INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1831,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:23','2021-11-23 17:58:23','<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 Psychic Being</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 style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">The Psychic Being</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;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\'>THE psychic\r\nis like an electric wire that connects the generator with the lamp; the lamp\r\nbeing the body, the visible form. Its function is likewise, that is to say, if\r\nthe psychic were not there in Matter, it could have no direct contact with the\r\nDivine. It is because of the psychic presence that there can be a direct contact\r\nbetween Matter and the Divine. And every human being can be told: &quot;You carry\r\nthe Divine within you, you have only to enter within yourself and you will find\r\nHim.&quot; It is a direct, special transmuting infusion into the most inconscient and obscure Matter to awaken it once more step by step to the\r\nDivine Consciousness, the Divine Presence and finally the Divine Himself.</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 a thing characteristic of earthly creatures. It is a speciality of the\r\nearth. But only in the human being does the psychic become more conscious, more\r\nformed and also more independent; it is there individualised. It is the\r\npresence of the psychic that makes of man an exceptional being, so much so that\r\nbeings of other domains in the universe, those, for example, belonging to what\r\nSri Aurobindo calls the Overmind, the demi-gods and even the gods are very eager\r\nto take a physical body upon earth so that they can have the experience of the\r\npsychic. These beings possess certainly many qualities which men have not, but\r\nthey lack this direct Divine Presence which is quite exceptional, which is a\r\nfact of the earth and is found nowhere else. All these inhabitants of the\r\nhigher worlds, of Higher Mind and Overmind and other regions do not possess a\r\npsychic being.</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\'>Naturally,\r\nthe beings of the vital world do not have it either. They do not regret it,\r\nthey do not want it. In their origin, of course, they descended directly from\r\nthe Divine, but that was only in their origin and it is so long ago. Now they\r\nhave no direct contact with the Divine within them, they do not have \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 – 120<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\'>the psychic being. If they\r\nhad converted themselves under these conditions nothing would have remained of\r\nthem, because they are made wholly of the opposite movement. They are entirely\r\nmade of self-assertion, despotic power, alienation from the origin and the\r\nutmost disdain for all that is pure and beautiful and noble. Those only, very\r\nrare, among them who wish to be converted do one thing immediately: take a\r\nphysical body. But others do not want it; that ties them, restricts them to a\r\nrule which they defy.</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;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\'>&nbsp;</p>\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\'>It\r\nis a fact – I do not like to say it often to him, for he has such a high\r\nopinion of himself that he needs no encouragement, but it is a fact and hence I\r\nam obliged to state – that man has this exceptional virtue of having in him the\r\npsychic being. But to tell you the truth he does not seem to turn it to good\r\naccount, he does not appear to consider it at all as a desirable thing, so far\r\nas one can judge from the manner in which he treats this Presence. He prefers\r\nto it his mental ideas, he prefers to it his vital desires, he prefers to it\r\nhis bodily habits.</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\'>There is a\r\nstory in the Bible which I always liked. Two brothers were there, Esau and\r\nJacob. Esau returns home hungry and tells his brother Jacob that he is very\r\nhungry. He was so hungry that he proposed to his brother, &quot;Listen, if you give\r\nme your dish of pottage (Jacob had prepared a dish of pottage) I will give over\r\nto you my birthright.&quot; One can understand the story in quite a superficial\r\nway. But it has a deeper meaning. The birthright is the right of being the son\r\nof God. And the man was ready to give up his divine right in order to eat\r\nbecause he was hungry. It is a very old story, but it is eternally true.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.2pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-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: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\'>&nbsp;</p>\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\'>At\r\nits origin, the psychic begins by a kind of a divine spark within oneself, a spark\r\nof the divine consciousness. Out of this spark will slowly emerge an\r\nindependent conscious being which will have its own action and its own will</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\'>The\r\nprogress of the psychic consists in its formation, building and organisation.\r\nIt grows into a conscious individuality through successive lives; for there can\r\nbe progress only upon earth, in the physical world; it is not possible\r\neverywhere. In the psychic\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 – 121<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\'>world there\r\nis a kind of rest, full of beatitude. One remains there as one is, still,\r\nwithout moving.</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\'>The\r\nprogress is like the progress of a child that grows. It is a continuous growth.\r\nFor a long time, in most human beings the psychic is a continuously growing\r\nentity. It is not a fully individualised, fully conscious being and master of\r\nitself. It needs to be born in many lives one after another so that it may\r\nbuild itself and become fully conscious.</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\nthat has an end. There comes a moment when the being is fully built up fully\r\nindividualised, fully master of itself and its destiny. When one such psychic\r\nbeing incarnates in a human body, it makes a great difference. This human being\r\nis, so to say, born free; he is not bound to circumstances or surroundings or\r\nheredity like ordinary human beings. He comes into the world and he has the\r\nimpression that he has come purposely to accomplish something, he has a work to\r\ndo, a mission to fulfil.</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\'><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\'>&nbsp;</p>\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\'>From\r\nthat point of view the progress of his growth has ended. That is to say, it is\r\nno longer necessary for him to be reborn in a body. Till then reincarnation was\r\nobligatory. For it is in the physical life and in the physical body that he\r\ngrows little by little until he becomes a wholly conscious being. But once he is\r\ncompletely formed, he is free, in the sense that he can, at will, take a body\r\nor not take it.</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\'>When\r\na psychic being incarnates, it precipitates itself down into the inconscience,\r\nbecause the physical world and even a human consciousness, whatever it may be,\r\nare very unconscious in comparison with the psychic consciousness. It is as if\r\nit fell on its head and it is stunned. Generally, but for some rare exceptions,\r\nfor a long time it knows nothing; it does not know where it is, what it does,\r\nnor why it is there, nothing. It is in a great difficulty to express itself,\r\nespecially in a baby who has not a brain but only the embryo of a brain. So it\r\nis very rare for a child to show that it contains within itself an exceptional\r\nbeing. That happens, but generally it takes time.</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\'>The\r\npsychic awakes slowly from its dazed condition and slowly it becomes aware that\r\nit is there for some reason and by choice. But the intensive mental education\r\nthat one usually receives shuts out completely the psychic consciousness. Then\r\na<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 – 122<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\'>mass of\r\ncircumstances, happenings of all kinds, emotions and sensations and various\r\nother things are needed to open the inner doors and to enable one to begin to\r\nremember – remember that one has come from another world, one has come for a\r\nvery definite reason. If the psychic however had chanced to fall upon a little\r\nknowledge instead of falling into a world of ignorance, there could have been\r\na quicker contact.</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\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\'>&nbsp;</p>\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 not very many fully developed souls upon earth. Evidently those who have\r\nreached a certain culture, a certain growth, a certain individualisation have\r\ninstinctively the tendency to come together and form groups. It is then that\r\nwe come across in particular epochs and climes fully formed beings gathering\r\ntogether. But you must not believe that that gives in any way the exact measure\r\nof human culture and growth. That is only a spray of foam on the surface. Even\r\namong those who already form a selection, there is not perhaps one in a\r\nthousand who can be called truly an individual being, conscious of himself,\r\nunited with his psychic being, governed by his inner law and therefore\r\npartially at least if not wholly free from external influences; because being a\r\nconscious entity when these influences come he sees them, those that seem to\r\nagree with his inner growth and normal development he accepts and those that\r\ncontradict he rejects. And instead of being a chaos, or in any case a frightful\r\nmixture, he is an organised individual being, conscious of himself, moving in\r\nlife, knowing where he wants to go and how to go.</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\'>That\r\nis the best of mankind that Nature is capable of producing. They are men\r\nstill, but the top of mankind. They are ready to become something else. But\r\nunless and until one becomes that, one remains in greater part an animal with\r\nonly just a little beginning of manhood. It is only that that one can call <st1:State><st1:place>Man.</st1:place></st1:State>\r\nAnd I am saying this in the hope that you will become such a one.<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 – 123<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<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','-041_The Psychic Being','','publish','closed','open','','041_the-psychic-being','','','2021-11-23 17:58:23','2021-11-23 17:58:23','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/041_the-psychic-being/',0,'post','',0),(1832,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:23','2021-11-23 17:58:23','<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>Miracles: Their True Significance</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		<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 style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Miracles: Their True Significance</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\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\'><b><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">MIRACLES are happenings where we see the result only\r\nwithout the process that leads to the result. It is like a mathematical problem\r\nwhere the solution only is given and not the gradual steps leading to the\r\nsolution. The steps may be shortened or altogether suppressed, in the latter\r\ncase it looks like a puzzle or a riddle or a paradox. We know of mathematical\r\nprodigies, we marvel at the capacity they show in performing formidable\r\ncalculations for which an ordinary mind would need sheets of paper and\r\nconsiderable amount of time. But the prodigy can do it in the twinkling of an\r\neye. He has a consciousness that can contain the whole process in a\r\nsimultaneous grasp or speed through it like a lightning flash. Therefore the\r\nwhole thing has the look of a miracle.</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\'>Usually,\r\nthe name \'miracle\' is given to something that seems to us\r\n&quot;unnatural&quot;, that is to say, something that does not, conform to the\r\nlaws of nature or what we think to be the laws of nature. A man standing in the\r\nair without any support or squatting on the water – feats familiar to the yogis\r\n– are termed veritable miracles. The famous rope trick is a legendary miracle.\r\nSome of these miracles done by yogis are authentic facts. They apparently seem\r\nto violate the prevailing so-called laws of nature, but if we knew the process,\r\nthe mechanism behind the event because it is not apparent to the external\r\nlogical mind, if we had a slightly different perception, the whole glamour of a\r\nmiracle would fall to the ground.</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\'>A\r\nmiracle is nothing but the intervention of a force from another plane of\r\nconsciousness. It must be recognised at the very outset that the physical plane\r\nof existence is not the only reality, there are many other planes superimposed\'\r\none upon another, each having its own special consciousness and power, its own\r\nlaws of being and action. Obviously we all know apart from the material or\r\nphysical being there is the vital being, the\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 – 218</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\'>\r\nlife-force and there is the mental being, the mind-force. And there are many \r\nother levels like these. A miracle happens, that is to say, a material formation \r\nbehaves in an abnormal way because a force has come down from the vital region and has influenced or\r\ntaken control of the material object. So the material object instead of obeying\r\nthe material law is obliged to obey a vital law which is of a much greater\r\npotency. Yogis who do miracles possess this vital power, they have acquired it\r\nthrough a regular discipline and training. Spirit-calling, table-turning, even\r\ncuring diseases and ailments in a moment and many other activities of the kind\r\nare manifestations of very elementary energies of life. From the occult point\r\nof view these are very crude and rudimentary examples of what a different kind\r\nof force can achieve on a different plane. Even the vital plane possesses\r\ndeeper and higher energies whose action on the material plane is of deeper and\r\nhigher category. A deeper or higher vital power can change radically your\r\ncharacter and long-standing habits, help to mould them into a different, nobler\r\nand more beautiful pattern. The mind too is capable of performing miracles, a\r\nstrong mental energy can dictate its terms to life and even to the body. Only\r\nthe miracles here are not of a dazzling kind that astound or confound you. They\r\nhave a subtler composition, yet they belong to the same category. In the mind\r\nitself miracles happen also when a higher light, a superior consciousness –\r\nintuition, inspiration, revelation – descends into the normal mental working\r\nand creates there a thing that is abnormal in beauty and truth and reality.\r\nThus for example, a matter of fact mind is seen turned into a fine poet or a\r\nworkaday hand is transmuted into a consummate artist.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:256.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>A miracle can be said to be doubly a\r\nmiracle; first of all, because it means an intervention from another plane, a\r\nsuperior level of being, and secondly because the process or the action of the\r\nintervention is not deployed or staged out but is occult and telescoped, the\r\nresult being almost simultaneous with the pressure of the moving force.<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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\'>The\r\nsupreme miracle, the miracle of miracles happens when the Supreme, the Divine\r\nHimself descends and enters into this lower formation and gradually lifts it up\r\nin an incredibly unforeseen way to its divine image.</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; text-indent:10.3pt; line-height:150%; padding:0in; border-style:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 219</span></p><hr>\r\n				<div class=Section1>\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		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-073_Miracles_  Their True Significance','','publish','closed','open','','073_miracles_-their-true-significance','','','2021-11-23 17:58:23','2021-11-23 17:58:23','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/073_miracles_-their-true-significance/',0,'post','',0),(1833,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:23','2021-11-23 17:58:23','<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 Mystery of the Five Elements</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-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">The Mystery of<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>the<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>Five<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;\r\n</span>Elements</font></span><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></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\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n</i></b><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\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\'>THE<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>material world, as the ancient sages viewed\r\nit, is composed of five elements. They are, as we know, (I) earth (ksiti), (2)\r\nwater (ap), (3) fire (tej), (4) air (marut), and (5) space or ether (vyom),\r\nmounting from the grossest to those that are more and more subtle. The\r\nsubtlest, the topmost in the scale is space or ether. As we descend in the\r\nscale, each succeeding element becomes more and more concrete than the\r\npreceding one. Thus air is denser than space, fire is denser than air, water is\r\ndenser than fire and earth is the densest of all – solidity belongs to earth\r\nalone. Water is liquid, fire gaseous, air is fluid, and ether is the most\r\ntenuous. Now this hierarchy can be considered also as a pyramid of qualities,\r\nqualities of matter and the material world tapering upward. The first one, the\r\ntopmost, space, possesses the quality of sound or vibration; it is the field\r\ngiving out waves that originate sound.¹ The next element is air, its special\r\nquality as found in the ancient knowledge is the quality of touch: it gives the\r\nsensation of touch, you can touch it, it touches you and you recognise its\r\nexistence in that<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal; mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</i></b><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:8.15pt;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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ Science, that is modem Science, will perhaps demur a\r\nlittle; for Science holds sound to be the exclusive property of air, it is the vibration\r\nof air that comes to the ear as sound, Where there is no air, there is no\r\nsound. But Science itself admits now that sound audible to the human ear is\r\nonly a section of a whole gamut of vibrations of which the ear catches only a\r\nportion, vibrations of certain length and frequency. Those that are outside\r\nthis limit, below or above, are not seized by the ear. So there is a sound that\r\nis unheard. The poets speak of unheard melodies. The vibrations – the\r\nsound-vibrations – are in fact not merely in the air; but originally and\r\nfundamentally in a more subtle material medium, referred to by the ancients as\r\n<i>vyom</i>.. The air-vibrations are derivations or translations, in a more concrete\r\nand gross medium, of these subtler vibrations. These too are heard as sound by\r\na subtle hearing. The very original seed-sound is, of course, </span><st1:place><span\r\n style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>Om</span></st1:place><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>,\r\nnada. That, however, is another matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n\r\n	<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:8.85pt;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\'>\r\n</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal; font-size:10.0pt\'>Like inaudible sound, we know now, there is also\r\ninvisible light. The visible light, as given in the spectrum, is only a section\r\nof the entire series of light-vibrations. There is a range above and one below\r\n– both are invisible to the normal physical eye.</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n	</span>\r\n\r\n</span></span>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\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 – 277</span></span><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</i></b><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal; 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\'>way. Touch however is its\r\nown, its primary quality but it takes up also the quality of the previous, the\r\nsubtler element, in order to become more and more evolved, more and more\r\nconcrete, that is to say, in the material way. Air has thus a double quality,\r\nsound and touch – It is tactile, and it is sonorous. The third one, fire, has\r\nthe quality of possessing a form; it has visibility in addition to the two\r\nqualities of the two previous elements, which it takes up: thus fire is\r\nvisible, it can be touched<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>– yes, it may\r\nburn also and it gives out sound. The fourth element, water, adds a fourth\r\nquality which is its own, namely, taste. Water has taste, very delightful taste\r\nto mortals. A Greek poet² says water has the best taste, <i>hudor men ariston</i>. So\r\nyou can taste water, you can see its form, you can touch it, you can hear it\r\ngurgle. Coming to the last, earth has all these, qualities: in addition, what\r\nit has is, curious to say, smell. So you can hear earth\'s vibrations, you can\r\ntouch it, see it, taste it – for some earth has a very savoury taste – but its\r\nown special quality is smell: it is odorous, it is sweet-scented. Kalidasa speaks\r\nwith ecstasy of the strange scent that the earth emits when the fresh rains\r\nfall upon it.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n	</span><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;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\'>So,\r\nthe five senses open out to the five elements, each sense linked to its own\r\nelement, each sense presenting a particular aspect of the material universe.\r\nThus ether, the subtlest element, is present to the ear, the organ of hearing,\r\nair to the skin (<i>twak</i>) the organ of touch, the fire-element (radiant energy) to\r\nthe eye, the liquid to the organ of taste, and earth is given over to smell.\r\nEarth is linked with smell, perhaps because it is the perfume of creation, the\r\ndense aroma of God\'s material energy. Also earth is the summation of all the\r\nelements and all the qualities of matter. It is the epitome of the material\r\ncreation. The physical beauty of earth is well-known, the landscape and\r\nseascape, its rich variegated coloration, we all admire standing upon its\r\nbosom, but up in the air, in the wide open spaces earth appears with even a\r\nmore magical beauty to which cosmonauts have given glowing tribute. But even\r\nthis visible beauty pales, I suppose, before the perfume it emits which is its\r\ncelestial quality, that can only be described indeed as the sweet-scented body\r\nof the Divine Substance.<i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n	</b>\r\n\r\n</i>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:2.85pt;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-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The five elements are thus the five orders\r\nof material existence </p><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n\r\n	<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:2.85pt;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</i>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:2.85pt;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\'>² Pindar: Olympian Odes, ¹<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>\r\n\r\n	<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:2.85pt;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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</i></b>\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-line-height-alt:\r\n7.65pt;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– 278</span></span><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n	</b>\r\n\r\n</i><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\'>viewed as correlates to\r\nthe five senses of man. But they are also realities in their own right. They\r\nrepresent the fundamental principles underlying or characterising the nature of\r\nmatter. Science speaks of the three states of matter-solid, liquid and gaseous.\r\nThe five elements enumerate five states instead. Thus earth=solid,\r\nwater=liquid, fire=gaseous or radiant, air = fluid, ether or space=etheric. A distinction\r\nis made between gaseous and fluid, fluid being still more dispersive and\r\ntenuous. We might take air as representing the ether spoken of in science and\r\nwhat we have been equating with ether may be termed the field – the\r\ngravitational field, for example, of our days.<o:p></o:p></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\'>The\r\nlast two may, however, be represented somewhat differently. The Maruts may\r\nsymbolise the region of the subtler or supra-electromagnetic forces – what are\r\nnow called cosmic rays: they are waves or particles of such infinitesimal magnitude\r\nthat some of them at least have only a mathematical substance or reality, a\r\nprobability-point, although of calculable or incalculable energy! Vayu then\r\nwould represent the fundamental field where these forces play – perhaps\r\nsomething like the Einsteinian field with its &quot;corrugated&quot; surface:\r\nor it is like the &quot;Pradhana&quot; of Sankhya, the original Prakriti or\r\nbasic Nature before it burst out in its creative activity.<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</i></b>\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\'>\r\nAgain, the five elements are not merely substances or states and qualities of \r\nsubstance, but they are also forces and energies, material forces and \r\nenergies-since we have confined ourselves to matter and the material world. \r\nScience (we are always referring to Science, we have to do so since we are \r\ndealing with and speaking from the standpoint of matter and material existence), Science has\r\nfamiliarised us with the various forms and types of forces and energies. They\r\nare, starting from the most patent and gross, going up to more and more subtle\r\nenergies, first of all mechanical energy, then (2) chemical energy, (3)\r\nelectrical energy, (4) gravitational energy, and finally (5) the field energy;\r\nthe last two are perhaps not very clearly differentiated and distinguished, but\r\nstill one may make the distinction. And this mounting ladder of energy with its\r\nvarious steps, with its five steps corresponds exactly to the old Indian\r\nquintet – earth, water, fire, air, space.<o:p></o:p></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\'>This\r\nis not to say that the ancients exactly knew the mysteries of modern scientific\r\nexploration. This only means<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</i></b>\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 – 279</span><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</i></b>\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\'>that there is a\r\nparallelism between the ancient and the modern knowledge. The scale or\r\nhierarchy, from the most concrete substance through the subtler ones, to the\r\nsubtlest, representing the constitution of the material world as conceived by\r\nthe ancient seers finds a close and curious echo in the picture that modern\r\nscience has drawn of material existence.<o:p></o:p></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\'>It\r\nmust be noted, however, that parallelism means similarity but also difference.\r\nThe manner of approach to the reality, the way of expressing it is different in\r\nthe east and in the west. The ancients express a truth or a fact symbolically,\r\nthe moderns express it in a straightforward matter-of-fact way. The ancients\r\nused symbols; for they wanted a multiple way of expression, that is to say, a\r\nsymbol embodying a movement refers at the same time to many forms of the same\r\nmovement on different levels, along different lines, in diverse applications.\r\nIt is like the multiple meanings of a verbal root in Sanskrit. The scientific\r\nterms, on the other hand, are very specific; they connote only one thing at a\r\ntime. Each term with its specific sense is unilateral in its movement.<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</i></b>\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\'>Now\r\nfurthermore, the Great Five need not be restricted to the domain of matter\r\nalone as being its divisions and levels and functions, but they may be extended\r\nto represent the whole existence, the cosmos as a whole. Indeed they are often\r\ntaken to symbolise the stair of existence as a whole, the different levels of\r\ncosmic being and consciousness. Thus at the lowest rung of the ladder as always\r\nis the earth representing precisely matter and material existence; next, water\r\nrepresents life and the vital movement; then, fire represents the heart centre\r\nfrom where wells up all impulse and drive for progression. It holds the\r\nevolutionary urge: we call it the Divine Agni, the Flame of the Inner Heart,\r\nthe radiant Energy of Aspiration. The fourth status or level of creation is\r\nmind or the mental world, represented by air, the Vedic Marut; finally, Vyom or\r\nspace represents all that is beyond the mind, the Infinite Existence and\r\nConsciousness. The five then give the chart, as it were, of nature\'s\r\nconstitution, they mark also the steps of her evolutionary journey through\r\nunfolding time.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</span><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h6 style=\'border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:\r\n0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 15.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\">\r\n<span style=\'font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\r\nfont-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic; font-weight:400\'><font size=\"2\">Page – 280</font></span></h6>\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n</i></span><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n\r\n	<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>\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><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n	</b>\r\n\r\n</i></div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>','-084_The Mystery of  the  Five  Elements','','publish','closed','open','','084_the-mystery-of-the-five-elements','','','2021-11-23 17:58:23','2021-11-23 17:58:23','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/084_the-mystery-of-the-five-elements/',0,'post','',0),(1834,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:24','2021-11-23 17:58:24','<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>Savitri</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 style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Savitri</font><o:p></o:p></span></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\n15.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%; 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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>SAVITRI, the poem, the\r\nword of Sri Aurobindo is the cosmic Answer to the cosmic Question. And Savitri,\r\nthe person, the Godhead, the Divine Woman is the Divine\'s response to the human\r\naspiration.</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\nworld is a great question mark. It is a riddle, eternal and ever-recurring. Man\r\nhas faced the riddle and sought to arrive at a solution since he has been given\r\na mind to seek and interrogate.</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\'>What\r\nis this universe? From where has it come? Whither is it going? What is the\r\npurpose of it all? Why is man here? What is the object of his existence?</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\'>Such\r\nis the mode of human aspiration. And Ashwapati in his quest begins to explore\r\nthe world and see what it is, the way it is built up. He observes it rising\r\ntier upon tier, level upon level of consciousness. He mounts these stairs,\r\ntakes cognisance of the modes and functions of each and passes on enriched by\r\nthe experiences that each contributes to his developing con­sciousness. The\r\nascent he finds is from ignorance to knowledge. The human being starts from the\r\ndarkest bed of ignorance, the solid basis of rock as it were, the body, the\r\nmaterial exis­tence. Ignorance here is absolute inconscience. Out of the total\r\nabsence of consciousness, the being begins to awake and rise to a gradually\r\ndeveloping – widening, deepening and heightening – consciousness. That is how\r\nAshwapati advances, ascends from a purely bodily life and consciousness, to the\r\nnext rung of the ladder, the first appearance and expression of life-force, the\r\nvital consciousness – energies and forms of the small lower vital. He moves on,\r\nmoves upward, there is a growing light in<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><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 – 237</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\'>And mixed with the\r\nobscurity; ignorance begins to shed its hard and dark coatings one and gives\r\nplace to directed and motivated energies. He meets beings and creatures appro­priate\r\nto those levels crawling and stirring and climbing, moved by the laws governing\r\nthe respective regions. In this way Ashwapati passes on into the higher vital,\r\ninto the border of the mental.</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\'>Ashwapati\r\nnow observes with a clear vividness that all these worlds and the beings and\r\nforces that inhabit them are stricken as it were with a bar sinister branded\r\nupon their bodies. In spite of an inherent urge of ascension the way is not a\r\nstraight road but devious and crooked breaking into by-lanes and blind alleys.\r\nThere is a great corruption and perversion of natural movements towards Truth:\r\nfalsehoods and pretensions, arrogance of blindness reign here in various\r\ndegrees. Ashwapati sought to know the wherefore of it all. So he goes behind,\r\ndives down and comes into a region that seems to be the source and basis of all\r\nignorance and obscurity and falsehood. He comes into the very heart of the\r\nNight, the abyss of consciousness. He meets there the Mother of Evil and the\r\nsons of darkness. He stands before</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:5.75pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-5.75pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;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=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'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;</span>. . the gate of the false\r\nInfinite,<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:43.65pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>An eternity of disastrous absolutes ¹</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:43.65pt;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:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>Here are\r\nthe forces that pull down and lure away to perdition all that man\'s aspirations\r\nand the world\'s urge seek to express and build of Divine things. It is the\r\nworld in which the forces of the original inconscience find their primitive\r\nplay. They are dark and dangerous: they prey upon earth\'s creatures who are not\r\ncontent with being vassals of darkness but try to move to the Light.</p>\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\'>&nbsp;</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\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Dangerous is this passage for the celestial\r\naspirant:</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=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>Where the<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>red Wolf waits by the\r\nfordless stream</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 style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>And Death\'s black eagles scream to the precipice. .²</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>He must be absolutely\r\nvigilant, absolutely on his guard, absolutely sincere.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, Book II: Canto 8: p.\r\n250. . <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>² Ibid: Book II: Canto 8: p. 260.</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\n7.2pt;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– 238<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\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\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Here must the traveller of the upward\r\nway­<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>–</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;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\'>For daring\r\nHell\'s kingdoms winds the heavenly route­ – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;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\'>Pause or\r\npass slowly through that perilous space,</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\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>A prayer upon his lips and the great\r\nName.¹</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\'><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\'>But there\r\nis no escape. The divine traveller has to pass through this region. For it lies\r\nathwart his path to the goal. Not only so, it is necessary to go through this\r\nNight. For Ashwapati</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Knew death for a cellar of\r\nthe house of life,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In destruction felt\r\ncreation\'s hasty pace, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Knew loss as the price of\r\na celestial gain</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 style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And\r\nhell as a short cut to heaven\'s gates.