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succeeded. If the martyrs could smile and sing when in cauldrons of boiling oil you and I can rejoice in the midst of lesser ordeals.

Begin this very day to say within yourself: "I will rejoice, I do rejoice." The first effort may be a failure as first efforts are apt to be, but do not give it up. Day after day declare that you rejoice and after a time you will say it with power enough to bring a flood of joy all through your being. The time to try is when thinks look very dark and you are most unhappy.

Then touch the button which sends the call to the radiant centre, where there is pure joyous life. The way is thus opened for joy to pour into your mind and it comes.

The Vedantists have a beautiful teaching that the Central Consciousness, which is synonymous with Being or Life, is Pure Bliss, and I believe that to be absolutely true. It appeals to my reason. I feel it intuitively and have reduced it to a working hypothesis.

The Swami Abhedananda in "The Way to the Blessed Life," says: "True Life or being or Blessedness is beyond time and space and is not bound by conditions of any kind. It is not subject to the laws of phenomena. It is independent and perfect, while the apparent life is dependent upon the laws which govern the world of phenomena, and is conditioned by time and space. True Life or Real Being does