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take one step forward and think you are secure, but there
will always be something to bring back the same difficulty a
little farther on. You think you have solved the problem, you
must solve it yet once again; it will turn up again looking
just a little different, but it will be the same problem”, and if
you are not determined that: “Even if it comes back a million
times, I shall do it a million times, but I shall go through with
it”, well, you won’t be able to do the yoga. This is absolutely
indispensable.
People have a beautiful experience and say, “Ah, now this
is it!...” And then it settles down, diminishes, gets veiled, and
suddenly something quite unexpected, absolutely common-
place and apparently completely uninteresting comes before
you and blocks your way. And then you say, “Ah! what’s the
good of having made this progress if it’s going to start all
over again? Why should I do it? I made an effort, I succeeded,
achieved something, and now it’s as if I had done nothing!
It’s indeed hopeless.” For you have no endurance.
If one has endurance, one says, “It’s all right. Good, I shall
begin again as often as necessary; a thousand times, ten
thousand times, a hundred thousand times if necessary, I
shall begin again — but I shall go to the end and nothing will
have the power to stop me on the way.”
This is most necessary. Most necessary.
So here’s my proposal: we put surrender first, at the top
of the list, that is, we accept what Sri Aurobindo has said—
that to do the integral yoga one must first resolve to sur-
render entirely to the Divine, there is no other way, this is
the way. But after that one must have the five psychological
virtues, five psychological perfections, and we say that these
perfections are:
Sincerity or Transparency
Faith or Trust (Trust in the Divine, naturally)

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