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\nSECTION TWELVE<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTRANSFORMATION OF THE INCONSCIENT
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTHE PRESENT WORLD SITUATION<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n

\n

\n

\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nOpening the Inconscient to Light<\/i> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHERE is another cause of the general inability
\nto change which at present afflicts the sadhak.; It
\nis because the sadhana, as a general fact, has now and
\nfor a long time past come down to the Inconscient;  the pressure, the call is to change in that part of the
\nnature which depends directly on the Inconscient,
\nthe fixed habits, the automatic movements, the
\nmechanical repetitions of the nature, the involuntary
\nreactions to life, all that seems to belong to the fixed
\ncharacter of a man. This has to be done if there is
\nto be any chance of a total spiritual change. The
\nForce (generally and not individually) is working
\nto make that possible, its pressure is for that,\u2014for,
\nen the other levels, the change has already been
\nmade possible (not, mind you, assured to everybody).
\nBut to open the Inconscient to light is a herculean
\ntask; change on the other levels is much easier. As
\nyet this work has only begun and it is not surprising
\nthat there seems to be no change in things or people.
\nIt will come in time, but not in a hurry. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAs for experiences, they are all right but the trouble
\nis that they do not seem to change the nature, they <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 437<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nonly enrich the consciousness\u2014even the realisation,,
\non the mind level, of the Brahman seems to leave
\nthe nature almost where it was, except for a few.
\nThat is why we insist on the psychic transformation
\nas the first necessity\u2014for that does change the
\nnature\u2014and its chief instrument is bhakti, surrender, etc. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n27-4-1944 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nChange of Earth-Consciousness<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHE earth-consciousness does not want to change,
\nso it rejects what comes down to it from above\u2014it
\nhas always done so. It is only if those who have taken
\nthis Yoga open themselves and are willing to change
\ntheir lower nature that this unwillingness can disappear. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nWhat stands in the way, of course, is always the vital
\nego with its ignorance and the pride of its ignorance,
\nand the physical consciousness with its inertia which
\nresents and resists any call to change and its indolence which does not like to take the trouble\u2014it
\nfinds it more comfortable to go on its own way repeating always the same old movements and, at best, <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 438<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nexpecting everything to be done for it in some way
\nat some time. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe first thing is to have the right inner
\nattitude\u2014
\nyou have that; the rest is the will to transform oneself and the vigilance to perceive and reject all that
\nbelongs to the ego and the tamasic persistence of the
\nlower nature. Finally, to keep oneself always open
\nto the Mother in every part of the being so that the
\nprocess of transformation may find no hindrance. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nApril, 1938 . <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nBasic Stabilisation in the Physical Being<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nFOR your sadhana it is necessary first to establish the
\nentire openness of the physical being and stabilise
\nin it the descent of calm, strength, purity and joy
\nwith the feeling of the presence and the working of
\nthe Mother’s Force in you. It is only on that assured
\nbasis that one can become an entirely effective instrument for the work. Once that is done, there is still
\nthe dynamic transformation of the instrumental
\nbeing to achieve and that depends on a descent of
\na higher and higher power of consciousness into the
\nmind, vital and body\u2014by "higher" being meant <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 439<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nnearer and nearer to the supramental Light and
\nForce. But that can only be done on the basis of
\nwhich I have spoken and with the psychic being constantly in front and acting as an intermediary
\nbetween the instrumental mind, vital and body and
\nthese higher planes of Being. So this basic stabilisation must first be completed.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n.25-4-1933 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nRemoval of Physical Restlessness<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nYES, this is the time when you have to persist till
\nyou are quite settled in the inner consciousness and the persistence of the
\nsilence and peace is a sign that it is now possible. When one feels this kind of
\nsilence, peace and wideness, one may be sure that it is that of the true being,
\nthe real self, penetrating into the, mind and vital and perhaps also the
\nphysical consciousness (if it is complete). The restlessness of
\nthe physical is probably due to the peace and silence
\nhaving touched the physical but not yet penetrated
\nthe material or body consciousness. The old restlessness is there in the body struggling to remain,
\nalthough it cannot invade either mind or vital or even
\nin a general way the physical consciousness as a <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 440<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nwhole. If the peace descends there, the restlessness
\nwill disappear. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe sex-sensation comes from the waking subconscient. When it is unable to manifest in the
\nwaking consciousness, it comes up from the subconscient in sleep. The mind must riot allow itself to be
\ndisturbed\u2014it will go Out with the rest. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n20-9-1934 <\/font><\/p>\n

\nBreaking of Physical Habits<\/b><\/i> <\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHE physical is the slave of certain forces which
\ncreate a habit and drive it through the mechanical
\npower of the habit. So long as the mind gives consent,
\nyou do not notice the slavery; but if the mind withdraws its consent, then you feel the servitude, you
\nfeel a force pushing you in spite of the mind’s will.
