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but to lead you away and so prevent your sharing in the fruit of
the victory hereafter. I do not know what Krishnaprem has said
but his injunction, if you have rightly understood it, is one that
cannot stand as valid, since so many have done Yoga relying on
tapasya or anything else but not confident of any Divine Grace.
It is not that, but the soul's demand for a higher Truth or a higher
life that is indispensable. Where that is, the Divine Grace whether
believed in or not, will intervene. If you believe, that hastens and
facilitates things; if you cannot yet believe, still the soul's as-
piration will justify itself with whatever difficulty and struggle.
CWSA 31: 681-82

The difficulty of the path
I quite agree with you in not relishing the idea of another
attack of this nature. I am myself, I suppose, more a hero by
necessity than by choice — I do not love storms and battles —
at least on the subtle plane. The sunlit way may be an illusion,
though I do not think it is — for I have seen people treading it
for years; but a way with only natural or even only moderate fits
of rough weather, a way without typhoons surely is possible —
there are so many examples. Durgam pathastat may be generally
true and certainly the path of laya or nirvana is difficult in the
extreme to most (although in my case I walked into nirvana with-
out intending it or rather nirvana walked casually into me not
so far from the beginning of my Yogic career without asking my
leave). But the path need not be cut by periodical violent storms,
though that it is so for a great many is an obvious fact. But even
for these, if they stick to it, I find that after a certain point the
storms diminish in force, frequency, duration. That is why I insist-
ed so much on your sticking — for if you stick, the turning-point
is bound to come. I have seen some astonishing instances here
recently of this typhonic periodicity beginning to fade out after
years and years of violent recurrence. CWSA 31: 682-83

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