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surrounding people with the caress of beauty.
The great artist Asvaghosha preferred the bazaar and the public square, in order to find the
way to the people's heart. Beauty teaches aspiration.
You know and understand the lofty concept Avatar, but in order to attain it, it is needful
to become Avakara" the fierily inspired.
181. True, true, true precision in time must be observed. Let us look at it not only from the
standpoint of integrity of principle but also from that of practicality. He who sets a definite date
sends out a spatial command; the one who agrees to this date closes the current. A stream of energy
of the will fixes, as it were, an astral form of the decision. To this bridge approach boat-loads of
possibilities, strengthening and supplementing the original proposition. It is easy to imagine what
happens if one side of the bridge disappears. Spatial dates are far more precise than the mechanism
of your clocks; splendid possibilities may crumble away like sand and, being not repeatable,
disappear.
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Reflect on what a problem it would be for statistics to compare the success of opportune
decision with the failure of tardiness. Obviously, instructive results would be obtained, and the
ignorance of tardiness would be regretted. True, very many people live like pigs, devouring
precious blossoms. One cannot but protect space against their thoughtless ignorance. If they could
catch a glimpse into space, disfigured by them they would themselves say Prohibit this
defilement!
Guard the purity of space. Be responsible for co-measurement. You must not set fire to
alien currents! So many beautiful sacred vessels" have been lost because of carelessness! And you
yourselves will shake space with lamentations when it will be already irreparable. Whereas, there
was an hour when a single gesture would have preserved for you the needed and wished for.
Teach every child to understand the significance of dates. Otherwise, one more generation
of flabby and spineless ones will devour each other.
In the community exactitude of dates is established as a fundamental.
182. True, true, true people must settle themselves in tested localities. Even a bear shows greater
care in selecting his den. Plants will indicate the better possibilities. Look for cedars and pines,
heather and oak, grass and flowers of vivid color. Natural electrification in a locality is necessary.
Large, long needles of evergreen are the best condensers of electricity. Heights above eleven
thousand feet, devoid of vegetation, provide useful prana.
183. What more nearly compares with Our Community a choir of psalm-singers or an armed
camp? Rather the second. One can imagine how it must conform to the rules of military
organization and leadership. Is it possible to establish the paths of advancement of the Community
without repulse and attack? Is it possible to take a fortress by assault without knowing its situation?
The conditions of defense and attack must be weighed. Needed is experienced knowledge and keen
vigilance. They are wrong who consider the Community a house of prayer. They are wrong who
call the Community a workshop. The are wrong who regard the Community as an exclusive
laboratory. The Community is a hundred-eyed guard. The Community is the hurricane of the
messenger. The Community is the banner of the conqueror. In the hour when the banner is furled,
the enemy already undermines the foundation of the towers. Where, then, is our laboratory? Where
is your labor and toil? Verily, one patrol left out opens ten gates. Only vigilance will provide the
rampart for the Community.
Victory is only an obligation. Strengthening of forces is only a manifestation of anew
vortex. Realization of power is only a test. Challenge is only light-mindedness. As an ocean wave
does the Community advance. As the thunder of an earthquake resounds the Teaching of
immutability.
Before the rising of the Sun let us proceed in ceaseless vigil.
184. Often community members ask whence come the assaults of anguish which they sometimes
experience. One must know that without these spasms of anguish no progress is possible. After
crossing over a precipice you feel a weakening of the leg muscles. During the expansion of
consciousness you cross over many invisible precipices. Nodal growths of the consciousness result
in leaps and psychic spasms contract the nerve centers. One should not be afraid of these spasms, a
brief rest will right these contractions. Growth of the consciousness is more difficult to trace than
the growth of a hair. The consciousness conquers and eradicates. The burning of crossed bridges
does not reveal the progressive sign-posts, but it leaves open the one possibility of assault. It is
valuable not only to strive forward but also to destroy the rubbish behind one. Just now you
perceive how the majority of people could have advanced, but they cling to age-old rubbish. Guard
both My signs the sign of Service and the sign of Community. One is breaking away from the
old, the other is evolution.
One may discover aspiration do not close the door!
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When you are writing books, see that each one is complementary and independent of the
others. So too in action, see that each member individually can express the whole group.
185. What to consider a manifestation of work is a difficult question. We know that the answer is
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