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The pathfinders
It is not either because I have myself trod the sunlit way
or flinched from difficulty and suffering and danger. I have had
my full share of these things and the Mother has had ten times
her full share. But that was because the finders of the Way
had to face these things in order to conquer. No difficulty that
can come on the sadhak but has faced us on the path; against
many we have had to struggle hundreds of times (in fact that
is an understatement) before we could overcome; many still
remain protesting that they have a right until the perfect per-
fection is there. But we have never consented to admit their
inevitable necessity for others. It is in fact to ensure an easier
path to others hereafter that we have borne that burden. It
was with that object that the Mother once prayed to the Divine
that whatever difficulties, dangers, sufferings were necessary
for the path might be laid on her rather than on others. It has
been so far heard that as a result of daily and terrible struggles
for years those who put an entire and sincere confidence in her
are able to follow the sunlit path and even those who cannot,
yet when they do put the trust find their path suddenly easy
and, if it becomes difficult again, it is only when distrust, revolt,
abhiman, or other darknesses come upon them. The sunlit path
is not altogether a fable.
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Straight and thornless
But you will ask what of those who cannot? Well, it is for
them I am putting forth all my efforts to bring down the su-
pramental Force within a measurable time. I know that it will
descend but I am seeking its near descent and, with whatever
dark obstruction of the earth-nature or furious inroads of the
Asuric forces seeking to prevent it, it is approaching the ter-
restrial soil. The supramental is not, as you imagine, something

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