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<p class="paracenter">DIRECTED CHANGE
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<p class="para"> Never<b> </b>to be bound by the 
experiences of the past, never to try to recover and stick to the knowledge or 
realisation gained, even though it may appear particularly precious or unique. 
This is a motto you should always keep before your mind. When you try to repeat 
what you have once said, done or experienced, you arc sure to find very soon 
that the thing is becoming more and more lifeless, mechanical, a matter of 
routine and therefore perfectly useless. The soul has disappeared, the skeleton 
remains. You must live the word you utter at the time of uttering it, you must 
live the experience that you wish to recall or express. It is only thus that 
truth becomes living, possesses its force and light and gains its full value.
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<p class="para"> In point of fact, however, no two 
succeeding moments, whether in your consciousness or in the world movement, are 
exactly the same. Even if you try seriously and sincerely, you can never 
recapture a thing of the past as it was or as it came to you, not, that is to 
say, in the same exact manner. For you are no longer the same nor is the world. 
The world is is a<i> </i>continuous flow, 
it has been very often declared:</p>
<br><p class="pageno">Page-60</p>
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<p class="para">but it is not a continual repetition or recurrence, a mere 
cyclic order. On the other hand, constant renewal is the very character of the 
change. At every moment something new is coming down on the scene, something 
that was not surges out: Nature is bringing out at every step something that was 
hidden or latent in her secret depth, something is thrown down from above into 
her normal movement, something unforeseen and unexpected. The march of time 
means evolution, that is to say, the addition of a new factor to the existing 
factors, making manifest something that was unmanifest—<i>m</i>&#7771;<i>tam kancana 
bodhayanti, </i>as the Vedic Rishi says. Even if to an apparent sight everything 
seems to remain the same, yet it is not so in reality; always a new element is 
being poured into the existing circumstances, always an additional spark or 
influence enters into actual play of forces. It is the accumulated presure of 
all the variables that brings about the great changes upon earth and in humanity 
which are summed up in the word evolution—changes cosmological and 
psychological.
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<p class="para"> You have to accept this principle 
of change and move on—to be one with the cosmic spirit,—never to stand still or 
turn back, but look forward and forge ahead. To be stagnant means to die and be 
fossilised. Now, if things change continually, it means things can change and 
must be changed. Only, one must
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<p class="para">see to the direction in which the change occurs. A change can 
be, after all, for better or for worse. And you have the power, if you are 
conscious with the right consciousness, to direct the change and even to 
initiate one of the right order. Have you ever climbed a hill? There are many 
ways, paths, issues leading towards the top, some more or less direct, some 
zig-zag, others winding or taking a long round. This does not matter, provided 
you look upward, have the sense of direction to the summit, then you mount up. 
Otherwise if you have your face downward or look below, you move downward away 
from the top. In the same way changes that happen will be directed according to 
the direction of your look. And there is only one direction towards which you 
must turn your look: towards the summit, towards the highest goal. It is to grow 
conscious, to grow more and more conscious—to be conscious of yourself, to be 
conscious of the universe and to be conscious of the Divine who dwells in you 
and permeates the world and then to manifest the Divine, in your physical life 
and in the physical life of the world.
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