\nIt is very obstinate and repeats itself till the habit,
\nthe inner habit revealing itself in the outward act, is broken. It is like a
\nmachine which once set in motion repeats the same movement. You need not be
\nalarmed or distressed; a quiet persistent aspiration
\nwill bring you to the point where the habit breaks
\nand you are free. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n21-11-1982 <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 44I<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n
\nOvercoming the Physical Obstacle<\/i> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHE sense of helplessness, of impossibility of removal
\nof the obstacle, is like the obscurity itself a characteristic of the physical consciousness which is inert and
\nmechanical and accustomed to be moved inertly by
\nwhatever forces take hold of it. But this sense of
\nhelplessness or impossibility is unreal and not to
\nyield to it, not to accept it, to remove it, is quite
\npossible and very necessary for overcoming the
\nphysical obstacle which would otherwise greatly
\ndelay the progress. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n20-1-1934 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nGross and Subtle Physical\u2014Material Vital<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n(1) <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nBY the gross physical is meant the earthly and bodily
\nphysical\u2014as experienced by the outward sense-mind and senses. But that is not the whole of
\nMatter. There is a subtle physical also with a
\nsubtler consciousness in it which can, for instance,
\ngo to a distance from the body and yet feel and be <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 442<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\naware of things in a not merely mental or vital way.
\nAs for mind and vital, they are everywhere\u2014there
\nis an obscure mind and life even in the cells of the
\nbody, the stones or in molecules and atoms. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n3-3-1933 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n(2) <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nEverything has a physical part\u2014even the mind has
\na physical part; there is a mental physical, a mind
\nof the body and the material. So the emotional being
\nhas a physical part. It has no location separate from
\nthe rest of the emotional. One can only distinguish
\nthat when the consciousness becomes sufficiently
\nsubtle to do so. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n7-11-1933 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n(3) <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nI do not know about subtle vital. One says subtle
\nphysical to distinguish from gross material physical,
\nbecause to our normal experience all physical is
\ngross, sthula.<\/i> But the vital is in its nature non-material, so that the adjective is superfluous. By
\nmaterial vital we mean the vital so involved in <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 443<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nMatter as to be bound by its movements and gross
\nphysical character; the action is to support and
\nenergise the body and keep in it the capacity of
\nlife, growth, movement, etc., also of sensitiveness
\nto outside impacts. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nThe Sunlit Path\u2014Obstruction of the
\nInconscient Tamas<\/i><\/font> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHE sunlit path can only be followed if the psychic
\nis constantly or usually in front or if one has a
\nnatural spirit of faith and surrender or a face turned
\nhabitually towards the sun or if one has acquired
\nthe psychic turn. That does not mean that the
\nsunlit man has no difficulties; he may have many,
\nbut he regards them cheerfully as "all in the day’s
\nwork". If he gets bad beatings, he is capable of
\nsaying, "Well, that was a queer go but the Divine
\nis evidently in a queer mood and if that is his way
\nof doing things, it must be the right one; I am surely a still queerer fellow myself and that I suppose,
\nwas the only means of putting me right." But
\neverybody can’t be of that turn, and surrender
\nwhich would put everything right is, as you say,
\ndifficult to do completely. That is why we do not <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 444<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\ninsist on total, surrender at once, but are satisfied
\nwith a little to begin with, the rest to grow as it
\ncan. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nI have explained to you why so many people
\n(not by any means all) are in this gloomy condition,
\ndull and despondent. It is the tamas, the inertia
\nof the Inconscient, that has got hold of them. But
\nalso it is the small physical vital which takes only
\nan interest in the small and trivial things of the
\nordinary daily and social life and nothing else.
\nWhen formerly the sadhana was going on on higher
\nlevels (mind, higher vital, etc.), there was plenty
\nof vigour and verve and interest in the details of the Ashram work and life as well as in an inner life; the physical vital was carried in the stream. But
\nfor many this has dropped; they live in the un-
\nsatisfied vital physical and find everything desperately dull, gloomy and without interest or issue.
