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\n

\nSECTION FOUR <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nOBJECTS
\nOF
\nSRI AUROBINDO’S  SADHANA <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n

\n

\n

\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nOpening the Way<\/i> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nMY sadhana is not a freak or a monstrosity or a
\nmiracle done outside the laws of Nature and the conditions of life and consciousness on earth. If
\nI could do these things or if they could happen in
\nmy Yoga, it means that they can be done and that
\ntherefore these developments and transformations
\nare possible in the terrestrial consciousness….<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nSadhana for the Earth-Consciousness<\/i> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nMY point about my sadhana was that my sadhana was
\nnot done for myself but for the earth-consciousness as a showing of the way towards the Light,
\nso that whatever I showed in it to be possible\u2014-
\ninner growth, transformation, manifesting of new faculties, etc.\u2014was not of no
\nimportance to anybody, but meant as an opening of lines and ways for
\nwhat had to be done. The question of degree of
\ngreatness does not come in at all. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 65 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n
\nConditions for Supramentalisation<\/i> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nI HAVE no intention of achieving the Supermind for
\nmyself only\u2014I am not doing anything for myself,
\nas I have no personal need of anything, neither of
\nsalvation (Moksha) nor Supramentalisation. If I am seeking after Supramentalisation, it is because it is
\na thing that has to be done for the earth-consciousness and if it is not done in myself, it
\ncannot be done in others. My Supramentalisation
\nis only a key for opening the gates of the
\nSupramental to the earth-consciousness; done for
\nits own sake, it would be perfectly futile. But it
\ndoes not follow either that if or when I become
\nsupramental, everybody will become supramental.
\nOthers can so become who are ready for it, when they are for it\u2014though of course the achievement in myself will be to them a great help towards it.
\nIt is therefore quite legitimate to have the aspiration for it\u2014provided: <\/font><\/p>\n

\n(1) One does not make a too personal or egoistic
\naffair of it turning it into a Nietzschean <\/b> or other
\nambition to be superman. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n(2) One is ready to undergo the conditions and
\nstages needed for the achievement. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n(3) One is sincere and regards it as a part of the
\nseeking of the Divine and consequent culmination <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 66 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nof the Divine Will in one and insists on no more
\nthan the fulfilment of that Will whatever it may be,
\npsychicisation, spiritualisation or Supramentalisation. It should be regarded as the fulfilment of God’s working in the world, not as a personal chance or achievement. . <\/font><\/p>\n

