March 23, 1968

(Satprem read Mother the end of the Playground Talk of June

 3, 1953, about Karma: "In all religions, when people said tha

 [the consequences of Karma were strict] and gave such abso

lute rules, as for me, I think it was to take the place of Nature

 and pull people's strings.... So then they panic, they get terri

fied ... - they should just go to the next floor up. What should

 be given them is the key to open the door. The staircase has a

 door, and it needs a key. The key is a sufficiently sincere

aspiration or a sufficiently intense prayer.... In both there is a

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 magic power, one must know how to use it.... Some detest

 prayer (if they went to the bottom of their hearts, they would

 see it's out of pride). And there are those who have no aspira

tion, who try but can't aspire - that's because they don't have

the flame of will, they don't have the flame of humility. Both

 are needed: to change one's Karma, one must have a very great

 humility and a very great will.")

When did I say that?

In 1953.

Strange. There's an IMMENSE sorrow behind, something very vast, very strong. It's strange. Like an association with human sorrow.... It's strange.

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Later

I am going through decisive moments. But it's very difficult.

It's the transfer of the nervous system. I said that everything was being "transferred," one thing after another; now, it's the nervous system. That's ... very difficult. Very difficult.

I'll talk about it later.

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