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Namah Vol. 31, Issue 1, 24th April 2023

done by the very few who can stand outside
the action in silence; for it is they who are
the instruments of the Divine Power. They
are dynamic agents, conscious instruments;
they bring down the forces that change the
world. Things can be done in that way, not
by a restless activity. In peace, in silence and
in quietness the world was built; and each
time that something is to be truly built, it is in
peace and silence and quietness that it must be
done. It is ignorance to believe that you must
run from morning to night and labour at all
sorts of futile things in order to do something
for the world.

Once you step back from these whirling
forces into quiet regions, you see how great is The truly anonymous
the illusion! Humanity appears to you like a
mass of blind creatures rushing about without Moreover, it is an accepted fact that during
knowing what they do or why they do it and a crisis situation, it is not only the crisis
only knocking and stumbling against each managers who have a hectic time running
other. And it is this that they call action and here and there who matter, but the few who
life! It is empty agitation, not action, not true in silence hold the consciousness, albeit
life. anonymously, who also equally matter and
can actually save the situation. And this has
I said once that, to speak usefully for ten actually happened when a country was at
minutes you should remain silent for ten days. war or the nation was plunged in a veritable
I could add that, to act usefully for one day, crisis, and when the few who volunteered
you should keep quiet for a year! Of course, and concentrated on their consciousness,
I am not speaking of the ordinary day-to-day mattered the most. They are the truly
acts that are needed for the common external anonymous whose anonymity was not
life, but of those who have or believe that they merely a passive response to an external
have something to do for the world. And the situation. They learnt the habit of remaining
silence I speakof is the inner quietude that neutral and poised under trying situations.
those alone have who can act without being
identified with their action, merged into it One must note that just remaining passive
and blinded and deafened by the noise and doesn’t count for true anonymity. For a
form of their own movement. Stand back passive subject may have intense yearning
from your action and rise into an outlook for activity which one cannot indulge in
above these temporal motions; enter into the but at the same time one is not free from
consciousness of Eternity. Then only you will the desire to be an active participant. Or
know what true action is (2).” one may be tuned in to the action through

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