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\n

\nMarch<\/i> I, 1914 <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nIT is in oneself that there are all the obstacles, it is in oneself that there are all the difficulties, it
\nis in oneself that there is all the darkness and ignorance.  Even if we were to travel across the whole
\nearth, bury ourselves in some solitary place, break
\nwith all our habits, lead the most ascetic life, still
\nu some bond of illusion held back the consciousness far from Thy absolute consciousness, if some egoistic
\nattachment deprived us of the integral communion
\nWith Thy divine Love, we should be no nearer to Thee! whatever might be the outer circumstances. Are
\nthere even circumstances more or less favourable? I doubt it is the idea we form of them which enables s to profit better or worse by the lessons they us.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 65<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nO Lord, I implore Thee! Grant that I may be
\nperfectly conscious and master of the aggregate
\nwhich constitutes this personality, so that I may
\nbe delivered from myself and that Thou alone mayst live and act through these multiple
\nelements.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTo live in Love, by Love, for Love, indissolubly
\nunited to Thy highest manifestation….<\/font><\/p>\n

\nEver more of light, more of beauty, more of
\ntruth!<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMarch<\/i> 3, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

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

\n <\/p>\n

\nAS the day of departure draws near, I enter into a
\nsort of calm collectedness; I turn with an affectionate seriousness towards all those thousand little
\ntrifles which surround us and which have silently
\nplayed during so many years the part of faithful
\nfriends; I thank them with gratitude for all the charm
\nthey have been able to impart from the outside to our
\nlife; I wish, if they are destined to pass for a long or
\na brief period into other hands than ours, that those
\nhands may be gentle to them and may feel all the respect that is due to what Thy divine Love,
\nO Lord, has
\nmade to emerge from the dark inconscience of
\nchaos.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThen <\/b> 1 turn towards the future, and my regard
\nbecomes still more grave. What it has in store for<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 66<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nus I do not know and am not anxious to know; outer circumstances have no importance at all, I would only wish that it may be the beginning of a
\nnew inner period, in which, more detached from
\nmaterial things, we may be more conscious of Thy
\nlaw and more solely consecrated to its manifestation; that it may be a period of a greater light, a greater
\nlove, a more perfect devotion to Thy cause. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nIn a silent adoration I contemplate Thee. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMarch<\/i> 4, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nIT is the last time, it may well be for long, that I
\nwrite at this table, in this quiet room steeped in Thy Presence. For the next
\nthree days I shall probably not be able to write… It is in an inner concentration that I contemplate this page which, as it
\nturns, vanishes into the dream of the past and I
\nregard this other page, blank but in potentiality full of the dream of the future…And yet what a small
\nthing it seems, childish and without importance,
\nwhen looked at in the light of Thy eternity. The one thing important is to obey Thy law with love and joy.
\nO Lord, grant that all in us may adore Thee and serve Thee. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nMay all have Peace ! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 67<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n Geneva, March 6,<\/i> 1914<\/a> <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nAFTER I had acutely suffered from their suffering,, I turned towards Thee in an attempt to heal it
\nby infusing into it a little of the divine Love, source
\nof all peace and happiness. We must not run away
\nfrom suffering, we must not love and cultivate it
\neither, we must learn how to go down deep enough
\nin it to make it a lever which will have the power
\nto force open the doors of the eternal consciousness
\nand enter into the serenity of Thy unvarying oneness. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nCertainly this sentimental and physical attachment
\nwhich produces a wrench when the bodies separate,
\nis childish from a certain point of view, when we
\ncontemplate the impermanence of outer forms and
\nthe reality of Thy essential oneness; but on the other
\nhand, is not this attachment, this personal affection,
\nan unconscious effort of men to realise externally
\nas far as possible, that fundamental oneness towards
\nwhich they are ever tending without even being aware
\nof it? And precisely for this reason, is not the suffering
\nproduced by the separation one of the most effective
\nmeans of transcending this outer consciousness, of
\nreplacing this superficial attachment by the integral
\nrealisation of Thy eternal oneness? <\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt was this that I wished for them all; it was this
\nthat I ardently willed for them, and it was for this that I, assured of Thy victory and certain of Thy triumph,
\nconfided to Thee their grief so that Thou mayst
\nby illumining heal it. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 68<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nO Lord, grant that all this beauty of affection
