width=\"23\">\r\n                <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><a href=\"#2\">2</a></p>\r\n            </td>\r\n            <td width=\"23\">\r\n                <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><a href=\"#3\">3</a></p>\r\n            </td>\r\n            <td width=\"23\">\r\n                <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><a href=\"#4\">4</a></p>\r\n            </td>\r\n            <td width=\"23\">\r\n                <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><a href=\"#5\">5</a></p>\r\n            </td>\r\n            <td width=\"23\">\r\n                <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><a href=\"#18\">18</a></p>\r\n            </td>\r\n            <td width=\"23\">\r\n                <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><a href=\"#19\">19</a></p>\r\n            </td>\r\n            <td width=\"23\">\r\n                <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><a href=\"#20\">20</a></p>\r\n            </td>\r\n            <td width=\"23\">\r\n                <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><a href=\"#21\">21</a></p>\r\n            </td>\r\n            <td width=\"23\">\r\n                <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><a href=\"#22\">22</a></p>\r\n            </td>\r\n            <td width=\"23\">\r\n                <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><a href=\"#23\">23</a></p>\r\n            </td>\r\n            <td width=\"23\">\r\n                <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\">Page - 165</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\"><a href=\"Dhammapada.htm#Top\" title=\"Top\"><font color=\"blue\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/anired02_up.gif\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" border=\"0\" alt=\"anired02_up.gif\"></font></a> \r\n  &nbsp;<a href=\"Dhammapada.htm#5\" title=\"Down\"><font color=\"blue\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/anired02_down.gif\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" border=\"0\" alt=\"anired02_down.gif\"></font></a></span></p>\r\n<hr>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\"><a name=\"5\"></a><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/166.gif\" width=\"295\" height=\"524\" border=\"0\"></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\">Page - 166</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\"><a href=\"Dhammapada.htm#Top\" title=\"Top\"><font color=\"blue\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/anired02_up.gif\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" border=\"0\" alt=\"anired02_up.gif\"></font></a> \r\n  &nbsp;<a href=\"Dhammapada.htm#6\" title=\"Down\"><font color=\"blue\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/anired02_down.gif\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" border=\"0\" alt=\"anired02_down.gif\"></font></a></span></p>\r\n<hr>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\"><a name=\"6\"></a><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/167.gif\" width=\"350\" height=\"637\" border=\"0\"></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\">Page - 167</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\"><a href=\"Dhammapada.htm#Top\" title=\"Top\"><font color=\"blue\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/anired02_up.gif\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" border=\"0\" alt=\"anired02_up.gif\"></font></a> \r\n  &nbsp;<a href=\"Dhammapada.htm#7\" title=\"Down\"><font color=\"blue\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/anired02_down.gif\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" border=\"0\" alt=\"anired02_down.gif\"></font></a></span></p>\r\n<hr>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\">Page - 171</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\"><a href=\"Dhammapada.htm#Top\" title=\"Top\"><font color=\"blue\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/anired02_up.gif\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" border=\"0\" alt=\"anired02_up.gif\"></font></a> \r\n  &nbsp;<a href=\"Dhammapada.htm#10\" title=\"Down\"><font color=\"blue\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/anired02_down.gif\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" border=\"0\" alt=\"anired02_down.gif\"></font></a></span></p>\r\n<hr>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\"><a name=\"9\"></a><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/172.gif\" width=\"350\" height=\"490\" border=\"0\"></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\">Page - 172</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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\">\r\n<title>A Vision</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=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" 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\'>A Vision<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\'>The Mother says:</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>“Just\r\nsee. Look at me. I am here come back in my new body, – divine, transformed and\r\nglorious. And I am the same mother, still human. Do not worry. Do not be concerned\r\nabout your own self, your progress and realisation, <span class=GramE>nor</span>\r\nabout others. I am here, look at me, gaze into me, enter into me wholly, merge\r\ninto my being, <span class=GramE>lose</span> yourself into my love, with your\r\nlove. You will see all problems solved, everything done. Forget all else,\r\nforget the world. Remember me alone, be one with me, with my love…. ” <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:dotted 185.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'>¹One is reminded of Rabindranath Tagore\'s<o:p></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\'><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:9.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Lo, from\r\nwithin our heart, 0 Mother, thou hast come forth in this wonder-form of yours!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><i>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.6pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:9.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I\r\ngaze and gaze and my eyes turn not aside.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:9.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Lo! The door of\r\nthy golden temple is flung wide open, 0 Mother! What a wonder-form I behold before\r\nme!<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.6pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:9.