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Namah A Turbulent Passage

But true maturity comes through an ability ‘safe and secure, protective, familiar and
to integrate the two and even enrich each predictable’ childhood environment to
other by their contact. The sign of maturity the world at large, is world-knowledge
is neither an exclusive practical outlook nor and world-mastery. The two are of course
is it an exclusive living in the dream-world interdependent and since it is an occult truth
of our own. The real stamp of adulthood is that the world and all the forces and energies
the ability to adapt the two to each other. that move are in a way present in a concealed
An adult should be able, on the one hand, to or overt way in each individual, the first
adapt his inner life to the framework in which thing we must start with is self-knowledge
he is operating. On the other hand, he should and self-mastery, to the extent that we can
be able to infuse a certain degree of change, successfully complete it.
to infuse his developing inner life into the
framework he inhabits so that he can mould Through self-knowledge, we become aware
it to the demands of his dreams. Naturally, of our own possibilities and potential, our
this is neither an easy nor a simple process. difficulties and limitations. In a way, it
In fact, it goes on throughout life, a constant helps us to take account of our own house,
reorientation, the breaking of old harmony the dwelling-place we constantly carry with
and the emergence of the new. Even, in the us. For just as there is a physical space and
beginning, it is the first adaptation that is a physical house that we physically dwell
necessary, unless in a rare and exceptionally in, there is also a psychological or a mind-
strong individual, a Vivekananda or, at space and a psychological house we live
another extreme, an Alexander, who can in. This psychological house is built by our
force their dreams upon the world and even thoughts and feelings. It is given strength by
when they withdraw and much of their effect our will and motives. Its atmosphere and the
is erased, something continues to quiver in fragrance within and around is created by
the world’s heart as a stamp of their memory our attitudes. This house, like our physical
and influence. But most of us need to first space, can be large or small, with few or many
pass through the frame or the existing system doors and windows, high roofed or low,
before we become strong and knowledgeable beautiful or ugly, harmoniously furnished
enough to change it. It is the mythical swan or disorganised. Its immediate surroundings
picturised in the Vedas, whose one foot is on too, which is our personal atmosphere, may
the earth and the other in the sky. be harmonious and pleasant or ugly and
unpleasant.
Two domains of mastery

In other words, every individual needs to
be equipped with two kinds of knowledge
and power. The first, more important, even
fundamental and indispensable, is self-
knowledge and self-mastery. The other that
gains greater and greater importance as we
transit and move out from the generally

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