\nand tenderness may be transformed into a glorious
\nknowledge. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nGrant that the best may come out of everything,
\nand Thy happy Peace may reign over the earth. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nOn board the Kaga Maru,
\nMarch <\/a> <\/i>7, 1914<\/a> <\/b>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHOU wast with us yesterday as the most marvellous protection; Thou hast permitted Thy
\nlaw to triumph even up to the most outer manifestation. Violence was answered by calm, brutality by
\nthe power of gentleness; and where there could have
\ntaken place an irreparable misfortune. Thy power
\nwas glorified. O Lord! with what fervent gratitude
\nI saluted Thy presence. It was for me a sure sign
\nthat we would have the force to act, to think,
\nto live in Thy name and for Thee; not only in
\n"Mention and will, but effectively, in an integral
\nrealisation. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThis morning my prayer rises to Thee, always with the same aspiration: to live Thy love, to radiate
\nmy love, with such potency and effectiveness that all may feel fortified, regenerated and illumined
\n<\/b>by <\/b>our contact. To have power to heal life, to relieve suffering, to generate peace \u00bband calm confidence, to efface Aguish and replace it by the sense of the one
\nhappiness, the happiness that is founded in <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 69<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nThee and never fades… O Lord, O Marvellous
\nFriend, O all-powerful Master, penetrate all our
\nbeing, transfigure it till Thou alone livest in us and
\nthrough us! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMarch<\/i> 8, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nIN front of this calm sunrise which turned all within me into silence and peace, at the moment
\nwhen I grew conscious of Thee and Thou alone
\nwast living in me, O Lord, it seemed to me that I
\nadopted all the inhabitants of this ship, and enveloped
\nthem in an equal love, and that so in each one of them
\nsomething of Thy consciousness would awake. Not
\noften had I felt so strongly Thy divine power, and
\nThy invincible light, and once again total was my
\nconfidence and unmixed my joyful surrender. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Thou who relievest all suffering and disperses!
\nall ignorance, O Thou the supreme healer, be constantly present on this boat in the heart of those whom
\nit shelters that once again Thy glory may be manifested! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\nMarch<\/font><\/i><\/b> 9, 1914<\/font><\/a> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHOSE who live for Thee and in Thee may change their physical surroundings, their habits, climate,
\n"milieu," but everywhere they find the same atmosphere;<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 70<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nthey carry that atmosphere in themselves, in their
\nthought constantly fixed on Thee. Everywhere they
\nfeel at home, for everywhere they are in Thy house. No longer do they marvel at
\nthe novelty, unexpectedness, picturesqueness of things and countries; for
\nthem, it is Thy Presence that is manifest in all and Thy unchangeable splendour
\nwhich never leaves them,
\nis apparent in the least grain of sand. The whole
\nearth chants Thy praises; in spite of the obscurity,
\nmisery, ignorance, through it all, it is still the glory
\nof Thy love which we perceive and with which we
\ncan commune ceaselessly everywhere. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, my sweet Master, all this I constantly
\nexperience on this boat which seems to me a marvellous abode of peace, a temple sailing in Thy honour
\nover the waves of the subconscient passivity which
\nwe have to conquer and awaken to the consciousness
\nof Thy divine Presence. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nBlessed was the day when I came to know Thee\u00bb
\nO Ineffable Eternity! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nBlessed among all days be that day when the
\nearth at last awakened shall know Thee and shall
\nlive only for Thee’ <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nM<\/font><\/i><\/b>arch<\/i> 1O, 1914<\/font><\/a> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nIN the silence of the night Thy Peace reigned over
\nall things, in the silence of my heart Thy Peace <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 71<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nreigns always, and when these two silences were
\nunited. Thy Peace was so powerful that no trouble of any kind could resist it. I then thought of all those
\nwho were watching over the ship to safeguard and
\nprotect our route, and in gratitude, I willed that
\nThy Peace should be born and live in their hearts; then I thought of all those
\nwho, confident and carefree, slept the sleep of inconscience, and, with solicitude for their miseries, pity for their latent suffering
\nwhich would awake in them in their own waking,
\nI willed that a little of Thy Peace might dwell in
\ntheir hearts and bring to birth in them the life of
\nthe Spirit, the light which dispels ignorance. I then
\nthought of all the dwellers of this vast sea, visible
\nand invisible, and I willed that over them might
\nbe extended Thy Peace. I thought next of those
\nwhom we had left far away and whose affection is with
\nus, and with a great tenderness, I willed for them Thy
\nconscious and lasting Peace, the plenitude of Thy
\nPeace proportioned to their capacity to receive it.