²</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;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\'>Ashwapati\r\nnow passes into the higher luminous regions. He enters regions of larger breath\r\nand wider movement – the higher vital and then into the yet more luminous\r\nregion of the higher mind. He reaches the heavens where immortal sages and the\r\ndivinities and the gods themselves dwell. Even these Ashwapati finds to be only\r\npartial truths, various aspects, true but limited, of the One Reality beyond.\r\nThus he leaves all behind and reaches into the single sole Reality, the\r\ntranscen­dental Truth of things, the status vast and infinite and eternal,\r\nimmutable existence and consciousness and bliss.</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=\'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\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>A Vastness brooded free from sense of\r\nSpace, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;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\'>An\r\nEverlastingness cut off from Time. .</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\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>&quot;A stillness absolute,\r\nincommunicable. .³</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Here seems\r\nto be the end of the quest, and one would fain stay there ever and ever in that\r\nstatus</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\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-indent:1.9pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>. . occult, impenetrable,­–</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 style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Infinite,\r\neternal, unthinkable, alone.<span style=\'font-size:8.0pt\'>4<o:p></o:p></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;text-indent:2.85pt;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\'>Ashwapati\r\nwas perhaps about to be lured into that Bliss but</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:2.85pt;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;mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>1 Ibid: Book II: Canto 7: p. 238.<o:p></o:p></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\'><span style=\'font-size:8.0pt\'>2 Op. tit. Book II:\r\nCanto 8: p. 262.<o:p></o:p></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\'><span style=\'font-size:8.0pt\'>3 Op. tit. Book III:\r\nCantos 1-2: pp. 349; 351.<o:p></o:p></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\'><span style=\'font-size:8.0pt\'>4 Op. tit. Book III:\r\nCanto 1: p. 350.</span><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 – 239 </span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>\r\n<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\'>suddenly a doubt enters\r\ninto him – there is a hesitation, a questioning; he hears a voice:</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-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>The ego is dead; we are free from being and\r\ncare,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>We have done with birth and death and work and\r\nfate.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>O soul, it is too early to rejoice!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Thou hast reached the boundless silence of the\r\nSelf, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Thou hast leaped into a glad divine abyss;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>But where hast thou thrown self\'s mission and\r\nself\'s power?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>On what dead bank on the Eternal\'s road? ¹</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=MsoBodyText style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Ashwapati\r\nveers round. A new perception, a new conscious­ness begins to open within him.\r\nA new urge moves him. He has to start on a new journey, a new quest and achievement.\r\nThe world exists neither as a Truth nor as an illusion in itself. It exists in\r\nand through the Mother of the worlds. There is a motive in its existence and it\r\nis her will that is being worked out in that existence. The world moves for the\r\nfulfilment of a purpose that is being evolved through earth-life and human­ -\r\nlife. The ignorant incomplete human life upon earth is not the be-all and\r\nend-all of the life here. That life has to evolve into a life of light and love\r\nand joy perfect here below. Nature as it is now willl be transmuted into a new\r\npure and radiant substance. Ashwapati is filled with this new urge and\r\ninspiredby this new vision. He sees and understands now the truth of his life,\r\nthe goal that has to be achieved, the great dream that has to be realised here\r\nupon earth in and through matter. He sees how nature has been labouring\r\nceaselessly and tirelessly through aeons through eternity onward. He is now\r\nalmost impatient to see the consummation here and now. The divine Voice however\r\nshows him the wisdom of working patiently, hastening slowly. The Voice\r\nadmonishes him:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I ask thee\r\nnot to merge thy heart of flame</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the\r\nImmobile\'s wide uncaring bliss. .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thy soul was born to share\r\nthe laden Force;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Obey thy nature and fulfil\r\nthy fate:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Accept the difficulty and\r\ngodlike toil,</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\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>¹Op. tit. Book III: Canto </span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>2:\r\np. 351.</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;\'>Page – 240 </span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;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-bottom:0\'>For\r\nthe slow-paced omniscient purpose live. .</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\'>All\r\nthings shall change in God\'s transfiguring hour.¹</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">But the human flame once kindled is hard to put down. It\r\nseeks an immediate result. It does not understand the fullness of time. So\r\nAshwapati cries out:</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:28.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Heavy\r\nand long are the years our labour counts</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nstill the seals are firm upon man\'s soul,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>And weary is the ancient Mother\'s heart. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Linger not long with thy transmuting hand </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time. .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Let a great word be spoken from the heights </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>And one great act unlock the doors of\r\nFate.&quot;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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:14.15pt;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; </span>This great cry of the human soul moved the\r\nDivine Mother and she granted at last its prayer. She answered by\r\nbestowing<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>of her motherly comfort on the\r\nyearning thirsty soul:</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;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\'>0 strong\r\nforerunner, I have heard thy cry.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;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\'>One shall\r\ndescend and break the iron Law. .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;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\'>A seed\r\nshall be sown in Death\'s tremendous hour,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;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-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>A branch of heaven transplant to human soil;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;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\'>Nature\r\nshall overleap her mortal step;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;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\'>Fate shall\r\nbe changed by an unchanging will.³</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\'><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\'>And She herself came down\r\nupon earth as Ashwapati\'s daughter to undertake the human labour and accomplish\r\nthe Divine work.</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\'>(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;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\'>The Divine\r\nMother is upon earth as a human creature. She is to change the mortal earth\r\ninto an immortal paradise. Earth at present is a bundle of material inconscience.\r\nThe Supreme Consciousness has manifested itself as supreme unconsciousness.</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:8.85pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>¹Op. cit. Book III: Canto 4: pp. 380; 386.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:8.85pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>²Op. cit. Book III: Canto 4: pp.\r\n390-391.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:8.85pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>³Op. cit. Book III: Canto 4: pp.\r\n391-392.<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 – 241 </span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>\r\n<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 Divine has lost itself\r\nin pulverising itself, scattering itself abroad. Immortality is thus entombed\r\nhere below in death. The task of the incarnate Supreme Consciousness is to\r\nrevive the death-bound divinity, to free the human consciousness in its earthly\r\nlife from the obscurity of the material unconsciousness, re-install it in its\r\noriginal radiant status of the Divine Con­sciousness.</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\'>Such\r\nis Savitri\'s mission. This mission has two sessions or periods. The first, that\r\nof preparation; the second, that of fulfilment. Savitri, the human embodiment\r\nwas given only twelve months out of her earthly life and in that short space of\r\ntime she had to do all the preparation. She knew her work from her very birth,\r\nshe was conscious of her nature and the mission she was entrusted with. Now she\r\nis facing the crisis. Death is there standing in front. What is to be done, how\r\nis she to proceed? She was told she is to conquer Death, she is to establish\r\nimmortal life upon mortal earth. The Divine Voice rings out:</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:14.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Arise,\r\nsoul, and vanquish Time and Death.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:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Yes,\r\nshe is ready to do it, but not for herself, but for her Love, the being who was\r\nthe life of her life. Savitri is the Divine Consciousness but here in the\r\nmortal body\' she is clothed in the human consciousness; it is the human\r\nconsciousness that she is to lead upward and beyond and it is in and through\r\nthe human consciousness that the Divine Realisation has to be express and established.\r\nThe human Savitri declares: If Death is conquered, it is for the sake of Satya\r\nvan living eternally with her. She seems to say: What I wish to see is the\r\nliving Satyavan and I united with him for ever. I do not need an earthly life\r\nwithout him; with him I prefer to be in another world if necessary away from\r\nthe obscurity and turmoil of this earth here.</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-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>My strength is taken from me and given to\r\nDeath,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Why should I lift my hands to the shut\r\nheavens. .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Why should I strive with earth\'s unyielding\r\nlaws</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Or stave off death\'s inevitable hour?</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=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ Op cit. Book VII:\r\nCanto 2: p. 539.</span><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=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;\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-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 242 </span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>This\r\nsurely is best to pactise with my fate</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And follow close behind my\r\nlover\'s step</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And pass through night\r\nfrom twilight to the sun. .¹</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:11.25pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But a\r\nthunderous voice descends from above shaking Savitri to the very basis of her\r\nexistence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;\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;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>“And\r\nwhat shall thy soul say when it wakes and knows </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nwork was left undone for which it came?&quot;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:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thus\r\na crisis very similar to that which Ashwapati had to face now confronts Savitri\r\nalso. Both of them were at the crossroads away from the earth in the pure\r\ndelights of the heavens or in the world labouring on earth\'s soil. Savitri\'s\r\nsoul was now revealed to her in its fullness. She viewed the mighty destiny for\r\nwhich she had come down and the great work she had to achieve here upon earth,\r\nnot any personal or individual human satisfaction or achievement but a cosmic\r\nfulfilment, a global human realisation. The godhead in Savitri is now fully\r\nawake, established in its plenitude – the Divinity incarnate in the human\r\nframe. All the godheads, all the goddess-emanations now entered into her and\r\nmoulded the totality of her mighty stature. </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\'>Here\r\nbegins then the second stage of her mission,– her work and achievement, the\r\nconquest of Death. Only the Divine human being can conquer Death. Savitri\r\nfollows Death step by step revealing gradually the mystery of death, his\r\npersonality and his true mission, although the dark God thinks that it is he who\r\nis taking away Satyavan and Savitri along with him, to his own home, his black\r\nannihilation. For Death is that in its first appearance, it is utter\r\ndestruction, nothing-ness, non-existence. So the mighty Godhead declares in an\r\nimperious tone to the mortal woman Savitri:</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-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This is my silent dark\r\nimmensity,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This is the home of\r\neverlasting Night, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This is the secrecy of\r\nNothingness</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Entombing the vanity of\r\nlife\'s desires. .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Hopest thou still always\r\nto last and love?³</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:8.4pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ Op. tit. Book VII: Canto 2: p. 539. .<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>² Op. cit. Book VII: Canto 2: p. 540.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>³ Op. cit. Book IX: Canto 2: p. 661.</span><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 – 243 </span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\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\'>\r\nIndeed Death is not merely a destruction of the body, it is in reality \r\nnothingness, non-being. The moment being, exis­tence, reality manifested itself, established\r\nitself as a material fact, simultaneously there came out and stood against it,\r\nits opposite non-being, non-existence, non-reality; against an everlasting\r\n\'yes\' there was posited an everlasting \'no\'. And in fact, this everlasting No\r\nproves to be a greater effective reality, it has wound itself around every\r\nconstituent atom of the universe. That is what has expressed itself in the\r\nmaterial domain as the irreversible degradation of energy and in the mortal\r\nworld it is denial and doubt and falsehood – it is that which brings about\r\nfailure in life, and frustration, misery and grief. But then Savitri\'s vision\r\npenetrated beyond and she saw, Death is a way of achieving the end more swiftly\r\nand more completely. The negation is an apparent obstacle in order to increase,\r\nto purify and intensify the speed of the process by which the world and\r\nhumanity is being remodelled and re­created. This terrible Godhead pursues the\r\nhuman endeavour till the end; until he finds that nothing more is to be done;\r\nthen his mission too is fulfilled.¹ So a last cry, the cry of a desperate dying\r\nDeath, pierces the universe and throws the final challenge to Savitri:<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>0 human claimant to\r\nimmortality,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Reveal thy power, lay bare\r\nthy spirit\'s force, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Then will I give back to\r\nthee Satyavan.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Or if the Mighty Mother is\r\nwith thee,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Show me her face that I\r\nmay worship her; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Let deathless eyes look\r\ninto the eyes of Death. .²</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;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;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Death\'s\r\ndesire, his prayer too is fulfilled. He faces Savitri but this is not the\r\nSavitri against whom he fought. Whose is this voice?</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:8.15pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;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:10.0pt\'>¹ We are reminded here of a parallelism in Goethe\'s\r\nconception of the role of Satan (the Negative Principle) in human affairs.\r\nSatan is not merely a destroying devil, he is a constructive angel. For it is\r\nhe<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:1.4pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>Who must goad and tease<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;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:10.0pt\'>And toil to serve creation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:1.4pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>whenever<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:82.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><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; </span>Man\'s<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>efforts<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;\r\n</span>sink below his proper level. <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;\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\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>²\r\nOp. cit. Book X: Canto 4: p. 745.<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-line-height-alt:\r\n7.2pt;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– 244</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=\'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\'>I hail thee almighty and\r\nvictorious Death,</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\'>Thou grandiose Darkness of the\r\nInfinite. .</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\'>I have given thee thy awful\r\nshape of dread</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\'>And thy sharp sword of terror\r\nand grief and pain</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\'>To force the soul of man to\r\nstruggle for light. .¹</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'>What happens thereafter is\r\nsomething strange and tre­mendous and miraculous. Light flashed all around, a\r\nleaping tongue of fire spread out and the dark form of Death was burnt-not to\r\nashes but to blazing sparks of light:</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\'>His\r\nbody was eaten by light, his spirit devoured. ² </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thus Death\r\ncame to his death – not to death in reality but to a new incarnation. Death\r\nreturned to his</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>original\r\ndivine Reality, an emanation of the Divine Mother.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:21.3pt;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-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A secret splendour rose\r\nrevealed to sight</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Where once the vast\r\nembodied Void had stood.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Night the dim mask had\r\ngrown a wonderful face.³</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>In that domain of pure\r\ntranscendent light stood face to face the human Savitri and the transformed\r\nSatyavan.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; 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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>SAVITRI has entered into\r\nthe deathless luminous world where there is only faultless beauty, stainless\r\ndelight and an un­measured self-gathered strength. Savitri heard the melodious\r\nvoice of the Divine:</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\'>You\r\nhave now left earth\'s miseries and its impossible con­ditions, you have reached\r\nthe domain of unalloyed felicity and you need not go back to the old turbulent\r\nlife: dwell here both of you and enjoy eternal bliss.</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\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>But Savitri answered firm and\r\nmoveless:</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-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I climb not to thy\r\neverlasting Day,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Even as I have shunned thy\r\neternal Night. .</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;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\n7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>¹ Op. cit.\r\nBook X: Canto 4: p. 747. <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\n7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>² Op. cit.\r\nBook XI: Canto I: p. 762. .<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\n7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>³ Op.\r\ncit. Book X: Canto 4: p. 749<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 align=center style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;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; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 245</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-indent:35.45pt;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-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Earth is the chosen place of mightiest souls;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;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-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Earth is the heroic spirit\'s battlefield. .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;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\'>Thy\r\nservitudes on earth are greater, king, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;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\'>Than all\r\nthe glorious liberties of heaven.¹</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.4pt;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\'>Once\r\nmore Savitri, even like Ashwapati, has to make a choice between two\r\ndestinies, two soul-movements – although the choice is already made even before\r\nit is offered to her. Ashwapati had to abandon, we know, the silent immutable\r\ntranscendent status of pure light in order to bathe in this lower<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>earthly light. Savitri too as the prototype\r\nof human conscious­ness chose and turned to this light of the earth.</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\nRishi of the Upanishad declared: they who worship only</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\'>Ignorance\r\nenter into darkness, but they who worship knowledge alone enter into a still\r\ndarker darkness. This world of absolute light which Savitri names \'everlasting\r\nday\' is what the Upanishadic Rishi sees and describes as the golden lid upon\r\nthe face of the Sun. The Sun is the complete integral light of the Truth\r\nin its fullness. The golden covering has to be removed if one is to see the Sun\r\nitself-to live the integral life, one has to possess the integral truth.</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\'>So\r\nit is that Savitri comes down upon earth and standing upon its welcoming soil\r\nspeaks to Satyavan as though consoling him for having abandoned their own abode\r\nin heaven to dwell among mortal men:</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;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-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Heaven\'s touch fulfils but cancels not our\r\nearth. .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;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-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Still am I she who came to thee mid the murmur\r\n    </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;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-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Of sunlit leaves upon this forest verge. .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;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-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>All that I was before, I am to thee still. .²</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Voicing\r\nSatyavan\'s thought and feeling, all humanity, the whole world in joy and\r\ngratefulness, utters this mantra of thanksgiving:</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\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>If this is she of whom. the world\r\nhas heard, </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\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Wonder no more at any happy change.³</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹\r\nOp. cit. Book Xl: Canto I: p. 770.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>²\r\nOp. cit. Book XII: Canto: p. 808. . <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>³\r\nBook XII: p. 812.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.65pt;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 13.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page\r\n– 246</span></p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\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\'>(4)</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\'><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\'>IN her Prayers and\r\nMeditations 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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:10.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Comme l\' homme n\' a pas voulu du repas\r\nque j\' avais préparé avec tant d\' amour et de soin, alors j\' ai\r\ninvite<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>le Dieu à le prendre.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Et mon Dieu, Tu as\r\naccepté mon invitation et Tu es venu T\' asseoir à ma table,. et en\r\nchange de ma pauvre et humble offrande Tu m\' as octroyé la\r\nfinale libération.¹<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:10.3pt;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:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>What\r\nis this banquet that she prepared for man and which man refused? It is nothing\r\nelse than the Life Divine here below -the life of the Gods enjoying\r\nimmortality, full of the supreme light and power, love and delight. Man refused\r\nbecause for him it is something too high, too great. Being a creature earth­bound\r\nand of small dimensions he can seize and appreciate only small things,\r\nlittle specks of a material world. He refused, first of all,\r\nbecause of his ignorance, he does not know, nor is he capable of conceiving\r\nthat there are such things as immortal life, divinity, unobscured light,\r\ngriefless love, or a radiant, tranquil, invisible energy. He does not know and\r\nyet he is arrogant, arrogant in his little knowledge, his petty power, in his\r\nblind self-sufficiency. Furthermore, besides ignorance and arrogance there is\r\nan element of revolt in him, for in his half ­wakefulness with his rudimentary\r\nconsciousness, if ever he came in contact with something that is above and\r\nbeyond him, if a shadow of another world happens to cross his threshold,\r\nhe is not at peace, does not want to recognise but denies and even curses it.</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\'>The\r\nDivine Mother brings solace and salvation. For the Grace it is such a small and\r\neasy thing, it is a wonder how even such a simple, natural, inconspicuous thing\r\ncould be refused by anybody.</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\'>If\r\nman finds no use for the gift she has brought down for him, naturally she will\r\ntake it back and return it to Him to whom it belongs, for all things belong to\r\nthe Supreme Lord,</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;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:8.15pt;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; </span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹\r\n&quot;Since the man refused the meal I had prepared with so much love and care,\r\nI invoked the God to take it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:8.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>My God, Thou hast accepted my invitation, Thou hast\r\ncome to sit at my table, and in exchange for my poor and humble offering Thou\r\nhast granted to me the last liberation.&quot;</span><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 – 247<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\'>even She belongs to Him,\r\nas She is one with Him. The Gita says: there is nothing else than the Brahman\r\nin the creation – ­the doer, the doing and the deed, all are essentially He. In\r\nthe sacrifice that is this moving, acting universe, the offerer, the offering\r\nand the offered, each and every element is the Brahman<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>– brahmarpanam brahma havib.<o:p></o:p></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\'>This\r\ngesture of the Divine Mother teaches us also what should be the approach and\r\nattitude of human beings in all their activities. In all our movements we\r\nshould always remem­ber Him, refer to Him, consider that in the last analysis\r\neach and every movement comes from Him and we must always offer them to Him,\r\nreturn them to the/ parent-source from where they come, therein lies freedom,\r\nthe divine detachment which the individual must possess always in order to be\r\none with Him, feel one\'s identity with Him.</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 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\'>(5)</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\'><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\'>MAN\'S refusal of the\r\nDivine Grace has been depicted very beautifully and graphically in a perfect\r\ndramatic form by Sri Aurobindo in Savitri. The refusal comes one by one\r\nfrom the three constituent parts of the human being. First of all man is a\r\nmaterial being, a bodily creature, as such he is a being of ignorance and\r\nmisery, of brutish blindness. He does not know that there is something other\r\nthan his present state of misfortune and dark fate. He is not even aware that\r\nthere may be any­thing higher or nobler than the ugliness he is steeped in. He\r\nlives on earth-life with an earth-consciousness, moves mechani­cally and\r\nhelplessly through vicissitudes over which he has no control. Even so the\r\nmaterial life is not a mere despicable thing; behind its darkness, behind its\r\nsadness, behind all its infirmities, the Divine Mother is there upholding it\r\nand infusing into it her grace and beauty. Indeed, she is one with this world\r\nof sorrows, she has in effect become it in her infinite pity and love so that\r\nthis material body of hers may become conscious of its divine substance and\r\nmanifest her true form. But the human being individualised and separated in\r\negoistic conscious­ness has lost the sense of its inner reality and is vocal\r\nonly in regard to its outward formulation. It is natural for physical man<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 – 248</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\'>therefore to reject and\r\ndeny the physical Godhead in him, he even curses it and wants to continue as he\r\nis. He yells therefore in ignorance and anguish:</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-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>I am the Man of Sorrows, I am he</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who is nailed on the wide\r\ncross of the Universe. .</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 style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I\r\ntoil like the animal, like the animal die.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I am man the rebel, man\r\nthe helpless serf. .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I know my fate will ever\r\nbe the same,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It is my Nature\'s work\r\nthat cannot change..</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I was made for evil, evil\r\nis my lot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Evil I must be and by evil\r\nlive;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Naught other can I do, but\r\nbe myself;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>What Nature made, that I\r\nmust remain.¹</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:42.55pt;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;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nDivine glory manifests itself for a moment to the earthly consciousness but man\r\nrefuses to be pulled out of its pigsty. The Grace with draws but in its Supreme\r\nConsciousness of unity and love consoles the fallen creature and gives it the\r\nassurance:</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;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\'>One day I\r\nwill return , a bringer of strength. .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;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\'>Misery\r\nshall pass abolished from the earth;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;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\'>The world\r\nshall be freed from the anger of the Beast. . ²</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'>The\r\nbasic status or foundation of Man, in fact of creation, is earth, the material\r\norganisation. After the body, next comes the life and Life-power. Here man\r\nattains a larger dynamic being of energy and creative activity. Here too, on\r\nthis level, what man is or what he achieves is only a reflection, a shadow, but\r\nmostly a misshapen resemblance, an aberration of the divine reality that hides\r\nbehind, and yet half-reveals itself. That Godhead is the Mother\'s form of\r\nMight, we name it variously, Kali and Durga and Lakshmi, for it is Her Grace\r\nthat is ultimately expressed and fulfilled in this world of vital power. I t is\r\nbecause of this realising power of the Mother that</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Slowly\r\nthe Light grows greater in the East, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Slowly\r\nthe world progresses on God\'s road.</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt;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;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹Book VII: Canto 4: pp. 574-6.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>²Book VII: Canto 4: p. 576.<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;\'>Page – 249</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=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-indent:42.55pt\'>His seal is on my task, it cannot 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-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-indent:42.55pt\'>I shall hear the silver swing of heaven\'s gates </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; text-indent:42.55pt\'>When God comes out to meet the soul of the world.¹</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;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\nman in the strength of his ignorance and arrogance does not recognise this\r\nGoddess. Human power, we have said, is a reflection, a shadow of the Divine\r\nPower but most often it is a deformed, a perverted Divine Power. Man is full of\r\nhis egoistic vital self-confidence: he believes it is his own will that is\r\nrealising all, all which is achieved here; whatever he has creater it is\r\nthrough the might of his own merit and whatever new creations will be done in\r\nthe future will be through the Grace of his own genius. A mighty vital selfhood\r\nobscures his consciousness and he sees nothing else, understands nothing else\r\nbeyond the reach of that limited vision. This is the Rakshasa, this is the\r\nAsura in man. Here is his philosophy of life:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;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-indent:42.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>I climb, a claimant to the throne of heaven. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The last born of the\r\nearth, I stand the first. .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I am God still unevolved\r\nin human form; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Even if he is not, he\r\nbecomes in me. .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>No magic can surpass my\r\nmagic\'s skill.