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We know the words of God, but unfortunately God does not speak to us. We know the laws, but the laws do not speak to our heart. What has happened to us? Please ask! Why is it our problem, because it is our normal problem. I have seen that it was my problem; and what is my problem is your problem as well. Taken individually it is the individual that is in difficulties today. Has he something to live by? Some voice, some truth, some rationality, that is not the rationality of the objective society and the social society, but of yourself. Is there a voice which asks you for your Higher evolution, and gives you guidance for your own growth in the dimensions of a vertical being, rather than in the dimensions of a horizontal being. We are all becoming corpulent with the additional tissues of the world and of society. Everybody is corpulent. Who is straight, shooting like a rocket to the heavens of the divine? Well, anyway, who can get into one's self? So this was my problem, and, I believe, in a subtle sense, of every one of you. That is why the eclipse of conscience today is complete. Nobody wants to refer to it. It has gone out of fashion. And so when Mahatma Gandhi spoke about an inner voice to which he hearkened during his fasts, everybody laughed at him, these rationalists, these liberalists, and so many people who are politicians and statesmen, all laughed at him. Philosophers too! And I believe even religious people said that, because religious people have felt that all that the conscience has spoken is already in the srutis and scriptures written down for everybody to read - the revelations of other people. But has anybody seen that it solves any problem within me, or within you? I do not want to say they spoke falsehood. They spoke what they knew to be right, and it may be right for us also. But has it also the sanction of your own inner being, your acceptance, your conviction? So that is where I found we have to rehabilitate conscience. How to hear the voice again? Gandhi asked that. How many have been devout disciples of Gandhi, and have been able to hear that voice except in snatches, and perhaps not with that universality, with that dimension, with which he did? So we are asked to read his books instead! When can you grow? When you have seen the inner light awakened, to see, to hear and to follow. Now that is where I found if there is some trick or technique by which that inner awakening can be made, and the conscience can once again come into its own as an inner voice in each one of you, that will be your formulation of your ethical life on the basis of your own experience. Not denying the experience of others, but by gathering the higher rationality and a higher illumination and power