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\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\tMay 2, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Beyond all human conceptions, even the most marvellous, beyond all human
\nfeelings, even the most sublime, beyond the most magnificent aspirations and the
\npurest flights, beyond Love, Knowledge and the Oneness of Being, I would enter
\ninto constant communion with Thee, O Lord. Free from all shackles I shall be
\nThyself; it will be Thou who wilt see the world through this body; it will be
\nThou who wilt act in the world through this instrument. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>In me is the calm serenity of perfect certitude.
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\nPage – 1<\/font><\/span>32<\/p>\n

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\nMay 3, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O divine Love, supreme Knowledge, perfect Oneness, at every moment of
\nthe day I call to Thee so as to be nothing but Thou alone! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>May this instrument serve Thee, conscious of being an instrument, and
\nmay all my consciousness, merged in Thine, contemplate all things with Thy
\ndivine vision. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, Lord, grant that Thy sovereign Power may manifest; grant that
\nThy work may be accomplished and Thy servitor be consecrated solely to Thy
\nservice. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>May the \u201cI\u201d disappear for evermore, may only the instrument remain.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nMay 4, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
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\n<\/a>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>To be merged both in Thee and in Thy work… to be no longer a limited
\nindividuality… to become the infinitude of Thy forces manifesting through one
\npoint… to be freed from all shackles and all limitations… to rise above all
\nrestrictive thought… to act while remaining outside the action… to act with
\nand for individuals while seeing only Oneness, the Oneness of Thy Love, Thy
\nKnowledge, Thy Being… O my divine Master, eternal Teacher, Sole Reality,
\ndispel all darkness in this aggregate Thou hast formed for Thy service, Thy
\nmanifestation in the world. Realise in it that supreme consciousness which will
\nawaken the same consciousness everywhere. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Oh, no longer to see appearances which incessantly change; always to
\ncontemplate in everything and everywhere only Thy immutable Oneness! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, all my being cries to Thee in an irresistible call; wilt Thou
\nnot grant that I may become Thyself in my integral consciousness, since in
\ntruth I am Thou and Thou art I?
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nMay 9, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
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\n<\/a>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Just at the moment when I was feeling the imperious need of resuming
\nthese notes regularly so as to come out of this overwhelming mental inertia, my
\nphysical organism suffered a defeat such as it had not known for several years
\nand during a few days all the forces of my body failed me; I saw in this a sign
\nthat I had made a mistake, that my spiritual energy had weakened, my vision of
\nthe omnipotent Oneness had been clouded, that some wrong suggestion had managed
\nto disturb me in some way, and I bowed down before Thee, O Lord, my sweet
\nMaster, with humility, conscious that I was not yet ready for a perfect
\nidentification with Thee. Something in this aggregate which constitutes the
\ninstrument I can put at Thy service is still obscure and obtuse; something does
\nnot respond as it should to Thy forces, deforms and darkens their
\nmanifestation…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>A great problem came up before me and illness covered it with its veil
\nand prevented me from solving it. Now that I am living once more in the feeling
\nof Thy Oneness, the problem no longer seems to have any sense and I do not
\nunderstand it very well any more. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>It seems to me I have left something far behind me, it seems to me that
\nI am slowly awakening to a new<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

life. I would it were not an illusion and
\nthis deep and smiling peace had returned forever. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O my divine Master, my love aspires to Thee more intensely than ever; let
\nme be Thy living Love in the world and nothing but that! May all egoism, all<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 1<\/font><\/span>35<\/p>\n

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limitation, all darkness disappear; may my consciousness be identified with Thine so that Thou alone mayst be the will acting through this fragile and
\ntransient instrument. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O my sweet Master, how ardently my love aspires to Thee…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Grant that I may be nothing but Thy Divine Love and that in every being
\nthis Love may awake, powerful and victorious. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Let me be a vast mantle of love enveloping all the earth, entering all
\nhearts, murmuring in every ear Thy divine message of hope and peace. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O my divine Master, how ardently I aspire for Thee! Break these chains
\nof darkness and error; dispel this ignorance, liberate, liberate me, make me
\nsee Thy light…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Break, break these chains…. I want to understand and I want to be.
\nThat is to say, this \u201cI\u201d must be Thy \u201cI\u201d and there must be only one single \u201cI\u201d
\nin the world.<\/span>    <\/p>\n