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There is no miracle I\r\nshall not achieve. ²</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;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\'>So\r\nthis vital being in man in his Rakshasic hunger and Asuric self-conceit rejects\r\nthe Divine Power that is in fact behind him too, supporting him. The Goddess,\r\nin the wake of her predecessor, goes back from where she came, leaving however\r\na consoling word, assuring that one day she will return; she will bide her\r\ntime. For one day,</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\'><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; text-indent:42.55pt\'>The cry of the ego shall\r\nbe hushed within, </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:42.55pt\'>Its lion-roar that claims\r\nthe world as food, </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:42.55pt\'>All shall be might and\r\nbliss and happy force.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:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nhis body man is the beast, in the vital he is the Rakshasa and the Asura, he\r\nrises now into the mind. And in the mind</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹\r\nBook VII: Canto 4: p. 579.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>²\r\nBook VII: Canto 4: pp. 580-2. <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>³\r\nBook VII: Canto 4: p. 583.<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;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 – 250</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\'>he is the human being proper,\r\nhe has attained his own hu­manity. Here he has received the light of knowledge,\r\na wider and deeper consciousness, he has unveiled the secret mysteries of\r\nNature, brought to play hidden forces that were unknown and untapped. All these\r\nachievements have been possible for man because it is the Mother of Light that\r\nis behind and has come forward to shed something of her luminous presence\r\naround. But man has no inkling of the presence of this luminous Deity, his own\r\nlight has been a screen in front of the inner divine light. It is not possible\r\nfor the human mind to seize the higher light: his consciousness, his knowledge\r\nis too narrow, too superficial, too dull to comprehend what is beyond. This\r\nDivine Light is also a thing of delight, the consciousness it possesses is also\r\nthe very essence of Joy and Felicity. But all that is occult to the human\r\nknowledge. Man considers Truth is his property, whatever truth is there his\r\nunderstanding can grasp it and bring it to play: Truth and Reality are\r\ncommensurate with his own consciousness, his mental comprehension. What others\r\nspeak of as realities of the spirit, truths transcendental, are an illusion and\r\ndelusion. This is what is usually known as the scientific mind, the rational\r\nconsciousness. An orthodox scientific mentality is in the first instance a\r\nthing of overweening self-confidence, of arrogant self-assertion. It declares\r\nin its formidable pride:</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:35.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\nhave seized the cosmic energies for my use. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:35.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\nhave pored on her infinitesimal elements </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:35.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nher invisible atoms have unmasked. .</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:35.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If\r\nGod is at work his secrets I have found.¹</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'>This\r\nimperiousness in man seems however to be a sheer imperviousness: it is a mask,\r\na hollow appearance; for with all his knowledge, at the end he has attained no\r\ncertainty, no absoluteness. There is something behind, all the outer bravado he\r\nflourishes has a sense of helplessness, at times almost as pitiable as that of\r\na child; for he finds at last</p>\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\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>All\r\nis a speculation or a dream:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the end the world\r\nitself becomes a doubt.²</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:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ Book VII: Canto 4: p. 589. <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>² Book VII: Canto 4: p. 589.</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\n7.9pt;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– 251 </span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\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\'>It\r\nis true his survey of the universe, his knowledge of bound­less Nature and the\r\ninexhaustible multiplicities of creation have given him a sense of the endless\r\nand the infinite but he has not the necessary light or capacity to follow those\r\nlines of infinity, on the contrary, there is a shrinking in him at the touch of\r\nsuch vastnesses; his small humanity makes him desperately earth-bound, his\r\naspiration follows the lines of least resistance:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Our smallness saves us\r\nfrom the Infinite.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In a frozen grandeur lone\r\nand desolate</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Call me not to die the\r\ngreat eternal Death. . </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Human I am, human let me\r\nremain</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Til1 in the Inconscient I\r\nfall dumb and sleep.¹</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;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thus,\r\nthis Goddess too, is rejected like her previous comrades, the Mother of Light,\r\nthe Deity who is properly the guide and ruler of man\'s own destiny. Even she is\r\nrefused but hers is not to complain, in tranquil quietness she brings comfort\r\nand hope to the troubled human mind and says she goes to come back in the\r\nfullness of her incarnation. She utters divinely:</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:28.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One\r\nday I shall return, His hands in mine, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nthou shalt see the face of the Absolute. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Then\r\nshall the holy marriage be achieved,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Then\r\nshall the divine family be born.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 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\'>(6)</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\'>To the inconscient and\r\nignorant human nature, Savitri, the Divine\'s delegate presents the powers and\r\npersonalities that are behind man\'s present infirmities – these broken images\r\nof true realities lying scattered about in the front of existence. Man will be\r\nmade conscious, he is being made conscious step by step precisely by such\r\nrelations from time to time. The Vedic image is that of the eternal succession\r\nof dawns whose beginning no one knows, nor the end, that creation proceeds from\r\nlight to light, from consciousnes to higher reaches of consciousness.</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\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ Book VII: Canto 4: p. 590.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>² Book VII: Canto 4: p. 591.<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;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 – 252</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\'>From the\r\nmaterial life through the vital and the mental life he first reaches the\r\nspiritual life and finally the Life Divine. From the animal he rises to\r\nmanhood, and in the end to Godhood.</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\'>But\r\nthere are intermediaries. The fullness of the realisation depends on the\r\nfullness of the incarnation. The Evil in the body, the Evil in the vital, the\r\nEvil in the mind are, whatever their virulence and intransigence, subsidiary\r\nagents, for they serve only a mightier Lord. The first original Sin is Death,\r\nthe God of Denial, of non-existence. That is the very source­<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>–<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>\r\n<i>fons\r\net origo</i> – the fount and origin of all the misfortune, the fate that\r\nterrestrial life involves. This demon, this anti-Divine has to be tracked and\r\ndestroyed or dissolved into its original origin. This is the Nihil that negates\r\nthe Divine – Asat that seeks to nullify Sat and that has created\r\nthis world of ignorance and misery, that is to say, in its outward pragmatic\r\nform. So Savitri sees the one source and knows the remedy. Therefore she\r\npursues death, pursues him to the end, that is, to the end of death. The\r\nluminous energy of the Supreme faces now its own shadow and blazes it up. The\r\nflaming Light corrodes into the substance of the darkness and makes of it her\r\nown trans­figured substance. This then is the gift that Savitri brings to man,\r\nthe Divine\'s own immortality, transfusing the mortality that reigns now upon\r\nearth.</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\'>In\r\nview of the necessity of the age, for the crucial, critical and, in a way,\r\nfinal consummation of Nature\'s evolutionary urge, the Divine Himself has to\r\ncome down in the fullness of His divinity; for only then can the earth be\r\nradically changed and wholly transformed. In the beginning the Divine once came\r\ndown, but by sacrificing Himself, being pulverised, scattered and lost in the\r\ninfinitesimals of a universal, material, un­consciousness. Once again He has to\r\ncome down, but this time in the supreme glory of His victorious Luminosity.</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\'>This\r\nthen is the occult, the symbolic sense of the Mother\'s gesture turning away\r\nfrom man with her gifts and returning to the Divine Himself, and inviting Him\r\nas the chief guest of honour upon this earth. Or, in the Vedic image, He is to\r\ncome as the flaming front and leader of the journeying sacrifice that is this\r\nuniversal existence.</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 – 253<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\"><i><o:p>&nbsp;</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		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-076_Savitri','','publish','closed','open','','076_savitri','','','2021-11-23 17:58:24','2021-11-23 17:58:24','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/076_savitri/',0,'post','',0),(1835,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:24','2021-11-23 17:58:24','<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>Sleep and Pain</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\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Sleep and Pain</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-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\'>How would one be able to sleep when one has\r\nextreme bodily pain?</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\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\'>THAT requires some kind of yogic\r\npower. The best way, the absolute one, is to get out of the body.<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:14.0pt\'>When the body suffers, when you have high fever,\r\nfor example, when you are sick, sick to the last degree, the only thing to do\r\nthen is to come out of the body, come out with your vital being. If you are a\r\nyogi and have the knowledge, you remain outside the body but just above it so\r\nthat you are able to look at it. You can see your own body if the vital form in\r\nwhich you go out is sufficiently </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>materialised</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n14.0pt\'>. You see your body and with the consciousness and the power which you\r\nhave then, you can direct the rays of the Force upon the spot where the body\r\nsuffers. This is a top process, but it gives the absolutely sure means of\r\ngetting cured. If the power and the knowledge are there, it is infallible. You\r\ncan cure any disease with that and in a short time. Only it means a\r\nconsiderable education and training. You cannot improvise it. But as a matter\r\noff act men help themselves naturally and automatically when the pain becomes\r\nunbearable; they faint. To faint is to get out of the body. So persons who are\r\nnot too much tied down to the body faint away when the bodily suffering becomes\r\ntoo strong. Only, when you go out of the body, leaving it as an inert mass,\r\nthere must be someone near sensible and intelligent enough. The body must not\r\nbe shaken violently to make you wake up. If people by the side are seized by a\r\npanic and hurl buckets of water upon your head, the result may be worse.\r\nOtherwise, the fainting fit passes quietly, little by little, into a restful\r\ncondition as there is no longer the consciousness recording the bodily\r\nsuffering. In the so-called fit the body be</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>comes </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;\'>Page – 21<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\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>gradually quiet and immobile, so that\r\nit may rest in spite\' of the suffering.<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\'>There are lesser means with lesser results.\r\nThese too are not very easy either. One is to cut the connection between the\r\nbrain and the part that suffers. The brain not receiving the vibration, the\r\npain is no longer felt. In fact, this is what doctors do when they operate\r\nunder anaesthesia. The nervous connection round the affected part is made\r\ninsensitive and the pain is not felt or it is reduced to a minimum. But here\r\nyou have to do it with your will and consciousness; and that requires an occult\r\npower. Some can do it automatically, but their number is very few. If you are\r\nunable to go so far, there is another way which should be within your reach. Do\r\nnot concentrate or dwell upon your pain and suffering; withdraw your attention\r\nand direct it elsewhere. The more you think of your pain, the worse it becomes.\r\nIf you are busy observing its signs and signals, almost awaiting its attack,\r\nyou surely welcome it in a way, you indulge it and help its continuance. That\r\nis why you are advised in that condition to do some light reading or hear\r\nthings read out, so that the attention may be diverted.<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\'>When you go to sleep the ideal is to enter\r\ninto integral rest, that is to say, immobility of the body, peace in the vital,\r\nabsolute silence in the mind and the consciousness coming out of all activity\r\nand passing into Sachchidananda. If you can do that, then when you get up, you\r\nget up with a feeling of extraordinary power, perfect joy and so on. But it is\r\nnot easy to do it. Still it can be done. It is the ideal condition.<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:14.0pt\'>Generally, however, it is never like that;\r\nmost often, practically the whole length of your sleep is wasted in all kinds\r\nof disorderly movements: you toss about in your bed, kick and jump and even\r\ntalk and shout. That means you have no rest at all.<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\'>Usually there is a whole group of dreams,\r\nuseless and tiresome, that prevent you from resting. You must avoid all that.\r\nYou can avoid them, if just before you go to sleep you make a little effort at\r\nconcentration, that is to say, try to be in relation with what is best in\r\nyourself, through an aspiration or a prayer. You do that and go to sleep. Now,\r\nif you have done your concentration in some way successfully, you are likely to\r\nget a kind of dreams, rather experiences in sleep which you remember, which are\r\nuseful indications or signs about problems for which you had</span><span style=\'font-size:14.0pt\'><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;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 – 22<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\'>had no answer; it may be on the subject of certain\r\ncircumstances where you have to take a decision and are unable to do So; or it\r\nmay be something in your consciousness which is not clear to you in your waking\r\nstate, because you are not in the habit of noticing or recognizing it normally,\r\nbut which you feel in some way doing you harm. All these things may appear to\r\nyou in a revealing symbolic dream. Things are clear which were obscure before.\r\nAnd this does not depend upon what you have been or were doing the whole day\r\nlong, but much upon the way in which\' you get into sleep. A minute of sincere\r\naspiration just before going to sleep is sufficient to make of your sleep a\r\npowerful help instead of an agent for obscuration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>There is also a proper way of getting out of\r\nsleep, as there is a proper way of getting into it. Instead of jumping out of\r\nthe bed as soon as you are awake or moving about in it, you should keep quiet\r\nand still as you awake; you awake slowly without the least movement in your\r\nlimbs; you feel a sort of vague impression left in you of something that has\r\nhappened, something peculiar and even strange. Keep yourself still and observe,\r\nobserve closely and attentively. Slowly you perceive a kind of half memory\r\nemerging of an activity in your past night. Remain concentrated and always\r\nstill and immobile, gradually something like the tail-end of a dream appears\r\nand if you pull at it, follow it up, that is to say, backward – always keeping\r\nyourself quiet – you can recollect practically the whole of your dream, quite\r\nan interesting activity of yours in the night.<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\'>You do many things at night in your sleep.\r\nYou forget most of them. If however you recall them, become conscious of them,\r\nyou can begin controlling them. Before being conscious, without being conscious\r\nof a thing, you cannot have control over it. It is by being conscious that you\r\nget the power for control. If you can control your activities in sleep, you can\r\nhave a restful sleep. Sometimes when you get up you find yourself more tired\r\nthan when you went to bed. It is because you are in the habit of doing very\r\nmany useless things in your sleep, running about wildly in your vital,\r\nwandering chaotically in your mind, etc., etc. Naturally when you get up you do\r\nnot seem to have tasted any rest. Sometimes you get into bad quarters, dark and\r\nugly regions and you struggle there, fight there, receive blows, give</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:14.0pt\'><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;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 – 23<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:\r\n14.0pt\'>blows and you are prostrate in the end. All that you can avoid, when\r\nyou become conscious and gain control.<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;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:14.0pt\'>When one sees oneself dead or dying, <i>it </i>may\r\nmean several things. It may mean a spiritual death or a vital death or the\r\ndeath of some part in you that is to go; in the last case it means a progress\r\nin the <i>consciousness. </i>It may be also a premonition. The significance\r\ndepends upon the context.</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:14.0pt\'><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;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 – 24<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\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-007_Sleep and Pain','','publish','closed','open','','007_sleep-and-pain','','','2021-11-23 17:58:24','2021-11-23 17:58:24','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/007_sleep-and-pain/',0,'post','',0),(1836,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:24','2021-11-23 17:58:24','<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>How Can Time Be a Friend</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;\'><font size=\"4\">How\r\nCan Time Be a Friend?</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; 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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>IT depends on the way you look at it. It depends on the\r\nrelation you have with it. If you take it as a friend, it becomes a friend, if\r\nyou consider it as an enemy, it becomes an enemy.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But, perhaps, what you wanted to ask is how to\r\nfeel when it is an enemy and when it is a friend. Well, when you are impatient\r\nand say, &quot;Oh, I cannot get to the end of the thing, oh, when shall I\r\nfinish it?&quot; and when you are not able to do the thing immediately and get\r\ndesperate, then time is your enemy. But when you say, &quot;Well and good, I\r\nhave not done it this time, I shall do it next time, and I am sure, one day or\r\nanother, I shall do it,&quot; then it becomes your friend.</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; 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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>Is time merely subjective or is there something concrete, something\r\nlike a personality in it?</i></p>\r\n	<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-bottom:0\'>Perhaps this also depends on how you\r\nlook at it. All forces are personal forces, all forces of Nature are also\r\npersonal forces. But if we look at them as impersonal things, our relation with\r\nthem becomes impersonal. Take for example what has happened just I!°W\' If you\r\nwere a meteorologist, you would calculate the currents of the wind, the\r\npressures of the atmosphere etc., etc. and conclude: &quot;Given all that,\r\nwhat has happened had exactly to happen and there will be so many days of rain\r\nand so on.&quot; So it is for you a force which you are obliged to call a force\r\nof Nature and you can only look at it quietly and wait for the fixed number of\r\nrainy days to pass.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But it may happen also that you are in a sort of\r\npersonal relation with the little conscious beings that are behind wind and\r\nstorm and rain, behind thunder and lightning and the so-called forces of\r\nNature, which are, however) personal forces;<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 – 140<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\'>\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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>then through the relation you establish a kind of\r\nfriendship with them. And instead of looking at them as enemies and mechanical\r\ninexorables that you have simply to bear without being able to do anything, you\r\narrive at a cordial understanding with them, you succeed in having an influence\r\nover them and you may tell them: &quot;But why do you want to blow and pour\r\nhere, why don\'t you do it just by the side where there is a field?&quot;</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And I have seen with my own eyes, here and in <st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>\r\nand <st1:country-region><st1:place>Algeria</st1:place></st1:country-region>,\r\nthe rain falling on a very definite spot exactly where it should rain, because\r\nit was dry and there was a field that needed to be watered. And at another\r\nplace, just a few yards away, it was all sunny and dry, because the place\r\nneeded to be sunny and dry. Naturally, if you proceed very scientifically, they\r\nwill explain the thing scientifically; but as for myself, I saw it happen as\r\nthe result of an intervention from someone who had asked for it and got it.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I have told you of my experiences in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Algeria</st1:place></st1:country-region>.\r\nVery many interesting things happened there. For a certain atmosphere was\r\nthere, an atmosphere, one might say, of a little more real knowledge. There\r\nwere certain small beings, those that controlled or produced snow. They could\r\ncome and enter into a room and say: &quot;Now, it must snow here&quot; –\r\n&quot;But there has been no snow in this country! Snow? You don\'t mean that?\r\nNear the <st1:place>Sahara</st1:place>, it\'s going to snow?&quot; - &quot;It\r\nmust snow, because they have planted fir trees on the mountain and when we see\r\nfir trees we come. Fir trees mean we are called and so we come.&quot; Thus\r\nthere was a little argument and the little beings went away with the permission\r\nto snow. The mountain was covered with snow. And it was quite near the <st1:place>Sahara</st1:place>.\r\nYou come down a few miles and you reach the <st1:place>Sahara</st1:place>.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Someone took the fancy of covering the hills with\r\nfir and fir is a tree of cold countries. The beings were called in and there\r\nthey came. All that is true fact, it is not an invention.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Everything depends on your relation. <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>It<b> </b></span>may be that the\r\nmeteorologists could explain the thing, explain it away, I do not know – they\r\nexplain all things in all ways.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Things are as you look at them. That is the truth.\r\nI have seen other things also, not so pleasant as the one I have just\r\ndescribed. For since men have invented – not invented but<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 – 141<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\'>\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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>discovered things they did not know of, atom bombs and\r\nthings worse than that and have begun to play with them like babies, it has\r\nthoroughly upset the little beings which lived according to their own rhythm of\r\nlife and were accustomed to habits that answered to events they could foresee.\r\nNow all that is changed and they have suffered in consequence. They have lost\r\ntheir head and they do not know what they do.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There was a time, at the end of the war, when\r\nthings over there became terribly chaotic and one lived in the absurd and as\r\nthe unfortunate experience continues, the little beings have not yet been able\r\nto come out of their maddening confusion. Yes, they have become maddened. Men\r\nplay with things of which they know only the exterior, that is to say, which\r\nthey do not know at all. Anything may happen, including, alas! catastrophes\r\nthat have been foretold long long ago.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That may happen and may not. It depends on the\r\nthing that will intervene.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I had once spoken to you of all that, of wind and\r\ncloud and rain and I told you to pray if you wanted the weather to change, but\r\nI am afraid you thought I was joking.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One thing is certain. It is this. If you are able\r\nto see the deeper law of things and if you are in contact with a higher\r\nconsciousness in order to realise something that is far beyond all human\r\nconceptions, why should you be concerned with any human opinion? Ordinary men\r\nhave no notion of what spiritual life or divine realisation may be like.\r\nNaturally, it is precisely because of their ignorance that they come and judge\r\nthose things quite nonchalantly and advise you as to how you should live and\r\nmove and act and be. They know nothing, they see nothing. Your attitude towards\r\nthem should be one of supreme indifference. And yet you should not feel\r\nsuperior to them. On the other hand, you should be kind and wish that they\r\nshould be reborn in the Light. You should avoid arguing with such people and\r\nnever try to convince them, that would be a vain attempt. You should be\r\nabsolutely indifferent, indifferent to their criticisms and indifferent to\r\ntheir praise. You should know it is easier to be indifferent to criticism than\r\nto compliments. I shall tell you a story in this connection.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I have spoken to you more than once of Madame D. N.¹ </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination: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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>¹<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>\r\nMadame Alexandra David-Neele.<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 – 142<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<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She was a militant personality and a great Buddhist\r\nluminary. When she came to India she wanted to see some of the great Indian\r\nsages, Gurus, that is to say, and she went to one of them – I do not give you\r\nhis name – who looked at her and asked her, as the talk was about Yoga and\r\npersonal effort and all that, whether she was indifferent to criticism. She\r\nanswered him in the classical expression: &quot;Does one mind the barking of a\r\ndog?&quot; She added, when she was narrating to me the story, with much humour:\r\n&quot;Happily, he did not ask me whether I was indifferent to praise – for that\r\nis much more difficult!&quot;</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>So then, you should not consider yourself superior\r\nto others and I shall tell you why; you must know that in a being, human or\r\nother, it is the consciousness that matters and you are either conscious or\r\nunconscious: you can consider yourself superior only when you are unconscious;\r\nthe very moment you are conscious, truly conscious, you lose the sense of\r\nsuperiority or inferiority. In either case you must not feel superior, for it\r\nis smallness, pettiness; but you must be full of goodwill and sympathy and care\r\nlittle about what one says or does not say; however, be always polite, for it\r\nis always better to be polite than to be impolite. In that way you put yourself\r\nin relation with forces that are more harmonious and you can fight better\r\nagainst the forces of destruction and ugliness. But in reality you must rise\r\nabove all that and feel yourself interested only in the Divine, in what He\r\nexpects of you and in what to do for Him, for that is the only thing that\r\ncounts. The rest has no importance.<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 – 143<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\'>\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','-044_How Can Time Be a Friend','','publish','closed','open','','044_how-can-time-be-a-friend','','','2021-11-23 17:58:24','2021-11-23 17:58:24','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/044_how-can-time-be-a-friend/',0,'post','',0),(1837,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:24','2021-11-23 17:58:24','<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 Double Trinity</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\">The Double Trinity</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 human being is\r\ncomposed of three beings, his person is made of three persons – it is a\r\ntrinity, a triptych as it were. The first is the external person whom we\r\nrecognise by his name and form. It is indeed the physical body in and through\r\nwhich nature and character express themselves or try to express themselves as\r\nbest they can. For the body, the material body is both an expression and a\r\nlimitation, the body is not capable of expressing all that is behind it against\r\nwhich it acts as a dam with a few sluices to let something of the inner content\r\nflow out. This inner content means the vital world with its desires and\r\nimpulses and various dynamisms and behind it there is also the mind, the mind\r\nwith its own activities, its thoughts, ideas, imaginations; those two seek\r\nexpression through the body taking the help of the senses. All this forms the\r\nouter personality of man – its sign and symbol is the material body.</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\'>Behind\r\nthis physical person figured in physical body there is the subtle person and it\r\nexpresses itself in a subtle body. The subtle body, because it is subtle, does\r\nnot mean that it is formless. This too has a form which has not the rigidity\r\nof the material body, is not bound like the physical body in a contour of fixed\r\nunchangeable unchanging lineament. The form, supple and flexible, changes in\r\nshape and colour – like a mass of cloud according to the nature of its\r\nmovements and activities and yet maintains its identity and is recognisable as\r\na distinct person from others. Here the movements are free and almost unchecked\r\nand one can go far in the direction of the bad and the wrong as also towards\r\nthe good and the beneficent. It is difficult for this person to make the\r\nchoice. In the physical body such a choice is made by the mental will, in the<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 – 392<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;tab-stops:102.2pt 278.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>subtle\r\nbody the mental will if it remains intact is one among many forces of equal\r\nstrength.</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\'>But\r\nthe saving grace lies in the third person which is the Divine Person, man\'s\r\ntrue person and real identity. This is composed of true consciousness, true\r\nforce, and the supreme truth of being, the delight and immortality. This is as\r\nwe call it man\'s psychic being or soul.</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\'>This\r\nbeing made of light and power and delight is not a formless entity but a real\r\nbeing, a person and possesses a name and body, a Divine name and a Divine body\r\nrecognisable in the same way as a physical body is recognised.</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\'>Now\r\nthis Divine person is in us normally behind the veil almost inoperative acting\r\nor influencing only indirectly and can be and has to be brought forward and put\r\nin charge of the other personalities, over the head of the subtle body and the physical\r\nbody. Then that true person will be the ruler and guide and control and choose\r\nand inspire the movements of the subtle personality and allow only the right\r\nand proper activities to pass through and express themselves in the physical\r\nbody. In this way gradually the three persons will be integrated and unified in\r\na single homogeneous perfect personality embodying and expressing only the\r\nDivine 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\'>We\r\nknow the Divine himself has three such bodies or a triple status of his one\r\nexistence. First, he is prajna, the being or consciousness that contains the\r\nfundamental or typal realities that form the very basis of creation. It is the\r\nnucleus or the seed enclosing all the starting points as in a tight knot, all\r\nfuture elaborations. These elaborations are made by the second status or person\r\nof the Trinity; it has the beautiful name Hiranyagarbha, the golden womb. Here\r\nare laid out all possiblities, all probabilities even, endless and infinite\r\nlines of development and progression of the forces of existence. Every possible\r\nthing is being brought forth and allowed to try its fate. Out of these multifarious\r\npossibilities only some are chosen to appear as physical or material realities.\r\nThis choice is made by the third person of the Trinity, Virat. Each and every\r\npossibility in the Hiranyagarbha may have the chance to appear on the material\r\nplane but that means perhaps time and a particular creation, for evidently\r\nthere are many creations or cycles of creations of different types, one\r\nfollowing another after a<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 – 393</span><span\r\nstyle=\'color:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:13.2pt;\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\'>pralaya as the ancients\r\nconceived the process.</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\ntriple person, it may be noted, is psychologically co-related to the three\r\nwell-known Upanishadic states of consciousness – one, sushupti (perfect\r\nsleep), two swapna (dream) and three, jagrat (wakefulness).</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\ntriple human person, it is evident, exists as a movement parallel to the triple\r\nDivine person: it is an application of the latter to a special set of\r\nconditions, in a particular frame of reference. The human triplicity in other\r\nwords is a specialisation of the Divine Triplicity.<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 – 394<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<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','-111_The Double Trinity','','publish','closed','open','','111_the-double-trinity','','','2021-11-23 17:58:24','2021-11-23 17:58:24','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/111_the-double-trinity/',0,'post','',0),(1838,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:24','2021-11-23 17:58:24','<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 Surrender of an Inner Warrior</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\">The Surrender of an Inner Warrior</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\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\'><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\'>IT means\r\nthe vital when it is converted. The converted vital is for the Divine like a\r\nwarrior. The vital in man is the region of power and it is that which drives\r\nhim to fight, to fight and conquer. It is the most difficult element to deal\r\nwith: for it is this capacity to fight that also produces in the vital the\r\nspirit of revolt and independence, the will to follow its own will. But when\r\nthe vital understands and is converted, if it is truly surrendered to the\r\nDivine Will, then its fighting capacity turns against anti-divine forces, the\r\nforces of obscurity that prevent the transformation: the powers of the vital\r\nare strong enough to conquer the enemies. The anti-divine forces are in the\r\nvital world: from there they spread upon the physical. But their own seat is in\r\nthe vital and it is the converted vital that can effectively deal with them.\r\nBut the conversion is difficult.