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it is “wonderful”, and then they are deceived. It is only when
you have seen and when you have had the contact with the
Truth, ah! then you smile.
It is quackery, but you must know the truth in order to
recognise quackery.
At bottom, it is the same for everything. The vital is like
a superstage that gives shows — very attractive, dazzling,
deceptive; it is only when you know the True Thing that you
recognise immediately, instinctively, without reasoning, and
you say, “No, I do not want that.”
And for everything it is so. Where it has taken a capital
importance in human life is with regard to love. Vital passions,
vital attractions have almost everywhere taken the place of
true feeling, which is quiet, whereas the other puts you in fer-
ment, gives you the feeling of something “living”. It is very
deceptive. And you do not know it, you do not feel it, you
do not perceive it clearly unless you know the True Thing. If
you have touched true love through the psychic and the divine
union, then the other thing appears hollow, thin, empty — an
appearance and a comedy, more often tragic than comic.

CWM 11: 22 – 23

Conversion of the vital
Another remarkable sign of the conversion of your vital,
owing to Agni’s influence, is that you face your difficulties and
obstacles with a smile. You do not sit any more in sackcloth
and ashes, lamenting over your mistakes and feeling utterly
crestfallen because you are not at the moment quite up to
the mark. You simply chase away depression with a smile. A
hundred mistakes do not matter to you: with a smile you rec-
ognise that you have erred and with a smile you resolve not to
repeat the folly in the future. All depression and gloom is cre-

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