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there would be the victory already. What I mean [by "the certi-
tude of victory"] is the certitude of the eventual victory which
is a matter of faith and an inner reliance upon the Divine. The
peace born of this certitude carries one through all persistence
or return of difficulties.
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Whatever resistance there is in the outer being will go, only it
takes time. It is always best to take one's foundation on that
certitude and remain quiet and steadfast with it in mind even
when one cannot react actively against the difficulty. For the
quiet passive resistance will make it pass sooner, — even if one
is disturbed and anxious.
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Dealing with difficulties
Even when one cannot call in actively the Mother's Force,
one must keep the reliance that it will come.
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Do not let the difficulties you feel or meet from outside over-
come or depress you. Keep this one thing in your mind that
to come to the Divine is your spiritual destiny and since you
have been here and been accepted by us that can be taken as
the seal upon it. If it takes a little longer time than you could
wish for it to materialise, this should not make you think of it
otherwise — for these difficulties and external obstacles and
incertitudes always come to the seeker. Neither the difficulties
in yourself or the obstacles presented by life are as insurmount-
able as they seem to your physical mind when they are press-
ing upon it. Remember also that although here the conditions
would be more favourable, yet even at a distance the grace
and help can be there with you. Only fix yourself on the goal,
make the inner choice once for all firmly and completely; it is
there in your soul, fix it in your mind also. Once there, fixed and
unalterable, it will prevail over the difficulties of your own vital

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