\nIn their inner life the tamas from the Inconscient has created a block or a bottleneck and they do
\nnot find any way out. If one can keep the right
\ncondition and attitude, a strong interest in work
\nor a strong interest in sadhana, then this becomes
\nquiescent. That is the malady. Its remedy is to
\nkeep the right condition and to bring gradually
\nor, if one can, swiftly the light of the higher aspiration into this part of being also, so that whatever <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 445<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nthe conditions of the environment, it may keep
\nalso the right poise. Then the sunlit path should be
\nless impossible. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n16-6-1944 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nHostile Attack of Physical Inertia<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nIT is more the lack of sleep that is responsible, I
\nthink; also the excess of struggle which the constant
\npressure of the vital disturbances and the physical
\ntamas bring in and by that weaken the nerves. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nLike the vital disturbance the physical inertia
\nwith all its symptoms is an attack of the hostile
\nforces intended to cut short and prevent the higher
\nopening. The ideas that arise to justify it are of
\nno value\u2014it is not true that physical work is of an inferior value to mental culture, it is the arrogance of the intellect that makes the claim. All
\nwork done for the Divine is equally divine, manual
\nlabour done for the Divine is more divine than
\nmental culture done for one’s own development,
\nfame or mental satisfaction. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThis inertia, numbness, pain should be thrown
\noff with the same resolution as the vital disturbances. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 446<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nThe only peculiarity of it in your case is the persistent violence of the attack as in the case of the
\nvital\u2014otherwise, it is what others get also, but
\neach time they reject, call on the Mother and get
\nfree, after a little time if the attack is violent, at
\nonce if it is of a lesser character. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nIf there is temporary physical inability, one can
\ntake rest, but solely for the purpose of recovering
\nthe physical energy. The idea of giving up physical
\nwork for mental self-development is a creation of the mental ego.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n26-11-1933 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nStruggle on the Physical Plane<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nWHATEVER point the adverse forces choose for attack,
\nhowever small it may seem to the external human
\nmind, becomes a crucial point and to yield it up
\nmay be to yield to them one of the keys of the
\nfortress. Even if it is a small postern door, it is
\nenough for them if they can enter. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nNothing is really small and unimportant in the
\nGreat Path. Especially, when the struggle has come
\ndown to the physical level, these distinctions cease
\nto have any value; for there "small" things have <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 447<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\na not easily calculable index value and are of great
\nimportance. On that level to lose a small post may
\nbe to make certain the loss of the big battle. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAll have had to pass through the ordeal and
\ntest through which you are passing. We would
\nhave avoided it for you if it had been possible, but
\nsince it has come we look to you to persist and conquer. Patience, quiet endurance, calm resolution
\nto go through to the end and triumph, these are the
\nqualities now required of you\u2014the less spectacular
\nbut more substantial of the warrior virtues. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAlso, perspicacity and vigilance. Do not shut
\nyour eyes to the difficulty in you or turn away
\nfrom it, but also let it not discourage you. Victory
\nis certain if we persevere, and what price of difficulty
\nand endeavour can be too great for such a conquest? <\/font><\/p>\n

\n1927 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nApproach of the Higher Light and Hostile Attacks<\/i> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n(I)<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nABOUT the attacks and the action of the cosmic
\nforces\u2014these attacks very ordinarily become violent <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 448<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nwhen the progress is becoming rapid and on the
\nway to be definite\u2014especially if they find they
\ncannot carry out an effective aggression into the
\ninner being, they try to shake by outside assaults.
\nOne must take it as a trial of strength, a call for
\ngathering all one’s capacities of calm and openness
\nto the Light and Power, so as to make oneself .an
\ninstrument for the victory of the Divine over the
\nundivine, of the Light over the darkness in the
\nworld-tangle. It is in this spirit that you must face
\nthese difficulties till the higher things are to be
\nconfirmed in you so that these forces can attack no
\nlonger. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n24-12-1933 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n(2) <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nThe things enumerated are not causes of the
\nattacks, but they are the occasion, the weakness in the
\nsadhaks that allows them when they could very well
\nbe dismissed. The hostile forces are there in the
\nworld to maintain the Ignorance\u2014they were there
\nin the sadhana, because they had the right to test
\nthe sincerity of the sadhaks in their power and will
\nto cleave to the Divine and overcome all difficulties.
