Can Reading Random Passages of Books Provide True Guidance and Direction?

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The human mind tries to find
patterns and meanings in things.

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We see random cloud shapes and
we want to understand a message.

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We look into the night sky and
create shapes out of stars which

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are enormous distances separated
from one another by seeing a

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particular form or image in the
pattern created by the Starlight

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of those disparate stars.
Moving closer to our daily

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lives, we try to understand
patterns in divination, tarot

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cards, and other practices which
we use to build inner linkages

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and thus provide meaning for our
present and future actions.

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We do the same thing in many
cases when we read books.

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The question then is whether we
can trust the guidance we

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receive as true and appropriate
for our needs and the mechanism

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that works through whatever
method we use to put ourselves

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in contact with that guidance.
When we understand the concept

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of the oneness of the
manifestation, the unified

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field, it is relatively easier
to appreciate that when we send

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out an aspiration, or even just
a powerful thought, that it

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meets with corresponding
vibrations and links to them,

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thereby associating to us the
things on which we are focusing

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our attention.
Some people call this a divine

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response, some call it
synchronicity, some the Law of

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Attraction, and some a unified
field.

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By whatever terminology we know
it, however, the underlying

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truth is that we are intimately
connected to the beings, forms

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and events of the universe
within which we live, and we are

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always sending out signals and
receiving signals within the

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vibratory range within which we
are able to function.

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This provides us, then, the clue
for how to use spiritual

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literature or photographs or
images, icons or other visible

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objects as reminders and
doorways to the consciousness

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that stands behind those forms.
A disciple asks once or twice.

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As a game, you took one of your
books or three oral windows and

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opened a page at random and read
out a sentence.

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Can these sentences give one a
sign or an indication?

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What should we do to get a true
answer?

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The mother responds quote.
Everybody can do it, it is done

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in this way.
You concentrate.

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Now it depends on what you want.
If you have an inner problem and

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want the solution, you
concentrate on this problem.

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If you want to know the
condition you are in, which you

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are not aware of, if you want to
get some light on the state you

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are in, you just come forward
with simplicity and ask for the

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light.
Or else quite simply, if you are

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curious to know what the
invisible knowledge has to tell

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you, you remain silent and still
for a moment and then open the

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book.
I always used to recommend

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taking a paper knife because it
is thinner while you are

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concentrated.
You insert it in the book and

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with the tip indicate something.
Then, if you know how to

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concentrate, that is to say, if
you really do it with an

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aspiration to have an answer, It
always comes.

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For in books of this kind,
Mother shows the synthesis of

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yoga, books of Revelation, there
is always an accumulation of

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forces, at least of higher
mental forces, and most often of

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spiritual forces of the highest
knowledge.

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Every book, on account of the
words it contains, is like a

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small accumulator of these
forces.

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People don't know this, for they
don't know how to make use of

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it.
But it is so in the same way in

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every picture, photograph, there
is an accumulation, a small

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accumulation, representative of
the force of the person whose

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picture it is of his nature.
And if he has powers, of his

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powers.
Now you when you are sincere and

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have an aspiration which goes
and meets the corresponding

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force in the book and it is a
higher consciousness which gives

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you the answer.
End Quote reference Sri

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Aurobindo and the Mother Powers
within, Chapter 10.

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Obtaining Answers and Solutions,
pages 92 to 94.