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Q: If one tries to feel that one does not exist, that it is the
Divine who exists, is that a way of getting out of the ego?

One does not exist? This — I don’t know if one can succeed in
anything by trying mentally, because this is a kind of mental ef-
fort. So one makes mental constructions and does not achieve
anything very much. No, what is necessary is something spon-
taneous, intense, a flame burning in the being, a flame of aspira-
tion, something... I don’t know how to put it.
If the thing goes on in the head, nothing, nothing happens.
CWM 6: 138

Cutting the knot of the ego
Q: Sweet Mother, how can we cut the knot of the ego?

How to cut it? Take a sword and strike it (laughter), when one
becomes conscious of it. For usually one is not; we think it quite
normal, what happens to us; and in fact it is very normal but we
think it quite good also. So to begin with one must have a great
clear-sightedness to become aware that one is enclosed in all
these knots which hold one in bondage. And then, when one is
aware that there’s something altogether tightly closed in there
— so tightly that one has tried in vain to move it — then one
imagines one’s will to be a very sharp sword-blade, and with all
one’s force one strikes a blow on this knot (imaginary, of course,
one doesn’t take up a sword in fact), and this produces a result.
Of course you can do this work from the psychological point
of view, discovering all the elements constituting this knot, the
whole set of resistances, habits, preferences, of all that holds
you narrowly closed in. So when you grow aware of this, you
can concentrate and call the divine Force and the Grace and
strike a good blow on this formation, these things so closely
held, like that, that nothing can separate them. And at that mo-

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