\nBut this is only so long as the higher Light has <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage –  449 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nnot descended into the physical; now it is descending, it is sufficiently there for anyone to receive it
\nmore and more fully, so that the way becomes
\nsmooth and open, a progressive development and
\nnot a struggle. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n10-11-1933 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n(3) <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nHe is quite right in saying that the heaviness of
\nthese attacks was due to the fact that you had taken
\nup the sadhana in earnest and were approaching,
\nas one might say, the gates of the Kingdom of Light.
\nThat always makes these forces rage and they strain
\nevery nerve and use or create every opportunity to
\nturn the sadhak back or, if possible, drive him out of
\nthe path altogether by their suggestions, their violent
\ninfluences and their exploitation of all kinds of incidents that always crop up more and more when
\nthese conditions prevail, so that he may not reach
\nthe gates. I have written to you more than once
\nalluding to these forces, but I did not press the point
\nbecause I saw that like most people whose minds
\nhave been rationalised by a modern European education you were not inclined to believe in or at least
\nto attach any importance to this knowledge. People <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 450<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nnowadays seek the explanation for everything in
\ntheir ignorant reason, their surface experience and
\nin outside happenings. They do not see the hidden
\nforces and inner causes which were well-known and
\nvisualised in the traditional Indian and Yogic knowledge. Of course, these forces find their point
\nd’appui
\n<\/i>in the sadhak himself, in the ignorant parts of his
\nconsciousness and its assent to their suggestions and
\ninfluences; otherwise, they could not act or at least
\ncould not act with any success. In your case the
\nchief points d’appui<\/i> have been the extreme sensitiveness of the lower vital ego and now also the physical
\nconsciousness with all its fixed or standing opinions;
\nprejudices, prejudgments, habitual reactions, personal preferences, clinging to
\nold ideas and associations,
\nits obstinate doubts and its maintaining these things
\nas a wall of obstruction and opposition to the larger
\nlight. This activity of the physical mind is what
\npeople call intellect and reason, although it is only
\nthe turning of a machine in a circle of mental habits
\nand is very different from the true and free reason,
\nthe higher Buddhi, which is capable of enlightenment
\nand still more from the higher spiritual light or that
\ninsight and tact of the psychic consciousness which
\nsees at once what is true and right and distinguishes
\nit from what is wrong and false. This insight you
\nhad very constantly whenever you were in a good <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 451<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\ncondition and especially whenever Bhakti became
\nstrong in you. When the sadhak comes down into
\nthe physical consciousness, leaving the mental and
\nhigher vital ranges on which he had first turned
\ntowards the Divine, these opposite things become
\nvery strong and sticky and, as one’s more helpful
\nstates and experiences draw back behind the veil
\nand one can hardly realise that one ever had them,
\nit becomes difficult to get put of this condition. The
\nonly thing then, as K. has told you and I also have
\ninsisted, is to stick it out. If once one can get and
\nkeep the resolution to refuse to accept the suggestions of these forces, however plausible they may
\nseem, then either quickly or gradually this condition
\ncan diminish and will be overpassed and cease. To
\ngive up Yoga is no solution…. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n20-10-1946 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nConquest of the Physical Bed-rock <\/i> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHE opportunity for these contrary forces is given
\nwhen the sadhak descends in the inevitable course
\nof the sadhana from the mental or the higher vital
\nplane to the physical consciousness. Always this is <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 452<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\naccompanied by a fading of the first deep experiences
\nand a descent to the neutral obscure inertia which is
\nthe bed-rock of the unredeemed physical nature. It
\nis there that the Light, the Power, the Ananda of the
\nDivine has to descend and transform everything,
\ndriving away for ever all obscurity and all inertia and establishing the radiant Energy, the perfect
\nLight and the unchanging Bliss. There and not in
\nthe mind or the higher vital is all the difficulty, but
\nthere too must be the victory and the foundation of
\nthe new world. I do not wish to disguise from you
\nthe difficulty of this great and tremendous change
\nor the possibility that you may have a long and hard
\nwork before you, but are you really unwilling to face
\nit and take your share in the great work? Will you reject the greatness of this endeavour to follow a mad irrational impulse towards some more exciting
\nwork of the hour or the moment for which you have
\nno true call in any part of your nature? <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThere is no true reason for despondency; in nothing that has passed do I. find any good ground for
\nit. The difficulties you experience are nothing to
\nthose that others have felt and yet conquered them,
\nothers who were not stronger than you. All that has
\nhappened is that by this descent into the physical
\nconsciousness the ordinary external human nature
