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\n
\n
\nFebruary
\n1, 1914<\/font> <\/font> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n
\n*<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>I turn towards Thee who art everywhere and within all and outside all,
\nintimate essence of all and remote from all, centre of condensation for all
\nenergies, creator of conscious individualities: I turn towards Thee and salute Thee,
\nO liberator of the worlds, and, identified with Thy divine love, I contemplate
\nthe earth and its creatures, this mass of substance put into forms perpetually
\ndestroyed and renewed, this swarming mass of aggregates which are dissolved as
\nsoon as constituted, of beings who imagine that they are conscient<\/span>
\nand permanent individualities and who are as ephemeral as a breath, always
\nalike or almost the same, in their diversity, repeating indefinitely the same
\ndesires, the same tendencies, the same appetites, the same ignorant errors. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>But from time to time Thy sublime light shines in a being and radiates
\nthrough him over the world, and then a little wisdom, a little knowledge, a
\nlittle disinterested faith, heroism and compassion penetrates men’s hearts, transforms
\ntheir minds and sets free a few elements from that sorrowful and implacable
\nwheel of existence to which their blind ignorance subjects them. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>But how much greater a splendour than all that have gone before, how
\nmarvellous a glory and light would be needed to draw these beings out of the
\nhorrible aberra<\/span><\/span>tion<\/span><\/span> in which they are plunged by the life of
\ncities and so-called civilisations! What a formidable and, at the same time, divinely
\nsweet puissance would be needed to turn aside all these wills from the bitter
\nstruggle for<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 6<\/font><\/span>3<\/p>\n

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\n

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their selfish, mean and foolish satisfactions, to snatch them
\nfrom this vortex which hides death behind its treacherous glitter, and turn
\nthem towards Thy conquering harmony! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, eternal Master, enlighten us, guide our steps, show us the way
\ntowards the realisation of Thy law, towards the accomplishment of Thy work. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>I adore Thee in silence and listen to Thee in a religious concentration.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 6<\/font><\/span>4<\/p>\n

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\n

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\nFebruary 2, 1914
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

   <\/span> <\/font><\/span>O<\/span><\/font><\/span> Lord<\/span>, I would like to be so ardent a love that all lonelinesses<\/span>
\nmay be filled up by it and all sorrows soothed. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\n <\/span><\/span>O Lord, I cry unto Thee: Make me a burning brazier which consumes all
\nsuffering and transforms it into joyous light irradiating the hearts of all!…
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>
\n <\/span><\/span>Grant my prayer: Transform me into a brazier of pure love and boundless
\ncompassion.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – 6<\/span>5<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

