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LET US GIRD UP OUR LOINS
again. But this is combated immediately by the suggestion that it can be done afterwards for the present condition of depression is good. There is always a revolt for progress in spiritual life in us - may be weak or strong. Only firm faith in our determination to reach the goal, the firm faith in the capacity of the Master and the firm faith in the methods of practice and all of them strictly followed can we come of this depression which I must repeat is something that we seem to cherish more than try to overcome.
We should follow the path with the fixed aim and not deviate from it and build on outward circumstances and conditions as if they are fundamental. We should preserve our equanimity or balance and make an opportunity and means of progress out of all that happens in the course of life and the sadhana. Please do note that there is the highest Will of Master, which is always a mixture of things favourable and adverse and it is that Will which we have to wait upon and have faith in. We cannot expect to understand always the workings of such a Will. Our petty mind may want this or that to be done, but it wants is not always what is intended for a larger purpose. As I have always been saying faith is belief in Master in circumstances which
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