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It needs either a calm resolute will governing the whole being
or a very great samat1 to have a quite smooth transformation.
If they are there, then there are no revolts though there may
be difficulties, no attacks, only a conscious dealing with the
defects of the nature, no falls but only setting right of wrong
steps or movements.
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These obstacles can only be got rid of gradually by persistent
sadhana. The alternation of dark and bright states is normal
and inevitable.
CWSA 31: 629

Yoga and difficulties
Yoga has always its difficulties, whatever Yoga it be. More-
over it acts in a different way on different seekers. Some have
to overcome the difficulties of their nature first before they get
any experiences to speak of, others get a splendid beginning
and all the difficulties afterwards, others go on for a long time
having alternate risings to the top of the wave and then a de-
scent into the gulfs and so on till the vital difficulty is worked
out — that is the case with X; others have a smooth path which
does not mean that they have no difficulties — they have plen-
ty, but they do not care a straw for them, because they feel
sure that the Divine will help them to the goal, or that he is with
them even when they do not feel him — their faith makes them
imperturbable. What Y feels is true — there are certain signs by
which one can know it. As for Z he never tried to do Yoga, so he
is not a case in point at all — if he had wanted he might have
done something, but except at the beginning he did not want
it in the least.
CWSA 31: 630-31

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