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\nFebruary 5, 1914
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>What could be said that is not always the very same aspiration: the law
\nof divine love, the purest expression of what we can conceive of Thee, must be
\nrealised more and more upon earth and triumph over all ignorant egoism; we must
\nbecome more and more perfectly the faithful servitors of that power of love and
\nlight, we must live in it, by it; that alone must live and act in us. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, become the sovereign Master of our lives and dispel all the
\nobscurities which can still prevent us from seeing Thee and constantly
\ncommuning with Thee. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Liberate us from all ignorance, liberate us from ourselves that we may
\nopen wide the doors of Thy glorious manifestation.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>66<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\nFebruary 7, 1914
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>For him who, by being integrally united with Thee, is constantly
\nconscious of what expresses Thee most perfectly in action considering the
\ncircumstances, no external rule is any longer necessary. The principles of life
\nare in sum only makeshifts for diminishing as far as possible the ignorance of
\nthose who do not know Thee yet, and for counteracting somehow or other the
\nmoments of blindness and obscurity of those who have only an intermittent
\ncontact with Thee. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>To make rules for oneself and to make them as general, that is, as
\nsupple as possible, is good, but provided one considers them only as artificial
\nlights which should not be used except when the full natural light of communion
\nwith Thee fails. Besides, a constant revision of these rules is imperative, for
\nthey can be only the expression of a present knowledge and must necessarily
\ngain by all growth and improvement of knowledge. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>That is why when meditating upon the attitude one should have towards
\nall those who come to us, in order not only to refrain from doing them any harm
\nbut, above all, to strive to do them the utmost possible good \u2013 that is, to
\nhelp them as best one can in making the supreme discovery, the discovery of
\nThee within them \u2013 I saw clearly that no rule was vast and supple enough to be perfectly adapted to Thy law,
\nand that the only true solution was to be always in communion with Thee, so that
\nit could be adapted perfectly to all the infinite variety of circumstances.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>67<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\nFebruary 8, 1914
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, sweet Master of love, Thou who bringest<\/span>
\nus out of the darkness to awaken us to consciousness, who deliverest<\/span>
\nus from suffering to make us commune within Thy eternal peace, every morning my
\naspiration soars ardently towards Thee, and I implore that my being, integrally
\nawake to Thy knowledge, may now live only by Thee, in Thee, for Thee; I implore
\nthat more and more perfectly identified with Thee, I may now be only Thyself
\nmanifested in word and act; I implore that all those who come to us, all who
\nare in contact with us, may awaken to the full knowledge of Thy divine
\npresence, Thy sovereign law, and let themselves be definitively transformed by
\nit; I implore that all men upon earth, in spite of their bitter suffering, may
\nfeel dawning in it the sublime consolation of Thy light and love, and the
\nmarvellous comfort of Thy peace; I implore that every substance impregnated
\nmore and more by Thy sovereign forces may put up an ever-diminishing resistance
\nof blind ignorance against Thee, and that triumphing over all darkness Thou mayst<\/span> transfigure definitively and integrally this universe
\nof strife and anguish into a universe of harmony and peace…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>So that Thy law may be fulfilled.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage –<\/span>68<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\nFebruary 9, 1914
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Whatever names may be given to Thee, O Lord, by the \u00e9lite<\/span>
\nof humanity, athirst for something absolute, it seeks ardently for Thee. Even
\nthose who seem to move farthest away from Thee, even those who are exclusively
\noccupied with themselves, are they not searching for an absolute in sensation,
\nan absolute in satisfaction, and in spite of its vanity that search also can
\nsome day lead to Thee; Thou art far too much at the core, at the heart of all
\nthings for even the very worst egoisms not to be transformed by Thee into
\naspirations…. The only thing we must fear and avoid is the inertia of
\ninconscience, of blind and heavy ignorance. That state lies at the very bottom
\nof the infinite ladder that rises towards Thee. And all Thy effort consists in
\npulling Matter out of this primeval darkness so as to awaken it to
\nconsciousness. Even passion is preferable to inconscience. We must therefore go
\nconstantly forward to conquer that universal bedrock of inconscience and
\nthrough our own organism transform it gradually into luminous consciousness. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, sweet Master of love, Thou whom I see so living, so conscious
\nwithin all things, I adore Thee with a boundless devotion.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>69<\/p>\n

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\n

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\n
\nFebruary 10, 1914
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>With peace in our hearts, with light in our minds, we feel Thee, O Lord,
\nso living within us that we await events with serenity, knowing that Thy path
\nis everywhere, since we carry it in our own being, and that in all
\ncircumstances we can become the heralds of Thy word, the servitors of Thy work.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>With a calm and pure devotion we hail Thee and recognise Thee as the
\nsole reality of our being.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 7<\/font><\/span>0<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\n
\nFebruary 11, 1914
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>As soon as one rises above the perception of contingencies, as soon as
\none’s consciousness is identified with Thy supreme consciousness and one enters
\nthus into that omniscience which I cannot define except as absolute Knowledge,
\nhow easy and even a little childish seem all those problems about what should
\nor should not be done, about all the resolutions to be taken. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>From the standpoint of the eternal work, the one thing important is to
\nbecome conscious of Thee, to identify oneself with Thee and to maintain that
\nconscious identification constantly. But as to what best use can be made of our
\nphysical organism, Thy mode of manifestation upon earth, it is quite enough,
\nwhen Thou alone art conscious within us, to turn the gaze to the body in order
\nto know beyond all doubt what is the best thing it can do, what activity will
\nmost fully utilise all its energies. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>And without attaching much importance to that activity, that altogether
\nrelative utilisation, one can take without any difficulty, any inner debate,
\ndecisions which, to the outer consciousness appear the boldest and most
\ndangerous. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>How simple everything is for him who sees all things from the height of
\nThy eternity! <\/span>    <\/p>\n

