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it down. The supramental cannot be taken by storm. When the
time is ready it will open of itself — but first there is a great deal
to be done and that must be done patiently and without haste.
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Lack of Aspiration
Naturally the more one-pointed the aspiration the swifter
the progress. The difficulty comes when either the vital with
its desires or the physical with its past habitual movements
comes in — as they do with almost everyone. It is then that the
dryness and difficulty of spontaneous aspiration come. This
dryness is a well-known obstacle in all sadhana. But one has
to persist and not be discouraged. If one keeps the will fixed
even in these barren periods, they pass and after their passage
a greater force of aspiration and experience becomes possible.
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You are finding it still difficult to bear the interval periods when
all is quiet and nothing being done on the surface. But such in-
terval periods come to all and cannot be avoided. You must not
cherish the suggestion that it is because of your want of aspira-
tion or any other unfitness that it is so and, if you had the con-
stant ardent aspiration, then there would be no such periods and
there would be an uninterrupted stream of experiences. It is not
so. Even if the aspiration were there, the interval periods would
come. If even in them one can aspire, so much the better — but
the main thing is to meet them with quietude and not become
restless, depressed or despondent. A constant fire can be there
only when a certain stage has been reached, that is when one is
always inside consciously living in the psychic being, but for that
all this preparation of the mind, vital, physical is necessary. For
this fire belongs to the psychic and one cannot command it al-
ways merely by the mind's effort. The psychic has to be fully liber-
ated and that is what the Force is working to make fully possible.
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