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\nPrayers and Meditations<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nNovember 2, 1912 <\/font><\/span><\/b>* <\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Although my whole being is in theory consecrated to Thee, O Sublime
\nMaster, who art the life, the light and the love in all things, I still find it
\nhard to carry out this consecration in detail. It has taken me several weeks to
\nlearn that the reason for this written meditation, its justification, lies in
\nthe very fact of addressing it daily to Thee. In this way I shall put into
\nmaterial shape each day a little of the conversation I have so often with Thee;
\nI shall make my confession to Thee as well as it may be; not because I think I
\ncan tell Thee anything \u2013 for Thou art Thyself everything, but our artificial
\nand exterior way of seeing and understanding is, if it may be so said, foreign
\nto Thee, opposed to Thy nature. Still by turning towards Thee, by immersing
\nmyself in Thy light at the moment when I consider these things, little by
\nlittle I shall see them more like what they really are, \u2013 until the day when,
\nhaving made myself one in identity with Thee, I shall no more have anything to
\nsay to Thee, for then I shall be Thou. This is the goal that I would reach;
\ntowards this victory all my efforts will tend more and more. I aspire for the
\nday when I can no longer say \u201cI\u201d, for I shall be Thou<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>How many times a day, still, I act without my action being consecrated
\nto Thee; I at once become aware of
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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it by an indefinable uneasiness which is
\ntranslated in the sensibility of my body by a pang in my heart. I then make my
\naction objective to myself and it seems to me ridiculous, childish or
\nblameworthy; I deplore it, for a moment I am sad, until I dive into Thee and,
\nthere losing myself with a child’s confidence, await from Thee the inspiration
\nand strength needed to set right the error in me and around me, \u2013 two things
\nthat are one; for I have now a constant and precise perception of the universal
\nunity determining an absolute interdependence of all actions.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nNovember 3, 1912<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> *<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Let Thy Light be in me like a Fire that makes all alive; let Thy divine
\nLove penetrate me. I aspire with all my being for Thy reign as sovereign and
\nmaster of my mind and heart and body; let them be Thy docile instruments and
\nThy faithful servitors.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nNovember 19, 1912<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> *<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>I SAID yesterday to that young Englishman who is seeking for Thee with
\nso sincere a desire, that I had definitively found Thee, that the <\/span>Union<\/span> was constant. Such is indeed the state of
\nwhich I am conscious. All my thoughts go towards Thee, all my acts are
\nconsecrated to Thee; Thy Presence is for me an absolute, immutable, invariable
\nfact, and Thy Peace dwells constantly in my heart. Yet I know that this state
\nof union is poor and precarious compared with that which it will become
\npossible for me to realise tomorrow, and I am as yet far, no doubt very far,
\nfrom that identification in which I shall totally lose the notion of the \u201cI\u201d,
\nof that \u201cI\u201d, which I still use in order to express myself, but which is each
\ntime a constraint, like a term unfit to express the thought that is seeking for
\nexpression. It seems to me indispensable for human communication, but all
\ndepends on what this \u201cI\u201d manifests; and how many times already, when I
\npronounce it, it is Thou who speakest<\/span> in me, for I have
\nlost the sense of separativity<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>But all this is still in embryo and will continue to grow towards
\nperfection. What an appeasing assurance there is in this serene confidence in
\nThy All-Might!
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Thou
\nart all, everywhere, and in all, and this body which acts is Thy own body, just
\nas is the visible universe in its entirety; it is Thou who breathest<\/span>,
\nthinkest<\/span> and lovest<\/span> in this
\nsubstance which, being Thyself, desires to be Thy willing servant.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nNovember 26, 1912<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> *<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>What a hymn of thanksgiving should I not be raising at each moment unto
\nThee! Everywhere and in everything around me Thou revealest<\/span>
\nThyself and in me Thy Will and Consciousness express themselves always more and
\nmore clearly even to the point of my having almost entirely lost the gross
\nillusion of \u201cme\u201d and \u201cmine\u201d. If a few shadows, a few flaws can be seen in the
\ngreat Light which manifests Thee, how shall they bear for long the marvellous
\nbrightness of Thy resplendent Love? This morning, the consciousness that I had
\nof the way Thou art fashioning this being which was \u201cI\u201d can be roughly
\nrepresented by a great diamond cut with regular geometrical facets, a diamond
\nin its cohesion, firmness, pure limpidity, transparency, but a brilliant and
\nradiant flame in its intense ever-progressive life. But it was something more,
\nsomething better than all that, for nearly all sensation inner and outer was
\nexceeded and that image only presented itself to my mind as I returned to
\nconscious contact with the outer world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>It is Thou that makest<\/span> the experience fertile,
\nThou who renderest<\/span> life progressive, Thou who compellest<\/span> the darkness to vanish in an instant before the
\nLight, Thou who givest<\/span> to Love all its power, Thou
\nwho everywhere raisest<\/span> up matter in this ardent and
\nwonderful aspiration, in this sublime thirst for Eternity. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Thou<\/i>
\neverywhere and always; nothing but Thou<\/i> in the essence and in the
\nmanifestation.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