I hail Thee, O Lord, with a joyful and
\ntrusting devotion. May the peace of Thy divine love be with all beings.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – 7<\/span>1<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\nFebruary 12, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>When, conscious with Thy supreme consciousness, one considers all
\nearthly circumstances, one sees their complete relativity and says, \u201cTo do this
\nthing or that, after all that is not of much importance; yet a particular mode
\nof action will be the best utilisation of a certain faculty, a certain
\ntemperament. All actions, whatever they may be, even the most contradictory in
\nappearance, can be an expression of Thy law to the extent that they are infused
\nwith the consciousness of that law, which is not a law of practical application
\nthat can be translated into principles or rules in the ordinary human
\nconsciousness but a law of attitude, of a constant and prevailing consciousness,
\nsomething that cannot be expressed in formulas but may be lived.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>But as soon as one falls back into the ordinary consciousness, nothing
\nshould be treated lightly and with in- <\/span><\/p>\n

difference, the least circumstances, the
\nsmallest acts have a great importance and should be seriously considered; for
\nwe must try at every moment to do that which will make the identification of
\nour consciousness with the eternal consciousness easy, and avoid carefully all
\nthat could be an obstacle to this identification. It is then that the rules of
\nconduct having as their foundation perfect personal disinterestedness should
\nfind their full value.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>With peace in my heart, with light in my mind, the hope born of
\ncertitude in all my being, I greet Thee, O Lord, divine Master of eternal love.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Thou art the reason of our existence and our goal.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 7<\/font><\/span>2<\/p>\n

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\n

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\nFebruary 13, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>In the silence of an intense concentration I would unite my
\nconsciousness with Thy absolute consciousness, I would identify myself with
\nThee, O sovereign Lord of our being, divine Master of love, so that Thy law may
\nbecome clear and perceptible to us and we may live only by it and for it. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>How beautiful, grand, simple and calm everything is in the hours when my
\nthought takes its flight to Thee and unites with Thee! And from the day it
\nbecomes possible for us to keep this supreme clear-sightedness constantly, with
\nwhat an airy and yet sure step we shall walk through life above all obstacles
\nand unhesitatingly! For, \u2013 this I know through experience \u2013 all doubt, all
\nhesitation ceases the very moment one is conscious of Thy law; and if one
\nperceives clearly the extreme relativity of all human action, one knows at the
\nsame time, with exactitude and precision, which action is the least relative in
\nregard to one’s body and one’s own way of acting… and all obstacles really
\nvanish as if by magic. All our efforts, O Lord, will henceforth be bent on an
\never more constant realisation of this marvellous state. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>May the peace of Thy certitude awaken in every heart!
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 7<\/font><\/span>3<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\nFebruary 14, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> *<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Peace peace<\/span> upon all the earth! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>May all escape from the ordinary consciousness and be delivered from the
\nattachment for material things; may they awake to the knowledge of Thy divine
\npresence, unite themselves with Thy supreme consciousness and taste the
\nplenitude of peace that springs from it. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Lord, Thou art the sovereign Master of our being. Thy law is our law,
\nand with all our strength we aspire to identify our consciousness with Thy
\neternal consciousness, that we may accomplish Thy sublime work in each thing
\nand at every moment. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Lord, deliver us from all care for contingencies, deliver us from the
\nordinary outlook on things. Grant that we may henceforth see only with Thy eyes
\nand act only by Thy will. Transform us into living torches of Thy divine love. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>With reverence, with devotion, in a joyful consecration of my whole
\nbeing I give myself, O Lord, to the fulfilment of Thy law. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Peace, peace upon all the earth!
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage –<\/font><\/span>74<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\nFebruary 15, 1914<\/font><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/b><\/span><\/a>
\n
\n* <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Thou, sole Reality, Light of our light and Life of our life, Love
\nsupreme, Saviour of the world, grant that more and more I may be perfectly
\nawakened into the awareness of Thy constant presence. Let all my acts conform
\nto Thy law; let there be no difference between my will and Thine<\/span>.
\nExtricate me from the illusory consciousness of my mind, from its world of
\nfantasies; let me identify my consciousness with the Absolute Consciousness,
\nfor that art Thou. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Give me constancy in the will to attain the end, give me firmness and
\nenergy and the courage which shakes off all torpor and lassitude. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Give me the peace of perfect disinterestedness, the peace that makes Thy
\npresence felt and Thy intervention effective, the peace that is ever victorious
\nover all bad will and every obscurity. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Grant, I implore Thee, that all in my being may be identified with Thee.
\nMay I be nothing else any more than a flame of love utterly awakened to a
\nsupreme realisation of Thee.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>75<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\nFebruary 16, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Supreme, sole Reality, true Consciousness, permanent Oneness,
\nsovereign repose of perfect light, with what an intensity I aspire to be
\nconscious of only Thee, to be only Thyself. This incessant whirl of unreal
\npersonalities, this multiplicity, this complexity, this excessive inextricable
\nconfusion of conflicting thoughts, struggling tendencies, battling desires,
\nseems to me more and more frightful. I must emerge from this raging sea, land
\non Thy serene and peaceful shore. Give me the energy of an indefatigable
\nswimmer. I would conquer Thee however great may be the effort needed for
\nthat…. O Lord, ignorance must be vanquished, illusion dispelled, this
\nsorrowful universe must come out of its hideous nightmare, end its terrible
\ndream, and awaken at last to the consciousness of Thy sole Reality. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O immutable Peace, deliver men from ignorance; may Thy plenary and pure
\nLight reign everywhere!
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>76<\/p>\n

