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Karmas.
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It is quite obvious that this is true, because if the higher self were different from the lower self, then the one would be not-self, whereas I cannot possibly be not-myself. I am I, and that which is called sélf, whether higher or lower, cannot be not-self; it must still be self, and only one self, myself. My lower 'self is not a second being, it is niyself; there can be no fight between the higher and the lower self in the same sense as there can be a fight between two men. If I believe the body to be inyselt, then I am living as the objective self, and not as the body, as I do not live as the body, the body lives a different life which is not my life; but in believing the body to be myself I live as what is called the objective self,-holding this belief is called living as or being the objective self; being the objective self does not mean being the body for we never are the body. Fighting the lower self simply means resisting forces which are not, but which were believed to be, us: The same is true with regard to such expressions as inflow of the divine. The divine does not flow into us, it has always been in us, unless by 'us' we mean that which is not us at all-viz. the body. The inflow of the divine into man means truly the inflow of us into our bodies, the control by us of our bodies, so that the movements of our bodies are brought about by us, which is frequently not the case. If we have a thought to do good, but we do not make our body do it, the divine does not flow into the body. If we do it, then the divine coes flow into the body,-or the man, if by man we mean that which is not us, or the body. .
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