\nThen I thought of all those to whom we are going,
\nwho are restless with childish preoccupations and
\nfight for mean competitions of interest in ignorance
\nand egoism; and ardently, in a great aspiration, for
\nthem I asked for the plenary light of Thy Peace. I
\nnext thought of all those whom we know, of all those
\nwhom we do not know, of all the life that is working
\nitself out, of all that has changed its form, and all that
\nis<\/b> not yet in form, and for all that, and also for all of
\nwhich I cannot think, for all that is present to my <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 72<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nmemory, and for all that I forget, in a great ingathering
\nand mute adoration, I implored Thy Peace.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nM<\/font><\/i><\/b>arch<\/i> 12, 1914<\/font><\/a><\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO LORD, my sole aspiration is to know Thee better
\nand serve Thee better everyday. What do the outer circumstances matter? They
\nappear to me everyday more vain and more illusory, and I take less and
\nless interest in what will outwardly happen to us ; but
\nI am more and more intensely interested in the only
\nthing which appears to me important: to know Thee better in order to serve Thee better. All outer events
\nmust converge towards this goal, and towards it alone; and for that all depends upon the attitude we have
\ntowards them. To be constantly in search of Thee
\nin. everything, to will to manifest Thee better in every
\ncircumstance, in this attitude is to be found supreme
\nPeace, perfect serenity, true contentment. In it life
\nblooms, widens, spreads out so magnificently, in
\nsuch majestic surges that no storm can any more
\ntrouble it. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, Thou art our safeguard, our only happiness?
\nThou art our resplendent light, our pure love, our
\nhope and our force; Thou art our life, the reality
\nof our being! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nWith a respectful and joyous adoration I salute
\nThee. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 73<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n‘March<\/i> 13, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nHOW many and different are the degrees of consciousness ! This word should be reserved for
\nthat which, in a being, is illumined by Thy Presence,
\nidentifies itself with Thee and participates in Thy
\nabsolute Consciousness, for that which has knowledge,
\nwhich is " perfectly awakened," as says the
\nBuddha. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nOutside this state, there are infinite degrees of
\nconsciousness descending down to the complete darkness,
\nthe veritable inconscience which may be a domain not
\nyet touched by the light of Thy divine love (but that
\nappears improbable in physical substance), or which
\nis, by reason of some ignorance, outside, our individual region of perception. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThis is, however, only a way of speaking, and a very
\nincomplete one at that; for at the moment when the
\nbeing becomes aware of Thy presence and identifies itself with Thy
\nconsciousness, it is conscious in everything and everywhere. But the fugitive duration of
\nthis supreme consciousness can be explained only
\nby the complexity of the elements of the being, by
\ntheir inequality in the illumination and by the fact that they enter
\nsuccessively into activity. It is, moreover, by reason of this successive activity that little by
\nlittle they can become aware of themselves as a result
\nof their subjective and objective experiences (which
\ncomes to the same thing), that is to say, discover Thee in their unfathomable essence. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 74<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nThe subconscient is the intermediate zone between
\nprecise perception and the total darkness of the
\nignorance; it is probable that the majority of beings,,
\neven of human beings, live constantly in this
\nsubconscience; few emerge from it. This is the
\nconquest that is to be made; for <\/b> to be conscious
\nin the true sense of the word, is to be Thou
\nintegrally; and is not that the very definition of the work to be accomplished,
\nthe mission to be
\nfulfilled upon the earth? <\/font><\/p>\n

\nDeliver us, O Lord, from darkness; grant that we may be perfectly awakened.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nSweet Master of Love, grant that my consciousness
\nmay be concentrated in Thee so that I may live only
\nby the love and light and that love and light may radiate
\nthrough me and awake in all on our passage; let this
\nphysical journey be a symbol of our action, and let
\nus everywhere leave a trace of Thee like a trail of
\nlight and love. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO divine Master, eternal Teacher, Thou livest in
\neverything, in every being, and Thy love becomes evident even to the eyes of the most ignorant. Grant
\nthat all may be conscious of it in the depths of their being and that hatred may disappear for ever from
