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replacing the animal's un consciousness by a spiritual super-con-
sciousness that there comes into the being not only the capac-
ity to see the goal of existence and to foresee the culmination of
the effort but also a clear-sighted trust in a higher spiritual power
to which one can surrender one's whole being, entrust oneself,
give the responsibility for one's life and future and so abandon all
worries.
Of course, it is impossible for man to fall back to the level of
the animal and lose the consciousness he has acquired; there-
fore, for him there is only one means, one way to get out of this
condition he is in, which I call a miserable one, and to emerge into
a higher state where worry is replaced by a trusting surrender and
the certitude of a luminous culmination — this way is to change
the consciousness.
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Surrender to the Divine
How can a problem be solved when one doesn't have the nec-
essary knowledge? And the unfortunate thing is that man believes
that he has to resolve all the problems of his life, and he does not
have the knowledge needed to do it. That is the source, the origin
of all his troubles — that perpetual question, "What should I do?..."
which is followed by another one still more acute, "What is going
to happen?" and at the same time, more or less, the inability to
answer.
That is why all spiritual disciplines begin with the necessity of
surrendering all responsibility and relying on a higher principle.
Otherwise peace is impossible.
And yet, consciousness has been given to man so that he can
progress, can discover what he doesn't know, develop into what
he has not yet become; and so it may be said that there is a higher
state than that of an immobile and static peace: it is a trust total
enough for one to keep the will to progress, to preserve the effort
for progress while ridding it of all anxiety, all care for results and con-

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