\nApril,1935 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nCertitude of Supramental Advent<\/i> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nI HAVE already spoken about the bad conditions of the world; the usual idea of the occultists about it is that the worse they are the more is probable the coming of an intervention or a new revelation
\nfrom above. The ordinary mind cannot know\u2014it has either to believe or disbelieve or wait and see.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAs to whether the Divine seriously means something to happen, I believe it is intended. I know with absolute certitude that the Supramental is a truth and that its advent is in the very nature of
\nthings inevitable. The question is as to the when and the how. That also is decided and predestined from somewhere above; but it is here being fought out amid a rather grim clash of conflicting forces. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 67 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nFor in the terrestrial world the predetermined
\nresult is hidden and what we see is a whirl of
\npossibilities and forces attempting to achieve some-
\nthing with the destiny of it all concealed from human
\neyes. This is however certain that a number of
\nsouls have been sent to see that it shall be now.
\nThat is the situation. My faith and will are for the
\nnow. I am speaking of course on the level of the
\nhuman intelligence\u2014mystically-rationally, as one
\nmight put it. To say more would be going beyond
\nthat line. You don’t want me to start prophesying,
\nI suppose? As a rationalist, you can’t. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n28-12-1934 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nInevitability of Supramental Descent<\/i> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nI MUST remind you that I have been an intellectual
\nmyself and no stranger to doubts\u2014both the Mother
\nand myself have had one side of the mind as positive
\nand as insistent on practical results and more so than any Russell can be. We
\ncould never have been contented with the shining ideas and phrases which a
\nRolland or another takes for gold coin of Truth. We know well what is the difference between a subjective <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 68 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nexperience and a dynamic outward-going and
\nrealising Force. So although we have faith, (and
\nwho ever did anything great in the world without
\nhaving faith in his mission or the Truth at work
\nbehind him?) we do not found ourselves on faith
\nalone, but oh a great ground of knowledge which
\nwe have been developing and testing all our lives.
\nI think I can say that I have been testing day and
\nnight for years upon years more scrupulously than
\nany scientist his theory or his method on the physical
\nplane. That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect
\nof the world around me or disconcerted by the often
\nsuccessful fury of the adverse Forces who increase
\nin their rage as the Light comes nearer and nearer
\nto the field of earth and Matter. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nIf I believe in the probability and not only possibility, if I feel practically certain of the Supramental
\nDescent (I do not fix a date), it is because I have
\nmy grounds for the belief, not a faith in the air. I
\nknow that the Supramental Descent is inevitable\u2014
\nI have faith in view of my experience that the time
\ncan be and should be now and not in a later age….
\nBut even if I knew it to be for a later time, I would
\nnot swerve from my path or be discouraged or flag
\nin my labour. Formerly I might have been,
\nbut not now\u2014<\/i>after all the path I have traversed.
\nWhen one is sure of the Truth, or even when one <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 69 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nbelieves the thing one pursues to be the only possible
\nsolution, one does not stipulate for an immediate
\nsuccess, one travels towards the Light taking as well
\nworth while and facing every risk of the adventure,
\nStill, like you, it is now, in this life that I insist on
\nit and not in another or in the hereafter. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n30-8-1932 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nImportance of "Trifles"<\/i> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nI CANNOT say that I follow very well the logic of your
\ndoubts. How does the suffering of a noble and self-
\nless friend invalidate the hope of Yoga? There are
\nmany dismal spectacles in the world, but that is after
\nall the very reason why Yoga has to be done. If
\nthe world were all happy and beautiful and ideal,
\nwho would want to change it or find it necessary to
\nbring down a higher consciousness into the earthly
\nMind and Matter? Your other argument is that the
\nwork of the Yoga itself is difficult, not easy, not a
\nhappy canter to the goal. Of course it is, because
\nthe world and human nature are what they are. I
\nnever said it was easy or that there were not obstinate
\ndifficulties in the way of the endeavour. Again, I <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 70 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\ndo not understand your point about raising up a new race by my going on writing "trivial" letters ten hours a day. Of course not\u2014nor by writing important letters either; even if I were to spend my time writing fine poems it would not build up a new race. Each
\nactivity is important in its own place\u2014an electron
\nor a molecule or a grain may be small things in themselves, but in their place they are indispensable to
\nthe building up of a world; it cannot be made up only
\nof mountains and sunsets and streamings of the
\naurora borealis\u2014though these have their place there.
\nAll depends on the force behind these things and
\nthe purpose in their action\u2014and that is known to
\nthe Cosmic Spirit which is at work; and it works,
\nI may add, not by the mind or according to human
\nstandards but by a greater consciousness which, starting from an electron, can build up a world and,
\nusing ‘a tangle of ganglia, can make them the base
\nhere for the works of the Mind and Spirit in Matter, produce a Ramakrishna, or a
\nNapoleon, or a Shakespeare. Is the life of a great poet either made up
\nonly of magnificent and important things? How
\nmany trivial things had to be dealt with and done
\nbefore there could be produced a "KING LEAR"
\nor a "HAMLET"? Again, according to your own
\nreasoning, would not people be justified in mocking at your pother\u2014so they would call it, I do not\u2014 <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 71 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nabout metre and scansion and how many ways a
\nsyllable can be read? Why, they might say, is he wasting his time in trivial prosaic things like this when he
\nmight have been spending it in producing a beautiful lyric or fine music? But the worker knows and respects the material with which he must work and
\nhe knows why he is busy with "trifles" and small
\ndetails and what is their place in the fullness of his labour. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAs for faith, you write as if I never had a doubt
\nor any difficulty. I have had worse than any human
\nmind can think of. It is not because I have ignored difficulties, but because I
\nhave seen them more clearly, experienced them on a larger scale than any one
\nliving now or before me that, having faced and
\nmeasured them, I am sure of the results "of my work.
\nBut even if I still saw the chance that it might come to nothing (which is
\nimpossible), I would go on unperturbed, because I would still have done to the
\nbest of my power the work that I had to do and
\nwhat is so done always counts in the economy of the
\nuniverse. But why should I feel that all this may
\ncome to nothing when I see each step and where
\nit is leading and every week, every day\u2014once it was
\nevery year and month and hereafter it will be
\nevery day and hour\u2014brings me so much nearer to
\nmy goal? In the way that one treads with the greater <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 72 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nLight above, even every difficulty gives its help and has its value and Night itself carries in it the
\nburden of the Light that has to be. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nDecember, 1933 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nObject of Seeking the Supermind<\/i> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHESE egoistic terms are not those in which my vital
\nmoves. It is a higher Truth I seek, whether it makes
\nmen greater or not is not the question, but whether
\nit will give them truth and peace and light to live in
\nand make life something better than a struggle
\nwith ignorance and falsehood and pain and
\nstrife. Then, even if they are less great than the
\nmen of the past, my object will have been achieved. For me mental conceptions cannot be the
\nend of all things. I know that the Supermind is a truth. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt is not for personal greatness that I am seeking to bring down the Supermind. I care nothing for
\ngreatness or littleness in the human sense. I am
\nseeking to bring some principle of inner Truth,
\nLight, Harmony, Peace into the earth-consciousness; <\/font><\/p>\n