\ntheir hearts. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nMy ardent gratitude rises towards Thee like an untired chant. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 75<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nMarch<\/i> 14, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTN the unchanging solitude of the desert there is
\nsomething of Thy majestic presence, and I understand why one of the best means of finding Thee has
\nalways been to retire into these immense plains of
\nsand. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nBut for one who knows Thee, Thou art everywhere,
\nin everything, and no one thing appears to be more
\nfavourable than another for manifesting Thee; for
\nall things that exist\u2014and many others that are not
\nyet\u2014are necessary to express Thee. Everything, by
\nthe very fact of Thy divine intervention of love, is
\nan effort of life towards Thee; and when our eyes are
\nopened, we constantly perceive this effort. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, my heart is athirst for Thee and my thought
\nconstantly seeks Thee. In a mute adoration I salute
\nThee. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\nMarch<\/font><\/i><\/b> 15, 1914<\/font><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nMY thought is full of Thee, my heart is full, all my being is filled with Thy Presence, and
\npeace goes on growing, producing the happiness, so
\ncharacteristic and unmixed, of a calm serenity which
\nseems as vast as the universe, as profound as the
\nunfathomable depths that lead to Thee. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO<\/font><\/b>,<\/b>
\nThese silent and pure nights in which my overflowing heart unites with Thy divine Love to penetrate<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 76<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\ninto everything, embrace all life, illumine and regenerate all thought, purify all feeling, awaken in all being the consciousness of Thy marvellous
\nPresence and of the ineffable peace which springs from it. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nGrant, O Lord, that this consciousness and this
\npeace may go on growing in us, so that more and
\nmore we may become faithful intermediaries of Thy
\ndivine and single law. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMarch<\/i> 17, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nAS soon as physical conditions are a little difficult and there results from them some unease, if we
\nknow how to surrender completely before Thy will,
\nholding cheap life or death, health or illness, our integral being enters immediately into harmony with Thy
\nlaw of love and life, and all physical indisposition
\nceases to give place to a well-being calm, deep and
\nPeaceful. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nI have noticed that if we enter into an activity which
\nrequires a great physical endurance, what fatigues
\nthe most is the anticipation in advance of all the difficulties to which we shall be exposed. It is much
\nwiser at every moment to look only at the difficulty of the present minute; this makes the effort easier
\nbecause it is always proportionate to the sum of force, the resistance we command. The body is a marvellous <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 77<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\ninstrument, it is our mind that does not know how
\nto use it, and, instead of promoting its suppleness,
\nits plasticity, puts into it a certain fixity arising from
\npreconceived ideas and unfavourable suggestions. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nBut the supreme science, O Lord, is to be united
\nwith Thee, to confide in Thee, to live in Thee, to be
\nThou, and then there is nothing that is impossible
\nto the man manifesting Thy omnipotence. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nLord, my aspiration rises towards Thee like a silent
\ncanticle, a mute adoration, and Thy divine Love
\nillumines my heart. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO divine Master, I salute <\/b>Thee.<\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMarch<\/i> 18, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHOU art perfect knowledge and absolute consciousness. He who unites himself with Thee is \u2014for the time of this union\u2014omniscient. But even
\nbefore he has attained to this stage, he who, in all
\nthe sincerity of his being, has given himself to Thee
\nwith all his conscious will, he who has resolved to make
\nevery effort to help in the manifestation and triumph
\nof Thy divine law of Love in him and in the whole
\nzone of his influence, sees everything change in his
\nlife and all circumstances begin to express Thy law
\nand facilitate his consecration; for him it is always
\nthe best that happens; and if there is still in his intelligence some obscurity, some ignorant desire which <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 78<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nsometimes prevents him from perceiving it immediately, he recognises sooner or later that a beneficent power seemed to protect him even against
\nhimself so as to secure for him the conditions most
\nfavourable to his blossoming and transfiguration, his integral conversion and utilisation. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nWhen we are conscious and convinced of this, we
