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Namah Align Your Will

our divided will is to unify the being itself: of our will so the first step of our practice is to
orient our attention inside.We have to change
“To learn how to will is a very important direction. We have to withdraw from the
thing and to will truly you must unify your surface and firmly establish our camp inside.
being. In fact to be a being one must first unify Initially, it may seem like we are turning
oneself. If one is pulled by absolutely opposite our life upside-down! Every link in our
tendencies, if one spends three-fourths of his conditioning has so far reinforced us to live
life withoutbeing conscious of himself and the on the surface. It seems so natural. But truly
reason why he does things, is one a real being? it is the opposite. Living on the surface we are
One does not exist. One is a mass of influences, not much more than automatons. We need
forces, actions, reactions, but that is not a being. to find our true Self and become conscious
One begins to become a being when he begins of everything that is going on within.
to have a will. And one can’t have a will unless
he is unified. However, what we initially notice is not a
comfortable experience. If we enquire in a
And when you have a will, you will be able to sincere light, we recognise considerable discord
say, say to the Divine: ‘I want what You want.’ and conflict. We see much division. How can a
But notbefore that. Because in order to want will base itself on so much confusion? However
what the Divine wants, you must have a will, we don’t shrink; we just see what is there. We
otherwise you will have nothing at all (3).” need to detach from what we see, otherwise we
will get sucked into this very disturbing play.
In ‘The Book of Fate’ in Savitri, King Aswapati We just stay present with what we observe.
affirms that there is always a “Secret Will
(4)”at work. Its labour goes largely unnoticed In truth, we had always been aware of this noise
for we live clouded in ignorance. It is up that keeps reverberating inside our head. It
to each of us to take off our blind folds and can really get incessant. This commotion gets
identify with it. Our gross senses will not very disturbing and we reach a critical juncture
be able to manage this; something radical to when we realise that we have to address it.
take over. Really, it is only the cloud of our This is a decisive moment in the initiation. It
ignorance that makes it secret. This Will is is perhaps one major reason why many have
one, supreme and indivisible and presides embarked on this path in the first place. It is
over the entire evolutionary process. By however only part of a complex jigsaw. Deep
identifying with it, we find our true anchor down, there is an aspiration for a truer and
in life. So in turn we have to unify our will more fulfilling life. We withdraw from the
and make it one.It is our indispensable vehicle surface and learn to detach and by shifting
for progress. So before all else on this path, our attention more exclusively inside, these
we have to align our will. jarring vibrations start coming to the forefront
of our awareness. We learn to endure and
Beginnings as these formations emerge, we step back
and place our station above them and simply
This will bases itself upon a sustained inner observe.
presence. We aim to connect with the source

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