</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\'>The\r\nhigher vital finds it much less difficult to surrender, for it is under the\r\ninfluence of the mind and sometimes even of the psychic; it understands them\r\nmore easily. It is less difficult than the lower vital, for the latter is\r\nessentially the stronghold of desires and blind impulsions. The lower vital,\r\neven when it surrenders, when it does what it is asked to do, is not wholly\r\nhappy, it suffers and only pushes down the impulse to revolt, it obeys\r\nunwillingly and does not collaborate. Unless it collaborates in joy and true\r\nlove, nothing can be done, the transformation cannot come.</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\'>The\r\nsurrender can be happy only when it is sincere. Or rather one can turn round\r\nthe thing and say, if the vital is not happy, you must know for certain that it\r\nis not perfectly sincere. If it is not happy, that means there <span\r\nclass=GramE>is</span> some reservation, something that would like the thing to\r\nbe otherwise, something with a will of its own, its own desire, its own aim and\r\nwhich is not satisfied, not \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 – 92<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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>completely</span>\r\nsurrendered, not sincere in its surrender. But if one is sincere in his\r\nsurrender one is perfectly happy automatically: he enjoys an inexpressible\r\nhappiness. Therefore if there is not this inexpressible happiness; it is a sign\r\nthat something is there which is not sincere.</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\'>Now\r\nif you wish to discover that part, you have to aspire, to insist, throw the\r\nlight – pray, if need be. There are many other ways. Sometimes a surgical\r\noperation too is <span class=GramE>necessary,</span> you have to thrust the red\r\nhot iron into the wound, just as you have to do when there is a nasty abscess\r\nthat does not want to burst.<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 – 93<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<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','-032_The Surrender of an Inner Warrior','','publish','closed','open','','032_the-surrender-of-an-inner-warrior','','','2021-11-23 17:58:24','2021-11-23 17:58:24','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/032_the-surrender-of-an-inner-warrior/',0,'post','',0),(1839,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:24','2021-11-23 17:58:24','<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 Work Here</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:14.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">The Work </font> </span></b><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Here</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\'>FROM the worldly standpoint, from the point\r\nof view of the result achieved, certainly things can be done better. But I am\r\nspeaking of the effort put in, effort in the deepest sense of the word. Work is\r\nprayer done with the body. With that effort in your work the Divine is\r\nsatisfied, the eye of the Consciousness that has viewed it is indeed pleased.\r\nNot that from the human standpoint one cannot do better. For us, however this\r\nparticular endeavour is one among many; it is only one movement in our sadhana.\r\nWe are engaged in many other things. To raise one particular item of work to\r\nsomething like perfection requires time and means and resources which are not\r\nat our disposal. But we do not seek perfection in one thing, our aim is an\r\nintegral achievement.<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:14.0pt\'>An outside view may find many things to </span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>criticise</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'> and </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>criticise</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'> much, but from the inner view what has been\r\ndone has been done well. In an outside view, you come with all kinds of mental,\r\nintellectual formations and find there is nothing uncommon in what is done\r\nhere. But thereby you miss what is behind: the <i>sadhana. </i>A\r\ndeeper consciousness would see the march towards a realisation that surpasses\r\nall. The outside view does not see the life spiritual; it judges by its own\r\nsmallness.<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\'>There are people who write wanting to join our \r\nUniversity¹ and they ask what kind of diploma or degree we prepare for, the \r\ncareer we open out. To them I say: go elsewhere, please, if you want that; there \r\nare many other places, much better than ours, even in India, in that respect. We \r\ndo not have their equipment or magnificence. You will get there\r\nthe kind of success you look for. We do not compete with them. We move in a different\r\nsphere, on a different level.<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:142.55pt;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\'><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:142.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>¹ Now the Sri Aurobindo\r\nInternational Centre of Education<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:142.55pt;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:14.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n32<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:142.55pt;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;text-indent:9.35pt;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\'>But this does not mean that I ask you to feel\r\nsuperior to others. The true consciousness is incapable of feeling superior. It\r\nis only the small consciousness that seeks to show superiority. Even a child is\r\nmore developed than such a being; for it is spontaneous in its movements. Rise\r\nabove all smallness. Do not be interested in any other thing than your relation\r\nwith the Divine, what you wish to do for Him. That is the only thing\r\ninteresting.<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 – 33<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<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','-011_The Work Here','','publish','closed','open','','011_the-work-here','','','2021-11-23 17:58:24','2021-11-23 17:58:24','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/011_the-work-here/',0,'post','',0),(1840,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:24','2021-11-23 17:58:24','<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>Prayers and Meditations of the Mother</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 style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">Prayers and Meditations of the Mother</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 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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE Prayers and\r\nMeditations of the Mother. It is Life Divine in song, it is Life Divine set\r\nto music – made sweet and lovely, near and dear to us – a thing of beauty and a\r\njoy for ever.</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\'>To\r\nsome the ideal has appeared aloof and afar, cold and forbidding. The ascent is\r\ndifficult involving immense pains and tiresome efforts. It is meant for the\r\nhigh-souled ascetic, not for the weak earth-bound mortals. But here in the\r\nvoice of the Mother we hear not the call for a hazardous climb to the bare cold\r\nwind-swept peak of the <st1:place>Himalayas</st1:place> but a warm invitation\r\nfor a happy trek back to our own hearth and home. The voice of the Divine is\r\nthe loving Mother\'s voice.</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 Prayers\r\nand Meditations of the Mother are a music, a music of the lyre – I say\r\nlyre, because there is a lyric beauty and poignancy in these utterances. And\r\ntrue lyricism means a direct and spontaneous outflowing of the soul\'s intimate\r\nexperiences.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.15in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This wonder-lyre has three\r\nstrings, giving out a triple note or strain: there is a strain of philosophy,\r\nthere is a strain of yoga and there is a strain of poetry. We may also call\r\nthem values and say there is a philosophical, a yogic and a poetic value in these\r\ncontemplations. The philosophical strain or value means that the things said\r\nare presented, explained to the intellect so that the human mind can seize\r\nthem, understand them. The principles underlying the ideal, the fundamental\r\nideas are elaborated in terms of reason and logical comprehension, although the\r\nsubject-matter treated is in the last analysis\' beyond reason and logic. For\r\nexample, here is true philosophy expressed in a philosophic manner as neatly as\r\npossible.<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-line-height-alt:\r\n7.65pt;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– 224</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:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>A quoi servirait l\'homme s\'il n\'etait pas\r\nfait pour jeter un pont entre Ce qui est eternellement, mais qui n\' est pas\r\nmanifest!, et ce qui est manifest<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>, entre toutes les\r\ntranscendances, toutes les splendeu-rs de la vie divine et toute l\'obscure et\r\ndouloureuse ignorance du monde mat<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>riel? L\'homme est le lien entre\r\nce qui doit <span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>tre et ce qui est; <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>il est la passerelle jet<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>e\r\nsur l\' ab£me, il est le grand X en<o:p></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\'>croix,\r\nle trait d\'union quaternaire. Son domicile v<span style=\'font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>ritable, le si<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>ge\r\neffectif de sa conscience doit <span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>tre dans le monde interm<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>diaire\r\nau point de jonction des quatre bras de la croix, l<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>à</span>,\r\no<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ù</span>\r\ntout l\'infini de l\'impensable vient prendre forme pr<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>cise\r\npour <span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>tre projet<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span> dans l\'innombrable\r\nmanifestation. .<span style=\'font-size:8.0pt\'>¹<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\'>Or again</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=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Q,ue de degr<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>s dijf<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>rents\r\ndans la conscience! Il faudrait r<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>server ce mot pour ce qui, dans\r\nun <span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>tre,\r\nest illumine<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>par Ta pr<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>sence,\r\ns\' est identifi<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span> <span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>à</span>, Toi et participe <span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>à</span>,\r\nTa Conscience absolue, ce qui est &quot;paifaitement <span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>veill<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>&quot;,\r\ncomme dit le Bouddha.²<o:p></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 style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>En dehors\r\nde cet <span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>tal, il y a des degr<span style=\'font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>s infinis ,de\r\nconscience descendant jusqu\' <span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>à</span>, l\' obscurit<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>\r\ncompl<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>te, la<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>v<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>ritable\r\ninconscience qui peut <span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>tre un domaine pas encore\r\ntouché<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>par la lumi<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>re\r\nde ton amour (ce qui paraît improbable dans la substance physique), ou bien ce\r\nqui est, pour une raison d\'ignorance quelconque, hors de notre r<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>gion\r\nindividuelle de perception. ³</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\'>&nbsp;</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\'>However,\r\nwe note that the philosophical strain merges into the yogic, rather the yogic\r\nstrain is already involved in the</p>\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\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n8.85pt;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ Of what use would be\r\nman if he was not made to throw a bridge between That which eternally is, but\r\nis not manifested, and that which is manifested; between all the\r\ntranscendences, all the splendours of the divine life and all the obscure and\r\nsorrowful ignorance of the material world? Man is the intermediary between that\r\nwhich has to be and that which is; he is a bridge thrown over the abyss, he is\r\nthe great X in the cross, the quaternary link. His true abode, the effective\r\nseat of his consciousness, should be in the intermediate world at the joining\r\npoint of the four arms of the cross, where all the infinity of the Unknowable\r\ncomes to take precise form for being projected into the multitudinous manifestation.\r\n.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.1pt;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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>² How many and different are the degrees of\r\nconsciousness! This word should be reserved for that which, in a being, is\r\nillumined by Thy Presence, identifies itself with Thee and participates in Thy\r\nabsolute Consciousness, for that which has knowledge, which is &quot;perfectly\r\nawakened&quot; as says the Buddha.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.1pt;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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>³Outside this state, there are infinite degrees of\r\nconsciousness descending down to the complete darkness, the veritable\r\ninconscience which may be a domain not yet touched by the light of Thy divine\r\nlove (but that appears improbable in physical substance), or which is by reason\r\nof some ignorance, outside our individual region of<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>perception.</span><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 – 225</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\'>philosophical.\r\nHere is an obvious and clear expression of this strain:</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\'><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\'>Il faudrait que chaque\r\njour, chaque instant, soil l\'occasion d\'une consécration nouvelle et plus\r\ncompl<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>te; <span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>et\r\nnon pas une de ces cons<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>crations enthousiastes et tr<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>pidantes,\r\nsuractives, Pleine de l\'illusion de l\'muvre, mais une cons<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>cration\r\nprofonde et silencieuse qui n\' est pas forc<span style=\'font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>ment apparente,\r\nmais qui p<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>n<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>tre et transfigure toute action\r\nIl faudrait que notre esprit paisible et solitaire repose toujours en Toi, et\r\nque de ce pur sommet il ait la perception exacte des r<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>alit<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>s,\r\nde la R<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>alit<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>unique et <span style=\'font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>temelle, derri<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>re\r\nles instables et fugitives apparences¹<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 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\'>We\r\nare given all the disciplines necessary for the growth of the spiritual life:\r\nthe processes, the procedures that have to be followed – object-Lessons are\r\ngiven even for the uninitiated and for the very beginner, as well as\r\ninstructions for those who aim at the highest heights thus:</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\'>Il est<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>toujours bon de regarder de temps en temps en\r\nsoi et de voir qu\'on<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>n\'est<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>et ne peut rien, mais il faut en suite\r\ntourner son regard vers Toi en sachant que Tu es tout et que Tu peux tout.<o:p></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 style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Tu\r\nes la<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>vie de notre<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>vie et <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:.45in;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; </span>la lumière de notre être,<o:p></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 style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Tu es\r\nle maître de nos destinées.²<o:p></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=\'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\'>Indeed\r\nphilosophy and yoga go hand in hand. Yoga is applied. philosophy. What is at\r\nfirst mentally perceived and recognised, what is accepted by the reason is made\r\nactive and dynamic in life. The character embodies the abstract and general\r\nprinciples, the vital energy executes them, that is yoga. Philosophy brings in\r\nthe light of consciousness, yoga the</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ Each day, each moment, must be an occasion for a new\r\nand completer consecration;and not one of those enthusiastic and trepidant\r\nconsecrations, overactive, full of the illusion of the work, but a profound\r\nand<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>¹ Each day, each moment, must be an\r\noccasion for a new and completer consecration; and not one of silent\r\nconsecration which need not be apparent, but which penetrates and transfigures\r\nevery action. Our mind, solitary and at peace, must rest always in Thee, and\r\nfrom this pure summit it must have the exact perception of realities, of the\r\nsole and eternal Reality, behind unstable fugitive appearances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.1pt;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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>² It is always good to look within ourselves from time\r\nto time and see that we are nothing and can do nothing, but we must then turn\r\nour look towards Thee, knowing that Thou art all and that Thou canst do all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><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; </span>Thou art the\r\nlife of our life and<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:99.1pt;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;&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><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>the light of our being,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><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; </span>Thou art the\r\nmaster of our destiny.</span><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-line-height-alt:\r\n8.6pt;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– 226</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;mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>energy of\r\nconsciousness. Here we have an expression of what may be caned &quot;yogic\r\nphilosophy&quot;.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;\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:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>II faut <span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>à</span>\r\nchaque moment secouer le passé comme une poussière qui tombe, afin qu\' elle ne\r\nsalisse pas le chemin vierge qui, <span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>à</span> chaque moment aussi, s\' ouvre\r\ndevant nous.¹<o:p></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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:11.0pt;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\'>Once again\r\nwe see emerging the third note, the note of poetry. <b>I</b>n<b> </b>fact the Prayers\r\nand Meditations abound in the most beautiful poetry, what can be more\r\nbeautiful, even more poetically beautiful than these cadences!</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=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\'line-height:150%;tab-stops:.5in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;\r\n</span>Ta \'voix est si modeste, si impartiale, si sublime de patience et de\r\nmiséricorde qu\' elle ne se fait entendre avec aucune auto rité, aucune\r\npuissance de volonté, mais comme une brise fraîche, douce et pure, comme un\r\nmurmure cristallin qui donne la note d\' harmonic dans le concert discordant.\r\nSeulement, pour celui qui sait écouter la note, respirer la brise, elle\r\ncontient de tels trésors de beauté, un tel parfum de pure sérénité et de noble\r\ngrandeur, que toutes les folles illusions s\' évanouissent ou se transforment\r\ndans une joyeuse acceptation de la merveilleuse vérité entrevue.²<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\'><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\'>Or more beautiful than the\r\nbeautiful simplicity of these lines!</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\'>Comme une flamme qui\r\nbrûle silencieusement, comme un parium qui monte tout droit, sans vaciller, mon\r\namour va<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>vers Toi. .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:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\nIf one asks for a classical perfection, here is a line that is on a par with a \r\nRacinian verse </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;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\'>Mon coeur s\'est\r\nendormi<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>jusqu\'au<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>tréfonds de l\'être. .<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:8.0pt\'>4</span></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\n8.6pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:8.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ We must at each moment shake off the past like\r\nfalling dust, so that it may<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>not\r\nsoil the virgin path which, also at each moment, opens before us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.35pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.4pt;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:10.0pt\'>² Thy voice is so modest, impartial, sublime in its\r\npatience and its mercy that it does not make itself heard with any authority,\r\nany potency of will; it is like a cool, soft and pure breeze; it is like a\r\ncrystalline murmur that imparts a note of harmony to a discordant concert. Only\r\nfor him who knows how to listen to that note, how to breathe that breeze, it\r\ncontains such a treasure of beauty and such a perfume of pure serenity and\r\nnoble grandeur, that all extravagant illusions vanish or are transformed into a\r\njoyful acceptance of the marvellous truth that has been glimpsed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-weight:normal\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>³Like a flame that burns in silence, like a\r\nperfume that rises straight upward without wavering, my love goes to Thee. .<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:8.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:8.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>4<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'> My heart has fallen asleep, down to the very depths\r\nof my being.</span></span><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 – 227<o:p>&nbsp;</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\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nhere is a line flowing with all the milk and honey of the Romantic muse<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;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\'><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\'>Et les heures\r\ns\'evanouissent comme des rêves invécus. .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;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\r\npossesses furthermore the magic of an indefinable mysticism so rare in the\r\nFrench language. The mystic element gives a special grace and flavour, a\r\ntranscendent significance serving as an enveloping aura to the whole body of\r\nthese Prayers and Meditations.</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\nOne cannot, for example, but be bewitched by the mystic grandeur of this image :</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;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\'>0\r\nConscience immobile et sereine, Tu veilles aux confins dumonde comme un sphinx\r\nd\' <span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>ternit<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>ê</span>.\r\nEt pourtant <span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>à</span> certains Tu livres Ton secret.²<o:p></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=\'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\nfact three notes blend together indissolubly and form what we call \'mantra\' –\r\neven like the triple mystic syllable <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>AUM<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.65pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Once,\r\nin connection with Shakespeare, I said that a poet\'s language, which is in\r\ntruth the poet himself, may be considered as consisting of unit vocables,\r\nsyllables, that are as it were fundamental particles, even like the nuclear\r\nparticles, each poet having his own type of particle, with its own charge and\r\nspin and vibrations. Shakespeare\'s, I said, is a particle of Life-energy, a\r\npacket of living blood-vibration, pulsating as it were, with real heart.- beat.\r\nLikewise in Dante one feels it to be a packet of Tapas – of ascetic energy, a\r\nbare clear concentrated flame-wave of consciousness, of thought-force. In the Prayers\r\nand Meditations the fundamental unit of expression seems to be a packet of\r\ngracious light – one seems to touch the very hem of Mahalakshmi.</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\nvoice in the Prayers and Meditations is <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>\'s\r\nflute calling the souls imprisoned in their worldly household to come out into\r\nthe wide green expanses of infinity, in the midst of the glorious herds of\r\nlight, to play and enjoy in the company of the Lord of Delight.</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=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹\r\nAnd the hours pass like dreams unlived. .<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText3 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">² 0 serene and immobile Consciousness, Thou watchest on\r\nthe boundaries of the world like a sphinx of eternity. And yet to some Thou\r\ngivest out Thy secret.</p>\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 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 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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\nhave spoken of the three notes or strains in the Prayers and Meditations. Apart\r\nfrom this triple theme which after all means mode or modulation in expression,\r\nthere is a triplicity in depth. Along with the strains, there are strands.\r\nBesides the value or quality of the things, the thing itself is a composite\r\nreality containing different levels. It is not a single, unilateral,\r\none-dimensional world, but it is multi-dimensional consisting of many worlds,\r\none within another, all telescoped as it were, to form a single indivisible\r\nwhole.</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\'>Now\r\nthese prayers – who prays? And to whom? These meditations – who meditates? And\r\nwho is the object of the meditation? First of all there is the apparent obvious\r\nmeaning, that is on the very surface. It is the Mother\'s own prayers offered to\r\nher own beloved Lord. It is her own personal aspiration, the preoccupation of\r\nthe individual human being that she is. It is the secret story, the inner\r\nhistory of all that she desires, asks for, questions, all that she has\r\n\'experienced and realised and the farther more that she is to achieve, the\r\nrevelations of a terrestrial creature of the particular name and form that she\r\nhappens to possess. Thus for example, the very opening passage of these\r\nprayers:</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;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\'>Quoique\r\ntout mon être Te soit<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>th<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>oriquement<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>consacr<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>,<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>, ô Maître Sublime, qui est la<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>vie, la lumière et I\' amour de toute chose j\'\r\nai peine encore â appliquer cette cons<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>cration dans les d<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>tails.l1\r\nm\'<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>a fallU<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>Plusieurs semaines pour savoir que la raison\r\nde cette m<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>ditation <span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>crite, sa l<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>gitimation,\r\nr<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>side\r\ndans Ie fait de Te l\' adresser quotidiennement. Ainsi je mat<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>rialiserai\r\nchaque jour un pen de la conversation que j\' ai si fr<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>quemment\r\navec Toi,. je Te ferai de mon mieux ma corifession. .¹</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.4pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-1.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;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: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\nwe notice immediately that these are not -exclusively personal, absolutely\r\nindividual assertions. While speaking of</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n8.6pt;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹Although my whole being is\r\nin theory conscrated to Thee, O Sublime Master, who art the life, the light and\r\nthe love in all things, I still find it hard to carry out this consecration in\r\ndetail. It has taken me several weeks to learn that the reason for this written\r\nmeditation, its justification lies in the very fact of addressing it daily to\r\nThee. In this way I shall put into material shape each day a little of the\r\nconversation I have so often with Thee; I shall make my confession to Thee as\r\nwell as it may be--..</span><b><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></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 2.0pt 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 2.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 229</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:11.5pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>herself,\r\nspontaneously she seems to be speaking on behalf of all men. The words that she\r\nutters come as it were, from the lips of all mankind. She is the representative\r\nhuman being. She gives expression to all that man feels or might feel but is not\r\nable or does not know how to express and articulate. Her<span style=\"background-color: #FFFFFF\">e i</span>s how she describes her function as a representative person – so \r\nbeautifully, so poignantly</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\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:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Alors\r\nj\'ai pensé à<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>tous ceux qui veillaient\r\nsur le bateau pour assurer et protéger noire route, et avec reconnaissance,\r\ndans leur C(Eur, j\' ai voulu faire naêtre et vivre Ta Paix,. puis j\'\r\nai pensé a tous ceux qui, confiants et sans souci, dormaient du sommeil de\r\nl\'inconscience, et avec sollicitude pour leurs misères, pitié pour leur\r\nsouffrance latente s\' éveillant en eux en même temps que leur réveil, j\' ai\r\nvoulu qu\'un peu de Ta Paix habite leur cæur, et fasse naêtre en eux la vie de\r\nl\'esprit, la lumière dissipant l\'ignorance. Puis j\'ai pensé, à tous les\r\nhabitants de cette vaste mer, les visibles et les invisibles, et j\' ai\r\nvoulu que sur eux s\' étende Ta Paix. Puis j\' ai pensé à ceux que nous\r\navions laissé au loin et dont l\' affection nous accompagne, et avec une grande\r\ntendresse, pour tux j\' ai voulu Ta Paix consciente et durable, la\r\nplenitude de Ta Paix proportionnée à leur capacité de la recevoir. Puis j\' ai\r\npensé à tous ceux vcrs qui nous allons, que des préoccupations erfantines\r\nagitent et qui se battent pour de mesquines compétitions d\'intérêt<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>dans l\'ignorance et l\'égoïsme,. et avec\r\nardeur, dans une grande aspiration, pour eux, j\' ai demandé la pleine\r\nlumiére de Ta Paix. Puis j\'ai pensé à tous ceux que nous connaissons, à tous\r\nceux que nous ignorons, à toute la vie qui s\' élabore, à tout ce qui a changé\r\nde forme, à tout ce qui n\' est pas encore en forme, et pour tout cela, ainsi\r\nque pour ce à quoi je ne puis penser, pour tout ce qui est présent à ma mémoire\r\net pour tout ce que j\'oublie, dans un grand recueillement et une muette\r\nadoration, j\'ai imploré Ta Paix,¹<o:p></o:p></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ I then thought of all those who were watching over\r\nthe ship to safeguard and protect our route, and in gratitude, I willed\r\nthat Thy peace should be born and live in their hearts; then I thought of all</span>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>those who, confident and carefree, slept the\r\nsleep of inconscience and, with solicitude for their miseries, pity for their\r\nlatent suffering which would awake in them in their own waking, I willed that a\r\nlittle of Thy Peace might dwell in their hearts and bring to birth in them the\r\nlife of the Spirit, the light which dispels ignorance. I then thought of the\r\ndwellers of this vast sea, visible and invisible, and I willed that over them\r\nmight be extended Thy Peace. I thought next of those whom we had left far away\r\nand whose affection is with us, and with a great tenderness I willed for them\r\nThy conscious and lasting Peace, the plenitude of Thy Peace proportioned to\r\ntheir capacity to receive it. Then I thought of all those to whom we are going,\r\nwho are restless with childish preoccupations and fight for mean competitions\r\nof interest in ignorance and</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\n7.9pt;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– 230</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\'>or again: </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\'>Ce que j\'ai voulu pour\r\neux,<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>avec Ta<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>volont<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>, auxû moments où j\'ai pu être\r\nen communion v<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>ritable avec Toi, permets qu\'ils l\'aient reçu<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>en ce jour où, tâchant d\'oublier les\r\ncontingences ext<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>rieures, its se sont tourn<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>s\r\nvcrs leur pens<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>e la plus noble, vcrs leur sentiment le meilleur.\r\nQ,ue la suprême s<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>r<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>nit<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>\r\nde Ta sublime Pr<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>sence s\' <span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>veille en eux.¹<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 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 .Mother is not merely a representative, she has become all men, the entire\r\nhumanity itself. She has identified herself with each person<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>in her being and consciousness, she is one\r\nwith all, all are merged in her. Her voice utters the cry of the human collectivity.\r\nMother\'s Prayers and Meditations are the prayers and meditations of man.\r\nThus again:</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\'><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 style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>. . il\r\nm\' a sembl<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>que j\' adoptais\r\ntous les habitants de ce bateau, que je les enveloppais tous dans un <span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>gal<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>amour, et qu\' ainsi en chacun d\' eux<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>quelque chose de Ta conscience s\' <span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>veillerait.