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\nJuly 12, 1918<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nSUDDENLY, before Thee, all my pride fell. I understood how futile it was in Thy Presence to wish to
\nsurmount oneself, and I wept, wept abundantly and
\nwithout constraint the sweetest tears of my life.
\nTears sweet and beneficent, tears that opened my
\nheart without constraint before Thee and melted in
\none miraculous moment all the remaining obstacles
\nthat could separate me from Thee! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nAnd now, although I weep no longer, I feel so
\nnear, so near to Thee that my whole being quivers
\nwith joy. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nLet me stammer out my homage: <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nI have cried too with the joy of a child, "0 supreme and only Confidant, Thou who knowest
\nbeforehand all we can say to Thee because Thou
\nart its source! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n"O supreme and only Friend, Thou who acceptest,
\nThou who lovest, Thou who understandest us just
\nas we are, because it is Thyself who hast so made
\nus! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n"O supreme and only Guide, Thou who never gainsayest our highest will because it is Thou Thyself
\nwho wiliest in it! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 79<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n"It would be folly to seek elsewhere than in Thee
\nfor one who will listen, understand, love and guide,
\nsince always Thou art there ready, to our call and
\nnever wilt Thou fail us! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n"Thou hast made me know the supreme, the sub-
\nlime joy of a perfect confidence, an absolute
\nserenity, a surrender total and without reserve or
\ncolouring, free from .effort and constraint. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n"Joyous like a child I have smiled and wept at
\nonce before Thee, 0 my Well-Beloved!" <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 80<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nSeptember 3, 1919<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nSINCE the man refused the meal I had prepared
\nwith so much love and care, I invoke the God to
\ntake it. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nMy God, Thou hast accepted my invitation, Thou
\nhast come to sit at my table, and in exchange for
\nmy poor and humble offering Thou hast granted to
\nme the last liberation. My heart, even this morning
\nso heavy with anguish and care, my head surcharged with responsibility, are delivered of their
\nburden. Now are they light and joyful as my inner
\nbeing has been for a long time past. My body
\nsmiles to Thee with happiness as before my soul
\nsmiled to Thee. And surely hereafter Thou wilt
\nwithdraw no more from me this joy, 0 my God!
\nfor this time, I think, the lesson has been sufficient,
\nI have mounted the calvary of successive disillusionments high enough to attain to the Resurrection.
\nNothing remains of the past but a potent love
\nwhich gives me the pure heart of a child and the
\nlightness and freedom of thought of a god. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 81<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nJune 22, 1920<\/i><\/font><\/b>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nAFTER granting me the joy which surpasses
\nall expression, Thou hast sent me, 0 my beloved Lord,
\nthe struggle, the ordeal and on this too I have
\nsmiled as on one of Thy precious messengers. Before,
\nI dreaded the conflict, for it hurt in me the love of
\nharmony and peace. But now, 0 my God, I welcome it with gladness: it is one among the forms
\nof Thy action, one of the best means for bringing
\nback to light some elements of the work which
\nmight otherwise have been forgotten, and it carries
\nwith it a sense of amplitude, of complexity, of
\npower. And even as I have seen Thee, resplendent,
\nexciting the conflict, so also it is Thou whom I see
\nunravelling the entanglement of events and jarring
\ntendencies and winning in the end the victory over
\nall that strives to veil Thy light and Thy power: for out of the struggle it is a more perfect realisation of Thyself that must arise. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 82<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nNovember 24, 1931<\/i> <\/font> <\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO MY Lord, my sweet Master, for the
\naccomplishment of Thy work I have sunk down into the unfathomable depths of Matter, I have touched with
\nmy finger the horror of the falsehood and the inconscience, I have reached the seat of oblivion and
\na supreme obscurity. But in my heart was the
\nRemembrance, from my heart there leaped the call
\nwhich could arrive to Thee: "Lord, Lord, everywhere Thy enemies appear triumphant; falsehood is
\nthe monarch of the world; life without Thee is a
\ndeath, a perpetual hell; doubt has usurped the place
\nof Hope and revolt has pushed out submission; Faith is spent, Gratitude is not born; blind passions
\nand murderous instincts and a guilty weakness have
\ncovered and stifled Thy sweet law of love. Lord,
\nwilt Thou permit Thy enemies to prevail, falsehood
\nand ugliness and suffering to triumph? Lord, give
\nthe command to conquer and victory will be there.
\nI know we are unworthy, I know the world is not
\nyet ready. But I cry to Thee with an absolute faith
\nin Thy Grace and I know that Thy Grace will save." <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nThus, my prayer rushed up towards Thee; and,
\nfrom the depths of the abyss, I beheld Thee in Thy
\nradiant splendour; Thou didst appear and Thou
\nsaidst to me: "Lose not courage, be firm, be confident,\u2014I COME." <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 83<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nOctober 23, 1937<\/a> <\/b><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

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\n(A prayer-for those who wish to serve the Divine<\/b>)<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nGLORY to Thee, 0 Lord, who triumphest over
\nevery obstacle. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nGrant that nothing in us shall be an obstacle in
\nThy work. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nGrant that nothing may retard Thy manifestation. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nGrant that Thy will may be done in all things and
\nat every moment. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nWe stand here before Thee that Thy will may be
\nfulfilled in us, in every element, in every activity
\nof our being, from our supreme heights to the
\nsmallest cells of the body. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nGrant that we may be faithful to Thee utterly and
\nfor ever. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nWe would be completely under Thy influence to the
\nexclusion of every other. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nGrant that we may never forget to own towards
\nThee a deep, an intense gratitude. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 84<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nGrant that we may never squander any of the
\nmarvellous things that are Thy gifts to us at every instant. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nGrant that everything in us may collaborate in Thy
\nwork and all be ready for Thy realisation. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nGlory to Thee, 0 Lord, Supreme Master of all realisation. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nGive us a faith active and ardent, absolute and unshakable in Thy Victory. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 85<\/font><\/p>\n

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