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\n

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\nFebruary 17, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, how ardently my aspiration rises to Thee: give us the full
\nconsciousness of Thy law, the constant perception of Thy will, so that our
\ndecision may be Thy decision and our life solely consecrated to Thy service and
\nas perfect an expression as possible of Thy inspiration. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, dispel all darkness, all blindness; may every one enjoy the calm
\ncertitude that Thy divine illumination brings!
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>77<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\nFebruary 19, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, be ever present in my thought! Not that I ask this of Thee, for I
\nknow that Thy Presence is constant and sovereign, I know that all we see and
\nall that escapes our sight is just what it is only through Thy marvellous
\nintervention, because of Thy divine law of love; but I say this and repeat it,
\nI implore, in order to escape from forgetfulness and negligence. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Oh! to become Thy living love so powerfully as to transfigure and
\nillumine all things, so completely as to awaken peace and benevolent
\nsatisfaction in all. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Oh, to become Thy divine love, pure and clear<\/span>sighted,
\nto be that always and everywhere!…
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>78<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\nFebruary 20, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>The only thing that is important, the one thing that counts, is the will
\nto be identified more and more completely with Thee, to unite our consciousness
\nwith Thy absolute Consciousness, to be more and more the peaceful, calm,
\ndisinterested, strong servitor of Thy sovereign law, Thy loving Will. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, give me the peace of perfect disinterestedness, the peace which
\nmakes Thy Presence effective, Thy intervention efficacious, the Peace ever
\ntriumphant over all bad will, all obscurity. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Lord, very humbly I pray to Thee that I may be equal to my task, that
\nnothing in me, conscious or unconscious, may betray Thee by neglecting to serve
\nThy sacred mission. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>In a silent devotion, I bow to Thee….
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage –<\/font><\/span>79<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\nFebruary 21, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Every day, every moment should be an occasion for a new and completer
\nconsecration, and not one of those enthusiastic and flurried consecrations,
\nover-active, full of illusions about the work, but a deep and silent consecration
\nwhich is not necessarily visible but penetrates and transfigures all action.
\nOur mind, solitary and peaceful, should always repose in Thee and from that
\npure summit have the exact perception of realities, of the sole and eternal
\nReality behind all unstable and fleeting appearances. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, my heart is purified of all uneasiness and anguish; it is steady
\nand calm and sees Thee in all things; and whatever our outer actions may be,
\nwhatever the circumstances the future has in store for us, I know that Thou
\nalone livest<\/span>, that Thou alone art real in Thy
\nimmutable permanence and it is in Thee that we live…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>May there be peace upon all the earth.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 8<\/font><\/span>0<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\nFebruary 22, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>When I was a child of about thirteen, for nearly a year every night as
\nsoon as I had gone to bed it seemed to me that I went out of my body and rose
\nstraight up above the house, then above the city, very high above. Then I used
\nto see myself clad in a magnificent golden robe, much longer than myself; and
\nas I rose higher, the robe would stretch, spreading out in a circle around me
\nto form a kind of immense roof over the city. Then I would see men, women,
\nchildren, old men, the sick, the unfortunate coming out from every side; they
\nwould gather under the outspread robe, begging for help, telling of their
\nmiseries, their suffering, their hardships. In reply, the robe, supple and
\nalive, would extend towards each one of them individually, and as soon as they
\nhad touched it, they were comforted or healed, and went back into their bodies
\nhappier and stronger than they had come out of them. Nothing seemed more
\nbeautiful to me, nothing could make me happier; and all the activities of the
\nday seemed dull and colourless and without any real life, beside this activity
\nof the night which was the true life for me. Often while I was rising up in
\nthis way, I used to see at my left an old man, silent and still, who looked at
\nme with kindly affection and encouraged me by his presence. This old man,
\ndressed in a long dark purple robe, was the personification
\n\u2013 as I came to know later \u2013 of him who is called the Man of Sorrows. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Now that deep experience, that almost inexpressible<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 8<\/font><\/span>1<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