 <\/span>   <\/span>
\n<\/span>O Lord, grant my prayer, my supplication rises ardently to Thee. <\/span><\/p>\n


\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nMay 10, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
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\n<\/a>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>It is Thy sweet joy, O Lord, that fills my heart; it is Thy silent peace
\nthat reigns over my mind. All is repose, force, concentration, light and
\nserenity; and all this is without any limit, without any division; is it only
\nthe earth or rather the whole universe that lives in me, I do not know; but it
\nis Thou, O Lord, who dwellest in this consciousness and givest it life; it is
\nThou who seest, knowest, actest. It is Thou alone whom I see everywhere, or
\nrather there is no longer any \u201cI\u201d, all is one and this Oneness is Thou. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Glory to Thee, O Lord, Master of the world, Thou shinest resplendent in
\nall things!
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>More and more it seems to me that we are in one of those periods of
\nactivity in which the fruit of past efforts becomes apparent, \u2013 a period in
\nwhich we act according to Thy law in the measure in which it is the sovereign
\ncontroller of our being, without having even the leisure to become conscious of
\nthe law. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>This morning passing by a rapid experience from depth to depth, I was
\nable, once again, as always, to identify my consciousness with Thine and to live
\nno longer in aught but Thee; \u2013 indeed, it was Thou alone that wast living, but
\nimmediately Thy will pulled my consciousness towards the exterior, towards the
\nwork to be done, and Thou saidst to me, \u201cBe the instrument of which I have
\nneed.\u201d And is not this the last renunciation, to renounce identification with
\nThee, to renounce the sweet and pure joy of no longer distinguishing between
\nThee and me, the joy of knowing at each moment, not only with the intellect but
\nby an integral experience, that Thou art the unique Reality and that all the
\nrest is but appearance and illusion. That the exterior being should be the
\ndocile instrument which does not even need to be conscious of the will which
\nmoves it, is not doubtful; but why must I be almost entirely identified with
\nthe instrument and why should not the
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u201d be entirely merged in Thee and live
\nThy full and absolute consciousness? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>I ask, but I am not anxious about it. I know that all is according to Thy
\nwill, and with a pure adoration I<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 1<\/font><\/span>38<\/p>\n

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trust myself joyously to Thy will. I
\nshall be what Thou wouldst have me be, O Lord, conscient or inconscient, a
\nsimple instrument as is the body or a supreme knowledge as art Thou. O the sweet
\nand peaceful joy when one can say \u201cAll is good\u201d and feel Thee at work in the
\nworld through all the elements which lend themselves to that transmission. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Thou art the sovereign Master of all, Thou art the Inaccessible, the
\nUnknowable, the eternal and sublime Reality. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O marvellous Unity, I disappear in Thee.
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\nPage – 1<\/font><\/span>39<\/p>\n

