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cause it’s the divine Will and it’s the divine Work.
So long as a personal aspiration or desire, a selfish will,
get mingled in it, it always creates a mixture and is not ex-
actly an expression of the divine Will. The only thing which
must count is the Divine, His Will, His manifestation, His
expression. One is here for that, one is that, and nothing
else. And so long as there is a feeling of self, of the ego,
the person, which enters, well, this proves that one is not
yet what one ought to be, that’s all. I don’t say that this can
be done overnight but still this indeed is the truth.
It is just because even in this field, the spiritual field,
there are far too many people (I could say even the major-
ity of those who take to the spiritual life and do yoga),
far too many of these who do it for personal reasons, all
kinds of personal reasons: some because they are disgusted
with life, others because they are unhappy, others still be-
cause they want to know more, others because they want
to become spiritually great, others because they want to
learn things which they may be able to teach others; indeed
there are a thousand personal reasons for taking up yoga.
But the simple fact of giving oneself to the Divine so that
the Divine takes you and makes of you what He wills, and
this in all its purity and constancy, well, there are not many
who do that and yet this indeed is the truth; and with this
one goes straight to the goal and never risks making mis-
takes. But all the other motives are always mixed, tainted
with ego; and naturally they can lead you here and there,
very far from the goal also.
But that kind of feeling that you have only one single
reason for existence, one single goal, one single motive, the
entire, perfect, complete consecration to the Divine to the
point of not being able to distinguish yourself from Him any

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