\nhas come to the front with its elemental imperfections<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 453<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nand subconscient unsatisfied impulses and it is
\nto these that the contrary force is appealing. The
\nmind and the higher vital have put away from them
\nthe ideas and illusions which gave them a sanction,
\nan illusion of legitimacy and even nobility in their
\nsatisfaction. But the root of them, their inherent irrational push for
\nsatisfaction, has not yet gone\u2014 this, for instance, is the reason for the sexual
\nmovements which you have recently felt in sleep or in
\nwaking. This was inevitable. All that is needed is
\nfor your psychic being to come forward and open
\nyou to the direct and real and constant inner contact of myself and the Mother. Hitherto your soul has
\nexpressed itself through the mind and its ideals and
\nadmirations or through the vital and its higher joys
\nand aspirations; but that is not sufficient to conquer
\nthe physical difficulty and enlighten and transform
\nMatter. It is your soul in itself, your psychic being
\nthat must come in front, awaken entirely and make
\nthe fundamental change. The psychic being will
\nnot need the support of intellectual ideas or outer
\nsigns and helps. It is that alone that can give you
\nthe direct feeling of the Divine, the constant nearness,
\nthe inner support and aid. You will not then feel
\nthe Mother remote or have any further doubt about
\nthe realisation; for the mind thinks and the vital craves, but the soul feels and knows the Divine. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 454<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nCast away from you these movements of doubt,
\ndepression and the rest which are no part of your
\ntrue and higher nature. Reject these suggestions of
\ninability, unfitness and all these irrational movements
\nof an alien force. Remain faithful to the Light of
\nyour soul even when it is hidden by clouds. My help
\nand the Mother’s will be there working behind
\neven in the moments when you cannot feel it. The
\none need for you and for all is to be, even in the
\ndarkness of the powers of obscurity of the physical
\nconsciousness, stubbornly faithful to your soul and
\nto the remembrance of the Divine Call. Be faithful
\nand you will conquer. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n30-3-1930 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nThe Darkest Night before Dawn<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHESE are things which come almost inevitably in
\none degree or another at a certain critical stage
\nthrough which almost everyone has to pass and which
\nusually lasts for an uncomfortably long time but
\nwhich need not be at all conclusive or definitive.
\nUsually if one persists, it is the period of darkest
\nnight before the dawn which comes to every or <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 455<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nalmost every spiritual aspirant. It is due to a plunge
\none has to take into the sheer physical consciousness
\nunsupported by any true mental light or by any
\nvital joy in life, for these usually withdraw behind
\nthe veil, though they are not, as they seem to be,
\npermanently lost. It is a period when doubt, denial,
\ndryness, greyness and all kindred things come up
\nwith a great force and often reign completely for a
\ntime. It is after this stage has been successfully
\ncrossed that the true light begins to come, the light
\nwhich is not of the mind but of the spirit. The
\nSpiritual light, no doubt, comes to some to a certain
\nextent and to a few to a considerable extent, in the
\nearlier stages, though that is not the case with all\u2014
\nfor some have to wait till they can clear out the
\nobstructing stuff in the mind, vital and physical
\nconsciousness, and until then get only a touch now
\nand then. But even at the best this earlier spiritual
\nlight is never complete until the darkness of the physical consciousness has been faced and overcome. It
\nis not by one’s own fault that one falls into this
\nState, it can come when one is trying one’s best to
\nadvance. It does not really indicate any radical
\ndisability in the nature but certainly it is a hard
\nordeal and one has to stick very firmly to pass
\nthrough it. It is difficult to explain these things
\nbecause the psychological necessity is difficult for <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nthe ordinary human reason to understand or to
\naccept. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n25-7-1946 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nThe Present World-Situation<\/b><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n(1) <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHE extreme acuteness of your difficulties is due
\n<\/b>to <\/b>the Yoga having come down against the bed-rock
\nof Inconscience which is the fundamental basis of
\nall resistance in the individual and in the world to
\nthe victory of the Spirit and the Divine Work that is
\nleading toward that victory. The difficulties themselves are general in the
\nAshram as well as in the out- side world. Doubt, discouragement, diminution or
\nloss of faith, waning of the vital enthusiasm for the ideal, perplexity and a
\nbaffling of the hope for the future are the common features of the difficulty
\n<\/b>In <\/b>the world outside there are much worse symptoms
\nsuch as the general increase of cynicism, a refusal to
\nbelieve in anything at all, a decrease of honesty, an
\nimmense corruption, a preoccupation with food,
\nmoney, comfort, pleasure, to the exclusion of higher
\nthings, and a general expectation of worse and worse
\nthings awaiting the world. All that, however acute, <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nis a temporary phenomenon for which those who
\nknow anything about the workings of the world-energy and the workings of the Spirit were prepared.
