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other — and he does not use the surface reason but the eye
of inner knowledge and Yogic experience.
CWSA 31: 684-85

Treading the sunlit path
The sunlit path can be followed by those who are able to
practise surrender, first a central surrender and afterwards a
more complete self-giving in all the parts of the being. If they
can achieve and preserve the attitude of the central surrender,
if they can rely wholly on the Divine and accept cheerfully what-
ever comes to them from the Divine, then their path becomes
sunlit and may even be straightforward and easy. They will not
escape all difficulties, no seeker can, but they will be able to
meet them without pain and despondency, — as indeed the Gita
recommends that Yoga should be practised, anirvi77acetas1., —
trusting in the inner guidance and perceiving it more and more
or else in the outer guidance of the Guru. It can also be followed
even when one feels no light and no guidance if there is or if one
can acquire a bright settled faith and happy bhakti or has the
nature of the spiritual optimist and the firm belief or feeling
that all that is done by the Divine is done for the best even
when we cannot understand his action. But all have not this
nature, most are very far from it, and the complete or even
the central surrender is not easy to get and to keep it always
is hard enough for our human nature. When these things are
not there, the liberty of the soul is not attained and we have
instead to undergo the law or fulfil a hard and difficult disci-
pline.
That law is imposed on us by the Ignorance which is the
nature of all our parts; our physical being is obviously a mass
of ignorance, the vital is full of ignorant desires and passions,
the mind is also an instrument of Ignorance struggling towards
some kind of imperfect and mostly inferior and external

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