\ncan no more have any cares about future circumstances and the turn taken by
\nevents, it is with a perfect serenity that we do at every moment what we
\nthink best, convinced that what will come of it will
\nalso be the best, even if it is not the result which,
\nin our limited reasoning, we expected from it. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThat is why, O Lord, our heart is light and our
\nthought at rest. That is why we turn towards Thee
\nin all confidence and say peacefully: <\/font><\/p>\n

\nMay Thy will be done, in it is realised the true
\nharmony. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMarch<\/i> 19, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO LORD, eternal Teacher, Thou whom we can
\nneither name nor understand, but whom we would realise more and more at every moment, enlighten the intelligence, illumine our hearts, transfigure the
\nconsciousness; may everybody awaken to the true life, escape from egoism and its train of sorrow and <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 79<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nanguish, in order to take refuge in Thy divine and
\npure Love, source of all peace and all happiness. My heart so full of Thee seems
\nto expand to infinity,
\nand my intelligence wholly enlightened with Thy
\nPresence shines like the purest diamond. Thou art the marvellous magician, he
\nwho transfigures everything, makes beauty emerge out of ugliness, light
\nout of darkness, clear water out of mud, knowledge
\nout of ignorance and kindness out of egoism. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nIn Thee, by Thee, for Thee we live and Thy law
\nis the supreme master of our life. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nMay Thy will be done in every place, may Thy
\npeace reign over the whole earth! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMarch<\/i> 20, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHOU art consciousness and light. Thou art peace
\n\u2014 in the heart of all, divine love which transfigures,
\nknowledge which triumphs over darkness. To feel
\nThee and aspire for Thee, we must have emerged
\nfrom the immense sea- of the subconscient; we must
\nhave begun to crystallise, to define and so to know
\nand then to give ourselves as that alone can give itself
\nwhich belongs to itself. And how many efforts and
\nstruggles are needed to attain to this crystallisation, to come out of the
\namorphous middle state; and how
\nmany efforts and struggles again to give ourselves, to surrender, once the individuality is constituted. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 80<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nFew beings willingly consent to these efforts; then
\nlife with its brutality of the unforeseen compels men
\nto make this endeavour against their will, because
\nthey cannot do otherwise. And little by little Thy
\nwork is accomplished inspite of all obstacles. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\n
\nMarch<\/font><\/i><\/b> 21, 1914<\/font><\/a> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nAS each morning my aspiration rises towards
\nThee, and in the silence of my satisfied heart, I
\nask that Thy law of Love may be expressed. Thy
\nwill manifested. And in advance I give my joyful
\nand serene adhesion to the circumstances which are
\nto translate this law and this will. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO why be restless and demand that when oneself
\nis concerned, things should go in a particular way
\nand not in another! Why determine that such and
\nsuch a set of circumstances shall be the best possible
\nexpression, and then throw oneself into a hard struggle so that these possibilities may be realised! Why not
\nemploy all one’s energy solely to will in the calm of an inner confidence, that
\nit may be Thy law which  triumphs everywhere and always over all difficulty,
\nall darkness, all egoism! How the horizon widens
\nas soon as we learn to take this attitude; how all cares cease and give place to an invariable illumination, to the omnipotence of disinterestedness! To
\nwill what Thou wiliest, O Lord, is to live constantly<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 81 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nin communion with Thee, it is to be liberated from
\nall contingencies, to escape from all narrowness, to
\nfill our lungs with a pure and healthy air, to be rid of all useless fatigue, to
\nbe lightened of all cumbersome weight, in order to run with nimble steps
\ntowards the only goal which is worth attaining: the
\ntriumph of Thy divine Law! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, with what a happy confidence I salute
\nThee this morning. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMarch<\/i> 22, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO<\/font><\/b> LORD, divine Master of love, enlighten their consciousness and their hearts. They have made
\nan effort to tend towards Thee, but their ignorance
\nbrought this about that it was probably not towards
\nThee that their prayers rose, and their false conceptions have barred the way to
\ntheir aspiration. However, in Thy mercy Thou turnest all goodwill to 