\nI see it above and know what it is\u2014I feel it ever <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 73 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\ngleaming down on my consciousness from above and
\nI am seeking to make it possible for it to take up the
\nwhole being into its own native power, instead of
\nthe nature of man continuing to remain in half-light,
\nhalf-darkness. I believe the descent of this Truth opening the way to a
\ndevelopment of divine consciousness here to be the final sense of the earth evolution. If greater men than myself have not had this
\nvision and this ideal before them, that is no reason
\nwhy I should not follow my Truth-sense and Truth-
\nvision. If human reason regards me as a fool for
\ntrying to do what Krishna did not try, I do not in
\nthe least care. There is no question of X or Y or
\nanybody else in that. It is a question between the
\nDivine and myself\u2014whether it is the Divine Will
\nor not, whether I am sent to bring that down or open
\nthe way for its descent or at least make it more
\npossible or not. Let all men jeer at me if they will
\nor all Hell fall upon me if it will for my presumption,
\n\u2014I go on till I conquer or perish. This is the spirit in which I seek the Supermind, no hunting for greatness for myself or others. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n10-2-1935 <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 74 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n
\nThe Earthly Burden<\/i> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nI USE the language of the mind because there is no
\nother which human beings can understand,\u2014even: though most of them understand it badly. If I were
\nto use a supramental language like Joyce, you would
\nnot even have the illusion of understanding it; so,.
\nnot being an Irishman, I don’t make the attempt.
\nBut of course any one who wants to change earth-nature must first accept it in order to change it.
\nTo quote from an unpublished poem1<\/sup> of my own: <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n"<\/b>He who would bring the heavens here,
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nMust descend himself into clay
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd the burden of earthly nature bear
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd tread the dolorous way…. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n25-8-1935<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nBridging the Empyrean and the Abyss<\/i> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nNo, it is not with the Empyrean that I am busy: I wish it were. It is rather with the opposite end of <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n1<\/sup> "A GOD’S LABOUR" subsequently published in Poems Past
\n\\and Present<\/i> by Sri Aurobindo. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 75 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nthings; it is in the Abyss that I have to plunge to
\nbuild a bridge between the two. But that too is necessary for my work and one has to face it. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n30-5-1936 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nThe Burden of Love<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nIT is only divine Love which can bear the burden I
\nhave to bear, that all have to bear who have sacrificed everything else to the one aim of uplifting earth
\nout of its darkness towards the Divine. The Gallic\u2014
\nlike "Je m’en fiche"-ism (I do not care)\u2014would not
\ncarry me one step; it would certainly not be divine. It is quite another thing
\nthat enables me to walk un-weeping and unlamenting towards the goal. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nApril, 1934 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nThe Struggle and the Battle<\/i> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nBUT what strange ideas again!\u2014that I was born with
\na supramental temperament and that I know nothing<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 76 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nof hard realities! Good God! My whole life has been a struggle with hard realities, from hardships,
\nstarvation in England and constant dangers and fierce difficulties to the far greater difficulties continually cropping up here in Pondicherry, external
\nand internal. My life has been a battle from its
\nearly years and is still a battle: the fact that I wage it now from a room
\nupstairs and by spiritual means
\nas well as others that are external makes no difference
\nto its character. But of course as we have not been
\nshouting about these things, it is natural, I suppose,
\nfor others to think that I am living in an august,
\nglamorous, lotus-eating dreamland where no hard
\nfacts of life or Nature present themselves. But what I an illusion all the same
\n! <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n
\nAction of Supramental Truth-Power<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nYou have created your own bewildering problem by
\nsupplying your own data! There is nothing nebulous
\nabout the Supramental; its action depends on the
\nutmost precision possible. As for solidity, since I
\nonce have got many solid things from much
\nlower forces, I do not see why the highest ones
\nshould only give us nebulosities. But that seems
\nto be the human mind’s position: that only what is <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 77 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nearthy is solid, what is high must be misty and unreal \u2014the worm is a reality, the eagle only a vapour! <\/font><\/p>\n