    O
\nShadow and Illusion, dissolve! O Suffering, fade and disappear! Lord Supreme,
\nart Thou not there?<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013<\/font><\/span>5<\/p>\n

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\nNovember 28, 1912<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> *<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>The outer life, the activity of each day and each instant, is it not the
\nindispensable complement of our hours of meditation and contemplation? And is
\nnot the proportion of time given to each the exact image of the proportion
\nwhich exists between the amount of effort to be made for the preparation and
\nrealisation? For meditation, contemplation, <\/span>Union<\/span> is the result obtained \u2013 the flower that
\nblooms; the daily activity is the anvil on which all the elements must pass and
\nrepass<\/span> in order to be purified, refined, made supple
\nand ripe for the illumination which contemplation gives to them. All these
\nelements must be thus passed one after the other through the crucible before
\nouter activity becomes needless for the integral development. Then is this
\nactivity turned into the means to manifest Thee so as to awaken the other
\ncentres of consciousness to the same dual work of
\n the forge and the illumination. Therefore are pride and
\nsatisfaction with oneself the worst of all obstacles. Very modestly we must take
\nadvantage of all the minute opportunities offered to knead and purify some of
\nthe innumerable elements, to make them supple, to make them impersonal, to teach
\nthem forgetfulness of self and abnegation and devotion and kindness and
\ngentleness; and when all these modes of being have become habitual to them, then
\nare they ready to participate in the Contemplation, and to identify themselves
\nwith Thee in the supreme Concentration. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
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That is why it seems to me that the work
\nmust be long and slow even for the best and that striking conversions cannot be
\nintegral. They change the orientation of the being, they put it definitively on
\nthe straight path; but truly to attain the goal none can escape the need of
\ninnumerable experiences of every kind and every instant.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>…O Supreme Master who shinest<\/span> in my being
\nand each thing, let Thy Light be manifest and the reign of Thy Peace come for
\nall.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 <\/font><\/span>7<\/p>\n

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\nDecember 2, 1912<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> *<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>So long as one element of the being, one movement of the thought is
\nstill subjected to outside influences, not solely under Thine, it cannot be
\nsaid that the true Union is realised; there is still the horrible mixture
\nwithout order and light, \u2013 for that element, that movement is a world, a world
\nof disorder and darkness, as is the entire earth in the material world, as is
\nthe material world in the entire universe.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 <\/font><\/span>8<\/p>\n

