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156 true attitude. When I have fully realized this great truth,—Pita no'si,—then my life expresses its own truth by its Namah, by its humility, by its self-surrender, in the meek feeling of adoration.

In our prayers we sometimes use words which satisfy us though we merely utter them mechanically without applying our whole mind to realize their fulness. "Father" is one of these words.

Therefore in our meditation we have to understand more deeply what it means and so to put our heart in harmony with its truth.

We can take this world as it appears to us through the medium of laws. We can have the idea of the world in our mind, as a world of force and matter, and then our relation to it becomes merely the mechanical relation of science. But, in that case, we miss the highest truth that is in man. For what is man? He is a personal being. Law does not take account of that. Law is about the physiology of our body, the psychology of our minds, the mechanism of our being. And when we come to our personal nature, we do not know any law which explains it. Therefore Science ignores the very basis of truth about ourselves. The whole world