\nHowever, I have not told N that I have been scaling
\nand winging\u2014on the contrary, I have been dealing with very hard practical facts. I only told him
\n: I had got the formula of solution for the difficulty -that had been holding me up since last November
\nand I am working it out. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nTo return to the Supramental: the Supramental is
\nsimply the direct self-existent Truth-Consciousness
\n.and the direct self-effective Truth-Power. There can
\ntherefore be no question of jugglery about it. What
\nis not true is not Supramental. As for calm and
\n.silence, there is no need of the Supramental to get
\nthat. One can get it even on the level of Higher Mind
\nwhich is the next above the human intelligence. I
\ngot these things in i908, 27 years ago, and I can
\nassure you they were solid enough and marvellous enough in all conscience
\nwithout any need of Supramental to make it more so. Again, "a calm that
\n;looks like action and motion" is a phenomenon of which I know nothing. A calm or silence that is
\nwhat I have had\u2014the proof is that out of an absolute silence of the mind I edited the Bande Mataram
\n<\/i>for 4 months and wrote 6 volumes of the Arya,<\/i> not
\nto speak of all the letters and messages etc… l have
\nwritten since. If you say that writing is not an action <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 78<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nor motion but only something that seems like it, a
\njugglery of the consciousness,\u2014well, still out of that
\ncalm and silence I conducted a pretty strenuous political activity and have also taken my share in keeping
\nup an Ashram which has at least an appearance to
\nthe physical senses of being solid and material! If you
\ndeny that these things are material or solid (which
\nof course metaphysically you can), then you land
\nyourself plump into Shankara’s Illusionism, and there
\nI will leave you. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nYou will say, however, that this is not the Supramental but at most the Overmind that helped me to
\nthese non-nebulous motions and action. But the
\nSupermind is by definition a greater dynamic activity
\nthan mind or Overmind. I have said that what is
\nnot true is not Supramental; I will add that what is ineffective is not
\nSupramental. And finally I conclude by saying that I have not told N that I have taken complete possession of the Supramental\u2014I only admit to be very near to it. But "very near"
\nis\u2014well, after all\u2014a relative phrase like all human
\nphrases. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nI don’t know how you are to answer R. You might
\nperhaps by my two formulas, but it is doubtful. Or
\nperhaps you might tell him that the Supramental
\nwas silence\u2014-only, it would be untrue! So I leave
\nyou in your fix\u2014there is no other go. At least until <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 79 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nI have firm physical hold of the Supramental and can
\ncome and tell the mentals and humans,\u2014no doubt in
\na language which will be intelligible to them,\u2014I
\nmust be somewhat dumb, since they have wholly
\nmisunderstood even the little that has found voice
\nthrough my writings up till now. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n23-8-1935 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nThe Present Power<\/i> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nI HAVE never told you that the power that works here
\nis absolute at present; I have, on the contrary, told
\nyou that I am trying to make it absolute and it is for
\nthat that I want the Supermind to intervene. But to
\nsay that because it is not absolute therefore it does
\nnot exist, seems to me a logical inconsequence. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n28-8-1934 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nProcess of Supramental Descent<\/i> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nNo, the Supramental has not descended into the
\nbody or into Matter\u2014it is only at the point where
\nsuch a descent has become not only possible but <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 80 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\ninevitable; I am speaking, of course, of my experience. But as my experience is the centre and condition of all the rest, that is sufficient for the promise. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nMy difficulty is that you all seem to expect
\na kind of miraculous fairy-tale change and do
\nnot realise that it is a rapid and concentrated evolution which is the aim of my sadhana and that there
\nmust be a process for it, a working of the higher in
\nthe lower and a dealing with all the necessary
\nintervals\u2014not a sudden feat of creation by which everything is done on a given
\ndate. It is a supramental but not an irrational process. What is to be
\ndone will happen\u2014perhaps with a rush even\u2014but
\nin a workmanlike way and not according to
\nFaerie. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n14-U-1933 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nPerfection on the Physical Plane<\/i> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nAs for the question about the illness, perfection in
\nthe physical plane is indeed part of the ideal of the. Yoga, but it is the last
