In this
inviolate
and
peaceful
moment
of Dawn,
for once
please see
your own soul -
having it completely covered
in the midst of
the Great Soul;
let all separations
go away.
Let us be immersed,
let us be absorbed,
let us be completely filled
by This Experience -
He Has Received
our souls
intimately,
immensely.
Otherwise,
our own True Introduction
never happens.
If we do not see ourselves
being connected
with Plenitude -
we make the mistake
that we are small,
we fall in the misconception
that we are weak.
That I'm neither small at any rate,
nor am I weak -
in human societies,
Great Men and Women
Have Given
the Proof
of That -
Their Attainment
Is verily
an attainment
of each of us -
the Power
of each of our
souls
Has Been Revealed
within Them.
When the top section
of a lamp
has gained
the flare
of light,
then
that gain -
all of that -
belongs to the lamp.
The extreme lower section
of the lamp, too,
contains That Power
to
flare up;
when the time is not ripe,
then
it shall keep holding
the blazing section above.
In the Worship of everyday morning,
may we be able to see
completely free from all impediments
That Greatness
in the midst of
our own human soul.
The misconception we have
that we are poor and wretched,
may we be able to
drive that misconception away
before leaving.
That we are sitting together
with a prejudice that,
we have been born
only at the corner of a house -
may we renounce that
and clearly feel,
this body of mine
has received birth
on the earth,
in the purgatory,
and in Heaven;
that is why
from many hundreds of thousands of miles away
our relatives called Heavenly Bodies
Are Sending
the Messenger of Light
for collecting our information.
And,
it is not that
only within the meager periphery
of my ego
is the Ultimate Abode
of my soul;
the Spiritual Abode
where it resides
Is the Abode of God.
The World Assembly
where we have come,
it is the right of ours
to enjoy the Kingdom Here;
we have not come Here
to perform slavery.
He Who Manifests in Plenitude -
He Himself Has Sent us -
branding Royal Signage
on our foreheads.
Therefore,
may we not move about in This World
calling ourselves low-born,
lowering our heads,
and being shrunken;
may we
be able to
accept
the High Seat
of our own
in the Pride
of our own Endless Peerage.
Like
the darkness
of
the sky
vanished
so quickly -
like a completely
imaginary substance,
similarly
may
from all four sides
of our Inner Nature,
all false prejudices
vanish
in an instant.
May Our Soul -
like the Rising Sun -
Be Revealed
in Its Effulgent Essence
in the Sky of Our Mind -
free from all occlusions;
in Its Bright Consciousness,
in Its Clear Light,
May Our Work-field in This World everywhere
Be Completely Illumined.
15 Paush 1315
(December 29, 1908)
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