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them as of a very serious danger. But that also... Not that
it doesn’t exist, but it is not very frequent, and certainly
not so total that one need run away when one meets such
a person.
So, essentially, if one wants to develop spiritually, the
first thing to do is to overcome one’s dislikes... and one’s
likes. Look at all that with a smile.
CWM 9: 181–82

The Smile beyond the ego
….if you want to advance on the path, you must very
modestly start on your way towards the new birth, first, and
realise it before cherishing the illusion that you can have su-
pramental experiences.
To console you I may tell you that by the very fact that
you live on earth at this time — whether you are conscious of
it or not, even whether you want it or not — you are absorb-
ing with the air you breathe this new supramental substance
which is now spreading in the earth atmosphere. And it is
preparing things in you which will manifest very suddenly,
as soon as you have taken the decisive step.
Whether this will help you to take the decisive step or
not is another question which remains to be studied, for
the experiences which are occurring and will occur more
and more frequently now, being of a radically new kind, we
can’t know beforehand what is going to happen; we must
study, and after a thorough study we shall be able to say
with certainty whether this supramental substance makes
the work of new birth easier or not.... I shall tell you this a
little later. For the moment it is better not to rely on these
things and, very simply, to start on your way to be born into
the spiritual life.

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