strings: When you realize that any reaction is a form of conditioning and therefore, gives continuity to the self in different ways, what actually takes place? You must be very clear in this matter. Belief, knowledge, discipline, experience, the whole process of achieving a result or an end, ambition, becoming something in this life or in a future life—all these are a process of isolation, a process whiéh brings -destruction, misery, wars, from which there is no escape through collective action, however much you may be threatened with concentration camps and all the rest of it, Are you aware of that fact? What is the state of the mind which says "It is so", "That is my problem", "That is •exactly where I am", "I see what knowledge and discipline can do, what ambition does" ? Surely, if you see all that, there is already a different process at work.