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Sincerity Helps in Sadhana

Fundamental virtue for the spiritual life
Q: What is the fundamental virtue to be cultivated in order to pre-
pare for the spiritual life?

I have said this many times, but this is an opportunity to repeat it:
it is sincerity.
A sincerity which must become total and absolute, for sincer-
ity alone is your protection on the spiritual path. If you are not
sincere, at the very next step you are sure to fall and break your
head. All kinds of forces, wills, influences, entities are there, on the
look-out for the least little rift in this sincerity and they immediate-
ly rush in through that rift and begin to throw you into confusion.
Therefore, before doing anything, beginning anything, trying
anything, be sure first of all that you are not only as sincere as you
can be, but have the intention of becoming still more so.
For that is your only protection.
CWM 8: 247-248

Q: For Sri Aurobindo’s centenary, what is the best offering that I
can personally make to Sri Aurobindo?

Offer him your mind in all sincerity.
CWM 12: 205 The Mother

“Any method sincerely and persistently followed can end by bring-
ing the opening…”
CWSA 31: 729

The grace and protection are always with you. When in any inner
or outer difficulty or trouble do not allow it to oppress you; take
refuge with the Divine Force that protects.

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