\r\n²</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'>She\r\nhas so clearly and unequivocally expressed her oneness with all men. She\r\nmentions specially the miserable, the poor and afflicted mankind:</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;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\'>Lorsque j\'\r\n<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>tais\r\nenfant – vers l\' âge de treize ans et pendant un an environ – tous les soirs d<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>s\r\nque j\' <span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>tais\r\ncouch<span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>e, il me semblait que je sortais de mon corps et que\r\nje m\' <span style=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>levais tout droit au-dessus de la maison, puis de la\r\nville, irès haul. Je me voyais alors vêtue d\'une<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>magnifique robe dor<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Lucida Console\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Lucida Console\"\'>é</span>e,\r\nplus longue que moi;. et a mesure que je<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.9pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-1.9pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>____________:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>egoism and ardently, in a great aspiration for them I\r\nasked for the plenty light of Thy Peace.I next<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>thought of all those whom we know, of all those whom\r\nwe do not know, of all the life that is working itself out, of all that has\r\nchanged its form and all that is not yet in form, and for all that, and also\r\nfor all of which I cannot think, for all that is present to my memory and for\r\nall that I forget, in a<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:280.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>great eg ingathering and mute adoration, I\r\nimplored Thy Peace.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:8.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ What I willed for them, with Thy will, at the\r\nmoments when I could be in a true communion with Thee, grant that they may have\r\nreceived it on the day when, striving to forget external contingencies, they\r\nturned towards their noblest thought, towards their best feelings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>May\r\nthe supreme serenity of Thy sublime Presence awake in them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:8.85pt;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>².\r\n. it seemed to me that I adopted all the inhabitants of this ship, and\r\nenveloped them in an equal love, and that so in each one of them, something of\r\nThy consciousness would awake.<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 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 – 231</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\'>montais,\r\ncette robe s\' allongeait en s\' étendant circulairement autour<o:p></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\'>de moi\r\npour former comme un toil immense au-dessus de la ville. Alors je vqyais de\r\ntaus côtés sortir des hommes, des femmes, des enfants, des vieillards, des\r\nmalades, des malheureux; its s\' assemblaient sous la robe étendue, implorant\r\nsecours, racontant leurs misères, leurs souffrances, leurs peines. En réponse,\r\nla robe, souple et vivante, s\' allongeait vers eux individuellement, et dès\r\nqu\'ils l\' avaient touchée, its étaient consolés ou guéris, et rentraient dans\r\nleurs corps plus heureux et plus forts qu\' avant d\' en être sortis.¹<o:p></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\'><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\'>But her\r\nbeing and consciousness are not limited to mankind alone. She has identified\r\nherself with even material objects, with all the small insignificant physical\r\nthings which our earthly existence deals with. This is how she takes leave of\r\nthe house where she had lived, and the things it had sheltered, on the eve of a\r\nlong journey:</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\'>Je les\r\nremercie avec reconnaissance de tout le charme qu\'ils ant su donner\r\nextérieurement à noire vie; je souhaite que, s\'il est dans leur destinée de\r\npasser pour plus ou mains longtemps en d\' autres mains que les nôires, ces\r\nmains leur soient douces et sachant tout le respect que l\' on doit à ce que Ton\r\ndivin Amour, Seigneur, a fait surgir de l\' obscure inconscience du chaos. ²</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'>It\r\nis to be noted how even a material object is taken up, purified and transformed\r\nalmost into a living being by the Mother\'s loving touch.</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\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The same feeling of unity and oneness\r\nextends to the dumb</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:10.05pt;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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ When I was a child – about the age of thirteen and\r\nfor about a year – every night as soon as I was in bed, it seemed to me that I\r\ncame out of my body and rose straight up above the house, then above the town,\r\nvery high. I saw myself then, clad in a magnificent golden robe, longer than\r\nmyself; and as I rose, that robe lengthened, spreading in a circle around me to\r\nform, as it were, an immense roof over the town. Then I would see coming out\r\nfrom all sides, men, women, children, the old, the sick, the unhappy; they\r\ngathered under the outspread robe, imploring help, recounting their miseries,\r\ntheir sufferings, their pains. In reply, the robe, supple and living, stretched\r\nout to them individually, and as soon as they touched it, they were consoled or\r\nhealed, and entered back into their body happier and stronger than they had\r\never been before coming out of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.1pt;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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>²I thank them with gratitude for all the charm they\r\nhave been able to impart from the outside to our life; I wish, if they are\r\ndestined to pass for a long or a brief period into other hands than ours, that\r\nthese hands may be gentle to them and may feel all the respect that is due to\r\nwhat Thy divine Love, O Lord, has made to emerge from the dark inconscience of\r\nchaos. (3.3.1914)<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;text-indent:9.1pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 232 </span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>\r\n<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\'>plant world also: It is\r\noneness not partial or vague but total and absolute:</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\'>Une grande\r\nconcentration s\' est emparée de moi et je me suis aperçue que je\r\nm\'identijiais avec une fleur de cerisier; puis à travers cette fleur avec\r\ntoutes les fleurs de cerisier; puis descendant plus profondément dans la\r\nconscience, en suivant un courant de force bleutée, je devins tout à coup le\r\ncerisier lui-même, dressant vcrs le ciel, comme autant de bras, ses\r\ninnombrables branches chargées de leur offrande fleurie. J\' entendis\r\nalors distinctement la phrase suivante:<o:p></o:p></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\'>&quot;Ainsi\r\ntu t\' es unit à<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>l\' âme des\r\ncerisiers et tu as pu de la sorte constater que c\' est le Divin qui fait au\r\nciel l\' offrande de cette prière de fleurs.&quot; Lorsque je l\'eus écrit,\r\ntouts’effaça ;; mais main tenant le sang du cerisier coule dans mes veines, et\r\navec lui une paix et une force incomparables; quelle différence y a-toil entre\r\nle corps humain et le corps d\'un arbre? Aucune vraiment, et la conscience qui\r\nles anime est bien identiquement la même.¹<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.45pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;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;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Indeed the Mother\'s voice\r\nis the voice of all men, all creatures, all beings, all things. She stands for\r\nthe entire earth, not only so, she is the Earth itself; the total terrestrial\r\nbeing is embodied in her, earth\'s aspiration, and pain and yearning find\r\nutterance in her.</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\'><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\'>Le monde douloureux s\'\r\nest agenouillé devant Toi, Seigneur, en muette supplication la matiére torturée\r\nse blottit à Tes pieds, son demier, son unique refuge; et en T\'implorant ainsi,\r\nelle T\'adore,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:1.4pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Toi\r\nqu\' elle ne connait ni ne comprend! Sa prière s\' élève comme le cri d\'un\r\nagonisant; ce qui disparait sent confusément la possibilité<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:7.9pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.4pt;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:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:7.9pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.4pt;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:10.0pt\'>¹ A deep concentration seized on me, and I perceived\r\nthat I was identifying myself with a single cherry-blossom, then through it\r\nwith all cherry-blossoms, and as I descended deeper in the consciousness,\r\nfollowing a stream of bluish force, I became suddenly the cherry-tree\r\nitself, stretching towards the sky like so many arms its</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>innumerable\r\nbranches laden with their sacrifice of flowers. Then I heard distinctly this\r\nsentence:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:8.6pt;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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>&quot;Thus hast thou made thyself one with the soul of\r\ncherry-trees and so thou canst take note that it is the Divine who makes the\r\noffering of this flower-prayer to heaven.&quot; <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:8.6pt;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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>When I had written it, all was effaced; but now the\r\nblood of the cherry-tree flows in my veins and with it flows an incomparable\r\npeace and force. What difference is there between the human body and the body\r\nof a tree? In truth there is none, the consciousness which animates them is\r\nidentically the same.</span><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 – 233</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;text-indent:1.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.25pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>de\r\nrevivre en Toi,. la terre attend Ton arrêt dans<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;\r\n</span>une grandiose<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>prosternation. .\r\n¹</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:1.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.25pt;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:10.05pt;\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;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\'>This\r\nis the second status of the Mother\'s being, the first is the personal and\r\nindividual, the second is this collective and universal being. But she is not\r\nmerely the universe, she is the Mother of the universe. Hers is not merely\r\nearth\'s prayer, but the prayer of the Mother of the earth. It is not merely the\r\nprayer of the universe but the prayer of the Universal Mother to the Supreme\r\nLord for the deliverance of the universe, for the re-creation of the earth –\r\nIndeed, for the deliverance of herself for the re-creation of herself out of\r\nthe present ignorant manifestation:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.65pt;text-indent:-1.65pt;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=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>0 Mère, douce Mère que je suis, Tu es à<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>la<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;\r\n</span>fois ce qui détruit et ce qui érige.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:.15in;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>L\'univers entier vie dans Ton sein de sa vie\r\ninnombrable et Tu<o:p></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\'>vis dans Ie moindre de ses atomes immensément.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Et I\' aspiration de Ton\r\ninfinitude se tourne vcrs Cela qui n\' est point manifesté, afin d\'implorer\r\ntoujours une plus compléte et plus parfaite mainifestation. &quot;²</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.65pt;text-indent:-1.65pt;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=\'margin-left:1.65pt;text-indent:-1.65pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Or\r\nagain:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.65pt;text-indent:-1.65pt;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=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Je suis les bras puissants de Ta miséricorde. Je\r\nsuis la vaste poitrine de Ton amour sans limites.. Les bras one enveloppé la /\r\nterre douloureuse et la pressent tendrement sur Ie cmur généreux,. et\r\nlentement un baiser de suprême bénédiction<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;\r\n</span>est<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>posé sur cet atome en\r\nconjlit.. Ie baiser de la Mère qui console et guéfrit. . ³</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.65pt;text-indent:-1.65pt;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=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:8.4pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;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 This sorrowful world\r\nkneels before Thee, 0 Lord, in mute supplication; this tortured Matter nestles\r\nat thy feet, its last, its sole refuge; and so imploring Thee, it adores Thee,\r\nThee whom it neither knows nor understands! Its prayer rises like the cry of\r\none in a last agony; that which is disappearing feels confusedly the\r\npossibility of living again in Thee; the earth awaits Thy decree in a grandiose\r\nprostration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:8.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>²<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp; </span>Mother,\r\nsweet Mother, who I am, Thou art at once the destroyer and the builder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:8.4pt;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>The\r\nwhole universe lives in Thy breast with all its life innumerable and Thou\r\nlivest in Thy immensity in the least of its atoms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.1pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:8.4pt;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>And\r\nthe aspiration of Thy infinitude turns towards That which is not manifested to\r\ncry to it for a manifestation ever more complete and more perfect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:8.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.4pt;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:10.0pt\'>³ I am Thy puissant arms of mercy. I am the vast bosom\r\nof Thy limitless love. The arms have enfolded the sorrowful earth and tenderly\r\npress it to the generous heart; slowly a kiss of supreme benediction settles on\r\nthis atom in conflict: the kiss of the Mother that consoles and heals.<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=\'margin-left:1.65pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:-1.65pt;line-height:150%;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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 234</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-left:1.65pt;text-indent:-1.65pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nonce more:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.65pt;text-indent:-1.65pt;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;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\'>Toute la\r\nterre est dans nos bras comme un enfant malade qu\'il faut guérir et pour lequel\r\non a, ài cause même de sa faiblesse, une tendresse toute spéciale.¹<o:p></o:p></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\'>The\r\ntriple status of the Mother, the individual, the collective and the\r\ntranscendental (or, in other words, the personal, the universal and the\r\nsupra-personal) has been condensed and epitomised in the magical note\r\ndescribing her first meeting with the Lord:</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-indent:10.55pt;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\'>Peu<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>importe\r\nqu\'il y ait<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>milliers d\'êtres plongés\r\ndans la plus épaisse ignorance, Celui que nous avons vu hier est sur terre,. sa\r\nprésence suffit à<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>prouver qu\'un jour\r\nviendra où, l\'ombre sera<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>trans- . formée<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>en lumière, et où, effectivement, Ton règne\r\nsera instauré sur la terre.²<o:p></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=\'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:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\nAnd the reality that Their manifestation upon earth has to establish, the \r\nsupreme achievement of Their terrestrial existence is chanted, as it were, in \r\nthese wonderfully mystic<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>Sibylline-lines:</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:8.4pt;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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'>La mort a passé<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>vaste et solennelle et tout s\' est tu\r\nreligieusement durant son passage. Une beauté surhumaine a pam sur la terre.\r\nQ,uelque chose de plus merveilleux que la plus merveilleuse félicité fait\r\npressentir sa Présence.³<o:p></o:p></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\'><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;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I\r\nhave spoken of the triple status, the three levels of her ascending reality,\r\nthese are in view of her manifestation of</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:8.15pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.65pt;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:10.0pt\'>¹ All the earth is in our arms like a sick child who\r\nmust be cured and for whom one has a special affection because of his very\r\nweakness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:8.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.65pt;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:10.0pt\'>² It matters not if there are hundreds of beings\r\nplunged in the densest ignorance. He whom we saw yesterday, is here on earth;\r\nHis presence is enough to prove that a day shall come when darkness shall be\r\ntransformed into light, when Thy reign shall be indeed established upon earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>.³<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>Death has passed, vast and solemn, and all\r\nfell into a religious silence during its passage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>A\r\nsuperhuman beauty has appeared on the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>Something\r\nmore marvellous than the most marvellous bliss has made felt the impress of its\r\nPresence.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\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;\'>Page – 2 35<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\'>world-labour. There is\r\nhowever, yet another status beyond – beyond the beyond – It is the relation\r\nbetween the Supreme Lord and the Divine Mother in itself apart from their work,\r\ntheir purpose in manifestation, it is their own \'Lila\' between themselves,\r\nexclusively their own. The delight of this exclusively personal play behind and\r\nbeyond the creation sheds a secret aroma in and through all this existence here\r\nand it is also the source of the hidden magic that these utterances of the Prayers\r\nand Meditations contain, it is to this status surpassing all wonder that\r\nSri Aurobindo refers so wistfully and so sweetly in those famous opening lines,\r\nin &quot;A God\'s Labour\':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-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I have gathered my dreams\r\nin a silver air</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Between the gold\r\nand the blue</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And wrapped them softly\r\nand left them there</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>My jewelled dreams\r\nof you.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;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 15.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The delight of delights, the\r\npurest delight that exists up there in its self-sufficiency overflows, spills\r\nas it were, and a drop of that nectar of immortality is what constitutes these\r\nuniverses here below.</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 15.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 236</span></p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\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>','-075_Prayers and Meditations of the Mother','','publish','closed','open','','075_prayers-and-meditations-of-the-mother','','','2021-11-23 17:58:24','2021-11-23 17:58:24','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/075_prayers-and-meditations-of-the-mother/',0,'post','',0),(1841,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:25','2021-11-23 17:58:25','<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 Sorrows of God</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\">The Sorrows of God</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 Son of Man – the\r\nAvatar – suffers with and suffers for the suffering humanity. The Christ with\r\nhis cross, Ramakrishna with his cancer, Socrates with the hemlock creeping up\r\nand benumbing his limbs and Mohammed being hunted from place to place are\r\nfamiliar and poignant pictures. &quot;Verily, verily, the foxes have their\r\nholes, the birds their nests, but the son of man hath nowhere to lay his\r\nhead.&quot;</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\'>And\r\nthis is bound to be so, for it is the inexorable law of nature: one who has\r\nidentified himself with Nature, ignorant nature, of which the ignorant and\r\nsuffering humanity is part and parcel, one whose body and soul are in unison\r\nand union with the body and soul of all beings and creatures, made of the same\r\nstuff and substance cannot – and wants not to escape the general fate whatever\r\nit is. If misery be the badge of the human tribe, the Divine Man, the\r\nrepresentative human being must wear that badge.</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\'>And\r\nyet there is a difference. In the case of the Divine Man it is a willing\r\nacceptance not an imposition or blind sub mission. Indeed, it is this\r\ndifference that makes the unity of creation a progressive unity, instead of a\r\nstatic unity, a never-ending repetition, an eternal recurrence.</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\'>There\r\nis a consciousness above and a consciousness below: a consciousness above the\r\nignorant nature and a consciousness within that nature. They are not, however,\r\naltogether distinct and incommensurable: it is the same consciousness with a\r\ndouble status as in the well-known figure of the two birds in in the\r\nUpanishad.</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\nUpanishadic standpoint declares that the being above is a silent witness,\r\ninactive, immobile, still. The one below is active and tastes of things both\r\nbitter and sweet, in other<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 – 379<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\'>words, it takes part and\r\nis involved in the varied life-experiences. Certain lines of spiritual\r\nexperience find that the being above is <i>the </i>reality, that the other is\r\nonly an image, a reflection or illusion; and the image looks like a troubled\r\nimage because it is, as it were, a reflection in the troubled waters of cosmic\r\nignorance: dispel the ignorance, nothing remains but the transcendent Witness-Being,\r\nall alone. Such is the position of <i>mayavada </i>or\r\nillusionism. But there are other lines of experience giving a different view\r\nand a different realisation. Both the transcendent and the immanent are form of\r\nthe same Reality, with different functions, standing on different levels. Thus,\r\nas we say, the one below is not a vain image, or a mere reflection, but a\r\ndescent here in the manifestation, of the reality above. This is also as real\r\nas that, the other, only it functions differently. The descent means two\r\nthings, a double operation, first, the assumption of ignorance: what was light\r\nbecomes obscurity, what was vast and infinite becomes small and finite, what\r\nwas straight becomes crooked, what was delight becomes pain, what was one and\r\nunited becomes many and disparate, what was whole becomes fragmentary. The\r\ndescending being in one part or facet turns into the exact opposite of what it\r\nwas originally, it is a denial of itself; secondly, in another aspect or part\r\nof itself, in its essence and profundity, it remains unaltered, intact as it\r\nwere with no change whatsoever in its nature and character. That is the\r\nimmanent Godhead, the emanation, the extension or projection of the transcendent\r\ninto the external material appearance. This immanent Godhead has its own\r\nfunction, it is the initiation of the ascent after the descent, in the vast\r\nfield of an apparent total ignorance it is as it were the catalytic element\r\nintroducing a reverse movement upward.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.1in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Left to\r\nitself, Nature, the inferior inconscient Nature would admit of no change, it\r\nwould only repeat the past; it would be a circular or cyclic movement, at the\r\nmost it would move in a horizontal line; no upward movement would be possible.\r\nIt is only when the consciousness descends, sends a shaft of light into the\r\ndark inert mass below, uses it as a churning rod, that there occurs the\r\nstirring of a new creation; a new formation begins, a new content is added and\r\na new disposition built up. To the human consciousness that appears as\r\ncalamities<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.1in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n12.0pt;\'>Page – 380<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\'>and catastrophes. It is\r\ntruly the great sacrificial horse in the Upanishadic image that shakes its\r\nlimbs and the elements roar and thunder – the forward-marching galloping fiery\r\nforce of a progressing Consciousness.</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\'>At\r\nthe very outset the light descends as a shower of scattered glowing points into\r\nthe heart of things, secreted and unobserved; that gives only just a basis for\r\nthe progressive upward movement. It initiates a mere possibility. For a more effective\r\npower, for the dynamic upward drive other descents are necessary, descents of\r\nindividual formations, individualities and personalities embodying the light\r\nand force of conscious ness. This becomes tangible when the light enters into\r\nthe human creation. All men, all human formations are individualised specks\r\nof light cast into a material shape. And this shape bears all the stigma of\r\ninconscient nature. But it is the work and mission of the secret immanent light\r\nto corrode into the dense dark material and illumine and new create it. The\r\nwhole suffering humanity presents the picture of a laboratory where a new\r\nlaser beam is operating for the realisation of a renovated humanity. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.65pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Great\r\nsouls, Avatars, are a necessity, an inevitability in the process of evolution\r\nand ascension, for they are individualisations, impersonations so to say, in\r\nwhom the consciousness energy is massively stored and concretised for a\r\ngreater and radical effective power of realisation. Inevitably this means as I\r\nhave said the assumption of all the ills of nature; for the very purpose of\r\nincarnation is to purify the external nature, so that it becomes one with the\r\ninner being. So, all terrestrial human beings share in the impurity of the\r\nignorant ordinary nature and share also, as secretly conscious entities\r\nalthough</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\'>outwardly almost\r\nabsolutely unconscious, in the general work of progress and purification. But\r\nthere are beings who come forward as conscious formations with the mission of\r\nuplifting, transmuting, divinising humanity.</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\'>The\r\nhigher or deeper the source of the descending or manifesting Consciousness – for\r\nthere are gradations or various statuses of it – the wider and vaster and more\r\nradical is its effective power for redeeming and changing the ignorant common\r\nnature, and also strangely, perhaps inevitably, the more intimate and poignant\r\nits participation in the travail 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 – 381<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\'>that nature – the\r\nparticipation extends not only to pain and suffering but to death also, for\r\nthrough death the path leads to resurrection and immortality. The Divine\r\nHimself in various forms comes down upon and into earth and pays by his pain\r\nand suffering for the sins and errors of humanity. That is the ransom he\r\ncondescends to offer to the deity of ignorance, the reigning lord of the world\r\nfor securing the freedom of man\'s soul. The divine emanations bear the burden\r\nof ignorance all the more so that the burden on others may be lightened, the\r\npains less painful. Indeed, suffering humanity is also the suffering Godhead\r\nhimself, suffering multifariously although ignorantly and unconsciously. There\r\nis an inner working of the secret godhead in order that the suffering may be\r\ngradually transmuted into something else, into the divine delight. The Godhead\r\nhas taken up this task in order that the Divine may not remain Divine only in\r\nits essence and in the other, the transcendent status, but express itself also\r\nas the Divine in an earthly form, an earthly form cleared of all dross, made luminously\r\nbeautiful.<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 – 382<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<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','-107_The Sorrows of God','','publish','closed','open','','107_the-sorrows-of-god','','','2021-11-23 17:58:25','2021-11-23 17:58:25','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/107_the-sorrows-of-god/',0,'post','',0),(1842,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:25','2021-11-23 17:58:25','<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 Ideal Centre</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 Ideal Centre</font></span></b></p>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\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 0in 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 0in 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>&nbsp;</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;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\'>ONCE\r\nwhen the Mother was asked by a group of disciples to give permission and\r\nblessings for opening a centre, She said in answer: &quot;To open a centre is\r\nnot sufficient in itself. It must be the pure hearth of perfect sincerity, in a\r\ntotal consecration to the Divine.&quot; This is the first motto or <i>mantra </i>that\r\nshould be inscribed on the tablet of the inner constitution of every group\r\norganisation. It states the basic spirit, the true inspiration that should\r\ninitiate the work and guide it through. The second <i>mantra </i>is embodied in\r\nthese words of Sri Aurobindo: &quot;Love the Mother: Always behave as if She\r\nwas looking at you, for indeed She is always present.&quot; These are words\r\nthat should be kept always bright and blazing in the heart of each and every\r\none. It gives the source and origin of the inspiration, the single fount of all\r\nmovements collective and individual. And a third <i>mantra </i>not less living\r\nor less urgent has been given by the Mother: &quot;Let us work as we pray, for\r\nindeed work is the body\'s best prayer to the Divine.&quot; Here we learn of the\r\nway, the process that is to be followed, the skill as it were, for realising\r\nthe goal.</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;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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And for a final comprehension and\r\ndirection we are to remember these words of Sri Aurobindo: &quot;All problems\r\nof existence are essentially problems of harmony.&quot;</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;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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>In life, which is necessarily corporate\r\nlife (a centre essentially means a training and a realisation in corporate\r\nlife) the first and last necessity is harmony, that is to say, understanding\r\nand union among the members of the corporate life. That is a self-evident truth\r\nunderstood and accepted by one and all. But the crux of the matter is how to\r\nachieve the harmony. It can be achieved only on a higher level of being and\r\nconscious­ness, on the lower ordinary level there can be only a compromise, </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 0in 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 341</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\'>an unstable balance,\r\nan uncertain counter-poising of diverse and divergent elements. Also, it must\r\nbe noted, that the higher and deeper the consciousness, the wider and the more\r\ncomprehensive, the more the harmony becomes natural, spontaneous, faultless,\r\nperfect: and on the highest level the harmony becomes not merely union but\r\nindivisible unity.</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\'>That\r\nis the goal towards which a dedicated centre, that is to say, a spiritually\r\naspiring group should move and labour. And that also is the primary work, the\r\nfirst and foremost for which the centre stands as the field. And this work can\r\nbe done and has to be achieved through the discipline enunciated in just the\r\nprevious, our third <i>mantra – the </i>fundamental attitude with which the\r\nwork has to be done. It is said there that the work, consecrated work or\r\nservice is the prayer of the body. Mind\'s prayer is expressed in words, body\'s\r\nprayer in-works. Work is the prayer in its dynamic and concrete form, it is the\r\nutterance of the physical, the language it knows in order to ask for and seek\r\nthe union with the Divine. It is the holy ritual expressing and embodying in\r\nthe physical, material life, one\'s adoration, one\'s adhesion to the ideal, to\r\nthe deity one worships. </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\'>Work\r\nor service expressing harmonisation needs to be based, as I have said, upon a\r\nhigher and higher consciousness. Work done as prayer is the best means of\r\neffecting an ascent in consciousness. This is the lesson that each individual\r\nof a centre must learn from the very outset and ever afterwards., He must\r\nalways try to rise in consciousness, reach an ever higher status of being and\r\nfrom there let the work flow, as it were, from a spontaneous spring. As one\r\nrises in consciousness and being) naturally and inevitably this consciousness\r\nwidens and one feels naturally and spontaneously kinship and union with all\r\nothers. Work or service is then only a dynamic means of achieving and realising\r\nthe sense of perfect unity of oneself with all other selves.</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\'>Work\r\nis not meant to- show or express one\'s capacity or skilfulness or cleverness,\r\nnor is it a mere mechanical execution of outward acts performing certain duties\r\nhowever conscien­tiously or meticulously. It is indeed a ritual of prayer and\r\nself­dedication, adhesion and surrender of the most dynamic and material parts\r\nof our being – the most unresponsive and in­sensible elements – to the One\r\nDivine Will.</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– 342</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;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\nthis brings us to the major, the cardinal <i>mantra </i>of a centre, the <i>mantra\r\n</i>which Sri Aurobindo gives about the constant and living presence of the Mother.\r\nThe very core of a centre is this Presence. A centre grows and can grow\r\nperfectly only around the Mother\'s Presence and Consciousness. As the ideal for\r\nthe individual is to be conscious of its central inner being and relate all its\r\nparts and all its movements to that central reality, organise itself in perfect\r\nharmony around this core of its being, even so a group-centre has to organise\r\nitself in perfect harmony around the central reality of the Mother: only so can\r\nit grow and grow harmoniously. Indeed a group, that is to say, a centre, like\r\nthe individual can successfully grow into a living and harmonious dynamic Truth\r\nonly when it has in its consciousness at every moment and in every movement of\r\nits life the never-failing Presence of the Divine Mother, for thus only a\r\ncentre can become a divine embodiment and incarnation of the Supreme Mother for\r\nthe expression and realisation of her truth upon this earth.<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 – 343<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','-100_The Ideal Centre','','publish','closed','open','','100_the-ideal-centre','','','2021-11-23 17:58:25','2021-11-23 17:58:25','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/100_the-ideal-centre/',0,'post','',0),(1843,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:25','2021-11-23 17:58:25','<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>Cosmonautics</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\">Cosmonautics</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;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;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\'>MODERN\r\nscience, modern applied science, has brought about and is bringing about more\r\nand more a big change in the earth atmosphere. It is not merely the dust and\r\nsmoke, gases and fumes thrown out by the modern machineries from the earth into\r\nthe sky that have been increasing ominously in volume, but the less patent\r\nvibrations that have been released by advanced scientific projects and\r\nexperiments and that have been encircling the earth more and more in a tight\r\nembrace. A quiet and clean air was such a treasure for human beings; men have\r\nalways longed for it as a necessity and also as a diversion, and it was so\r\nreadily available. The saints and sages went up to mountain-tops and into deep\r\nforests and far away into open meadows for a full-breath draught of that\r\nheavenly element.