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sciousness, depends on what one seeks from it; if it is peace, one
gets peace; if it is light or knowledge, one lives in a great light and
receives a knowledge deeper and truer than any the normal mind
of man can acquire; if it [is] strength or power, one gets a spiritual
strength for the inner life or Yogic power to govern the outer work
and action; if it is happiness, one enters into a beatitude far great-
er than any joy or happiness that the ordinary human life can give.

There are many ways of opening to this Divine consciousness
or entering into it. My way which I show to others is by a constant
practice to go inward into oneself, to open by aspiration to the Di-
vine and once one is conscious of it and its action to give oneself
to It entirely. This self-giving means not to ask for anything but
the constant contact or union with the Divine Consciousness, to
aspire for its peace, power, light and felicity, but to ask nothing
else and in life and action to be its instrument only for whatever
work it gives one to do in the world. If one can once open and
feel the Divine Force, the Power of the Spirit working in the mind
and heart and body, the rest is a matter of remaining faithful to It,
calling for it always, allowing it to do its work when it comes and
rejecting every other and inferior Force that belongs to the lower
consciousness and the lower nature.

I have written so much in order to explain my position and the
nature of my Yogic power. I do not usually ask anyone to practise
this Yoga, because it is possible only for those who have from the
beginning or who develop a strong call to it; others cannot go
through it to the end. Nor do I often go out of my way to help
those who are merely in need of some kind of quietude of [the] ex-
ternal nature as many Yogins do — though I do not refuse to do it
in certain cases. My aim is to create a centre of spiritual life which
shall serve as a means of bringing down the higher consciousness

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