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\n
\nMay 13,
\n 1914<\/span><\/a><\/font> <\/span>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>This somnolence of my thought, O Lord, Thou wilt shake off so that I may
\nhave the knowledge and understand the experience Thou hast given to my being.
\nWhen something in me questions Thee, always Thou repliest, and when it is
\nnecessary for me to know something, Thou teachest it to me, whether directly or
\nindirectly. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>I see more and more that all impatient revolt, all haste would be
\nuseless; everything is slowly organised so that I may serve Thee as I should.
\nWhat is my place in this service? For a long time I have stopped asking myself
\nthis. What does it matter? Is it necessary to know whether one is at the centre
\nor on the circumference? Provided that entirely consecrated to Thee, living
\nonly for Thee and by Thee, I carry out better and better the task Thou givest
\nme, all the rest has no importance at all. I would say more: provided Thy work
\nis accomplished in the world as well and as completely as it can be, does it matter
\nwhich individual or group realises this work?
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n    <\/span>O my sweet Master, in peace, serenity, equanimity, I give myself to Thee
\nand merge in Thee, my thought calm and tranquil, my heart smiling; Thy work
\nwill be done, I know, and Thy victory is certain. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O my sweet Master, grant to all the sovereign boon of Thy illumination!
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nMay 15, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>As on reaching a summit, one discovers a vast horizon, so, O Lord, when
\none’s consciousness is identified with that intermediate domain between Thy
\nUnity and the manifested world, one participates both in Thy Infinitude and in
\nthe realisation of the world. It is as though one were at a centre where the
\nconsciousness, wholly steeped in Thy effective Power, could direct the ray of
\nThy forces upon the lowly instrument moving among its brother instruments. From
\nthe height of these transcendent regions the unity of physical substance is
\nclearly visible, and yet the body which serves as a particular instrument in
\nthe material field seems specially precise and distinct like a stronger point
\namidst this whole, at once multiple and one, in which the forces circulate
\nevenly. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>This perception has not left me since yesterday. It has settled in as
\nsomething definitive, and all the outer activity which apparently continues as
\nusual, has become mechanical like a marvellously articulated and animated toy
\nmoved by the consciousness from the height of its seat which though no longer
\nindividual is still universal, that is, which is not yet completely
\n merged in Thy Oneness. All the laws of
\nindividual manifestation have become clear to me, but in so synthetical, so
\nglobal, so simultaneous a way, that it is impossible to express this in our
\nordinary language.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nMay 16, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
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\n<\/a>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>I was interrupted yesterday just when I was trying to formulate the
\nexperience I had. And now everything seems changed. That precise knowledge,
\nthat clear-sightedness has given place to a great love for Thee, O Lord, which
\nhas seized my whole being from the outer organism to the deepest consciousness,
\nand all lies prostrate at Thy feet in an ardent aspiration for a definitive
\nidentification with Thee, an absorption in Thee. I implored Thee with all the
\nenergy I could summon. And once again, just when it seemed to me that my
\nconsciousness was going to disappear in Thine, just when all my being was
\nnothing but a pure crystal reflecting Thy Presence, someone came and
\ninterrupted my concentration. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Such is, indeed, the symbol of the existence Thou givest me as my share,
\nin which outer usefulness, the work for all, holds a much greater place even
\nthan the supreme realisation. All the circumstances of my life seem always to
\ntell me on Thy behalf: \u201cIt is not through supreme concentration that thou wilt
\nrealise oneness, it is by spreading out in all.\u201d May Thy will be done, O Lord. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Now I understand clearly that union with Thee is not an aim to be
\npursued, so far as this present individuality is concerned; it is an
\naccomplished fact since a long time. And that is why Thou seemest
\nto tell me always: \u201cDo not delight in the ecstatic contemplation of this union;
\naccomplish the mission I have entrusted to thee upon earth.\u201d
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 1<\/font><\/span>42<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>And the individual work to be carried on simultaneously with the
\ncollective work is to become aware and take possession of all the activities
\nand parts of the being, the definitive establishment of consciousness in the
\nhighest point, making possible both the prescribed action and the constant
\ncommunion with Thee. The joys of perfect union cannot come until what has to be
\ndone is done. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>First, union must be preached to all, afterwards work; but for those who
\nhave realised the union, every moment of their life must be an integral
\nexpression of Thy will through them.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 1<\/font><\/span>43<\/p>\n

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\nMay 17, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 
\n<\/span>O Lord, deliver me from the mental influences which weigh upon me, so
\nthat, completely free, I may soar towards Thee. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Thou, Universal Being, Supreme Unity in perceptible form, through an
\nirresistible aspiration I nestled within Thy heart, then I was Thy heart
\nitself, and I knew then that Thy heart is no other than the Child who plays and
\ncreates the worlds. Thou didst tell me, \u201cOne day thou wilt be my head but for
\nthe moment turn thy gaze towards the earth.\u201d And on the earth now I am the
\njoyful child who plays. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>These were the two sentences I wrote yesterday by a kind of absolute
\nnecessity. The first, as though the power of the prayer would not be complete
\nunless it were traced on paper. The second, as though the stability of the
\nexperience could not be had unless I unburdened my mind of it by noting it down
\nin writing.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 1<\/font><\/span>44<\/p>\n

