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

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\nSUDDENLY, before Thee, all my pride gave way. I understood how futile it was to wish to surmount oneself in Thy Presence…and I wept, wept .
\nabundantly and without constraint, the sweetest tears <\/i>of my life…Yes, how sweet they were, what a repose
\nand calm they gave, the tears that I shed before Thee
\nwithout any shame or constraint! Was it like a child
\nin the arms of its father? But what a Father! What
\nsublimity, what magnificence, what immensity of
\nunderstanding! And what power, what plenitude in
\nthe response! Yes, those tears were like a holy dew.
\nWas it so because it was not over my own trouble that
\nI wept? Ah, what sweet, what beneficent tears, which
\nhave opened my heart without constraint before
\nThee and melted in one miraculous moment all the
\nremaining obstacles that could separate me from Thee! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nA few days back I had known, I had heard: "If
\nthou respondest frankly and without any constraint
\nbefore me, many things will change, a great victory <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nwill be won." And that is why, when the tears rose
\nfrom my heart to my eyes, I came and sat before Thee
\nto let them flow as an offering, piously. And how the
\noffering was sweet and comforting! <\/font><\/p>\n

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

\nJoy.
\nLet me stammer my hommage: <\/font><\/p>\n

\nI have cried to Thee with the joy of a child: <\/font><\/p>\n

\n"O Supreme and only Confidant, Thou who knowest
\nbeforehand all we can say to Thee, because Thou
\n<\/b>art <\/b>its source! <\/font><\/p>\n

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

\nO Supreme and only Guide, Thou who never gainsayest our higher will, because it is Thyself who wiliest
\nin it! It would be a folly to seek elsewhere than in
\nThee for one who will listen, understand, love and
\nguide, since Thou art always there to do it and never
\nwilt Thou fail us. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThou hast made me know the supreme, the sublime
\njoy of a perfect confidence, an absolute security, a
\ntotal, unreserved and unvarnished surrender, without
\neffort or constraint. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd joyous like a child, I have smiled and wept
\nat once before Thee, O my Beloved ! <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nOctober 10,<\/i> 1918<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nO MY beloved Lord, what a sweetness to think that it is for Thee and Thee alone that I
\nact! At Thy service I am; it is Thou who decidest,
\nordainest and puttest in motion, directest and accomplishest the action. What peace, what tranquillity,
\nwhat supreme felicity are given me when I sense
\nand perceive it! For it is enough to be docile, plastic,
\nsurrendered and attentive, so as to let Thee act
\nfreely; then there can be no longer errors or faults
\nor any lack or insufficiency, since it is what Thou
\nhast willed that Thou doest and it is so done as Thou
\nhast willed it. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAccept the ardent flame of my gratitude and of my joyous and fully confident adherence. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nMy father has smiled at me and taken me in his
\npowerful arms. What is there that I could fear?
\nI have melted into Him and it is He who acts and
\nlives in this body which He has Himself formed for
\nHis manifestation. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nOiwake, September<\/a><\/i> 3, 1919<\/a> <\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSINCE the man refused the meal I had prepared with so much love and care, I invoked the
\nGod to take it. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nMy God, Thou hast accepted my invitation. Thou
\nhast come to sit at my table, and in exchange for my <\/font><\/p>\n

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\npoor and humble offering Thou hast granted to me
\nthe last liberation. My heart, even this morning so
\nheavy with anguish and care, my head surcharged
\nwith responsibility, are delivered of their burden.
\nNow are they light and joyful as my inner being
\nhas been for a long time past. My body smiles to
\nThee with happiness as before my soul smiled to Thee! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd surely hereafter Thou wilt withdraw no
\nmore from me this joy, O my God! for this time,
\nI think, the lesson has been sufficient, I have mounted
\nthe calvary of successive disillusionments high enough to attain to the Resurrection. Nothing remains of
\nthe past but a potent love which gives me the pure
\nheart of a child and the lightness and freedom of thought of a god. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
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\nPondicherry, June<\/a><\/font><\/i><\/b>
\n22, 192O<\/a> <\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nAFTER granting me the joy which surpasses all expression. Thou hast sent me,
\nO my beloved
\nLord, the struggle, the ordeal, and on this too I have
\nsmiled as on one of Thy precious messengers. Before, I
\ndreaded the conflict, for it hurt in me the love of
\nharmony and peace. But now, O my God, I welcome
\nit with gladness: it is one among the forms of Thy
\naction, one of the best means for bringing back to light some elements of the
\nwork which might otherwise have been forgotten, and it carries with it a <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nsense of amplitude, of complexity, of power. And
\neven as I have seen Thee, resplendent, exciting the
\nconflict, so also it is Thou whom I see unravelling
\nthe entanglement of events and jarring tendencies and
\nwinning in the end the victory over all that strives
\nto veil Thy Light and Thy Power; for out of the
\nstruggle it is a more perfect realisation of Thyself
\nthat must arise. <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nMay<\/i> 6, 1927<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nWE must know how to give out life and our death,
\nour happiness and our suffering, we must know
\nhow to depend for everything and in everything on the
\nDivine Dispenser of all our possibilities of realisation,
\nfor He alone can and will decide whether we are to
\nhe happy or not to be happy, whether we are to live
\nor not to live, whether we are to participate in the
\nrealisation or not to participate.
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\nIn the integrality and absoluteness of this love and
\nthis surrender, we find the essential condition of
\nthe perfect peace, which is the indispensable foundation of an uninterrupted beatitude. <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n
\nOctober<\/i> 28, 1928<\/a> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHERE is a Power which no government can command, a Happiness which no earthly <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nsuccess can give, a Light which no wisdom can possess, a Knowledge which no philosophy, no science can
\nacquire, a Beatitude of which no satisfaction of desire
\ncan give the enjoyment, a thirst for Love which no-
\nhuman relation can quench, a Peace which can be
\nfound no where, not even in death. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt is the Power, the Happiness, the Light, the
\nKnowledge, the Beatitude, the Love and the Peace
\nwhich come to us from the Divine Grace. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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

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\nO MY Lord, my sweet Master, for  the accomplishment of Thy work I have sunk down
\ninto the unfathomable depths of Matter, I have
\ntouched with my finger the horror of the falsehood
\nand the inconscience, I have reached the seat of
\noblivion and a supreme obscurity! But in my heart
\nwas the Remembrance, from my heart there leaped
\nthe call which could arrive to Thee: "Lord, Lord,
\neverywhere Thy enemies are triumphant, falsehood
\nis the monarch of the world; life without Thee is
\ndeath, a perpetual hell; doubt has usurped the place
\nof Hope and revolt has pushed out submission; <\/font><\/p>\n

\nFaith 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 <\/font><\/p>\n

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\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
\nus." <\/font><\/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

\n <\/p>\n

\n{A prayer for those who wish to serve the Divine.)
\nOctober<\/a><\/b><\/i> 23, 1937<\/a> <\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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\nWe would be completely under- Thy influence to
\nthe exclusion of every other.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

\nPage – 296<\/font><\/p>\n

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