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Namah Vol. 25, Issue 3, 15th October 2017

stretches. Without our awareness, all the conscious of all your activities through your will
lights go out. One “has the impression of for identification; but... first your consciousness
falling into a black hole….(3).” These two must not be completely entangled, mingled,
states of consciousness, outer and inner, are joined, so to say, with all these things; it must
indeed dimensions apart. They are different not take them for itself, must not be deceived
worlds. The outer poise gives such a feeling (6).”
of suffocation. Sometimes, when I come out
and emerge into my true station within, I It is by distinguishing its different parts that
briefly look back and wonder how I was able some authentic control emerges. By moving
to crawl through life in such a condition! it around, we get to understand what our
consciousness is. From experience, I felt
By making this shift, every inner movement compelled at these early stages to strive to
needs to move within the light of this reach out to my true centre. It seemed to me
consciousness. We need to become conscious to be the only way; it became my only means
of all the patterns and shifts of our nature of separating the truth from the dross. It has
and the only sure means of doing this is by helped me detach from the different sides of
becoming more and more conscious of our my nature and identify with a deeper truth
inner truth. Once we know it, it becomes inside, “And so, by progressive eliminations
our infallible guide. It is the only way of one succeeds in entering into contact with
attaining true knowledge of the nature. something, something which gives you the
“And to know oneself is not enough: this impression of being — ‘Yes, that’s ‘myself’
knowledge must bring a conscious control. (7).”
To know oneself perfectly is to control oneself
perfectly (4).” The shift from knowledge Unification
to control can be simultaneous. The will
must be applied and when one aspires Once this impression dawns, the consciousness
for change knowledge spontaneously will gradually start unifying with this inner
becomes an action. With this aspiration, truth.This Divine Person inside is our individual
the two come together automatically so truth and the merger is the summit of the
that Consciousness becomes Force. process. It can be a very long journey because
so much debris needs to be cleared out first.
The first step of taking charge involves But the portals for change and transformation
familiarising oneself with one’s consciousness. gradually open. Initially there are glimpses,
With this familiarity comes the knowledge moments of an inimitable sweetness and
that this consciousness can be moved around clarity. These moments have to be prolonged,
and ‘localised’ in the different parts of our not retarded by the resistances of our ego
being (5). This way of movement becomes nature. They must become our central poise
an essential tool in mastering our nature. and our unique and individual station in life.
The unification must become so complete that
“You put the consciousness in these things, the consciousness, when it moves around
so you become conscious of your body, between mind, life and body and even when
conscious of your vital, conscious of your mind, it is somehow summoned down the lowest

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