What is sa’dhan’a (spiritual practice)? Sa’dhan’a means an effort. Effort for what? It is an endless effort to become one with the Supreme Nucleus. It is a ceaseless effort to obtain perfection from imperfection. Now, no movement in this universe is possible without encountering opposition. Wherever there is movement, there is opposition also. The result of struggle against this opposition is termed progress. The more one desires to proceed vigorously to the goal, the more one is to struggle against the opposition. Thus those who are adverse to struggle can never progress. They lag far behind, what to speak of progress. That’s why struggle is the essence of life. Those who abhor struggle, who misconstrue struggle as violence, have no place in the world.
One who wants to attain the goal must not be too concerned with obstacles on the way. If one thinks of the obstacle, they will themselves become the goal and not the Supreme. That is why, in the field of spiritual sa’dhan’a, one must always think of the Supreme, not anything else. While thinking of this goal, if some opposite feeling comes in the mind of the aspirant, s/he should not think of this. “From where are the obstacles coming?” This should not be the topic of discussion. “What we have to reach”---this should be the topic of discussion.
To establish the heavenly kingdom in this world, those with tireless cosmic ideation have to fight within themselves the devil of their own weaknesses and defects. But remember this “devil” is not your goal, so you are not to think of it. Whatever the obstacle in this march to the Great---there will be no compromise with it. That is why I say, this is the path of bravery, this is not the path of crudeness---and there is no place in it for cowardice. The aspirant will have to go on fighting endlessly, without pause.
Difficulties can never be greater than your capacity to solve them.
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