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\nDecember 3, 1912<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> *<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Last night I had the experience of the effectivity of confident
\nsurrender to Thy guidance; when it is needful that something should be known,
\none knows it, and the more passive the mind to Thy illumination, the clearer
\nand the more adequate is its expression. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>I listened to Thee as Thou spokest<\/span> in me, and
\nI would have liked to write down what Thou saidst<\/span> so
\nthat the formula in all its precision might not be lost, \u2013 for now I should not
\nbe able to repeat what was said. Then I thought that this care for conservation
\nwas again an insulting lack of confidence towards Thee, for Thou canst make of
\nme all that I need to be, and in the measure in which my attitude allows Thee
\nto act on me and in me, Thy omnipotence has no limits. To know that at each
\ninstant what must be surely is, as perfectly as is possible, for all those who
\nknow how to see Thee in everything and everywhere! No more fear, no more
\nuneasiness, no more anguish; nothing but a perfect Serenity, an absolute
\nConfidence, a supreme unwavering Peace.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 <\/font><\/span>9<\/p>\n

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\nDecember 5, 1912<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> *<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>In Peace and Silence the Eternal manifests; allow nothing to disturb you
\nand the Eternal will manifest; have perfect equality in face of all and the
\nEternal will be there….Yes, we should not put too much intensity, too much
\neffort into our seeking for Thee; the effort and intensity become a veil in
\nfront of Thee; we must not desire to see Thee, for that is still a mental
\nagitation which obscures Thy Eternal Presence; it is in the most complete
\nPeace, Serenity and Equality that all is Thou even as Thou art all, and the
\nleast vibration in this perfectly pure and calm atmosphere is an obstacle to
\nThy manifestation. No haste, no inquietude<\/span>, no
\ntension, Thou, nothing but Thou, without any analysis or any objectivising<\/span>, and Thou art there without a possible doubt,
\nfor all becomes a Holy Peace and a Sacred Silence. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>And that is better than all the meditations in the world.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nDecember 7, 1912<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> *<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Like a flame that burns in silence, like a perfume that rises straight
\nupward without wavering, my love goes to Thee; and like the child who does not
\nreason and has no care, I trust myself to Thee that Thy Will may be done, that
\nThy Light may manifest, Thy Peace radiate, Thy Love cover the world. When Thou willest<\/span> I shall be in Thee, Thyself, and there shall be no
\nmore any distinction; I await that blessed hour without impatience of any kind,
\nletting myself flow irresistibly toward it as a peaceful stream flows toward
\nthe boundless ocean. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Thy Peace is in me, and in that Peace I see Thee alone present in
\neverything, with the calm of Eternity.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nDecember 10, 1912<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> *<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Supreme Master, Eternal Teacher, it has been once more granted me to
\nverify the unequalled effectivity of a full confidence in Thy leading. Thy Light
\nwas manifested through my mouth yesterday and it met no resistance in me; the
\ninstrument was willing, supple, keen of edge. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>It is Thou who art the doer in each thing and each being, and he who is
\nnear enough to Thee to see Thee in all actions without exception, will know how
\nto transform each act into a benediction. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>To abide always in Thee is the one thing that matters, always and ever
\nmore and more in Thee, beyond illusions and the deceptions of the senses, not
\ndrawing back from action, refusing it, rejecting it \u2013 a struggle useless and
\npernicious \u2013 but living Thee alone in the act whatever it may be, ever and
\nalways Thee; then the illusion is dispelled, the falsehoods of the senses
\nvanish, the bond of consequences is broken, all is transformed into a
\nmanifestation of the glory of Thy Eternal Presence.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

So let it be. Amen. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n
\nDecember 11, 1912<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> *<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>I await, without haste, without inquietude<\/span>,
\nthe tearing of another veil, the <\/span>Union<\/span> made more complete. I know that the veil
\nis formed of a whole mass of small imperfections, of attachments without
\nnumber…. How shall all these disappear? Slowly, as the result of countless
\nsmall efforts and a vigilance not faltering even for a moment, or suddenly,
\nthrough a great illumination of Thy All-Puissant Love? I know not, I do not
\neven put to myself the question; I wait, keeping watch as best I can, in the
\ncertitude that nothing exists save Thy Will, that Thou alone art the doer and I
\nam the instrument; and when the instrument is ready for a completer
\nmanifestation, the manifestation will quite naturally take place. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Already there is heard from behind the veil the wordless symphony of
\ngladness that reveals Thy sublime Presence.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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