</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\nnow physically, materially, we know that the radio waves and innumerable other\r\ncosmic waves have been constantly, ceaselessly hammering, churning the\r\nearth-atmosphere all around us. Human bodies are immersed in a real turmoil.\r\nThey are bathed in a whirlwind constantly. The nerves and tissues are being\r\nshaken from within to their very roots throughout one\'s life, day and night.\r\nThere is no peace, no tranquillity upon earth; physical and material repose has\r\naltogether disappeared. The high hill-tops or mountain-sides do not help any\r\nmore nor the ocean depths nor any African jungle nor even the Sahara desert.</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\nincidence of illness, of disequilibrium among human beings, is a pronounced\r\nphenomenon in modern age. Stability, steadiness, measure, all the qualities\r\nthat made for a balanced sober life in the past are on the decline, have almost\r\ndisappeared. <span style=\'font-family:Arial\'>\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;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 – 313<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;\r\n</span></span><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes; font-size:10.0pt\'>&nbsp; </span><span\r\nstyle=\'color:blue\'><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\'>Ill-health,\r\nmalaise, imbalance, physical and mental, are reigning supreme. And the million\r\ndoctors upon earth are finding it difficult to heal their patients or even\r\nthemselves.</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\'>Is\r\nthat the reason why man has now become so eager to quit earthly atmosphere and\r\nsoar up into starry spaces? In any case, the human body is now, at least by way\r\nof experiment, being shifted to other atmospheres, other modes of living. The\r\nimportant, the most significant thing however is not so much the discovery of\r\nnew regions of the universe but new dimensions of the human body itself. No\r\ndoubt this is just the beginning, but there are indications, pointers towards\r\nunthinkable possibilities in the future. Men are now training themselves to be\r\ninhabitants not of earth only but of distant places. It is a demonstration of\r\ndevelopments on unusual lines for the body. At present to dwell or even to stay\r\nin unearthly regions, the earthly body has to be protected, buttressed, propped\r\nup, with much care and skill by a mechanical outfit – crude scaffolding after\r\nall. In the future, other simpler and natural ways will surely be found.</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\'>As\r\nwe know, Nature has pushed up its secret consciousness to the human level and\r\nis still pushing it up, upward to levels of the higher man, towards the\r\nSuperman. She has moulded the body for the jelly-fish and moved up through all\r\nthe intermediaries to the human body. Man\'s body like his consciousness has\r\nto be remoulded in such a way as to be able to enclose and express the\r\nsuperman-consciousness. The rigid natural laws that bind down the body – the\r\nso-called natural laws of temperature and pressure, of respiration and\r\ncirculation, of assimilation and rejection – have to be turned, obviated, neutralised so that man may be actually, physically a citizen of the world.</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\'>Now,\r\nthe discipline that the physical body is made to undergo at present, in order\r\nto accustom itself to high flying, may one day point to the way for a new\r\nadaptation and disposition for the body. As it is, the disruption that has been\r\nmade in the earth atmosphere because of Science\'s new adventure is also a way\r\nto acclimatising the human body to new conditions. The new conditions are\r\nbecoming even more and more new and the body is being forced to follow suit. At\r\nthe beginning the result is a rupture but that is the way towards a new\r\ndisposition, a new dispensation.<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:11.25pt;\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;\'>Page\r\n– 314</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=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:7.4pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>.\r\nShowers, torrential streams of tiny infinitesimal particles – waves of\r\ninvisible light, charges of electricity, all kinds of ultimate units of matter,\r\nare pouring down upon earth shrouding it, overwhelming it, drowning it,\r\nstifling it as it were. It is not merely a discovery of what has already been\r\nthere, a static reality since time immemorial, but that they have been coming,\r\narriving, adding ceaselessly to the volume already there and continuing to do\r\nso more and more as time advances. For it is said that these particles, cosmic\r\nrays, radio-waves, have been on their journey for such a long time from the\r\nvery beginning of time that they are arriving only now into the earth atmosphere.\r\nAnd always there are others that are arriving, are continuing to arrive at\r\nevery instant from farther and farther distances. The density and volume and\r\nthe force of impact of this additional quantity of matter are ever on the\r\nincrease and one does not know when and what will be the end. Not only so, not\r\nonly the old existing particles but new particles, none can gainsay the\r\nprobability, are also being created continuously, in the process. And suppose\r\neven some are destroyed, the loss is more than compensated by the creation of\r\nnew ones, may be, of a different variety, with prospects of a new and novel\r\ndevelopment.</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\'>Thus\r\nthe burden upon earth has been increasing – and the nature also of the burden\r\nis changing. The change is not perhaps very obvious today but the body has\r\nalready been feeling it and expressing its reactions in the instability of the\r\nbalance so long enjoyed by man. That is to say, the modern man physically lives\r\nor soon will have to live under a new set of circumstances and his physical\r\nbody has to undergo a change commensurate with its habitat or it will have to\r\ndisappear.</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\'>The\r\ncosmonauts are teaching us at least the possibility of a new, almost a\r\nrevolutionary acclimatisation of the body, the capability of the human organs\r\nto follow a different rhythm of life in place of the old normal way. We know\r\nfrom the past history of the evolutionary stages of life that the advent of a</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\'>new species is signalled\r\nby a change in the conditions of living, and the change in the habitat involves\r\na change in the form, the organs and functions of the body: that is what is\r\nmeant by<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 – 315</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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\'>the\r\nappearance of a new type of creature adapted to the new conditions. Even so\r\ntoday cosmic travels are forcing the human body to adapt itself to new\r\nconditions and it is a very conscious discipline. The change in the body of\r\nliving beings in the previous stages is due to an unconscious pressure brought\r\nto bear upon it by an unconscious Nature. But now the situation is different:\r\nman is attempting consciously to surpass himself, he has begun to do it in the\r\nphysical field with remarkable results and a great promise. True, there is\r\nanother factor, indeed the major factor behind, within the inner consciousness\r\nof man and within the inner regions of the world. As I have said, it is a\r\nrevolutionary change there that is forcing itself upon the outside and the\r\nsurface of existence.</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\'>Thus\r\nthere is a twofold process for the new man to establish himself here. First, of\r\ncourse, there is the psychological or inner change and reorganisation: man\'s\r\nattempt to reach a new status of being and consciousness not in the category of\r\nthe mere mental but a supramental status. Its nature and character and\r\nformation is being probed into by the new spiritual seekers and aspirants. That\r\nwork is being done from within outward, and from above downward. This however\r\nis supplemented, supported, effectuated or materialised by the other attempt\r\nfrom below going upward and from outside going inward. That is the way of\r\nscience, of the pragmatic man. The one we may say somewhat philosophically, is\r\nthe Purusha, the conscious being coming down; the other, Prakriti, pushing up,\r\nNature driving upward or inward.</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\'>It\r\nis true the process of acclimatisation that Nature follows is a slow one and gradual\r\nthough somewhat crude, in spite of scientific refinements and subtleties; yet\r\nit is a help and has an accumulated effect. We may just record the progress\r\nachieved in the mere outward mechanisation from Lindberg\'s transatlantic\r\ncrossing to Borman-company\'s journey to the moon.</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\'>Just\r\nat present the appearances are slender but the cumulative effect of these\r\nslender forerunners in the long run, or, who knows may be in the short run, is\r\nsure to be tremendously obvious. It is expected that the human body itself will\r\nacquire new dispositions forced by outer circumstances, the newly developing\r\nenvironment and impelled by the inner stress of the descending consciousness\r\nwith its formative power. The power<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:10.05pt;\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– 316<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\'>and action\r\nof the descending consciousness is outside our ken, it is easily overlooked –\r\nunknown and invisible to the normal mind. But in fact it is a great deal due to\r\nthis element and. thanks to it, that man\'s phenomenal discoveries of today and\r\nmiraculous successes have been and are being achieved in the physical field in\r\nsuch a quick and revolutionary manner. The Mother has plainly declared that the\r\nnew world is already there built and ready and is pressing down upon the\r\nmaterial cover and sooner rather than later will force it open and manifest\r\nitself.<span style=\'font-family:Arial\'><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 – 317<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>\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','-092_Cosmonautics','','publish','closed','open','','092_cosmonautics','','','2021-11-23 17:58:25','2021-11-23 17:58:25','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/092_cosmonautics/',0,'post','',0),(1844,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:25','2021-11-23 17:58:25','<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>Are Not Dogs More Faithful Than Men</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\">Are Not Dogs More Faithful Than Men?</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\'>YES, for it is their nature to be faithful\r\nand they have not man\'s mental complications. What prevents men from becoming\r\nfaithful is the complexes of their mind. Most men are not faithful because\r\nthey are afraid of being dupes, afraid of being cheated, exploited. Also behind\r\nthe faithfulness they have there is always a large dose of egoism hidden, there\r\nis a bargaining more or less conscious, a give and take: \'I am faithful to you.\r\nYou too must be faithful to me, in other words, you must be nice to me, must\r\nnot exploit me etc. Dogs do not have these complexities, for they have a very\r\nrudimentary mind. They have not this marvellous capacity of reasoning which\r\ndrives man to commit such follies. But, of course, we cannot go back to the\r\ndog state. What we have to do is to rise higher, to become a superman, to have\r\nthe dog\'s quality on a higher level, if! am allowed to say so, i.e. instead of\r\nbeing faithful instinctively, blindly, half-consciously, through a kind of\r\nbinding need, it must be a conscious, willing, deliberate faithfulness, above\r\nall, free from egoism. There is a point where all the virtues meet: it is the\r\npoint that is beyond egoism. 1fwe take faithfulness or devotion or love or the\r\nwill to serve,-all these when they are above the level of egoism are similar to\r\none another in the sense that they give themselves and ask no return. And if\r\nyou get up a step higher, you see they are done not through the sense of duty\r\nor abnegation but out of an intense joy that carries its own reward, which\r\nneeds nothing in exchange, for it is joy itself. But for that you should have\r\nrisen very high where there is no longer any turn-back on oneself, these\r\nmovements that draw you down –that kind of sympathy for oneself, the self-pity\r\nthat one feels for oneself and says &quot;Poor me I&quot; This is a most\r\ndegrading sentiment and it pulls you immediately into a dark hole.</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 – 30<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.6pt;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\'>You must leave that far behind if you will\r\nhave the joy of<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\'>faithfulness, the joy of self-giving, that does not notice at all\r\nwhether it is properly received or not, whether there is a response or not.\r\nNever to wait for a return in exchange for what one does, wait for nothing, not\r\nthrough asceticism or the sense of sacrifice, but because of the joy of being\r\nin that consciousness: that is sufficient, that is much more that what one can\r\nreceive from anything outside.</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 – 31<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\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','-010_Are Not Dogs More Faithful Than Men','','publish','closed','open','','010_are-not-dogs-more-faithful-than-men','','','2021-11-23 17:58:25','2021-11-23 17:58:25','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/010_are-not-dogs-more-faithful-than-men/',0,'post','',0),(1845,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:25','2021-11-23 17:58:25','<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>True Professor</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<font size=\"4\">True Professor</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;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">THE Mother says a professor, a true professor, must be\r\ntruly a yogi. That is to say, a teacher, even a schoolteacher, one imparting\r\nwhat is called secular education, has to be nothing less than a yogi. The\r\nIndian term for teacher is \'guru\' and \'guru\' meant a teacher both spiritual and\r\nsecular. This distinction of the two words is made by the modern <span\r\nclass=GramE>spirit,</span> it did not belong to the ancient culture. The\r\nsecular knowledge was also considered a necessary part of the spiritual\r\nknowledge, that which prepared for it and led towards it. The \'<span\r\nclass=SpellE>apara</span> <span class=SpellE>vidya</span>\' or the \'<span\r\nclass=SpellE>vedangas</span>\' were but limbs of the supreme knowledge \'<span\r\nclass=SpellE>para</span> <span class=SpellE>vidya</span>\' and \'<span\r\nclass=SpellE>veda</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\'>A\r\nteacher has to be a yogi does not mean that he is to be a paragon of moral\r\nqualities, following, for example, the <span class=GramE>ten commandments</span>\r\nscrupulously. Not to tell a lie, not to lose temper, to be patient, impartial,\r\nto be honest and unselfish, all these more or less social qualities have their\r\nvalues but something else is needed for the true teacher, something of another\r\ncategory and quality. I said social <span class=GramE>qualities,</span> I might\r\nsay also mental qualities. The consciousness of the teacher has to be other\r\nthan mental, something deeper, more abiding, more constant, less relative, <span\r\nclass=GramE>something</span> absolute. Do we then prescribe the supreme\r\nBrahma-consciousness for the teacher? Not quite. We mean the consciousness of a\r\nsoul, the living light that is within every aspiring human being. It is a glad\r\nluminousness in the heart that can exist with or without the brilliant riches\r\nof a cultivated brain. And one need not go so far as the <span class=SpellE>vedantic</span>\r\n<span class=SpellE>Sachchidananda</span> consciousness.</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\'>That\r\nis the first and primary necessity. When the teacher approaches the pupil, he\r\nmust know how to do it in and through that inner intimate consciousness. It\r\nmeans a fundamental \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<font size=\"2\">Page – 256</font></p><hr>\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>attitude</span>,\r\na mode of being of the whole nature rather than a scientific procedure: all the\r\nmanuals of education will not be able to procure you this treasure. It is an\r\nacquisition that develops or manifests spontaneously through an earnest desire,\r\nthat is to say, aspiration for it. It is this that establishes a strange\r\ncontact with the <span class=GramE>pupil,</span> radiates or infuses the knowledge,\r\neven the learning that the teacher possesses, infallibly and naturally into the\r\nmind and brain of the pupil.</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\'>Books\r\nand <span class=SpellE>programmes</span> are of secondary importance, they are\r\nonly a scaffolding, the building within is made of a different kind of bricks.\r\nA happy luminous consciousness within is the teacher\'s asset, with that he\r\nachieves all; without it he fails always.</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;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 31.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If the teacher is to be a yogi, the pupil\r\non his side must be at least an aspirant. But I <span class=GramE>suppose<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>a pupil, so long as he is a child, is\r\na born aspirant. For, as the Mother says, a<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>child\'s consciousness retains generally something of the pure inner\r\nconsciousness for sometime at least until it is overshadowed by the development\r\nof the body and the mind in the ordinary normal way. Something of \r\n<span\r\nclass=SpellE><span style=\"background-color: #FFFFFF\">this</span>, we know, has been expressed\r\nin the famous lines of the visionary English poet:.</span></span></p>\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;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 31.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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 31.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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 31.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Soul that rises with us, our life\'s\r\nStar,</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<font size=\"2\">Page – 257</font></p><hr>\r\n\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 5.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>Hath had elsewhere its setting,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And cometh from afar<span\r\nclass=GramE>..</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But trailing clouds of glory do we come<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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 5.0pt 0in; 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; </span>From God, who is our <span\r\nclass=GramE>home:</span><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Heaven lies about us in our infancy! </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shades of the prison-house begin to close<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:81.0pt;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 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>upon</span> the growing\r\nBoy. ¹</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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 5.0pt 0in; 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:28.35pt;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 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But if the right teacher is found, that pure\r\nflame in the child\'s consciousness can be kept burning, can even be made to\r\nburn brighter and higher. A teacher too on his side in the presence of a pure\r\nchild-flame in his pupil may profit by its warm touch; for the two by their\r\nintimate interaction grow together towards a greater <span class=SpellE>fulfilment</span>\r\nin both.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>When we speak or think of education and\r\nconsider the <span class=SpellE>relation</span> </p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;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 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ Wordsworth:\r\nOde on the Intimations of Immortality.</span><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;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 5.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 257</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\'>of the teacher and the pupil, we generally confine ourselves to the mental\r\ndomain, that is to say, aim wholly or mainly at the intellectual acquisition\r\nand attainment, and only sometimes as per necessity as it were we turn at most\r\nto the moral domain, that is to say, we look for the growth of character, of\r\ngood manners and <span class=SpellE>behaviour</span> – social values as we have\r\nsaid. Here we have tried to bring into the educationist\'s view a more\r\nimportant, a much more important and interesting domain – a new dimension of\r\nconsciousness. \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 – 258<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','-078_A True Professor','','publish','closed','open','','078_a-true-professor','','','2021-11-23 17:58:25','2021-11-23 17:58:25','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/078_a-true-professor/',0,'post','',0),(1846,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:25','2021-11-23 17:58:25','<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>How to Listen</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\">How to Listen</font></b></p>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:4.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:16.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:17.0pt\'><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\n10.0pt\'>HAVE begun to notice that many among you, perhaps a very large portion,\r\ndo not listen to what I say. For not unoften you have put questions on a\r\nsubject on which I had talked in detail just a moment before, as if nothing was\r\nspoken. The fact is surely this: each one of you is shut up in his own thought,\r\nexactly as, I suppose, you do in the class also at school. You repeat to\r\nyourself your own lesson, thinking of what is expected of you – provided, of\r\ncourse, you are at all diligent and attentive – and do not listen to what your\r\nteacher asks and explains or what the other students answer. You miss in this\r\nway three-fourths of the advantage of being not all alone but in a group.<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\'>Here the matter is more serious. For I do not\r\ngive an individual or personal answer. I answer in such a way that all may\r\nprofit and if, instead of listening, you continue to think what you have in\r\nyour own head, you lose the opportunity to learn anything.<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\'>That is the first point. If you are here, you\r\nmust first of all, listen and not think of other things. But that is not\r\nsufficient, it is only the beginning. For there is a good way and there are\r\nmany bad ways of listening. I do not know if any of you likes to hear music.\r\nBut if you want to hear music, you must make an absolute silence in your head;\r\nyou should not follow or accept any thought, you should be wholly concentrated,\r\nmake yourself a kind of screen, noiseless and immobile. That is the only way\r\nof hearing and understanding music. If you allow the least movement or\r\nwaywardness in your thought, the whole value of the music will escape you.<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:12.45pt;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>Now,\r\nto understand a teaching which is not altogether of a material kind, which\r\nimplies an opening to things that are<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:12.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 166<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:12.45pt;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=\'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\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>within, the necessity of silence is all the\r\ngreater. But if instead of listening to what is said, you jumped about for an\r\nidea in order to put another question or if you started arguing about the\r\nthings said under the specious pretext of understanding better, all that you\r\nheard would pass like smoke without leaving an effect.<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\'>In the same way, when you have an experience,\r\nas long as it lasts, do not try to understand what it means; if you do that, it\r\nvanishes, or you deform and disfigure it, taking away all its purity. In the\r\nsame way also if you want a spiritual experience to enter into you, you must\r\nhave a brain absolutely quiet and immobile, like a mirror which not only\r\nreflects but absorbs, allows the ray to enter and penetrate deep within so that\r\nout of the profundities of your consciousness it may rise up one day or other\r\nin the form of knowledge.<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\'>If you come here, come with the intention of\r\nlistening in silence. What will happen you will recognise later on; the effect\r\nof this attitude of silence you will find out in course of time. But in the\r\nmeanwhile the only thing to do is to be silent, still, attentive.<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 – 167<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<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','-053_How to Listen','','publish','closed','open','','053_how-to-listen','','','2021-11-23 17:58:25','2021-11-23 17:58:25','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/053_how-to-listen/',0,'post','',0),(1847,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:25','2021-11-23 17:58:25','<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>Doing for Her Sake</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; text-indent:11pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; text-indent:11pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">Doing for Her\r\nSake</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\'>WHATEVER you do – study or sports – you must,\r\nthink of the Divine in doing it. It is not a very difficult thing after all. At\r\nfirst you may do it as a kind of preparation to make yourself capable of\r\nreceiving the divine force, and then as service to help in the collective work.\r\nYou can do it not for personal gain but in order to be ready for the Divine\r\nWork.<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\'>This seems to me indispensable. If you keep\r\nthe ordinary point of view, you will always find yourself in conditions that\r\nare not wholly satisfactory and incapable of receiving all the forces that you\r\ncan receive.<o:p></o:p></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>If you are doing long jump, for example, it\r\nshould not be merely for the pleasure of doing it, it is with the idea of\r\nmaking your body more perfect in its functioning, an instrument more fit to\r\nreceive the divine forces and to manifest them.<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\'>Indeed, everything that you do must be done\r\nin this spirit. Otherwise you do not profit by the opportunity, the </span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>favourable</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'> circumstances that are given to you.<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\'>The Consciousness is there pervading everything\r\nand seeking to manifest itself in all movements. And if you, on your side, tell\r\nyourself that the effort, the progress you make is to enable you to receive\r\nthis Consciousness and to manifest it, then the work will naturally be done\r\nmuch better and more quickly.<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\'>And this seems to me to be the most\r\nelementary thing. For, to tell you the truth, I would be astonished if it were\r\notherwise. For your presence at a place <span class=SpellE>organised</span> as\r\nit is would have no meaning if it were not for that. What would be its use? There\r\nare any number of universities and schools in the world that are much better\r\nmanned and equipped than ours. If you are here, it must be for a special\r\nreason. It is because here there is a possibility of <i>absorbing </i>consciousness\r\nand progress. If you do not put yourself</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:14.0pt\'><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:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>Page – 13<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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>in a state in which you receive it, you lose\r\nthe chance that you are given.<o:p></o:p></span></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\'>What do you think about it? Is it mere chance\r\nor simply because your parents have put you here that you are here, you might\r\nas well have been anywhere else? You should put these questions to yourselves.\r\nAt thirteen one can begin questioning very well, especially if one finds <span\r\nclass=GramE>himself</span> at a place which is not quite ordinary. Why is one\r\nhere, for what reasons, what is the purpose of being here?<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\'>If you had asked this, you should have gone\r\nand sought for the answer somewhere within you. <span class=GramE>For the\r\nanswer is within you, nowhere outside.</span> If you go deep enough you will\r\nfind an answer very clear, very interesting. If you go deep down, into a\r\nsilence where all external things are silenced, you will see there within, a\r\nFlame of which I speak so often and within this Flame you will see your\r\ndestiny. You will see that the aspiration of centuries that has been\r\naccumulating little by little to lead you through countless births to the great\r\nday of <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>Realisation</span>. This preparation\r\nhas taken thousands of years and it is now arriving at its fruition.<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\'>And when you have gone deep enough to find that,\r\nyou will see and feel that all your incapacities, weaknesses, all that in you\r\ndenies and does not <span class=GramE>understand,</span> all that is not\r\nyourself; it is simply a robe which fits you to certain extent only and which\r\nyou have put on for the occasion only.<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\'>But you must understand. If you wish to see\r\nyourself truly capable of profiting by the opportunity, doing what you wanted\r\nto do, what you aspired to do long <span class=SpellE>long</span> ago, you must\r\nlittle by little turn to the Light, the Consciousness, the Truth and bring them\r\ninto these obscure elements of your external robe. It is only then that you\r\nwill understand fully why you are here, not only understand but become capable\r\nof doing what you are here for.<o:p></o:p></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>Through centuries it has been preparing\r\nitself in you, not naturally in this body, which is the most recent, but in\r\nyour true being: for centuries it has been waiting for this occasion. You see\r\nhow wonderful it all is! You see the things that one has hoped for since long\r\nago, for which one has prayed so much, </span><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>laboured</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'> so much, find now the hour when they are\r\nbeing </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>realised</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt\'>. It is the hour\r\nwhen great things are being done. One must not miss the occasion.<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:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;\'>Page – 14<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','-004_Doing for Her Sake','','publish','closed','open','','004_doing-for-her-sake','','','2021-11-23 17:58:25','2021-11-23 17:58:25','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/004_doing-for-her-sake/',0,'post','',0),(1848,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:26','2021-11-23 17:58:26','<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>Prayer and Aspiration</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-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Prayer and Aspiration</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-family:\r\nArial\'><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;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\'>PRAYERS are\r\nof many kinds. There is a prayer, purely mechanical and physical, that is to\r\nsay, merely words learnt by rote and repeated mechanically. It does not mean\r\nmuch and generally has only one effect, making the person calm who prays; if\r\nyou repeat a prayer several times, it calms you in the end.</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\'>There\r\nis a prayer which is a formula welling out spontaneously in order to give\r\nexpression to something very precise which you ask for. You may pray for\r\nsomething, for some person; you may pray even for certain circumstances; you\r\nmay pray for yourself also.</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\'>Or\r\nyou may pray to express your gratitude to the Divine for what He has done for\r\nyou, for what you see in Him, for what you wish to do for Him in thankfulness.\r\nEvidently it is the highest kind of prayer, for it is not exclusively concerned\r\nwith one\'s own self. It is of a great order, this prayer of thanksgiving.</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\'>It\r\nis the meeting ground of prayer and aspiration. Such prayers are the\r\nspontaneous formulation of an experience that has been lived; it pours out from\r\nwithin the being, as the expression of a deep realisation, a yearning to sing\r\npraises for this experience that has been granted, a desire that the\r\nexperience may continue or be explained. All this is very near to aspiration.</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\'>Again\r\nthere is a prayer, spontaneous and disinterested, a great call as it were, a\r\ncall for divine intercession. It is a very powerful thing. I have had\r\ninnumerable examples of things being fulfilled instantaneously by prayers of\r\nthis kind. It means a great faith, a great fervour, a great sincerity, also a\r\ngreat simplicity of heart – something that does not calculate, that does not <span\r\nclass=GramE>arrange,</span> that does not bargain, that does not give with the\r\nidea of a return.<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 – 112<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=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-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\'>You can\r\npray in all domains. A prayer belongs to the domain in which you pray.</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\'>Prayers may\r\nbe purely physical, even material.</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\'>They may be\r\nvital or mental or psychic or spiritual.</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\'>Each one\r\nhas its own character and its own value.</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\'>Prayer\r\nis a thing much more external than aspiration. It concerns generally a\r\ndefinite object and it is always formulated, for it is the formula itself that\r\nis the prayer. One can have an aspiration and transcribe it in a prayer, but\r\nif it is formulated in words, ids almost a movement of invocation.</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\'>Aspiration\r\ngoes beyond prayer on all sides. It is much more self-forgetful, living only in\r\nthe thing that one wills to do or become, in the offering that one seeks to\r\nmake to the Divine. Aspiration may come from any plane, but the centre lies in\r\nthe psychic.</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\'><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: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\'>You\r\naspire for a certain state of being. You have, for example, discovered within\r\nyou something which does not agree with your ideal, a movement of obscurity or\r\nignorance, even perhaps a bad will, something which goes against what you want\r\nto realise. You do not formulate a vow in words but something rises up in you\r\nlike a flame, an offering made of a living experience which asks for a\r\ngreater, larger being, a being more and more clear and precise. The thing can\r\nbe reproduced in words later on, when one tries to remember and note down the\r\nexperience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.5pt;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>Aspiration bursts forth like a\r\nmounting flame bearing in itself the thing that one desires to become, to do or\r\nto have. I said &quot;desires&quot;, but &quot;aspires&quot; is the right word,\r\nfor it has neither the quality nor the form of a desire. It is truly a great\r\nflame of purifying will and it bears in its core what seeks to realise itself.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.2pt;text-indent:-.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\'><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\'>(4)</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;tab-stops:9.