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that you cannot become integrally consecrated at once. You are
often deluded into such a belief when, for a day or two, you have
a strong movement of a particular kind. You are led to hope that
everything else will automatically follow in its wake; but in fact
if you become the least bit self-complacent you retard your own
advance. For your being is full of innumerable tendencies at war
with one another — almost different personalities, we may say.
When one of them gives itself to the Divine, the others come up
and refuse their allegiance. “We have not given ourselves,” they
cry, and start clamouring for their independence and expression.
Then you bid them be quiet and show them the Truth. Patiently
you have to go round your whole being, exploring each nook and
corner, facing all those anarchic elements in you which are waiting
for their psychological moment to come up. And it is only when
you have made the entire round of your mental, vital and physical
nature, persuaded everything to give itself to the Divine and thus
achieved an absolute unified consecration that you put an end
to your difficulties. Then indeed yours is a glorious walk towards
transformation, for you no longer go from darkness to knowledge
but from knowledge to knowledge, light to light, happiness to
happiness.... The complete consecration is undoubtedly not an
easy matter, and it might take an almost indefinitely long time if
you had to do it all by yourself, by your own independent effort. But
when the Divine’s Grace is with you it is not exactly like that. With
a little push from the Divine now and then, a little push in this
direction and in that, the work becomes comparatively quite easy.
Of course the length of time depends on each individual, but it
can be very much shortened if you make a really firm resolve. Res-
olution is the one thing required — resolution is the master-key.
CWM 3: 126-27

All has to be done by the working of the Mother’s force
aided by your aspiration, devotion and surrender.
Sri Aurobindo

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