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reach the goal. When a sadhak has that constantly, we know
that he has got over the worst difficulty and that he is now
firmly on the safe path.
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Sense of humor
Sense of humour? It is the salt of existence. Without it the
world would have got utterly out of balance — it is unbalanced
enough already — and rushed to blazes long ago.
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Happiness and contentment
Happiness in the ordinary sense is a sunlit state of the vital
with or without cause. Contentment is less than happiness —
joy of peace or being free from difficulty is rather a state of joy-
ful 01nti. Happiness ought not to be a state of self-satisfaction
or inertia, and need not be, for one can combine happiness and
aspiration. Of course there can be a state of happy inertia, but
most people don't remain satisfied with that long, they begin
to want something else. There are Yogins who are satisfied with
a happy calm immobility, but that is because the happiness is a
form of Ananda and in the immobility they feel the Self and its
eternal calm and want nothing more.
CWSA 31: 173-76

Experiences and change of Nature
As for experiences, they are all right but the trouble is that
they do not seem to change the nature, they only enrich the
consciousness — even the realisation, on the mind level, of the
Brahman seems to leave the nature almost where it was, except
for a few. That is why we insist on the psychic transformation
as the first necessity — for that does change the nature — and
its chief instrument is bhakti, surrender etc.
CWSA 31: 617

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