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the progress is slow or difficulties many — all should be done in a
calm patience — and full reliance on the Divine Mother. This period
tests the capacity of the sadhak and the sincerity of his aspiration
towards the Divine.
(CWSA 35: 551)

Why Descent Is Necessary in Yoga
It is quite true that, left to yourself, you can do nothing; that
is why you have to be in contact with the Force which is there to
do for you what you cannot do for yourself. The only thing you
have to do is to allow the Force to act and put yourself on its side,
which means to have faith in it, to rely upon it, not to trouble and
harass yourself, to remember it quietly, to call upon it quietly, to
let it act quietly. If you do that, all else will be done for you — not
all at once, because there is much to clear away, but still it will be
done steadily and more and more.
(CWSA 29: 188)

As for the things that are necessary to be done [in Yoga], they
can be done much more easily by the Force and Peace descending
(bringing the solid strength) than by your own mental effort.
(CWSA 30: 254)

“The ego person in us cannot transform itself by its own force or
will or knowledge or by any virtue of its own into the nature of
the Divine; all it [ego] can do is to fit itself for the transformation
and make more and more its surrender to that which it seeks to
become. As long as the ego is at work in us, our personal action is
and must always be in its nature a part of the lower grades of ex-
istence; it is obscure or half – enlightened, limited in its field, very
partially effective in its power. If a spiritual transformation, not a
mere illumining modification of our nature, is to be done at all, we
must call in the Divine Shakti to effect that miraculous work in the

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