\nI myself foresaw that this worst would come, the
\ndarkness of night before the dawn; therefore I am
\nnot discouraged. I know what is preparing behind
\nthe darkness and can see and feel the first signs of
\nits coming. Those who seek for the Divine have to
\nstand firm and persist in their seeking; after a time,
\nthe darkness will fade and begin to disappear and
\nthe Light will come. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n9-4-1947 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n(2) <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nI know that this is a time of trouble for you and
\neverybody. It is so for the whole world. Confusion,
\ntrouble, disorder and upset everywhere is the general
\nstate of things. The better things that are to come
\nare preparing or growing under a veil and the worse
\nare prominent everywhere. The one thing is to hold
\non and hold out till the hour of light has come. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n2-6-1946 <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\n(3)<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nI am afraid I can hold out but cold comfort\u2014for
\nthe present at least\u2014to those of your correspondents
\nwho are lamenting the present state of things. Things
\nare bad, are growing worse and may at any time
\ngrow worst or worse than worst if that is possible\u2014
\nand anything, however paradoxical, seems possible
\nin the present perturbed world. The best thing for
\nthem is to realise that all this was necessary because
\ncertain possibilities had to emerge and be got rid of,
\nif a new and better world was at all to come into
\nbeing: it would not have done to postpone them for
\na later time. It is, as in Yoga, where things active
\nor latent in the being have to be put into action in
\nthe light so that they may be grappled with and
\nthrown out or to emerge from latency in the depths
\nfor the same purificatory purpose. Also they can
\nremember the adage that night is darkest before
\ndawn and that the coming of dawn is inevitable.
\nBut they must remember too that the new world
\nwhose coming we envisage is not to be made of the
\nsame texture as the old and different only in pattern,
\nand that it must come by other means\u2014from within
\nand not from without; so the best way is not to be
\ntoo much preoccupied with the lamentable things
\nthat are happening outside, but themselves to grow <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\nwithin so that they may be ready for the new world,
\nwhatever the form it may take. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n17-7-1948 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nExplanation of the Present Appearance of Things<\/i> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nA COSMOS or universe is always a harmony, otherwise it could not exist, it would fly to pieces. But
\nas there are musical harmonies which are built out
\nof discords partly or even predominantly, so this
\nuniverse (the material) is disharmonious in its
\nseparate elements\u2014the individual elements are at
\ndiscord with each other to a large extent; it is only
\nowing to the sustaining Divine Will behind that the
\nwhole is still a harmony to those who look at it with
\nthe cosmic vision. But it is a harmony in evolution
\nin progress\u2014that is, all is combined to strive towards
\na goal which is not yet reached, and the object of
\nour Yoga is to hasten the arrival to this goal. When
\nit is reached, there will be a harmony of harmonies
\nsubstituted for the present harmony built up on
\ndiscords. This is the explanation of the present
\nappearance of things. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n21-3-1933 <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\n
\nAction of the Secret Will behind the Cosmic Forces<\/i> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nIN the play of the cosmic forces, the will in the
\ncosmos\u2014as one might say\u2014does not always work
\napparently in favour of a smooth and direct line for
\nthe work or the sadhana; it often brings in what
\nseems to be upheavals, sudden turns which break
\nor deflect the line, opposing or upsetting circumstances or perplexing departures from what had
\nbeen temporarily settled or established. The one thing is to preserve equanimity
\nand make an opportunity and means of progress out of all that
\nhappens in the course of the life and the sadhana.
\nThere is a higher secret Will transcendent behind
\nthe play and will of the cosmic forces\u2014a play which
\nis always a mixture of things favourable and things
\nadverse\u2014and it is that Will which one must wait
\nupon and have faith in; but you must not expect
\nto be able always to understand its workings. The
\nmind wants this or that to be done, the line once
\ntaken to be maintained, but what the mind wants
\nis not at all always what is intended in a larger
\npurpose. One has to follow indeed a fixed central
\naim in the sadhana without deviating from it,
\nbut not to build on outward circumstances, conditions, etc., as if they were fundamental things. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n9-12-1932 <\/font><\/p>\n

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