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As for his sadhana, if he can persist in the attitude he has
taken and be entirely sincere in it, then the difficulty he is ex-
periencing is bound to disappear. Necessarily, the resistance
in the vital being and the body, based on all their past habits,
cannot be overcome in a day. In his case, it is probable that
the mental has reached the point where the surrender can be
made, but the vital purusa still refuses. If he can become con-
scious in his sadhana not only of the resistance on the surface
but of the vital being behind in its entirety, separately from the
mind, and see all its deeper movements and offer them in the
whole and detail to the Mother for transformation, then the
work of transformation can be done. It is for more and more
consciousness and more and more strength for consecration
that he must ask.
CWSA 35: 602-603 Sri Aurobindo

You can write to him that, if he is in the grip of adverse
forces, it is not a condition in which to come to the Asram.
Only those are called here and allowed to stay who are
ready to profit by the Asram atmosphere. What he can
do, if he likes, is to come for the 15th August for darshan
— after seeing him, then we can say something more defi-
nite.
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It is no use people staying here unless they have, first, the
capacity and, secondly, the pull and the will for Yoga.
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No, it is not enough to be in the Asram — one has to open
to the Mother and put away the mud which one was play-
ing with in the world.
CWSA 35: 602-603 Sri Aurobindo

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