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Namah Vol. 29, Issue 3, 15th October 2021

you live only because you have a body. That is directly, for one does not conceive this ‘myself’
usually the ordinary sensation of the being, to be as independent of the head, the trunk, the arms
so tied to this outer form that when one thinks of and legs and all that moves — it is very closely
‘myself’ one thinks of the body. That is the usual linked.
thing. The personal reality is the body’s reality.
It is only when one has made an effort for inner It is only after having thought much, seen much,
development and tried to find something that studied much, observed much that you begin to
is a little more stable in one’s being, that one realise that the one is more or less independent
can begin to feel that this ‘something’ which is of the other and that the will behind can make
permanently conscious throughout all ages and it either act or not act, and you begin not to
all change, this something must be ‘myself’. But be completely identified with the movement,
that already requires a study that is rather deep. the action, the realisation — that something
Otherwise if you think ‘I am going to do this’, is floating. But you have to observe much to
‘I need that’, it is always your body, a small see that.
kind of will which is a mixture of sensations,
of more or less confused sentimental reactions, And then you must observe much more still to
and still more confused thoughts which form see that this, the second thing that is there, this
a mixture and are animated by an impulse, an kind of active conscious will, is set in motion by
attraction, a desire, some sort of a will; and all ‘something else’ which watches, judges, decides
that momentarily becomes ‘myself’— but not and tries to found its decisions on knowledge

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