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normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font size="4">Our Finest Hour</font></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
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and devastation and decomposition. Is this also the Doomsday?</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Nature
herself has started the process and man has lent his hand to hasten it. Or did
man start it and Nature is hastening the work? Perhaps it is a vicious circle,
but the outcome is the same.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Anyhow
the question now is whether there is a remedy. How can Nature be made steady
and how can man come out of the muddle?</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>For
man the root-cause is that he is being imprisoned more and more, and
circumstances of his life are such that he is losing all free movements and is
being hemmed in on all sides. The walls are, as it were, pressing upon him,
even to the point of suffocation. In all fields of life rules and regulations,
restrictions and impediments are mounting high and are, becoming an unbearable
burden more and more. Whichever way he turns a few steps lead to a dead wall,
and he knocks his head against something hard and hostile and irremovable.
Hence his natural urge is to knock more and more, to break and destroy and come
out – that seems to be the only issue. Destroy and live dangerously – that is
the one way left. In destroying what stands against you if you happen to
destroy yourself it matters very little, you will be destroyed willy-nilly
either way.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Indeed
an urge to destroy pure and simple leads to self-destruction. Violence is a
boomerang which turns back upon its own source. There is a joy in violence,
perverse though it be, even when directed against oneself. Perhaps in the
occult view it is the movement against oneself that is the secret source of the
movement against others. The enormous increase in the incidence of suicides is
a characteristic phenomenon of <span style='font-family:Arial'>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>our age. It is not
explained merely by the <i>force majeure </i>of actual circumstances. A dark
spirit broods over the waters of existence today which aims at the annihilation
of consciousness itself, the one source of life and creation.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But
may we not pause a little and consider whether that is the only choice, or the
best choice – the rush for destruction? The whole past construction that now
stands against man, against his farther progress, it is agreed, has to be
broken down, thrown aside, but in what way? By mere physical force, brute
force, by pushing and dashing and ramming from outside – well, perhaps the
thing can be done, but destruction of form is not elimination of the life or
spirit behind it. The past still in its present form continues because it
maintains its own inner life and spirit. So long as that inner spirit is there
you may break one form but another or many others will appear inspired by the
same spirit. That is why the French proverb says: &quot;The more it changes,
the more it remains the same;&quot;¹ For the truth is that destruction is not
the aim, not even the destruction of what should be destroyed, the aim is the
creation of a new spirit, change of the inner nature. Our attention should be
focussed not on the outward form but on the inner norm. If there is a new norm
within and a change of nature, the outer change of form will follow
automatically. The old leaves will fall off, the dead branches break away and
new leaves and flowers appear with a new sap flowing in. The shell breaks off
automatically when the living creature within grows and is mature enough to
come out.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>On
the contrary, the prison need not be altogether a prison, it may be an
occasion, an opportunity for the human consciousness to make a break-through
to create a new dimension. Here is then our immediate work – to conquer inner
domains, the inner truths: for all truths are found first within the consciousness,
established there before they become facts. So then let us harness our power
and prowess, our aspiration and sincerity, all our life energy to the labour of
the inner conquest. Let us stop awhile from the temptation and the urge for
destruction and turn it round towards a higher inner adventure – that of
construction. Yes, the truth that we want to see established in the outer
world, let us establish it in ourselves, </p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ <i>Plus ça change, </i></span><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Plus
ç</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>a Teste Ie même.</span></i></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 348</span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>in each one
of us, in our consciousness, in our impulses and activities. We always wanted
liberty and equality and fraternity in the world at large, the ideal has not
been realised because we did not care to realise it in the consciousness and
life of each one of us. In the collective life of mankind that truth will alone
become a fact which is a fact in the inner existence and consciousness of every
human being.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
inner discovery is indeed a battle and here too a victory has to be won. It
needs more than in any physical battle a complete contingent of courage and
bravery, calm strength and persevering endurance, skill and energy to gain an
absolute success. And there the field is free and vast, one can deploy oneself
as largely as possible, move in any direction to any distance as one likes. It
is no longer a prison, – it is a region where one meets one's soul.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
individual seems always to precede the society. What begins in and with the
individual is spread abroad and established in wide commonalty. But this
individual self-concentration does not mean that one should withdraw from the
world and its activities and sit and settle within oneself, apart and aloof. It
does not mean while you are in prison, to accept imprisonment, dig a cave there
and go into mere meditation. In other words, to find the inner solution it is
not necessary to escape from the world, go into the solitude of mountain-tops
or into the depths of the forests, take to the path of total renunciation till
you attain perfect <i>siddhi </i>and then turn back and share your light and
leading with humanity. Some great souls have done this-Buddha and Christ and
Vivekananda. And it is not for every man to try that path in the way they did.
But even if the path is not easy, to some extent at least every one of us has
to follow it; for we must remember our aim is not easy either. The pioneers
have to accept the difficulty of the path. Pursuing the figure of the prison,
of the dungeon, we may say, instead of trying to break it down because of the
hopelessness of the attempt, or as the alternative: sit down quiet for the
inner illumination to come; instead of that one may cut a tunnel under the
wall. That should be the nature of our activity in our present situation.</p>

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new truth, the new capacity you have to acquire in and through the activities
of the normal life. It was what<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 349<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Arjuna was a representative of the common man, Arjuna was thought to be always
in the yogic consciousness even while he was engaged in battle.</p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thus we are
at the world's finest hour, for it shall find its soul.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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