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Namah Vol. 32, Issue 3, 15th October 2024

as the thing to be done; do it as calmly,
dispassionately and as perfectly as it is
possible for you to do and leave the rest
to your higher destiny. If you belong all
to your soul, if you are obedient to the
Divine alone, then as this consciousness
and poise grow clearer and steadier
in you, you will find things that are not
consonant with it dropping off from you
at random declaring they are not the work quietly and without any effort or reaction
fit for you or jump at anything that your from you, like autumn leaves from branches
fancy favours. Indeed, you cannot give up that supply the sap no more. Your work is
anything, cast out anything, simply because changed, your circumstances are changed,
it is unpleasant or not sufficiently pleasant. your relation with things and persons are
The more violently you try to shake off a thing, changed automatically and inevitably in
the more it will try to stick to you. Instead accordance with the need and demand of
of that, you must know how to let a thing your soul-consciousness.
drop of itself, quietly, automatically and
definitively. That is the only way of getting
rid of an unwanted or an unnecessary thing.
Before all, be sincere to yourself: that is to say,
try to follow the highest light and aspiration
in you each moment, and be faithful to that
and that alone. Never allow yourself to be
shaken or moved by the likes and dislikes
of your mind or heart or body. Do even
what goes against the grain of your body
or heart or mind, if it is presented to you

Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta, Volume 3. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo International Cen-
tre of Education; Ashram Trust; 1972, pp. 235-37.

Nolini Kanta Gupta was a revolutionary, linguist, scholar, poet, philosopher and senior disciple of Sri
Aurobindo. He left his body in 1983.

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