\nitem and, so long as the fundamental change has not been made in the material
\nconsciousness to which the body belongs, one may <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 81 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nhave a certain perfection on other planes without
\nhaving immunity in the body. We have not sought
\nperfection for our own separate sake, but as part of
\na general change\u2014creating a possibility of perfection for others. That could not
\nhave been done without our accepting and facing the difficulties of the realisation and transformation and overcoming
\nthem for ourselves. It has been done to a sufficient
\ndegree on the other planes\u2014but not yet on the most
\nmaterial part of the physical plane. Till it is done,
\nthe fight there continues and, though there may be
\nand is a force of Yogic action and defence, there
\ncannot be immunity. The Mother’s difficulties are
\nnot her own; she bears the difficulties of others
\nand those that are inherent in the general action
\nand working for the transformation If it had
\nbeen otherwise, it would be a very different
\nmatter. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAugust, 1936 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nResistance to Supramental Descent<\/i> <\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nWHEN I wrote in my letters about the Supermind
\nand the obstinate resistance, I spoke, of course, of <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 82 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nsomething I had already spoken of before. I did not
\nmean that the resistance was of an unexpected character or had altered anything essential. But in its
\nnature the descent is not something arbitrary and miraculous but a rapid
\nevolutionary process compressed into a few years which proceeds by taking
\nup the present nature into its Light and pouring its
\nTruth into the inferior planes. That cannot be done
\nin the whole world at a time, but is done, like all
\nsuch processes, first through selected Adhars and then
\non a wider scale. We have to do it through ourselves
\nfirst and, through the circle of sadhaks gathered
\naround us, in the terrestrial consciousness as typified
\nhere. If a few open, that is sufficient for the process
\nto be possible. On the other hand, if there is a general
\nmisunderstanding and resistance (not in all, but in
\nmany), that makes it difficult and the process more
\nlaborious, but it does not make it impossible. I
\nwas not suggesting that it has become impossible,
\nTaut that if the circumstances were made unfavourable
\nby our being unable to concentrate enough on this
\nthing of capital importance and having too much
\nwork to do of an irrelevant kind, the descent was
\nlikely to take longer than it would do otherwise.
\nCertainly, when the Supramental does touch
\nearth with a sufficient force to dig itself into earth-consciousness, there will be no more <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 83 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nchance of any success or survival for the Asuric
\nMaya…. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nProgress, might be slow at first, but progress would
\ncome; it would quicken afterwards and with the supramental force here, there would be for you as
\nfor others the full speed and certitude. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n18-10-1934 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nAttacks and Advance<\/i> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nI AM afraid I cannot endorse your reading of the
\nsituation, at least so far as the Mother and myself
\nand the prospects of the work are concerned. I can
\nagree only that we have had a heavy time of it
\nrecently and that there has been a strong attack on
\nthe plane of the physical and material\u2014but that
\n(heavy attacks) is a thing we have been accustomed
\nto for the last 30 years and it has never prevented
\nus from making any necessary advance. I have never had any illusions about the
\npath being comfortable and easy; I knew all along that the work
\ncould only be done if all the essential difficulties
\nrose and were faced; so their rising cannot tire or dishearten me, whatever obstinacy there may <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage – 84 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nbe in the difficulties, whether our own or in the
\nsadhaks or in Nature. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nNo, I am not tired or on the point of giving
\nup. I have made inwardly steps in front in the
\nlast two or three months which had seemed impossible because of the obstinate resistance for years
\ntogether and it is not an experience which pushes
\nme to despair and to give up. If there is much
\nresistance on one side, there have been large gains
\non the other\u2014all has not been a picture of sterile
\ndarkness. You yourself are kept back only by the
\ndemon of doubt which bangs on you each door as
\nyou are opening it; you have only to set about
\nresolutely slaying the Rakshasa and the doors will
\nopen to you as they have done to many others who were held up by their own mind or vital nature. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n12-1-1934 <\/font><\/p>\n

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