Letters on Yoga - IV Archives

Idea of Helplessness

It is this idea that you are helpless because the vital consents to the wrong movement that comes in the

Aspire always for the mind and psychic being to be filled with the true consciousness and experience and made ready.

Do not let the difficulties you feel or meet from outside overcome or depress you. Keep this one thing in

It is not possible that there should not be stumbles, failures, etc. in the work of self-purification and change, but

This [restless thinking] is what we call the activity of the mind, which always comes in the way of the

To be alone with the Divine is the highest of all privileged states for the sadhak, for it is that

The one thing wrong [when attacked by hostile forces] would be to allow yourself to be overcome by them. If you

It is that cheerfulness that we want to be always there in you. It is the happiness of the psychic that

These obstacles are usual in the first stages of the sadhana. They are due to the nature being not yet sufficiently

One must get a knack of remaining quiet and bringing into the quietude the play of the Presence, Force, Light, etc.