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BOOK ONE ---------- M A N FLASH FOUR: HABIT & ENDEAVOUR It is necessary for you to habituate yourself to this intimate relationship. Habituate yourself in such wise that at no time and in circumstance you may be without the sense of it: -Whether in eating or sleeping; -Whether in coming or going; -Whether in sleeping or listening. You must ever be on the alert, both when resting and when working, lest you waste any time in insensibility to this relation. Nay, more You must watch every breath and take heed that it goes not forth in negligence. ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... It behooves you to maintain this relationship continually. It is therefore of the first importance to develop the quality of this relationship. How? - By detaching yourself from mundane relations. By emancipating yourself from attention to contingent forms. ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... This is possible only through hard striving and earnest endeavour to expel vain thoughts and imaginations from your mind. The more these thoughts are cast out and these suggestions checked, the stronger and closer this relationship becomes. It is then necessary to use every endeavour to force these thoughts to encamp outside the enclosure of your breast. This is necessary so that the TRUTH, most glorious, may cast His beams into your heart; So that TRUTH may deliver you from yourself; So that TRUTH may save you from the trouble of entertaining His rivals in your heart. ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... Then - and not till then - there would abide with you neither consciousness of yourself; Nor even consciousness of such absence of consciousness. Nay, there would abide nothing - Save the ONE God ALONE! ___________________________________________ |