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Namah Vol. 28, Issue 3, 15th October 2020

will just become a burden of knowledge in that I have sold myself to the idea of death
the head. So, I must locate the falsehood in completely, owing to what we see all around?
my own life. Where are the places, situations, Death became necessary only because
interactions with people, where I become evolution has to go on. If I turn solely to the
a friend of falsehood and fuel it further, Divine in all my movements (which is a time-
and collaborate with it? Where do I follow consuming process; it takes a lot of effort,
my desires and expectations, demands and sincerity and an unending perseverance),
hidden agendas from life? Because there, then I will be able to remove this belief,
in all those instances, I perpetuate my own deeply ingrained within my thoughts, and
manipulations, my own agendas, thus even in the cells of my body, that death is a
perpetuating falsehood. I am the Asura of fact. I have to inject faith and Divine Love
Falsehood in those cases. into my cells, the memory of which they have
lost. The cells have forgotten their Divine
And now, this Falsehood has to look at itself origin and hence have bought into the normal
(an ability human beings are beautifully belief of Death.
equipped with, the ability to look at their
own movements, and hence the power to So friends, let us dedicate ourselves to turn
transform them) and by looking at itself, it all the darkness within us to Light, to turn
has to turn towards its Divine Origin, that is death within us to Life, to turn falsehood to
Truth. I have to vow to myself, to live by my Truth, and to turn all the unconsciousness
inner truth, and not to compromise at all with within to Consciousness.
that. And there, I merge back into the Divine
Origin or Truth. I have shown the Falsehood We all have a long way to go.
Light and thereby transformed it. But let’s be grateful for the path that lies
ahead and The Mother is right here, within
This attention towards my movements must us, to guide and to offer Her full support in
be a loving attention. This is because only our aspiration towards Her.
Love has the power to transform. Only Love
towards my own self, that yes, I deserve a Reference
much better destiny than this, makes us drive
towards light, beauty and truth. 1. The Mother. The Collected Works of The Mother,
Volume 5.cent ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo
Fourth, Death. Can I locate a total belief in Ashram Trust; 1976, pp. 371-73.
me towards Death? Can I see within myself,

Monica Gulati, a learner and a seeker and an immunologist by education, is based in Gurgaon,
India. She shares her experiences on going through cancer with faith at https://thegiftofcancer.
wordpress.com

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