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ing any effort? Nothing will come out of this effort. Am I capable
of the spiritual life? Probably I shall never do anything, I am giv-
ing up tangible things for the sake of an unrealisable dream. And
what am I after all? A grain of dust. Is it worth my making an effort
to find the Divine? Probably I shall find nothing at all and all my
efforts are futile.” That is even much more dangerous. I could cite
hundreds of examples like that.
CWM 5: 155-56

One thing that can truly save
There is only one thing that can truly save you, it is to have
a contact, even the slightest, with your psychic being — to have
felt the solidity of that contact. Then whatever comes to you from
this person or that circumstance you place in front of that and
see whether it is all right or not. Even if you are satisfied — in
every way — even if you say to yourself: “At last I have found the
friend I wanted to have. I am in the best circumstances of my life,
etc.”, then put that before this little contact with your psychic
being, you will see whether it keeps its bright colour or suddenly
there comes a little uneasiness, not much, nothing making a great
noise, but just a little uneasiness. You are no longer so sure that
it was as you thought! Then you know: yes, it is that small voice
which one must listen to always. It is that which is the truth and
the other can’t trouble you any longer.
If you come to the spiritual life with a sincere aspiration,
sometimes an avalanche of unpleasant things falls upon you: you
quarrel with your best friends, your family kicks you out of the
house, you lose what you thought you had gained…. I knew some-
one who had come to India with a great aspiration and after a very
long effort towards knowledge and even towards Yoga. That was
long long ago. At that time, people used to put on watch-chains
and trinkets. This gentleman had a golden pencil which his grand-
mother had given him to which he was attached as the most pre-

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