reality, is
\ntranslated in my mind by other ideas which I may describe in this way: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Many a time in the day and night it seems to me that I am, or rather my
\nconsciousness is, concentrated entirely in my heart which is no longer an
\norgan, not even a feeling, but the divine Love, impersonal, eternal; and being
\nthis Love I feel myself living at the centre of each thing upon the entire
\nearth, and at the same time I seem to stretch out immense, infinite arms and
\nenvelop with a boundless tenderness all beings, clasped, gathered, nestled on
\nmy breast that is vaster than the universe…. Words are poor and clumsy, O
\ndivine Master, and mental transcriptions are always childish…. But my
\naspiration to Thee is constant, and truly speaking, it is very often Thou and
\nThou alone who livest<\/span> in this body, this imperfect
\nmeans of manifesting Thee. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>May all beings be happy in the peace of Thy illumination!
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>82<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\nFebruary 23, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Grant O Lord, that we may be more and more conscious of Thy law, that
\nis, be one with it, so that we may foster its manifestation in all things. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Lord, grant that I may become master of my vagabond thought, that living
\nin Thee I may see life only through Thee, and the illusion of material reality
\nmay come to an end and be replaced by a perception more in conformity with Thy
\neternal reality. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Let me live constantly in Thy divine Love, so that it may live in me and
\nthrough me. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Grant that I may be an efficient and clear-sighted collaborator and that
\neverything within me may foster the plenitude of Thy manifestation. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>I know all my imperfections, my difficulties, my weaknesses, I feel all
\nmy ignorance, but I put my full trust in Thee and bow down before Thee in
\nsilent devotion. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 8<\/font><\/span>3<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\nFebruary 25-26, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>He who wants to serve Thee worthily should not be attached to anything, not
\neven to those activities which enable him to commune more consciously with
\nThee…. But if as a result of the totality of circumstances, material things
\nstill take a greater place in life than usual, one must know how not to become
\nabsorbed by them, how to keep in one’s inmost heart the clear vision of Thy
\npresence and live constantly in that serene peace which nothing can disturb….
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Oh, to do everything seeing only Thee everywhere and thus soar above the
\nact that has been carried out, without letting any chain that holds us
\nprisoners to the earth burden our flight…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, grant that the offering I make to Thee of my being may be
\nintegral and effective. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>With a respectful and loving devotion I bow down before Thee, O
\nineffable Essence, inconceivable Reality, Nameless One.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/font><\/span>84<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\nFebruary 27, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, I sense the infinite happiness which is the portion of those
\nwhose life is entirely consecrated to Thee. And this does not depend upon outer
\ncircumstances but on one’s own state of being and its greater or lesser degree
\nof illumination. A perfect consecration to Thy law cannot but bring about
\nmodifications in the totality of circumstances, yet it is not these which make
\npossible and express this perfect consecration. I mean that it is not under
\ncertain circumstances, always the same for all, that Thy law is manifested; for
\nevery one this manifestation is different according to his temperament, that
\nis, according to the mission which for the moment is assigned to him in
\nphysical life. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>But what is unchangeable and universal is
\nthe happy peace, the luminous and immutable serenity of all those who are
\nsolely consecrated to Thee, who no longer have any darkness, ignorance,
\negoistic attachment or bad will in them. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Oh, may all awake to this divine peace.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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