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I\r\ngaze and gaze and my eyes turn not aside.<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\n9.6pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:9.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Page-259<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.6pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:9.35pt;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</i></div><i>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/76.gif\" width=\"314\" height=\"432\" border=\"0\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\">Page \r\n- 76</span></p>\r\n<hr class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>TEARS OF\r\nGRIEF</b></p>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>SHED not tears of grief, Creeper of the glade!</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shall Heaven\'s salver simmering with fragrance\'</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Cast the unsleeping moments of the New Revelation,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:-63.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>as the rosy tint from a brush,</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Upon the counter of the hardened miser that has</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>fallen from the Path?</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shall the branded arm of\r\nthe harlot wear bracelets</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>that\r\nenshrine the echo of the whitest snows?</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shall the march of divine\r\ndestinies, revealed</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>in the\r\nmemory of the spotless Beyond,</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Seek the gradient of a\r\nBeauty reeking with the cry of passion? </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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nbold\'>In<b> </b></span>silence the Creeper in her ascetic bareness closes her</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>eyes, vacant and tawny...</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Out of the dream of the Night the Artisan has risen\r\nin his ecstasy,</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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And with the jet-black beauty of the benign and\r\npeerless divinity </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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He sets out in lotus hue the arbour of Life </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-left:3in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That reaches out to the far heaven, touches the very\r\nfront of Dawn.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:69.1pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:69.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:\r\n.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>&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;Jyotirmala</b><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 – 77<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n13.65pt;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=\"-01-contents\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/Home.gif\" width=\"58\" height=\"36\" 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','-18_Tears of grief','','publish','closed','open','','18_tears-of-grief','','','2021-11-23 17:58:31','2021-11-23 17:58:31','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/18_tears-of-grief/',0,'post','',0),(1889,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:31','2021-11-23 17:58:31','<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 Great Holocaust – Chhinnamasta*</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=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" 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 style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>The Great Holocaust </b><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>– <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Chhinnamasta*<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:18.2pt;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</i></b><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\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\'>Throughout the ages\r\nwhenever there has been a new creation on earth, or manifestation of a new\r\nconsciousness in earthly atmosphere, it was always preceded by a stage of\r\ndestruction and dissolution of the old. The dance of Shiva has its two aspects\r\n- the bliss of creation and also the joy of destruction – \r\n</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\nlasya and\r\ntandava – both have been equally necessary up till now –\r\ncomplementary to each other.</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\'>Destruction\r\nmeans destruction of the unnecessary, unfit, all that refuses to accept the new\r\nadvent, obstructs it, tries to deny it, – all that is out of harmony with the\r\ninevitable new future. Earthly evolution is a march of progression if you fail\r\nto keep up with that speed you have to move out of the way, rather you are\r\nremoved to make room for the next coming stage.</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\'>If\r\nyou are in the older creation or at least are in love with it, attached to it,\r\nthe destruction becomes painful even fearful and repulsive to you. But if you\r\naspire for the new, are willing to participate in the dawning future, already\r\nbelong to it, you feel the necessity of this destruction and welcome it to\r\nhasten the work and even rejoice in it. You enjoy the joy of destruction – at\r\nleast Shiva does, the Divine Force does, it seems.</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\'>Something like that, in\r\nfact the same thing is happening\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal; mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><span class=GramE>now.</span>\r\n</span></p>\r\n\r\n<i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</i>\r\n</span></span><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>\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\'>* A report of a private talk.