\naccount, and a flash of sincerity is enough to make
\nThy divine light take advantage of it for illumining
\nthe intelligence, to make Thy sublime love penetrate
\ninto the hearts of men and fill them with that pure
\nand high benevolence which is one of the best expressions of Thy law. What I willed for them, with Thy
\nwill, at the moments when I could be in a true
\ncommunion with Thee, grant that they may have
\nreceived it on the day when, striving to forget external <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 82<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\ncontingencies, they turned towards <\/b> their noblest
\nthought, towards their best feelings. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nMay the supreme serenity of Thy sublime Presence
\nawake in them.   <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nMarch<\/i> 23, 1914<\/a> <\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nIN my view the ideal state is that in which, constantly conscious with Thy Consciousness, we
\nknow at every moment, spontaneously, without any
\nnecessity of reflection, exactly what we should do
\nto express in the best way Thy law. I know this state
\nbecause I have been in it at certain moments, but
\nvery often the knowledge of the "how" is veiled by
\na mist of ignorance and we have to appeal to
\nreflection which is not always a good counsellor; not
\nto speak of all that we do every moment, without
\nhaving time for reflection, being at the mercy of the
\ninspiration of the moment. In what measure is it in conformity with or contrary to Thy law? All
\ndepends on the state of the subconscient, on what is active in it at the moment. Once the act is accomplished, if it has any importance, if we can look at
\nit, analyse it, understand it, it serves as a lesson,
\nCables us to be aware of the motive force which has made us act, and so of
\nsomething of that subconscient which still governs us and has to be mastered.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 83<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nIt is impossible that in every terrestrial action
\nthere should not be a good and a bad side. Even
\nthe actions which best express the most divine law
\nof Love contain in them something of the disorder
\nand darkness inherent in the world as it is at present. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nSome men, those who are called pessimists, perceive
\nalmost solely the dark side of everything. The optimists, on the contrary, see only the side of beauty
\nand harmony. And if it is ridiculous and ignorant
\nto be an involuntary optimist, is it not a happy
\nconquest to be made to become a voluntary optimist?
\nIn the eyes of the pessimists, whatever one does
\nwill be always bad, ignorant or egoistic; how could
\none satisfy them? It is an impossible enterprise. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThere is only one resource, it is to unite ourselves
\nas perfectly as we can with the highest and purest
\nlight we can conceive of, to identify our consciousness as completely as
\npossible with the absolute Consciousness, to strive to receive all inspiration from it alone,
\nin order to facilitate as best we can its manifestation
\nupon the earth, and, confident of its power, consider
\nthe events with serenity. Since everything is necessarily mixed in the present manifestation, it is-
\nwisest to do our best, striving towards a higher and
\nhigher light, and to resign ourselves to the fact that
\nabsolute perfection is for the moment unrealisable. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nStill with what an ardour should we not always
\naspire towards this inaccessible perfection! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 84<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n
\nMarch<\/i> 24, l9i4<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHE result of all my reflections of yesterday is the
\nconfirmation that the only trouble I experience
\ncomes from the fear I have that I have not been or I
\nam not perfectly identified with Thy law. And this
\ntrouble comes indeed from the fact that the identification is not complete, for if it were complete, I could
\nnot ask myself whether it was so or not, and on the
\nother hand, I know by experience, all trouble would
\nbecome impossible to me. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nBut in the presence of an error or false step taken,
\nthe true thought we should have is not to say to
\nourselves: "I should have done better, I should have
\ndone this instead of that." But rather, "I was not
\nsufficiently identified with the eternal Consciousness,
\nI must strive to realise better this definitive and
\nintegral union." <\/font><\/p>\n

\nYesterday afternoon, during the long hours of
\nsilent contemplation, I understood at last what true
\nidentification is with the thing we are thinking of. I have touched, so to say, this realisation, no longer
\nby attaining a moral state, but simply by fixity and mastery of the thought. I understood that I needed
\nlong, very long hours of contemplation in order to be able to perfect this realisation. This is one of
\nthe things I expect from my journey to India, if, indeed. Thou regardest it as useful for Thy