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\nMay 18, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Thou art the sole Reality, O Lord, Thou art Omnipotence and Eternity.
\nAnd he who is united with Thee in the depths of his being becomes Thy Reality
\nin its eternal and immutable omnipotence. But for others the command is, even
\nwhile remaining in contact with Thee, to turn their eyes and activity towards
\nthe earth; such is the mission Thou hast given them. Here begins the
\ndifficulty, for everything depends upon the perfection of the various states of
\ntheir being and, even after attaining the sublime identification, they must
\nstill work at perfecting the instrument which will manifest Thy divine Will.
\nThis is where the task becomes arduous. Everything seems to me mediocre,
\ninsufficient, neutral, almost inert in the present instrument which Thou makest
\nme call \u201cmyself\u201d; and the more I am united with Thee, the more do I realise the
\nmediocrity of its faculties and its manifestation. Everything in it seems to me
\nan incorrigible approximation. And if that cannot disturb me in any way, it is
\nbecause the true self is lying at Thy feet or nestling in Thy heart or
\nconscious with Thy eternal and immutable Consciousness, and looks at the whole
\nmanifestation with a smile of patient and understanding benevolence.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nMay 19, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>This mental being which throughout my individual existence had the power
\nto set all my faculties working: deep devotion for Thee, infinite compassion
\nfor men, ardent aspiration for knowledge, effort for self-perfection \u2013 seems to
\nhave fallen into a deep sleep and no longer sets anything at all in movement.
\nAll the individual faculties slumber and the consciousness is not yet fully
\nawake in the transcendent states; that is, its wakefulness in them is intermittent
\nand in between there is sleep. Something in this being aspires for solitude and
\nabsolute silence for a little while, so as to come out of this unsatisfactory
\ntransition; and something else knows that it is Thy will that this instrument
\nbe consecrated to the service of all, even if this must apparently be harmful
\nto its self-perfecting. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Something in this being tells Thee, O Lord: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cI
\nknow nothing, <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I am nothing, <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I can do nothing, <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I am in the darkness of inconscience.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

And something else knows that it is
\nThyself and thus the supreme perfection.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n   <\/span>What is going to come out of that? How will such a state come to an end?
\nWhether it is inertia or true patience, I do not know; but without haste or
\ndesire I lie at Thy feet and wait….
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nMay 20, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>From the height of that summit which is the identification with Thy
\ndivine infinite Love, Thou didst turn my eyes to this complex body which has to
\nserve Thee as Thy instrument. And Thou didst tell me, \u201cIt is myself; dost thou
\nnot see my light shining in it?\u201d And indeed I saw Thy divine Love, clothed in
\nintelligence, then in strength, constituting this body in its smallest cells
\nand shining so brightly in it that it was nothing but a combination of millions
\nof radiant sparks, all manifesting that they were Thyself. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>And now all darkness has disappeared, and Thou alone livest, in
\ndifferent worlds, in different forms but with an identical life, immutable and
\neternal. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>This divine world of Thy immutable domain of pure love and indivisible
\nunity must be brought into close communion with the divine world of all the
\nother domains, right down to the most material in which Thou art the centre and
\nvery constitution of each atom. To establish a bond of perfect consciousness
\nbetween all these successive divine worlds is the only way to live constantly,
\ninvariably in Thee, accomplishing integrally the mission Thou hast entrusted to
\nthe entire being in all its states of consciousness and all its modes of
\nactivity. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

     O my sweet Master, Thou hast caused a new
\nveil to be rent, another veil of my ignorance and, without leaving my blissful
\nplace in Thy eternal heart, I am at the same time in the imperceptible but
\ninfinite heart<\/span><\/p>\n

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 of each of the atoms constituting my
\nbody. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Strengthen this complete and perfect consciousness. Make me enter into
\nall the details of its perfection and grant that, without leaving Thee for a
\nsingle moment, I may constantly move up and down this infinite ladder,
\naccording to the necessity of the work Thou hast prescribed for me. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>I am Thine, I am in Thee, Thyself, in the plenitude of eternal bliss. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
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\n

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

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Outside all manifestation, in the immutable silence of Eternity, I am in
\nThee, O Lord, an unmoving beatitude. In that which, out of Thy puissance and
\nmarvellous light, forms the centre and reality of the atoms of matter I find
\nThee; thus without going out of Thy Presence I can disappear in Thy supreme
\nconsciousness or see Thee in the radiant particles of my being. And for the
\nmoment that is the plenitude of Thy life and Thy illumination. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>I see Thee, I am Thyself, and between these two poles my intense love
\naspires towards Thee.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 1<\/font><\/span>49<\/p>\n

