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DIFFICULTIES AS OPPORTUNITIES

Facing difficulties
The attitude you have taken is the right one. It is this feel-
ing and attitude which help you to overcome so rapidly the
attacks that sometimes fall upon you and throw you out of
the right consciousness. As you say, difficulties so taken be-
come opportunities; the difficulty faced in the right spirit and
conquered, one finds that an obstacle has disappeared, a fresh
step forward has been taken. To question, to resist in some part
of the being increases trouble and difficulties — that was why
an unquestioning acceptance, an unfailing obedience to the di-
rections of the Guru was laid down as indispensable in the old
Indian Yogas — it was demanded not for the sake of the Guru,
but for the sake of the disciple.

Persevere
This kind of acute struggle comes very often to a sadhak
when he wants to make a complete and decisive progress in-
stead of the slow elimination which is the usual course of na-
ture; the strong urge upward is resisted by a vehement pull-
back from below. But the advantage is that when one persists
and conquers, much has been gained by the struggle and in
that part of the being that resists a decisive advantage. Perse-
vere therefore and do not grieve for occasional waverings or
stumbles which can easily happen in so arduous a combat. It
should always be the rule for the sadhak not to linger over such
things but to pick oneself up again and go resolutely forward.
Our help, our force, our blessings will be with you always aiding
each step till the final victory.
CWSA 31: 692-93

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