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No Need of Words in Aspiration
There is no need of words in aspiration, It can be expressed
or unexpressed in words.
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The aspiration need not be in the form of thought — it can be
a feeling within that remains even when the mind is attending
to the work.
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The Necessity of Aspiration
It depends on the stage which one has reached. Personal
aspiration is necessary until there is the condition in which all
comes automatically and only a certain knowledge and assent
is necessary for the development.
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Even if there is no rising up, the aspiration connects you with
the higher consciousness and helps or prepares to bring down
something from it.
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It [the higher consciousness] may not come exactly accord-
ing to the aspiration, but the aspiration is not ineffective. It
keeps the consciousness open, prevents an inert state of ac-
quiescence in all that comes and exercises a sort of pull on the
sources of the higher consciousness.
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Why do you write "If I get" [aspiration ] — one can always as-
pire. It is your mistake to think that everything must come of
itself and nothing is within your own power to do. This kind of
belief in the necessity of passivity to all movements should be
thrown aside. Will, aspiration, surrender are things that you
must do yourself — although even in doing them you must call
in the Divine Power to help your will, aspiration and surrender
and make them effective.
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