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Stepping Back
Most of you live on the surface of your being, exposed to the touch
of external influences. You live almost projected, as it were, outside your own
body, and when you meet some unpleasant being similarly projected you get
upset. The whole trouble arises out of your not being accustomed to stepping
back. You must always step back into yourself – learn to go deep within – step
back and you will be safe. Do not lend yourself to the superficial forces which
move in the outside world. Even if you are in a hurry to do something, step
back for a while and you will discover to your surprise how much sooner and
with what greater success your work can be done. If someone i
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The
Awakened One (The Buddha)
He
whose victory has never been surpassed nor even
equalled – which path can lead
to Him, the Pathless,
the Awakened One who dwells within the Infinite?
One
in whom there is neither greed nor desire, how
can he be led astray? Which path
can lead to Him,
the Pathless, the Awakened One who dwells within
the Infinite?
Even
the gods envy the sages given to meditation, the
Awakened Ones, the Vigilant
who live with delight in
renunciation and solitude.
It is
difficult to attain to human birth. It is difficult to
live this mortal life.
It is difficult to obtain the goo
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The Flowers
Who
will conquer this world of illusion and the king-
dom of Yama¹and
the world of the gods? Who will
discover the path of the Law as the skilled
gardener
discovers the rarest of flowers?
The
disciple on the right path will conquer this world
of illusion and the kingdom
of Yama and the world
of the gods. He will discover the path of the Law as
the
skilled gardener discovers the rarest of flowers.
Knowing
his body to be as impermanent as foam and
as illusory as a mirage, the disciple
on the right path
will shatter the flowery arrow of Mara and will rise
beyond
the reach of the King of Death.
Deat
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Faith
The
perception of the exterior consciousness may deny the perception of the
psychic. But the psychic has the true knowledge, an intuitive instinctive
knowledge. It says, “I know; I cannot give reasons, but I know.” For its
knowledge is not mental, based on experience or proved true. It does not
believe after proofs are given: faith is the movement of the soul whose
knowledge is spontaneous and direct. Even if the whole world denies and brings
forward a thousand proofs to the contrary, still it knows by an inner
knowledge, a direct perception that can stand against everything, a perception
by identity. The knowledge of the psychic is something which is concrete and
tangible, a
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Questions and Answers
1930-1931
The
Ordinary Life and the True Soul
The ordinary
life is a round of various desires and greeds. As long as one is preoccupied with
them, there can be no lasting progress. A way out of the round must be
discovered. Take, as an instance, that commonest preoccupation of ordinary life
the constant thinking by people of what they will eat and when they will eat
and whether they are eating enough. To conquer the greed for food an equanimity
in the being must be developed such that you are perfectly indifferent towards
food. If food is given you, you eat it; if not, it does not worry you in the
least; above all, you do not keep thinking a
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The
Brahmin
Strive,
O Brahmin! Seal up the current (of craving),
cast away all pleasures of the
senses. Knowing how to
uproot the elements of existence you shall know the
Uncreated.
When
the Brahmin has attained the summit of the two
paths (concentration and
insight), all bonds fall away
and he possesses the Knowledge.
One
for whom neither the inner nor the outer exist,
neither one nor the other, who
is free from fear and
bondage, him I consider to be a Brahmin.
One
who is given to meditation and is freed of impu-
rities, who is without stain,
who has fulfilled his duty,
who has attained the highest goal, h
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Old Age
Why
this joy, this gladness, when the world is forever
burning? O you who are
enveloped in shadows, why
do you not seek the light?
See
then this poor decorated form, this mass of cor-
ruptible elements, of
infirmities and vain desires in
which nothing is lasting or stable.
This
fragile body is but a nest of misery, of decrepi-
tude and corruption; for life
ends in death.
What
pleasure is there in contemplating these white
bones strewn like gourds in
autumn?
In
this fortress made of bone and covered with flesh
and blood, only pride and
jealousy, dissolution and
death are established.
Even
the
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Evil
Hasten
towards the good, leave behind all evil thoughts,
for to do good without
enthusiasm is to have a mind
which delights in evil.
If one
does an evil action, he should not persist in it,
he should not delight in it.
For full of suffering is the
accumulation of evil.
If
one does a good action, he should persist in it and
take delight in it. Full of
happiness is the accumula-
tion of good.
As
long as his evil action has not yet ripened, an evil-
doer may experience
contentment. But when it ripens,
the wrong-doer knows unhappiness.
As
long as his good action has not yet ripened, one
who does good ma
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Endurance
– the Vital's Hunger for Praise –
Signs of
the Converted Vital
Let endurance
be your watchword: teach the life-force in you your vital being – not to
complain but to put up with all the conditions necessary for great achievement.
The body is a very enduring servant, it bears the stress of circumstance tamely
like a beast of burden. It is the vital being that is always grumbling and
uneasy. The slavery and torture to which it subjects the physical is almost
incalculable. How it twists and deforms the poor body to its own fads and
fancies, irrationally demanding that everything should be shaped according to
its whimsicality! But th
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28 April 1929
It has been said that in
order to progress in Yoga one
must offer up everything to the Divine, even
every
little thing that one has or does in life. What is pre
cisely the meaning
of that?
Yoga means
union with the Divine, and the union is effected through offering is – founded
on the offering of yourself to the Divine. In the beginning you start by making
this offering in a general way, as though once for all; you say, “I am the
servant of the Divine; my life is given absolutely to the Divine; all my
efforts are for the realisation of the Divine Life.” But that is only the first
step; for this is not sufficient. When the resolution has bee