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>You have, for example, done a thing \r\nwhich you regret to have done. That has unfortunate consequences and upsets \r\nthings, in<span\r\nclass=GramE>volving</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:9.8pt;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\n113<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;tab-stops:9.8pt;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\'>also other persons. You do not know the reaction of others,\r\nbut as for yourself you wish that what has been done should turn to good and if\r\na fault has been committed it should be admitted and made an occasion for a\r\ngreater progress, a greater discipline and a new ascent towards the Divine, for\r\nopening a door towards a future that you want to be clearer, more true and more\r\nintense.</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\'>Then,\r\nthe thing gathers like a force and rushes forth, mounts like a great ascending\r\nmovement, sometimes without being formulated in the least, without words,\r\nwithout expression, but like a flame.</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\'>That\r\nis true aspiration. That can happen a hundred times, a thousand times every\r\nday, if you are in the state when you want to progress constantly, become more\r\ntrue, more integrally in harmony with what the Divine Will wants of you.</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\'><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\'>(5)</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: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\'>It\r\nseems difficult to pray without praying to someone. There are people who have a\r\nconception of the universe from which they have driven out all notion of the\r\nDivine. There are many, I suppose, like that. It troubles them, the idea that\r\nthere is something that knows all, is capable of all, and is superior to them\r\nin such a formidable manner that there is no comparison; it is troublesome to\r\ntheir self-love, so they try to make a world without the Divine. They certainly\r\ncannot pray. To whom would they pray-unless they pray to themselves, which is\r\nnot the normal custom? But one can aspire for something without having a faith\r\nin the Divine. One can have an aspiration for a condition, <span class=GramE>a\r\nknowledge</span>, a realisation, a state of consciousness. You do aspire for\r\nsomething. There are people who have no faith in the existence of God, but they\r\nhave faith in progress; they believe that the world is progressing constantly\r\nand this progress will go on indefinitely without stop towards a <i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>better </span></i>that\r\nwill be always greater than the preceding <i>better.<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'> </span></i>Such\r\npeople may indeed have a great <span class=GramE>aspiration,</span> they need\r\nhave no notion of a divine existence for that.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:11.25pt;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\'>Aspiration\r\nnecessarily includes a faith, but it need not be a faith in the divine Being.\r\nPrayer, on the other hand, cannot exist unless it is addressed to a divine\r\nBeing.<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 – 114<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=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\'>(6)</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\'>What\r\nto pray unless one prays to some person for something. You pray to someone who\r\ncan listen to you. If there is none to listen to you, how can you pray?\r\nTherefore, if you pray, it means, even in case you do not admit it, you have a\r\nfaith in something which is infinitely greater and infinitely more powerful\r\nthan you and which can change your destiny and change yourself, provided you\r\npray in a way that the prayer is heard.</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\'>The\r\nintellectuals recognise aspiration and say that prayer is an inferior thing.\r\nThe mystics tell you that aspiration is all right, but if you wish to be heard\r\nand wish the Divine to hear, you must pray – and pray with the simplicity of a\r\nchild, with a perfect candour, that is to say, perfect trust. &quot;I have need\r\nof this or that&quot; – whether a moral or material need – &quot;I ask it of\r\nyou give me.&quot;</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\'>&quot;You\r\ngave me what I asked for. You have brought to my close touch experiences that\r\nwere unknown and that are now wonders which I reach at will. I am infinitely\r\ngrateful and I offer you this hymn of thanksgiving for your intervention.&quot;</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\'><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\'>(7)</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:10.3pt;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\'>Instead\r\nof lighting a lamp and kneeling before it with folded hands, light a flame\r\nwithin your heart and then have a great aspiration towards something more\r\nbeautiful, more true, more noble, better than anything you know.</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\'>&quot;I\r\nask that tomorrow all the things that I do not know I may begin to know, all\r\nthe things that I cannot do, I may begin to do, and every day more and\r\nmore.&quot;</p>\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\'>And\r\nif you are put in the presence of much misery in the world, if you have friends\r\nwho are unhappy and relatives who suffer, if you have difficulties or anything\r\nwhatsoever, ask:</p>\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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&quot;May the entire consciousness altogether rise to\r\nthat Perfection which shall <span class=GramE>manifest!</span> May all this\r\nignorance that has made the world so unhappy change into an enlightened\r\nknowledge! May this bad will be illumined and transformed into goodwill.&quot;<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 – 115<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;text-indent:13.5pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-bottom:0\'>And in proportion to what you are able to do, what you are able to\r\nunderstand, you wish with all your heart that it may be like that. It may take\r\nthe form of a prayer, and you can ask – ask of what or whom? Ask of that which\r\nknows, ask of that which is capable, ask of all that is better and stronger\r\nthan <span class=GramE>yourself</span> to give the help that it may be so. And\r\nhow beautiful such prayers would be!<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\n116</span></p>\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:5.5pt;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;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 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','-039_Prayer and Aspiration','','publish','closed','open','','039_prayer-and-aspiration','','','2021-11-23 17:58:26','2021-11-23 17:58:26','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/039_prayer-and-aspiration/',0,'post','',0),(1849,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:26','2021-11-23 17:58:26','<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>Mind and the Mental World</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:15.0pt;\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Mind and the Mental World</font></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\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-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;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>THE world of the mind is a vast field, even vaster it seems than the\r\nphysical world. The physical world extends, science tells us, to millions of\r\nlight-years. We may say practically, it is an infinite extension and mind is a\r\nthing which surrounds, envelops this measureless extension. Mind surpasses the\r\nphysical on another count, that is to say, in respect of speed. A material body\r\nat its best travels at the speed of light, that is to say, in a second it goes\r\nabout 200,000 miles (a little less). But thought does not meet any obstruction\r\nin respect of distance; whatever the distance, it reaches its goal immediately,\r\nit does not take account of time.<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\'>Perhaps because of its expansiveness and its\r\nspeed, a Vedic Rishi sends up a prayer to it not to be so elusive, not to go\r\naway too far but to return and dwell in its home. Evidently the Rishi speaks of\r\ngathering and collecting together the dispersed uncontrolled thoughts and\r\nsettling them in an ordered way in his consciousness. We must note, however,\r\nthat mind and matter are two different categories and have different dimen­sions.\r\nMaterial space is not the same as mental space and the speed of light and the\r\nspeed of thought are not commensur­able.<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\'>The mental world, the world of thoughts, is a\r\nworld in itself It is autonomous. It moves in its own way with its own laws. We\r\nhuman beings, we believe that it is we who think, that is, produce or create\r\nour thoughts. We are the makers of our notions and ideas. But in reality it is\r\nnot so. Thoughts, ideas, notions, all movements of the mind are self-existent\r\nrealities. They go about or flow on like the waves of a vast sea. Human beings\r\nare mere instruments, receptacles that capture or seize some undulations of\r\nthis vast ocean. Man is man, that is to say, </span>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>\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 – 190<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\'>a mental being, because in him the brain has developed to such an\r\nextent and in such a manner that it serves as antennae or as an aerial to\r\nreceive vibrations from the mental world. Indeed the ordinary human mind is a\r\nsort of crossroads where all kinds of thoughts from all places meet, cross one\r\nanother and make an ideal market place. In fact, an individual does not possess\r\nany thought-movement which can be called his own. He only catches a contagion.\r\nAnd like a contagion thought-movements pass from one person to another although\r\none may think or feel that the movement is one\'s own. <o:p></o:p></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>In order to have one\'s own thought, in order\r\nto think by oneself, a long process of education and training is necessary. A\r\ngrowing personal individual consciousness is the first requisite and for that\r\none must do what the Vedic Rishi I spoke of sought to do, gather the thoughts\r\nthat one has, collect them, sift them and try to have a control over them. One\r\nmust develop the habit of admitting certain thoughts and rejecting others.\r\nThoughts that are useful, that carry light and peace­ fulness and happiness,\r\nare naturally those that are worth accepting. Those that are of a contrary\r\nnature should be pushed out. This is an exercise that develops the individual consciousness\r\nand the individual will.<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\'>Furthermore, one may try to recognise\r\nthoughts that are of a different category, that do not seem to belong to the\r\naccus­tomed level of consciousness but carry a vibration that is of elsewhere,\r\nin other words, thought-movements that filter through and come down from higher\r\nranges of consciousness. It means an elevation of consciousness, your being\r\nrises into higher realities.<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 true individual, the being who is capable\r\nof living and creating independently, is formed of a stuff that lies in these higher\r\nregions.<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>It is only when one has found one\'s individual\r\nself seated in the Divine centre secret behind, organised around the centre all\r\nlesser movements, marshalled them according to an inner law, that one becomes\r\nmaster of one\'s environment and creative in the true sense of the word.<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\'>Mind is a force, thought and energy but that\r\ncan be truly and fully effective when it is organised, directed, that is to\r\nsay, it becomes then a guided missile. In an ordinary mind the</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 – 191<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:14.6pt;\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\n11.0pt\'>thoughts are, as I have said, dispersed, they go about in all\r\ndirections, to all objectives and therefore their efficacy is at its minimum.\r\nIt is like light. Light-energy becomes immensely, incredibly powerful when it\r\nis concentrated, gathered towards one point. It is in this way the light-ray\r\nnowadays is trying to replace the surgeon\'s knife.<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:11.0pt\'>Usually when we think of a person or a thing,\r\nour thought-­vibration reaches its object but because the vibration is diffuse –\r\nnot polarised – it touches or just brushes its object very faintly without\r\nalmost any reaction from it. An organised, truly individualised consciousness\r\nhas its thought-movements too, so organised and controlled and directed that it\r\nmoves with a clear and forceful momentum. A mental vibration, a thought-movement\r\nbecomes fully dynamic, totally effective, however, when it gets its support\r\nfrom the vital. The vital too in an organised and individualised personality\r\nloses its capri­ciousness and lends its support to the directing consciousness.</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><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:11.0pt;\'>Page – 192<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','-061_Mind and the Mental World','','publish','closed','open','','061_mind-and-the-mental-world','','','2021-11-23 17:58:26','2021-11-23 17:58:26','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/061_mind-and-the-mental-world/',0,'post','',0),(1850,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:26','2021-11-23 17:58:26','<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 True Teaching</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\">The True Teaching</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><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n15.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span><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\'>You must have observed that my way of talking to you is not always the\r\nsame. I don\'t know whether you are very sensitive to the difference, but for me\r\nit is considerable. <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;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\'>Sometimes, on rare occasions, because of\r\nsomething read or for another reason, there comes to me in the wake of a\r\nquestion what is called an experience but what is simply the fact of entering\r\ninto a certain state of consciousness and, having entered into it, describing\r\nthat very state. In such a case, the Force, the Consciousness that express\r\nthemselves pass across the individual mind, use it like a storehouse of words\r\nand draw from it by a sort of affinity the words necessary for the expression.\r\nThat is the true teaching, the teaching that is difficult to find in books. It\r\ncan be there, but one must be oneself in that state of consciousness to be able\r\nto discover it, whereas, with the spoken word, the sound vibration transmits at\r\nleast something of the experience and this can be contagious for all who are\r\nsensitive. <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;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\'>On other occasions, the question posed and\r\nthe subject chosen are conveyed by the mind to the higher Consciousness. The mind\r\nreceives a response from that Consciousness and conveys it through the word.\r\nThis is what generally happens in all teachings, provided that the one who\r\nteaches has the capacity to pass the question on to the higher Consciousness –\r\na capacity not always present.<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\'>I should tell you that the second method does\r\nnot interest me much. Very often, when the question or the subject fails to give\r\nme the possibility of entering into a state of consciousness that interests me,\r\nI far prefer to keep silent. And it is, as it were, a sense of duty that makes\r\nme talk.<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:17.25pt;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;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I\r\nam informing you in advance, because in the past I have cut short the\r\nconversation and passed abruptly into meditation. \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:17.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 158<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:143.0pt;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 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','-050_The True Teaching','','publish','closed','open','','050_the-true-teaching','','','2021-11-23 17:58:26','2021-11-23 17:58:26','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/050_the-true-teaching/',0,'post','',0),(1851,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:26','2021-11-23 17:58:26','<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 Triple Cord *</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 style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">The Triple Cord *</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\'>SUNAHSHEPA, the human\r\ncreature, says the Vedic Rishi, is bound to the stake with three cords: one on\r\nthe top, the second in the middle and the third below. Sunahshepa cries out to\r\nGod Varuna to be freed from the triple bondage. The God is pleased and cuts the\r\ntopmost cord and throws it upward, he cuts the middle cord and throws it on\r\neither side, he cuts the downmost cord and throws it downward. Thus Sunahshepa\r\nis freed through the Grace of King Varuna.</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\nthree cords are the three limitations of being and consciousness in the normal\r\nhuman creature. There is a wall or barrier up in the mind which shuts out the\r\nhigher levels of consciousness that are beyond the mind – the worlds of vision\r\nand revelation, of the Truth and the Vast. The middle knot shuts out the world\r\naround and abroad and limits the being to the ego, prevents the individual\r\nperson from communicating with the Universal Being and Consciousness. It is the\r\nwell known knot of the <i>heart – hrdayagranthi – the </i>crux and kernel of\r\nthe egoistic consciousness. It centres the whole being on itself, limits it to\r\nitself, does not let it go out of itself to belong to the world-being. It is\r\nalso the pull that prevents the being from diving down into its true\r\npersonality, the psychic, and finding its union with the inner Divine. This\r\negocentred knot has to be cut through and the thread to be scattered into the\r\ninfinity of the deepest and of the widest being. The last barrier at the base\r\nof the human consciousness is the hard crust of the physical and the material\r\nbeing. It is closed to the regions behind, the occult sources of all external\r\nmovements. This too</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\'><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;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>* A greater\r\nforce than the earthly held his limbs,<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=\'mso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Unwound the triple cord of mind and\r\nfreed –<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:94.8pt;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;&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: <i>Savitri </i>1.5</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:1.05in;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– 318<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\'>has to be\r\npulled down and thrown into the gulfs of non-existence – primal Prakriti, out\r\nof which they are born – so that the subliminal ranges of consciousness emerge\r\nand manifest themselves.</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\'>God\r\nVaruna is invoked because he is the Lord of the Vast Consciousness, he it is\r\nthat opens out the passage and leads the human being into worlds of the Vast,\r\nthe Truth – Ritam, Brihat – from mortality to immortality.</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\'>In\r\nother words, as we know, the mind, the life and the body form the triple cord\r\nof the human being and hedge it within the frame of its normal, narrow,\r\nuncertain, fumbling existence; and each of these three constituent parts of\r\nhuman nature has to be delivered from its own particular limitations and\r\nreleased into the broader reality.</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\'>These\r\nthreefold limitations are repeated in each of the statuses of being or\r\nconsciousness. Thus the mind has a mental being, a vital being and a physical\r\nbeing. So the mind has mental limitations and vital limitations and also physical limitations.\r\nThe mind\'s mental limitations are its notions and concepts, constructed ideas\r\nand fabricated comprehensions. The mind bound by its reasoning faculties, its\r\ndeductive system, its syllogistic scheme, all that scaffolding has to go if the\r\nnew light is to penetrate and illumine it with the new consciousness. The mind\r\nhas also a vital element, when it moves according to its inspiration, as it is\r\ncalled sometimes, but it is only an ignorant inspiration, it is only another\r\nname for &quot;mood,&quot; for fancy. True inspiration is not a blind mental\r\nrush but something clear and steady and yet forceful and self­poised. Again,\r\nthe mind has its physical element too: the physical mind is the mind controlled\r\nby the senses, the impressions of the senses; its structure is patterned according\r\nto the impact of the physical and material objects. A clear, free physical mind\r\nembodies the pattern of the movements of the higher consciousness, not of the\r\nsense-dominated consciousness.</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\'>Even\r\nlike the mind, the vital too has its threefold knots according to the three\r\nelements that constitute it. First, there is a mind in the vital, it is called\r\nmental-vital, there is a vital in the vital, it is the vital proper, and there\r\nis a physical vital. The mental-vital means the field of sentiment and feeling and\r\nemotion, the vital proper is the field of passion, the intensity<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 – 319<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\'>and even ferocity of its\r\nurge, and finally, the physical vital, which is the field of outward impulsion\r\nand drive, the push towards physical act and execution. Last, the physical too\r\nhas the same threefold knots, first in the mental physical, second in the vital\r\nphysical and thirdly in the physical physical, that is, the physical proper.\r\nThe mind in the physical is the purely brain operation, the primitive original\r\npercepts that brain-cells emanate. The vital in the physical means the record\r\nof the nerves, more or less that are sensations. Lastly, the physical physical\r\nmeans the most mechanical, the inertial reactions of matter.</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\'>All\r\nthese triplicities have a familiar norm in the ordinary nature. And human\r\nconsciousness is made up of them, in various formations and modulations.</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\'>These\r\ngradations are the various statuses of consciousness which the human being\r\nassumes in its relation with the world reality. In other words, they are the\r\ninstruments through which human consciousness comes in contact with the\r\nuniverse. They are as it were windows upon the world through which contact is\r\nmade and relation established with the objects of experience. But usually in\r\nthe normal consciousness these windows are made a casement with bars and nets\r\nor even blinds over it which narrow and blur and even block the view. They are\r\nmade into cords, as the Upanishad says, that blind and bind and stifle the\r\nconsciousness. The cords have to be cut away, thrown out. As windows they have\r\nto be thrown wide open, open not merely outward towards the external object or\r\nreality but also inwardly to the realities, the worlds that lie within and\r\nabove and beyond<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– 320<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<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','-093_The Triple Cord','','publish','closed','open','','093_the-triple-cord','','','2021-11-23 17:58:26','2021-11-23 17:58:26','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/093_the-triple-cord/',0,'post','',0),(1852,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:26','2021-11-23 17:58:26','<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>Opening to the Divine</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\">Opening to the Divine</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\'>You are to\r\nopen yourself to the Divine and receive Him. Usually you open yourself in all\r\ndirections to everything and everybody in the world. You open your surface\r\nbeing and receive there all sorts of influences from all quarters. So inside\r\nyou there-comes about what we can call a hotch-potch of all contrary and contradictory\r\nmovements: and that creates difficulties without number. Now instead of that,\r\nlive away from the surface, from the outside and open up to the Divine and\r\nreceive nothing hut the Divine force. If you can do that all difficulties\r\npractically disappear. But, of course, the trouble is there. Unless one is\r\nalchemically conditioned, it is an impossibility to have relations with people,\r\nto talk to them, to deal with them, have interchanges with them and yet not\r\nabsorb something out of them. If one can surround oneself with an atmosphere\r\nthat acts as a filter, then all that come from outside are checked and sifted\r\nbefore they reach you or touch you. That needs a good training and a large\r\nexperience. That is why people in ancient days who wanted an easier path took\r\nto solitude, into the depths of the forest, on the top of a hill or under a\r\ncave so that they might not have to deal with people-for that naturally reduces\r\nundesirable interchanges. Only, it has also been found that such people begin\r\nto take an enormous interest in the life of animals and plants instead of men:\r\nfor it is indeed difficult to do without interchange with something or other.\r\nSo the best thing would be to face the problem squarely, to clothe yourself\r\nwith an atmosphere totally concentrated on the Divine so that whatever passes\r\nacross is filtered in its passage. And further, there is the question of food.\r\nThe body is obliged to take in foreign matter in order to subsist, it would\r\ntherefore absorb at the same time a fair quantity of inert and unconscious\r\nforces or that of some not<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 – 94</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue\'><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\'>very\r\ndesirable consciousness. I once spoke to you of the consciousness that one\r\nabsorbs with food, there is also unconsciousness that one absorbs in the same\r\nway. That is why in many systems of Yoga you are advised to offer first to the\r\nDivine your food and then eat it: it means calling down the Divine into your\r\nfood before absorbing it. Offering means putting in contact: the food is put in\r\ncontact with type Divine, i.e. put under His influence. This is a very good, a\r\nvery useful procedure; if you knew how to do it, it would diminish very much\r\nthe labour of the inner transformation that one has to do. For in the world we\r\nlive in solidarity with all others. You cannot take in a single breath of air\r\nwithout absorbing the vibrations, the numberless vibrations that come from all\r\nkinds of movements and all kinds of people. So if you want to keep yourself\r\nintact, you must, as I have said, maintain yourself in the condition of a\r\nfilter allowing nothing undesirable to enter. Or put on a mask as one does when\r\ncrossing an infected and poisoned locality, or do something similar.</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\'>One\r\nmust have around oneself an atmosphere so condensed, condensed in a spirit of\r\ntotal surrender, that nothing can enter without being automatically filtered.\r\nThere are wicked thoughts, evil will about you, harmful formations sent out by\r\nbad people. The air pullulates with these: dark noisome bacilli. It is so\r\ntroublesome to be always on the look-out, at every step to be on one\'s guard,\r\nto move slowly with care and caution and precautions; even then one is not\r\nsure. But if you cover yourself with the cloak of light, the light of a happy,\r\nsincere surrender, and aspiration, that is a wonderful filter, that gives you\r\nautomatic protection. The undesirable forces not only cannot enter, they are\r\nthrown back upon their originator, the attackers themselves become their own\r\nvictims.<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 – 95<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-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<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','-033_Opening to the Divine','','publish','closed','open','','033_opening-to-the-divine','','','2021-11-23 17:58:26','2021-11-23 17:58:26','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/033_opening-to-the-divine/',0,'post','',0),(1853,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:26','2021-11-23 17:58:26','<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 Relative Best</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 style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><font size=\"4\">The Relative Best</font><o:p></o:p></span></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\n16.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</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\'>WHATEVER happens is for\r\nthe <i>best – <span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>under the circumstances,</span>\r\n</i>it must be added, for the best is the resultant of many forces pulling in\r\nall directions for and against and sideways. The <i>best </i>means whatever\r\nleads to the goal, to the ultimate good, the final reality, the Supreme, the\r\nDivine. The universe is so arranged, the divine dispensation acts in such a way\r\nthat every event, every circumstance, whatever its appearance, always leads to\r\nthe Supreme Goal. So it is said the way, whatever it is, straight or crooked,\r\nalways guides you to your final realisation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Only, in the progressive march, the best can always\r\nbe bettered and must be bettered. In the earlier stages, when one is in\r\nignorance and darkness lies about, the path is sure to be tortuous with ups and\r\ndowns, aberrations and retrogressions, but as one advances and the\r\nconsciousness grows the obscurity dissipates, gradually the path too\r\nstraightens itself, becomes smooth and kindly. That is how the best at one\r\nmoment, which may appear to the superficial consciousness, very bad or even the\r\nworst, is bettered – betterment means precisely this that one rises into a\r\nclearer consciousness, one moves along a straighter path, one takes a shorter and\r\nhappier course to the Goal. This is true as much of the individual as of the\r\nworld as a whole, for the world too, like the individual, moves inevitably\r\ntowards its high destiny – the same as or parallel to that of the individual.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">It is the best that happens always for nothing else\r\ncan happen but it is a relative best, relative to the situation that the consciousness\r\naccording to its status creates around. As the consciousness advances the\r\nnature of the best is also transformed.<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:2.9pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:7.2pt;mso-pagination:none;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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 216</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;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\'>There\r\nis an absolute best but that can happen only when the consciousness has arrived\r\nat, attained union with the Supreme Consciousness. In fact there is then no\r\nlonger any path to traverse, the path has lapsed or merged into the goal, the\r\npath and the goal have become one. This does not mean that dangers and\r\ndifficulties and pitfalls have to be accepted and welcomed but that they have\r\nto be faced in the right spirit as aids and helps necessary and inevitable at\r\ncertain points of the journey. One must grow into the consciousness that will\r\nbe able to see them as such, find their use and turn them into the good that\r\nlies behind or ahead.</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\n8.0pt;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– 217</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<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','-072_The Relative Best','','publish','closed','open','','072_the-relative-best','','','2021-11-23 17:58:26','2021-11-23 17:58:26','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/072_the-relative-best/',0,'post','',0),(1854,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:26','2021-11-23 17:58:26','<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\r\n<title>Education of Girls</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 of Girls</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 question is about our physical education and, in a general way, the\r\npsychological basis of our activities here. These things have, of course, been\r\nwritten about and spoken of by me and by Sri Aurobindo very often, but evidently\r\nthe idea does not seem to have entered your consciousness.<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\'>I do not wish to wage a war against what you\r\nfeel and do, but I would like you at least to understand why things are done\r\nhere in the way they are being done instead of letting yourself go thoughtlessly\r\nin a retrograde movement towards all that is done elsewhere, under the plea\r\nthat that is how your fathers and grandfathers and great grandfathers and all\r\nthe ancestors of yourself and of all your friends and relatives did in the past\r\nand considered it as the normal and natural way of doing things.<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\'>I do not contradict the fact, in the sense\r\nthat humanity was created by Nature with special intentions and special\r\npurposes; it is in order to realise her ends that Nature fashioned her\r\ncreatures and gave them special habits and functions. Therefore, if you speak\r\nof natural things, I cannot say that they are not natural, for it is Nature\'s\r\nway.<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\'>But all the same I have told you, I suppose,\r\nnot once but many times, and Sri Aurobindo also has written, not once but more\r\nthan once, that we are not here to recommence, perpetuate, continue what is\r\ndone elsewhere. And we have given a concrete shape to this fact specially in our\r\neducation. For, I must avow, without giving offence to anyone, that they who\r\ncome here after having lived long and who carry a heavy load of the past upon\r\ntheir back find it difficult to change immediately their attitude and their\r\npoint of view, but if you take the young ones, who are not spoilt yet – although\r\nthey too get spoilt very </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>\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 – 163<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\'>easily – those who are .not spoilt too much by the usual education, by\r\nfamily ideas, ancestral inclinations, you have just a chance of turning their\r\nconsciousness to the true path and obtain somewhat tangible and concrete\r\nresults.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:272.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>To speak the truth,\r\nwe have had nothing to complain of; for we had absolutely clear proofs that\r\nwhat we wanted to do is quite possible, if one knows how to set about it.</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><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\'>This is then what we say: given similar\r\nconditions, the same education, identical possibilities, there is no reason to\r\nmake a categorical, final and imperative distinction between what are called\r\nmen and women. For us, human beings are the expression of one and the same\r\nsoul; and if, as I already said in the beginning, Nature has made a\r\ndifferentiation in the expression with a view to satisfying her needs and realising her purposes, but if our needs and our purposes are different and we\r\ndo not recognise the physical ends as conceived by Nature to be the final and\r\nabsolute ends, then we can try and develop our consciousness along another\r\nline.<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>Unfortunately we have come to notice one\r\nthing. As years pass and small girls grow up, they suddenly begin to remember\r\nthat they are girls and that they must live and move in a special manner, they\r\nmust be charming, good-looking, pretty, etc., etc. So all our efforts seem to\r\nbe in vain. Naturally, there are exceptions – there are always exceptions to\r\nthe rule – but even among these, in the background of their consciousness there\r\nis this feeling of being not quite like the others, the satisfaction of having\r\ndone better than the others, the conceit that they stand comparison with the\r\nothers – the males!<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\'>I am told people have been remarking – people\r\nnaturally not accustomed to our ways – people with their own old-world ideas – and\r\nasking why we have the same programme of physical education for both boys and\r\ngirls, why the girls are not treated in a special way, quite differently from\r\nthe boys – is it not a gross error even from the physical point of view to\r\nlevel them together? Their crowning argument being, that is the way things are\r\ndone everywhere else.<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\'>I say if that is the way things are done\r\nelsewhere, it is no use our repeating the same here. We cannot do it better\r\nthan they. On the contrary, if things are done elsewhere in that way, it is\r\njust the reason why we should not do them that way.