\nservice,. o Lord. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nMy progress is slow, very slow, but I hope that
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPage – 85<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nin compensation-it is lasting and secure against all
\nfluctuation. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nGrant that I may accomplish my mission, that I
\nmay help in Thy integral manifestation. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMarch<\/i> 25, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSILENT and unseen as always, but all-powerful, Thy action has made itself felt, and in these souls
\nthat seemed to be so closed, a perception of Thy divine
\nlight has been awakened. I knew well that none could
\ninvoke Thy Presence in vain and if in the sincerity
\nof our hearts we commune with Thee through no
\nmatter what organism, body or human collectivity,
\nthis organism, in spite of its ignorance, finds its
\nunconsciousness wholly transformed. But when in one
\nor several elements there is the conscious transformation, when the flame that smoulders under the
\nashes leaps out suddenly illumining all the being, then
\nwith joy we salute Thy sovereign action, testify
\nonce more to Thy invincible puissance and can
\nhope that a new possibility of true happiness has been
\nadded to the others in mankind. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nO Lord, an ardent thanksgiving mounts from me
\ntowards Thee expressing the gratitude of this sorrowing humanity which Thou illuminest, transformest
\nand glorifiest and givest to it the peace of Knowledge. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 86<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nMarch<\/i> 28, 1914<\/a>
\n<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSINCE our departure, more and more we can see in
\neverything Thy divine intervention, everywhere
\nThy law is expressing itself, and it needs all my
\ninner conviction that for it to be so is perfectly
\nnatural, to prevent my passing from marvelling to <\/i>marvelling. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAt no moment do I seem to live outside of Thee
\nand never have the horizons appeared to me more
\nvast and the depths at once more luminous and
\nmore unfathomable. Grant, O Divine Teacher, that
\nwe may more and more, better and better, know
\nand accomplish our mission upon the earth, that we
\nmay fully utilise all the energies that are in us, and
\nthat Thy sovereign Presence may become more and
\nmore perfectly manifested in the silent depths of
\nour soul, in all our thoughts, all our feelings, all
\nour actions. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt seems to me almost strange that I am addressing
\nThee, so much it is Thou who livest and thinkest and lovest in me. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nP<\/font><\/i><\/b>ondicherry,
\nMarch
\n29,<\/a><\/i> 1914<\/a><\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nO THOU whom we must know, understand, realise,
\nabsolute Consciousness, eternal Law, Thou who guidest and enlightenest us, who determinest <\/b>and <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 87<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\ninspirest, grant that these weak souls may
\nbe strengthened and those who are fearful may be reassured. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nTo Thee I confide them, in the same way as I confide
\nto Thee the destinies of all of us. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nMarch<\/i> 30, 1914<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

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

\n <\/p>\n

\nHOW in the presence of those who are integrally
\nThy servitors, of those who have arrived at the
\nperfect consciousness of Thy presence, I perceive
\nthat I am still far, very far, from that which I would
\nrealise; and I know that what I conceive to be highest, noblest and purest is
\nstill dark and ignorant in comparison with that which I have to conceive. But
\nthis perception, far from being depressing, stimulates
\nand strengthens- my aspiration, my energy, my will
\nto triumph over all obstacles so as to be at last identified with Thy law and Thy work.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nLittle by little the horizon becomes precise, the
\npath becomes clear. And we advance to an ever
\ngreater certitude. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt matters not if there are hundreds of beings
\nplunged in the densest ignorance. He whom we saw
\nyesterday is on earth: His presence is enough to
\nprove that a day will come when darkness shall be
\ntransformed into light, when Thy reign shall be
\nindeed established upon earth. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 88<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nO Lord, Divine Builder of this marvel, my heart
\noverflows with joy and gratitude when I think of it,
\nand my hope is boundless. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nMy adoration surpasses all words and my reverence
\nis silent. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 89<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n
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