</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</span>\r\n</i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\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-256<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</span><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:11.5pt;\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></b>\r\n</i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\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\'>Mahakali has started her work of preparation, of elimination – of destruction\r\nand dissolution – to clear the path of Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati, – the\r\ninfinite, love and compassion of Maheshwari sanctions and supports it. The new\r\ncreation, the new world that Mother built and is still building with so much\r\nlove and care is ready – ready to manifest, to reveal itself in the material\r\nfield, waiting for materialising on earth, but earth is not yet ready, rather\r\nman is not yet ready, he still refuses it, clings to its old dead world – and\r\nclings fast to it – he loves this game of falsehood and croockedness. Perhaps\r\ntruth is too bright too compelling for his egoistic nature and obscure make-up –\r\nso he denies, obstructs as much as he can the new consciousness, the new\r\nreality. Mother out of her infinite love tried to take this denial on her own\r\nself, tried to convince and change as many elements as was possible – then,\r\nwhen nothing more could be done She withdrew leaving the field to her other\r\naspect to do what was unavoidable – the breaking up of the old rigid world. It\r\nis a necessity for the ultimate good of earth and even man.</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\nwork has started – call it the dance of Shiva, the tandava or the dance of Kali\r\nthe fierce Mother – it has started and is proceeding faster and faster on its\r\nway. Destruction, dissolution, decomposition – yes that is the first result\r\nand we are already witnessing and participating in it, whether we like it or\r\nnot. It is the Supreme Lord\'s decree – it is bound to happen. Those who cling\r\nto Truth survive, those who make alliance with Falsehood perish – man has no\r\nother way than to make a choice, consciously or unconsciously.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nis an inevitable stage, there is nothing to lament or grieve if you are an\r\naspirant of Truth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nnext stage naturally will be the clearance of the debris – a thorough cleaning –\r\nelimination of all that was against the truth, the ruin of the dead world, the\r\nfield will be cleared of all that is filthy and obscure. For then only the new\r\nreality \r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt;\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-257</span></span><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\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</b>\r\n</i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\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>will</span>\r\nbe able to come forward, Mother\'s mission will be fulfilled.</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\'>The\r\nnew creation is already there – forming itself – whatever is happening now in\r\nthe Ashram and outside, is happening so that it may come forward all the\r\nsooner. She is breaking the outer scaffolding within which the new reality has\r\nbeen established, or you may call it a dead shell that is being broken so that\r\nthe new Reality may come out. It is Mother\'s action with her own Self. She has\r\ntaken he<i>r </i><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\nChhinnamasta form. All things <span class=GramE>She</span> is\r\ndestroying are her own selves – she is getting rid, as it were, of the old\r\nunutilisable limbs of her own body. We may remember Sri Aurobindo\'s lines:</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</i>\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\'>&quot;...the hour is often\r\nterrible, a fire and a whirlwind and a tempest, a treading of the winepress of\r\nthe wrath of God; but he who can stand up in it on the truth of his purpose is\r\nhe who shall stand; even though he fall, he shall rise again; even though he\r\nseem to pass on the wings of the wind, he shall return. Nor let worldly\r\nprudence whisper too closely in thy ear; for it is the hour of the\r\nunexpected.&quot;</p>\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\'>The Hour\r\nof God<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>\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-style:italic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Page-258<i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>\r\n</span>\r\n</span><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:17.75pt;\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</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;color:blue\'><a href=\"-01-contents\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/Home.gif\" width=\"53\" height=\"33\" border=\"0\"></a></span></p>\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','-35_The Great Holocaust','','publish','closed','open','','35_the-great-holocaust','','','2021-11-23 17:58:31','2021-11-23 17:58:31','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/35_the-great-holocaust/',0,'post','',0),(1890,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:31','2021-11-23 17:58:31','<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 Golden Chain</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=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" 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\"><a name=ok><b>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>The Golden Chain</span></b></a><b><i\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><span style=\'font-size:18.0pt;color:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You have been here for many many years, isn\'t it? – <span class=GramE>many</span>\r\nmany years. From your childhood you are here, isn\'t it?&nbsp; <span class=GramE>perhaps</span>\r\nall of you. Some of you are going out, <span class=GramE>Some</span> are likely\r\nto stay, some still undecided. If you are asked: \'What have you gained here by\r\nyour long stay, for some, a very long stay?\'... I can tell you what you have\r\ngained. It is not any outward thing, nor any of the things that you have learnt\r\nat school, the knowledge that you have gained here, it is not that, but\r\nsomething else. Be sure of that. You don\'t know perhaps yourselves, but that\r\nthing is there, within you. You have not passed your time in vain here: you\r\nhave the Mother\'s touch.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mother said many many times: &quot;Whoever gets my\r\ntouch, whoever has a second of true aspiration, true love for me, he is\r\nfinished for this life, for all lives – he is bound to me. I have put a golden\r\nchain round his <span class=GramE>neck,</span> his heart is bound eternally to\r\nme.