regular" in your devotions. Also remember that each trial is a pain accompanying spiritual regeneration--each pain a process of strengthening the herald of a mere glorious dawn of wisdom. Hence give up all grumbling. The great God whose Infinite power regulates the motions of planets and yet takes note of the sparrow's fall has your soul's best interest at heart. All you do, all you say, all you feel, all you hope, all your experiences--all, all is His will. Man's Will is God's Will. God's Will is Man's Will. And who can define God? God alone has the power to define Himself. He has defined Himself as the Universe--Bramhanda. Nothing is impossible for the devotee of God. Let him but be willing to work and God shall give him everything. Regular devotion to God will surely develop extreme Fearlessness. "God is Love." (2). KNOWLEDGE _(Gnayanam)_. Fear is due to ignorance. When in the dark of night you mistook the rope for a snake, you shrieked out in terror. Cause? IGNORANCE. But when you saw the rope as a rope, you laughed out in amusement. Cause? KNOWLEDGE. All your fear is due to your ignorance of your real nature. All the fear at the last is fear of death. You have to realise through knowledge of the Vedanta that you are birthless, deathless. You have to unfold by meditation a consciousness of your Real Self. I give you hereunder a meditation exercise that will help you in this direction. MEDITATION EXERCISE NO. 1. Retire into the SILENCE. Shut off all thoughts and purposes relating to the external world. Try to realise that you, the Real Ego are not the body but that it is a mere garment you have put on for functioning on the physical plane and which you shall put off some day. Try to realise that you are immortal and that although a thousand bodies might come and go, you, the Ego, shall be as alive as ever. These are your shadows--your personalities. What dies and is born is a mirage--a mere phantasm--which you materialise for certain purposes. All these purposes centralise in one POTENTIALISED PURPOSE--the conquest of matter. Realise that you the Ego, have your dwelling in Supernal Regions--on the spiritual plane--with your Father-in-Heaven--but that you have come down into matter that you may find the fullest possible objective expression. Realise that you, the Ego, are a differentiated centre of consciousness in the Great Consciousness--THE ABSOLUTE--EGO--SUM of the entire Universe with all its gross and subtle manifestations--that you are endowed with all the powers and attributes of the Absolute Self. Realise that you are not the emotional and passional manifestations--surging up in your personality. These are subject to the law of Flux and Rhythm and must be brought under the control of Reason and Will--the balancing, equating principle of mind. Realise that you are not the mind nor the intellect, but that you exercise this function in order to analyse the external manifestations of nature and study same. Realise that you are pure