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The guru knows the difficulty
A possibility in the soul or in the inner being generally
remains always a possibility — at the worst, its fulfilment can
be postponed, but even that only if the possessor of the pos-
sibility gives up or breaks away from the true spiritual path
without probability of early return — because he is in chase
of the magnified and distorted shadow of his own ego or for
some other distortion of the nature produced by a wrong
egoistic misuse of the Yoga. A mere appearance of inability
or obstruction of progress in the outer being, a covering of
the inner by the outer, even if it lasts for years, has no proba-
tive value, because that happens to a great number, perhaps
to the majority of aspirants to Yoga. The reason is that they
take somehow the way of raising up all the difficulties in their
nature almost at the beginning and tunnelling through the
mass instead of the alternative way of going ahead, slowly
or swiftly, and trusting to time, Yoga and the Force Divine to
clear out of them in the proper season what has to be elimi-
nated. It is not of their own deliberate choice that they do it,
something in their nature drives them. There are many here
who have had or still have that long covering of the inner by
the outer or separation of the inner from the outer conscious-
ness. You yourself took that way in spite of our expostula-
tions to you advising you to take the sunlit road, and you
have not yet got out of the habit. But that does not mean
that you won't get out of the tunnel and when you do you will
find your inner being waiting for you on the other side — in
the sun and not in the shadow. I don't think I am more patient
than a guru ought to be. Anyone who is a guru at all ought
to be patient, first because he knows the difficulty of human
nature and, secondly, because he knows how the Yoga force
works, in so many contrary ways, open or subterranean, slow
or swift, volcanic or coralline, — passing even from one to the

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