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have a clear idea of what that Original Condition is. Philosophers especially think that just because they are able to think or visualize that idea, they have the power by which that idea transforms our nature. Now, we have, in our modern world, people who speak about ideology as if their ideas, even of socialism, have the power to transform the Individual Consciousness of every one to whom they speak or preach the doctrine. I think Shaw was perfectly correct when he said that these so called socialists are nothing but the 'perversions of real socialists' and so he wrote a book also just to show up the hollowness of the ideal or ideational views of the present state of the so called intellectuals. So, you can understand the idea, in order to be really of value and of power to restore you to your Original Primal Spiritual Condition, has to be of a different order, and this can be done only by a person who has reached that particular stage and brought that Force into the line of man. That is the importance of Pranahuti, and once that Divine Element is brought to man and given to him as the Force by which his whole transformation could be effected, then, you try to start from below and correct the grossness, correct the astral body, correct the causal body which has brought us into this bondage and finally we become Unlimited one with the entire Universe.
The second point we will have to remember is, as Master says, both the Universe and the human individual are made in the same pattern. That is, the processes that have brought the outer world into the gross condition which we are now seeing are the same processes which have taken place in the human individual by which your body is seeing and experiencing. Suppose, I correct this body, human body, which is under our control and if God helps us to do that by our process of Yoga, then, we become aware of the Cosmic or Universal factors and ultimately understand the nature of the Universe itself. Unless you understand yourself, you cannot understand the Universe. Unless you have made yourself subtle enough, you cannot understand the forces that are governing the body. And, if you want to control the forces of the world in order to make it a better world, it is your business firstly to become perfectly ourself in God and this can be done. That is why, when some people say God is made in the image of man or man in the image of God, I do not know which way is correct. The idea is that the principles governing the nature of God or the Universe which has the manifestation are identical with the principles that are governing man