Wielding the Torch of Perfect Sincerity -- the Way of Realisation on the Spiritual Path

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Some years ago, there was a
movie coming out of Hollywood

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that was based on the premise
that someone was cursed with

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having to tell the truth at all
times.

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The premise was developed as a
comedy with the idea that rather

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than using flattering terms or
avoiding any harsh statements,

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the individual would blurt out
whatever thought or feeling

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occurred to him inwardly.
The person involved was an

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attorney who had to defend
clients in court, and thus the

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comedic plot was thickened even
further.

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While honesty does not require
people to simply spill their

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impressions, feelings, emotions
or thoughts of the moment out in

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full at each moment, the story
line made its point that we

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essentially live a life that at
best hedges on full truth and at

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worst is purposely deceptive
based on self-interest.

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If we turn our attention then to
the question of spiritual

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practice by an individual, we
can transfer the thought process

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behind this premise to our own
lives, our own inner thoughts,

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motives, drives, feelings,
emotions, desires and needs, and

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compare these to the pure self
giving and consecration needed

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for the opening to the Divine
and the transformation of our

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lives.
The Mother presents a challenge

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to us to try this even for half
an hour.

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We will soon recognize the
ground that needs to be covered

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to become true doers of Divine
works.

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The Mother notes quote
fundamentally, whatever be the

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path 1 follows, whether the path
of surrender, consecration,

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knowledge, if one wants it to be
perfect, it is always equally

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difficult.
And there is but one way, one

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only.
I know of only one that is

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perfect sincerity.
But perfect sincerity.

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Do you know what perfect
sincerity is?

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Never to try to deceive oneself.
Never let any part of the being

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try to find out a way of
convincing the others.

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Never to explain favorably what
one does in order to have an

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excuse for what one wants to do.
Never to close one's eyes when

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something is unpleasant.
Never to let anything pass,

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telling oneself that's not
important.

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Next time it will be better.
Oh, it is very difficult.

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Just try for one hour and you
will see how very difficult it

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is.
Only one hour to be totally,

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absolutely sincere, to let
nothing pass.

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That is all one does, all one
feels, all one thinks, all one

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wants is exclusively the divine.
I want nothing but the divine.

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I think of nothing but the
divine.

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I do nothing but what will lead
me to the divine.

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I love nothing but the divine.
Try, try, just to see.

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Try for half an hour.
You will see how difficult it

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is, and during that time take
great care that there isn't a

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part of the vital or a part of
the mind or a part of the

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physical being nicely hidden
there at the back, so that you

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don't see it.
Mother hides her hands behind

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her back and don't notice that
it is not collaborating, sitting

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quietly there so that you don't
unearth it.

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It says nothing, but it does not
change.

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It hides itself.
How many such parts, How many

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parts hide themselves?
You put them in your pocket

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because you don't want to see
them, or else they get behind

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your back and sit there well
hidden, right in the middle of

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your back, so as not to be seen.
When you go there with your

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torch, your torch of sincerity,
you ferret out all the corners

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everywhere, all the small
corners which do not consent,

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the things which say no, or
those which do not move.

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I am not going to budget.
I am glued to this place of

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mine, and nothing will make me
move.

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You have a torch there with you,
and you flash it upon the thing,

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upon everything.
You will see there are many of

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them there behind your back,
well stuck.

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End Quote.
Reference Srioro Bindu and the

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Mother looking from within,
Chapter 5.

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Attitudes on the Path, pages 119
to 120.