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It is a thing nobody can see, you yourselves don\'t\r\nsee; but it is a fact, it is there. The golden chain is there within your\r\nheart. Wherever you go, you drag that chain, it is a lengthening chain. How far\r\nyou may go, it is an elastic chain, it goes on lengthening, but never snaps. In\r\nhours of difficulty, in hours of doubt and confusion in your life, you have\r\nthat within you to support you. If you are conscious</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; 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:8.6pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n12.0pt\'>* Addressed to the Final Year students of the Higher Course of Sri\r\nAurobindo International Centre of Education, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, on<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><st1:date Year=\"1976\" Day=\"26\" Month=\"10\"><span\r\n style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>October 26, 1976</span></st1:date><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-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-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n12.0pt;\'>Page – 28<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\'>\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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>of</span> it, so much the better; if you are not\r\nconscious, believe that it is there. The Mother\'s love, Her Presence is there <i>always.<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:11.0pt dotted 211.65pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>That\r\nis the thing I wanted to tell you… In the Upanishads there is a story. Once Narada - I suppose it is Narada - went to a Rishi to get initiation. The Rishi\r\nasked him: \'What have you learnt? What have you learnt in your life of a\r\nstudent now that you come to me?\' Narada began to narrate all the <i>vidyas </i>that\r\nhe had learnt during his education as a <i>brahmachari<span class=GramE>,<span\r\nstyle=\'font-style:normal\'>–</span> all the shastras, even\r\nDhanurvidya, all kinds of learnings. Then the Rishi said: \'All that is apara\r\nvidya, the inferior knowledge. Do you know Brahman?\' \'No, sir, I do\r\nnot know.\' \'That is the thing to be known. Once that one thing is known,\r\neverything else is known.\'</span></i></p><i>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>So I tell you, that one thing needful you have\r\nacquired, you have not to attempt to get it. You are fortunate, you are lucky,\r\nwe are all very lucky; Mother called us here and <span class=GramE>She</span>\r\nhas given it of Her own Love, infinite Love, unasked, unconditionally. Whatever\r\nyou are in your outward character and activities, that is not affected\r\nat all by the outer nature; it remains as it is, pure, unsullied.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; 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:9.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:-13.5pt dotted 244.3pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Some of you were\r\npresent at my talk on Dante<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1 dotted\'>....... </span>I\r\nspoke of Dante\'s vision, it is a wonderful vision, – the vision of the mission\r\nof the Divine Mother.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Dante saw a globe of light in front of him. As he\r\nwas standing before the Divine Trinity in the Empyrean, suddenly he saw\r\nrevealed to him a luminous globe and, within that luminous globe, as if its\r\nreflection, its reflected image, circling, moving. And as he gazed into that\r\ncircling light, he saw himself. He saw himself in that circling light: himself\r\nnot as he saw himself, but as that circling divine Light saw him – its own\r\nimage. \'I was there in the image as conceived by Him, not as conceived by me.\'</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In our language we can say that the luminous globe\r\nwas the supreme Divine and, then, within it, the whirling circling<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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 29<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</i></div><i>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section2>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>light</span> – that was the Creative Power, the Divine\r\nMother in Her creative mood. And, within that, I was there as <span\r\nclass=GramE>Her</span> child, in my true reality, not as I see myself but as\r\nShe sees me; in that image I saw myself.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:dotted 99.8pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Dante says that it was an\r\nexperience as if he was looking into an Eye, a big ball of Eye; and in that\r\nEye he saw reflected his image as the Divine sees him, not \'as I see myself,\' –\r\nbut \'my true self\'… I say, that is the Image the Mother has left to you, within\r\nyou. However much you may try, you cannot lose it; it will be there – till its\r\nfruition. Whenever, as I said, you feel discouraged, – naturally when you look\r\nat the world and its happenings, you feel very much distressed, disgusted, z –but\r\nthere is another reality behind, it is the Mother\'s Presence that redeems all\r\nthat. In any mood of depression, dejection, difficulty, always know that it is\r\nthere in you to support you, to bring you peace and strength, and it is never\r\nfailing. So many times <span class=GramE>She</span> has said:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&quot;Everything else fails in this world, I will\r\nnever fail <span style=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>you.&quot;<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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 30<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:15.6pt;\r\nmso-pagination: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=\"-01-contents\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/Home.gif\" width=\"57\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</i></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-07_The Golden Chain','','publish','closed','open','','07_the-golden-chain','','','2021-11-23 17:58:31','2021-11-23 17:58:31','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/07_the-golden-chain/',0,'post','',0),(1891,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:31','2021-11-23 17:58:31','<html>\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<title>TEXTS OF TRANSLATIONS IN VALUME FIVE</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\">\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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