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thing: they are rather two aspects of the same thing. They do not belong
altogether to the same level of consciousness. For example, you have resolved
to make an offering of your life to the Divine. All on a sudden there happens a
very unpleasant thing: you did not expect it. Your first movement is to react
and protest. And yet you have made the offering; but something in you turns. If
you are, however, consistent in your offering, you will hold the protesting
part in your hands and place it before the Divine and say, &quot;let thy will
be done&quot;. In surrender, on the other hand, there is a natural,
spontaneous, <span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>unprotesting</span>
adhesion. Even if there happens something unpleasant or contrary to your
expectations, you are equally unperturbed and tranquil.</p>

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the beginning you make a general surrender or submission, in principle, as it
were: it is in your inner being. It must be brought forth gradually in the
outer being, carried out in all the details of life. That is how difficulties
arise. You have made your offering, you say, even you have worked at it for a
long time, worked hard, given much time and much will; suddenly you find,
upsetting your calculations, something different happening, you have not
succeeded in something. So there is a revolt, a turning back and so on. But
what you have to do is to renew your offering, reaffirm your adhesion. When the
adhesion is complete, when there is the spontaneous acceptance of the Divine
Will in everything, in every manner of happening, then comes the surrender, the
perfect obedience which is calm, tranquil, at peace in either case, whether
things happen in this way or that.</p>

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ask if you cannot make a mistake unwittingly, do a wrong even if you do not
want to. It is not likely. If you are 
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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>sincere to
the core, you are always conscious and you cannot be taken unawares. It is some
form or degree of insincerity that veils your sense of right and wrong, makes
you unconscious, as it were. Your discrimination is clouded, because you wish
things to happen in a way, or do not wish them to happen in another way. On the
other hand, if you are straight, if you are indifferent to either way and await
only the Divine's will, you will always immediately perceive if there is or
likely to be a wrong movement in you; you know it intimately in a very precise
manner, for you are ready to rectify it.</p>

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sincerity does not want to err: it will give up every­thing rather than live in
an illusion. It is a very precise move­ment, but it is also a very delicate
movement. For when you do a thing, even the right thing, the mental and the
vital are there that seek to profit by it, a profit, at least of personal
satisfaction, to have a good opinion of oneself. It is difficult not to
hoodwink oneself.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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