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SECTION TWENTY
SADHANA IN WORLDLY LIFE—KNOWLEDGE OF PAST LIVES— PAIN AND SUFFERING, ETC.
IN her condition the one thing by which she can enter into the sadhana is to remember the Divine always, taking her difficulties as ordeals to be passed through, to pray constantly and seek the Divine help and protection and ask for the opening of her heart and consciousness to the supporting Divine Presence.
11-2-1933 Right Way of Going through Worldly Life
THE life of saṁsāra is in its nature a field of unrest —to go through it in the right way one has to offer one’s life and actions to the Divine and pray for the peace of the Divine within. When the mind becomes quiet, one can feel the Divine Mother supporting the life and put everything into her hands.
16-4-1933 Page-647 Indirect Connection with the Divine
INDIRECT connection (with the Divine) is when one lives in the ordinary consciousness without being able to go up above it and receives influences from above without knowing where they come from or feeling their source.
20-3-1934 Human Influence and Change of Nature
YOUR influence on him for turning towards the Yoga was good, but it was not able to change his vital nature. No human influence—which can only be mental and moral—can do that; you can see that he is just what he was before. It can be done only from his own soul turning towards the Divine.
To want unwaveringly the welfare of another both in the head and the heart, is the best help one can give.
6-9-1934 Page-648
THE photograph is a vehicle only—but if you have the right consciousness, then you can bring something of the living being into it or become aware of the being for which it stands and can make it a means of contact. It is like the prāṇa pratiṣṭha in the image in the temple.
18-3-1933 (1)
IT is better not to think of past lives, just now— the mind and vital would probably become active and weave things that are not true.
29-6-1933 (2)
You have not to trouble yourself about past lives.
2-7-1933 Page-649 Past and New Elements in New Birth
WHEN there is a new birth one brings all that is necessary from past lives, but also one gathers what is necessary from the earth consciousness and so too brings in new elements as one develops.
Hereditary Influence and Affinity
CONSCIOUSNESS is not a mechanical dead thing to cut in that way. Hereditary influence creates an affinity and affinity is a long thing. It is only when the hereditary part is changed that the affinity ceases. 24-3-1937
YES, all pain can become Ananda—pain is only the perversion of what in the original consciousness would be Ananda.
7-9-1933 Page-650 Bearing Extremes of Heat and Cold— Pain and Discomfort
To bear extreme heat and cold it is necessary to have peace in the cells first, then consolidated force. Pain and discomfort come from a physical consciousness not forceful enough to determine its own reactions to things.
14-7-1934
EACH defect of the nature of the Ignorance is a deformation of something in the higher nature— a deformation which amounts to a perversion even. It is a symbolic perception of this that you got in your experience.
5-10-1933 Page-651
WHY man’s? What about the animals? They too suffer. You can say that suffering is a distortion of the lower consciousness, but you cannot make man or human nature alone responsible for it.
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