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you will certainly receive something in the form of an inspira-
tion of what is to be done and that you must forthwith proceed
to do. Only, you must remember that to surrender is to accept
whatever is the result of your action, though the result may

be quite different from what you expect. On the other hand, if
your surrender is passive, you will do nothing and try nothing;
you will simply go to sleep and wait for a miracle.
CWM 3: 19

Spiritual discipline
The number of hours spent in meditation is no proof of spir-
itual progress. It is a proof of your progress when you no longer

have to make an effort to meditate. Then you have rather to
make an effort to stop meditating: it becomes difficult to stop

meditation, difficult to stop thinking of the Divine, difficult to

come down to the ordinary consciousness. Then you are sure
of progress, then you have made real progress when concentra-
tion in the Divine is the necessity of your life, when you can-
not do without it, when it continues naturally from morning to
night whatever you may be engaged in doing. Whether you sit
down to meditation or go about and do things and work, what
is required of you is consciousness; that is the one need, — to
be constantly conscious of the Divine.
But is not sitting down to meditation an indispensable discipline,
and does it not give a more intense and concentrated union with the
Divine?
That may be. But a discipline in itself is not what we are
seeking. What we are seeking is to be concentrated on the
Divine in all that we do, at all times, in all our acts and in every
movement. There are some here who have been told to medi-
tate; but also there are others who have not been asked to do
any meditation at all. But it must not be thought that they are
not progressing. They too follow a discipline, but it is of an-

All India Magazine, November 2020