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myself and the world, because this world has its other side in my consciousness. If there were no conscious being and no Supreme Consciousness at its source and centre, there could not be a world.

God's power emanates and streams forth as consciousness in me and also in the world outside. We ourselves generally divide it, but really these two sides of creation are intimately related as they proceed from the same source.

Thus this Meditation means that my consciousness and the vast world outside me are one. And where is that Unity?

In that Great Power, who breathes out Consciousness in me, and also in the world outside myself.

Meditation upon this is not taking anything to myself, but renouncing myself, becoming one with all creation.

This then is our text and we set our minds to it,—repeating it again and again till our mind becomes settled and distractions leave us. There is then no loss, no fear, no pain that can affect us our relationship with men becomes simple, natural—we are free. This then is the Meditation—to plunge into this truth, to live and move and have our being in this.