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psychic attitude; follow the straight sunlit path, with the Divine
openly or secretly upbearing you — if secretly, he will yet show
himself in good time, — do not insist on the hard, hampered,
roundabout and difficult journey.
CWSA 31: 192

The psychic foundation
It is on that consciousness of complete surrender that the
psychic foundation of sadhana can be made. If once it fixes
itself, then, whatever difficulties remain to be overcome, the
course of the sadhana becomes perfectly easy, sunlit, natural
like the opening of a flower. The feeling you have is an indica-
tion of what can and must develop in you.
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It depends on what is meant by absolute surrender — the expe-
rience of it in some part of the being or the fact of it in all parts
of the being. The former may easily come at any time; it is the
latter that takes time to complete.

CWSA 29: 73

The absolute surrender
The absolute surrender must be not only an experience in
meditation, but a fact governing all the life, all the thoughts,
feelings, actions. Till then the use of one's own will and effort
is necessary, but an effort in which also there is the spirit of
surrender, calling in the Force to support the will and effort and
undisturbed by success or failure. When the Force takes up the
sadhana, then indeed effort may cease, but still there will be
the necessity of the constant assent of the being and a vigi-
lance so that one may not admit a false Force at any point.
CWSA 29: 73 Sri Aurobindo

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