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\n

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

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>When we have discerned successively what is real from what is unreal in all
\nthe states of being and all the worlds of life, when we have arrived at the
\nperfect and integral certitude of the sole Reality, we must turn our gaze from
\nthe heights of this supreme consciousness towards the individual aggregate
\nwhich serves as the immediate instrument for Thy manifestation upon earth, and
\nsee in it nothing but Thee, our sole real existence. Thus each atom of this
\naggregate will be awakened to receive Thy sublime influence; the ignorance and
\nthe darkness will disappear not only from the central consciousness of the
\nbeing but also from its most external mode of expression. It is only by the
\nfulfilment, by the perfection of this labour of transfiguration that there can
\nbe manifested the plenitude of Thy Presence, Thy Light and Thy Love. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Lord, Thou makest me understand this truth ever more clearly; lead me
\nstep by step on that path. My whole being down to its smallest atom aspires for
\nthe perfect knowledge of Thy presence and a complete union with it. Let every
\nobstacle disappear, let Thy divine knowledge replace in every part the darkness
\nof the ignorance. Even as Thou hast illumined the central consciousness, the
\nwill in the being, enlighten too this outermost substance. And let the whole
\nindividuality, from its first origin and essence to its last projection and most
\nmaterial body, be unified in a perfect<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 1<\/font><\/span>50<\/p>\n

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\n

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 realisation and a complete
\nmanifestation of Thy sole Reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Nothing is in the universe but Thy Life, Thy
\nLight, Thy Love. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Let everything become resplendent and transfigured by the knowledge of
\nThy Truth. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Thy divine love floods my being; Thy supreme light is shining in every
\ncell; all exults because it knows Thee and because it is one with Thee.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 1<\/font><\/span>51<\/p>\n

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\n

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

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O Lord, Thou of whom I would be constantly conscious and whom I would
\nrealise in the smallest cells of my being, Thou whom I would know as myself and
\nsee manifested in all things, Thou who art the sole reality, the sole cause and
\naim of existence, grant that my love for Thee may grow ever greater so that I may
\nbe all love, Thy love itself, and that, being Thy love, I may unite integrally
\nwith Thee. May this love grow more and more intense, complete, luminous,
\npowerful; may this love become an irresistible urge towards Thee, the
\ninvincible means of manifesting Thee. May everything in this being become pure,
\nprofound, disinterested, divine love \u2013 from the unfathomable depths to the
\noutermost substance. May the God with form who manifests in this aggregate be
\nentirely moulded from Thy complete and sublime love, the love which is at once
\nthe source and the realisation of all knowledge; may thought be clarified,
\norganised, enlightened, transformed by Thy love; may all the life-forces,
\nsolely impregnated by Thy love and moulded from it, draw from it irresistible
\npurity and constant energy, power and rectitude. May this weakened intermediary
\nbeing, take advantage of its weakness to reconstitute itself with elements
\nentirely moulded from Thy love, and
\n may this body, now a burning brazier, radiate Thy divine,
\nimpersonal, sublime and calm love from every pore…. May the brain be
\nreconstituted by Thy love. Lastly, may Thy love overflow, flood, penetrate,
\ntrans<\/span>–<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 1<\/font><\/span>52<\/p>\n

