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Everyone has struggle
There can be no doubt that you can go through — everyone
has these struggles; what is needed to pass through is sincerity
and perseverance.
There is no use in inviting these struggles, as many do, or
even in accepting them when they come for the sake of fighting
them out, for they always repeat themselves. When they cannot
be avoided then they must be faced — one cannot be altogether
without them, especially in the earlier part of the Yoga; but if you
can quietly evade them, that is already an advance. To become qui-
et and quietly to call back the true psychic state until it becomes
normal and either eliminates or minimises the struggle, that is the
best way to progress.
CWSA 31: 744-745

It is because both your mind and vital have become sincere that
the attack is strong and seems to you abnormal. Before as you
were yielding from time to time, the part that wants was not
acutely insistent and, when it pressed, it was not so acutely felt
by the rest of the vital nature. It is your mental, psychic and higher
vital beings that now stand completely apart from it. It is your
physical vital that still keeps the desire and is pushed from time to
time by opposite forces to make the desire active. It was also this
desire that created the physical disturbance from which you suf-
fered a few days ago. You must get rid of this desire of the lower
vital altogether.
CWSA 31: 263

When there is something in the nature that has to be got over, it
is always drawing on itself incidents that put it to the test till the
sadhak has overcome and is free. At least it is a thing that often
happens especially if the person is making a sincere effort to over-
come. One does not always know whether it is the hostiles who

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