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Namah Vol. 27, Issue 3, 15th October 2019

“In the world, as it is, the goal of life is not to secure different kinds of passivity have to be acquired
personal happiness, but to awaken the individual (8).”
progressively towards the truth-consciousness
(5).” So, to get to, get back to and commit to the
“central will”, the will has to be there, and
“It is not in order to be happy that we are even this will seemingly comes with the
upon earth, for in the present conditions of lessening of the distance and departure from
terrestrial life happiness is an impossibility. We the Centre, from the “central will”, coming
are upon earth to find and realise the Divine, out the very first utterances of “Let Thy Will
for the Divine Consciousness alone can give true be done and not mine (9).”
happiness (6).”
“Put yourself with all your heart and all your
And still the wavering happens, from this strength into God’s hands. Make no conditions,
state, increasing with the ‘distance’. Our mind ask for nothing, not even for siddhi in the yoga,
is entangled in — which it is, most of the for nothing at all except that in you and through
time — its formed and ever-forming web of you his will may be directly performed. To
thoughts, receiving, allowing and transmitting those who demand from him, God gives
the constant influx of the interactions and what they demand, but to those who give
‘intra-actions’, the resultant flux running the themselves and demand nothing, he gives
show. The Witness, the Sanctioner, watches everything that they might otherwise have
the play, knowing when to hold and release asked or needed and in addition he gives
the Light for the screenplay of life, making himself and the spontaneous boons of his love
faith of quintessence. (10).”

“…however we err or stumble, our force of faith Consecration absolute
will sustain us. When we cannot see, we shall
know that God withholds the light, imposing This utterance of surrender has to become one’s
on us error as a step towards knowledge, just very breath, this utterance first — however
as he imposes on us defeat as a step towards intellectual or a result of a profound experience,
victory (7).” realisation of one’s nothingness and of the
sovereignty of the Unconditional Love of the
Through all this, towards Itself the Divine Almighty happening synonymously — has
leads, making also essential the “two types to be stabilised, the consecration requiring the
of passivity”. completeness of absoluteness and the frequency
of constancy.
“In order that the understanding may not
interfere with our attainment to real knowledge, Can this happen in one day, even as the
we have to reach to that something more and mind yearns and strives, having once had
cultivate a power exceedingly difficult for the the taste of the Light of surrender, when
active intellectual thinker and distasteful to his every moment it struggles — “Our thoughts
proclivities, the power of intellectual passivity. cover the everlasting Light, (11)” — faltering,
The object served is double and therefore two flirting with its ‘doership’, impulsions of the

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