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position by involving the divine or God every day, (by which alone you can live) he was uttering a truth of very great significance for most people, who had forgotten how to rely on God. They had relied on the scriptures and on this and that. He quietly said, sit in prayer every morning and ask of God what I shall do, note it down and do it without any question. That was an appeal to conscience, if I may put it to you. That was an inkling but how far does it go? If morality is merely social amelioration and acts of kindness, I have nothing to say against it. It is very good. We can do MORE than that when we awaken the conscience a little more, not merely by habit of practising in the morning, but by a living transcendence over the conditions in which we live; by bringing in the highest force possible, the same revelationary force by which a Mohammed saw, a Moses saw, and our Vedic seers saw, the great Zarathustra saw, or a Confucious saw, all that we go beyond. Because there is one common factor, unless you yield yourself to the divine, the divine does not mould itself into your pattern. So is this consciousness, if you can only submit yourself to this great experiment in divine living. Conscience can once again come to its pristine, real meaning and not be what it is today, a laughing stock of everybody.