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The psychic and the sunlit path
The sunlit path can only be followed if the psychic is con-
stantly or usually in front or if one has a natural spirit of faith
and surrender or a face turned habitually towards the sun or
psychic predisposition (e.g. a faith in one's spiritual destiny) or
if he has acquired the psychic turn. That does not mean that
the sunlit man has no difficulties; he may have many, but he
regards them cheerfully as "all in the day's work". If he gets
bad beatings, he is capable of saying, "Well, that was a queer
go, but the Divine is evidently in a queer mood and if that is his
way of doing things, it must be the right one; I am surely a still
queerer fellow myself and that, I suppose, was the only means
of putting me right." But everybody can't be of that turn, and
surrender which would put everything right is, as you say, dif-
ficult to do completely. That is why we do not insist on total
surrender at once, but are satisfied with a little to begin with,
the rest to grow as it can.
CWSA 31: 618

Easiest, simplest and direct
You say that this way is too difficult for you or the likes of
you and it is only "avatars" like myself or the Mother that can
do it. That is a strange misconception, for it is on the contrary
the easiest and simplest and most direct way and anyone can
do it, if he makes his mind and vital quiet, even those who have
a tenth of your capacity can do it. It is the other way of ten-
sion and strain and hard endeavour that is difficult and needs a
great force of Tapasya. As for the Mother and myself, we have
had to try all ways, follow all methods, to surmount mountains
of difficulties, a far heavier burden to bear than you or anybody
else in this Asram or outside, far more difficult conditions, bat-
tles to fight, wounds to endure, ways to cleave through impen-
etrable morass and desert and forest, hostile masses to con-

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