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figure, regenerate, animate all things,
\nwith the power, the splendour, the sweetness and force which are its very own.
\nIn Thy love is peace, in Thy love is joy, in Thy love is Thy servitor’s
\nsovereign lever of work. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Thy love is vaster than the universe and more lasting than all the ages;
\nit is infinite, eternal, it is Thyself. And it is Thyself I want to be and that
\nI am, for such is Thy law, such is Thy will.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – 1<\/span>53<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\nMay 24, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O My sweet Master, let me not be submerged by outer things. They have no
\ninterest, no savour for me. If I busy myself with them, it is because I feel
\nthat such is Thy will and the work must be accomplished integrally, down to the
\nleast details of the action and substance. But it is quite enough to turn one’s
\nattention to them and infuse Thy forces into them as much as possible. They
\nmust not be allowed to take precedence of the true realities in one’s
\nconsciousness. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O my sweet Master, I aspire for Thee, for the knowledge of what Thou
\nart, for identification with Thee. I ask for a greater love, growing always
\npurer, always vaster, always more intense and I find myself as it were submerged
\nin Matter; is this Thy reply? As Thou hast Thyself accepted to be thus
\nsubmerged in Matter so as to awaken it gradually to consciousness, is this the
\nresult of a more perfect identification with Thee? Is this not Thy answer to
\nme: \u201cIf thou wouldst learn to love truly, this is how thou shouldst love..\u201c …
\nin darkness and unconsciousness? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O my Lord, my sweet Master, Thou knowest that I belong to Thee and that
\nalways I want what Thou willest; but do not let any doubt about what Thou
\nwillest arise in me. Enlighten me in some way in the immutable peace of the
\nheart. Let me be submerged in darkness if that is necessary, but at least let me know that
\nit is Thou who willest it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span> <\/span><\/span>Lord, in response, I hear singing within my
\nheart the hymn of gladness of Thy divine and permanent Presence.
\n  <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 1<\/font><\/span>54<\/p>\n

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\n

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\nMay 25, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O divine Master of love and purity, grant that in its least stages, its
\nsmallest activities, this instrument which wants to serve Thee worthily may be
\npurified of all egoism, all error, all obscurity, so that nothing in it may
\nimpair, deform or stop Thy action. How many little recesses lie yet in shadow,
\nfar from the full light of Thy illumination: for these I ask the supreme
\nhappiness of this illumination. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Oh, to be the pure flawless crystal which lets Thy divine ray pass
\nwithout obscuring, colouring or distorting it! \u2013 not from a desire for
\nperfection but so that Thy work may be done as perfectly as possible. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>And when I ask Thee this, the \u201cI\u201d which speaks to Thee is the entire
\nEarth, aspiring to be this pure diamond, a perfect reflector of Thy supreme
\nlight. All the hearts of men beat within my heart, all their thoughts vibrate
\nin my thought, the slightest aspiration of a docile animal or a modest plant
\nunites with my formidable aspiration, and all this rises towards Thee, for the
\nconquest of Thy love and light, scaling the summits of Being to attain Thee,
\nravish Thee from Thy motionless beatitude and make Thee penetrate the darkness
\nof suffering to transform it into divine Joy, into sovereign <\/span><\/p>\n

Peace. And this violence is made of an
\ninfinite love which gives itself and a trustful serenity which smiles with the
\ncertitude of Thy perfect Unity. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O my sweet Master, Thou art the Triumpher and the Triumph, the Victor
\nand the Victory!
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 1<\/font><\/span>55<\/p>\n

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\n

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\nMay 26, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> *<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>On the surface is the storm, the sea is in turmoil, waves clash and leap
\none on another and break with a mighty uproar. But all the time, under this
\nwater in fury, are vast smiling expanses, peaceful and motionless. They look
\nupon the surface agitation as an indispensable act; for matter has to be
\nvigorously churned if it is to become capable of manifesting entirely the
\ndivine light. Behind the troubled appearance, behind the struggle and anguish
\nof the conflict, the consciousness remains firm at its post; observing all the
\nmovements of the outer being, it intervenes only to rectify direction and
\nposition, so as not to allow the play to become too dramatic. This intervention
\nis now firm and a little severe, now ironical, a call to order or a mockery,
\nfull always of a strong, gentle, peaceful and smiling benevolence. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>In the silence I beheld Thy infinite and eternal Beatitude. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Then softly a prayer rises towards Thee from what is still in the shadow
\nand the struggle: O sweet Master, O <\/span><\/p>\n

supreme Giver of illumination and purity,
\ngrant that all substance and every activity may be no more anything other than
\na constant manifestation of Thy divine Love and Thy sovereign Serenity…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>And in my heart is the song of gladness of Thy sublime magnificence. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
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\n

