BEGINNING OF TRANSFORMATION

You must dismiss the fear of concentration. The emptiness you feel coming on you is the silence of the great peace in which you become aware of your self, not as the small ego shut up in the body, but as the spiritual self wide as the Universe. Consciousness is not dissolved; it is but the limits of the consciousness that are dissolved. In that silence thoughts may cease for a time, there may be nothing but a great limitless freedom and wideness, but into that silence, that empty wideness descends the vast peace from above, light, bliss, knowledge, the higher Consciousness in which you feel the Oneness of the Divine. It is the beginning of the transformation and there is nothing in it to fear.

If you get peace then to clean the vital becomes easy. If you simply clean and clean and do nothing else, you go very slowly - for the vital gets dirty again and has to be cleaned a hundred times. The peace is something that is clean in itself, so to get it is the positive way of securing your object. To look for dirt only and clean is the negative way.⁷¹

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