</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 – 164<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;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt\'>What we want is precisely to bring into the\r\nworld something which is not there. But if we keep to all the habits of the\r\nworld, all its preferences and prejudices, all its constructions, how shall we\r\ncome out of the rut and do something new?<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\'>I have told you, my children, I have repeated\r\nin all kinds of tone and temper: if you wish truly to benefit by your stay\r\nhere, try to look at things and understand them with a new eye and a new\r\nperception based on something higher, deeper, truer, something which is yet not\r\nthere, but will be one day. And it is to build up this future that we have\r\ntaken a special attitude.<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:10.0pt\'>I tell you, we have had quite material proofs\r\nof the correctness and truth of our position. They do not last, however. Why? Because\r\nit is extremely easy to fall back into the ordinary consciousness, but there\r\nis nothing more difficult than to hold oneself high all the time on the top\r\nrung of the ladder and look at the world from up there.<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:10.0pt\'>But we will not obey Nature\'s orders, even if\r\nthese orders have behind them thousands and thousands of years of habit. Yet\r\none thing is certain: the argument that Nature puts forward against any change\r\nin things that they have been always as they are is not true. Whether she wants\r\nit or not, things do change and a day will come when people will say, &quot;Ah\r\nyes, things were so in those days, but now it is all different!&quot;<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\'>You may naturally complain that I am\r\naddressing myself only to the girls and that I am telling you all this in the\r\npresence of the &quot;other sex&quot;. But I include them also in the\r\nridiculousness of the whole thing. For if they did not think in the way they\r\nthink, if they did not feel in the way they feel and if they did not behave in\r\nthe way they behave, long long ago you would have been disgusted with these\r\nchildish mannerisms of yours.<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\'>However, I ask you only to understand and\r\nadmit this much: for some time we still belong to a period of faith and trust, that\r\nthings are on the way to change, that we have reached a point in time when\r\nthings are turning and taking a new direction. I ask of you a little more\r\nfaith, a little more trust, just letting yourself be guided. Otherwise you will\r\nlose the advantage of being here. That is all.<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 – 165<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','-052_Education of Girls','','publish','closed','open','','052_education-of-girls','','','2021-11-23 17:58:26','2021-11-23 17:58:26','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/052_education-of-girls/',0,'post','',0),(1855,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:26','2021-11-23 17:58:26','<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>How to Read Sri Aurobindo and the Mother</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\">\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal; font-weight:700\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">How to Read Sri <span class=SpellE>Aurobindo</span> and the Mother</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n		<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\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\'><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\'>WHY do we read the works\r\nof Sri <span class=SpellE>Aurobindo</span> and the Mother? <span class=GramE>And\r\nif we read them, how to read them?</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\'>Do\r\nwe read for the sake of study? <span class=GramE>to</span> know things? <span\r\nclass=GramE>to</span> acquire knowledge? That is a secondary aspect, a profit\r\ngained by the way. The real purpose of coming in contact with the words of the\r\nMother and Sri <span class=SpellE>Aurobindo</span> is to become conscious, to\r\nacquire consciousness, to be more and more conscious, increase more and more\r\nthe consciousness. To understand, that is to say, to seize by the mind, to\r\ngrasp intellectually the writings of the Mother and Sri <span class=SpellE>Aurobindo</span>\r\nis rather difficult. The easier, the more right way would be to enter into the\r\natmosphere of the world that they have created with their words, to feel the\r\nvibration that the words emanate. For the words that they have uttered are not\r\nmere words taken or found in the dictionaries, they are not mere sounds, dead\r\nsyllables, they are living entities, symbols of consciousness, the\r\nconsciousness of which I have just spoken. These symbols, being symbols of\r\nconsciousness are luminous, they shed light all along, they are full of power\r\nand extend power all along, they have life and they are full of delight. It is\r\nthis inner world that is behind the outer world of words that one has to be in\r\ntouch with, be aware of, in the first instance, before one can have a mental\r\nunderstanding; in other words you must cultivate the right attitude, a turn of\r\nyour consciousness in tune with the consciousness that has worked out the words\r\nof the Mother and Sri <span class=SpellE>Aurobindo</span>. You have to take a\r\nplunge, as it were, dip into the waters, and be soaked in the caress of that\r\nelement, to come in the living touch of the substance of words, go behind the\r\nmeaning, if necessary, avoiding it even. You must contact the living sap, the <span\r\nclass=SpellE><span class=GramE>rasa,<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'> </span>that has poured itself out in\r\nthe creation. If you have tasted </span></span><span\r\nstyle=\'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 – 254</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:12.0pt;\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</b>\r\n</i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal; 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\'><span class=GramE>of</span>\r\nthat, then – It has its own light – that will suffuse you auto­matically with\r\nits radiance; the delight of bathing in the living spring will formulate itself\r\nin rhythms of knowledge and true understanding.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">At least such should be the basis of approach to the\r\nworks of the Mother and Sri <span class=SpellE>Aurobindo</span>. You may have\r\npossessed a rich intellectual apparatus, you may have all the information that\r\nsciences and philosophies have gathered, you may have perused the whole story\r\nof the evolution of human knowledge up to the present time, all these are\r\nlesser <span class=GramE>lights,</span> they do not illuminate the light before\r\nwhich you stand. That light is shown and <span class=SpellE>recognised</span>\r\nby its own reflection or emanation in you, the little light that is in you,\r\nyour soul.</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\'>Indeed,\r\nthere have been instances where great intellectuals, famed savants found\r\nthemselves bewildered before the simplest magic phrases of the Mother and Sri <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Aurobindo</span>. On the other hand, simpler minds with no burden\r\nof learning, <span class=GramE>nor</span> pride of pedantry, with their pure\r\nstreak of light in the depth of their consciousness were able to seize and\r\nunveil the secret sense.</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\'>Your\r\nmental understanding, your intellectual apprehension mayor will add to the joy\r\nof your discovery; one that is perhaps at the end or subsequently, when your brain,\r\nyour physical reason has been washed by the flow of the inner light, when it\r\nhas been made pure and plastic and docile.</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\'>In\r\nanother way, to understand the Truth – the Truth that the words of the Mother\r\nor Sri <span class=SpellE>Aurobindo</span> express – you must start by living\r\nit, approaching it not merely through your mind, in fact not even through your\r\nheart, but possessing it in the very body. The Mother says<span class=GramE>,</span>\r\nreal understanding comes by the body-understanding. Indeed, the true aim of\r\nknowledge is not merely to know but to be.</span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p></b>\r\n</i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal; mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'>\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 – 255</span></span><i style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:normal\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><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\">\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\r\n		</b>\r\n</i>\r\n</span></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-077_How to Read Sri Aurobindo and the Mother','','publish','closed','open','','077_how-to-read-sri-aurobindo-and-the-mother','','','2021-11-23 17:58:26','2021-11-23 17:58:26','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/077_how-to-read-sri-aurobindo-and-the-mother/',0,'post','',0),(1856,1,'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>The Story of 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 style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<font style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The Story of 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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'><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; 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; 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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>LOVE, in its essence, is the joy of identity. It finds its final expression\r\nin the felicity of union. Between the two there are all the phases that make up\r\nthe universal manifestation.</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\'>Love comes from the very origin of the universe.\r\nLove in its essence, I say, that is, before the manifestation, is the delight\r\nof identity. Something there was which became conscious of the identity. And\r\nthat is precisely Love. Afterwards comes the manifestation of Love. In its\r\nhighest form, when it comes back to its origin across all its history of\r\nmanifestation, it becomes the felicity of union. The sense of union comes as a\r\nconsequence of the sense of separation. The passage through the whole manifested\r\nuniverse gives the sense of separation from the origin and the return to the\r\norigin is the felicity of reunion – union of two things which were separated\r\nand are united again. That is Love in its great circuit of manifestation.</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\'>When it climbs back to its origin, it returns to\r\nthe starting point with something more than what it had before it started. It\r\nis the experience of the universe and universality. Fundamentally, that is the\r\nreason for the existence of creation. Consciousness would not be what it is\r\nhad it not been expressed in a creation. There is an enrichment of\r\nconsciousness through the experience gathered in an objective universe, a\r\nrichness of content and a plenitude it would not have if there were not a manifested\r\nuniverse.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The return movement of creation is not a thing that\r\nhappens in time. It is difficult to conceive, because for us things are suceessive.\r\nBut if one could conceive a movement as a whole .embracing everything, which\r\nwould be at the same time the<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 – 130<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\'>\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\'>beginning and the end, and contain all, it would then be not a return in\r\ntime, but a return in consciousness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:174.45pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If there were not the circuit,\r\nthere would never be the Ananda of union, there would be only the Ananda of\r\nidentity. And it is precisely in order that this Ananda of identity may find\r\nits culmination and crowning in the Ananda of union that the whole circuit has\r\nbeen done.<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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:174.45pt; 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:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The very moment when the individual consciousness\r\nmoved away from its divine origin and remained no longer identified with the\r\nmovement of the divine consciousness, the sense of separation was created. The\r\nindividual consciousness did not separate wilfully, but it remained no longer\r\nidentified. Not being identified, the Divine Consciousness followed a certain\r\nmovement and the individual consciousness followed another, and naturally they\r\ndrifted apart from each other more and more. Let us say, as an image, that the\r\nDivine Consciousness advances at a certain speed and the individual\r\nconsciousness, not having remained united with it, could not keep pace with it\r\nand therefore fell back more and more, far behind. The Divine moves forward,\r\nthe individual stops; when the individual moves, the Divine flies. When the\r\nindividual takes one step, the Divine leaps. That increases the gap of\r\nseparation more and more. It is this original separation that has produced\r\nothers in its train and these separations all together have created the\r\nuniversal misery, at least the earthly misery as we know 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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It all began by a separation in the consciousness\r\nand it ended by a separation in respect of the worlds and their elements, by a division\r\nthat we witness down to the material nature. The separation in consciousness\r\nhas produced the separation of forms and the separation of forms has induced\r\npain and suffering. Now, therefore, there are these countless objects that lie\r\nabout divided and separated from one another. Since, however, the universe had\r\nto be a progressive thing, the bliss of identity, the full consciousness of\r\nthis identity had necessarily to be veiled, otherwise nothing would have moved.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.7pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Evidently,\r\nif the sense of unity were reestablished, the miseries would disappear. But if\r\nyou realised the perfect identity and the whole universe in its totality\r\nrealised this absolute unity in which<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:12.7pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\r\n12.0pt;\'>Page – 131<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:12.7pt\'>\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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>there is no possibility of any distinction, then there\r\nwould be no universe at all, it would be the return to Pralaya. The solution\r\nthen is to find Ananda in the play of mutual exchange and union.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>What has been projected into space and time must\r\nbe brought back to itself, without thereby annulling the world so created. That\r\nis why Love burst forth as the irresisitible power of <st1:place>Union</st1:place>.\r\nIt soared over darkness and unconsciousness, it scattered itself, pulverised\r\nitself into the bosom of unfathomable night. It is then that the awakening and\r\nthe ascension began the slow formation in and out of Matter and a progress\r\nwithout end.</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; 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; 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; 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:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There is a state of consciousness in which one\r\nexperiences the Divine Love everywhere. One does not feel then a great difference\r\nbetween one creature and another except in their physical appearance. Even in\r\nunconsciousness and immobility, the apparently complete inertia – of the stone,\r\nfor example – can be found a dazzling light, the light of the divine Presence.\r\nThere is much more aspiration than one thinks in objects that are usually\r\ncalled inanimate. In the stone precisely there is a spontaneous sense of what\r\nis there high above and although it cannot express it, it feels the thing and\r\nthat affects it although in different ways. In the stone, in things and\r\nobjects, there is a strange receptivity that comes from this Presence.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You can take what you call a precious stone and\r\nconcentrate a force or forces in it. It retains them. These forces radiate\r\nafterwards very slowly, but increasingly, progressively. And if you know how to\r\ndo it, you can charge it with a quantity of force quite enough to last almost\r\nindefinitely so to say. There are stones that serve as intermediaries of union,\r\nstones that serve as accumulators of energy and stones that may serve as\r\nforetellers of circumstances, they may carry messages. Therefore, as they can\r\nserve as accumulators, it means that they carry in themselves the source of the\r\nForce itself, otherwise they would not be receptive.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It is a force of this kind that is the origin of\r\nthe phenomenon of crystallisation. <st1:City><st1:place>Crystals</st1:place></st1:City>\r\ngather together in matter, it is already a movement of love. Stones that\r\ncrystallise, rock crystals, for<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 – 132 <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\'>\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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>example, form wonderful designs, so magnificent in their\r\nabsolute harmony; that comes because of only one thing – the Force of Love.</p>\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;tab-stops:167.25pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You do not see the thing,\r\nbecause you have not the inner sensibility. But once you have the direct\r\nperception of the forces of love behind things you see that it is everywhere\r\nthe same. And you can even come to understand what man-made manufactured\r\nthings tell you.<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; </span></p>\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;tab-stops:167.25pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The movement is quite\r\nperceptible in the vegetable kingdom, in the tree and the plant. These trees\r\nthat rise up and up always, the small ones trying to catch up with the big\r\nones, the big ones endeavouring to mount still further! The plants always seek\r\nto find out a direction from where they can receive as much light as possible. <span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>It<b> </b></span>is the need to grow in order\r\nto get more light, more air, more space.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>When you see a rose opening out to the sun, it is\r\nas if it were for the need of giving away its beauty. For us it is\r\nunintelligible, for flowers do not think out what they do. A human being always\r\nassociates with what he does the capacity to see what he does, to think what he\r\ndoes. But flowers I are not, so to say, conscious at all, theirs is a\r\nspontaneous movement. <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>It<b> </b></span>is\r\na mighty Force that is at work through all this, the great universal Consciousness,\r\nthe great force of universal Love that makes all things flower in beauty.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It is said the tiger\'s need to devour is one of\r\nthe first expressions of love in the world. What is likely to prove that this\r\nis not quite false is that when a tiger or a serpent catches its victim, the\r\nvictim usually gives himself up in a kind of delight of being eaten. A\r\ntestimony comes in the experience of a man in the following true story. He\r\nhappened to be in the midst of bushes with his comrades. He was a little\r\nbehind, away from others and a tiger caught hold of him. The others returned\r\nwhen they noticed that he had disappeared. They found and followed the traces\r\nand arrived just in time to save him from the jaws of the tiger. When he had\r\nrecovered a little, he was asked what a terrible experience he must have had!\r\nHe replied that it was nothing of the kind: &quot;Just imagine, I don\'t know\r\nwhat happened to me, but as soon as the tiger seized me and began to drag me\r\nalong the ground, I felt an intense love for him and a great desire that he\r\nshould eat me up.&quot; This is, I say, a true story.<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 – 133 <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\'>\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:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As a matter of fact, long before the tiger came on\r\nthe scene, there must have been early creatures dwelling at the bottom of the\r\nsea that had only one function, the stomach. They existed only as stomachs and\r\ntheir only activity was to swallow. One may say that these are the first\r\nexpressions of love seeping through matter. For, before that there was nothing,\r\nexcept perfect inconscience, complete immobility, nothing was moving. It is\r\nwith love that movement began, consciousness awakened, transformation started.\r\nLove is the power of the world.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The need to swallow is a primitive way of uniting\r\nwith things, but it is a very direct way, you swallow and you absorb the thing.\r\nThe tiger takes a great joy in the thing; there is a joy and that is already a\r\nhigher form of love.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If you want to know what love is, you must love\r\nthe Divine. <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>It<b> </b></span>is a very\r\nwell-known fact that in the end you become just like the thing you love. If you\r\nlove the Divine, by the force of this love, little by little, you will become\r\nmore and more like the Divine. And then one can identify oneself with the\r\ndivine Love and know what it is, you cannot know it in any other way.<b><o:p></o:p></b></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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Necessarily, the love between two human beings is\r\nalways made of ignorance, misunderstanding, weakness and a terrible sense of\r\nisolation. <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:bold\'>It<b> </b></span>would be as\r\nif you wanted to gain entrance into the presence of a unique Splendour and the\r\nfirst thing you do is to put a screen between yourself and this Splendour and you\r\nare very much astonished that you do not have even a vague impression of it!\r\nThe first thing then to do is to do away with the screen, pass through and\r\nstand in the presence of the Splendour. Then you know what it is. But if you\r\ngo on piling veil after veil between yourself and That, you will never see it.\r\nYou may have just a vague impression, &quot;there is something&quot; and that\r\nis all.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One of the highest expressions of love in human\r\nbeings is the giving of oneself entirely to the person loved. That is to say,\r\nto sacrifice oneself for the motherland, give one\'s life in defending another\r\nperson, etc. This may not be the very highest form, but it is already\r\nsomething. From there you have to climb very high up to arrive at the true\r\nexpression which is on the summit of the ascent. The ultimate expression of\r\nlove is in the felicity of union.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That brings us to the symbol of <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>\r\nand Radha. <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place><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 – 134<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\'>\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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>is he of whom Sri Aurobindo speaks as the divine\r\nFlute-player, that is to say, the immanent and universal Divine who is the\r\nsupreme power of attraction. Radha is the name given to the soul, the psychic\r\npersonality responding to the call of the Fluteplayer.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Radha consciousness is essentially the way in\r\nwhich the individual answers to the divine call. Sri Aurobindo describes it as\r\nthe capacity to find Ananda in all things through identification with the one\r\ndivine Presence and through total self-giving to this Presence. That has the\r\npower of changing everything into perpetual ecstasy. Instead of seeing things\r\nin their apparent discord, you see the Presence alone, the Will and the Grace\r\nin all things. And every event, every element, every circumstance, every form\r\nchanges into a way, a detail through which you can approach more intimately and\r\nmore profoundly the Divine. The discordances disappear, the uglinesses vanish,\r\nthere remains only the splendour of the divine presence in the Love that\r\nradiates in all things.</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; 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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(3)<o:p></o:p></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\'><span style=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'><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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>Love for the Divine means an exclusive attachment to the divine\r\nReality. This concentration finds its culmination in an integral identification\r\nand is instrumental to the supramental realisation upon earth.<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination: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;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Love alone is capable of putting an end to the\r\nsuffering of the world. Only the ineffable delight of Love in its essence can\r\nwipe out of the universe the burning pain of separation. For it is only in the\r\necstasy of the supreme union that creation will discover the reason of its\r\nexistence and its fulfilment.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It is this marvellous state that we wish to\r\nrealise upon earth. It is this that will be able to transform the world, make\r\nof it a dwelling place worthy of the divine Presence. And then only Love, true\r\nand pure, will incarnate in a body that will no longer be a disguise or a veil.\r\nThat is why no effort is too arduous, no austerity too rigorous to illumine,\r\nperfect, transform the physical substance so that it no more hides the Divine,\r\nwhen the Divine takes an external form through Love. For, then there will be\r\nfreely manifested in the world that marvellous divine Kindness that can change\r\nlife into a paradise of the sweetest delight.<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 – 135<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\'>\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:10.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Divine Love is there with all its intensity,\r\nwith all its tremendous power. But most people do not feel anything. What they\r\nfeel is exactly proportionate to what they are and what they are capable of\r\nreceiving.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.35pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Just imagine that you are bathed in an atmosphere\r\nwholly vibrant with divine love. But you perceive nothing of it. Sometimes,\r\nrarely, all on a sudden you get the impression of something. Then you say:\r\n&quot;Oh! Divine Love came to me!&quot; It may seem to be an illusion, but the\r\nsimple thing is that for some reason or other you were open just a little and\r\nyou perceived the Thing. But it is always there.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Divine Consciousness also means the same\r\nthing. This too is there in its full intensity. Yet people do not perceive it\r\nor perceive only spasmodically. But at one moment you happen to be in a good\r\ncondition, you feel something and say: &quot;Oh! the Divine Consciousness\r\nappeared to me.&quot; But, as I said, it is not quite that. When you have a\r\nsmall opening, sometimes even like that of a pinhead, it rushes into you, for\r\nit is an active atmosphere. Whenever there is a possibility of its being\r\nreceived, it is received.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It is the same thing with regard to all divine\r\nthings. They are all there.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Only you do not receive them, because you are\r\nclosed up, blocked up. And you are very actively occupied with other things all\r\nthe while. All the while you are full of yourself. As you are full of yourself,\r\nthere is no place for the Divine. But He is there.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All wonderful things are there around you: You do\r\nnot see them, or see them occasionally only, at a moment when you are a little\r\nmore receptive, or perhaps in sleep, when you are less exclusively occupied\r\nwith your petty affairs. Then a light comes to you of something; you see, you\r\nfeel something. But generally, as soon as you wake up, all that is obliterated\r\nby the formidable ego that is full of itself.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If you look at yourself closely you will see that\r\nit is always like that. Your vision of the universe is this: that you are at\r\nthe centre and the universe is around you. It is not the universe that you see\r\nbut you see yourself in the universe. So there is no room for any other thing.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The surest means of reestablishing the right\r\nperspective is 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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 136<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\'>\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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>give yourself to the Divine. Then you are obliged to come\r\nout of yourself a little at least to begin with.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Generally, when people think of the Divine, the\r\nfirst thing they do is to pull as much as they can and they receive nothing.\r\nThey tell you: &quot;Oh, I have called, I have prayed and I have had no\r\nanswer&quot;. If they are asked: &quot;Have you offered yourself?&quot;, they\r\nreply: &quot;No, I have pulled.&quot; &quot;But that is why you have not\r\nreceived.&quot; It is not that the answer did not come. But when you pull, you\r\nare so much shut up within your ego that you raise a wall between what is to be\r\nreceived and yourself. You confine yourself within a prison and yet you are\r\nastonished that in your prison you feel nothing.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Throw yourself out of yourself. Give yourself\r\nwithout holding back anything, simply for the joy of the self-giving. Then\r\nthere is a chance of your feeling something.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>When you do not ask whether you are loved or you\r\nare not loved, when you are absolutely indifferent to that, then only there is\r\nthe beginning of true love. </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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You love because you love, not because you receive\r\nan answer to your love, or because the other person loves you. You love because\r\nyou cannot do otherwise than love. You do not pay any attention to what may\r\nhappen. You are perfectly satisfied with your feeling of love. You love because\r\nyou love. Everything else is bargaining, it is not love.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Besides, it is sure and certain that as soon as\r\nyou are truly in love, you do not put the question any more. It is so childish,\r\nridiculous and insignificant to put the question. As soon as you are truly in\r\nlove, you have the entire plenitude of delight and realisation. You do not need\r\nany kind of response. You are the Love. That is all. You have the full\r\nsatisfaction of love. And there is no need of reciprocity.</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; 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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(4)<o:p></o:p></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\'><span style=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.15in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>&quot;To become conscious if the Divine Love, you must\r\nabandon all other love.&quot; What is the best way of rejecting &quot;the other\r\nlove&quot; which is so obstinate in its denial and which does not leave you\r\neasily </i>?<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; 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:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To pass through – yes, pass through and see what is\r\nbehind, not to stop short at the appearance, not to rest satisfied with the<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 – 137<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.2pt;\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 style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>external form, but to look for the principle that <i>is </i>behind\r\nthe love, not to be satisfied until you have found the source of the feeling in\r\nyou. Then the external form will fall away of itself and you will be <i>in </i>contact\r\nwith the Divine Love that is behind everything. That is the best way. To try to\r\nreject one to find the other is very difficult, almost impossible. Because\r\nhuman nature is so limited, so full of contradictions and so exclusive in <i>its\r\n</i>movements that if you want to reject love <i>in its </i>lower form, that is\r\nto say, human love as human beings feel it, if you force yourself towards\r\nrejecting that, then generally you reject even the capacity to feel love and\r\nyou become as it were a stone. Then sometimes you have to wait for years or\r\neven centuries for the capacity of receiving and manifesting love to reawaken\r\nin you.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Therefore the best means is, when love comes in\r\nany form whatsoever, to try to pierce through its external appearance, to find\r\nout the divine principle that is behind and that <i>is </i>the cause of its\r\nexistence. Naturally <i>it </i>is full of snares and difficulties, but it is\r\nthe most effective. In other words, instead of ceasing to love, because you\r\nlove in the wrong way, you must cease to love in the wrong way and try to love\r\nin the right way. For example, the love between human creatures, in all <i>its </i>forms,\r\nthe love of the parents for their children, of the children for their parents,\r\nthe love between brothers, between lovers, all are tainted with ignorance and\r\negoism and every other fault that is the common human fault. So, instead of\r\nceasing altogether to love, which is besides very difficult, as <i>it </i>will\r\nsimply dry up the heart and therefore serve no purpose, you must learn to love\r\nwith devotion and self-giving and self-abnegation, you are to fight not against\r\nlove itself but against its deformities. All forms of appropriation, the sense\r\nof possession, jealousy, all other feelings that accompany and support these\r\nroot feelings are to be rejected. Instead you must not seek to possess,\r\ndominate, impose your will or caprice or desire, must not be eager to take and\r\nreceive, but to give. Do not demand a return from the other, but be satisfied\r\nwith your own love; do not seek your interest, your personal pleasure, the\r\nfulfilment of your own desire but rest content with your love and affection, do\r\nnot ask for a response, but remain happy <i>with </i>loving only, nothing more.</p>\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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If you have done that, you have taken a big step,\r\nand then through that attitude, little by little you may progress more into<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 – 138<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\'>\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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>the feeling itself, and you will find one day that love is\r\nnot a personal thing, love is a divine universal feeling that manifests through\r\nyou as well as it can, but it is in its essence a divine thing.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The first step then is to cease to be egoistic. It\r\nis the same rule for all, not only for those who want to do Yoga, but even in\r\nordinary life, if you want to love, truly, first of all you must not love\r\nyourself and particularly do not love in an egoistic way; you must give\r\nyourself to the object of your love without asking for anything in return. This\r\nis the very elementary discipline, if you are to transcend yourself, and live a\r\nlife that is not wholly commonplace.</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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In Yoga, you add something more. It is, as I have\r\nsaid, the will to pierce through this limited and human form of love and\r\ndiscover the principle of Divine Love that is there behind; it is there then\r\nthat you are sure to arrive at a result. That is better than drying up one\'s\r\nheart. It is more difficult perhaps, but it is always better because, by so\r\ndoing, you do not make others suffer egoistically, you leave others to their\r\nown movements, you concern yourself with your own transformation, without imposing\r\nyour will upon others and that, even in ordinary life, is a step towards\r\nsomething that is a little higher and more harmonious.<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 – 139<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\'>\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<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','-043_The Story of Love','','publish','closed','open','','043_the-story-of-love','','','2021-11-23 17:58:27','2021-11-23 17:58:27','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/043_the-story-of-love/',0,'post','',0),