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Live with a Smile

Face difficulties with a smile
Another remarkable sign of the conversion of your vital,
owing to Agni's influence, is that you face your difficulties
and obstacles with a smile . You do not sit any more in sack-
cloth and ashes, lamenting over your mistakes and feeling ut-
terly crestfallen because you are not at the moment quite up
to the mark. You simply chase away depression with a smile .
A hundred mistakes do not matter to you: with a smile you
recognise that you have erred and with a smile you resolve
not to repeat the folly in the future. All depression and gloom
is created by the hostile forces who are never so pleased as
when throwing on you a melancholy mood. Humility is in-
deed one thing and depression quite another, the former a
divine movement and the latter a very crude expression of
the dark forces. Therefore, face your troubles joyously, op-
pose with invariable cheerfulness the obstacles that beset
the road to transformation. The best means of routing the
enemy is to laugh in his face! You may grapple and tussle for
days and he may still show an undiminished vigour; but just
once laugh at him and lo! he takes to his heels. A laugh of
self-confidence and of faith in the Divine is the most shatter-
ing strength possible—it disrupts the enemy's front, spreads
havoc in his ranks and carries you triumphantly onwards.
CWM 3: 139

Turning Struggles into Smiles
We all agree that the world is detestable, that it is not
what it ought to be, and the only thing we have to do is
to work to make it otherwise. Consequently, our whole pre-
occupation should be to find the best means of making it

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