The Attitude of the Psychic Being Helps Overcome Obstructions and DIfficulties in the Sadhana

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The more we focus on
difficulties, the more they seem

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to accumulate.
It is one thing to be able to

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quietly observe issues as they
arise.

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It is quite another to fixate on
them and expend energy trying to

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push through them using the
normal powers of body, life and

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mind.
The spiritual force, once it

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begins to work in the being,
continues relentlessly.

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Sometimes as it pushes into a
new area of the consciousness,

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it can provoke the awakening of
old samskaras, memories, habits,

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instincts, trained responses,
which may seem to the seeker to

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be a backwards or retrogressive
step in the sadhna with the

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right attitude.
These things are seen as part of

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the process, not permanent
issues, and thus they can be

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overcome if one remains in the
right psychological space.

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This psychological space is the
one that the psychic being

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naturally adopts, one of quiet
observation, aspiration,

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confidence, patience,
perseverance, faith, and

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reliance on the spiritual force
and its action.

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At some point practitioner
begins to appreciate that it is

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not through his own human power
of action that true

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transformation of human nature
can occur, but through the

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action of the divine force,
which is the actual doer of the

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sadhana.
What we do not ordinarily grasp

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is that the change to the outer
nature and its reactions may be

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the result of a much more hidden
internal process of change.

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The mother advises not to
condone, support or fixate on

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the outer movements that are the
result of past actions, rather

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to focus on the objective, the
goal, the spiritual realization

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as the reality one must cling
to, Fioro Bindu observes.

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Quote A difficulty comes, or an
arrest in some movement which

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you have begun or have been
carrying on for some time.

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How is it to be dealt with?
For such arrests are inevitably

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frequent enough, not only for
you, but for everyone who is a

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seeker.
One might almost say that every

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step forward is followed by an
arrest.

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At least that is a very common,
if not a universal experience.

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It is to be dealt with by
becoming always more quiet, more

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firm in the will to go through,
by opening oneself more and more

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so that any obstructing non
receptivity in the nature may

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diminish or disappear.
By an affirmation of faith even

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in the midst of the obscurity.
Faith in the presence of a power

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that is working behind the cloud
and the veil in the guidance of

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the Guru.
By an observation of oneself to

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find any cause of the arrest,
not in a spirit of depression or

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discouragement, but with the
will to find out and remove it.

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This is the only right attitude,
and if one is persistent in

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taking it, the periods of arrest
are not abolished, for that

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cannot be at this stage, but
greatly shortened and lightened

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in their incidents.
Sometimes these arrests are

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periods, long or short, of
assimilation or unseen

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preparation.
Their appearance of sterile

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immobility is deceptive.
In that case, with the right

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attitude, one can, after a time,
by opening, by observation, by

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accumulated experience, begin to
feel, to get some inkling of

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what is being prepared or done.
Sometimes it is a period of true

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obstruction, in which the power
at work has to deal with the

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obstacles in the way, obstacles
in oneself, obstacles of the

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opposing cosmic forces, or any
other, or of altogether.

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And this kind of arrest may be
long or short according to the

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magnitude or obstinacy or
complexity of the impediments

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that are met.
But here, too, the right

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attitude can alleviate or
shorten, and, if persistently

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taken, help to a more radical
removal of the difficulties, and

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greatly diminish the necessity
of complete arrests hereafter.

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On the contrary, an attitude of
depression or unfaith in the

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help or the guidance, or in the
certitude of the victory of the

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Guiding Power, a shutting up of
yourself in the sense of the

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difficulties, impedes the
recovery, prolongs the

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difficulties, helps the
obstructions to recur with force

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instead of progressively
diminishing in their incidents.

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It is an attitude whose
persistence or recurrence you

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must resolutely throw aside if
you want to get over the

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obstruction which you feel so
much, which the depressed

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attitude only makes, while it
lasts, more acute.

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End Quote.
Reference.

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Shrioro Vindo and the Mother
Looking from Within, Chapter 4,

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Ordeals and Difficulties, pages
104 to 106.