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

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>In each one of the domains of the being, the consciousness must be
\nawakened to the perfect existence, knowledge and bliss. These three worlds or
\nmodes of the Divine are found in the physical reality as well as in the states of
\nforce and light and those of impersonality and infinitude, of eternity. When
\none enters with full consciousness into the higher states, to live this
\nexistence, light and bliss is easy, almost inevitable. But what is very
\nimportant, as well as very difficult, is to awaken the being to this triple
\ndivine consciousness in the most material worlds. This is the first point. Then
\none must succeed in finding the centre of all the divine worlds (probably in
\nthe intermediate world), whence one can unite the consciousness of these divine
\nworlds, synthetise them, and act simultaneously and with full awareness in all
\ndomains. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>I know that it is a very long way from these incomplete and imperfect
\nexplanations to the sublime reality which manifests Thee, O Lord. Thy
\nsplendour, Thy power and Thy magnificence, Thy incommensurable love are above
\nall explanation and comment. But my intellect needs to represent things to
\nitself at least a little schematically, in order to allow the most material
\nstates of the being to enter as completely as possible into harmony with Thy
\nWill. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0
\n<\/span>Yet it is in the deep silence of my mute and total adoration that I best
\nunderstand Thee. For then who can say
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

what loves, what is loved, and what is the
\npower of loving in itself? All three are but one in an infinite bliss. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O give to everyone, Lord, the boon of that incomparable bliss. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – 1<\/span>57<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

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\nMay 28, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Thou settest in motion, Thou stirrest and churnest the innumerable
\nelements of this world, so that, from their primal darkness, their primeval
\nchaos, they may awaken to consciousness and the full light of knowledge. And
\nThou usest Thy supreme love to churn all these elements in this way. And it is
\nfrom Thy infinite, unfathomable heart that these inexhaustible torrents of love
\nspring forth. Thy heart is my dwelling-place, Thy heart is the reality of my
\nbeing. In Thy heart I have nestled and I have become Thy heart. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Peace, peace upon all beings.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
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\nMay 29, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O My sweet Lord, those who are in Thy head, that is, to speak more intellectually,
\nthose who have identified their consciousness with the absolute Consciousness,
\nthose who have become Thy supreme Knowledge, can no longer have any love for
\nThee, since they are Thyself. They enjoy that infinite bliss characteristic of
\nall awareness of Thy supreme Essence, but the devotion of the adorer who turns
\nwith ecstasy to that which is higher and above him can no longer exist. So, to
\nhim whose mission upon earth is to manifest Thy love, Thou teachest to have
\nthis pure and infinite love for all the manifested universe; the love which at
\nfirst was made of adoration and admiration is transformed into a love all made
\nof compassion and devotedness. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Oh, the divine splendour of Thy eternal Unity! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Oh, the infinite sweetness of Thy Beatitude! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Oh, the sovereign majesty of Thy Knowledge! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Thou art the Inconceivable, the Marvellous One!
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 1<\/font><\/span>59<\/p>\n

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\n

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\nMay 31, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>When the sun set in the indrawn contemplation of the calm twilight, all
\nmy being prostrated itself before Thee, O Lord, in mute adoration and complete
\nself-giving. Then I was the whole earth and the whole earth prostrated itself
\nbefore Thee, imploring the benediction of Thy illumination, the beatitude of
\nThy love. Oh, the kneeling earth that supplicates to Thee, then is ingathered in
\nthe silence of the night, waiting in both patience and anxiety for the
\nillumination so ardently desired. If there is a sweetness in being Thy divine
\nlove at work in the world, there is as great a sweetness in being the infinite
\naspiration which rises towards that infinite love. And to be able to change
\nthus, to be successively, almost simultaneously, what receives and what gives,
\nwhat transfigures and what is transfigured, to be identified with the painful
\ndarkness as with the all-powerful splendour and, in this double identification,
\nto discover the secret of Thy sovereign unity, is this not a way of expressing,
\nof accomplishing Thy supreme will?… <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O my sweet Master, my heart is a flaming chapel, and Thou art seated
\nthere permanently like the sublimest of idols; so it is that Thy form appears
\nto me, clothed in magnificence, in the midst of the flames consuming my<\/span> <\/span>heart for Thee, and at the same time, in
\nmy head, I see Thee, know Thee as the Inconceivable, the Unknowable, the
\nFormless; and in this double perception, this double knowledge, lies the
\nplenitude of contentment.
\n  <\/span><\/p>\n

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